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Hey guys, so I never thought that I would actually have a traditional OBE but, as of last night I guess I was wrong

I woke up at 4am to attempt my usual WILD technique. I got back to bed around 5:15 and I felt like maybe I stayed up for too long because I was having trouble getting back to sleep. I eventually give up and roll on my stomach. after dosing off for a little I found myself in a dream that usually indicates upcoming lucidity for me. I was driving with a cup of coffee in my hand and suddenly i become completely disoriented and cant see a thing! I feel myself get out of the car, drop the coffee, and feel around for and signs as to what is going on. I thought that maybe my body was under water and this was the result of being unconscious so I started to hold my breath haha. I tried slapping myself to wake up but my limbs were so heavy I could barely touch my face. After this I wake up and I am on my back, completely paralyzed. I start feeling extremely heavy vibrations and weird noises in my inner ear. I get a bid startled and the vibrations and everything fade. "as usual..." I thought. I go off into another dream to find myself woken up again though the same process that I was before.
This time instead of imagining some dream scenery that I know ill drift off into. I imagine nothing. Just complete blackness. Before I know it the vibrations came back. 
I started to have very accepting thoughts. I am pretty fearful of "spirits" and the unknown and I think this acts as a huge roadblock for me. This time was different. I told myself that I wanted this and that I DESERVE this. I have been working hard at it and nothing as stupid as "fear" is going to get in my way. I imagined all of the possibilities for not only self exploration, but exploration of the world. I thought about how much I could learn by doing this. Its what I've been looking for and fear isn't getting in my way this time.
I start to feel my body rise up as the vibrations continue. Naturally I get a bit scared but just let things take their course. this continued for a while and i eventually found myself just floating halfway in and out of my body. Still nothing was happening. I felt an extreme heat coming from my solar plexus. I notice my eyelids opening slightly which made me think, " oh excrement this always happens.. I open my eyes a bit and the trance stops!" But through my cracked eyelids I realized that the lights were on in my room. But I never turned them on. "This is it. This is the Astral" I thought.
Quickly I acted. I just rolled out of my bed like I always would when I normally get up. and Boom, I was in my fully lit room, in my etheric body. My vision was extremely blurry which caught me off guard since I usually hear about the beautiful colors and vividness of the Astral.
I then jumped in fear as I saw some black thing near my bed. It was trying to jump up into my bed! I got scared but then again denied myself the fear. I sat down and let the black object come over to me. As it got closer my vision cleared and it was a cute little brown animal! haha. It looked like a weird cross between a baby big and a Dauchsund. I scratched it on its head, which it seemed to absolutely love. I then tried to contact a spirit guide. I didn't really know what to do so I said, can I speak with a spirit guide please. I had read that you are supposed to just "will" it and they will show up. If you ask like that they wont. But I wasn't really thinking clearly and persisted to ask. " Spirit guide please?" I asked. Nothing happened to I just continued on. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I decided to get out of my room as fast as I could, since I didn't have much time. I jumped through my window, and over my balcony, soaring in the cool night air. I felt the mist against my body and thought, "WOW." I actually remember saying those words haha. Again, my vision was still really blurry and since it was night, I really couldn't see much at all. I flew up into the sky and shot towards my neighbors apartment. I remember getting a bit disoriented in my flight and pencil diving (feet first) into the ground. I couldn't stop myself at the ground and shot straight into the earth. I could still see the ground which was where I wanted to be and before I knew it, I was standing there again. I ran towards 2 or 3 women I could see, to test if they could see me. I yelled something like, "boo" haha. I remember that they didn't look so i assumed they were in focus 1.
I remembered that I wanted to go see a friend of mine but I couldn't figure out how to get to his house. So I asked the question out loud, "Where is Eric??" attempting to will myself to his house. As it didn't work, I decide to fly up into the air to get an overhead view. I catch myself making a swimming motion in the air and attempted to just "will" the flight instead of thinking about it in physical terms. To my surprise, and against what I have experienced so far in LDs, It worked! I was flying up into the air, not making a single motion. as I got higher though, my vision blurred more and I blacked out.
I then had one False Awakening back into my lit room again. I even started petting that animal next to my bed again and didn't think twice about it lol.

