Self induced hallucinations

[Vexicaus]

I haven't meditated or listened to binaural beats lately because I thought it was affecting with the tinnitus I had. It went away turns out it was from an ear infection. So whatever that's all passed and all I've been doing in terms of projection and things you'd discuss on the Astral Pulse was dreaming. I haven't lucid dreamt or at least attempted to but I've been having somewhat clear dreams. Last night as I was falling asleep I decided to not try to sleep but instead think of DMT and also my surroundings. With my eyes closed I visualized my room and pictured what was around me. And focused on the black space and the random visuals and colors that'd come every once in a while. When I'd lose focus I'd hear clear sounds as if I was going into a dream. DMT from what I know is the chemical that you produce that gives you dreams. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong but maybe from thinking about it and researching it all that day maybe I was being able to get it's affect while conscious. I was getting those audible perceptions on and off. But when my phone vibrated all of that was interrupted. Then I opened my eyes I looked to my right and I saw an arachnid-like creature almost like a hairball or sea urchin rolling across my bed it was black and I looked at it very clearly then it eventually faded away. I clearly saw it roll across for about 5 seconds. I was startled or alarmed I just was like wow...that's odd.

[Steelflame]

I've heard of other people having similar experiances. There was this one guy who refered to themse apparitions as "Astral Junk".

[Bluefirephoenix]

EEEEK I'm not a guy

[Vexicaus]

That's amazing Bluefirephoenix. But okay...last night the weirdest of the weirdest things happened to me. I don't know if I basically knocked myself out or what. Okay I was dosing off letting my mind go. You know how some people get those voices and sounds as they fall asleep, it doesn't bother me at all. I can bear with them, I just look at them as the step before dreaming. Well last night, or early this morning these sounds cross faded into the most clear, vivid dream, and I was not in a deep sleep. I dreamt that I was at my cousin's house and I was eating but then I stopped because I saw a mouse. I got up then more mice and rats came they raided my food and then I went the the room I was staying in. Turns out it was the room I was in already outside of the dream, I couldn't tell if I was dreaming with my eyes opened or not. But I saw and felt that the plate with the mice were on the bed next to my feet. I felt more mice come, I felt more of the energy and the stiffening sort of sensation rather than tickling and my whole body was going stiff. I believe I opened my eyes and I looked straight at my ceiling and wall at the corner it looked like it was moving away and I saw an air vent but the air vent was on the other side of the room. As the wall moved I was super stiff and my arms were in the air. I couldn't move my arms and I was a bit anxious and fully conscious but I was tired. I was scared. I was thinking, is this sleep paralysis? How long will this last? just wanna go to sleep. Clearing this up, as I was in the dream I was in my real life bed, I think I opened my eyes and I saw my room and the walls moved and I was super super stiff. Tingles ran throughout my body as if I woke up to an anxiety attack. That was the most intense projection/experience I've ever had.

[Steelflame]

Wow, that's pretty intense. I think the only time I've had an experience that powerful was one time when I had a strong fever. I was lying on a couch in my livingroom trying to go to sleep, and I had a really bad fever. I eventually got to sleep, and then I had a dream that I have had multiple times. It's really hard to explain this dream. In this dream, I see a sort of X or cross. Now, when I look at this cross, it seems all at once massive, and microscopic, and that is a very disorientating sensation. Now, after this dream, I woke up and everything seemed different somehow. I was still lying on the couch facing the hallway, but the hallway seemed darker, like a void. Then I noticed a sort of low rumbling that turned into many voices screaming at me from this void and I sort of knew that I had to hold them back and I could not let them leave the void. They just got louder and louder, and this went on for what felt like hours. Eventually the screaming voices reached a crescendo and it seemed to stay like that for eternity before I blacked out. I woke up the next morning feeling like something terrible had happened and I failed to stop it.

[Vexicaus]

Wow that's odd..It's just so weird. I want to control it but I think I have to know what it is and how it works. I don't know what I did last night to trigger it. Maybe listening to those sounds as they come and go before I fall asleep. I took a nap earlier. I'm going to retrace my steps.

[Szaxx]

Both of your experiences sound like a test.
You'll be aware of everthing and have good concious clarity above that of a dream. You'll also know what you have to achieve or do.
Once you find the answer or do what's required, the next step will become available.
If you fail, the thing repeats in a different way. The idea is that you learn to surpass the obstacle in your way.
The repeats can be identical or totally different in the way they're presented to you.