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I believed that LD was always internet, and AP always a projection into the 'outer astral realm'. One dream yoga teaching keeps saying that since our body is lifting out of the physical in sleep a bit, the dream world and lucid dreaming is in the astral. I could see it being in the same density of physicality, but internal rather than astral.

A small differentiation, but a big impact, Thoughts?

Hey all,

So 2 of the more vivid "Real" lucid dreams I've had more recently involved me realizing I'm dreaming, then doing the jump test to become Lucid.

2 of the times as soon as I became lucid everything was very intense - the realization I am in another world. This is not some "false" world compared to the "real" physical waking life, but an intrinsic complex reality of it's own. This "Ah" moment when I first become lucid is overwhelming for my physical consciousness to become aware of. When I have these times a dog will always appear, and I usually start feeling very emotional, a little bit of sadness and a lot of love. One dream I hugged the dog and said "I love you" and was almost crying then woke up, more recently it was a white dog (other was black) and I remember feeling a bit emotional but didn't actually remember it until a day later when reading about dreams.

I asked the universe why I see a dog when I lucid dream quite often. The response was something like this:

When I become lucid, I know I am awakening to a new reality, not just playing in imagination land. It is very real. Since my physical consciousness is limited in what it comprehends about the universe, it can become very scared when something from the unknown begins moving to my conscious mind. When I have these dreams, my higher self recognizes this and may be creating a dog in my dreams to help allay any fears I have of the dream world, since I love dogs. This hypersensitive emotional lucid dream world seems to amplify everything, so by placing a dog in the dream when I become lucid, I bring up the feeling of love to conquer my subconscious fears.

So anyway, this is just a theory I came up with about why I've seen dogs recently when lucid in dreams. If anyone has and ideas on alternative reasons and would like to add to what I said it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! 

So about 2 weeks ago I went to a Shamanic Ayahuasca ceremony at which I experienced the most painful psychological, emotional, and physical experience of my life by a million. I died and went to hell, then managed to come back.

The two reasons this is related to my OBE are - It awakened me to MUCH more of the non-physical immersed within our reality, and after the ceremony I was in an extremely heightened state of consciousness.

After the 3 nights of the ceremony I couldn't sleep for about 35 hours because I was in the clouds more or less and overwhelmed with excitement. That day I had accidentally bought the wrong crystal (orange calcite) which opens all your chakras and boosts your energy, it also promotes OBE's. I laid down to meditate and try to sleep because I knew I had to get some sleep and for some reason I placed the crystal on my chest lol. I cleared my mind and sort of dozed off lightly.

About half an hour in I woke up outside of my body, I was about a meter and a half above my bed, and looking out the window (sideways compared to my physical body). Out the window I saw a dark ball of energy a bit smaller than a basketball and electricity coming off it. and I could tell it was trying to communicate with me. I got the feeling it was an extraterrestrial but I began freaking out and calling my guides for help and eventually got sucked back into my body.

My whole body was warm and stimulated and I could tell the crystal had played a part in it and it was still perfectly balanced on my solar plexus region.

Now later that night when I was trying to sleep I felt an extremely intense uncomfortable energy in my room next to my bed trying to connect with me and heard a strange buzzing sound. I knew there was an entity trying to communicate with me, so I decided to try and talk with it, I'm not sure if I was communicating properly but basically it was trying to trigger my ego and give false fear-based information to me. Involving an alien intervention and such. It was extremely disturbing and I felt scared and shooken up after. Clearly it was a malevolent being. I'm wondering if that was the same being I saw during my OBE. It could be, it might not be.


If anyone has any insight or ideas based on my experience please share.

Thanks

Hey guys I've been practicing lucid dreaming on and off for a while now.

Last night I had another one I checked the clock multiple times it kept changing I yelled out "I'm dreaming!!!" and tried to fly but could barely get off the ground.

Then my feet were lighter and I started getting dragged around everywhere by my feet lol.

I tried asking my spirit guides to visit and everything was pretty chaotic I ended up waking up after about 10-15 seconds.

Clearly I need to remain more calm when I wake up in the dream


Any advice for me/techniques for once you become lucid?

Hey guys,

What practices work best for you to raise your vibration?

Other than mediation and exercise and eating well.

Thanks!