Sorry for the long post. This was a HUGE development in my spiritual awakening though I am really happy that it happened!!
Does anyone have any thoughts on talking to a guide ( I would love to get some advice) or the animal next to my bed?

Thanks,
-Firmitas

Hi everyone, I just thought I would share my experience this morning and see if anyone has any comments.

I woke up at 6am to study (damn finals) then went back to bed at 7am. I was already pretty up and active so my imagination was running wild while I was trying to sleep. It got to the point where I was watching what was happening in my dream as I imagined it but I was also analyzing it at the same time. For example, in the dream, my car had a GPS device in it and I thought, "thats how you know its a dream, when something is different." Somehow, I was saying this to myself but still not realizing that I was dreaming. Its like I was split between both areas of consciousness. So I start thinking about driving down a nearby street and BAM im there. Im flying down the street about as fast as I would normally drive but, there is no car or anything, im just shooting down the road. I realize whats happening and that I wanted to look at my hands next time this happened. So i attempt to move my hands up to see them (my vision was blurring and I read that this helps) but I couldnt move them. So i tried harder and i guess I moved my physical body because before I know it, i heard a loud WHOOOOOP sound and I was back in my body. I had full on sleep paralysis at this point so i attempted to phase again. I was probably thinking about it too much because I remember actually being in the next dream thinking, " I hope im doing this phasing technique right!" without realizing im already dreaming haha. Overall though, great progress. Im starting to see a familiar method I can go with now. For those who are having trouble with this. WAKE UP AND GO BACK TO BED! It makes a world of difference

-Firmitas

P.S.
Does anyone have any experience with guides helping them in this process? If so I would love to try

Good advice, thank you

Also good luck with the kitten. Sounds like an adorable alarm clock

-Firmitas

Thanks everyone

Its strange though, I do remember being completely lucid in my dream yet when I think back, it still feels fuzzy as if it WAS a dream. you know what I mean?
Is this common?

-Firmitas

3rd official Lucid Dream! I am sitting in the lounge of a boat when something strange happens. In my head I start to think about it and I realize, Oh.. I'm dreaming!! My vision got really blurry from the excitement of realizing this, as I had never been able to realize I am dreaming in a dream before. I quickly calmed down and remembered what I wanted to try the next time I had a lucid dream.  In Robert Waggoners book, "Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner self," he does an experiment with the lucid dream by asking each dream figure, "what do you represent?" To his surprise, each dream figure answered with a unique, different response. So I walk down the hall of this ship and see two girls talking on the stairs. "hey! What do you represent?" I remember feeling strange asking this as it was the first lucid statement I have ever made in a dream. "Industrialization" she responds. So I ask the other girl and she says "Industrialization as well." I then notice two men standing behind me and I ask them the same question. From the excitement of it all I can't recall what the two men said. I thanked them all for their time and turned my attention to the hallway.
   I remember in Waggoner's book he asks the dream its self a question. In doing this, Waggoner was always shown a unique response from someone behind the curtains who seemed to have set up the dream. At one point, Waggoner reads about something called a "feeling-tone." Waggoner uses this as an experiment to see what happens when he asks the dream space about something he is completely oblivious to. In doing this, Waggoner has an experience of joining a larger whole of consciousness, completely forgetting his physical name, life, etc. So I naturally want to experience this more than anything. I already know, it's the feeling I've been looking for. I think about asking my dream space this same question however, I get a strange feeling that, that wouldn't be the best idea quite yet. I feel as though I am not ready for this experience. Not wanting to force anything, I push on to another question. I yell out to the dream space, "Hey! How do I change my Lucid Dream?" Upon saying that, my vision starts to blur intensely. I get a little frightened but remember what I just asked. I hold on to consciousness and just stay focused on what's In front of me. Everything starts to go black and I accept it. Maintaining focus, I start to see the outline of a figure appear in the black nothingness. Focusing on that, other things in my field of vision start to become clear now. Before you know it, Boom, I'm in another Lucid Dream. Sadly though, I let my mind wander too much and lost lucidity in the dream. All I remember is walking behind a man.
   For my next Lucid Dream, I will try interacting with the dream figures more, to see if I can get some valuable information or experience.

