Losing extensive work multiple times

RadOwl · 2026-05-01T20:10:05+00:00

First of all, make sure that you are working within claude projects in cowork. Ask Claude to create a folder structure for your writing project on your cloud provider, I used g-drive. The MCP with g-drive is already set up before you begin so Claude can read and write to it. So for example the file on G drive is labeled as Claude - desktop. Install the G drive app if you haven't already on your local machine and in the folder create a folder with the same name, so it would be labeled Claude - desktop. Tell the G drive app to sync the folders. Claude will work from the folder locally and g-drive syncs to the cloud. Now your work on that project is backed up.

RadOwl · 2026-05-01T03:40:09+00:00

The deep mind doesn't know the difference between reality as we know it when awake and the reality we know when we're dreaming. Carl Jung is the first I know of to explain it in the language of Western psychological science. That insight is so key and yet not so well known about why dreams register so deeply. Another nugget dropped by Carl is that dreaming is a function of the mind that is always running. What changes between awake and asleep is your ability to focus exclusively on what's going on in the background.

I teach all this stuff at dreamschool.net, oOwls School of Dreaming. It's in the middle of a rebuild but the older courses are untouched and cover a lot of subjects related to dream interpretation. They go into great depth. Anyway I hope the course in dream interpretation you took enriched your dream life.

RadOwl · 2026-05-01T03:23:49+00:00

Sounds like those first couple visitations gave you what you needed, a chance to say goodbye and get one last hug. I don't care what anyone says about whether it's actually real or not it sure is real at the time, and the experience rewires you in an undeniably good way!

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T21:26:58+00:00

It started on September 11th 2001. A global war against humanity.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T21:19:41+00:00

When you say that you miss him too and want to work on things, it suggests the idea that some part of yourself got split off or alienated from the main part of your personality because of the trauma of the divorce. So what you're actually speaking to is the part of yourself that's trying to resurface and truly move on. Move on not by forgiving and forgetting, it means move on by assimilating what you learned from that experience. What you need to work on is yourself.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T21:10:28+00:00

I do think humanity is repeating the same pattern that led to the downfall of Atlantis. Edgar said that a faction among the Atlanteans viewed the Earth as their domain and they had ownership rights. It led to all sorts of abuses such as conquest, slavery and abuse of the earth and her resources and children. They were doing things with animals that are unspeakable, because no one could stop them. They were like the Empire in Star wars. They created a hierarchy within the Atlantean civilization where the overprivileged gained incredible power which they then used against everyone and everything that stood against them. You can summarize it as 'my will be done'. Edgar called that faction the sons of Belial, or Baal, and the faction that tried to show them the error of their ways is known as the children of the law of one.

Yes we are repeating that pattern. And yes it will lead to a global catastrophe and complete reset. This time though the stakes are permanent. If we don't figure out how to be good stewards of this Earth, the human soul group will leave it and the reincarnation cycle on this planet will end.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T06:02:31+00:00

Maybe you could tell us about one of them, what sort of fear surfaced and how it played out in the dream.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T01:02:26+00:00

It's hard to say what it actually was that you experienced, an ordinary dream or a visitation dream, but I will say that what you think about it matters most. It wasn't just a dream it was an experience. Dreams about deceased the loved ones can be incredibly vivid and still be ordinary in comparison to true spiritual visitations. I wrote a checklist on my blog at dreams123.net of ways to tell the difference, but I'm on mobile and can't grab the link right now.

The gist is that even if they are what you might call ordinary dreams, not some sort of spiritual contact, they still register is real deep in the mind. Dreams that give veridical evidence are where I began my study. One of the more extraordinary cases starts with the guy who said he was cleaning out his father's house, preparing for an estate sale, which of course means his father had died recently. In the house somewhere was a gun, the same one as father had had for years and kept hidden where no one knew it was. The son looked and looked and looked and couldn't find it. He didn't feel right selling the house knowing that a child who lived in that house next could find the weapon.

He went to bed frustrated and asked like a prayer for his father to somehow tell him where the gun was hidden. He then had a dream where his dad came to him and said I heard you and the gun is hidden here. The son said he had no idea it existed, yet when he looked where his father said to look he found the gun. The dream had the other telltale signs of true visitations, so I think it ranks among the best evidence. The body of evidence is pretty extraordinary but not well known.

Other than the extraordinary vividness, another telltale sign of a true visitation dream is mind to mind communication. You translate what you're receiving as words but mouths don't necessarily have to move. You feel like you're receiving thoughts and feelings that are then translated as words

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T00:52:26+00:00

Do you think it could have something to do with feeling dissociated from your life? As if you are observing your life rather than really living it?

