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Welcome to 2012 and The Transition of the Ages / Even the Maya are getting sick of 2012 hype
October 14, 2009, 10:50:34 #2
Welcome to Astral Consciousness! / Projecting, or dreaming?
July 19, 2009, 02:56:56
I've been trying to astral project on a regular basis again now that I'm home from school, and no longer have school-related distractions to deal with. However, I haven't even succeeded in reaching the vibrational stage again. I think that my sudden focus and frustration has caused me to dream about projecting. Two days ago, I had the following experience sometime between 6AM and 2PM, after falling asleep:
I vaguely remember feeling like I was leaving my body, and I have a clear memory of passing through a closed door. I ended up on the first floor of my house, floating slightly above the floor through the rooms. I passed my mother, who was sitting at the kitchen table, and my dad, who was in the living room. I did this about three times, and I recall my dad making some sort of gesture, either a wink or a smile, as if he could see me. I found myself outside my house later, and it looked drastically different from the way it looks in real life. IRL, it's two stories tall, painted gray, white, and dark blue, and obviously quite old, due to the distinctive architecture. I saw what looked like the back of a single-story white duplex or ranch house, with no doors. I continued walking down the street, and none of the houses looked like they normally did: they were all smaller and painted in bright, obnoxious colors. The rest of the events were very fuzzy, involving people I did not know, in a surreal environment. I can't remember the details.
I've read on the forum that there are guides that instruct how to astral project from a dream instead of a waking state, and I'm still confused as to whether or not I did so. I've had other "dreams" like this before, that started out in a familiar environment (e.g. my bedroom in my house), but continued into a very strange, dream-like environment. Based on what I've described, have I started to project while asleep, only to fall back into a dream? Or was I dreaming all along?
I vaguely remember feeling like I was leaving my body, and I have a clear memory of passing through a closed door. I ended up on the first floor of my house, floating slightly above the floor through the rooms. I passed my mother, who was sitting at the kitchen table, and my dad, who was in the living room. I did this about three times, and I recall my dad making some sort of gesture, either a wink or a smile, as if he could see me. I found myself outside my house later, and it looked drastically different from the way it looks in real life. IRL, it's two stories tall, painted gray, white, and dark blue, and obviously quite old, due to the distinctive architecture. I saw what looked like the back of a single-story white duplex or ranch house, with no doors. I continued walking down the street, and none of the houses looked like they normally did: they were all smaller and painted in bright, obnoxious colors. The rest of the events were very fuzzy, involving people I did not know, in a surreal environment. I can't remember the details.
I've read on the forum that there are guides that instruct how to astral project from a dream instead of a waking state, and I'm still confused as to whether or not I did so. I've had other "dreams" like this before, that started out in a familiar environment (e.g. my bedroom in my house), but continued into a very strange, dream-like environment. Based on what I've described, have I started to project while asleep, only to fall back into a dream? Or was I dreaming all along?
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Welcome to Astral Consciousness! / Has anyone read this article?
February 25, 2009, 05:23:42
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-life-after-death.htm
I apologize if this has been posted before. Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, or experiences relating to this information?
I apologize if this has been posted before. Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, or experiences relating to this information?
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Welcome to Dreams! / sleep paralysis/night hags
November 17, 2008, 20:32:04
I have a question regarding how to reduce the occurrence of this phenomenon, if anyone has managed to do that. I occasionally suffer from what I like to call "uneventful" sleep paralysis, during which I reach semi-waking consciousness and find that I cannot move. For some reason, I always forget that this has happened before and I panic, and try thrashing my shoulders in an attempt to roll over, but of course, that only leads to more stress because I still cannot move. Eventually, I do snap out of it and fully wake up, and give my upper body a few good twitches just to make sure. This only happens a few times a year, so while not a problem per say, it can be rather bothersome.
Over the last year or two, I've been noticing that the more frightening form, wherein you feel the "hag" on top of you, has been occurring more often. A few nights ago, I awoke in the wee hours of the morning unable to move, with the feeling of some small creature walking onto my chest. Like every other time I've experienced this, I'd been sleeping on my back, with my blankets covering my face and head, which I do to conserve warmth and keep out any light that might prevent me from sleeping. Because of this, I wake up seeing the underside of my blanket, but can't see the thing I feel on top of me. This time, I could actually hear the thing panting, and I vaguely remember hearing a scratching sound, like that of a dog scratching its ear with its hind leg. Obviously, given that description, it sounds like I was being accosted by a chihuahua, which is hardly terrifying, but seeing as I can never remember that the situation has happened to me before and that it isn't "real," it is always quite stressful and disturbing.
Can anyone offer any advice? Also, I apologize if this is in the wrong section; I thought this fit under the category of "dreams" more than anything else.