-Firmitas

I searched for "Ginny" and "Ginny retrieval" and came up with nothing =\
I'm very interested in reading about retrievals!

-Firmitas

Brilliant post.

unfortunately I've tried a few times after this and so far no luck. Im sure something will happen soon.
I haven't really been trying all that much lately because I am afraid of pushing myself to do it.
I dont want to view it as a negative thing that i "have" to do. I would rather wait until I have the urge to.
What do you think about this approach?

-Firmitas

Yea I am always worried about pushing myself too much because I dont want to see it as something I'm "Forcing" on myself.
But to each his own I say.

-Firmitas

Ill give that a shot.
Around what time do you practice your process?

-Firmitas

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Well put.
From what I read and from what the original poster had asked, it seemed to me that the 'Kundalini' would be a good place to start researching. Because I am still at the beginning stages of researching all of this, I am not able to definitively give an answer that I know is 100% true. I am not saying that it is the kundalini. Nor am I saying that it isn't.

-Firmitas

Try it in the early morning as apposed to right before bed.

-Firmitas

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_energy_body_and_the_chakras/about_kundalini-t31715.0.html

heres another helpful post if you like rcolumbusk. Hope it helps

-Firmitas

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_energy_body_and_the_chakras/to_mr_bruce_about_kundalini-t10506.0.html

Start from question 6.
Given that you have no idea what the kundalini is, wouldn't that make your opinion on it no better than mine?
If you dont know what something is, research it and prove it wrong. Dont just dismiss it.

-Firmitas

wow thats great to hear!

thanks Xanth

I apologize for the length of this post. It is a major breakthrough for me and there is some interesting info for those who are interested.


11/23
   1st ever WILD attempt and success. I woke up at 4:30am then went back to bed at around 4:50. Tried usual OBE meditation but after having read a book at 4:30 my brain was too active and spontaneous, Also I kept getting restless leg syndrome (which is my worst enemy when it comes to OBE meditation). I decided to go to sleep and try to catch my consciousness right before I drift off to sleep. I realized that in my dreams, I often find myself running extremely fast on all four hands and legs. I suddenly catch myself doing this again and I hold on to this image of a cabin in the woods with a giant cliff in front of it. Below the cliff is a forest that extends for miles. I watch myself in 1st person running as fast as I can on all fours towards the edge of the cliff; I come to the realization that I am actually a bear. In my waking reality and dreams, I have a lot of fears and confidence issues however, upon coming to this realization I stand up tall on my hind legs, let out an earthshaking roar, and get this amazing feeling of confidence and fearlessness. Almost as if it were a message to me. once I get to the edge of the cliff I make a powerful leap into the air. At this point I feel heavy vibrations all over my body and without thinking about it, I snap in and I'm high in the air, above this beautiful forest, seeing it as clear as I see the computer screen right now. Amazed and excited that I am having my first ever successful LD, I realize that I can't get over excited because it will shut down the LD (Robert Waggoner-Lucid Dreaming-Gateway to the inner self), so I remain calm and almost submissive to what is happening. I soar over the beautiful grey/green forest for a few seconds and then catch myself thinking, "oh no, If I have doubt about flying then I wont be able to!.. wait.. I just doubted myself didn't I?" I often have problems about psyching myself out this way. So I start to decline pretty fast into the forest, cash, and then blackness. I don't know how long I remained conscious in the blackness but I do remember consciousness.
   Before I know it, I'm in another dream and I don't realize it. This time im IN that cabin I spoke of, just before the face of the cliff. I lay down to go to sleep in my dream and subconsciously I try the same method for WILD in my dream. All of this seems to be brought over to my dream habitually since I always try it before I sleep in my waking reality. And then BOOM! Im pulled right out of my physical body from my feet. At this point again, SNAP, im conscious. I realize what just happened in my dream and that im flying through blackness. However I felt relaxed, peaceful, and felt absolutely no fear. This seems to be a major breakthrough for me as I am somewhat scared of the unknown and the dark. (I remember this scenario happening before and I freaked out which ended with me waking up). Before I know it I am conscious again in a valley/desert. Similar to Riverside, CA. (if anyone has been). I remember the colors being extremely vivid. Almost as if everything was colored with pastel. Without thinking, I decide again to just fly straight up. Im not sure why I keep doing this, I would really like to explore the dream in depth more. I assume that my ego realizes whats happening and wants to do the most extreme thing first. So im flying straight up over this valley with some trees and a few hills, going higher and higher and then suddenly, I catch myself thinking again, "If I think about not being able to fly, I wont be able to! Oh no I just did!". Then I proceed to fall straight down again and am surrounded by blackness.
   Although these LDs were EXTREMELY short, I am still very excited as they were a huge breakthrough. I highly recommend the WILD technique for anyone who is having troubles having a LD.
   What I find interesting is that my knowledge about what is possible in an LD transfers over into my dreams. For example, after my 2 LD's I have a dream (not lucid) about me teaching a stranger who was watching me, how to jump up on top of a huge building by saying, "hey you see that building, its plastic." Although I don't understand what I was talking about, the dream figure sure seemed to as he immediately soared into the air and landed on the building. I then find myself regretting the info taught to him as I thought it might spread around too much and cause chaos. I team up with him to find the other girl he taught how to, "power jump" as I have labeled it from my video game days. In doing this I teach him again how we can jump right through walls and buildings! "all we have to do is believe that we can and look! (I proceed to jump through a pillar) its totally possible". I tell him.
Next time I have a LD I will try to remember to look at my hands to remain lucid for longer. and not try to fly yet since it seems to be too much for me.

