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Zero pain... Although it was kind of gruesome at one point seeing blood.

The question was asked on the other forum where I post why I thought I had this experience. Here is my response. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/omtalks/sergio-s-journal-t1414-s60.html

Well... I've been thinking about it and I think there are several factors that made this very lucid experience manifest. I don't know for sure of course so these are just theories.

I've been trying to curb my appetites for sex and add a level of discipline to my spiritual practice. I've really been successful at not using that part of my life for about 2 months now. I hardly ever perform any sexual acts these days. So maybe this has backfired and produced a resonance with my female aspect.

I've pretty much turned off my sex these last couple months just to see what would happen. This might explain the whole thing. I feel a great relief that it doesn't have such a hold on me anymore. Really, it's been about 2 or 3 years since I started cutting down.

Anyway, I found the experience strangely calming at the end when I was a whole woman. What I felt at that moment was that I had shed that obnoxious passion that boys have to deal with. I know that I've harbored feelings of resentment toward undisciplined sexual addictions all boys have to deal with.

I would be lying if I didn't acknowledge that if I had the opportunity at a sex life with the right partner I would probably go for it. Just not so much sex anymore.

Thanks Bob! Well, if you want to get started in 3D look at Blender. It's free and can model and render stuff.

If you want to get into 3D figures like that picture, look into Daz3D Studio or Poser. I like Daz3d myself but they are both good and easy to learn. You don't have to be a super artist to get started.

And of course you might want to get a good paint program like Photoshop to edit images with. Not too sure about the free options there since I have an Adobe subscription. Do some searching.

Hey, thanks again and good luck! 

  Last time I checked I was totally straight! Honest!

But it was fascinating... I'm a graphic artist by trade. Here is what I looked like in the mirror as this girl. I was inspired.  



Made it with Daz3d Studio btw.  

I was kind of hesitant to post this one... it's kind of strange... but what the heck lol.

I went to sleep kind of late. I notice that the later I stay up the more intense my APs are. After a slow clumsy separation I found myself in a beautiful castle room with pink drapes and soft blue hues. Around me where girls. Tons of them! They had me surrounded!

A few took me in hand and led me to an old style bathtub where they proceeded to wash me thoroughly. After that they dyed my hair raven black. After that I got a manicure and a pedicure. Looking in a mirror I could see that my black hair was long now like a girls. And kind of pretty!

Here comes the weird part. Naked as I was the girls surrounded me again and a few came forth to stimulate me. Once I was erect a beautiful blond came forth with a beautiful sword and with one swing chopped it off! I screamed! Another girl came forth and carved what was left of my manhood out! Looking down I could see a gaping slit with blood where my peepee used to be! 

"It's almost over! Don't worry!" one of the pretty girls was saying. One girl had a device which she then scanned me with a blue light on my parts. Suddenly I had a full blown vagina. As far as vaginas go I thought it was pretty decent! They did their scan again and suddenly I had breasts!

Well, they dressed me up in a nice dress and put me in front of this regal mirror. I was a beautiful girl! AHHH! lol

One of the wierdest APs I've ever had, that's for sure!   

[roll out]

When I was first learning how to AP I had this same problem. What worked for me was Robert Monroe's technique (Journeys Out of the Body) - you roll out. Either side will work, left or right. Once you start feeling the vibrations you can just roll out of body. I still use it to this day and it's way simple to learn. Good luck! 

[Audible Life Stream]

Thanks EscapeVelocity! 

Well, I think the term "Life Stream" in my dream probably comes from my studies of Sant Mat. I attended their church for awhile and had a teacher that helped me out (and did a lot of reading on it.) They believe in the Audible Life Stream. It's the precept that the Universe has a sound (the Word of God) and if you tune into it it can lead you all the way Home. It's a skill really and you use your brow and crown chakras. This Life Stream also gives life to the "84 trillion" forms of Life including Angels, Humans, and the lower ghosts. Anyway, if you are interested... I started with The Path of the Masters. It's pretty much the Sant Mat bible.

Yeah, a soul retrieval sounds interesting. Maybe I'll do some reading on it. Thanks!

Ok, talk to ya laters!

Thanks Nameless... that's totally cool. Well, last night I had this dream about rescuing two orphaned little children - a little boy and a little girl. They seemed to be abandoned in a very low astral plane. Well, we all ended up climbing unto a sail boat and heading toward the horizon. Something felt so good about that dream... so if anything I'd like to help people or souls that are on lower planes climb unto higher ones. Who knows right? But someday I would totally like to help less fortunate souls.  Anyway, thanks!

