My Second and Most Profound (Yet Humorous) Experience thus Far

[APtoVegas]

My intentions recently have been to focus on phasing while lucid dreaming rather than trying to phase while meditating and full conscious. Sort of work with what I already know.

I had one previous experience from lucid dreaming to phasing. However, in retrospect, it wasn't anywhere near to this experience.

It's also worth noting that I am a very humorous person and humor has helped me through much in life. Not to the point that I laugh at funerals, but you get the idea. It plays into this entire experience and how my experience manifested and helped in this "lesson."

So I did fall asleep while meditating on an intent to phase while dreaming and I was at the vibrational stage and slipped under somewhere soon after.
The dream I started in is of no consequence, although it did have significance to me and I reflected on it later as well.

I was in a particular situation in the dream where I wanted to get away. It wasn't nightmarish. Just wanted to get out of a family situation.

I actually said out loud (in the dream), "I've got to get our of here."

And spontaneously decided...to phase! In my first dream-to-phasing experience I did something similar. And I was actually given a third-person view of how the shift looks while still feeling it. Like I was learning, "This is how easy it is. See!?!"

So back to the dream. I laid my head down on a piano I was playing because, you know, that's the most sacred place to project. I love dreams..

In my dream, I went into a vibrational state and through my closed eyelids...which is awesome considering it's a dream, I started to see white shapes and patterns, which happens to me in real life also while meditating and vibrational.

I've been reading a lot on this forum that you should actually phase after the vibrations subside and they come in cycles and I remembered this in the dream. So I waited for the vibrations to die down. Keep in mind, I'm not consciously aware I'm dreaming at this point.

So I started (in my dream of course) asking my guide to help me out of my body.

Then I could feel myself phasing out...no one really PULLING me as I'd hoped, but also still I felt kinda stuck.

Then I was suddenly in the most magical of places ever...

...a mall fast food joint.

Yup. And here's where both consciousness and the funny start. So I thought to myself, Damn it! It didn't work. Then realization set in. WOAH...I AM IN A FAST FOOD JOINT NOW.

Then consciousness spontaneously happened.

I  realized that I had been dreaming previously, but now I had phased. I told myself not to panic and I was actually really pretty calm already, but I literally had a shifting focus from a dream as to being in a 100% astral reality. I can't explain how that feels, but it's amazing. I knew my physical body was back in bed (though I didn't return when I thought of it), but felt perfectly safe. I also felt like I'd been tutored a bit more on how the phasing feels.
Now I know why people have so much trouble conveying these experiences. I rubbed my hands together and looked at them (again, read that on these forums...thanks!) and my hands were CRYSTAL clear. Like more clear than my physical vision. Then two fingers merged together and then back to normal as if to say, "Yup, you're astral!"

I was trying not to move too quickly, but  it was so real. It was absolute clarity. Yes, The Matrix.

I was trying to focus on things to get the detail. I mean just like standing in a fast food joint and you start looking at the decor, floor, and stuff and realize the colors and patterns.

I took a couple steps and could feel the floor under me through my shoes. I could FEEL my shoes. White tennies. Basic. Though I can't say I could smell the food.

I was standing in the back of a smallish fast food joint that opened onto the second floor of a mall. Kinda like where I imagine the bathrooms would be. I can't say it's a mall I had been to in the physical, but fairly close to one near me where I grew up.

The inside walls were like a greyish-turqoise laminate with a darker blue marbled patterns and the tables were similar laminate and marbled patterns but in shades of dark orange. The benches were those kinda bucket seat type and were orange also. I ran my hand across the table and it was like cool linoleum. But the sensation was perfectly real.
It's like if you were to walk into any fast food place...walk around for a few minutes, leave, and then try to describe it to me. It was 100% tactile and real, but hard to remember every detail even when trying to.

So then I told myself to start walking and I did. I wasn't sure if I was going to glide or just walk, but I just walked and could FEEL every step when I focused on it. There was no one in there eating, but I could see other people walking around in the mall and could hear them talking in that sort of echoing garble you hear in those high-ceilinged malls. Since I knew I was in the astral, I decided to go ask for help.

And who better to ask? YES! The fast food cashier! I mean, she's in the astral, so she knows what's up, right?

