Strange matrix-like mosiac...

[Alamout_Black]

Hello all,

This is my first post at Astral Pulse, but I've been checking the forums for a minute now.  

My friend introduced me to APing after he started to make some headway in his experiments with it...

I quickly started experimenting myself, and while I haven't achieved a conscious AP, I've gotten to where I can pretty easily get to the vibe stage.

Now to the topic at hand... Today, although I wasn't tired (I had slept for like 15 hours), I decided to try to AP, or at least get to the vibe stage.  I laid down, and after doing a relaxation excercise, quickly fell asleep... As happens all too often.

Anyhow, I had an very very strange dream.  I was more conscious than usual, and the dream followed more of a story than it usually does.  I had quite a few instances of dirty luck in this dream, and everything was bizarre as hell... I kept thinking, this has got to be a dream, but something would convince me otherwise.  I even tried to perform checks, such as looking at digital clocks, but they would either be too far away for me to see well, or obscured by something...

Needless to say, I didn't become lucid.  The dream was pretty stressful and paranoid throughout... I woke up with an unexplained huge gash on my head, I was late for work, my car was illegally parked and I was being harassed by security guards... All pretty bad...

I was lost, and was asking directions from a group of costumed party-goers... They were utterly unhelpful and sarcastic... I walking away when a beautiful (and topless) girl from the group came after me, and offered to help!  So... we are walking and as soon as she speaks, the dream cuts!

It fades to me laying in bed... eyes closed... but I am staring at what appears to be a Mosaic of puzzle pieces... Its not colored like a dream, I am aware I am in bed staring at the back of my eye-lids... But it looks like  a shifting Mosaic of almost what looked like puzzle pieces... or at least ill-defined shapes.  They were moving fast... Flickering...

I had the distinct thought, "is this what dreams are made of?  Is this the dream going on, with the curtains shut?  The dream going on with no vision?"  It reminded me of the background of the matrix... The cascading characters.  The shapes weren't cascading, they were flickering and shifting.  I had an impression that this was the dream... although I had woken up and could no longer see or take part in it.

I laid there for a minute to wait for vibes.  A couple days ago, a dream ended abruptly, and as soon as I realized I was laying in bed I was hit with the most intense vibes I've experienced yet.  I waited... nothing came.  Opened my eyes, and checked my clock, I had been sleeping for about 1 hour.

Anyhow... has anyone came to from a dream, and saw the same thing I saw?  It was the first time I had seen something like that, the shifting flickering shapes... Just curious if there is something to that, or if it is recognized amongst some dream researchers.

Thanks,
Alamout_Black

[Alamout_Black]

Hey Runlola (inspired by the movie?), thanks for the welcome!

I've read DeGracia's DO_OBE, and I don't remember the part that reflects my experience... Did he describe the same thing?

Peace...
Alamout_Black