Post by drredpill on Apr 20, 2006 14:37:31 GMT 10
I'm not the best at introductions so I'll just paste in a post I left on Trans. It is One example of One Lucid dream I had that brought me into an OBE.
The year was 1992 and I was 22 at the time. Although I’d been having lucid dreams for several years, I didn’t know the term and wasn’t aware that other people had them as well. I certainly didn’t know what an out of body experience was. I went to sleep one night and started having a normal dream. In my dream I was taking a correspondence course in meteorology. I was in my bedroom lying in bed with a textbook open and was following a videotape that came with the course. In the video Michel J. Fox was demonstrating how to present a weather forecast using a ‘blue screen’ style weather map. There was a major cold front approaching the eastern seaboard of the United States. Michel was saying … “this cold front is gonna’ swoooop through” he paused and continued with the lesson “now you have to make a gesture showing the movement of the storm – it’s gonna’ swoooop through….” As he made the swooping gesture the second time I fell asleep (in my dream).
At this point I found myself in a lush forest someplace far away (Asia perhaps) floating above the right shoulder of a man. The man was in a torrential downpour and was wearing dark green rain garments such as the type police or military personnel use. He was very high in a tree stand near a tall but narrow dam made of bamboo that crossed a deep ravine. The dam was overflowing with water and about to break. There was a simple flood gate mechanism – a wooden lever in the tree stand was attached to a length of twine threaded through a series of pulleys leading to the gate in the center of the dam. The twine however, was broken. The man was futilely attempting to reach out to the floodgate using a long bamboo pole to get it open. I got the distinct impression that if he didn’t succeed, his village downstream would be washed away if and when the dam finally gave way. Feeling the mans desperation I decided to take action. I leapt into his body and took over. As him, I jumped off the platform and swung the bamboo pole toward the flood gate. Once inside the man’s body however, the laws of physics took over. I missed completely and man fell to his death.
I woke up and began thinking about the unusual dream I just had. As I sat up in bed I moved my (still open) textbook off my lap and in doing so realized that I was still dreaming. The meteorology text book was part of my original dream. Once realizing that I had just woken up inside a dream I was excited – eager to go fly around my neighborhood or perhaps fly into space and take a couple laps around the Earth. But just as I got ready to shoot up through my ceiling I fell back into bed. I was completely paralyzed. I tried moving for a while, but couldn’t. I finally gave up trying, closed my eyes, and soon woke up once again. I immediately sat up and looked around for the book. It wasn’t there. I was just about to get up and go downstairs when I realized that my blinds where open (I never sleep with my blinds open). Again I fell back in bed paralyzed. When I woke up again (now for the third time) the book was gone and the blinds were closed, but the stereo was on (I never sleep with the stereo on). Once again I fell back into bed paralyzed. At this point I was getting very frustrated – this time I was going to get up.
I thrust myself upward with all my strength and willpower. I was shocked to realize that I had just ripped my arms out of my body. I was aware somehow that my physical arms where still at my sides, but my spirit arms (for lack of a better word) where bent at the elbow and pointing strait up toward the ceiling. At the point where my spirit arms and my physical arms met (at the elbow) there was a powerful energy similar to electricity. It was very painful. My chest to was lifted from my body and was also surrounded by the painful energy. As I began to float upward I could make out the contours of my body because I could feel myself passing through my own body heat. My head was the last to separate. It is nearly impossible to describe the sensation except to say that it was a disgusting feeling when my head finally jerked out of my skull. I was being buffeted violently by the energy field that I was now on top of. I was still rising, and soon could no longer feel the energy field below me. This is when I began to get scared – very, very scared. I didn’t know if my body was still alive and I didn’t know who I might be about to meet. This is when I decided I’d had quite enough. I clinched my fists and willed myself back into my body for all I was worth.
There was no mistaking the fact that I was really awake in real life this time. My body weighed a ton and I could barely even breathe. A few weeks later I was telling a friend about my experiences and he lent me one of his Time-Life books on the subject. It had an essay written by Monroe. Monroe’s experiences seemed to match mine nearly exactly and I then knew what had happened to me. Since then I’ve had many lucid dreams and out of body experiences, but never quite as painful or scary. Recently I’ve decided to start training myself in some of the techniques available as, although they happen often, I usually wake up after only a minute or so.
