Strange Dreams and Sleeping Patterns to Match

[Adkha]

Hi,
Before you read the rest of my reply, I'm not giving you an answer in any way. But when I first read your post....Well....you have got my attention!

It must mean something that your dreams are so clear. I often write my dreams down to remember them and see if I can find any logical connections and/or explanations. But it's not really working, because my dreams are so weird...I'm sure u know what I mean.
A dream like you write down...I've never had something like that. But I think it's very usefull to you if you write all you dreams down. Maybe you can find some logical connections between them.
I read that all the dreams you have, you'r looking for something but you don't know what right? I really don't know if it's the portal to the Astral, so you will have an OBE.
Something else I can advise you, is start meditation practise, it helps you to make your mind more clear and maybe you can get trougt that door during meditation

Well, I know I didn't realy help you, but I'm just really interested in your dreams so I just replyed...

[Zaphnat-Panea]

Well J,

that's a dream! I wish I could have such dreams and remember them...
Dreams are usually weird, at least when you manage to remember them in details. From what you wrote, and what you wrote about how you see your dream, and from the dream itself, it could certainly be that it is related to your search in quest of Spirituality/OBE. Then the folk in black in your dream are us, the other people on the forum. The two girls acompanying you could be (maybe) two persons in your life or even on this forum,... or (?) just a reminder from your deep self that female friends are also important and not only the quest of the OBE. Your apparent larger size is maybe how you see yourself, or it could be again a message telling you that your body matters not less than your "spirituality". Then you go in search of something that has been hidden, burried, but interestingly enough eventually it is just a door with "exit" on it...? The burried thing is probably the OBE itself for which we all reach for here on this forum. A red note in a drawer tells you where it is... Red is the color for blood, for love, for war, ... not sure what to tell you about that, but sure it means that this  little piece of paper is important and you knew where to find it...? This might represent the instruction on this forum on how to OBE for example, or again a message telling you that love (red) is important? and not only OBE. Next thing, a bunch of people who stopped and are watching a guy practicing Tai-Chi or what so ever... again that could be all of us in admiration of Bruce... And you just step there, without fear and respect, you just need to reach for the 'exit'. So, it seems that the message now became that you are not interested in the show, but rather you want to get out of it. Again maybe it means that your personnal interst deep in you is not OBE but more practical/physical matter, telling you to exit the forum. Then you fight the  guy there (as if you were a pro in kick-boxing; are you?), but then you get shot by two. That could represent the fact that you were not able to OBE. You tried to OBE, in the dream you fight that guy - your struggle to OBE. But after 2 months you failed, represented in the dream by 2 guys  shooting at you. NEst you die, that a good way to OBE, so you do it. Then the next scene is the same actually: the old person dressed in blue with a silver ball is again the spirituality/OBE you tried to reach, and this is best symbolized when that guy throws the silver ball, and the failure to OBE is represented here by the ball bouncing off the wall, thing that you did not expect. In your dream also you wanted to reach the exit and "did not have time for this" might mean that you are a bit too fast and not enough patient. Do not expect to OBE withing just two months. Anyhow, all that just a hint. Only you can decide what means what for your very own self.

[Blue Giant]

The key I find is not the actual destination you were going but the very thing that stopped you from going there. This man was trying to fight you and you played his game. Don't fight, just love. Perhaps, if you came up to him in your dream (i don't know if you were lucid or not) and gave him a hug what he would have done. Maybe the man represented a personality of yours. It controlled you rather than you controlling it. I fyou were lucid try to stop time or pause the man...like freezing him in mid air so that the fight would not break out. This way, you have control of the situation..where no one gets harmed.
Just my thoughts of course...