I had prayed for a vision of Light for about a week. Last night I finally got it.

I don't remember how I exited my body but when I became lucid I was in this garden waiting outside an office of sorts to see someone. It was almost like it had been scripted and I was playing a part. Suddenly this nice old man came out and said "Come in Sergio! We've been waiting for you." I went into his office, a nice brick little building in the midst of this amazing garden, and he sat me down. He explained that he was the head of this school and gifted children of Light come here to be tested. I said OK to most of what he was talking about until he got to the part about the Test. I inquired, "What kind of test is it?" He explained that it was a test to see how well I could handle the Life Stream. He said that every gifted child of Light has some knack in handling it and he wanted to see what area I was using. (ok)

He shuffled me out of the door and I was guided by a woman in a robe who took me to this big Old Tree. The tree was enormous and there was a door in it. Around me where all kinds of other people. As I waited to be let into the Tree I had a conversation with a few other initiates who had already taken the Test. They chatted my ear off about all this amazing stuff that had happened to them while they handled the Life Stream. I was more than a little excited to see what I could do with it.

The old man who had seen to me earlier finally arrived and he opened the door to this big beautiful Tree and let me in. Inside where all kinds of flashing lights dancing in fractal patterns. There where mists that went on forever and chasms of Light. The old man explained a few things to me. He said that as the Life Stream flowed through me I would naturally know what to do with it. He said not to worry and gave me a few telepathic visions of what other people could do with it. I was quite blown away with all the abstractions of Light that poured into my head.

He closed the door behind him and I was left alone in this big room of Light.

Suddenly I was charged with Life. It was like a giant python of Light had been put in my hands and it was my job to steer it and control it... but it wasn't in my hands - it flowed through my very soul. It was so much Power all at once! It roared like a thousand lions! I "grabbed" unto it and I just was There! I was in that area where you can go only alone. It was so powerful! It was like I was a filament of Light itself. I was inside it and I was also outside it. I was in between. And I surfed this 1 million gigawatt beam of Light and pointed it straight to the Heavens where I climbed and soared higher and higher.

The vision only lasted about a minute. Then I was gently placed on the ground and the Light dimmed down slowly... and then I was alone.

I was so tired but decided to try exiting anyway. When I had reached my level, I separated. I found myself in very different surroundings.

I was laying in bed in what looked like a college dorm room. There was another bed on the opposite wall and a desk next to each bed.  Everything looked pristine and beautiful and fresh with sparkle. I got out of bed and found the door. The door wouldn't open until I hit a blue lighted button next to it. It slid sideways like a Star Trek door.

Outside was a long hallway which I followed for a long time in silence. It came to a beautiful garden area which had many paths veering at right angles. This is when I started seeing all these panels with techy displays with buttons. They where in the walls of every corner. It felt like this place had a form of virtualization.  I went up to one of the big displays in the middle of the gardens and saw a map of the levels. One said "Store" so I went there by hitting it on the panel. I was immediately outside the Store which looked like a modern mall but with many more plants and brightness. I went in.

I wandered around and it looked like a regular store with tons of stuff to buy. Before I can see what's for sale I bump into one of the clerks which asks, "Is there anything I can help you find?" I try to speak but my voice cracks and I can't speak right for some reason. The clerk brings out some device and a window in space appears with text and icon boxes. "You're missing most of the base add-ons but you have one very interesting add-on. This icon represents a free soul," he explained. The icon showed a tree with three big leaves. We went around the store adding "add-ons" to my inventory. By the end I could talk like normal and float.

I remember going back to my room but I found 6 people there going through my things. I got the hang of the techy panels and dialed myself a new private room. It was nice and cozy in darkness with blue, red, and yellows. Colored crystals hung from the ceiling and the dim lighting revealed a nice plush chair with entertainment system. Off to one side is a nice big bed in dark blue. On one wall is a desk with a panel. I can't really explain but there was this feeling of safety that felt so good.

I think I went to sleep and got some real good sleep.

Hey Escape Velocity! Thanks for taking the time to write all that! I appreciate all the information. I have noticed more experiences where colors are super vivid... and I sort of have started to loose my interest in the sexual aspect. I'm gonna look into Leland for sure. That sounds really interesting. Thanks for suggesting! I know I'm not as knowledgeable as many people on here... I have sorta learned the ropes on my own. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing, hehe. Anyway, thank you very much! 

