Multi-Tiered Dream Experience

[light487]

This isn't the first time I've woken from a dream to find myself in another dream but what is different about this particular experience is the amount of tiers (or layers) of dream that I found myself waking up from.

1st tier: In the first dream, I can't really remember much of, I woke to find myself in bed watching TV. Everything about the room was identical to the real bedroom except for the TV. In this dream, the TV was one of those small, black&white TVs on a little trolley from 50 years ago. On the TV was a show about alien abductions but other than that it was very average/normal. I was just watching TV. After a while I felt "odd", I can't put in to words the full extent of my feelings but it was odd enough that I was forced to "wake up".

2nd tier: I found myself laying in the same bed, but this time everything about the room was identical to the physical room. Nothing at all was different. I found that I was still listening to the Binaural track that Ryan_ has provided, which I started playing before I fell asleep. I was trying for an OBE but had fallen asleep. Anyway, I decided that I would turn off the iPod and just sleep instead of continuing to try but when I attempted to stop it, the sound kept playing. I pulled the earbud headphones out of my ears but of course the binaural track continued to play. At that point I realised I was still sleeping.

3rd Tier: So I "woke up" again and found myself in bed with the headphones still on, the binaural track still playing. So I removed the earbuds and the sound stopped, I found the iPod (under my pillow where I always put it) and pressed stop as well. Thinking to myself that I was now awake I allowed myself to drift off to sleep.. hehe.. Of coruse I wasn't actually awake, still dreaming..

4th tier: The next time I "woke up" I was in a state of "sleep paralysis" and I was feeling the vibrations. I also had an experience that I think was a communication from my higher self or something like that. Basically it was the delivery of a method of inward-focusing. I was basically focusing on an infinitely small grain of "blackness".. like a grain of black sand at the exact centre of my consciousness. I found that if I concentrated on this with a passive awareness of the grain, that it cleared away all other thoughts and left me with an inner peace and an increased feeling of weightlessness and general kind of BodyAsleep/MindAwake type awareness. I tried for an OBE but I think my awareness became too "active" and I lost the feelings of weightlessness etc. I felt that this had been more of a lesson than an actual experience for OBE. That my inner/higher self was suggesting that this method of focusing inward may assist in OBE'ing in the future.

5th tier: Of course I still hadn't woken up and found myself dreaming randomly for a while, I can't remember the specifics of this layer of dream. The other layers were so lucid and memorable but this layer was just like a standard dream. I have vague memories of being in bed with my girlfriend at least once.. but it wasn't as lucid as the other times.

Awaken: I'm not sure if I had any other tiers of dream but the next time I woke I was actually awake, I found that my iPod was still on and my earbud headphones still in my ears. The binaural beat had stopped by that point because it was only 1 hour long and was not set to repeat.

So I think that there is definitely some changes ocurring in my subconscious and that "message" about the method of inward-focussing is clear evidence, to me, that my inner self is responding to my requests for assistance. Just need to keep on trying and find a method, with the inclusion of this "suggested" technique, to get OoB.

[light487]

Thinking about it now that I've written it out.. I have to laugh because my mind had given me at least 5 chances to OBE and throughout each, I had simply desired to go back to sleep instead. At any of those moments when I realised I was sleeping, I could have latched on and phased out.. but instead I chose to be lazy and went back to sleep. So of course my mind "woke" me up again to have another go.. over and over again.. haha.. My higher self was probably having a bit of a laugh by the end, "This guy just won't wake up" *prod* *poke*..