Hi there! Thanks a lot for your replies anons. I'm looking forward to participating on this forum.
>I sorry but you are mixing dogmas from different religions and beliefs.
Oh, i forgot to mention that the definition given wasn't mine. It was coined by one of the founders of the original forum, user "cosmicprankster420", in the early days. It was a very rough around the edges definition at the time, but it tried to pinpoint the idea the best words could fathom; "Idealistic Pragmatical Magic", where all sort of techniques from different sources were welcome, with the core foundation in mind as the central factor to act upon: Of life as a dream to be experienced. 
>You are already mentioning chaos magic at one point, and honestly, I think the term chaos magic has been so bastardized that it is easier to call it postmodern magic so that you can throw in all your personal concepts and ideals that work based on experience or mere empirical concepts later, taking some functional techniques here and there from different systems.
This seems interesting. Did you read the material given by "Alan Chapman"? I took a look at his "Advanced Magick for Beginners" a long time ago, and it's about what you exactly described, the "whatever works, works" approach. I also read some of Liber Null at the time but i wasn't really interested. 
>I going to sound crude but i do not believe that a summary of ideal human concepts defines the pure idealistic experience when it can be studied from a materialistic perspective without putting dogmas or a system there.
That sounds like a good point, actually. Although, in a purely idealistic foundation, isn't materialism also a worldview of sorts? 
>I remember reading about some guys on Plebbit who ended up going crazy playing with lucid dreams, but they were absurdly idealistic, superstitious and lacking a more internal and material perception of the world and human and really into New Age woo-woo stuff.
>Most people would see them as schizo, but not having your feet on the ground is what makes you end up like that
That tends to happen a lot, im afraid. "An open mind combined with healthy caution is the correct mindset for all approaches targeted at the subjective experience. Never believe something without personal evidence; never dismiss something without personal evidence". I would prioritize pragmatical applications on the practice first and foremost, letting the results lead the way; a lot of drawbacks seems to be a byproduct of getting lost into abstraction. New Agers mainly fall for this, when the most prolific and useful authors like Neville Goddard was mostly philosophic, and missing the metaphysical aspects as well as a personal grounded interpretation that fits with your ongoing patterns is a recipe for madness. The perspective came before the methods. Needless to say, i'm not a fan of New Thought or New Age myself, but some of the formers members of the original forum were fond of the likes of Goddard in their philosophy and practices. 
>It is still absurd to want to impose a dogma to universalize or to want to paint a system as sacred or magical, something like fluffbunnies wiccans.
Mentioning again the book of Alan Chapman, i would say that those are aesthetical inclinations by the user, but i would also infer that they are not the "source" of the results themselves. But, no "dogmas" as in strict "ways of expression" on my part, never read Crowley myself either.
>I'll be honest, I never had premonitory dreams or felt anything paranormal in my dreams, other than nightmares and terrifying experiences such as sleep paralysis or invasion by an external agency experience (things like hatman, shadow or whatever)
One of my acquaintances (that is not involved with any /fringe/ stuff himself) has premonitory dreams all the time; it's a interesting subject. Could you care to tell me more about your experiences or perspectives on dreams? If you feel inclined of course.
>In my opinion and experience, these are just Lucid dreams or OBEs (out-of-body-experiences) nothing more than that.
Hmmm. Have you heard about the concept of persistent dreams? 
https://www.dreamviews.com/tags/persistent%20realms.html If you maintaned a realm in your dream world, and never came back, what would happen? It could be a interesting inquiry to partake in. 
>I think that ultimately seeking medical advice so as not to lose your mind is the best form of grounding practice to start.
I agree wholeheartley. It's pretty worrying nowadays how much people lose their health of mind, and even body faculties over things like this, specially when it comes to new agers... Needless to say, doing this withouth consideration for the everyday living and personal wellbeing is not reccomended in the slightes (I feel dumb sometimes having to remind people of this back in the day, it should be obvious, but maybe they get carried away most of the times).
>Anyway, Thanks for the site.
Thanks you for your reply! 
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>Dreams are a very unreliable source of information as they are often used by various entities to manipulate people in their subconscious state. Psychics working for governments use this all the time, they are able to project entire dream landscapes into your mind.
Could you tell me more about this? Sounds interesting. I've heard before about shared dreaming before.