Last night was out of sight! It was probably one of the strangest lucid dreams I've had.

At first I found myself fishing for huge fish from this rocky beach. There where a few other people fishing for big game there too. For some reason every time you caught one of these big fish you had to be careful how you reeled it in or you ended up with a fish with a broken neck. I finally got a bite and reeled in my fish through the shoals without a broken neck.

The next part was about an old lady and some kind of teacher. The teacher was explaining how we would switch minds me and this old lady. It was supposed to teach us what it's like being other people. Well, the teacher did his magic and I was suddenly inside the body of an old lady. But the thing is the body came with the brain or mind of the person too. It was super awkward at first trying to understand what was happening. The teacher explained that we would not only have the body of this new person but the mind and feelings as well. Well... like I said, it was super weird. I had to learn to walk in a new body but also how she felt walking. I had all these new feelings I can't even describe.

The old lady had my body and mind and it was strange seeing myself move around as someone else. As I settled into it I realized all these pressing "weights" on my new mind. I realized they were worries. The old lady had three children and I realized I worried a lot about them. My husband was dead and I missed him terribly. I was worried about money too and what I would do if I got evicted.

Well after about 30 minutes the teacher returned to separate us and put us back into our own body and minds. I had been visiting with my three new children who I loved so much. The teacher did his magic and I felt a sudden relief to be myself again. It felt like taking a dip in a nice warm and familiar bath. It felt so good to be back.

The next part was me and this old lady talking about our experiences to each other and going around to other couples and seeing how they where doing. Many people where experiencing switching bodies and minds. I didn't really bother them it was just like watching a movie. I learned a lot from watching other people switch minds and bodies too. There was this couple who switched and the wife had found out some real secrets about him - like how he had left a family behind in his younger years and how bad he felt about it.

Well, it was a super interesting night to say the least!

Well, in my experience there are two sides to reality. Right and left. Castaneda called them the tonal and the nagual. The right side or tonal is everything of man. The nagual is the abstract that dream essence.

I would put that last AP in the realm of man. I think it's reflecting what Castaneda called the tonal of the times. Something negative is happening or will very soon happen to the world. It's beginning to creep into my dreams of man. I hope I'm wrong...

Last night I was trying to AP and I must have gone to sleep and missed my window because I don't remember an exiting sequence. However, I found myself lucid soon after and I knew I had made it to the other side. This was kind of an interesting dream/AP for me.

I was completely naked and gravity was heavy. Around me were the shambles of my neighborhood. The houses (what was left of them) were falling down and deteriorating. There were no more lawns or grass just piles and heaps of dirt. I could feel the grit between my toes. I was quickly loosing the small amount of rationality I had left and slipping into a nightmare.

Suddenly a group of soldiers come over a hill. There where about 10 of them and they where wearing modern military fatigues with the American flag emblazoned on their left shoulder. On their right shoulder was what looked like a pyramid with an eye inside it.

They surrounded me and I felt really awkward being all naked and dirty. The leader started asking me things like, "what are you doing out here?" and "what could you possibly be looking for out here? You know where you are? John do a scan on him." So "John" gets behind me and puts one hand under my chin and the other on top of my head. "Just relax. Just relax." I stay still until John says to his leader, "He's an innocent!" They get into some discussion about me. I guess they are surprised to find an "innocent" this far out here.

"Well someone has to take him back." They are a little frustrated that they have to deal with me at this point but a truck appears out of nowhere and they tell me to get inside. I get in the front with the driver on one side and another soldier on my right. We start driving so fast down a road and I get a good view of all the damage.

I start to see familiar places from environments from dreams I had like 6 months ago. We go farther and farther and now I'm seeing things from dreams I had years ago. The truck is going through barricades without stopping. Things look nice again and there's pretty trees and neighborhoods again. Finally we stop at a train station that looks pretty clean and modern. The soldiers let me out of the truck and one of them says to me in parting, "Take care now. Don't go too far next time ok?" Without a second glance they ride off.

I wake up soon after that. That's like the second time I've had someone take me "back" when I was lost. Maybe it's not such a good idea to get lost out there huh?

