wish I could stay there forever

[thenoob]

Just had a good dream
Not necessarily for what was done in it, but because the emotions I felt were much stronger and real than what I experience in day-to-day life.
It wasn't lucid, though a part of it felt lucid in a sense that I was doing just what I wanted to do.. It wasn't as if I was consciously saying 'okay now I'm going to do _____.' I was still definitely dreaming so I remember it like a dream... For example I rollerbladed through a mall and jumped floor to floor. but it was lik my desires were guiding it and everything hit the spot.

It also didn't feel as if I was doing it alone, it felt like I had a strong support group at certain parts. Even a friend who helps me in real life was in my dream giving me advice on how to hone what I was doing.

... in the early stages I could feel my arm moving. I don't think this moving was an astral limb, I think I dreamt it. You know the feelinng that you just did something then you realize it was a dream.... even doing something minor like slightly moving the arm.

anyway, i feel like a kid... i know the feeling of longing to stay in the dream world from my childhood, but its been a lonnnnnnng long time

[thenoob]

Oh yes and one thing I notice sometimes is when I'm drifting off, i'll all of hte sudden feel as if i'm being NAILED right in the face and theres a little pop and I wake up. It's a bit unpleasant, has happened everal times.

[thenoob]

I just had another intense experience of a different manner

This was different than earlier because I was awake as my body was falling asleep.

As I was drifting to sleep I felt my consciousness expand so far. Incredibly far.... farther than it has ever before. I was fine with this and let it happen. Then in my mind I started asking for someone to help me and make its presence known. Suddenly my eyes went into intense blinking, I began to see 3D shifting objects, and then what happened next could be described as

Being a dot floating in the gigantic universe. After a few moments I started to feel as if there was nothing but pure white outside of my physical body. This was weird because I knew I was lying in bed but I really felt like the reality of the bed was replaced by the reality of the whiteness... it was just a feeling as if I was just surrounded by pure white. We have sixth senses like being watched for example, and I felt white.

Then the opposite occurred. I started to feel as if I was being enveloped by blackness. I felt my mind slip farther and farther into the blackness. It was as if I was dying and death was embracing me. No... not dying. Going into unknown territory. There was this pressure building up, and I wasn't sure what would happen if I let it continue. I woke up instantly and I was really scared.

I know that I should have stayed with it no matter where it took me. Was I leaving my body? Or did an astral being respond to my call and try to lead me astray and  try sabotage me? I don't know... It was just frightening. I'm sleeping with the lights on.

[Gandalf]

Noob, you were entering the '3d blackness' state that you may have heard elsewhere. There is noting to be worried about although I understand your fear, seeing how it was the first time you had experienced it.

The 3d blackness, or F0/FZ is the buffer zone between your mind and the astral world. If you had kept going you would find yourself floating in a black void which is really a combination of your own mind and the wider astral world. It is the bridge state and launch pad to everything else.

From there you could just hang around and enjoy floating around in the blackness. Imagine any piece of music. You will hear it all around you in glorious stereo! Imagne any scene, you will find an 'astral screen' will open up playing that scene exactly!  Will yourself to travel to some astral location, you will travel there, typically via some astral screen that opens up somewhere in front of you in the 3d blackness. In this way astral screens function as doorways.

The 3d blackness state itself is quite safe and you wont come to any harm. All you need do at any point is will yourself to 'wake up' and you will. Actually, you will find the opposite problem: trying to stay there is the hard bit!