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So last night I had my first semi-successful dream conversion! It did not last long but I have a few questions to anyone who does this on a regular basis.  Here is what happened:

I went to sleep for about 4 hours and woke up at 4am.  I had been in a pretty deep sleep, no real clarity or dreams I could remember.  I made an intention to stay aware in my dreams as I feel back asleep.

I started to dream and weird things were happening off the bat. I was at my parents house and I saw my deceased dog as a puppy...my folks were watching a game of golf on tv (they don't watch golf) and suddenly I was inside the golf game myself! then I was swimming in a lake by the golf course with my boyfriend, and all of a sudden the water started churning with big waves.  We swam to the shore and watched the lake's massive waves and all of a sudden it hit me - duh, I'm dreaming. Well, now that I'm aware, let's get to projecting!

I think "awareness now" and suddenly I am floating out over my body in bed, then sinking through the floor.  Everything is fuzzy, heavy and dark.  After several firm thoughts of "clarity" and "awareness" and "I am light as a feather" I move to another reality frame.   At this point I find myself sitting in a room with a bed, and an astral (non physical) friend next to me.  She seems like I know her so I am not really concerned with her, but I look out the window and gasp when I see a UFO full of beings staring right at me! This startles me and I begin to doubt the situation and begin to lose awareness of my control over it.  This is the point I need to work on I think. Anyway, I faded back into a dream mode, where I was dreaming but unaware again, before I woke up.

Does anyone have any tips on maintaining awareness throughout a projection when it feels like it's fading?  I think I must either doubt myself, or somehow get too distracted to focus and control the situation.

I am stoked about dream conversion though - it seems like a perfect method of exploration for me

Thanks all!

Hello all! I have been reading this forum for a while but this is my first post   I am new to the world of self-induced OBEs, but have been researching them and practicing some of the techniques for the last month or so.  Anyway, I had an experience last night and I was unsure if it was an OBE or just a lucid dream...here goes.

So I went to sleep after midnight but was having trouble falling asleep and relaxing, it took me about an hour before I finally started to doze off. I was not doing any practices at the time, just trying to get some sleep. The next thing I know, everything seems really dark but I am aware I am in my bed and my body is asleep. No weird sounds or strange vibrations though, maybe just a tingle of energy. I ask for awareness and all of a sudden, I feel like I am floating above my body! "Oh my god it's finally happening" I think and get excited.  I feel myself come back down from floating, but then I remember to try some techniques that I read about.  I then tell myself to roll out of my body, and it works! I feel like I am floating down through the floor into the living room below.  Everything is really dark.  I see some physical items through the darkness and try to move them but I can't really grasp anything.  I know my boyfriend is on the couch but I can't really see what he's doing and he does not see me.  I then decide that I want to go outside and try flying...However, when I get to the door I have trouble going through it.  Eventually, i sort of phase through it and am on the front door stoop, and remember the higher self technique, who doesn't want to see their higher self?  So I ask to and nothing really happens, but then I find myself  back in the bedroom.  I realize "wow - I just had an OBE" and try to run downstairs to tell my boyfriend.  Then I just wake up. It's about 2 am at this time.

I find myself wondering if this was a dream because there was no real clarity and control, I was all over the place.  However I was definitely lucid and trying to control it.  I also did not have any pre OBE vibrations or the sensation of being tugged back into the body.  Any thoughts would be great! I am excited because the actual experience of floating out of m body was very real, as was rolling out and sinking through the floor.

Thanks everyone! Nice to meet all of you!

~Jessica