Well I guess I’ll leave it at that for now and will save some of the more spiritual experiences for another time.
The year was 1992 and I was 22 at the time. Although I’d been having lucid dreams for several years, I didn’t know the term and wasn’t aware that other people had them as well. I certainly didn’t know what an out of body experience was. I went to sleep one night and started having a normal dream. In my dream I was taking a correspondence course in meteorology. I was in my bedroom lying in bed with a textbook open and was following a videotape that came with the course. In the video Michel J. Fox was demonstrating how to present a weather forecast using a ‘blue screen’ style weather map. There was a major cold front approaching the eastern seaboard of the United States. Michel was saying … “this cold front is gonna’ swoooop through” he paused and continued with the lesson “now you have to make a gesture showing the movement of the storm – it’s gonna’ swoooop through….” As he made the swooping gesture the second time I fell asleep (in my dream).
At this point I found myself in a lush forest someplace far away (Asia perhaps) floating above the right shoulder of a man. The man was in a torrential downpour and was wearing dark green rain garments such as the type police or military personnel use. He was very high in a tree stand near a tall but narrow dam made of bamboo that crossed a deep ravine. The dam was overflowing with water and about to break. There was a simple flood gate mechanism – a wooden lever in the tree stand was attached to a length of twine threaded through a series of pulleys leading to the gate in the center of the dam. The twine however, was broken. The man was futilely attempting to reach out to the floodgate using a long bamboo pole to get it open. I got the distinct impression that if he didn’t succeed, his village downstream would be washed away if and when the dam finally gave way. Feeling the mans desperation I decided to take action. I leapt into his body and took over. As him, I jumped off the platform and swung the bamboo pole toward the flood gate. Once inside the man’s body however, the laws of physics took over. I missed completely and man fell to his death.
I woke up and began thinking about the unusual dream I just had. As I sat up in bed I moved my (still open) textbook off my lap and in doing so realized that I was still dreaming. The meteorology text book was part of my original dream. Once realizing that I had just woken up inside a dream I was excited – eager to go fly around my neighborhood or perhaps fly into space and take a couple laps around the Earth. But just as I got ready to shoot up through my ceiling I fell back into bed. I was completely paralyzed. I tried moving for a while, but couldn’t. I finally gave up trying, closed my eyes, and soon woke up once again. I immediately sat up and looked around for the book. It wasn’t there. I was just about to get up and go downstairs when I realized that my blinds where open (I never sleep with my blinds open). Again I fell back in bed paralyzed. When I woke up again (now for the third time) the book was gone and the blinds were closed, but the stereo was on (I never sleep with the stereo on). Once again I fell back into bed paralyzed. At this point I was getting very frustrated – this time I was going to get up.
I thrust myself upward with all my strength and willpower. I was shocked to realize that I had just ripped my arms out of my body. I was aware somehow that my physical arms where still at my sides, but my spirit arms (for lack of a better word) where bent at the elbow and pointing strait up toward the ceiling. At the point where my spirit arms and my physical arms met (at the elbow) there was a powerful energy similar to electricity. It was very painful. My chest to was lifted from my body and was also surrounded by the painful energy. As I began to float upward I could make out the contours of my body because I could feel myself passing through my own body heat. My head was the last to separate. It is nearly impossible to describe the sensation except to say that it was a disgusting feeling when my head finally jerked out of my skull. I was being buffeted violently by the energy field that I was now on top of. I was still rising, and soon could no longer feel the energy field below me. This is when I began to get scared – very, very scared. I didn’t know if my body was still alive and I didn’t know who I might be about to meet. This is when I decided I’d had quite enough. I clinched my fists and willed myself back into my body for all I was worth.
There was no mistaking the fact that I was really awake in real life this time. My body weighed a ton and I could barely even breathe. A few weeks later I was telling a friend about my experiences and he lent me one of his Time-Life books on the subject. It had an essay written by Monroe. Monroe’s experiences seemed to match mine nearly exactly and I then knew what had happened to me. Since then I’ve had many lucid dreams and out of body experiences, but never quite as painful or scary. Recently I’ve decided to start training myself in some of the techniques available as, although they happen often, I usually wake up after only a minute or so.
Well I guess I’ll leave it at that for now and will save some of the more spiritual experiences for another time.