Hey guys so 9 months ago I had a shocking spiritual awakening in which I felt like I left my body and merged with source shortly. It changed my beliefs and views of the universe over night and has been hard for me to adapt to my new beliefs.

Anyway since then I noticed when I began meditating I could feel my third eye, I later learned about the chakras.

Recently it has been more intense than ever, I can activate it whenever I want and it feels like someone is pushing their thumb with 10 pounds of pressure between my brows. Last night I tried meditating with lapis lazuli crystal which is a powerful third eye stimulant and it was the most pressure I've ever felt on my third eye.

My question is: Clearly my third eye is open and has lots of energy flowing, so what's the point? Is there something I can do with it?

I can't feel any of my other chakras hardly at all, after that experience my crown felt open a lot, but over the past months I haven't felt it at all and when I meditate I can feel a pressure on the upper right front of my skull.

Hey guys I want perspectives and opinions!

Nothing in my experience can prove or disprove past lives, whether literal or merely energetic. I got some past life readings done and not sure how I feel about it. I believe it is possible it helped me, but I also feel it is possible someone stole my watch and sold it back to me xD.


What do you think about past lives in general, then what do you think about paying for a reading?

Hey Everyone!

So I feel my spirit is very sick and through all my attempts (meditation, yoga, acupressure, therapy, psychic, etc.) I have been unable to get "back to normal".

About 9 months ago I had a shocking experience while laying in my bed when I unexpectedly began feeling extremely intense vibrations and total bliss and exctasy with a mixture of emotions (I was doing it consciously but didn't know what I was doing). The feeling grew stronger and stronger until I felt I was leaving my body except not so much like an OBE but I felt one with the entire universe and it was one with me. Despite the visions the feeling was probably over 10X anything I've felt in my entire life. I wrote about it in this topic http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_projection_experiences/first_experience_life_changing_ap-t43004.0.html

After that experience I remember waking up one morning a few days later I said to myself "my spirit is in major pain" event though at the time I didn't even believe in a spirit so it was a strange thing to pop in my head, things began changing rapidly for me, I was shocked into spirituality more or less. Since I've sunk deeply into depression, no so much the feeling sorry for myself but the inability to feel what I used to. When I listen to music I love or play or hang out with my girlfriend I feel a tiny fraction of what I used to feel, even on the best days when I'm totally fine. It's more of a numbness.

I hear a common idea in spirituality is it's always darkest before sunrise. Or you sink deeply into darkness before slingshotting forward into a complete transformation that some call enlightenment. I am not a guru who desires to be enlightened, however I do want to be at peace and feel myself again. I have had MANY positive changes since then that have really helped me, however I don't think a million changes will solve my "problem" I think I need a complete transformation. A psychic told me during that experience a part of my soul left and a higher part came in/is coming in.

Since then I've had 3 experiences where I felt okay again, but I was more than okay I was totally blessed and it felt like enlightenment although I don't like using that term. The first two where with mushrooms where after my friends and I ate the mushrooms I would feel my own energy but amplified immensely, I felt all the pain and discomfort and couldn't help but cry and surrender, then after I would surrender I felt unlimited and myself again for about 4 hours until the high wore off.

Mushrooms more or less taught me I need to surrender and give myself to love. I felt I may have kept emotional baggage (about 4 months ago I broke up with my girlfriend and suppressed some emotions), I became more and more aware that I have "lost myself completely" which upsets me greatly and I have done a LOT of crying and surrender over the past month and a bit but I feel my problem is much deeper than suppressed emotions, there is also a pain behind my heart. No matter how much crying I do I still feel closed off and discomfort.

The other experience where I felt this divine intelligence and bliss was the most recent and there was NOT any drug inolved. After reading the power of now by eckhart tolle (I had read it in the past and am aware of my thoughts) I became even more conscious of my thoughts than usual, I realized many of the negative thoughts I have are stemming from what he calls the pain body which is more or less the unconscious pain that has stacked up over your entire life. I became so extremely aware of this I felt the major discomfort like when I was on mushrooms. Laying in my bed my body felt some pain especially in my heart and began twitching a bit and I would moan in pain uncontrollably, tears began pouring out after a bit but nothing like the other times I cried, it was just completely pouring out with no intention of crying and without being sad about anything. I became very intense and I was able to feel energy flowing in my body again, and I felt pain and suffering but also felt the best I've felt in a long time. During this hour or so I felt VERY similar as to when I was on mushrooms, I was receiving visions from the spiritual dimension that I don't normally get and despite the pain I felt enlightened and amazing. However as soon as I stopped feeling thing everything returned to normal...almost as if I had temporarily received some natural high. During this time I was TOTALLY present in the Now, normally I am not, my mind wonders compulsively. I am able to get ahold of it to a degree but even when I am totally aware of it it still runs. I need to practice becoming more present at all times, but there may be other things going on because even when I get present say in a singing/dancing class I only feel a portion of what I used to.