I  focused on an intent here. And my intent was to get to one of the higher planes, like less physical or mall-like and a little more astral, though I thought maybe that was moving too fast and I should just take it one step at a time.

So I went up to the fast food counter...that stainless steel type and put my hands on the counter...cold steel. The cashier had a little black headset on and an orange outfit that matched the tables and chair. She was black and like early 20s. She smiled and asked, "Can I help you?"

I smiled and was kinda bouncing and said, "Yeah, can you help me find my guide? I'm trying to get to a higher vibrational state." Even now that didn't seem strange.

And she said, "Just a minute," half-turned and started talking on her headset kinda quietly. Then she pointed out into the mall where I could see a small group of three people standing with quite a few other people walking around. I told her thanks and she said, "Good luck!" She didn't charge me for that service, but now I wished I had ordered some astral fries with a side of ethereal ranch dressing. Mmmm astral fries.

So when I walked out into the mall there was like a light breeze, you know, like when the air conditioner hits you when you first step into a wide-open building with a high ceiling. And I looked around and saw all the stores and the floor was like tan with dark speckles and I said, "This is SO cool!" Very profound, I know. But how do you express it in words? There were a few people walking around. Like what you would see in a mall on a weekday afternoon. People looked and dressed normally, but the style was perhaps more like the late 80's. There was a skylight in the ceiling in some sort uneven zigzag pattern and it was sunny, but kinda dark in the mall...not like creepy dark, just subdued. I could see down to the first floor where there were plants and wooden benches, and other stores. The stores had signs, but they were more like symbols than words...that part I'm now fuzzy on.

So I see three people standing and smiling at me. There are two tall black guys and a shorter girl. The guys appeared to be in late teens/early 20s and the girl looked like she was around that age, but much shorter. The guys had on basketball jerseys, jeans, and sneakers with white tube socks...not matching outfits, but similar. The girl was white and kinda freckly and had like mini Roseanne-Roseanna-Dana hair (if you're of an age to remember her) but blonde. They just looked like regular everyday people in a mall.

I was like totally excited and asked, "Are you my guides?" Like wow...I have THREE! Score!

One of the  guys smiled REALLY broadly and glanced over to my side, but didn't say anything. Kinda like he was saying, "Not us...look there."

And there she was. She hadn't been there when I walked up. I would've noticed her. I just knew it was her. She was...

...a middle-aged overweight waitress with a tackily-dyed and uneven black bob and dimestore makeup. She was wearing a black and white waitress outfit, almost like a maid's but nothing frilly. She had a white triangular necklace that somehow impressed me as a shark's tooth. She had a headset flung over her shoulder (from talking to the cashier?) and...I love this...you know those antenna people used to wear on their heads? She had sparkly sequined purple ones, but the part that you slide on your head was around her neck. It's like she took them off her head once she left whatever mall diner she came from and just put them around her neck for safe keeping. I was watching the sequined balls bounce on their coils and I thought...she's PERFECT!

She had  a black mole somewhere near her mouth, but I don't remember where. The mole was colored like she had painted it a bit to stand out. She wasn't smiling broadly like the other three...just sort of a small smirky smile, but I loved it.

I don't recall her having a nametag and I didn't think to ask. I just knew who she was, though felt compelled to ask. I recalled after the fact that several experiences I've read said that the guides don't have names, but they'll use one of it's easier for us. Thanks forum!

I asked, "Are you my guide?"

And she did a quick smile, then back to a straight-face, but she wasn't mean about it...she was just all-dry humor. She said, "Follow me." I liked her more and more. She immediately turned the opposite way and started walking.
As I started walking with her, one of the guys bowed down and asked, "It's Brian right? Nice to meet you," and he smiled real broadly again and I thought it was very cool that he knew my name.

My waitress guide didn't say anything and I was walking behind her and noticed she was wearing like sheer black nylons and white sensible shoes. They have sensible shoes in the astral. That's a bonus. I could even hear the rubber soles making a sound on the floor. In retrospect, I somewhat feel I should have been asking questions, but my intent was to take in as much detail and sensations that I could, so I wouldn't forget. I also realized later why. She had sort of a lumbering walk that was really funny and fit her perfectly.
It felt very comfortable. Like all this was happening in this environment with her liking like that, so I wouldn't get too overwhelmed. Kinda like when Jodie Foster met the alien as her father in Contact.

