My first trip

[jadrian70]

Sorry for the long post, but it is what it is.

Friday night prior to 3am I had the following experience.  I am still a bit on the fence as to whether this was my first OBE.  I thought when it happened I would have greater lucidity. This was very dreamlike with blank spots of memory.

I had spent the evening feeling very subdued and I had the impression that 'tonight's the night'. 

I tried listening to some Binaural beats after going to bed, but found the excess noise in the room to be too distracting, even through the head phones.  I eventually quit and fell asleep.

I was lying on my left side and at some point I awoke to what felt like pressure against my back, but thought it was my husband getting cozy and I tried to shoo him away.   The next thing I knew it was like I was in a windstorm.  There was a loud whooshing all around me.   It was scary, but I kept yelling "I'm a samurai warrior and I will not be deterred from my mission!" 
(Thank you Szaxx, apparently I took that advice to heart!)

The next thing I knew I was standing in the doorway to my bedroom.  I tried flipping the light switch so I could check and see myself sleeping in bed, but the light wouldn't come on.  This pleased me as I'd read that the light switches not working was a good test to see if you're projecting. 

I then found that I couldn't decide which way to get out of the house.  I ended up heading for the backyard, trying another light switch on the way and it too failing to come on.  I do not know how I got out of the house.. I did not pass through any walls or doors, I was just suddenly in the backyard.

I was standing there looking at the sky, thinking I needed to fly somewhere, but not really knowing what I was supposed to do at that point.  However, before I made any attempts I was distracted by some talking I could hear.  I went to the fence on the other side of the yard and  peered over. There was a group of people, maybe 9 or 10,  practicing dancing.  I had the impression they were Mormon or some other religious group.  They saw me, but I don't remember if we interacted.

At some point I finally flew up and over the house that they were behind.

My next memory is of me standing in the middle of a road at the edge of a city or town.  Beyond the street lights lay open road and country.  It was night out, cloudy, but there was enough light to see off into the distance.  I was looking up at the sky and again thinking, 'ok, now what do I do?'  I made 3 requests. To return to source, meet a guide, or visit my mother. 
I got no response except for some flashes of light off in the distance further up the road. Like lightening, though not as fierce and no thunder followed. 

The next chunk of memory finds me floating into a house.   There were some people gathered around a dining table playing cards or some other group activity.  I was floating above their heads and there seemed to be a large number of gaudy light fixtures above the table. They reminded me of the light fixtures I'd seen in the restaurant I'd had dinner at earlier in the evening.

At the outer edge of the light fixtures there also hung a small crystal ball like decoration, about the size of a tennis ball, dangling from the ceiling on what looked like a bit of plastic xmas tree bead garland.  As I floated by I grazed the ball and it began to sway back and forth.  The people at the table looked up and could see it moving.  I thought they would think I was a ghost or something.   Somehow I floated down to the floor and was leaning against a wall next to a buffet, settling in to watch them.  A guy got up from the table.  He was talking to a woman, who was still seated, about something and then he brushed up against me and then grabbed my arm and looked right at me.  I don't remember if he actually said to me "I can see you", but that was the overwhelming message I got. I was caught. It was freaky.

I don't remember if we conversed, but at one point I do remember being asked, "you're a vampire, right?"    While normally I'd say no to this question, I sheepishly agreed as I felt rather like a party crasher who was now under house arrest.   

My next memory is of the group of us moving into a living room and the woman preparing to engage in a sexual activity with me.  I will spare you the details.  This was boring me and I was resentful that my time was being wasted like this, but I didn't know how to extricate myself.  It then occurred to me that I should just be able to think or want to return to my physical body and it would happen.  The moment I did so I began rising up to the ceiling and out of the house. 

This was a little bit funny because as I did so the group below made a collective 'oh there she goes' noise but then I was above the roof and floating back down to the front patio of the same house.   One of the men who had been inside met me outside and we settled into some patio chairs.  I don't remember what we said and.at some point a couple of other women came out the front door in various states of disarray and stood on the patio putting their disheveled clothes back on.

At some point my conversation with the man reminded me that I could go the beach if I wanted to . It was a head slap, 'I could have had a V8 moment'.  I was very frustrated thinking I had been wasting all this time with these people when I could have been finding some surf.

I began to fly off again, but where I landed I can't say.  I think I may have made it to a beach, but it's all fuzz after that.

I was actually a bit disappointed with my experience.  It was so dreamlike that I remain confused as to whether it was a true projection. 

But if it was...where the heck was I?  Were those people my own creation or did I meet other travellers?  This would be typical.  Other people visit higher realms while I end up at a Twilight themed kegger. 

[Ashenstar]

Don't worry about the long post! I'm a long post poster and long posts make for interesting reads. We all just have short attention spans these days.

That sounds amazing to me! I'm coming from a place where I haven't even remembered having a dream in over 5 years. Just to wake up and remember a normal dream would be a "woohoo" moment for me. Lol

Often times disappointment comes from expectations. I'm a totally noob, but I really do believe that letting go of expectations will be helpful in this. It generally is for other mind/emotional/spiritual work.
Treat it like and adventure and every experience a gift and a lesson.
Probably sounds rather unhelpful and cheesy, but please do try.

I couldn't really say if it was or wasn't an astral projection...since I'm still reading on what that is exactly.
Perhaps a dream of astral projection?

Here, this may be of interest to you.
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_out_of_body_experiences/dreaming_about_projection-t43459.0.html

[jadrian70]

I haven't been able to remember much of my dreams for a long time too.  A little piece here and there, but more often than not I find myself with little to no recollection of the previous nights adventures.    I think I'm reasonably low key expectation wise, but I guess I feel the need to categorize the experience.  Was it RTZ?  Does the my lack of awareness make it a less valid experience?   Maybe not being fully aware was a blessing.  I might have freaked out if everything had been in sharp focus and it might have ended before I got anywhere.

I feel like I need to do some more reading and become familiar with focus levels etc.

[Szaxx]

It was an experience and you remembered it. The light fitting you recognised, when you saw it originally, try to remember your frame of mind. This is similar to a daydream like state where you see an item or scene and remember it for later. If you recognised this and can repeat it your dreams can be programmed easily.
With more awareness you may have had a fear runaway. Too much lucidity shortens your experiences in most cases and staying in the scene too long also effects your recall.
Your experience fits into this too.
Not having any expectations on what you'd accept as a projection whilst within the experience is something you really want to keep hold of. That exacting action will allow for very long adventures. The instant you analyse anything in relation to physical world expectations can send you home if your reserves are low. You basically wake up with a wtf.
In this experience, if you made rational decisions it was more than a dream. It also doesn't quite fit in with my RTZ experiences (the people part) and you were in your room testing switches as rational as you woyld be in the physical. This too seems far more than a dream. Even a lucid dream doesn't really fit.
I'd say you were out in the wider reality at someplace far from the RTZ or this physical world reality.

Read up on deepening. This will answer your question before you ask it. You'll understand.