heechawaem wrote:Oh cool. Lucid dreaming. I delved into them a while back with pretty decent success. How far have you taken it? I know some people go nuts.
Out of curiosity, have you also played with astral projection and the like?
At first, when I was young lucid dreaming WAS astral projection. It didn't scare me at all.
It was the classic story, I was in my bedroom, I remember going to bed in the evening (I remember - for some reason - feeling really happy before doing so), and I started floating, then looking back at my body and thinking: Oh, cool, so this is possible. I was about 6.
I went through the ceiling and above the apartment building and traveled about half a mile above other buildings in my neighborhood, then went through the rooftop of one into an apartment and remembered the furniture pieces inside, their colors and position. Years later I went into that same apartment with a friend - his uncle was living there - no real significance.
In this dream-like astral, or more like "neighborhood travel", my hood was the exact same, the time of day was the same, my body as I saw it in my bed was the same.
Everything was obviously pointing to the experience being real.
After that night I KNEW I had a soul - or something - one which is not locked to the body.
When it comes to lucid dreaming, when I was a kid, after waking up inside of a dream - having the realization it's a dream - all I did was fly around. And through the years all I did was experiment with different types of flight. It felt like going through levels in a computer game, only it being real.
1st level of flight: Vertical Jumping
Walking around the place I lived (in a lucid dream) and lifting straight up in a line;
going the height of the buildings,then - in time - way above them; estimation: 30.000 feet
Would always wake up upon lading - the impact woke me up. It took years to perfect a soft landing.
2nd level of flight: Diagonal Jumping
Jumping from a point on the street on top of tall buildings or towers in a new, very large city I have never seen before. And then jumping back down with a soft landing (took me years to perfect the soft landing - letting go of the fear). I also had unknown friends, mostly female in these dreams and I used to carry them in my arms on top of buildings - really excited to show them what I can do.
3rd level of flight: The Invisible Man
A type of astral traveling where my movement was restricted. I could only move in one direction at a time: up - down - left - right. I went through walls in the actual neighboring buildings where I lived. I visited people and was always afraid they could see me but they never actually did.
4th level of flight: Jumping Around
The location was my real city, but with huge trees everywhere - as tall as redwood. I used to jump from branch to branch, from tree to tree, from building to building. I explored the inside of actual buildings that in my dream became very complex with lots of rooms, tunnels, staircases, *hidden rooms.
5th level of flight: Superman Style
Flying through huge forests above and along roads, often to high cliffs hanging above the sea. Jumping from those cliffs (1000 foot tall) into the sea. Waking up on impact for months and months until I set the intention for submersion and let go of the fear.
to be continued..