New experience! I'm on the edge. :)

[Amorda]

  Hello everyone!

I just wanted to share my most recent experience because it was very different from any of my past sessions.
So I was doing my usual pre sleep ap practice. Almost as soon as I layed down, my whole body melted away and disappeared. Now, I have experienced losing the feeling of body before, but no where near this quick and thoroughly. I was listening to a binrual beat that was intended for ap. After some time I started to hear what sounded like a song from a radio overlayed on the binurals. I tried to be passive, but I was so intrigued. It was some sort of rock song that I have never heard before. It had lyrics but I could not make them out. I started to wonder if I was actually hearing this in the physical or not. After this... I started to see vivid moving images! This is big for me because before it was just stills most of the time. I kept seeing all sorts of differnt fabrics. The texture and detail were different for each. Then I saw young blonde haired child sitting in a front yard on a beautiful day. The grass was so green and the sky so blue. A woman that looked like her grandmother came out to give her some sort of cookie. I remember both of their faces well. CRAZY! I feel like I'm really making progress. What do you think? Am I right about to take a dip I into the astral?

Also, I just wanted to say that the methods that I have been using lately are actually two.  I start off with a mantra. And then when I lose track of the mantra I squish or stretch my consciousness. By then, the images start popping up!

Another completely unrelated thought and question set...
I have been practicing ap for a few months now. But just lately, I have been having vivid dreams that I can remember. On top of  this I had a dream about something and then my boy friend texted me that morning and pretty much told me he sort of had the same dream without me even saying anything. Now, it wasn't exactly the same I don't think. But the same jist of scenario. And a few days later I have a dream about someone that I haven't talked to in a while. The next morning when I woke up I received a text from this person. What is this? I'm still having dreams like this and wondering if it's something more then just a dream? Or am I crazy? Lol.

[Bedeekin]

It sounds like you are interacting with others in the nonphysical. We all do this... but rarely sit down and talk about it with our family and friends. Imagine if it was a custom to upon meeting each other every day, we discussed what we all dreamt of. I mean close friends and family... people we love and know.

I have recently opened up this dialogue with my friends and family and find that we all interact on some level.. mostly directly and quite obviously. This isn't subtle.

Your 'Phasing' seems to be coming along nicely... random images and scenes.

You are becoming nonphysical and waking up. This is good.

[Amorda]

It sounds like you are interacting with others in the nonphysical. We all do this... but rarely sit down and talk about it with our family and friends. Imagine if it was a custom to upon meeting each other every day, we discussed what we all dreamt of. I mean close friends and family... people we love and know.

I have recently opened up this dialogue with my friends and family and find that we all interact on some level.. mostly directly and quite obviously. This isn't subtle.

Your 'Phasing' seems to be coming along nicely... random images and scenes.

You are becoming nonphysical and waking up. This is good.

Thank you for your reply, Beedkin. I find this all fascinating. Its a whole new world without limits. Freedom.
My boy friend is very interested in dreams so I try and ask him often if he had any interesting ones. Especially, if I had a dream of which he was in the night before.
The more I experience of this, the more interested I become. More questions. More possibilities! I am very excited to continue on my journey because it sure has been incredible.

[Lionheart]

I feel like I'm really making progress. What do you think? Am I right about to take a dip I into the astral?

Dip, you are already swimming in it my Dear! 

Just stay the course and enjoy the view!

Good Luck and Safe Travels! 

[Dlosp]

And then when I lose track of the mantra I squish or stretch my consciousness

Can you share what mantra you use please?

The mantras i have been using for a little while are simple like

FA RA ON
EHIPTO
LA RA S

but I dont really know how well they help and Im not sure I apply them correctly when meditating.

[Bedeekin]

Kathryn, my better half tells me her dreams every morning... or it'll be about 2am and I'll hear her shout from the bedroom "Ben?" ... "Yeah?"... "Do you wanna make a decaf?"... where I will and we'll both go into the back room and she'll tell me about the dream she's had.

