somebody brought up this topic in an LiveJournal entry today which really intrigued me.
has anyone had this happen? has anyone, even, received or spoken with your past or future selves in waking life? really interested to know.
one poster on LJ said that she had communicated with alternate self, themselves if they hadn’t made a particular choice.
interesting indeed.
Did the article mention when she did this. For example, was it during a meditation session, hypnosis session, normal dreaming or lucid dreaming.
I could see a DC representing one of those selves but I’m not so sure someone can meet themselves without causing some sort of paradox.
ill do it and cause a paradox since i dont know what it means dont tell me or i might not do it lol
i have seen dream characters in normal dreams that look like an old 40 year old version of me. i have even seen what looked like me as a girl 
! i have seen both of these dc’s in dreams quite a few times.
i have never communicated with any of these dcs, but i wake up rememembering them being just another face in the dream, not an important part but in the dream nonetheless.
that is freaking sweet. I never thought about trying to meet a future representation of myself, lol should be entertaining.
during a dream. probably not a lucid dream. though I have a hunch that if you met your future or past self in a dream that you would go lucid.
Then it definitely sounds interesting. I know for me I haven’t interacted with any of my selves. I’ve been a future self or a past self but never talked to them.
This is a very interesting concept. I’ve neither talked to a past self or future self, nor have I been one of those in a dream. It’s still something that I would like to try out the next time I have a lucid dream…it’s about time I added more ideas to my list.
one of the writers on astral projection (probably Kurt Leland) said that they had, at one point, encountered their future self while on the astral. then years later they re-lived the encounter, this time as the future self speaking to the past. you have to wonder, would he have felt tempted to change the script and say something he hadn’t said “before”?
as your future self, did you “remember” any events that later took place?
No, during that dream it was way in the future. My children didn’t live with me anymore. And I have a long ways before that will happen now.
What would the implications be if one were to undergo hypnosis to try to contact and future self?
My thought is that it is only possible to do this if you set your mind to seeing the same hypnotist in the future, so that you would be able to channel each other.
Or would you be tapping into some universal idea of time co-existing within itself?
If I remember well, the only case I know is Robert Monroe. He often met during his OBE’s a sort of recurring spirit guide who gave him information. This lasted for many years when he discovered that this person was himself in the future. I don’t remember if he said he came from the future of his current life or from a future life.
Why don’t you just meet your Self? Your present self. Your inner self…
Im sure it work on lucid dream too. Maybe if you wish to see you in the future while your lucid you probably can if your good at LD.
I once met my past self in a dream. I was at my friends house having band practice, and he says that my younger brother is here. This was very odd because i do not have a younger brother. I concluded he must have been like a long lost child my mom put up for adoption or lost or something. He watched us play and he acted like we were the coolest people ever. Then we watched TV together like we had known eachother for years.
The next morning as I was describing this kid in my Journal It hit me that this kid looked just like a younger me. He acted just like I did too. I can remember looking up to my brother when he used to play guitar. I wanted to be just like him and I would pretty much beleive what ever he told me, just like this kid acted. Im positive this was my past self.
The thing is, I’ve often been gealous of my brother for being cooler than me or better at guitar when he was my age. After this dream, I thought how silly it was for this kid to admire me so much because I don’t think im that cool, and I then realized how stupid it is for me to be gealous of my brother. I can remember just laughing at how rediculous I have felt. Ever since that dream I haven’t felt gealous of or any less than my brother.
Robert Moss tells a great tale about meeting his future self in dreaming:
Very interesting tale, Explora! 
I now remember one of my LD’s. I planed to meet my anima. In this dream, I remind of my project and asked to meet her. Then I found myself in front of a girl I didn’t clearly recognize cause her face was everchanging. She spoke a language I didn’t understand. I was lying in a bed and quite unable to move, I just could move my limbs but it was uncoordinated. I was like lying in a tomb and couldn’t see anything on my left nor on my right. When I woke up, I had the feeling that I dreamt of myself being a baby in my cradle.
So I didn’t really meet my past self as another person, but I was him.
you mean like your subconcious???
Well, this is quite interesting–now that I think of it 
I have spoken with my subconscious self in a few dreams. I know I’ve spoken with my child-self–he was about 5 or 6–I’ve also spoken with my future self–he was COOL! 
What’s hard is trying to remember what we were talking about…
I also had this really trippy experience where my future self (about a day into the future) was trying to warn me about dogs or something…the next day I was chased by this Pitt Bull (don’t worry, I got away–climbed a tree, just like I did in my dream ^^)
Intriguing concept…I think when I become lucid I’ll try talking to myself more–though I already do that IRL…
I’ve been neglecting typing up my dreams.
But just recently I had a brief lucid moment. I wanted to see myself, like what Bruno was saying. Not The Self buy My Self. I found myself looking at my own face. I walked around myself b/c I was just amazed. I didn’t look so worried or serious. Myself just watched me (the dreamer) with a smile. I remember asking myself a question but then I felt like I was being pulled through this narrow tunnel and it went into a normal dream.
I would like to do that again. I think you could benefit more from learning from yourself first before you find a SG. Not that I wouldn’t like to meet one but what if my self has the answers that I’m looking for.
I’d definitely do that again.