An astral experience while awake, with my friend?!!

[falsetigerlimbs]

Both my friend and I were awake, not dreaming during this experience.


This is something that has been bothering me for months. It doesn't fit into any sections on this forum, but I am posting it here as it has something to do with spontaneously being in a different environment.

It's a long story.

It occurred in March, on the night of the full moon. Every full moon, there is a drum circle on the beach near my college campus. There is a bonfire, and lots of hippies pounding on drums, doing drugs and drinking. My friends and I stayed at the drum circle for a good 3 hours, and then we decided to head back. At this point I was sober, although I'm not sure about my friend who I experienced this with.


On the way there we had all walked a long distance along the beach down to the part where the drum circle was being held. We were a large group, and on the way back most of my friends decided to take a shortcut that involved climbing up a very treacherous cliff. I refused to do this, and instead decided to walk back the same way we came. The route I chose was in the opposite direction of the cliff my friends decided to climb. My friend, let's call him Sam, wouldn't let me walk alone, so he accompanied me.

We began to walk, and after we had walked for about 15 minutes I noticed the waves had appeared to come in ahead of us, blocking part of the beach off. I pointed this out to Sam, and we agreed that we should turn around, head back towards the drum circle, and go up the cliffs. We didn't really have any choice. I was really paranoid that the waves were going to come in and drown us, but Sam told me we could keep the waves back by pushing them back with our hands. I thought this sounded silly, but I did it anyway.

This is where it gets strange. We got to the place where we were sure the drum circle had been, but it was not there anymore. We kept walking, hoping that we were just mistaken. We walked for a good 45 minutes. Then Sam became panicked. He said to me," The building behind us has stayed in the same position this entire time! And the cliffs haven't moved!" I wasn't sure if he was joking or not, so I kept walking. He followed. We walked for another 10 minutes, but then I noticed too that the cliffs to the right of us had stayed the same, and that the building behind us was the same distance away after this 10 minutes of walking. At this point Sam was in shock, he was walking in circles, his hands on his heads. He kept repeating over and over again, "Do you realize what you've done?". I questioned if we were in purgatory, and whether or not we would ever be able to leave this spot. I then noticed that the beach felt a lot eerier than it did before, and I became really paranoid..

All of a sudden, Sam was thrown backwards, and the fire circle reappeared about 200 ft in front of us. He later told me he felt a gush of hot air as he was thrown back. To me, it looked like someone had just punched him in the stomach really hard.

We started to walk towards the fire circle, and when we looked behind us the waves had completely receded.

The last time I had been to the drum circle the trek up the cliff had been amazingly strenuous. It took me about 30 – 40 minutes to get to the top, and my legs had hurt for the next 2 days. Sam told me to just look down and focus on where I was stepping. I couldn't believe it. As we were going up I felt almost like I was flying. The movements were so easy, so relaxed. We got to the top in less than 10 minutes. I didn't even realize it had been that quick until Sam said, "How long do you think that took us? Think about how many sentences we each said during our conversation." I realized I had only uttered about 3 or 4 sentences, yet we had been talking the entire time.

At the top of the cliff we had to walk through a parking lot to get onto the main road that leads to our college. We walked through a bush that had an opening in it, and after we got through it I saw the bush close to hide the gap! Then I noticed that a truck was coming up slowly behind us, and there was a cop car ahead of us. Sam started saying that this scene was like a movie; just before we got to the intersection, the truck would pull up next to us and shoot us, and the cop car wouldn't hear our screams because of the truck's loud, bumping music. Then, all of a sudden, the truck stopped. I looked ahead and everything was paused. The traffic lights were frozen for a good 20 minutes. We got to the college before any of them changed to red, both the ones in front and behind us. No cars passed. Since that day, every time I go along that road the lights turn to red right after I get through them. I have never caught a red light.

Also, on the walk along the main road, Sam stopped me and told me to watch our shadows. As I watched they both changed directions, even though the lights around us hadn't moved, and neither had we. He made a comment about our shadows, and why shouldn't they be able to move by themselves, why shouldn't they have a life of their own.


How would we be able to get stuck in a space like that? Do you think we were stuck in space, or time? I'm so confused by the whole situation. It haunts me all the time. I don't understand what could have been
happening. I guess I'm just wondering what you all think of this.

After that day I had many more strange experiences, most including Sam. I can tell you about those, too, if that would be helpful.

[jub jub]

Sounds like a rift in the "space-time continuum" or you guys are doing some good drugs.  

[Stookie]

That sounds wild. I don't have a clue as to what happened, but it reminds me of some of the stories that Carlos Castaneda tells in his books. Is your friend sam a Yaqui Indian Sorcerer? j/k

[falsetigerlimbs]

Hahaha we weren't on drugs. We have done shrooms together before, but on this night I hadn't done shrooms since December.


At the time Sam said that maybe our energies together were doing this, but to be honest, I think he has incredible abilities, and he was just trying to open my eyes to the possibility that I could do things, too. Because he definitely succeeded.

I'll include a brief anecdote that supports this:

I was sitting on a sofa in our dorm lounge. Nobody was around but me, Sam, and my close friend. I had a feather under a plastic container, and I was trying to move it with my mind. My close friend was sitting next to me, and beyond that was Sam. I stopped trying to move the feather for few minutes, and when I turned back the container was flipped over, and the feather was gone. I tripped out. Sam didn't say anything. But when we were about to leave, and I had stood up, he lifted up the pillow from the sofa and pulled out the feather!! He definitely knew it was there, he definitely put it there...somehow.

[Alamout_Black]

Seriously... It sounds like you were dosed to me.  

How many hours did the wierdness last?

Peace...
Alamout_Black