Crumpet's post prompted me to go ahead and post something I've wanted to talk about for some time now.
Has anyone here had Lucid dreams or OoBEs? I've started focusing on remembering my dreams and keeping a dream journal for about 6 months now and have had some groovy experinces.
I think LDs and Oobes are related but in an LD you become aware that you're dreaming and can gain varying levels of awareness and are able to completely control your environment. Oobes are the same but you actually feel yourself seperate from your body. The last full blown Oobe I had was in Dec but it was awesome.
The really cool thing is that you feel completely awake, aware, and conscious, you cant tell you are really asleep, except by the fact that you can do anything you want. I've had some LDs that I thought I woke up and was getting the coffee ready only to wake up and realize it was a dream. It was that real. Here is an excerpt from my dream journal.
I went to bed? and started my meditation exercises but I was too tired and started falling asleep. So I roused myself, flipped over on my belly and went to sleep. But before going to sleep I told myself, ?at 1am I am going to realize I?m asleep but only my brain is going to wake up.?
Well I become aware of being awake but everything is pitch black? my room is well lit from the street.. never pitch black. So I said, and yes these were the words ?Hmmp well, you know what, this is it, I think I?m asleep. I?m gonna try it.? I started imagining that I was floating up, I felt myself start to move upward, as soon as my "eyes" cleared the back of my head I could see, before you know it im standing at the foot of my bed looking at my sprawled out body. I walked around the house and my wife was doing the same. I touched her on the face and she only partly seemed to feel it. So then I decide ?well I always said if I get out im going to a place on the river where I grew up? So I did. And the details of it all. When I first got there my eyes were closed but something hit my nose. My eyes open an a cow was walking by. Her tail hit me in the nose. So anyhooo next I decided to go for a swim and try the whole breathing under water? works. Then I found myself slipping so I tried spinning, which brought me back to my house but in the attic. From there somehow I could see all the houses on the block.. oh ya and I was wet too from the swim. My fingers were even starting to shrivel from the water. It was getting daylight.. even though it?s the middle of the night here. Then I just woke up and pondered what just happen? yes it seemed like it all really just happened..
Now heres the thing? I looked over at the clock and it was 1:09 and it seemed like I was out for about 10 mins.
Anyone else have these types of experiences?