Help interpreting please.

[Newoldsoul]

This is what I recall from last night. It's my personal take on it but would like others input on it. Never felt I was OBE although I had some of the initial symptons but they weren't super intense.

Aug 16-9:22 p.m.

As i laid down for my meditation and rest, after a hard day and much needed shower, i put on the headphones and played a series of binaural sounds to try and aid me as i began the process again. The music/beats played at roughly half volume. I could still hear the A/C unit running but it was not unpleasant or distracting this time. I lay and enjoy the comfort, begin affirming my body is asleep and my mind is aware, I'm aware of my astral body, I am aware no longer of my physical senses or the body in which they serve purpose, over and over. After scouring the forum I remember the 'noticing' technique and decided while the sounds of the beats and music offer distraction from my rambling mind I'd use the time to my advantage and allow it to keep wandering thoughts at bay. My focus narrowed, affirmations in play, noticing the ever shifting palette of colors, shapes, and blackness. Feeling very relaxed I 'notice' my body temperature seemingly go cold! Perhaps to much focus remains on the physical, I am new to this, it will take time. Repeating I'm aware and asking whoever may be listening, watching, guiding me to present itself, them-self and help me to understand, and assist me exiting if they see, feel, however IT works, i'm having trouble. Tiny speck in the distance of the undulating blackness, shifting all sorts of colors resembling gasoline in a puddle of water. I feel a presence, slight tingling or vibrations, and the visions begin. More focused now. It takes me a minute to understand and today I hope I'm interpreting correctly the point of my 'sight'. On the left I can make out a beautiful scene, waterfront and choppy. Vision isn't crystal clear and i focus my attention on making it so. The scene brightens and enhances and the greens are incredible, the breeze is cool and easy, the water is a deep beautiful blue. I feel very much at ease. On the right side it is just a red glow. Reminds me of the color of a sun ripened tomato but has a certain ugly 'feel' to it. 'Why can't I bring the scene from the left into focus with my right' I think. I realize then that the presence I felt earlier has not left but has stayed and is interacting with me. Perhaps the red glow and inability to focus solely on the beauty of the scene left is a sign of my own deep personal conflict I've inflicted, allowed, and endured? The scene changes. Darkness but no the blackness of before. A drop of iridescent something falls to my right and slides downward. I'm in a mirrored cage of some sort. Perhaps another sign to look within as it seems i'm encircled in this place of mirrors. I spend some time there, i do not know how long, my perception of time has left me thankfully. I remember my will is key. I look up, stars! Beautiful! I rise up and peer over the edge. I'm somewhere in the universe. I look outwards trying to bring into focus whatever I can and pick the most distant object I can detect and as for "focus please". Whooosh! Were off! Still inside my mirrored caged it has now become a vehicle of incredible speed! What a feeling. Abrupt stop. Where am I? What planet is this I'm gazing at? Reminds me of Jupiter but I know it's not. Perhaps...my home? I do not know. Scene changes again seemingly without my doing or willing. Back at waterfront except now the serene lake is a circular waterfall that seems endless. As far as i can see down the water dissipates and blackness awaits. I notice above me yet another waterfall coming from a cloud bursting with robust orange lights and green and blue as well. A decision to make. After all,  it is MY will controlling this right? Lets go there i think and up up up we/I went and found myself at the edge of the cloud in front of two massive glowing gates and gateposts. Open please and they did. I wanted to find the 'source' of the water. Floating above it seeing the orange hue above the trees, steadily moving through the landscape and come upon a brilliant city!! Usually cities remind me of hustle bustle and cold cruelness but this place, this place seemed so warm and welcoming. Where is this? How did I get here? No people but the city seems so very alive!! I ask my guides or whoever for assistance getting out so that I could better explore this place and am suddenly flooded with bright warm white light that had a certain liquidity to it! Ah the rush I felt being enveloped in this. I realize then it's yet another interaction from..it? Them? I feel as if they are showing me the choices I CAN make and without knowing completely the consequences of either choice, the city seemed much more interesting than the blackness under the waterfall. Perhaps this is another reflection of my personal physical conscious waking  life? Feels like it. Again, white flowing light rushes over me as if breathing life into me. I awake to sight of my lovely wife and dog entering bed with me! Such warmness of it all in the moment both  the mystical and the physical. I feel I'm on the correct path. The time is 9:47.

[Szaxx]

 Overall the cage is a representation of your limits and being confined in your present abilities. It may be simply that your interpretation of projecting being so large and complex is stifling your progress and forming doubts.
This needs to be dropped immediately. To drive your car you don't need to know of the chemical changes in the combustion chamber do you?
The mirror is what's occuring in the sense of actual progress.
You can see your reflection, this means you are thinking about the inner you, how you want others to see you or how you see yourself. You also may be contemplating on strengthening and changing aspects of your character.
As this appears to be a mirror you can see beyond, it opens up the you within down to a subconcious level.
The cage offers a protective layer where you are able to experience the wider reality in this case. You can still remain as you are and see things being shown at a more subconcious level of thought.
The imagery is presented to let you see how things are in respect to your developing self, should.you wsnt to proceed the older or present ways will need to change.
You can interpret the imagery far better than anyone else as they have been created for you on a personal level.
Your immediate feelings may change upon reflection, the overall decisions made are yours and now choices have to be made.

We have said many times that this art will change who and what you are. I'm yet to hear of one who has not made an improvement in their life through it.

Understand the above and look at the imagery again knowing this.

If you research your experience you'll find similar words as its a common theme.

[Newoldsoul]

Thank you for the input. Indeed I am making changes presently in my personal life which I think is shown through some of the imagery. After reading your response and reflecting on the experience I do now recall a sense of contemplation during. I'm making strides daily to align myself with much more positive energy and dropping all the negativity as i can. I feel that the glowing liquid stuff that ran beside me in the mirror is a small part of the negativity i've picked up through the years and am finally shedding it so to speak.