Unfortunately, after maybe 10 seconds or so I felt like this was happening a bit slow. My waitress gudie got a little ahead of me and I thought, I should try and fly to catch up. Annnd this is where I went wrong.
Because I did pick up and fly. It was like I willed myself first to start flying and I got vertical like super-duper man and then started moving and willed myself to go faster. And I could FEEL the air and the force moving me. It was AWESOME.

I zipped passed some people and they just kinda looked at me woosh by and then looked forward again like this happens often.

So then I thought it was pretty easy to fly and then instantly thought "what if I can't stop?" and lo-and-behold I couldn't. Up until now, I hadn't really manifested anything, other than having an intent to speak to those there. And I immediately realized I manifested my inability to stop flying. I willed myself to stop but really just slowed down as I was heading for these stacked black display cubes in a storefront. It was kinda like if you were slowing down a small boat, but knew you were going to hit the dock anyway. And so I did...crashed into them, but it didn't hurt at all, though I could feel the impact. The cubes just  rocked back and forth and I landed more than fell to the floor. There wasn't anything on the cubes that I can remember. I was laughing quite a bit at myself.

Then I realized I didn't see where my guide had gone and I knew she did that on purpose. And then it's a bit muddled now that I try to remember. I got lost up some stairs that I *think* were inside the store I crashed into. I'd obviously stopped observing and was trying to make things happen and was making it more confusing.
I ultimately decided that this was my cue. I'd taken this experience far enough and I told myself I need to wake up to remember this and try again later. Like I knew it was meant to be over now.

And literally snapped my eyes open in bed! And I mean INSTANTLY and it was all super fresh like that world was literally just a second ago. If I closed my eyes I'd see it again.
But it was so weird coming from such a crystal clear world (as so many posters here have said it's clearer than our physical world, which I now understand).

So many have posted about their guides giving them little tests and quests to solve as learning experiences.

Well, I knew as soon as I crashed into those cubes, I knew what was up. My guide was teaching me how to take it slow and stick with her. I failed miserably, but it was so fun and so unbelievably real. Sorry I keep saying that over and over, but it was just astonishing.

That was insanely great. In retrospect, it sounds dreamlike, but this was more lucid than any dream I've had and the control (up until the flying) was mine, though I did not attempt to manifest anything other than my fingers merging on my hands. I had intent, but not really attempting to will anything to happen. My goal was to observe, but the interactions just felt right.

So hopefully this was a great first lesson. Actually my second, but the first with my new dry-humor waitress guide.

I welcome all questions and thoughts. Thanks!

[Bedeekin]

Very nice... and very descriptive. You are spot on with the realism. I first thought it was going to be a long haul post but got very wrapped up in your writing style.  I was there!!

"Yes, The Matrix."

That was my thoughts sort of... but when I watched the Matrix it was... 'Yes... OOBEs'... and when I saw Avatar I was like.. "This is actually probably closer to what could be possible than most people think"

When I first had my full encounter in the nonphysical I was super fascinated by the details. A table brushed against my hip and felt amazingly real. I remember looking at the condensation on a window and picking out the separate droplets of water... then looking past the window at a large open courtyard. Floating through the window I landed on the cobblestones of the courtyard. I remember looking at the cobbles.. bending down and brushing them. They were slightly wet and glistening. Everything was hyperreal. When I started to feel like I was losing concentration I instinctively rubbed my hands together and blew on them and found this was a great way to anchor myself in the nonphysical.

[APtoVegas]

Thank you for the hand-rubbing technique. I've done that in both experiences and it's amazing how the clarity grows.

Yes, I knew the post would be long, but I've read so many posts of people asking, "What is it like..." and I know it must be getting tiring for the admins to keep trying to convey something like this. You've each tried to express it countless times in the posts I've gone through (still many more to go).

So I thought I'd give as much detail as I could remember. I original wrote this as an email to a friend immediately after I opened my physical eyes and attempted to write without embellishment.

Just not sure how many different ways to say, "It was just like being in the physical world, only better" or "it felt real."

I think the two things that really stood out for me were: 1. I knew I was actually physically in bed, and 2. I was no longer dreaming. Then just kept remembering to just observe and let it happen.