I went to sleep with the intention of APing but had a tough time exiting my body. I kept waking up. On my third attempt I was slowly able to exit without breaking the spell. I immediately went outside and saw that it was nighttime in the astral with long puffy clouds moving through the sky. I took flight and floated down the street looking for something interesting. The houses in the neighborhood suddenly vanished and a field followed by a hill presented itself. I flew over the hill and there was the ocean as far as the eye could see. The water was aqua color with a glow all of its own.

For some reason gravity was becoming an issue. I began to sink and plop went right into the ocean. For a split second I saw a door in the water and then I was in the water. I got sucked down into the depths.

As suddenly as that I was rolling down a hill like I had been spit out. At the bottom I came to a highway where cars where going by very fast. Some of them beeped at me. It was nighttime but I could see that the cars where no ordinary cars. They all looked to be the same model and they where small and boxy. A started walking down the highway wondering where the heck I was when one of the cars stopped. Someone rolled down the window and asked, "Are you lost?"

I explained I was astral projecting and they asked where I was from. I said I was from Florida and they said they had never heard of it. "Well you shouldn't really be out here in the middle of the night. Common, we'll give you a ride into town." I got into their car and off we went. There where two girls and a male driver. They appeared to be human. In the car I asked them where I was and the driver said,  "You are on P Sphere 1159." (What kind of a crazy astral place is this? I asked myself. Lol.)

Well we went to like a cop station where they explained I was lost and that I needed someone to take me back to my own astral plane. Someone with know how was summoned and I was put in his charge. He was wearing loose fitting clothing all in black. Well I followed him and we went through a maze of astral planes until we crossed a sea and a hill and there was my neighborhood. We landed next to my house where I thanked the nice man and went inside. As soon as I was in my room I woke up!

I was drowsing and I slipped sideways into an astral projection. I had been laying down on the couch and then I had passed the boundary and I was in the astral. I was sitting down in a chair looking at a beautiful room. The house was my aunt's house and it looked sparkling clean. There where red drapes in the corners and it looked like it had undergone a makeover. I was in the living room of this big house and I spied a magazine with a beautiful girl on the cover. For some reason it shone with attention. I focused on it and suddenly there was a small miniature figurine about a foot high of this girl. She was dressed in a pretty dress with a short skirt and she looked beautiful.

She was alive moving and looking at me with deep blue eyes. I wished most of all that she was bigger so knowing I was in a lucid dream I wished her Big! She grew to three feet and said, "Make me bigger." So I wished again and then she was in a small alcove in the corner. A curtain was drawn half-way over this small space and inside was the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." I pushed the curtain aside and there was a 5 foot version of the magazine girl.

I learned quite a few things from this girl. She was some kind of dream manifestation. When I asked her why she looked so much like my exgirlfriend she didn't say anything but we were suddenly linked by some psychic connection. She was at once completely my dream and my exgirlfriend all at once. There was no conflict between her and me.  It felt like she would do anything for me. And in exchange I would love her completely. It was beautiful. We went on to do some intimate things.

Suddenly I hear, "Honey, would you like a sandwich? I can make you one..." I turned around and it was my mother calling from the kitchen. I was still in the astral though and my Mom was there. I said goodbye to my girlfriend and went to deal with my mother.

"Common Mom, lets go outside." I took my Mom outside and we went into the street.

Outside it was a beautiful city at mid afternoon. The buildings looked regal with very nice architecture. My mother suddenly had a camera and was shooting pictures of the city. It was kinda funny. And then I looked about and she was disappeared. Gone. I always wondered what I would look like waking up in the middle of a dream to someone else. Now I know... they just vanish.

I went back to the house to look for my girlfriend but as I walked into the front porch I could see that it had been taken over by lots of people. There was a table with 5 people playing poker. There was a man with a rifle in shades in the corner that looked like he belonged to a guerrilla outfit. And there where some skateboarders wasting time near the entrance.

I was a bit disappointed that my dream had been colinized. I woke up right after that.

I went to get some coffee to wake up,and my real Mom is in the kitchen. And she says, "You want a sandwich honey? What can I make you?" I kinda freaked out.

Makes me think that physical reality is just another astral plane. Maybe this is what synchronicity means... our reality may not be as solid as we might think.  

Me too... After 25 years of OOBEing I've yet to see a silver cord. Isn't it supposed to attach to the solar plexus?

I have seen in others and felt in myself the luminous egg. We are eggs... but perhaps it is only one state of many. 

Thanks Nameless! I'm glad to share and make you happy!

