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So I haven't been aware or been able to have lucid or astral experiences in a while, but I thought that joining a forum might help...and reading about all of your wonderful experiences had really seemed to put me back in the right direction. Last night I had an experience that seemed different from the others I've had...no buzzing that I was aware of anyways...it was definitely beginning from a sleep state but it did seem to be very real. I don't remember this as feeling like a dream at all. I was actually completely aware. I actually had the feeling of waking up and going into my bathroom with the intent of getting ready to go to work or go out someplace. I picked up my hairspray and nothing came out when I tried to spray it. I shook it and found it to be empty which I thought was really strange and wrong and I actually stood there and questioned how that could possibly be. This morning I actually put hairspray on my shopping list as this experience felt so real...it felt like a real experience and not a dream experience. When I went into the bathroom a bit ago I picked up my hairspray bottle to throw it away and it was full. It was full, and in my night experience I questioned it being empty because I knew it should be full. It literally felt like I'd just sat up and gone into the bathroom and that I was fully awake last night. It has made me question other similar middle of the night wakings. I do get up in the middle of the night often. I get up to go check on my daughter who is a toddler. Sometimes I get up and just stand in the doorway and watch her sleeping. I have never questioned whether or not I was awake. I assumed that I was. But this morning I thought, "who wakes up in the middle of the night to get up and watch someone else sleep?". Could it be that I've been having these experiences without really being aware of it? Has anyone ever had an experience or experiences that seemed like a wakeful act, but have found later that it wasn't? Seriously, after my experience in the bathroom last night I'm questioning my sanity. Is it possible for this OBE or astral state or dream state to feel like a real experience?
Hi Kelly,
Maybe you were experiencing these type of unconscious OBEs often, but you would think that its just a real one though.
Maybe you would have tried some reality checks yesterday. because of that you faced some technical problem with your hairspray :P
Nice to read your experience.
I had a similar experience too :)
If you remember a dream frame by frame, too vivid and the exact home you are living with no alterations, Then its Astral Projection. If you are in some other home, which doesn't seems like your home then this should be considered as dream :)
So I feel that one which you used to see your child in the middle of the night maybe unconscious OBE :)
Yeah. I had something similar happen again last night. Not sure what I have going on all of a sudden...but at least I have some awareness of it and hopefully I'll figure it out. Thanks for your thoughts!
Sounds to me like you projected into the real time zone during your sleep. The difference between this and lucid dreaming is that that in the former state, you cannot control what you do. The RTZ is similar to the physical world, but there are often small differences; light switches in different places, etc. So that would explain the different perception about the hairspray.
I also agree with the comment above. Next try, try to perform reality checks and you should be able to move into lucid dreaming and conscious projection. Good luck!
Hi Kelly, I agree with the LPC's reply :)
@LPC,
Real Time Zone ??
That's really a cool reply ;)
How did you check that the hair spray was empty while you cant hold objects or anything in astral? :)
Good point. I don't know what it was, so I can't really answer that. Maybe it was a lucid dream? I was definitely picking things up. It was just like I was getting ready in the bathroom like I always do. Maybe I created my surroundings. I don't really know...that's why I asked! lol You know, it's strange because on one hand a have quite a bit of experience with all of this. I used to have a lot of control, and I always knew what was going on while it was going on for the most part...even in the instances when I didn't have control because except from lucid dreams starting from a dream state, I was always going in through meditation so I never lost any awareness. Now I'm trying to get it back, and I'm finding that I'm having experiences like this one that are very disorienting for me because the knowledge that I'm in it is just not there. I can't put it any better than that. Even lately on the occasion when I tried my hardest to recreate what I used to do and it worked...I didn't recognize it for what it was...at all. It wasn't until after I came out of it...like at that split second...that I thought "that was it". It was so incredibly clear, or at least it should have been...but it was like I didn't even notice! I don't really know what my problem is. That's why I'm here. Because believe me, I want it back. All of it.
Well brother,
I think its lucid dream actually!!! , it happens sometime to me to wake up and go to kitchen , like when my mom spams waking me up to school! I dream that i get ready and go to school then i just wake up! Its lucid dream as i think , that what i (think) , but i am not that expert :) , i had astrals around 4-5 but still cant say anything
Thanks for reading <3
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