If anyone has anything that might help me based on my experiences/ideas I'd be very happy,

Thank you

So I've been doing a lot of dream recall and experimenting with lucid dreaming over the past couple months. About 4 times I became lucid in a dream but would either loose it shortly or wake up, this one was different.

The Dream:

I was in my kitchen talking to my mom when she tried to kiss me, I was weirded out and turned my head, then she kept trying to kiss me on the lips which disturbed me the the possibility I might be dreaming. I immediately looked over at the stove clock to see 3:43 then looked away and back and it said something completely different, then once again to be sure. I KNEW it was a dream and yelled out "I'M DREAMING!!" with excitement.

Suddenly I began lifting off the ground, everything around me began fading to white light as I lifted faster and faster until I was going at extreme speeds (As I first began doing this I saw a big green lovely tree) then kept going up and up surrounded by white in all directions until some being appeared, his head was right in my face but upside down. I was kind of shocked and looked away and avoided direct contact with it. Then I woke up.



Does anyone have any ideas of interpretation as to why that happened when I became lucid? Other times everything remained the same but I was just conscious of a dream. One spiritual teacher I know said that a part of my soul left and a new part is going to come in. Thoughts on that or who the being might have been?



-Unrelated Question- In the past month I've had about 4 dreams where someone has been channeling to me. Usually it's bashar (a man who channels an extraterrestrial and is very wise and helpful) saying crazy profound things. I can hardly remember what the channeler is saying but it's a constant flow of information that I am imagining nonetheless. I have been interested in channeling lately and reading a book on it, perhaps this is a sign that I should try it. Any thoughts on this?

About 9 months ago I had an experience that completely changed my life and made me rethink everything in my reality. Ever since I have been rudely awakened but also feel I never got grounded after.

I was laying in my bed, I have a cell phone app that projects a blue light onto the ceiling and lights up then dims, you concentrate on it and then match your breath to it to help you fall asleep (at this time I thought meditation was silly, little did I know I was being tricked into meditating ). I did it for 15 mins and it helped me relax a lot, then i realized I forgot to set my alarm so i set it then decided to start it over because I got distracted. The second time I feel much much deeper into meditation, i did was is called "entering the void" where you are so clear minded you have ABSOLUTE full control over your mind and there are no thoughts just pure consciousness. I felt nothing but happiness and absolute bliss, I felt UNLIMITED so i naturally felt like using my unlimited focus on my body and head, I started focusing on my body and head then suddenly got a very strange feeling in my heart which shocked me and then it went away. I decided to try and get the feeling back so I began focusing again the the feeling grew (it was like no emotion I have ever experienced) and as it got more intense my body grew extremely warm and my heart rate went through the roof, the feeling grew it felt like a mixture of happiness, sadness, joy, agony, bliss, and other feelings (that I must have suppressed) as it continued i felt really light and I felt as if I was floating just above my bed, then suddenly I felt an insane feeling on the top of my head and started feeling like I was being thrown around back and forth in a wave like motion but I kept focus because i wanted to see what would happen, then suddenly I felt connected with the entire universe, I was everything and everything was me, I felt like I was waving back and forth (like youd swing side to side in a hammock!) but I was just laying there, then suddenly I could see my bed and my wall but it was warped and not 3 dimensional. This didnt bother me for some reason but the feeling got so insanely intense that I couldnt handle it any more and I forced myself to sit up and I snapped out of it and got sucked back into my body. I was absolutely terrified as I had NO IDEA what the bonk had just happened to me, my body was drenched in sweat and my heart was pounding like never before. I have not been able to achieve this state since.

After some research I found this might have been an AP or the beginning of one. Ever since for almost a year now I've been way more spacey and less grounded, haven't been able to get back to that state things have been very difficult for me, yet without it I might not have begun a transformation.

Thoughts? Looking for any help on getting back down to earth lol.