Playing with the technique of letting yourself fall backward

[Blue Giant]

It wasn't too long ago when I had posted a topic about "What more you can do in a lucid dream".  I had very inspiring feedback and one of the hints I just tried out was what Nagual had told me to try. All I have to say to Nagual is thanks for letting me know! It was a very interesting experience.
I was outside in the middle of a suburban street where I found myself looking at the trees on one side. They were beautiful and stylised in a way that made them look cartoony yet real...hence a surrealist kind of feel. I then noticed was was dreaming as I gazed off over the treetops where a warm ember light was hovering. The first thing I wanted to do was to see how responsive my flying was on will. So I looked in the distance to where I wanted to fly to and felt movement came inwardly and was expressed outwardly in a very responsive and powerful manner. The flying was very quick and controllable. Then it started to loose its juice and I landed back onto the street. I was thinking to myself "What was the next thing I was supposed to try while I'm lucid"? Then....it dawned on me. "That's right!" , I said to myself as I let myself fall backward in slow motion. I kept on falling backward and there were indescribable feelings accompanying it. I guess a watered down description was multiple vibrations and a shifting feeling like the visual representation of a clump of sand just dropped into water. Then, I was in this other scene. In a room with another guy. It was like an art display room, where the "artifacts" were placed on top of this table. As I looked closely at one of the display items, it looked like a cd case with a cover inside. It showed all of these arrows that emanated from one point like a celtic design being unravelled. As i looked at it, the guy was informing me that it was some old asian looking dude who had solved the labyrinth, and these very things were his remains of revealing the secret of what the "True upward" direction really was. Yet, there were multiple "maps" so to speak that showed the directions on how to solve a particular maze. It reminded me of the movie cube, but the maze was spherical in nature, because the man was displaying how to get out of one by showing me a holographic example in front of me. Then he said, I know where you will be able to find out the true direction of upward. We left the room to enter this huge library looking place. There was this huge 20 foot "plastic" model of a rectangular 3d shaped box. In it there was all of these rooms. I stared at it, and then after a while, the people around displaying it pulled it up with ropes attached to it and guided it towards the wall, where the placed it snuggly between the spot of where it was taken. As soon as they pushed it into the spot it morphed into shelves with books - looking like the rest of the library.
Whatever that was....I liked it. It felt adventurous. Anyhow, any feedback would be appreciated!!!
Ohh, can anyone guess or try to approach what they think is actually happening when you let yourself fall backwards.
Thanks a lot,
Russel

[upstream]

I have fallen backward in my dreams unintentionally many times. There were more like collapsing and as a result I've found myself in the state of sleep paralysis. Somehow the feelings of being paralyzed strike through the tissue of the dream, first I become slow, then lost my ability to speech and fall back. It could be beginning of a new dream. What I  practice is flying and spinning back into my paralyzed body for waking up at will, re-separations, or internal projections.

[Blue Giant]

Awesome! Thanks for the reply Upstream.

Russel

[Krevency]

I am replying to your very old post, because Google led me to it.

I really have no clue where I got the idea for falling backward in a lucid dream, but if Robert Bruce ever mentioned it then that's probably where I got it.  

A couple of weeks ago I was LDing (I'm a natural lucid dreamer) and I decided I'd give it a try.  I totally relaxed, and fell backwards, and then woke up with vibrations.  I've woken from lucid dreams with vibrations a bunch of times before (one time actually getting an OBE out of it) but this was the first time I'd done it intentionally.  In the middle of it, though, my alarm went off, and the same thing happened the next time I tried to do it.  Lame. :confused: