Painting gateway

[LightBeam]

This OBE is from my journal 2008

It was Christmas Eve (physical world) and I was complaining to my friends that it does not feel like Christmas, if it`s 80 degrees outside. I guess the desire to have a white Christmas set my mind and put it to work. Well, I did not create snow in the physical reality, but surely I did have the best Christmas ever in another world. So, here is how it happened. I went to bed and I was thinking about past holidays at home with my family and relatives, playing outside with my cousins, making snowmen...
When I projected sometime during the night, I found myself in a big gallery with many paintings on the walls. There were other people walking around and looking at them as well. The paintings seemed to be sort of "alive", because the elements were moving and changing. One of them that attracted my attention was a beautiful village in wintertime, and I could see the snow actually falling. Like I was looking through a window, but each painting was a different world. It was amazing. The moment I saw that painting I had the strong desire to be there, inside of one of the warm, cozy houses, sitting next to the fire place, looking through the window the falling snow covering everything in white, bringing a sense of peace and quietness.
Instantly after I formed this thought in my head, I felt a pulling sensation and I was drawn into the painting. A second later I was there, in this world, for real. And the most curious thing was, that I could see the people in the gallery on the other side. Not for long though. I turned my attention toward one of the houses and I walked inside. I felt indescribable, so warm and cozy as I was watching the beautiful surroundings outside. The houses were small and old style like. There were old fashion candle type streetlights. It was around sunset and I could see lights coming from the windows of the neighbor homes. I was overwhelmed by this feeling of softness and peace. I can`t really describe with words. I knew that I was OBEing that whole time and I felt like I have teleported myself with my physical body.
It was so exciting and in my mind this experience was as real as I am sitting right now in front of the computer and typing these words.
OBEs like that make me really thankful for what I have discovered and how colorful my life has become and I will always encourage others to look beyond.

[Szaxx]

Hi,
A perfect example of a virtual reality projection.
Excellent feelings within too.

[Xanth]

It was so exciting and in my mind this experience was as real as I am sitting right now in front of the computer and typing these words.

You make it sound like this isn't how you experience most of your projections?  All of my projections... even my dream experiences are as "real" as this physical reality is right now.

But anyway... yeah that's a pretty nice experience you had there!  The Intent you placed into causing each of those events to occur was well done. 
The right mix of desire + intention to experience those events.

[LightBeam]

You make it sound like this isn't how you experience most of your projections?  All of my projections... even my dream experiences are as "real" as this physical reality is right now.

Well, this experience is from few years back, where I was still new to the astral exploration and I didn't have much experience yet. So, whatever new I was observing I would put it in my journal. And I copied exactly what I wrote back then. I can see how it can be confusing to those who are familiar with my progress and with the statements I make. But I don't like to modify the info from my journal, so that I can trace even my emotions related to certain experiences.

[Greytraveller]

Greetings LightBeam
Those paintings were all portals (stargates) to other nonphysical realms and dimensions. I had an OBE early last year where I moved into and through a magickal book that took me someplace in North Africa or the MidEast (Libya probably). Robert Bruce also wrote about going into a painting while out of body. He explored the country area near an old house that was the focus of the painting.

Regards 
Grey