#nayaraland

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WELCOME TO NAYARALAND

Previous I was Megan the witch, but now I am trying something new and this might help. So here I am.

For those who don’t know, my name is Nayara. I am from Brazil and I am in my mid 20s. I graduated in History and I have the license to teach. I want to expand my brain and learn much more about this area I love so much. 

History is one of the many things I love. Football was/is a big part of my life - but to be honest with you, I was away from the sport for a few years and I am slowly falling in love with it again. 

And I am a witch. I am a dreamer and being a witch just makes sense. 

I want to develop and be the best person I can be. There are many things I don’t know yet, many places to go, people to meet, things to try. I am eager to explore the world around me and the one inside me, which I call Nayaraland.

I am gonna be posting whatever I feel callled to, just because I can.

But seriously, you can expect posts on witchcraft, such as tarot, astrology, mythologies, spells, rituals... whatever I am up to. Also, I am learning about being a woman and I am loving it, so maybe I will write about it in the future. Some posts about productivity too, cause I want to keep track of what I am doing and, hopefully, stick to the things I am writing and inspire some of you. 

NAYARALAND IN CHAPTERS

9 DAYS WITH ODIN SERIES

The Calling

Introduction

Welcoming the Wanderer

Master of Magic and Rider of the Tree

All Father

Desired One

Battle God

Bale Worker

God of the Dead

God of Ecstasy

ASTROLOGY NOTES 

My Birth Chart: Sun & Moon

Astrology: The Planets and their meanings

SAGITTARIUS SUN: Identity and purpose

SCORPIO VENUS: The art of love

SOLAR ECLIPSE IN SCORPIO AND LUNAR ECLIPSE IN TAURUS - Megan’s Lab

RUNIC JOURNEY 

Introduction

RUNIC JOURNEY: Aett ruled by Freyja

RUNIC JOURNEY - Aett ruled by Heimdall

RUNIC JOURNEY - Aett ruled by Tyr

PRODUCTIVITY

2023 - BLOOMING WITH GRACE

JANUARY GOALS AND RECAP

FEBRUARY GOALS

SUMMER BREAK ROUTINE

FEBRUARY RECAP

MARCH GOALS

MARCH RECAP

APRIL GOALS

APRIL RECAP

MAY GOALS AND RECAP

JUNE GOALS AND RECAP

JULY GOALS AND RECAP

AUGUST GOALS AND RECAP

SEPTEMBER GOALS

SEPTEMBER RECAP

OCTOBER GOALS AND RECAP

DIVING DEEP INTO THE UNKNOWN: DREAMS

PART I

PART II

PART III

MY EXPERIENCE

THE CRAFT STUDIES

DEVOTIONAL ROUTINE: A PLAN

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DIVING DEEP INTO THE UNKNOWN - DREAMS: PART II

You guys don’t know it, but my mother has had prophetic dreams.

Besides that, I’ve been describing myself as a dreamer for a very long time. Mommy said to me a few times I have my head in the clouds - Nayara vive no mundo da lua.

With mommy powers and my huge imagination, I feel like I should explore this realm. It is vast and magical, so why not?

The question is: How am I going to explore my dreams?

I remember I watched a video on lucid dreams a while ago and I thought: maybe it is a good idea to start with that. The guy followed a guide to have lucid dreams in 30 days (Video here - it’s in portuguese) and I decided to use the application instructions of the book and see how it goes.

You can read about the second part of my experience in the next section.

MY EXPERIENCE PART II: Week Two - Lucid Dreaming

Day 8: Reality Check

Basically, from now on I need to check if I am dreaming or not. Before going to bed I need to affirm that I will recognize that I am dreaming while I am dreaming.

No dreams.

Day 9: I love Lucidity

All I had to do was to affirm that I was going to recongnize I was dreaming while I am dreaming.

The dream: Cousin’s influence - No lucid dream that night.

Day 10: Dreamer’s guide to the Universe

Today I have to select a lucid dream symbol and place it in my room. I have also to select a destination for tonight’s dream and surround my lucidity symbol with images related to my dream location, write my goal on my journal and affirm that I am going to have a lucid dream tonight. 

The dream: No dreams.

Day 11: Who’s flying now?

This time I had to surround my lucidity symbol with flying stuff, like airplanes and birds and think about these flying objects and creatures throughout the day. I had also to choose a dream location to fly there, write my goal in my journal and before bed affirm that I was going to fly in my dreams.

The dream: I didn’t fly but I had a crazy dream. The title of tonight’s dream is: hooligans took my phone. 

Day 12: Whirl without end

Tonight, if I am having a lucid dream I can travel to different locations by spinning my dream body. This also works if I realize I am starting to wake up and feel the desire to keep dreaming.

