heck, if you've read any of robert monroe's books, you might consider that you are yet to appear as a red orb before your parents. Like, it's happened to them, but you are yet to travel through time as the red orb, so it hasn't happened for you yet.
Hah... I have read Monroe, and that's a good point. Time travel has actually become my topic of interest lately, so that'd be pretty awesome if I managed to prove time travel to myself and solve a 25 year old mystery in one shot. Crazy stuff, man.
Okay, here are what I believe to be some pieces of a puzzle that I've put together in the past few days.
Our story begins roughly 25 years ago, a little under two years before my birth. My parents were lying in bed, when my mom woke up to a strange red light hovering over their bed. She thought she was seeing things, until my dad woke up too, and said "do you SEE that?!"
Fast forward to a few years ago. My mom got up during the night and was going into the kitchen, when she happened to look over, and saw a picture of me that was sitting on a table... glowing with red light.
Also, in the past few years, I've woke up more than once to find my field of vision bathed in red light, as if my whole room was glowing softly, and gradually it would fade away.
Lastly, my favorite color is and always has been ::gasp:: red.
Now, after the picture incident I figured all this was somehow connected to me personally, but I was never sure how. I used to think it might be something ominous, a sign that something was going to happen to me at some point. Back when I was still a relatively conservative Christian, at one point I even thought I had woke up in the middle of the rapture, lol.
Well, a few days ago I was sitting in class, not really even thinking about this stuff, and in the middle of the lecture, everything sort of spontaneously connected -- what if this orb WAS me? I lean toward a belief in the preexistence of souls at this point, so what if I was visiting my future parents before I incarnated? As for the glowing phenomena, what if I've been APing without any memory of it (I've never had a conscious AP experience as of yet) in the form of this red orb? It'd make sense for my vision to be filtered through that color upon waking up if I had just been out of body in that form and was now integrating with the physical, right?
So does this make sense to anyone else? Do you think I'm on to something, or no? Has anyone else APed in orb form, or heard of this happening? Anyone have any thoughts on what else all this could mean?
In any case, I seem to be having some success lately with Cube's method of ignoring your body's urge to shift, scratch, swallow (etc.) and tricking it to think you're asleep so you'll go into trance... and I've decided to incorporate this red light into my visualizations as I'm trying to exit, and I'll definitely report back if anything happens. If nothing else, I figure it'd take less energy to generate a ball of light than a copy of my entire body, heh.
Also, if this turns out to be something, then maybe it'll help explain the origin of at least some orb phenomena -- people APing incognito. We shall see.