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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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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Last night I went to bed late and didn’t set the intent to leave my body while I was falling asleep at the beginning of my night. I fell asleep around 12:30 AM shortly after my 3 year old daughter climbed into bed with us.

I woke up at 4;30 AM after having a dream that I was living in and owned the house in Tennessee that I grew up in as a child. I don’t understand at the moment why, but several people I work with were living there too. I went and used the restroom and came back to bed and fell asleep.

I woke up again at 6:30 AM and noticed that my arm had been in an awkward position and had waken me up due to poor circulation. I figured that I had enough sleep at this point and set the intent to have an OBE.

I settled into a position and became very still and ran the mantra “I am out of body now” though my head several times until I fell into sleep again. I remember repeating the mantra about 4 times and then found myself walking down an unfamiliar road headed towards my parents house that I had dreamed about and my mind still had recollection of my coworkers and of my previous dream earlier in the night.

While I was walking down the road my awareness was definitely in a dreamlike reactive state at first and then I simply walked into awareness. It’s hard to explain this but as I walked down that road everything around me transitioned into waking awareness and became not only clear in my mind but clear in my vision as well. I was seeing things around me with waking clarity and I could not tell if I was OBE or awake. I felt a familiar fear surge through my body as if I was in waking life suffering from some sort of amnesia.

I continued to walk for a few seconds and then my logical brain clicked into place and I knew I could test this reality by attempting to fly. I jumped up off the ground and then while in the air I focused on wanting to fly. I felt a magnetic like force take hold of me and then a movement upwards started off slow and increased in speed until I literally felt the g-forces on my body as I accelerated upwards. I flew up and past the top of the trees and then my awareness shifted again into a knowing that I was either dreaming or was out of my body.

Seconds after I realized I was not in waking life I found myself in bed and I was spinning and had a slight but almost unnoticable vibration or warmth flowing through my body. I tried to hold onto this and project back out but I eventually woke up.

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My wife came home early yesterday because of thunderstorms in the forecast to avoid the risk driving home in the rain. My plan last night was to lay down at 10 PM, wake up at 4 PM, read for 30 minutes and then use a timer to have some OBEs. The best part of this plan was that my family would be out of town and I would have no distractions, but that’s alright. I am glad to have them back home safe and sound and plus it’s probably better to practice in the environment that I will be in 99% of the time.

I got in bed at 10:15 PM and fell asleep listening to Brain Sync – Brain Massage. I woke up automatically at 4 AM and noticed that I had been sweating heavily and that my 3 year old daughter was in the bed with me and my Wife. I got up and used the restroom and then came back to bed but I was irritated because I had very little room in my bed. I tried to move my daughter over and my Wife woke up and took her to her own bed and stayed in there with her. I then put an earbud in the ear that was not on the pillow and loaded the saltcube rhythm napping timer ramp with a 4 minute base and laid back down waited for a sign.

I don’t remember any imagery, vibrations, sleep paralysis or anything that would indicate that I had transitioned to an out of body state. What got my attention was that I found myself being extra paranoid and I kept sitting up in bed and looking down the hall to see if someone was coming to stab me. This went on for what seemed like 30 minutes and I couldn’t shake it. Finally the alarm clock on the nightstand next to me started going off (which must have been the sleep timer). I was trying to turn it off when I noticed that there was a lamp and that water was running down the inside of the lamp shade and splashing on the nightstand. It then dawned on me that a) I don’t have a lamp on the nightstand and b) I was not in waking life anymore.

I instantly sat up in bed and noticed that I was out of my body and apparently had been for a while. I collected my senses and asked for clarity and awareness and things around me got very sharp and detailed. I walked slowly out of the room, down the hall, down the stairs and out into the living room. Everything seemed to be in place so I walked outside to what should have been the back patio on the North side of our house.

When I got outside I noticed that I was not in my backyard. There was a small hill in front of me that lead up to a road that was running parallel to the north side of the house. There were pine trees scattered on both sides of the road and across the street was an old ranch style house that seemed to be like half house and half shop of some sort.

I walked up the hill and out into the street and I was amazed at how crystal clear my vision was. I found myself staring at the bark on the pine trees as I passed by them as I walked down the road. This is hard to explain but I was having to be careful not to stare too long at the bark because I felt like I would actually become the bark.

While walking down the road I remembered what I had come to do and that was to validate for someone. This is when things got strange. This woman who appeared to be in her late 20s came walking out of the house across the street and straight up told me that she wanted to have sex with me. I remember being very tempted and surprised at the same time. How could she be so bold?

I told her that I couldn’t and that I had to go. I continued walking down the road and I stopped and looked around. I remember thinking about how amazing it was that I was out of my body and seeing things with such clarity. I did some sanity checks while standing there. I was asking myself things like “I live at blah location in real life and my name is David Mathis”. I was happy at this point and I knew that my waking awareness was present. I then started asking and almost demanding that I travel to the location of the person that I was trying to validate for. When I did this the imagery I was seeing just faded away and I was laying awake in my bed.

I have learned a couple of things here. It seems that every time that I attempt to travel to a specific person I always fail. Maybe I am not experienced enough yet? I have also learned that the timer method is highly effective.

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