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H All,

I started a dream journal last Saturday, and started doing reality checks regularly throughtout the day from Sunday.  Also at night, going to sleep, I have been saying repeatedly, ' I will remember to look at my hands'.
Tuesday night I had a dream, that I had been dreaming and had woken up and was filling in my dream diary. (If that makes sense). My bed was outside on the street under a tree (??) and some raindrops were falling off onto my diary and so washing away all I was trying to write.  Then I awoke for real.
Last night, I dreamt that I came to a brick wall and wanted to seelifted  over and I stepped on something and put my hands on top of wall and myself up. Just as I saw over the other side, which was kinda just light and dark shapes, couldn't make anything out at all, I fell backwards off wall, but instead of just crashing to the ground, I fell down real slowly kinda below the ground with a sinking feeling in my stomach, and was 'flying'. I shouted ' This is it '   then  'Look at your hands'     'Look at your hands' .
I kinda had to force my hands in front of my face, at first I could not see anything, then slowly hands came into view but just silvery/white hands, not real looking. They did not melt, they just looked strange.
Then  it really began, my chest started  (vibrating is not the right word),  buzzing is the closest I can get to it and my face felt like a strong wind was blowing on it, my arms and legs tingled. At one stage it got quite strong, but then it all just died away. I was not scared/frightened, in fact it was thoroughly enjoyable and I felt sad when it ended. I did not wake up for real at that moment, it was like I had been dreaming about dreaming again,  cos I 'woke up'  sat in a chair and feeling sad.  Then I woke up for real.
Sorry if this is confusing but it is difficult to recount  dreams about dreams in a logical way.
My question is, were these Lucid Dreams, an attempted OBE, or was my subconscious mind just giving me experiences I wanted/expected to have, after all the reading and things I have been doing this week.
I don't know. Is it a positive sign of things to come.  ??  I hope this is the right answer.
Thanks for listening to my rambles, hope they make sense.   lol

Pete

Hi All.

I am a complete newcomer to all this - OBE, WILD, Lucid Dreaming, Astral Travelling, only discovering the subject a short while ago when I saw a reference to it,  and Robert's book, Astral Dynamics.
I read the book with great interest and amazement, and would sincerely like to try to have one or more of these experiences.
The main concern I have is that described by Robert as Waking Paralysis.
Up to now in my life I have experienced this four times. Early in the morning, becoming conscious and my body being completely paralysed. For several terrifying moments (but what seemed like an eternity), not being able to move at all, not knowing what to think. Was I dying? / dead? I know this might seem melodramatic to some more experienced people, but to me it was really frightening. Then all of a sudden my body was able to move again.
I want to attempt  Lucid Dreaming and OBE , but i would be particularly worried if it caused me to have more of these experiences.
Are they anything to be particularly frightened of?  Really dangerous? Might kill you?
Sorry to seem a bit dramatic but if anyone has had this experience they will know why I don't particularly relish the thought of having any repeats!

Pete

Thanks Frank for comments.

By the way,  I had a weird dream last night. I dreamt that I had just woken from a dream and was filling in my dream diary of a  dream i'd just had.
Hope that makes sense.
My bed was under a tree  outside on the street (??) and raindrops were dripping off tree and making the writing run on my book so it was impossible to get anything down on paper. There were other things but this was the most interesting.
At least it shows that my unconscious mind knows what i'm doing,  trying to remember my  dreams.  I just hope it helps me rather than hinder me  lol

Pete

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your messages and info.
I feel more confident now after having read your posts that  Waking Paralysis is perhaps not to be feared so much.
I am determined to proceed anyway and try to achieve these things.
I intend to start with what is probably the easier, Lucid Dreaming rather than OBE.
I have started recording my dreams in the morning when I wake, and I have also started doing reality checks, many times a day.
Hopefully I will be able to report some modicum of success to you soon.

Thanks

Pete