Over the last year or two, I've been noticing that the more frightening form, wherein you feel the "hag" on top of you, has been occurring more often. A few nights ago, I awoke in the wee hours of the morning unable to move, with the feeling of some small creature walking onto my chest. Like every other time I've experienced this, I'd been sleeping on my back, with my blankets covering my face and head, which I do to conserve warmth and keep out any light that might prevent me from sleeping. Because of this, I wake up seeing the underside of my blanket, but can't see the thing I feel on top of me. This time, I could actually hear the thing panting, and I vaguely remember hearing a scratching sound, like that of a dog scratching its ear with its hind leg. Obviously, given that description, it sounds like I was being accosted by a chihuahua, which is hardly terrifying, but seeing as I can never remember that the situation has happened to me before and that it isn't "real," it is always quite stressful and disturbing.
Can anyone offer any advice? Also, I apologize if this is in the wrong section; I thought this fit under the category of "dreams" more than anything else.
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Welcome to Astral Consciousness! / Advice regarding Lucidity Institute (requires reading)
November 09, 2008, 05:30:17
Greetings, all!
This is my first post, although I have lurked off-and-on throughout the past couple of years. I've recently found myself in a bit of a quandary; warning, this is not a short post:
I finally got around to joining lucidipedia.com after procrastinating for time. I already had some experiences with lucid dreaming, so I thought of it as a good stepping stone into the realm of OBE and phasing (along with being interesting on its own), which I had read about on a number of different forums, but never fully accomplished. The gentleman who runs lucidipedia, Tim Post, stated in his introductory pages that he will make frequent references to research by the Lucidity Institute, which I see has been mentioned a few times on the Astral Pulse forums. I visited the website, and under the section "LUCID DREAMING LITERATURE," the 9th chapter from the institute's book, entitled "Dreaming, Illusion, and Reality" caught my eye (that being the title of the -chapter-, btw, not the book). The selection contained some rather unsettling conclusions about the nature of OBE that I had already held to. Here's the link, for those of you willing to read the whole thing: http://www.lucidity.com/LD9DIR.html
Obviously, that's a lot to read, so for those looking for the gist of it, I'll try summarizing the main points. Essentially, the claim is that lucid dreaming is actually a "higher" state than having an out-of-body experience, because those people are so convinced that they are not merely dreaming, when their experiences contain elements commonly found in regular dreams. Two of the main examples given are that of a man whom, after going OBE in his bedroom and observing his "physical" surroundings, looks back to his bed and sees the body of his mother, who had died many years before, rather than his own, as is common. Another was of a different man who blew out a candle in his room during his OBE state, only to wake up the next morning to see that the candle was burned down to the stump, suggesting that his astral manipulations did not affect his physical surroundings, supposedly "proving" that the OBE state is little more than your average dream, and that OBE-ers are rather deluded in their thinking.
Given the many OBE experiences held by the members of this forum, I was hoping somewhat could offer up any insight regarding this. I had very high hopes for my future OBE experiences, and this apparent "debunking" is rather disturbing.
This is my first post, although I have lurked off-and-on throughout the past couple of years. I've recently found myself in a bit of a quandary; warning, this is not a short post:
I finally got around to joining lucidipedia.com after procrastinating for time. I already had some experiences with lucid dreaming, so I thought of it as a good stepping stone into the realm of OBE and phasing (along with being interesting on its own), which I had read about on a number of different forums, but never fully accomplished. The gentleman who runs lucidipedia, Tim Post, stated in his introductory pages that he will make frequent references to research by the Lucidity Institute, which I see has been mentioned a few times on the Astral Pulse forums. I visited the website, and under the section "LUCID DREAMING LITERATURE," the 9th chapter from the institute's book, entitled "Dreaming, Illusion, and Reality" caught my eye (that being the title of the -chapter-, btw, not the book). The selection contained some rather unsettling conclusions about the nature of OBE that I had already held to. Here's the link, for those of you willing to read the whole thing: http://www.lucidity.com/LD9DIR.html
Obviously, that's a lot to read, so for those looking for the gist of it, I'll try summarizing the main points. Essentially, the claim is that lucid dreaming is actually a "higher" state than having an out-of-body experience, because those people are so convinced that they are not merely dreaming, when their experiences contain elements commonly found in regular dreams. Two of the main examples given are that of a man whom, after going OBE in his bedroom and observing his "physical" surroundings, looks back to his bed and sees the body of his mother, who had died many years before, rather than his own, as is common. Another was of a different man who blew out a candle in his room during his OBE state, only to wake up the next morning to see that the candle was burned down to the stump, suggesting that his astral manipulations did not affect his physical surroundings, supposedly "proving" that the OBE state is little more than your average dream, and that OBE-ers are rather deluded in their thinking.
Given the many OBE experiences held by the members of this forum, I was hoping somewhat could offer up any insight regarding this. I had very high hopes for my future OBE experiences, and this apparent "debunking" is rather disturbing.
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