OBE causing Psychosis

[ninjaknight]

Hello.

I have been trying to have an astral projection using many different methods. The one that I have been trying lately is listening to a mp3 that claims to cause Astral Projection. The thing with this is that my dreams are becoming extremal life like, but my reality is becoming extremal dream like. Could it be because of trying to OBE? I stoped using it and I am feeling like normal during the day.
Thanks in advance.

[jilola]

Without knowing any details of the tape I'd say you're experiencing a relegation of the perceived reality to its place as one of many possible perceived realities.
The question as to whether it is a case of psychosis is way beyond any website member to decide. Use you best judgement and decide based on whether the changes in perceived reality are detrimental to your or someone else's well being.

There are any number of ways to perceive and interpret reality. Caveat Perceptor?

2cents & L&L
Jouni

[ninjaknight]

Well, it isn't detrimental to anyones well being because even in my dreams, I am a good person, so I don't know. I was just wondering if it could be a cause that my dreams feel like reality and reality feels like dreams. I talked to my martial arts teacher who has some experience with OBE, and he knows alot about mental and physical conditions and he said that these were some symptoms of psychosis.

[alexd]

I feel like I am dreaming during the day. It is not psychosis but it feels as though I am expecting to "wake up". Nothing seems to feel real. I use brainwave mp3s too but I don't know if that has any connection to it or not.


Alex

[twitch]

yes i know exactly what youre talking about. i think the feeling is that your realizing its all an illusion. this reality i mean. i mean its real and all, but to an extent. i think. youre starting to see. i think im starting to see too. i probably dont make sense, i suck at expressing myself. its ok. just know youre not the only one.

[alexd]

Yes... I kind of view it as a bit of a detriment though because reality that feels like a dream make you feel less alive and nothing seems to impact you anymore, it's as if you are sleeping through life, I have gone through periods of feeling completely dead in the last few months. Although I don't know if this is what ninjaknight is referring to, rather than seeing it as psychosis I see it more as losing touch with reality on a particular level.


Alex

[ninjaknight]

I think it is more like losing touch with reality, my teacher just said that it is kind of like psychosis. I kinda liked the way it felt at the beginning but after a while I wanted to go back to normal. It was starting to effect me really bad.

[Blank]

If its causeing more problems then maybe you should stop using it, also tell us what it is and where you got it from cos it may be somthing that some of us wish to keep clear of...  

My only other thoughts are that your adjusting to the feelings of the realitily of the world, your dreams are feeling more realistic and your reality is feeling more like a dream, your brain cant tell the difference between what is see's (through the eyes) and what it rembers internally so to your mind they are one in the same.  its your conciouness that knows how to differentiate but maybe listening to it is blurring the line between them.

[GypsyWanderer]

Just thought I'd let it be known i have basically the same thing where my whole life is a dream i cannot escape from now, and my dreams are usuallu much more epic and "real".  

So I think this really does have a lot to do with actual consciousness and by that i mean total awareness of yourself, your thoughts (unfourtunately how vague and "psychotic" they might be,) and what you are actually doing.  

I can only sometimes have some kind of silly awareness that what i am doing is off and i can concentrate on my whole body, but seriously i  feel ive lost it over the years, growing up in such a trance controlling environment as Midlothian , VA, USA, and then have a family hell bent on loving yet destroying eachother through their stupid assumptions about one another, and i consider myself away from all that.

anyways, if anyone wants to invade my mind, my dreams, contact me while sleeping, wake up my astral body, go ahead.  you can say it's unwise, but i believe im going downhill repidly, constantly. ive lost what i know to be a much better reality.

a damn psychiatrist promised lexapro to be better then that

it was worse, i am now worse off

this is all just looping of thoughts and playback im sure, that's why im thinking we should help eachother constanly there, if we arent doing anything but hurting eachother here.  

if i'm wrong one day i will accept that and work here, but right now, anything, anything, anything