Hello.
Well, I was trying to meditate as I went to sleep, it seems to help with my dream state. I was gently and quietly focusing my energy, and I felt sleep coming on to me.
So I was laying there, and I could 'see' myself laying in bed. As soon as I detected that 'something was wrong', I was back in my body, this moment of seeing myself was only a microscopic amount of time. I was in bed, and here is the strange part...
I wasn't aware of the passage of time, or how long I had already been asleep. But as I was nestled in this comfy pocket of energy, as soon as I was focused back on 'being in bed', I seen this white/black color. It was both white, AND black. Has anyone else experienced this, or can you direct me to posts about it here on the forum?
The color was white/black, as one. When I used to be hyper active in my imagination, visualizing colors like this were something done normally, almost every day. This color, I can't really describe it. Was it 'myst'? Did my myst charge the other night leave a residual?
More to say... when I became aware of my body in bed, it was like the passage of time was interrupted by the visual of seeing myself in bed, being in bed, noticing the color, and feeling the color soak into my body. So I layed very still, and all I could see was this color soaking into my body. I then fully awoke, and shifted position, and promptly fell into a deep comatose sleep state. It was not until well into morning, as, I am sedated and can not remain conscious very long after the injection, well, I started coming back to the conscious world in the form of a dream.
In this dream, I seen a friend of mine as he would be about fifty years from now. Thick well trimmed silvery grey hair, same facial features only much older, a man well classed and versed in many normal sciences. Well, I seen him, talked to him, but I don't remember what he said. I do remember that he invited me to attend one of his classes, he said, "It starts at 2:00pm, don't be late." So I went out from that area, and the whole place was some massive super structure in a city.
Some of the people in this city were cartoons, and if they weren't cartoons, they wore cartoon clothing. I seen one of my little friends, and we talked, he showed me a picture he had drawn, and I told him, "Well, I'd like to stay and chat, but I've got a class to go too." Now, this whole super structure was partially an education facility, and partially a giant mall. It was almost like some kind of futuristic temple.
I noticed my reflection in the doorway. I myself had 'cartoon hair' and wasn't entirely human. I was also not at all the same person that I am here in this space of reality. I was a girl. hmm, sub conscious desire? So I attended the class, and the dream started to fall apart. Pretty soon I woke up, I don't know what time it was, and went back to sleep for at least another two hours real time.
I think I'm getting closer to having a real astral experience. Partially, I was trying what Tracy said, it was present in my awareness as I was going to sleep, then noticing my body, and so forth, but it was all interrupted. And this dream, do you think that it is precognitive of something that will happen in the future? Or is it just 'sub conscious garbage'?
It seems you are experiencing the some of the various "road signs" to the Astral. The white/black mist sounds like the cloudiness that you will see before you enter into Focus 21. Just pass this is a successful journey. Try to passively observe this and will yourself to see what lies on the other end of the mist. Here you will find a bridge you must traverse between the Physical and Astral worlds. It really helps to do your Phasing in a chair or floor area other than your bed. Practicing in Bed leads to sleep for a lot of people, but that makes perfect sense, since we have always trained ourselves that bed is for sleep. When you get to the mist, try using that vivid imagination of yours to jumpstart your adventures.
Success is near my friend!
Good Luck and Safe Travels :-)