Here's a concept I've come up with just this morning: meditate, but do it as if it was a lucid dream. It worked, in a very odd and disturbing way. Tell me what you think of this idea and if anyone else would be willing to try it themselves.

I did it this morning and if you're interrested I wrote down what happened to me when I decided to take my meditation to the extra step of remaining in the realm of the subconscience, yet pushing it's bounderies. I won't hide anything, I do have issues and my heart's actually broken, which you'll probably be able to see, but think of how it would have been for you. Anyways, here it is for those that are interrested to see how my experiment went. It's very long, but starting from "part 2" things get very very strange. I'm not asking anyone to believe what I'm saying, but at least to try it and see for themselves where it takes you.

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This morning I decided to meditate in the warm comfort of my bed instead of actually getting up. Understand that I had my right arm across my stomach and my left hand on my right arm (it's actually something important).

Part 1: Normal meditation:

When I started at the "starting point", I found myself in a dence forest. I looked around, seeking a path and found none when all of a sudden the trees, all in a straight line, began to tumble down to form a sort of tree pathway for me to follow. I started walking and remembered that I was told to observe what the forest looked like. There was nothing in particular. It seemed like your average Canadian forest. Dence and plentiful. However the trees that fell at my feet were huge and when I looked down at them they were human legs. I looked around, horrified and looked back down. They were dead fish. Blinked, and they were trees again. So I walked on, horrified to find that my path was made up of dead things. I soon came to what looked like a clearing, but no, it was a pool of mudd. Not quicksand, just mudd. I wadded through it. When I got to the other side, the path of dead trees was there waiting for me, leading me to the clearing where I was to see my power animal.
When I got to the clearing my "power animal" came to see me. I asked him what would happen if I walked through the forest instead of taking another path and walking and talking with him.

Part 2: Taking control of the meditativ state:

The lizard, my "power animal", told me not to go through the forest. I ran and ran and he yeld at me to come back. I was deep into the forest when I hit an invisible wall. I backed up and saw that it was a larg tree, about the size of an apartment building, layed out across the forest and another tree over it. Remember when I stated that I had my arm across my stomach? My arm and hand was that tree. That's when I really realized that the physical, conscience and subconscience realm were all as one in this odd place. So I ran back, but soon found a small hole in the ground. I figured I could go "deeper" into myself. I found a cave, with pairs large planks of wood arching up the round walls and meeting each other's tips at the height of the ceiling. I heard a distant "thud, thud, thud" and ran to it. I realized that it was my ribs and soon found my heart. Now, as you probably all know, dreams are very symbolical and so is meditation. So when I climbed up to my heart I found that there was a crack in it from which puss was excreted. Letters came out of this puss. K, E, L, S...it was the name of the my ex. Kelsey. I started to panick and then...

Part 3: The head:

All of a sudden I found myself in the clearing where I was "supposed" to be and my "power animal" was now a giant lizard instead of a small one. He was furious. I demanded to see the "core" of the mind for myself and he refused. So I ran back into the forest, but this time, in the opposite direction, towards my head. When I got to where my brain should be I found an enormous 1/2 sphere filled with darkness, like a giant abyss. I gathered my courage and jumped in. I slid down to the center and found a silver-like orb. I thought I had found "the core". Then the silver sphere shifted shape and became a pod, kind of like those of the vampire offspring in the movie Van Helsing, but instead it was made of material with zippers on it. I unzipped it and a naked woman fell out. I was afraid, I thought I had killed her or something. She said something like "No, this is not the core...this is the pod of understanding". As I helped her back into her pod I started to realize that all my personality assets had a "pod" with a person inside. So I looked around and found the pod of "logic" figuring that I could improve it. When I finally found it's pod, I soon came to see that it's pod was made of steal. So I looked around for something and found a kind of embellical cord. I pulled a knife from my pocket and cut it. Biological juice spilled out.
In the "real" world the phone rang. I knew it was for me, no one calls in the morning except my friends. In a hurry I fixed the "embellical cord" and made sure it was ok.

My brother came to the door with the cordless phone.

~the end~

Not quite a wonderful tale, but like I said, it was an experiment.