yet another confusing OBE dream

[lee46]

Hi everyone! I've posted a couple of similar experiences before and this is what happened this morning, which I consider it could be my first OBE, but I'm still confused:

I woke up this morning at 7:15 and decided to sleep a little bit more until 8, so I set my alarm again and went back to sleep, I thought it could be a good time for practice so I tried the "Mind awake, body asleep" but then lost consciousness, after a little while I came back to consciousness and felt the so called "vibrations" at first like my head was shacking so I tried to get out of my body (feeling kind of a magnetism), moving trying to get up, at some point I thought I was moving my physical body and that it wasn't worth it, but I kept trying until suddenly I hit the floor, the first thing that came to my mind was "great, now you ended up physically on the floor".

My surprise was that when I looked back I was still in bed I tried to get a little bit closer to see it better because muy sight was blurry, but then felt the magnetism again and this time stronger so I craweld on the floor to get away from it until I reached the door to get out, I tried saying "clarity now" and didn't work, so I just went through the door and willed myself to my house, once I got into the house I tried once again "clarity now" this time it worked, I got a kind of sight that I can't really explain, everything was shiny the walls looked different, but very beautiful, then I thought/imagined as if I was just floating in a lying down possition and it happened.

After looking at the differences in my house, I willed myself to go to my parents room, but the hallway was full of red roses (this is when I started to get confused) there were red roses everywhere on the table, hanging from the windows, pretty weird, when I finally got to the room, I looked at the bed and it was empty so I kept going to the dressing room and saw my dad there (at that time in the morning he is supposed to be still in bed) but I didn't care about it, I just said hi, and stood infront of a mirror, I knew I had just a little bit of time left and was I was about to jump into the mirror when I heard something, I knew it was the alarm so I opened my eyes, I was back in bed.

I don't know why I'm still confused, maybe I wasn't at the best point of consciousness, maybe it was just something I dreamed again, but if this was really an OBE then I was in the RTZ kind of mixed with the astral because of the differences I noticed (the hallway full of roses for example)

Well just wanted to share this new experience, I hope not to get anymore of the "confusing" ones.

Greetings to all,

Lili

[Tiny]

Dear lee46,

thank you for sharing.


I'll have to say that I find it very curious how fast the memory of an OBE fades until at some point, there is no way of telling whether the experience was of etheric/RTZ or simply dream nature and the only way of knowing for sure is by relying on one's journal entry that is best made within the first 10 minutes after an experience.


peace

[personalreality]

I'll second that.  Don't let yourself fall asleep after the OBE either.  I lost 3 OBEs this past week because I was sleep deprived and I fell asleep right after the OBE. 

There is a different quality of experience in an OBE as compared to a dream, even a lucid one.  Don't think that OBEs are always crystal clear and logical in any kind of way.  You may feel really aware and clear in the OBE but as soon as you come back it starts to become foggier and foggier.  It's just like dream memory.  I mean real memories are similar as well.  It's hard to regain the feeling of tangibility of a memory when you're experiencing a physical reality at the same moment (which is almost always unless you're hypnotized or something). 

It sounds like an OBE to me though.  It sounds like you had volition and intent.  Like you meant to do what you did.  It could have been a lucid dream of an OBE, but only you  can know for sure.

[lee46]

Thanks a lot for your resplies, they're really helpful to me 

I'll have to say that I find it very curious how fast the memory of an OBE fades until at some point, there is no way of telling whether the experience was of etheric/RTZ or simply dream nature and the only way of knowing for sure is by relying on one's journal entry that is best made within the first 10 minutes after an experience.

Yeah I missed the part of writting everything down as soon as I woke up and I know I forgot some other details when I posted this.

There is a different quality of experience in an OBE as compared to a dream, even a lucid one.  Don't think that OBEs are always crystal clear and logical in any kind of way.  You may feel really aware and clear in the OBE but as soon as you come back it starts to become foggier and foggier.  It's just like dream memory.  I mean real memories are similar as well.  It's hard to regain the feeling of tangibility of a memory when you're experiencing a physical reality at the same moment (which is almost always unless you're hypnotized or something).

I did notice there was, in some way, a different feeling than when I'm having a normal dream, I don't get many LDs usually so I guess that's why I got all confused.

As I've read, once you do it, the next ones aren't as hard, so I'm going to keep trying these days, if that was really an OBE I should be able to do it again.

[kurtykurt42]

Writing stuff down takes forever. I astral projected to a Monastery and talked with a monk for about 10 minutes. I'm still in the process of typing everything the guy told me... But I guess it's worth it.