Libico
27th June 2012, 01:20
Just had an interesting dream – I’ve been reading Adventures Beyond the Body, Astral Projection by William Buhlman and decided to try out some of the things I’ve been reading about.
Woke up in the middle of the night (now it is 3:42, so this must have been around 2:30 – 3:30). Decided to go back to sleep quickly repeating in my head “I want to have an out of body experience” over and over again in head as I was drifting back to sleep. I must have done it 20 -30 times when I started feeling a vibration/tingling in the base of my spine. Even in my drowsy state I thought to myself that it must be pretty cool, as I‘ve never had that kind of feeling before. The vibration stayed at the same level until I kept repeating the phrase – it felt like the vibration got stronger as I kept repeating it. Eventually after continuing to repeat it the vibration became quite intense. I had a momentary second of apprehension/fear, but quickly released it and tried to consciously pull myself out of my body. That didn’t seem to work so I tried the “rolling” out technique and that produced some interesting results. What follows was a strange experience; I don’t believe I succeeded in Astral Traveling, but I did have a very interesting dream which was lucid – this was only my second lucid dream so is significant enough for me.
I get out of bed and find myself in my room in my parent’s house. In the bedroom everything is dark and gray, and overall kind of bland; like my senses are dulled on top of it being the middle of the night. I walk around the room a little bit, looking back at the bed and see myself and my wife asleep in the bed – this is odd because we are really in our apartment in a completely different country, but the dream took place in my old room at my parent’s house. Anyway, I wander around the room, not wanting to go far from my body, but the darkness is making it difficult. I say to myself “Clarity now!” and “Light now!” and I reach a level of lucidity that was like my lucid dream –the level of clarity was like being conscious (although not conscious enough to realize that I couldn’t be having an OBE experience if I was in the parent’s house). After demanding light, it seems like my senses woke up, but not to the level I wanted as things were still slightly dark, so I said “Night vision now!’ and I started to see things more clearly, as if just before sunrise. I took a look at the window and saw my old neighborhood and in the far distance saw the ocean (not the way it should be!). I decided to check up on my son so I went to walk out of the room and down the hall, when I realized I should try moving through a wall. I hopped through the wall into an adjacent room, and continued through that room and jumped into where my son was.
Here is gets slightly strange. I pictured my son in the room asleep as normal in his crib (he is 11 months), but went over into an adjacent room (which doesn’t exist) and saw another version of him lying on a carpeted floor wide awake, which was completely normal to me. He was able to see me; as I jumped/flew around the room and over him he followed me with his eyes and body, was smiling and laughing. I thought to myself why the hell is he on the floor? I need to wake up and pick him up from there – I had the thought where I’d be able to see if this was really an OBE or just another dream based on if I’d really find him on the floor there. I snapped back into my body and woke up, realizing that there is no way this could have been real.
A few notes: throughout the entire dream I felt the vibration in the base of my spine. I even woke up feeling a slight tingling there that lasted a good 15 minutes – the feeling reminds me of a tired muscle, as if I had done a strenuous physical activity the day before. As I’m done writing I can feel a very dull ache there, but it is disappearing.
I don’t think this was any sort of OBE, but for me having my second lucid dream is significant enough to put down and be excited about – throughout the dream I had a clear conscious and scientific curiosity that was exactly like my waking mind; my normal dreams are usually a jumbled mess of impulses and irrational behavior. Once I demanded clarity things got extremely clear as if I was awake which was extremely satisfying.
I was hoping maybe some members with OBE experiences could help me understand if this has any significance - overall the experience seems to me like a lucid dream (even thought I accepted things that were obviously unreal, I had a conscious waking mind), but the vibration before, during, and after waking up is what is throwing me off. Maybe I was trying but am not quite there yet, but my body is trying to get used to it and the lucid dream was the result (just a theory). All I know is that I've never woken up with this sort of tingling staying with me for 20 minutes after I woke up.
Thanks for reading, and hope to be able to share more as they come!
Woke up in the middle of the night (now it is 3:42, so this must have been around 2:30 – 3:30). Decided to go back to sleep quickly repeating in my head “I want to have an out of body experience” over and over again in head as I was drifting back to sleep. I must have done it 20 -30 times when I started feeling a vibration/tingling in the base of my spine. Even in my drowsy state I thought to myself that it must be pretty cool, as I‘ve never had that kind of feeling before. The vibration stayed at the same level until I kept repeating the phrase – it felt like the vibration got stronger as I kept repeating it. Eventually after continuing to repeat it the vibration became quite intense. I had a momentary second of apprehension/fear, but quickly released it and tried to consciously pull myself out of my body. That didn’t seem to work so I tried the “rolling” out technique and that produced some interesting results. What follows was a strange experience; I don’t believe I succeeded in Astral Traveling, but I did have a very interesting dream which was lucid – this was only my second lucid dream so is significant enough for me.
I get out of bed and find myself in my room in my parent’s house. In the bedroom everything is dark and gray, and overall kind of bland; like my senses are dulled on top of it being the middle of the night. I walk around the room a little bit, looking back at the bed and see myself and my wife asleep in the bed – this is odd because we are really in our apartment in a completely different country, but the dream took place in my old room at my parent’s house. Anyway, I wander around the room, not wanting to go far from my body, but the darkness is making it difficult. I say to myself “Clarity now!” and “Light now!” and I reach a level of lucidity that was like my lucid dream –the level of clarity was like being conscious (although not conscious enough to realize that I couldn’t be having an OBE experience if I was in the parent’s house). After demanding light, it seems like my senses woke up, but not to the level I wanted as things were still slightly dark, so I said “Night vision now!’ and I started to see things more clearly, as if just before sunrise. I took a look at the window and saw my old neighborhood and in the far distance saw the ocean (not the way it should be!). I decided to check up on my son so I went to walk out of the room and down the hall, when I realized I should try moving through a wall. I hopped through the wall into an adjacent room, and continued through that room and jumped into where my son was.
Here is gets slightly strange. I pictured my son in the room asleep as normal in his crib (he is 11 months), but went over into an adjacent room (which doesn’t exist) and saw another version of him lying on a carpeted floor wide awake, which was completely normal to me. He was able to see me; as I jumped/flew around the room and over him he followed me with his eyes and body, was smiling and laughing. I thought to myself why the hell is he on the floor? I need to wake up and pick him up from there – I had the thought where I’d be able to see if this was really an OBE or just another dream based on if I’d really find him on the floor there. I snapped back into my body and woke up, realizing that there is no way this could have been real.
A few notes: throughout the entire dream I felt the vibration in the base of my spine. I even woke up feeling a slight tingling there that lasted a good 15 minutes – the feeling reminds me of a tired muscle, as if I had done a strenuous physical activity the day before. As I’m done writing I can feel a very dull ache there, but it is disappearing.
I don’t think this was any sort of OBE, but for me having my second lucid dream is significant enough to put down and be excited about – throughout the dream I had a clear conscious and scientific curiosity that was exactly like my waking mind; my normal dreams are usually a jumbled mess of impulses and irrational behavior. Once I demanded clarity things got extremely clear as if I was awake which was extremely satisfying.
I was hoping maybe some members with OBE experiences could help me understand if this has any significance - overall the experience seems to me like a lucid dream (even thought I accepted things that were obviously unreal, I had a conscious waking mind), but the vibration before, during, and after waking up is what is throwing me off. Maybe I was trying but am not quite there yet, but my body is trying to get used to it and the lucid dream was the result (just a theory). All I know is that I've never woken up with this sort of tingling staying with me for 20 minutes after I woke up.
Thanks for reading, and hope to be able to share more as they come!