1) I don't feel like typing it all out again so here is the post I wrote over at Astral Pulse the day after the experience:
Hey everybody - Just wanted to share a little success with the forums. I've been working on Energy Work and OBE stuff for about 2 months now and have had very little real success aside from a couple times when I had vibrations and some exit sensations. This morning (Sunday) I woke up at 6:30am and did some reading and hung out for around 40 minutes and then laid down in another room I have setup to try OBE work. I put on the BrainWave generator from Mastering Astral Projection (the trance induction track... week 5 I think) and laid there for a while. Well, 1.5 hours passed and I had only managed to go in and out of sleep once or twice, no trance or any sensations whatsoever. I decided to just get some sleep and went back to bed next to my wife.
Around this time, some of those pessimistic thoughts from the past crept in. Such as, "This crap just doesn't work" or "this just wasn't meant for me" and so on. I decided to go with my new philosophy in life which is that failure means you're at the threshold of success. That's just kind of the mentality I've tried to adopt lately. So I continued doing energy work and clearing my mind as I drifted off to sleep when I started really feeling those sensations. I guess like vibrations but really just the feeling of trance coming on. It sounded like my wife was speaking in jibberish next to me (which has screwed me up in the past) but I knew better that this was just a sign that I was getting closer. I just kept going with the feeling and next thing I remember I'm completely lucid in a dream.
I was on school bus with a bunch of kids I went to high school with. Realizing I was in a dream I was just messing with all of them when they would say something to me and just kind of having a good time. I watched the scenery go by out the window just enjoying the feelings and sensations of being lucid in a dream. I remember thinking to myself 'wow, I've been lucid for a while, this is great'. Sometime around then I decided I wanted to see more and so I thought to myself "UP" and lifted out the roof of the bus and started flying into the sky. The clouds looked kind of stormy so I changed them and made it nice and clear. I wanted to get more lucidity so I tried to open my eyes more for some reason and my physical eyes open and I could see the fan spinning in my room. Around this time I lost lucidity and drifted back into sleep.
However, I half-awoke in a trance state and had some really interesting sensations. A light wave of energy was slowly moving up and down my body. It had a light "orgasmic" feel to it and really felt similar to a low-voltage electric feeling. Very, very interesting. I've felt this before in small doses while drifting off but this was VERY distinct and I was lucid enough to observe the feeling this time. Anybody know more about this?
Anyhow, just wanted to share a little success with everyone. Good luck!
2) Just this morning I stayed home sick. I woke up and took my son to school, sent some emails for work and then laid back down. As I laid there I decided to try for an OBE, which lately has been a really long process of waiting for my body and mind to chill out enough to get on the verge of sleep. Eventually I managed to catch myself drifting off to sleep. I got myself to the point of feeling the vibrations and exit sensations, but that is as far as it got. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here but it's the familiar thing where I get all sorts of weird feelings and then I get a sort of 'drifting' or 'floating' sensation and then it goes away. I'm not sure if I'm getting too excited or what, but this has been a recurring theme.
So eventually I drift in and out of sleep and at one point, while awake I keep noticing all this hypnogogic imagery. Very lucid images that would float in and out. At one point one turned sexual and I was having a threesome in my old college apartment. I was completely lucid the entire time and the dream eventually shifted to myself laying in bed at my parents house. I decide I'm going to try for an OBE and I successfully lift off the bed and toward the bedroom door. I think to myself "I'm having an OBE" and then decide to get back in my body so that I will recall everything (which is what the recommend).
The funny thing is that I think I was only dreaming about having an OBE... or at least I think I was. I know that during the dream I was still aware of my physical body because as I was floating I was still in the same body position that I was laying in in my bed. I didn't want to move because I thought I might move my body and wake myself up.
Either way, this is good progress for me. This is one of the first mornings I've had in a long time to really sleep in un-interrupted so I attribute the success to that. I've realized lately that I'm horribly sleep deprived. I have a hard time going to bed before midnight and I'm woken up at 6:30 every morning. This is plenty of sleep for some people, but I think it leaves me half-tired every day. This is evidenced by the fact that every time I try to meditate in the middle of the day I just fall asleep. So my plan is to just start getting stuff done earlier and get in bed at 10pm every night. Weekends may be different, but I'm trying to get away from alcohol as well so that should help.
OK, the last thing I am going to write is that I just finished the book Far Journeys by Robert Monroe. INCREDIBLE book. It really caught me off-gaurd because I was just expecting stories about his out of body research. Instead, it's a story about how beings from a..."higher?" dimension met with him and basically showed him the story of our planet and how and why it was created. I'm sure he is taking some literary liberties, but the man obviously experienced something extraordinary. It really changed my viewpoint on life and our purpose here in general.
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