The Malleable Light

I woke up early this morning at 4 AM and per the lucidology videos and for the first time ever I had enough clarity to consciously wake up and keep perfectly still. Nicholas Newport claims that if a person is able to wake up without moving then they should be able to slip right back into sleep, the trance state or an OBE. Before I woke I had been dreaming that I was back in my childhood bedroom that I had shared with my two brothers growing up. In the dream they are both sleeping in the same bed across from me and but they were grown and for some reason were annoying the crap out of me.

I laid in the bed across from them in the dream trying to fall asleep “while already sleeping” and suddenly I woke up. Perhaps it was the fact that I was dreaming of falling asleep that prevented me from moving when I woke, but I made a conscious decision not to move for the sole purpose of attempting an OBE.

I recall laying in my real bed thinking mostly about staying perfectly still and then 5 seconds later the vibrations hit and I found myself in sleep paralysis. Almost instantly I was back in my dream, however I was now lucid and I knew what was going on. Strangely enough, at the same time I was seeing my current bedroom too. I was not flipping back an forth between dream state and waking consciousness, It seems that I was actually thinking in duality between my dreaming consciousness and my expanded ethereal consciousness.

A few seconds later I noticed in my dream state that the bed sheets where not completely coving my back which caused me to feel unprotected and fear set in. My consciousness then shifted to my dream state and I remember being in paralysis trying to break free by swinging my arms back and forth over my chest. My consciousness suddenly shifted back to my ethereal body and my dream body at the same time and I could see my dream arms sitting still while another set of arms were moving back and forth across my chest passing through my dream arms. I think that the moving arms were perhaps my real time double’s arms.

I never woke up but instead the vibrations stopped and I went straight back into the dream and lost real time consciousness. The fear of not being covered up in the dream caused an abrupt end to the experience. It seems to me that I was conscious on 3 different levels during the experience. I was seeing my dream, my real room and my real time arms moving pretty much all at the same time. I think that if I could have continued the experience and kept the fear at bay, my real time body, including the arms that were moving, would have exited and I may or may not have remembered the OBE. Perhaps the strong fear emotion was the reason I remembered any of it. This also suggest that when I woke up, any projected doubles must have been reeled in at that moment.

You can read more about dual consciousness “mind split” by reading Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce.

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This experience was, for me, another little taste of an OBE experience. As per my first experience, I awoke during a lucid dream and sought to convert this into an OBE. The separation plan… sit up in my astral body directly from the lucid dream as this was successful at the last attempt.

This experience differed from the last one as it was much more vague and many of the memories of the dream and the OBE experience were forgotten as I must have fell back to sleep while still out of body.

Rather than going back to my body shortly after the projection (as Robert Bruce suggests in Astral Dynamics and) which happened to me in my first conscious OBE, I possibly followed my original waking intention (should I have another OBE) which was to do some exploring beyond my bedroom. I believe I probably spent too long “out” and forgot how important it is to download the memories in order to have “success”.

What I do remember is:
1) Waking in my dream thereby converting it to a lucid dream
2) The experience of blackness behind my eyelids as I prepared to project.
3) Standing in my bedroom and being out of body and remembering how I got there & some of the “felt” experiences which preceded me in getting to where I was (though I haven’t yet remembered the exit itself) – the first thing I remember is feeling the floor underneath me – last time I was extremely conscious during the exit phase and remembered a lot of the separation experience, which (to me) was possibly the most profound part.
4) I remember telling myself that was out of body (OOB) and am not awake as last time the experience was so real and my consciousness so similar to my waking state I thought I was in fact awake. This time I convinced myself that I was “out”… though typing this I also remember testing reality after this by trying to push my hand through the bedroom closet sliding door.. I remember feeling it hard beneath my fingers and thought that this was odd as I thought I should be able to push my hand through the door – I don’t remember the outcome of any further tests as everything beyond this point is currently forgotten.

This experience is a good sign that I can currently convert lucid dreams into an out of body experience using this method as I’m now 2/2 from my last 2 lucid dreams.