I end up making alot of similarities in my practicing and experiences to the movie Contact and I keep telling myself, "Small moves Ellie. Small moves."

I hope to have many more experiences like this and to see those of others! Thanks again for all your information in these forums.

[Bedeekin]

"I think the two things that really stood out for me were: 1. I knew I was actually physically in bed, and 2. I was no longer dreaming. Then just kept remembering to just observe and let it happen."

1 and 2 are the key pointers. To know you are in bed or rather to know the situation. It is so easy to give in to astonishment. It's nice to hear accurate similarities. I'll try to find my first diary entry.

It's this nonphysical reality that first made me question THIS reality. If this nonphysical place is real... then I can believe it, If it isn't real then what exactly is the thing I call reality.

And that's just weird the small moves Ellie thing... I said that at the weekend when chatting to someone on Facebook and they didn't get the reference. I also remember thinking that the sequence at the end was very OOBE-like. Especially the chair vibrating and her letting releasing herself from the seat. Almost a perfect analogy for SP and the following separation. Too add, I've had quite a few "It's so beautiful... I had no idea" moments.  

Weird what you have put in this post. I've had a weird day today and this has lifted my spirits and pretty much been a medicine to my gripes. Thanks.

[Lionheart]

 Wow, just wow!  

What an adventure. That sounded like a blast. You were right though, your lesson here was to just follow her and see where she led you, but you decided to try the "superman routine" instead. No harm, no foul. You will get many other opportunites to fix that problem.

I have been told many times, "just observe".

Other times I have been like a kid in a candy store, flitting around all over the place, lol.

I enjoy your sense of Humor too. I admire your level of awareness as well.

I think that you were already in the NPR the entire time. You just didn't realize that at first. So at this point you we falling in and out of awareness, until you relinquished all thought and just went with what was happening. This is the point where many people will lose the entire scenario and just wake up. I do this often as well, awaken in my Dream, the realization I am Dreaming doesn't hit right away, then I wake up, realize what just happened and go back to sleep and Re-Script my NPR scenario all over again. This time with full control and awareness.

Anyways, to sum it up, you did awesome man!   Here's to many more!!!  

[Szaxx]

What a good experience.
You took the reins and steered yourself into a mess which you instantly cleaned up by landing.
Yes its hard to follow, there's no rules, common sense and learning will come after a few of these experiences.
The more real than the physical thing is absolute proof 100%.
Dont think about these tests yet. You have fun then ask for what you need to know.
It will come together all at once and thats when the exhilaration is out of this world completely.
Already words failed you. I'd guess in few more experiences this will be almost total.
Have fun.

[APtoVegas]

Thanks so much!

Both my prominent experiences so far have felt, in retrospect, much like training exercises. Like my conscious (or my guide) getting me comfortable with the technique and environment. No great revelations or insight. Just experiencing. No universal love or the Akashik Library swinging open its doors for me. Just a couple small, yet astonishing steps.

The several posts on here that mentioned "just letting it happen" were really on-point. When I've attempted conscious-phasing, it's been much more like I'm trying to force it, will it, intend it, and so on. I've now taken the approach when attempting to consciously phase to be more like a wait-and-see an not attempt any technique other than observing.

For me, from a lucid dream to astral so far has been like a seamless shift without my pesky ego or left brain (or whatever) getting in the way. It's taken away that annoying middleman (me!) who won't let me through.

If the quantum leap from my first to second experience is any indication, it's going to be a wild adventure.

Thanks again for all the feedback!

[Lionheart]

Both my prominent experiences so far have felt, in retrospect, much like training exercises. Like my conscious (or my guide) getting me comfortable with the technique and environment. No great revelations or insight. Just experiencing. No universal love or the Akashik Library swinging open its doors for me. Just a couple small, yet astonishing steps.

Just learning the ropes per say is good enough for now. You will enjoy the training though! 

At first it's like one step forward, two steps back. But then you start to get the hang of it and that's when it really becomes fun.

Just wait until you are, can't really say asked, but you find yourself in a Retrieval situation. There's nothing that feels better inside than knowing you actually helped a soul/consciousness that was stuck in some way, shape or form. It leaves you feeling blissful for the next week!