I dont have sure if was a dream or a "low level" O

[Kazbadan]

Tonight i had a dream where i was flying (typical in my dreams).

I have in my room (in real life, not in the dream) some cards facing up, waiting for an OBE from me to see them (and have -or not- a proof).

In my dream (the details are not important i think) i thought "Hey, i am flying, let me go to my room and check the cards!". I must say that i was not lucid, i was not aware that it was a dream. For me, flying was a normal thing and so i did  not realise that it was a dream.

Anyway, after that i saw the cards and memorize them and then i said to myself "Time to go back to my body", and that happened. Now, instead of waking up in the body in my dream i wokep up paralised in my real body. After some seconds paralysis was gone and i went to see the cards, but none of them was correct   ...at least it was a dream, i think.

Why i did woke up on my real body paralised? Sometimes, dreams and OBEs mix themselves, but if the dream was a real OBE, i think that the cards should be the same as in real life.

Whats your opinion about my dream?

[knightlight]

Why i did woke up on my real body paralised?

If I try to OBE, succeed on exiting without blacking out at all and return willingly or know I am returning I will wake up paralyzed 75% of the time.
I dont consider this anything out of the ordinary Kaz.

but if the dream was a real OBE, i think that the cards should be the same as in real life.

I could write a book in response to that but let me just say nothing is simple when we are discussing OBEs!!!  

[Kazbadan]

lol, thanks


i know that paralysis is normal during obes. what was not normal was waking up from a dream about an obe. It was like if the dream was not completly a dream. I thought that was a funny aspect of my dream.

[Selski]

In my dream (the details are not important i think) i thought "Hey, i am flying, let me go to my room and check the cards!". I must say that i was not lucid, i was not aware that it was a dream. For me, flying was a normal thing and so i did  not realise that it was a dream.

Whats your opinion about my dream?

Hi Kaz

Interesting experience for sure.  Apart from my very obvious and conscious OBEs, I also have dreams where I am out of body.  These are confusing to say the least, because I am also slightly lucid, as I believe you were in your dream.

The reason I say this is when you say you thought during your dream, "Hey, i am flying, let me go to my room and check the cards!".  This suggests that you had at least some level of physical awareness, otherwise you wouldn't have thought this.  There is a certain lucidity going on for you to be able to want to go to your room (away from the flying) and check the cards.  

Now I appreciate that the lucidity wasn't as good as you want to achieve, such as being able to think such things as "My physical body is fast asleep in a bed in another 'place' from here" and "my home telephone number is..." and so on (which one can do with certain high levels of lucidity), but it's a positive step in the right direction.

I have so many dreams where I know I am dreaming, but I am not fully lucid.  They are very frustrating, but on the other hand, they are also very encouraging.

I will share one with you that I had some 10 days ago.

I was in Hong Kong with a male (although in the dream, they appeared female  :confused: ).  We were having a meal and enjoying ourselves.  As we were walking away from the restaurant, a man walked past us both.  He was fairly young and I noticed that he had a VERY sharp razor blade opened in front of him.

This really frightened me.  He walked past us, but then turned around and started following us.  We decided to split up and agreed to meet later.  The razor blade man followed my friend.  I ran away and was relieved that he hadn't followed me.

As I walked into some woods, I slowly realised that I was in a dream and that if I wanted to wake up, I knew what to do.  (This is a familiar trait to me - knowing how to wake up if I need to due to something scary.)

So now I became slightly lucid.

However, what I didn't do (and wished with all my heart that I had) was to fully become lucid and go and "save" my friend and sort out the razor blade man, by making him disappear or whatever.

Back to the dream.  I was in the woods and I wondered if the razor blade man would start to chase me once he'd got my friend.  At this thought (of course) I looked around and realised that the man is now chasing me.  

I knew exactly what to do to wake up.  I shook my head very violently in the dream.  

And I woke up by "jerking" my head on my pillow, just like I was doing in the dream.

So that is my example of being semi-lucid.  It's so annoying because I know that I could have learned from my dream by going back and facing the "killer", but I wasn't lucid enough at the time to realise that.

Sorry for the long post - something to do with red wine  :alcool:

Hee hee

Sarah

[Kazbadan]

lol, drinking red wine?


Anyway, nice post, and now that u speak, in fact i had a very small degree of lucidity, but a very small one. I had in the past some lucid dreams and i know how is to have a full (or almost full) lucid one. Its great!

Another detail about my dream: i woke up gibberling somethng. Since i was paralised i couldnt speak correctly so i´ve done, in real life, some stupid sounds...i´ve done that because after the paralysis i had a tactil hallucination: i was touching someone that was near my bed and that frightened me a lot (and thats the reason for my sounds...of a scared person). I realise now that it was my clothes on my bed, the thing that i was touching. If not, i am quiet sure that was just a pure hallucination.

I just would like to be a good OBErs like u guys for doing card tests!