The dream: Brothers. No lucid dream.

Day 13: Dream Weaving

Tonight I should be able to create, destroy or alter objects while I am dreaming. I can do that by affirming to myself that I can do it and sometime during the day I need to imagine I am altering the scene around me. Before bed I write in my dream journal that tonight I will alter my dreams and review the exercise I did earlier. 

The dream: Different destination. Crazy, crazy dream and I loved it, even though I was not aware I was dreaming.

Day 14: Free dreaming

No exercises today. I won’t do anything to influence my dreams.

The dream: Storm and flowers. No lucid dream.

NOTES

I feel a bit disappointed cause I haven’t had any lucid dreams yet, but I will finish the book and try the exercises while I am reading it. Unfortunately, I don’t feel excited about this whole thing anymore, but if I have a nice experience as I had on day 13 will change the way I see this.

References

Experiência Flamino: COMO TER SONHOS LÚCIDOS EM 30 DIAS | MINHA EXPERIÊNCIA . Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBsb8oXx5c&t=1783s

Lucid Dreams in 30 days: The creative sleep program by   Keith Harary and Pamela Weintraub.

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DIVING DEEP INTO THE UNKNOWN - DREAMS: PART I

You guys don’t know it, but my mother has had prophetic dreams.

Besides that, I’ve been describing myself as a dreamer for a very long time. Mommy said to me a few times I have my head in the clouds - Nayara vive no mundo da lua.

With mommy powers and my huge imagination, I feel like I should explore this realm. It is vast and magical, so why not?

The question is: How am I going to explore my dreams?

I remember I watched a video on lucid dreams a while ago and I thought: maybe it is a good idea to start with that. The guy followed a guide to have lucid dreams in 30 days (Video here - it’s in portuguese) and I decided to use the application instructions of the book and see how it goes. 

You can read about the first part of my experince in the next section.

MY EXPERIENCE PART I: Week One - Waking up to your dreams

Day 1 and 2: Dream recall. 

The main goal for day 1 and 2 was to remember my dreams the next day. 

I didn’t remember many details, nor the story. I only have a few pieces of the puzzle, so I can’t describe them here. Even if I could, I wouldn’t, cause??? It’s not relevant. 

The authors of the book suggest us to give our dreams titles while we are recalling and writing about them on our Dream Journal. Here they are:

The dream 1: Me in a farm

The dream 2: Flowers on Mary’s street

Day 3: Temple of dreams

The authors discuss the importance of a good place to sleep and about dream incubation. Basically dream incubation refers to the influence of images and thoughts on our dreams; we sort of manipulate our brain to create a dream about what we want. 

My goals for this day were to keep my room organized and clean and create symbols related to the topic I wanted to dream about - understand a past relationship.

The dream: Games - nothing related to my past relationship.

Day 4: Vision Quest

The goal is to use the incubation technique to gain more influence over my dreams. In order to do that, I needed to reflect on a  creative problem - the article I am writing - and spend sometime thinking about it. The next thing was to pick an object that reminds me of the issue and at night, before sleep, I needed to affirm that I was going to find a solution to my problem in my dreams. 

The dream: Back to school. Meaning: Organize and plan ahead.

Day 5: Life is but a dream

I can influence my dreams, but I can’t control them yet. The exercise for this day was to choose a location reminiscent of past dreams and go there, paying attention to the details. While I am there, watching people doing their stuff I had to say to myself that everybody there has dreams, reflecting on this quote and noticing possible dream images in the area.

No dreams.

Day 6: Dream rehearsal

The goal was to create and act like a dream while I was awake. Starting right after I wake up, acting as if I was going to sleep. Focusing on the feeling of a dream, in other words, doing something I wouldn’t normally do - wearing a special dress to get some bread, for example. Durind the experience I should ask myself if I was dreaming or not and say to myself “Yes, I am dreaming”. By the end of the day affirm that I will be aware of everything in my dreams.

I didn’t do what I had to do. Nothing dream like on this tuesday. I failed on this exercise.

The dream: The only thing I remember about this dream was Jason Momoa in it :D

Day 7: Edge of consciousness

The idea is to explore the negative and unpleasant images in my dreams. I also failed on this exercise, not completely, but I didn’t follow the tasks the authors suggested . 

The dream: Loki is free. It was a bit scary but I didn’t have any control during the dream. 

And that is all for week one, folks.

References

Experiência Flamino: COMO TER SONHOS LÚCIDOS EM 30 DIAS | MINHA EXPERIÊNCIA . Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBsb8oXx5c&t=1783s

Lucid Dreams in 30 days: The creative sleep program by  Keith Harary and Pamela Weintraub.