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I had a very short dream a few days ago where I was telling and showing another couple of guys how to alter their shape some way and thought I was really cool and smart knowing how to do this. Well then another guy who obviously was a lot more "advanced" in magical technique frightened me by slipping by me in the form of a black shadow like a ghost and I woke up scared.

Now I never had a dream where I purposely used magical powers or similar(besides flying) before.  I guess in astral plane that might be considered normal. I also think that when we learn or see something new in dreams that is completely unfamiliar it can be frightening(like flying) whereas with practice it could be done lucidly/consciously and help our development. Obviously I seemed to have a problem with my pride here too wehre there is always somebody around who is better whatever skill we might think we have(OBE or whatever)

Often something triggers awareness of the dream state and makes you lucid. Sometimes even the weirdest things are just accepted as being incredibly odd. I had a dream last night where I had a long drinking glass in my hand that started to spin on its axis as I was holding it. I gave it to another guy and it did the same thing in his hand and then continued to spin in the laundry basket when we put it there. I tried to figure out was it just me or was it human contact that accounted for its spinning. Giving it to the other guy and putting it in the basket were tests. Afterwards(during the dream) I thought that I would never forget that glass spinning as long as I lived but that I was dreaming just did not occur to me.

I guess it is because I have been slacking off on my dream journal recently and have to get back into practice.

I started doing some techniques from a book by a Tibetan Lama to stimulate lucidity in dreams. Instead of reality checks during the day one should see the dreamlike quality of life around oneself. In the night you are supposed to wake up 3 times(ca. 2 hour intervals) and concentrate each time on a different chakra with a visualization. You start with mild dreams because of this and it goes towards brave dreams and then wild dreams at the end as they correspond to the various chakra energies. I actually had one dream where I was fairly lucid and "wild" and flew away. I have also been writing down my dreams every day faithfully since a few weeks now.

More important is I think that there is the effect of stimulating chakras during the night gives the effect of a night meditation which increases astral body energy similar to the NEW techniques from Robert Bruce(excellent by the way).

I have been having a lot of success in remembering dreams every night and even interpreting them. I see that I make reality checks to a certain extent in the dreams(I notice odd things happening) but I do not seem to really become lucid in the dreams as I do not "get it".

One example of how stupid I really can be but which also shows a deeper progress in technique. I was trying to do visualing before going back to sleep early in the morning a couple of days ago but I really fell asleep instead of being able to go consciously over into the dream as theoretically should be possible.

In the dream I am lying on a bench in a room with a lot of people and trying to do visualizing and thinking "nobody knows what the hell I am doing". I actually got a really good visual image of a beautiful nature scenery and after several seconds it whited out again. I was disappointed that I was not able to jump into it or hold it longer but tried again and closed my eyes and saw people comiing into the room in my visualization. Then I noticed no it was not a visualization but  part of reality(actually my dream). So you see some people are so vague they never understand they are dreaming. On the other hand in Tibet they say doing a technique in a dream is 9 times more effective than in waking state and I found that to be true with the visualization. It was perfectly real, not like what I visualize from waking state.

Maybe it is unimportant  if my physical body is conscious that it is sleeping. I mean what if I obtain lucidity at a certain "energy level" all the time in my dreams where I can do certain things but not others and make no progress in this sense and then get bored with the whole thing. This would maybe not be so good as when I would make a lot of energy/astral body progress with very clear progress in my dreams in such techniques or meaning in my dreams although I am not at all lucid. I would always be just under lucidity but always on a higher level so that my conscious mind always has to play catch up as the sign posts are always changing due to increased energy increasing my innate abilities.

I just seem to see that the more I learn the more my mind tricks me on the lucidity point. My energy through NEW has really increeased and my base consciousness (waking self) has become more lucid about waking reality. This seems to be the critical thing and not just experiencing things at always the same level and getting stuck on a certain level in those experiences( lcuid dreams) or in the waking reality for that matter.

I experienced the astral wind once.  I went out a second story window and was imminently pulled sideways into the air above my City.  The colors were brilliant.  As it started to be pulled up I first started to panic and then just said "Go with it and see what happens".  I finally go pulled miles into the air and decided to visit GOD.  Well that did not work out as I had hoped.  I suppose he was busy on more important business, it was however the start of one of my most successful OBE. I did in fact meet several guides thow they scared me and I ran due to lack of OBE expericnce.  Something I found about going through walls.  Try to look for a small hole and look through it and you show should slip to the other side.  That has worked for me.

Yes, we dream of celebrities as:

A.  Wish fullfillment
B.  What ever stands out in that celebrities personality could represent a similarity in you at that time in your life!

Blissful  

Yes, I use to get "wound up" trying too hard.  One person said to me "ENJOY THE JOURNEY".  So, instead of worrying and trying to hard, just enjoy the process and stop trying to do it all at once.

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Blissful

Hi galacticsurfer,

Thanks for posting this topic and welcome to the Astral Pulse! [] When you receive the book Astral Dynamics from amazon you will find an entire section on the NEW energy system. I tend to prefer the book over the downloads as the book is more complete in my opinion. Hope you enjoy reading it, again welcome.


Very best,