I know what you mean... sometimes I'll go into these cycles where I can't recall anything. Sitting in perfect silence and praying before you go to sleep sometimes helps. I actually pray, "Please allow me to remember my dreams."

Well don't worry... it can't last forever. 

Last night was my record breaker for strange APs! I went to sleep after meditating for a little and making a small prayer for an interesting AP. Well last night I got one.I went to sleep and after a few minutes performed an exit. And a very strange journey began...

I did not exit into my room as usual. As I rolled out of bed I could tell this was not my room or my house. Looking about and outside the windows I could see I was in some kind of apartment high in the sky. Outside was a beautiful city with all its lights on. I must have been on the 79th floor in some downtown apartment. Everything looked so nice and clean.

There was a man there I met or rather an alien who spoke to me and said we had to go downtown to where all new visitors first stay. He was very nice and asked me questions like my name and where I came from. The alien had no face but just 5 lines that spiraled around his face. And yet sometimes I would see a regular face like a human being. Anyway, we made it downtown where I was put in this big room with a few others. I remembered I was asked what my interests where and people kept coming up to me to ask who I was.

I found a computer and started playing with it. If I had to guess I would say that their level of computing technology was around our 1985 with 8-bit color. A man asked me if I was interested in computers and he asked me if I'd like to learn how to program them. I could swear he took the face of my brother for a moment. It was so sincere and lacked all deceit. So I went with him.

What followed where like 2 days where I learned to live in this new civilization. I went to a house and had my own room and computer where I learned how to make astral games to sell. People would use some kind of astral internet to trade games and movies. They had money or some kind of credit system. That's when I learned that this was a medium-small astral civilization. New people were constantly coming in and so the best way was to set them up with a skill set and place to live. I had been recruited myself by a game creator who taught me how to make the games.

I think a lot of the people there had been around a long time. It felt like a swinging and happening civilization was underway.

They had a funny way of eating even. I still don't understand but every time it was meal time a huge section of space would detach itself from the abstract. To feed you had to find the central cell of this section. Food came out of there like a warm honey. It tasted kinda good. I really don't understand what the eating was about but everyone was having meals like regular. Wierd huh?

Looking in a mirror I could see I was a short little alien too. When I woke up several long hours later into Earth time I felt like I didn't belong in my human shape. I felt a little alien still. It lasted about 2 hours this weird feeling of having been a different form.

Anyway, this brought home how weird the astral can be and those amazing other orders of reality.

Thanks T-Man... that's nice of you to say. Sometimes I get these very strange APs that make no sense. But sometimes I also get really nice APs which makes it all worthwhile.

I just woke up from one of these nice APs. I was slumbering in my bean bag when I found myself able to exit. Why not? I said and performed my phase. In seconds I was in the astral. Getting up from my bean bag is always awkward but I finally managed to get up and perform a centering so that I wouldn't wake up again. Finally when I was grounded in the astral I headed outside.

Wow! It was daytime and the sky was so dang blue! Miles of blue without one cloud in it. The houses looked brand new and bright with all kinds of color. The lawns looked like they had been manicured to perfection and the grass was SO green. The pavement on the street also looked brand new and so shiny! It reflected the sky so the roads looked blue too! It was so beautiful that I just floated there outside my house for a long while looking at everything. There where no cars anywhere and the entire neighborhood looked deserted. It was breathtaking.

I started my explorations by floating down the street and around the corner looking for that anomaly that just begs to be explored. Every AP has one or more. I turned another corner and aha! A car was parked in one of the houses! Anomaly! I approached the house and saw that the car was a Thunderbird. On the front door was a post-it with handwritten writing. It said "hap 8 hab". I don't have a clue what means. Anyway, I opened the door and went in.

Inside it was nice and shady. A contrast from the bright outside. There was a living room which had a television playing the strangest commercials. I watched for awhile. Three people where exploring a cave on tv and they where talking in a foreign language. They had these long one piece suits and they where flying around the cave. Astral television for astral worlds I guess.

I explored some more and found a bedroom with a door open. I looked inside and there was this woman sitting up in her bed! It was so eerie. She was kind of pretty with white skin and dark hair. She was about 30ish and she just looked at me for awhile. Well, I suddenly felt like my temperature rose and so I did the natural thing and joined her in bed. She smiled this little smile that said something like, lucky me! And then we were together.