The other thing that probably made this experience different than the other experience is that the previous experience happened after sunrise and I was ready to awaken. Last night the experience happened (at a guess) between 1-3am and I believe I fell back to sleep.

In order to collect full memories of future experiences I should keep the explorations fairly short in order to successfully “download” my memories of the experience. It may also be useful to release expectations about how the experience will proceed as I did have some preconception about how I would feel during the separation phase which may have had some impact on the experience.

Cheers,

Dean

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I have not seen any lucid dreams or out of body experiences to speak of but I have missed a few signals in my dreams that I believe was my consciousness trying to bring me into lucidity.

Last night there were two missed signals, both of which were very obvious and should have snapped me into lucidity. The first signal was that my daughter had cancer in my dream and my wife told me that she was diagnosed months ago and forgot to tell me. It’s pretty obvious while sitting here typing this that my wife would not forget to tell me my if my daughter had cancer. The other signal was that I was standing in my childhood house looking out the back window watching it snow outside. I remember thinking in the dream that it was odd because it’s been 106 degrees for months in Texas. I should have realized I was dreaming when my own thoughts made reference to the impossibility of snow at this time of year and then the fact that I don’t live anywhere near my childhood home and haven’t for years should have been a clue.

The missed signals really do give me hope. I know that my consciousness is trying to awake however my lack of progress in lucid dreaming and out of body experiences can be directly contributed to too much work and programming distractions lately. I will continue to add video content to this blog, read metaphysical material and question my reality at all times and hopefully I will start seeing some changes.

David Mathis Dreams, Progress Dreams, Progress

I just wanted to mention this.. as it’s interesting!

Firstly.. a bit of background. I’m a bit of a DJ, bedroom mainly but can play the odd party. I play breakbeat and I’ve got myself my own sound> It’s a leftover from my past lifestyle.. but I still dig a good breakbeat tune..(not too heavy though as some get way too dark and heavy for me)

Anyway there is a music store here in my little town that still sells vinyl.. i play vinyl.. there’s not many around anymore.. even in the cities.. i could travel 2hrs to the closest capital and they’d be flat having a larger vinyl stand than these guys.. I’m well known in the store and probably one of their more consistent customers..

So.. this morning I woke from a dream where the main fellow that owns the record shop is in the shop but it’s a much bigger shop.. it’s still located where it is in reality but the shop has extended into some of the other shops beside it and there is a huge “storage” type room off to the west side of the building.. The shop is painted differently than in reality. It has two shades of colour on the walls.. the top two 3rds is a shade of darker green & the bottom 3rd a dark blue colour..

The only people in the room are David (a co-owner) and myself.. There are no CD’s etc in the main room.. in the other “storage” room I see vinyl records sitting on the floor..

Eventually I transition into my awake state and while lying in bed remembering this I feel worried that maybe they are going out of business or struggling financially and that they need to change the room around to attract new customers etc..

Well.. I was in town today and I was so close to the vinyl store I decided to pop in.. partly to see what’s happening because of my dream and partly to see if they had received in any vinyl I had ordered lately..

After G’days and greeting each other.. I said to both Deb (the other co-owner) and Dave who were both there.. I had a dream this morning about this place.. “I dreamt that you were changing the place around”..

Deb (who was partly busy doing something else) flung her head around and asked “why? what did you hear? who told you?” in quick succession.

I said “noone i dreamt it”…

Then she told me a story.. they are looking at moving the business up the same street a little into a much bigger space that has become vacant.. There’s even an upstairs there which they are going to dedicate to vinyl..

I even explained to her about the colours I saw and she said a friend of hers that had inspected the empty space with her had thought of doing a 1/3rd-2/3rd colour split but they we thinking green and yellow…

Deb’s only seen inside this space once and they’ve just today had someone inspect it for them.. So who knows yet… it’s pretty early..

I figure somehow I was attracted to some kind of Astral Thought Bubble that Deb & Dave are creating and I’ve now begun to interact with..