Rusty

[nthjbam]

Hi,

Ok so here is something that I have been experiencing since I have made a firm and concious decision to acheive astral projection.  I have been attempting to project for almost two months now to no avail.  Despite this, I have been experiencing dreams with far more clarity than normal, the content is no more specific to astral projection than any other dream I've had previously, but here is where it gets interesting.  I will relax and put myself into a mind awake, body asleep state, eventually I will fall asleep, with the intent to astrally project, instead I will wake up exactly 2 hours later.  I will remember my dreams with fierce clarity, I will be fully awake and fully refreshed as though I've slept for a solid 8 hours.  This segmented sleep of two hours lasted for about 2 weeks, I would wake up and try and get back to sleep someitmes I could but more often I was wide awake in the middle of the night with strange images in my mind.  Most of my dreams have to do with conflict of some sort, I am trying to get somewhere (which I think is the astral plane) but people keep trying to distract me.  People keep trying to take me off course.  Most recently I had a dream where I was myself, but I was larger and broader than normal, I was a bigger person, but still myself.  It seemed as though it may have been a time earlier than that in which we live.  I was in some planning room, with a bunch of other people, all were clad in black.  We were all searching for something, that apparently was buried somewhere, I wasn't told what this item or place/thing was, I just had an unstoppable desire to find 'it'.  Not so much desire as duty, I felt I had to.  I was focused on one thing at a time not like my normal state of thought.  I listened to the objective and then everyone rose from their respective tables in this tavern like setting and when I rose two women who were smaller than me rose and followed me, as though they were part of my squad or team.  As I was leaving the room I went up to a dresser and opened a drawer and removed a small segment of a faded red map.  This map showed me exactly where what i was looking for was located.  I left the room and headed out into the streets which were made of dirt, some covered by large wooden boards, there were all sorts of ramshackle structures which were everywhere ranging from large to small.  I started down the street towards where my map indicated.  I was almost there and I saw everyone from the room standing there as though they wouldn't cross a line, which was conveniently a railing, which could be easily jumped or walked around.  Past this there was a man who seemed to be performing he was moving all over an area as if entrancing all those who watched or simply was trying to distract them.  Past the area where the man was performing I could clearly see an exit, it was literally a door marked exit overhead.  I said to myself I don't have time for this, and pressed past the black clad throng of people.  The two women who were following one step behind me stopped at the railing and waited.  I went past and the performing man suddenly turned to glare at me and then came directly at me, I can't recall if he struck me or simply tried to derail my progress through shouting, but he was in my face.  I brushed him off as though he was inconsequntial, all that mattered was reaching this door so I could find the item, more importantly though, simply reaching this exit.  The performing man became instantly hostile and we started to fight.  It was an intense fight where I was clearly the stronger, who had more training and I traded blows with the man.  He only struck me a few times before I had knocked him senseless, I wasn't angry, I was devoid of emotion, I only knew that he was barring my way and he had to be dealt with.  I dodged many of his punches and ended up slamming him in the face a few times and bowled him over forwards when I proceded to lay him face down on the ground by force.  Suddenly as I had him incapacitated two men came from nowhere carrying some sort of non-lethal rifles, they shot me numerous times and I fell down and faded into blackness.  It seemed like they were paintball guns, that shot spheres but I felt nothing, I simply noted that i was being hailed with pellets and went to black.  The next thing I knew I was no longer in that body, but was invisible, without form and was floating near the ceiling, viewing these two men speaking to another in some sort of office.  They told the new man, "He has been incapacitated" I was suddenly drawn to an adjacent room, where an old thin man wearing a blue silk robe was sitting in a plush high backed chair, he proceeded to throw a fist sized silver ball underhanded towards the far wall.  Sailing through the air it seemed like the ball would stop where the wall met the floor, but it bounced off the wall and began moving in the opposite direction.  I immeadiately woke up in real life, looked at my clock and I had slept 4 hours exactly, all of this was clear in my mind, I spent some time trying to sort out what it all meant, but I haven't come to any conclusions, as to whether this has any real significance.  Was the exit the astral?  Who would try to stop me?  I'm unsure as to the whole thing.  Can anyone who has taken the time to read this please give me your take, or extoll some knowledge of the whole thing unto me.  Oh as well I am no longer sleeping in 2 hour blocks, they have become 4 hour blocks.  Answers?  Suggestions?  Please.

Be well,
J