Is it an OBE?

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11-06-2008, 08:42 PM
Triangles

Is it an OBE?

I once dreamt that I was a wave on the Atlantic ocean. I was wondering if this is classed as an OBE? I was a wave moving across the North Atlantic, I washed up on a shore somwhere in Europe and then started racing back the other way.
Another dream that puzzled me was about triangles (hence my name). In this dream I wasn't present, nore was I watching as some sort of celestial observer. But I was consious of a beam of light moving through blackness in a zig-zag pattern. While the light followed this path, I was experiencing strong feelings of ecstasy but when the light suddenly changed through 60 degrees and completed a full triangle I was filled with the most petrifying horror I have ever felt. It felt like the world was going to end, just because light was moving in triangles instead of zig-zags.

As you may be able to tell, I'm new to the whole idea of lucid dreaming. I don't think I have ever had a lucid dream. I remember one false awakening I had were I even did an RC (without knowing what that was at the time) but concluded that I wasnt dreaming and carried on with the dream. But I did use to have some pretty strange dreams! Just wondering if I was ever close to lucidity with these two supposed OBE's. Are OBE's and lucid dreams related in any way?
11-06-2008, 08:59 PM
Shift

I personally would call such dreams an out of body experience, seeing as you perceived that you were out of your regular waking-life body. Similarly, any dream where you are a different animal or an object I would say are OBEs.

Lucid dreams and OBEs aren't really related, except in cases where people WILD and have OBEs (but it is not always the case that you will lack a 'body' during a WILD). So unfortunately, just because someone has an OBE-dream, doesn't mean that they are particularly close to dreaming. But the fact that you are keeping track of these strange dreams bodes well!! :) Let me know if you have any questions about getting some lucids in :D

A lucid dream is, very simply, a dream where you know that you are dreaming. If you have a body, or no body, or encompass everything or nothing in a dream, so long as you recognize that it is a dream, you are lucid dreaming :)

Also, I am having a ridiculously huge brain fart and cannot remember what dreams like your dream about triangles are called :doh: when I get over it I'll respond, if someone doesn't beat me to it :tongue:
11-07-2008, 09:19 PM
Triangles

Thanks. Could the triangle dream be a night terror? I used to have them as a child but normally withou any visual.
11-07-2008, 11:20 PM
Shift

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Originally Posted by Triangles

Thanks. Could the triangle dream be a night terror? I used to have them as a child but normally withou any visual.

It is possible. I don't know a lot about night terrors, but I believe that you don't really have a visual or anything, or even recall what it was that frightened you...? I'm lucky enough to not have a lot of experience with night terrors, thank god. Night terrors happen during stage 4 sleep, so they're considered distinct from regular nightmare dreams. The fact that it was a dream about some pretty abstract type stuff involving shapes and emotions is supposed to generally mean it occurred during stages 3 or 4. So maybe it was a night terror, that occurred during stage 4 of sleep but... that really doesn't mean much, does it :?

You could try asking about it in the Nightmares section http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=46 I'm sure the people who frequent those forums will have much more to offer regarding nightmares than I do!