Interesting Trance Experience

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I went camping this weekend. The first night it began to pour relentlessly from about 8 PM to 4 AM. During the first couple hours of the storm, our tent got completely flooded and our sleeping arrangements were drenched. Water pooled on top of the tent and leaked inside. We didn't notice this because the tent was supposed to be water proof and we were all congregating in a screen house across the campsite.

Long story short, I had to spend the night in the passenger seat of my brothers car. I'm very tall and it is very difficult for me to sleep in cars. My brother has sleep apnea I think and he was snoring like a mothertrucker nonstop for the entire night. On top of that, the rain hitting the roof of the car just added to the noise. I slept on and off maybe a half-hour from around midnight to 4 AM. The night before I only got about 4 or 5 hours sleep so I was extremely sleep deprived by this time.

My mind was racing and I focused on repeating a mantra to try and pass the time. I debated walking around in the monsoon just to get out of the cramped quarters of the car and away from the snoring. I found myself rummaging through my brothers bag for something to put over my ears where I found his iPod. I ended up listening to this strange meditation track he randomly had - it was called Amazon Rainforest by Anton Hughes. After listening to this for a few minutes my body began to get heavy and I drifted off.

I soon "woke up" lucid in this trance state. I knew I was in my physical body but I was being shown all of these images which appeared in my visual perception. It was not like a lucid dream where you are fully immersed in the environment. I felt like I was "looking in" to these various environments, like a spectator or camera man. It was more real than hypnagogic images... it was literally like I was peaking into dreams.

The scenes were all of these rooms. They were constantly changing before my eyes in a hyper fast manner. I felt like I was seeing time go by very fast. One item in the room would change at a time, in a sequential manner. One of the rooms dealt with a meditation room. I was consciously aware I was in my body while these seemingly real environments were presented to me.

At one point I made an affirmation to connect with my higher self. All of a sudden this beautiful mandala encompassed my entire vision. It was this complex, colorful and moving mandala. I saw how a portion of it was blurry, and I "knew" that this was the portion which has fear. It was an intuition I had that fear clouds a portion of my reality. I just knew it at the time.

Next my consciousness moves into a lucid dream. I find myself laying in my backyard at home, in a spot where my dog likes to lay in the cool dirt. I see my neighbor outside and my neighbors dog near the fence. I am laying down but I feel like a child. I am in the embrace of what I felt was this mother figure, almost like a personification of the mother Earth. She is holding me and I just felt so safe and secure - It was a feeling that is hard to convey in words. She was giving me tips on the trance state - One I recall was the practice in the "master bedroom." I'm still trying to figure out what exactly this means. She also told me to use the affirmation "I sincerely wish to connect with my higher self" before trance work.

Eventually my consciousness drifted back into the waking state. It was now light outside and the rain had passed. Although I couldn't have gotten more than 2 hours of sleep, I felt completely rejuvenated and refreshed. I felt like I had tapped into some energy and felt so alive and excited from the experience.