The main change I’d noticed, though, were my dreams. I’ve always been a vivid dreamer, but most of the time they’re variations on the same few themes (tornados, finding abandoned babies or being forced to care for someone else’s baby, driving from the back seat, taking tests, having no shoes in a place where one would need shoes, losing teeth). Recently, though, I’ve had very surreal dreams involving elements of my real life, sometimes with people I haven’t thought about in a long time.

I found this post because I searched the site to see if these dreams might be caused by doing Shiva Nata. I’m glad to see that they probably are. Perhaps I should get a dream journal to capture some of this. Also, I’ve mostly been practicing in the morning or early afternoon. I think I might try it in the evening, just to see if it intensifies the effect.

Thank you, Havi for creating the Starter Kit and hosting this blog! I’m really enjoying Shiva Nata.

Yeah that must mean he’s level two! Neat. :D

This is exciting.

It’s cool that the positions are similar to wing-chun. Even knowing nothing about that martial art though, I’d be willing to bet it doesn’t get as complicated as Shiva Nata.

Also because it’d be pretty hard to use Shiva Nata to beat anyone up. Confuse the heck out of them, yes, but beating up is pretty much out, I reckon.
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it was fun. I did it with my boyfriend Garfield, and was nervous about not knowing what I was getting him into except for I wanted to do it.

Turns out he said, that many of the basic positions are similar to wing-chun (he practices this martial art) so he immediately tried to put together the sets of double-one. Is that level two?

Anyways, I had a bit of a challenge but it was really great. I’m so pleased he’s catching on a quicker than me; it’s great to have someone to work with.

Yay!

Since I relaxed about the epiphany thing and just started to focus on *learning how to do the thing* and *getting it right, dammit* the mental side effects have started to come back. Maybe because I’m practicing more regularly again, or because I’m practicing in a different way, I don’t know. But focussing on getting it right (dammit) is getting great results. Seeing connections, being a creative genius, getting those “oh, I see” moments, that at the same time feel really obvious. If those are the epiphanies promised, yeah, I totally get those.

It’s ironic, because I know that if I ever do get it right (dammit) I’ll be doing it wrong. But that’s OK, I’ll just move up another level. It’s very comforting to know that Shiva Nata is like Pacman in that respect: there’s always another level to move up to. Nice.
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And I have public-naked dreams all the time. All. The time.

In fact, it’s one of the ways I know I’m dreaming.

That, along with being able to fly.

In fact, that’s how I test to see if I’m dreaming – I run and jump and see if I can fly. If I can, I’m dreaming.

If I’m not, well, I have a rich inner life, apparently.

And a low embarrassment threshold.

This is private, right?
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I just spent about half an hour setting up my room so I can do it (in a very quick and dirty kind of way, ahem) and hopefully I’ll do it in the morning.

We’ll see, I guess – wish me luck!

(I have been avoiding stuff like crazy.)
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I’ve had the starter kit for months and months. and I turned on the DVD and got confused by the menu, and turned it off.

tomorrow i am going to get up in the morning to do it.

and here it is on the internet and so now I HAVE to do it.

Well, not HAVE to, but … I will.

I love you guys and, yes, I love me some hot-buttered epiphanies. Even if we call them something else. (Because Elizabeth, you are so darn insightful and wise and brimming to the rim with *them*.) So yeah, I could become quite the Shiva Nata evangelist.

And Havi, so nice to not be alone up there in the naked dreaminess of it all.
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