If anyone has any info about the bear I keep becoming, psyching myself out, or anything else that would be wonderful.
Again I apologize for the long post, for those who read it I hope you liked some of the info.

Proud to call himself an official Lucid Dreamer, 
-Firmitas

Hello everyone,

In attempting a WILD I read that it is best to wake up between 4:30 and 5:00am. However, this is after falling asleep at what time?
I generally sleep later so I dont know exactly when to wake up.

-Firmitas

This sounds like you are activating your kundalini energy to me

-Firmitas

Hey guys,

So i've been steadily trying out lucid dreaming techniques for a few weeks now. So far no luck however, I am able to remember a huge section of my dreams every morning. They are actually very clear to me when I wake up every morning. And Im usually able to remember them until the late afternoon; before which I write them down.
Anyway, I found that a few times in my dreams I didn't become lucid but the information that I have been reading about lucidity and having control over dreams seeped into my dream world. I remember in a recent dream I was running from some epic monster and I realized, Oh i know I can do anything here, I'll jump over that building. Or make a car appear or something. Yet I dont every think, am i dreaming?

any suggestions as to where I'm at? Or any advice on what to try?

Thanks,
-Firmitas

thats great!

I've reached a weird point in my dream state as well. Sounds like you are very close to me though

good luck!
-Firmitas

Personalreality, what kind of metaphysical shop do you work in? i've never heard of one.

In response to the question, only 2 but I kind of brought it up to them.

-Firmitas

good to know, thank you

the only problem is, since I am so much comfortable on my stomach I almost always fall asleep. But I have been noticing my dreams more and more and the point where I actually fall asleep. So im hoping to catch myself as I drift off and phase if possible.

-Firmitas

Thanks for the tip!
ill give that a shot next time.

Usually when I try at night I end up either falling asleep or I'm just too tired to keep it up and go to sleep.

Good luck!

Yea I was reading about that. When you saw your hands was it an inclination that you were dreaming?

-Firmitas

Has anyone had any luck with this? I always hear people saying that they meditate and then project while on their backs, however, I am much more comfortable on my stomach.

-Firmitas