Through a multicoloured tunnel of sorts

[manuel]

I had an interesting experience last night, upon waking from a frightful dream, I went back to sleep, as I shut my eyes, I could see this indigo coloured object shaped very much like a tadpole, and its "tail" was wiggling about, I kept focus in this, this indigo coloured tadpole in the darkness, than suddenly, with out any warning, it transformed into a semitransparent tunnel with colourfull geometric patterns on the walls, since it was transparent, I could see this tunnel stretched on and on, I could not see no end to it, as it lots of twists and turns, if any one has watched the film Contact, give you an idea of what I experienced, I moved through this tunnel, fast, than slow, than fast again, at one point, I was going, very, very fast, almost scared me, I had no sensation of any form of a body, just a point of consciousness.

Now I am aware of certain literature mentioning tunnel structures, has any one come across some thing like this?

[Job]

Could it have possibly been a regular dream (the kind of thing you're usually thinking about in the day)? Dreams can reflect one's thoughts and things that are experienced in waking life, etc.

With that aside, it could also be something of significance. Maybe there's some symbolic meaning behind it? Do you keep a dream/astral experience journal?

[manuel]

Could it have possibly been a regular dream (the kind of thing you're usually thinking about in the day)? Dreams can reflect one's thoughts and things that are experienced in waking life, etc.

With that aside, it could also be something of significance. Maybe there's some symbolic meaning behind it? Do you keep a dream/astral experience journal?

No, I dont think it was an ordinary dream, as I was lucid it through the entire experience, no I do not keep a journal.

[Novice]

I had a somewhat similar experience once. I don't remember the dream, but at one point I woke up, but not fully. I went back to sleep and almost immediately saw this bright white light over my closed eyes. I was fully conscious and, based on past experience, was hesitant to open my eyes for fear of opening my physical and not astral eyes. But they light was so bright, I was sure someone was shing a flashlight directly at me so I opened my eyes. But when I did, it was my astral and not my physical that opened.

Directly in front of me was this very long, very beautiful tube. I associated it with the tube entrance structures that Astral Dynamics describes. I entered and went down the tube. The walls were a pearly white with gold shaped paisly type patterns on them. ANd if you aren't familiar with it, paisly patterns do look sort of like tadpoles.

Besides the difference in color, this tube had breaks in it. Every so often I would come to an opening. Imagine a piece of pipe laid out that is about 10 ft long. And every 2 ft the pipe is cut evenly and then that piece is pulled out about 1 ft from the rest of the pipe. Continue to do this and when you were done, you would see the pipe sections in a line, but every 2 ft would have a 1 ft gap till the next pipe section.

As I traveled the pipe, I would come to these sections. I could look out all around the opening and see what I knew to be entities of some type just moving around. There were no bodies, just sort of blobs of energy. I would then cross the gap and enter the next section of the tube. I did this about 3 times and then came to an area where someone was waiting for me. We sat and talked for a few moments, but then I felt myself suddenly being pulled under. But it was actually being pulled back to my body. Then I woke up.

[knightlight]

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20127&highlight=

I didnt really elaborate on the tunnel in this experience but it was a very awesome experience.  THe tunnel was curved and twisted like a roller coaster and I was going so fast through it at one point I thought my face was going to rip off.  If started out as multicolored, I even distinctly remember the face of a clown made of pulsing neon colors being on one section of the tunnel wall.  Then it changed into pictures of places I felt I would go to and road signs I tried to remember, some of street names.

[astralp]

I have read a lot about Franks model of phasing and in it he says that to travel to focus 3 you go through tunnel that sounds just like you are all describing.  He said you go through the tunnel and at the end or whenever it stops you are in focus 3.  Focus 3 is the area where dead people are.  
Frank says, "Nowadays, more and more of us (albeit still a tiny minority) are realising that there is no death. What we call death is actually a belief construct we initiate within Focus 1 of consciousness, to be permanently disengaging ourselves from physical focus and to be entering Transition within the area of Focus 3 of consciousness. Transition is where we allow time to shake off all the now redundant belief constructs that we picked up during our physical focus experience."