First of all, I just want to say ‘hey’ to everyone, I haven’t been to these forums in FOREVER. But that doesn’t mean I’m not still into my dreams and stuff, I’ve just been incredibly busy. I don’t even know if anyone remembers me lol.
At any rate, I’m in the process of reading this book right now entitled “Adventures Beyond the Body, How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel” written by William Buhlman.
It’s a fantastic book, and I just can’t seem to put it down. I definitely recommend it to anyone interested in this sort of thing.
At any rate, the first night I read it, I read about 100 pages of it, and I became very tired, put the book down, and decided to try this dude’s affirmations to go to sleep.
So I laid down and started saying to myself “Now I’m out of body” over and over again like he said to do in the book.
Well of course I just passed right out and fell asleep as I don’t seem to have much luck with even lucid dreaming, but I fell into this dream of myself trying to go to sleep and saying the same thing.
And in my dream I rolled out of my body and stood next to my dream self, thinking that I was totally awake and actually out of my body.
So I was like “AWESOME! I DID IT!” and I said the commands that the guy says in the book, because my vision was not clear. So I said “clarity now!” and everything was clear.
Then I decided to try to fly like he did in his book, and I was like “fly!” and I took off, and I was flying straight forward for a while, and decided I wanted to go faster. So I said “faster!” but instead of flying forward faster, I just began going straight up into the sky, like I was being pulled from my back up into the stars.
I began to leave the Earth’s atmosphere in my dream, and I could see space and the stars and stuff, and I got absolutely terrified, and started screaming “BACK INTO MY BODY!!! GO BACK INTO MY BODY!!!” and immediately fell back into my dream body, right where I had left it.
Then I realized that that was REALLY awesome lol, and I decided to do it again! So I closed my eyes, and rolled back out of my body and onto the floor (in my dream still), and I flew again.
Only this time my father saw me do it and he was like “wtf are you doing?! Get back in your body!!!”
And this time there was some type of like… almost like an umbilical cord attached to me from my dream body, and he grabbed the cord and pulled me really hard and I flew out of the sky and back into my dream body.
Then I woke up.
It was a REALLY cool dream, and I’ve had dreams that were sort of like that before when I had made great efforts at lucid dreaming, where I would dream that I was standing over myself watching my dream body sleeping, and I would be aware that I was dreaming. I would say 99% of the times that I have had lucid dreams, that has happened.
This time however, I had no idea that I was standing outside of my dream body. It’s like whenever that type of stuff happens, the dream me I see sleeping I always think is the real me lol. I don’t know what the deal is with that.
I’d like to get some opinions on this or if anyone else has ever had this happen to them before, because I’m not quite sure what to think of it. I know I couldn’t have really been out of body, because it was all contained within the dream, but it also wasn’t really a lucid dream because I didn’t realize I was dreaming. It also wasn’t a true dream either though, because I was aware of what I was doing. Like giving myself commands, and things like that.
So what do you all make of this?