Hi Solstice,
I'm certainly not the most experienced person in this area but, from my understanding, when you are dreaming, you are in the astral but are not so concious of it. Sounds like you realised you were dreaming but you were struggling to keep control of your consciousness.
From my own lucid dreams I have found that my higher self/spirit guide will guide me by appearing as people that I am familiar with. I was wondering if the three women (maiden, mother, crone perhaps??), felt or looked familiar to you.
As for the guy controlling you, I figure it could have been one of two things; either an independant negative entity, or an aspect of your sub-conscious mind. Both of these things will only feed off your fear, and I suggest that if you encounter it again try to confront it rather than run away, as you say, in your dream state you can basically do whatever you want.
Adverse physical effects from contact with astral entities? hmmm, I haven't experienced this myself, maybe someone else on the forums has a good answer for this.
I hope this has helped a little, I think ultimately with dream sybolism you are your own best analyst.
blessings back at ya[
]
spiral
I'm certainly not the most experienced person in this area but, from my understanding, when you are dreaming, you are in the astral but are not so concious of it. Sounds like you realised you were dreaming but you were struggling to keep control of your consciousness.
From my own lucid dreams I have found that my higher self/spirit guide will guide me by appearing as people that I am familiar with. I was wondering if the three women (maiden, mother, crone perhaps??), felt or looked familiar to you.
As for the guy controlling you, I figure it could have been one of two things; either an independant negative entity, or an aspect of your sub-conscious mind. Both of these things will only feed off your fear, and I suggest that if you encounter it again try to confront it rather than run away, as you say, in your dream state you can basically do whatever you want.
Adverse physical effects from contact with astral entities? hmmm, I haven't experienced this myself, maybe someone else on the forums has a good answer for this.
I hope this has helped a little, I think ultimately with dream sybolism you are your own best analyst.
blessings back at ya[
]spiral