It was lovely one night:

I was drawing away on my tablet and she I heard get up and enter the room... "Ben!!! I need a coffee.. I've just been watching you working on your computer in an OOBE". The term OOBE is very common in this house... said "uubee"  She was lying on her front and said she was shifting around in Sleep Paralysis and thought it had ended.. .so she got up and came into the living room and saw me working away on a drawing.. by that time she had figured out she was Out of body. She walked over to me to tell me and came around in bed... then came in for real. Funny thing was.. I had actually took my laptop and tablet onto the sofa as she had seen. I have a work station in the living room.

@ Dlosp

It really doesn't matter what the mantra is. It could be anything. There is no magic special mantra. As long as it is your own or something that works for you then it doesn't matter.

[Lionheart]

@ Dlosp

It really doesn't matter what the mantra is. It could be anything. There is no magic special mantra. As long as it is your own or something that works for you then it doesn't matter.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, lol! 

[Bedeekin]

  As silly as that may seem... it could be.. couldn't it Lionheart?

It really doesn't matter.

[Lionheart]

As silly as that may seem... it could be.. couldn't it Lionheart?

It really doesn't matter.

If you believe it will work, then it will work!

Believe is the key word here!  

[Szaxx]

Beetlejuice, gotta give it a go.
Thats totally crazy, it'll probably work really well too.
What a trip, can't imagine what'll show up with this one.
Lets do a beetlejuice mantra night.

[Lionheart]

Beetlejuice, gotta give it a go.
Thats totally crazy, it'll probably work really well too.
What a trip, can't imagine what'll show up with this one.
Lets do a beetlejuice mantra night.

Probably something like this, lol!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4

It's all in fun. I apologize to the OP for hijacking your thread.

[Bedeekin]

It's funny.. .when I first started out I used to repeat a word over and over in my head. It was sometimes my name.. sometimes just a sound... sometimes a string of words or a phrase...  It wasn't until years later I found out it had a label.. 'Mantra'.

[Amorda]

Dip, you are already swimming in it my Dear! 

Just stay the course and enjoy the view!

Good Luck and Safe Travels! 

Yay for swimming! I love to swim. Matter o fact, I think I'll go do that now. Thanks Lion!

[Amorda]

Kathryn, my better half tells me her dreams every morning... or it'll be about 2am and I'll hear her shout from the bedroom "Ben?" ... "Yeah?"... "Do you wanna make a decaf?"... where I will and we'll both go into the back room and she'll tell me about the dream she's had.

It was lovely one night:

I was drawing away on my tablet and she I heard get up and enter the room... "Ben!!! I need a coffee.. I've just been watching you working on your computer in an OOBE". The term OOBE is very common in this house... said "uubee"  She was lying on her front and said she was shifting around in Sleep Paralysis and thought it had ended.. .so she got up and came into the living room and saw me working away on a drawing.. by that time she had figured out she was Out of body. She walked over to me to tell me and came around in bed... then came in for real. Funny thing was.. I had actually took my laptop and tablet onto the sofa as she had seen. I have a work station in the living room.

@ Dlosp

It really doesn't matter what the mantra is. It could be anything. There is no magic special mantra. As long as it is your own or something that works for you then it doesn't matter.

Dlosp,

Just like Beedkin said. It really doesn't matter what mantra you use. I would think you can use any word that you would like. The one that I have been using has been gir tee tock on the exhale. Say whatever mantra in your head but don't focus on your breathing. Just feel relaxed and let go. Easier said then done. But you just have to allow yourself to just stop everything and go where the flow takes you.

[Amorda]

Probably something like this, lol!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4

It's all in fun. I apologize to the OP for hijacking your thread.

This is almost as funny as comparing the shadow beings to heffalumps. Hehe.
Now whenever I see them, I laugh.

[roman67]

I love dreaming and love to share my dreams with my friends. I also follow the method of Lionheart.

Just stay the course and enjoy the view!

Good Luck and Safe Travels! 

[Amorda]

I love dreaming and love to share my dreams with my friends. I also follow the method of Lionheart.

I wish that there were more of us in the world that would be open minded enough to just share experiences!

[roman67]

I wish that there were more of us in the world that would be open minded enough to just share experiences!

You can share it with your friends atleast. I don't think there is any problem in that.