It just seems so cool to me that this sort of thing is going on in the astral, mostly without our knowing..

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I’ve just woken from this so it’s an exciting start to the day to say the least..

I was dreaming.. it was a lengthy, vivid colourful dream one NEARLY worth telling.. eventually it progresses and I notice the scene in the dream has changed.. It’s still vivid and colourful and because it has been so vivid I wonder how I got to this scene.. Plus I’m naked and no one else is.. I’m sort of sitting/lying on the grass in this scene.. a quick question to myself suggests this is a bit weird and likely a dream! Here I become lucid… My Mrs is sitting beside me on the grass.. I’m super excited by this point.. I pat her on the back a few times with love and excitement and shout a feeling like “Yes! OBE?”

The plan was clear.. just sit up in bed! As the scene moved from the dream to the back of my eyelids I felt quick but most pleasant quite unusual vibrations (different than i’d ever felt doing vipassana) throughout my body.. AND i simply sat up…

I could see a little in the bedroom but it didn’t last long.. I then found myself in my body again and tried to sit up again… I felt the vibrations again but this experience also didn’t last long.. I remember something happening on this exit but after waking I couldn’t remember this exit aside from the actual exit sensations and then sitting up… I then found myself in my body (again with vibrations) but now i had difficulty sitting straight up.. I moved around a bit in an attempt to get out and at one stage had no idea of my orientation with regard to my physical body. I was completely confused…

I remembered one of the Lucidology videos and decided the way I was facing was possibly the same as my physical body so I decided to switch ends and hopefully have my astral feet up the end of my physical bodies head (Phew !).. Anyway this felt more loose and I found that a bit of rolling loosened me up and I simply rolled out onto the floor.. I could feel the floor underneath me.. I then crawled as I couldn’t stand and crawled to the end of the bed..

At the end of the bed I felt lighter and stood up and at the same time as I was just about to look for my physical body in bed I was so excited that I screamed my partners name with excitement saying “look i’m out”… My two children were there and came running up to me (though my youngest is only 5months and sort of floated/ran to me).. I heard them giggling and laughing and obviously happy with their Dads transition to this state.. but then I noticed my physical body wasn’t asleep in bed and the sheets on my side of the bed were even pulled back I thought I was actually awake and the rolling onto the floor and everything else after that was experienced in my physical body..

At this point my attention wavered and I slipped out of consciousness… A very short time later I then noticed I was still lying in bed.. damn! I tricked myself! I could feel vibrations again and started to remember the experience and got so excited about remembering and writing it down that I couldn’t exit again as I was becoming too awake!

Two interesting things:
1. I believe this was my first OBE as exit sensations were present and I feel like I had the same/similar consciousness in the short OBE as I do while awake although I was definitely not in the RTZ (Real Time Zone)
2. Interesting how I/we devalue the waking state enough to be happy to loose and at times consciously aim to loose consciousness in it – Thinking I was awake in physical and devaluing the awake state is why I lost consciousness in this OBE experience.

Thanks,
Dean

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Perhaps it’s a change in weather but I have been having headaches over the past few days. To combat the headaches I have been going to bed earlier and falling asleep while listening to “Brain Sync – Sound Healing”. This track as well as many other Brain Sync tracks use binaural beats and literally wipe headaches out in minutes. In addition to helping with headaches I have noticed some strange phenomena on the edge or wakefulness and sleep.

Sunday night while falling asleep two farmers faded into my mind’s eye and then faded out quickly within a few seconds. Monday night I noticed that right as I was falling asleep I started hearing 100s of voices for a few seconds. The odd part about both was that the images and the audio seemed to be linked to the brain sync track I was listening to. I say this because as they both faded out and my waking conscious returned, the images and audio seemed to morph into the track I was listening to. It’s hard to explain how an image transitions into audio, but it did, and it made perfect sense.

I am not sure what this means but it’s a trip and I am glad I that I experienced it.  It would be interesting to hear if others have had similar experiences.

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