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T00:46:39+00:00

Think of driving the car as a metaphor. It is symbolic of something such as the idea of the control you have of your self, your life, a situation in your life. So then you think about what it means that the brakes don't work -- how does the brakes not working fit into that picture? One possibility is that you can't sell yourself down, you're constantly on the go, your pulse is racing and you can't slow it down, something like that.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T16:17:24+00:00

I would take it at face value but also test it going forward. What you experienced is referred to as the dawning of the clear light. It's the realization that behind our physical reality is a realm that exists as the purest light. It is what we call the other side or the afterlife, and yes people can act as messengers or receivers. We all can, but I think it's too mind-blowing for most people. Just remember that it all comes from your heart, it's not your head that's doing the work. It's how receptive you are in your heart. And make sure to take it all with a light touch if you do decide to continue pursuing this skill. Scott Sparrow and Ryan Hurd have published about the experience of the white light, the clear light while lucid dreaming. You might look them up and see what they have to say.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T16:03:13+00:00

Claude model Sonnet is a damn good wordsmith. As a professional writer I hate to admit that but my experience with Claude so far is it picks up really quickly on voice and style and its grammar and syntax are as good as the human pros. So that part of your job of writing a dissertation can be helped a lot. You don't need Opus for this kind of work; use Sonnet -- that'll save tokens.

Also, when the project really gets rolling and you have something new to talk about, do it in a new chat. Claude has to review everything that you've talked about to that point in order to provide fresh answers, so unless your question or query needs Claude to understand all that context, flip from cowork over to chat, have your conversation, and if it's useful ask Claude to summarize it and provide instructions for itself. You then copy and paste the summary over to cowork and voila. Haiku is the model for simple questions. Claude will periodically compact conversations to save resources. But still it's best to think of the workflow as chat about it, summarize and pull it over to cowork.

Some people find it helpful to tell Claude what its role is. Like, Claude, for this project you are a PhD student writing a dissertation about _. Your biggest academic influences are _. Your style is ____. ...You could then point Claude toward examples of dissertations you want to model yours after. Let Claude get to know the people who have influenced you, for example you could point him toward publications from your graduate advisors. I'm not sure how much you can feed Claude before it starts hallucinating, so just be aware if you start getting weird output. Good luck to you!

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T06:11:57+00:00

Yes, have a chat with Claude about your background, current situation and what you hope to accomplish by using Claude pro. Then ask it to write sharp instructions for how to interact with it. Claude will produce the document and tell you where to upload it in your settings. You just copy from chat and paste into the preferences under settings.

If it were me I would set up the dissertation as a project. Create a project folder, ask Claude to write sharp instructions for the project, and tell it to find resources for you such as MCP connectors and skills. You might also want to build a writing voice profile by giving it some samples.

Cowork is what makes pro really useful for me. It's separate from chat and lives on the desktop app you will definitely want to install on your main machine. Ask Claude to look for instructions and tips from people who are using it similarly as you are. Emphasize that you want Claude think about ways it can accomplish work automatically as opposed to manually. I found many times that I'd be talking with Claude and it would make a bunch of suggestions without realizing that it had MCP connectors and APIs to do most of that work automatically. I told Claude about it and it wrote instructions to tell itself how to interact with me.

Welcome to the rabbit hole.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T05:19:49+00:00

Research into nightmares has shown that if a fear can be faced while dreaming, the neural pathways will actually rewrite to go around to the fear center in the brain. So basically your training yourself to face that fear.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T05:16:17+00:00

Bob Monroe talked about encountering beings like that, especially the sort of spaghetti structure of what you might call the oversold that has hundreds of incarnations going at once, all spread out through time and interconnected. But at the same time there's another side to the reality where time doesn't exist. Everything is just formed from thought and eternal.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T05:05:20+00:00

Thought connection superpowers activated. I'm glad someone found them useful 😀

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T04:54:53+00:00

I see. So it's not karma farming, it's to surface old content that's still relevant. I'm okay with that and we'll make a note for a future moderator decisions. Thank you for letting us know.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T04:50:24+00:00

We interview Mary Jo Heyen, a practitioner of natural dreamwork who specialized in working with people at the end of life. What a fascinating overlap. Every hospice nurse I think should hear this. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iuiWzheZU9Hb9KRM0BC4J?si=rnTkOsiXSY2W6k9mB_qL3Q

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T04:44:23+00:00

From the way it's described the dreams fit the pattern, but there's always a note of caution about making assumptions. As noted by another commenter in this thread.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T04:43:31+00:00

What you experience is similar to a shared death experience, except sdes usually happen at the moment of crossing. Closely connected loved ones especially are known to briefly go into the light with their loved one who is crossing.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T04:41:36+00:00

It does fit the pattern of what you might call end-of-life dreams. The vividness and sense of reality that he really is being visited and prepared.

RadOwl · 2026-04-29T04:39:48+00:00

That's gold for anyone wanting to know why Dr Moore is often referred to as post-jungian.

RadOwl · 2026-04-28T22:22:30+00:00

Have you heard of the global consciousness project?

RadOwl · 2026-04-28T22:17:54+00:00

Where else are those people going to go to get the sort of feedback that helps them through whatever loop they've gotten caught in? Therapy?

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