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’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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It’s approaching the beginning of September and it’s time for my bi-monthly progress report on lucid dreaming and astral projection attempts. I have not had any new experiences lately but there is a new lucid dreaming approach that I would like to try. It’s something I thought of today at “Mighty Fine Burgers” here is Austin while I was consuming a years worth of bad cow karma.

I have noticed there are two things common in dreams. Some dreams reoccur regularly and that things I think about mostly during the day (especially with high emotion) show up in my dreams. Taking these two things into consideration I think I may have found an easy gateway into lucidity which usually transitions into astral projection.

I am going to start writing down these reoccurring dreams and then begin to think about them several times throughout each day. While thinking about them I am going to imagine that I am becoming lucid in the dreams. In addition to just thinking about or conceptualizing becoming lucid I am going to try to actually experience it as if it is happening in my mind. I think that by doing this the reoccurring dream will merge with my waking thoughts of lucidity and I will become lucid within my dream. Once this happens I will will myself out of body and I should find myself lying in bed in the vibrational state.

Regarding “Mighty Fine Burgers”, they are not mighty fine and will probably cause you to die prematurely of a massive coronary if you eat them all the time.

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