a guided projection experiment

[Eagle of Light]

Hi all

my last post was some 10 months ago...    Thing is, I've stopped experimenting since a long time, on purpose, wanting to focus on earthly life matters. It feels great to pause at times, really. Also, my views shifted quite a lot in the way I approach the (so-called) paranormal subjects, I'm more than ever inclined to get evidence before drawing conclusions. My nickname sounds too 'new agey' for my taste btw, but it's ok I'll keep it anyway for now!

I'm still passionate about this subject though, as ever. Something happened spontaneously this morning, so I want to share it here, I didn't forget how great this forum is. You might find some interest.

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I'm in a work office with colleagues. A green light is projected and takes the shape of a dog, once complete it gets animated and behave like real, coming to us, giving joy and affection. I can feel the contact of the dog and play briefly with him before he goes to another person. A colleague explains to me that when the pet of a coworker dies, the owner can ask the company to generate this temporary holographic projection as a way to say goodbye to friends on behalf of the beloved pet. [I never encountered such idea before, how strange...  obviously the dream scene is futurist.].  I'm aware that holographic projection is normally used by the company for normal business purposes such as remote meetings. The pet leaves out from view, and to lighten up after the emotional farewell, we start joking about using such projections to annoy people we don't like, and eventually keep laughing at imagining such scenes.
[I wake up, almost laughing. I realise I'm lying on my back, my right foot crossed over my left foot. I don't move at all, except my eyes, and wonder what time is it...]
I find myself involved in an experiment along with other subjects. I'm aware that an instructor follows my progression. I can't see him, I hear him in my thoughts somehow. The experiments consists of making us travel through different patterns of tunnel-like shapes, in a specific position, and see what we get from the disorientating effects. For my part, I'm travelling downwards, head first in a kind of helicoid tunnel made of some sort of grid patterns. I'm falling down along the contours of the tunnel but without touching them. The colors are orange-yellow-ish and soft. The position and movements feel weird but I'm OK with it. Eventually, I reach a large empty room made of the same grid and colours, my head doesn't crash on the floor, instead I'm stopping smoothly there in suspension. I resume a normal standing position but feel quite disorientated. The instructor reminds me that I'm also in my bed at home right now [This is intriguing, he actually invites me there to get lucid and indeed I reach some lucidity in the dream now as I remember that I'm sleeping in real life]. Then he asks me to reinforce the realization that I exist now at 2 places simultaneously, also by taking profit of the state of spatial disorientation I'm in. [at that point I understand that the experiment is about inducing OBE through some sort of disorientation]. I do so, and soon after starts feeling OBE symptoms. I try then to cross the wall of the room but encounters a resistance building up the more I push myself through it. I can't make it through and have to give up. I start going into a lying down position, thinking that pushing downwards would help reinforce the separation. The instructor tells me quickly that's a bad idea, I would terminate the experiment by doing so. So I resume promptly in a standing position, and decide to get some speed before crossing the wall. I start flying and...off I go! I melt briefly with the wall then find myself in a room inside a house. [The look is like any normal physical room you find in a house, I can see sunlight going through the windows]. I don't take time to look, I just fly through 2 more walls, happy that I did it and thinking 'now I'm out-of-body!'.
[I wake up, here again I'm lying on my back, my right foot still crossed over my left foot. Time: 7.55am.]
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The feeling of flying is so real and pleasant! I've had a few other short episodes in the past when my awareness was better, as clear as awake, and the OBE symptoms more pronounced, but still some nice and unusual feelings (and ideas) were definitely present here this morning. This puts me in a really good mood   Despite dropping experimentation, I see that the phenomena is still at reach of hand.

Reminds me too of this idea that we would be involved in learning activities at some point during sleep. Would that be a reality?...

I don't know why it happened this morning. Unusual thing last night is no TV at all, I gave it to a friend yesterday as I'm moving soon. Just watched something which interested me on youtube, I discovered the Hang Drum, the sound is beautiful and so relaxing... check this out if your curious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Axctmwm7KQ  . Also I received a mail from the Monroe Institute just as I was about to go to bed. Maybe that context planted a seed for OBE...

Thanks for reading my little episode, hope you enjoyed it. Any comment is welcomed, of course.

Yours,
Eagle

[Selski]

Hi Eagle

That was a great read - thank you for sharing! 

I love the idea of the holographic projection - it sounds very futuristic, and I hope it becomes a reality.

Funnily enough, I was watching an oldish episode of Doctor Who this weekend and in it, his assistant is saved from death by being transported to a parallel universe.  The Doctor didn't get a chance to say goodbye, so he projects himself to her world to be able to say goodbye properly.  The projection is a holographic image and the first part of your experience reminded me of this.

I love the experiment part.  I've been in numerous such experiments.  I've also had the same experience, where I couldn't actually see the instructor but knew she was there.  I think I heard her voice, but in my mind, not out loud.

It seems you did well with movement through tunnels.  Whenever I am moved (where it's not me controlling the movements, it feels more automatic), it tends to be upside down, back to front, head first and at quite some speed.  I can never last longer than a few seconds as I start to feel sick.  It feels so real, even to the point of my hair blowing in my face with the wind going past.  I'm not sure why we need to experience these rather stomach-churning movements, but they are fairly regular with me - probably because I still haven't passed the first grade!! 

With regards to getting rid of your TV - congrats - I haven't owned one for a couple of years now.  And yes, the post from TMI could well have sat in your subconscious just waiting to pop out a while later!  I often find that if I do a Monroe rundown to F10 during the night (after having had a few hours sleep), something tends to happen.

Great experience.  Whatever these things turn out to be - they are good fun, aren't they? 

Sarah

[Selski]

Oh, and just watched the Youtube clip - very nice.

Sarah