God! I wish I could have APs this fun all the time! It lasted quite awhile too and was on the graphic side with nice omni-present lighting. Everything including her body looked SO nice. Better than real life. I hope I can get more like that! Everything was so REAL and the sense of touch was so lucid.

It just makes me wonder where these worlds really are and why they are so real. It's definitely an area that needs to be explored. It's another world! Holy-moly! Hehe.  

Yeah, sometimes I find myself missing her a lot. Plus I heard she's going into rehab for alcohol problems. I sure hope she's alright...

I had a very strange one last night. It was kind of scary but ultimately inspiring for me.

I became lucid in a green green forest. I was traipsing through the chaparral looking for my exgirlfriend's house.  I had this sense of urgency like something was wrong and I just had to see her. Somehow I knew that her house was somewhere in these woods. The color green was very vivid everywhere.

After searching and searching I saw something in the woods. It was a quaint little trailer like a mobile home or RV. It was really cute and above the door were the numbers 11111. But something was the matter... that sense of something being wrong came to the forefront. As I inspected the cute trailer I saw that the door was hanging off it's hinges. And then I could see the footprints. They looked like lizard footprint all around the little vehicle. I steeled myself and approached. I opened the door and went in!

Inside it was a big mess. Things had been thrown about and shattered objects littered the floor. In one corner was this person that looked like some sort of demon. He had a black hat on and this devilish grin. And he was dirty with half rotten skin. But there was no sign of my girlfriend. The demon started laughing and laughing. I yelled at it to get out and it turned into a dark mist that sped out the door.

I went outside and found this thin white thread that was tied to the trailer. I followed it a short distance into the forest and found the other end tied to a stick. I knew instinctively that my girlfriend's soul was buried under there and I had to deliver it safely back to her. I dug and found it. It was a collection of three small objects. One object was a very green marble with all kinds of kaleidoscope patterns. Another one was a shiny silver knob of a branch where three twigs came together. And the last object was the most delicate butterfly wing all done in pink. I pocketed the objects and went to find my girlfriend.

She was at this school taking a class. It was like a giant treehouse with desks inside. I stormed in yelling her name but couldn't find her. Then I heard her sweet voice, "Here I am!" I have never been so glad to find anyone. I knew then that she was going to be alright.

I explained to her what I had found lurking at her house and how I had banished the demon. I took out a bag and laid out some treasures and gifts from me I had found at her place. Then I told her I had found her soul and that it was safe. I took out the small bag with her soul in it and gave it to her.

And that's when I woke up really suddenly! It was the middle of the night and my neighbors dog was going crazy! Bark bark bark! Howl howl howl! I got up and grabbed my flashlight and looked out the porch door windows. For some reason the dog was going nuts. I saw my neighbor come out and look around the yard for a prowler. Eventually the dog calmed down and I got back in bed and fell back asleep. I still have no idea why the dog started barking but it felt like an omen that it chose that particular instant.

What a strange night!! 

I fell asleep on my bean bag and so it was a bit awkward getting up. I looked back at my large bean bag and there was no body. Actually it's been awhile since I've seen my body when I exit. It only happens rarely now. To make sure I was in the astral I engaged my hand jets and started flying in my room floating around. I went right through the wall and then I was outside.

I looked up and down the street for any lights or anything odd. It was mostly dark with all the houses slumbering in the deep dark night. Only one building had their lights on so I headed toward it. On closer examination it appeared to be an arcade with many game machines showing through the window. Next to the entrance where two gorgeous women talking. I was tempted to talk to them but instead went inside the arcade.

Inside was a bouncer who looked kind of tough and checked me out. Before letting me in he said he had to do a scan. He took my hands and held them for like 15 seconds. He then said, "You have to come with me." I was immediately suspicious. I asked him why he had scanned me or done whatever he did and he said, "You shouldn't have asked that." I really didn't know what was going on at that point.

We headed down a corridor. I saw some tables with a few couples eating dinner. We came to a room and the bouncer said, "We've transported your team, they are inside. Just wait until someone comes to get you." I went inside and found four of my old buddies from work. They seemed kind of confused what they where doing there. After a little conversation we established that most of us had just gone to sleep and had been ripped from our respective dreams.

A door in the back opened and out came this crazy looking ape man in a robot suit! He was followed by four more ape men who began beating their chests at us. Someone finally came and explained that the game was about to begin. We were led out into a huge arena with thousands of people cheering. It seemed we were expected to play basketball against the five ape men! I just went with it and led my team unto the court. The game started and we were off all of us getting into the spirit of the game.

The ape men were really good basketball players and embarrassed our team to the laughter of the crowd. I felt a little embarrassed and chagrined as they played circles around us. I think I got the ball only once and scored only one time before I woke up back to my bean bag in bewilderment. Strange huh? Those ape men were really freaky! lol

Hey EscapeVelocity, that's about right! Castaneda did have a very big impact on me. I was in my early twenties and just starting to figure things out. When I read his books... well they opened my mind to the possibilities! They where a very big reason why I liked to go camping on my own and commune with mother nature. I even got to verify some of the teachings when I experienced a visitation by an "ally" one night in the woods. Castaneda describes them as inorganic beings who live in nature and can help a warrior achieve spiritual communion.Well... I saw this inorganic being in the woods and so that lent credence to all his other teachings. First it was a fuzzy cloud of fog which turned into a wild turkey which then turned into a baby fawn - right before my eyes!

A lot of his teachings are really unique. I mean, I can't say I've found them anywhere else. And according to him they go back to the Toltec sorcerers which predate the Mayans. Over the years I've come to admire the depth of his teachings.

He wrote a book called The Art of Dreaming where he goes into the techniques used by the old sorcerers to astral project. I recommend it to everyone here. It sure helped me with my own art of dreaming. In one part he says that astral projection can be developed to the point where one develops a "double" which one can project in the real world and travel enormous distances. If anyone is interested it pretty much describes the techniques used by the old Toltec/Mayan sorcerers to induce OOBEs and APs. It's unique and worth a read.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only Castaneda fan here!  Thanks for sharing your insight EscapeVelocity! Cya. 

[The Spirit helps impeccable warriors.]

Try not to be so hard on yourself...  Sometimes I get into a slump and it takes me weeks to get going again. In my twenties I really got into Carlos Castaneda and the thing that stuck with me about his books was that Don Juan, his teacher, was always saying that the most important thing was to be an impeccable warrior. That's what I try to be all the time now - an impeccable warrior. It doesn't mean being perfect or strong or smart or whatever... it just means you put your best foot forward and never stop trying to be your best... because... (and here is the crux of it, Don Juan said) The Spirit helps impeccable warriors. It's as if there's some cosmic switch and when you are impeccable that switch is activated and the Cosmos comes to your aid. Amen.

I went to sleep and woke up in a completely different bedroom. That's when I knew I was in an astral projection. I looked around and it was my old bedroom in my old house when I was a teenager. I got out of bed and went outside using the back porch door.

As soon as I went outside I was floating. It was like gravity didn't exist for me. I floated up the small hill unto the road and around the bend. It was dawning and still a bit dark. I saw a nice pond and floated right unto it. I was afraid I'd get wet but I managed to steer my way clear and back unto the road. It was fun floating above water.

There was a nondescript house there with its second story window open. Right inside the window was a cute black and white kitty. I petted it while still floating outside and it started purring. It knew I was there and liked being pet. I floated down to the ground and went inside the house by opening the front door which was unlocked.

Inside everything was clean and pretty. The entrance led to a living room with a nice couch. I did not see any modern appliances however. I explored some more and found the stairway to the second story. It sort of circled around in an arc as it ascended. Above I found something super interesting.

It was all quiet and deserted. Maybe everyone was asleep so I hesitated to go into the closed rooms. Finally I chose a door and on the other side was a huge Egyptian sarcophagus. I don't think it was made of gold but I had the thought it was some eccentric guy's (or woman's) version of a bed. The lid was closed though. On the walls were all kinds of Egyptian writing. There was all kinds of art everywhere. It was so detailed! I found a bathroom and it was a huge tub with statues on the walls. The spigot was a beautiful naked woman pouring from a vase.

I backtracked and this time I saw people. In one of the main rooms around a big table were several people arguing. They where all dressed in black pajamas. One man was yelling or gesticulating to the others but I couldn't hear them. And for some reason they couldn't see me.

A little apart was a couch and a lovely girl was sitting there. She looked troubled like she didn't like the other people arguing. She was very lovely... so I leaned in and kissed her. As I pulled back her hand went to her lips like she had felt it but not seen me. I woke up right after that.

What a very cool Egyptian house. Everything was so artful and detailed. But I still don't know why those people couldn't see me or why they were arguing. Interesting AP!