thebigm

This story is going to be a little disjointed I fear, as the dream and following states I was in are a little disjointed. I am posting this for anyone who has had a similar experience to discuss or to give advice, towards the end I've asked a couple of questions. It's important to note that this is my first out of body experience and was different to lucid dreams which I have a bit of experience with.

Also want to mention that I am still unsure where I stand on my belief of Astral Projection as I have as yet to find anything concrete in the Lucid Dream or other states that prove to me when awake that I had moved into a different reality space. However I will keep going with it.

This morning I had a lucid dream about 6am that I woke from, very simple lucid dream, I was on a soccer field alone and realised I was dreaming so I kicked the ball and mentally directed it into the top right hand corner of the goal. A friend arrived and distracted me and I lost lucidity (thanks for that Steve).

A short while after I woke up and could feel the vibrations, which anyone familiar with sleep paralysis will be aware of, sometimes they scare me, other times they don't, which means I am getting better as they used to all scare the hell out of me.

Having read Robert Monroe's 'Journey's out of the body' I decided to try and 'roll out'. I was able to move my 'astral' arms and reach over and touch the floor initially. After a while I was able to fully roll out and was in a 'press up position' on the floor. All the time knowing that my body was up on the bed. I concentrated and floated up to the ceiling, then I felt anxious and automatically moved back into my body. It felt similar to when you get a fright in a dream and are shot back into your body, except in slow motion, I calmly floated back into my body.

Now the trouble was, throughout this whole experience, I could not see anything. The floor and ceiling were where I perceieved them to be, but whenever I tried to open what I will call my 'astral eyes', my eyes started to open on my physical body, like it was waking my body up.

Question 1: Has anyone experienced such a thing and if so, how did you get around this? Any tips on how can I open my eyes and see what's around me when in this state?

Finally, now I am not sure if this occured before or after I managed to 'roll out' of my body', but I felt a presence, 2 or 3 other beings in the room that seemed to be involved in the vibration process I think and it felt like they were trying to assist me in getting out of my body. There was a being I perceived as female, dark hair wearing a gray and black striped top, that is all I recall, no facial features just her presence. A short time after they had appeared to have left, a I started to get a little scared during the vibrations and asked for her to return, which she did, and she said to me in what seemed a rather jocular tone, "I do this about 30 times a week!".

Now it did seem in good spirit and like she has something to do with my being in these other states, assuming when I am asleep and unaware what is going on, seeing as lucid dreaming accounts for about 0.001% of my total dreaming life.

Not much recall from last night.

I was in what was supposedly Thailand, with people I perceived as friends who in real life I don't know.

I was paranoid that they were going to plant drugs on me, which when I went to the toilet and came back I found out they did. They were acting suspicious around my travel bean bag neck support and when they left I opened it to find a large bag of cocaine.

I was worried, I didn't want to go to the police because I didn't trust them and couldn't prove they had planted it, I called my mum and decided to just leave, leave the hotel, buy a new suitcase (incase they had planted stuff elsewhere) and get out of there.

At other points in this dream, before or after, I was back home and faced with the decision of giving up life overseas to return home and be a director at a football club. I watched my team play before I was due to leave and hadn't decided on what I was doing as I had to consult my partner in Australia. A large part of it was spent in what would be the board room, but it was like a large room with table sand chairs and a glass window wall to watch the game.

Not much recall from last night.....

Recall playing poker around a table in a place that I percieved to be home, the other players certainly were from home, but we were playing with small chips instead of playing cards, the chips had the suit and number on them. I had A, 6 and A, 7 was in the flop, lost the game to my mum who had a full house. After the game she started to get upset that me living overseas was going to fracture the relationship with her and my family. At some point we looked at a giant photograph of my sister's presentation for something in which some people had ruined by pulling someone's skirt.

After that I was walking with my cousin who advised he was off to buy some drugs, at which point I disappeared to a house where there were a lot of small spiders.

Dream changes to me playing tennis, having a hit with my dad but also concerned at the same time that I have tennis elbow so can't play at full strength. We're hitting up and playing doubles. For some reason after that my dad is playing in the US Open and manages to get to the doubles quarter finals, his partner has to pull out so he asks me to play. I am not keen but play as he has no other option. We are practicing by hitting up against our opponents, 2 men at this time. Then the scene changes and we are up against a Bulgarian man and American woman who I perceived at the time to be famous but she wasn't. We were on the 2nd court but the crowd gathered as time went on. We won the toss and my dad opted to serve, which we lost and then the woman on their team served and held, she could hit the ball really hard. Although it was a hard court, at times there were clumps of cut grass the ball would hit and stop dead so I couldn't get to any shot to make it. When I went to serve I was nervous with the crowd now, the stadium was almost full. For some reason I was going to start serving with a baseball bat then decided to use my racket. At that point we seemed to lose the game. Although we only played 3 games. Afterwards I went and sat on the grass with quite a few family members. My half brother was there and his baby sitter, who was upset at the way his mum had been treating her.