When I was a kid I used to have the most beautiful dreams that I was floating about my house while evreyone slept. Although I was far to young to rationalize what was happening I knew these dreams were different somehow. I could see myself sleeping and the rest of my family sleeping, I soon came to realize that I didn't have a bedtime anymore and began using what little knowledge of the world I had picked up from the never ending stream of light and sound that was used to babysit more often than not (there was a t.v in every room of my house growng up) and my travels that I barely remember (alot of family vacations as a very young kid) to figure out what was going on. I was able to play with astral projection far before I had any idea what it was I was potentially doing and long before I had lost my full imagination (I mean sure you may paint or write music but when was the last time you created an entire world for your stuffed animals or pretended your hand was a person who could carry a converstion)
Anyway on a trip to disney land I remember this show on the water near amazon land or somthing. The whole story was (i think) that mickey mouse is in the dream world and all his friends are captured by the disney villains and evetually someone tells him somthing like "but mickey if its all just a dream you can control everything" so he starts using his imagination to change everything (your not really big and mean,theres no cage etc) mickey saves the day and i'm weeping tears of joy. Later that night I remember thinking before I went to sleep " I can control everything, I can control everything..." so all of a sudden i'm floating around the motel room and I use my new found power to float through the door out to the pool then way up into the sky. another time I saw an episode of Bat Man the animated series where bat man's dealing with the mad hatter and realises the mad hatter used his new device to trap batman in his own dreams, but bat man see's through it because he can't read any writing on the pages of a book or make out what time it is on a digital clock. So put that theory to the test, the next time I had one of my floaty dreams I looked at the bookshelf in my room and could clearly make out the writing on the spines of the books. So really all I thought was that bat man was wrong or stupid. there were other times growing up that I remember distictly looking through my eyelids. I was at the pool (I couldn't swim,still can't) competting with my bother to see who could hold their breath the longest. I could see his face he was puffing out his cheeks and holding his nose I came up for air then he did. He won we laughed then I said somthing like "huh, you looked funny" then imitated him he said " you opened your eyes?" I replied "no, are you crazy it burns" he just gave me a wierd look then splashed me. On one other occasion (last one I promise) I had crashed my bike into fire hydrant after hitting a crack my handle bar spun around and slashed across one one of my eyes and just the top eyelid on the other. I didn't lose my eye (thank God) but I did have to keep a patch on the one eye and it was a strain to open the other. During my recovery I was lying in bed watching t.v getting frustrated that I couldn't see very well and since my one eye was partially shut I was getting sleepy but didn't want to sleep. So I turned on my side and cried I think. I was laying ther listening to the t.v trying to follow the story, all of a sudden i'm sitting up watching it with perfect sight. It was an episode of california dreams it was like saved by the bell but they were in a band, years later I saw a rerun of the same episode and I remembered the images.
But time passed and now I have trouble doing what came so natural as a child, I feel like I've grown down rather than up, I saw the movie waking life and everything made sense and now i'm just trying to figure it out again. Is that what its like? was I on the astral plain? has any one else ever done that pool thing? i've seen these astral project in 20 minute cds for $29.95 what are those? how do they work? I had no idea there was an online community let alone people even thinking about this stuff and I guess thats why this post is so long I just had to tell someone who would believe me because I can't help thinking thats why it doesn't come naturally anymore because everyone laughed it off as my imagination or just a wierd dream or that I was lying. You know? are their any good books to read on the subject? Please let me know you Know where i'm coming from,thanks.
Hello and welcome to the forum. :smile:
You will likely get a boatload of book recommendations before all is done. Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics is a good starting point. It's a thick one though, and will take some time.
There are about as many theories and techniques as there are people posting here, so just pick one and dive in. In my opinion meditation is very valuable, and can't hurt.
Right now I am concentrating on dream recall. Once I am satisfied with my progress in that area I am going to focus on lucid dreaming. My theory is that OBE and lucid dreams are very closely connected. If you master one, the other will follow. Mind you, that is just one person's theory and still under development at that! :wink:
I think you have nailed it when you think back to childhood. I know it was so easy for me when I was young. I don't think it is totally a matter of imagination either. Perhaps as children we are more open to true mental ability -- before we are shoved into the adult mold. I just hope it is not a function of physical age. Your brain changes as you age -- scary thought! :shock:
Anyway, welcome and good luck!
thank you
hiyoshi
Welcome! As a kid I used to love going to bed because I would lie on my front and go flying! I couldn't see anything usually, but I used to imagine myself clinging onto a wooden board whilst flying roller-coaster fashion around in the sky. The roller-coaster sensation was extremely vivid. I vaguely remember floating around my bedroom too. We had bunk beds, and I used to sleep in the lower bunk, with my brother in the upper bunk - I have a vague recollection of floating around the room at "upper bunk" height, whilst the room was brightly lit. About the same time I also regularly had dreams of wandering around my house in the dark, whilst everyone was asleep. I didn't float like you, but i couldn't operate the light switches - I'd click them but the light would never come on. These "dreams" felt different to normal dreams, a bit scary to be honest. All of these things left me around the age of 10 or 11. We just seem to grow out of this as we grow up.......!
batman is not stupid!
welcome to AP, im sure you'll like it here :D
this is all so wild, i had no idea other people experieced this, you'd think it'd be better understood by now how far back does this go,is their recorded history of this kind of thing?