I think I did it! What do you think?

[mrmougsly]

Okay, I have been meditating and such for about two weeks now with progressive results. I had yet to have an oobe and only had a lucid dream briefly once.  However,  this all happened to me this morning in about the span of half an hour.  The part in <<<>>> is a dream everything after I experience with full awareness.  I have lucid dreams before, but this felt way more intense, and I felt way more control and thought.  What are your thoughts?

<<<<I find myself in some sort of place that looks like a grocery store.  It seems that I have to check out to leave the concert, and wait in line.  I watch other people have their groceries checked out until finally it is my turn.  I put my t-shirts on the counter, and the cashier begins to exchange them for other objects and shirts as if they are currency.  I am dissatisfied and walk to the edge of the counter where there is a bathtub.  I step into the bathtub and am handed a snorkel and goggles by the cashier.  I emerge myself in the water of the bath.  I enjoy staying under the water and breathing through the snorkel.  When all of a sudden I hear the cashier yell towards me and warn me that the tide is coming in, and my snorkel is not high enough to let me breath.  Still, I feel safe and do not heed her warnings.  However, the water does come in and all of a sudden I find myself knowing that I have to go to the surface to breath.  I begin to swim upwards almost desperate for air and once I am near the surface of the water I start to feel like I'm pulling away from my body. >>>

Immediately I am aware of what is happening.  I think to myself that I am leaving my body, and all of a sudden I am lying down on my bed in my room.  Still, I am pulling away from my body, or at least trying to.  There are loud noises and my entire reality is shaking and distorted.  I find myself confused at the shape of everything.  I am anxious at this opportunity to leave my body, but still it is an enormous amount of work to break free from my physical self.  I try to will myself out of my body or "float" out, but find it much more difficult than imagined.  I then start to almost crawl out of my body using the wall and the air as leverage to drag myself out.

Finally, I pop out, and things become clearer again.  I do not feel like I am caught in between physical and non-physical anymore and become excited that I have left my body.  I am in fact overwhelmed with joy that I have done this, and for a brief moment I panic over my excitement, worry that if I think about it too much it will end.  I remind myself that I have to be sure not to think of my body or else I might snap back awake.  I then panic again that just thinking about this might cause me to snap back, but when it doesn't I am relieved and the thought of snapping back to my body disappears.

The first thing I do is fly through my wall.  I then proceed through my sister's room and fly out into the front hall.  I am thrilled at how cool it feels to go through the walls.  I also notice how different things look, without a doubt this is my home, but the colors and pictures on the wall are different.  I enter my parent's bedroom.  They are naked on their bed holding each other.  For some reason seeing them in this pose reminds me of Ana and I.  I notice how youthful they look and loving.  I try to get their attention and touch them to see if they can notice me, but they are oblivious. Still I feel a great sense of resistance when putting my hand through their bodies.  I decide to move on.

I pass by a mirror on my way to the bathroom and see that my eyes are quite red and closed; I pass by a younger version of my sister who is able to look directly at me and say, "open your eyes."  I am shocked at her statement, and feel curious that she could even see me in the first place.  Still, she does not seemed at all shocked.  

I fly into our living room and again see my mother sitting on our sofa.  I try to make myself noticed once more, but cannot be seen by her.  I put my hands and body through many more objects and walls, and then decide to go somewhere else.  I close my eyes and will myself to "go somewhere higher" (meaning a higher dimension of some sort).

Seconds later I find myself flying over a dark city.  It looks somewhat industrial and run down.  I see lifeless looking factories and slum neighborhoods.  I feel disappointed that my request to go higher landed me high in the sky at another place on earth and not to a higher energy plane.  I also feel nervous to be here and wonder if this isn't the safest of places to be.  The dim lighting coming from the factories is haunting. Finally, I notice a small neighborhood and decide to fly down to it. I am surprised at how peaceful and nice it looks as I get closer compared to its grim overhead view.    Still, again I kind of feel disappointed that my request to go "higher" landed me here.  So again I close my eyes and ask to go to a "higher dimension" but after a few repetitions I find myself still in front of this house and decide to go in and explore.  At first I decide I should try and will myself to the door without actually walking.  I tell myself out loud "I am floating to the door."  After a few times I find myself instantly half way to the door, and frustrated walk the rest of the way.  I walk in the house, and am greeted by a few Asian people.  They greet me as I pass by, but they do not seem to think it strange that I am in their house. The house is colorful, but it seems boring and I wonder why I am here.  

Finally, I hear crying, and feel that I should find out who is crying.  I fly around the house and finally come across a little girl.  She is sitting cross-legged with some sort of handheld video game device in front of her.  Without asking her why she is crying she tells me (mentally) that "her pet is dying and she doesn't know how to make it come back to life."  Even though this is just an electronic videogame type of advice she seems in great torment and I feel like this is maybe something more serious to her than it appears to me.  I wonder how in the world I am supposed to resolve this, but feel I have the ability to do so.  I ask to see her device and she hands it to me.  I tell her that I might know a code to keep her virtual pet alive.  I am frightened that I will let the girl down, because I know that I don't know a code, but I immediately start pressing buttons in whatever sequence seems natural.  I press them rapidly entering dozens of combinations until I finally I hit enter and the pet on the screen waves to me, alive and smiling.  I am relieved and hand it back to her.  She is extremely happy and thanks me.  She is now crying with joy and I realize that there are others standing around me watching.  They appear to be much more curious than before...almost wondering what my purpose in the house really is.  I feel like I am done here, and decide to try and will myself somewhere else again.  I close my eyes and say, "I move to a higher dimension" two or three times.  For a second I feel nothing, and then immediately I find myself in a place that is a much more simpler version of life.  The colors are brilliant, but there are not many of them.  I am looking around me, and I see many other people in blob-like forms.  I hear a voice telling me not to talk with the grey blobs, and that the green ones are more friendly.  I look around and find a green blob to talk to, the blob seems rather dumb, and I feel like I am wasting time.  I start to worry that I have been out too long, and will have difficulty remembering everything when I wake up  (I worried this several times earlier too).  I finally close my eyes and say "wake up, wake up."

[dharma_talk]

Im not exactly sure what you experienced, but i have one similar experience and i have one question for you.  When you meditate, what method do you use?  and i ask this question because after I had been meditating awhile I had that similar experience.  Enlilghten me and we may be able to meet on the astral plane....

[mrmougsly]

When meditating I like to be in a semi-reclined position.  Lying down, but with my head, neck, chest elevated at an almost 45 degree angle.  I usually begin with doing ten deep breaths and counting them.  I find I now can get relaxed quite fast doing this.  After I try and visualize myself either floating or visualize myself walking around in a setting of personal preference.  Periodically I will do mental affirmations such as "now I'm out of body" or "mind awake, body asleep."  Doing this above method I found that I can experience light vibrations, floating sensations and feel my body's energy quite consistently.  

However, this is not how I had this above experience.  My girlfriend woke me up this morning before she went to school, and then I began to meditate immediately.  However, I felt uncomfortable and tired so I went back to sleep.  During a 20-30 minute time span everything above occurred.

I think my waking up then meditating and going back to sleep might of had something to do with it, as my mind was more aware and awake but I was still in "sleep mode."  This is something I am going to explore further in the coming weeks.  Perhaps wake myself up periodically in the night to try this technique more.

Also, sometimes I have tried using a hemi-sync CD "Waves of Light."  I have found this gets me deeply relaxed faster, but so far has not led to an OOBE.