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Hopefully, someone with a great degree of cultivation and meditation knowledge can enlighten us here. For me, I am more concern about the real meaning behind my 4am dreams and visions. They, somehow, clear my mind. We all know that we shouldn't dwell in dream forms.

Hrmmm. I would also like to know from any one elses personal experiences if this constitutes as an astral attack and also the importance of knowing how to ground one's self and learning it before cultivating energy. I had a OBE dream one morning where I had found myself randomly going to some persons house. I was greeted at the door of this woman's house by her daughter who had told me that she wanted to become a porn star apparently. I then told her that I would always love her. I had felt that a higher being was speaking through me at that time. I then proceeded to enter this random ladies home. She greeted me with a hug. She appeared very promiscuous in her 'goddess' like dress. D sized breast. etc. She was a lite skinned black woman. When she hugged me I had felt an energy link in my lower dan tien, right near my penis. She then proceeded to ask me to tell her more about myself. Right away I felt vulnerable and under attack. My awareness kicked in and I began to dance like a indian warrior at a pow wow. No idea why! I was stomping all over this woman's house. I had then told this woman that I knew her in a past life apparently. Mind you, I've never seen this lady in this life before. Which is when ANOTHER lady appeared. She appeared to be highly possessed in the dream. Her eye sockets were gray and her mouth was drouped open. Possibly some form of voodoo or witch craft with an ancient soul or entity. I do not know to be honest. (I had seen this lady in my dream scape a few times after this incident. She always seemed wicked) She had told the other lady that I was lying and this lady had proceeded to come my way, the possessed one, which is when I had found myself back into the corner of this house. I noticed that a cat was going to try and strangle me with a piece of wire. My hand reached out for the wire and the attack had stopped. I had then received a vision of this older white lady meditating on a cloud up above with a group of people. In this vision she was smiling and did not appear to be wicked at all. I had then noticed that some one had joined this meditation group, I am not to sure if it was me or not, because I woke up to the feeling of painful energy in my lower back and spine. I literally woke up and ran out of the house and sat on some dirt to try and ground all of this energy. Luckily it all simmered down by the end of the day. I was bewildered by the whole dream and why it even occurred. Since I had never met these woman at all in this life before or what that wicked old white lady even wanted. What I really want to know is, why this attack was even possible , I am under the assumption it was because I failed to ground myself once I started meditating and was literally stuck in the astral for quite some time... I've only been attacked astrally about three times. Not knowing why. Hence the danger of astral projection I guess.

On a different note.. What exactly is the difference concerning OBE's, Lucid Dreaming, and Astral Projection? From my own experiences. Going out of body has always been unwillingly in a dream state. Such experiences were usually to show me something or to tell me something about my life here on earth. The back ground in the dream is different compared to a lucid dream. I am literally out of my body floating around in this space and time, compared to a lucid dream where reality seems to be highly makeshift, An example would be different buildings tend to make shift into one another as well as random people and things appearing in the dream. I have also noticed that during lucid dreams I seem to be in a mid-way state between a dream and this realities space and time. I have literally seen higher beings come into my field of focus while dreaming, as if they are stepping through the veil, so to speak. I have also had experiences where I have been in a dream like state and have noticed certain people thinking of me by seeing their picture in the dream and then recieve a phone call or text message a few minutes later, very interesting. Another difference as well is during my dreams, which are mostly ALL lucid these days thanks to constantly meditating. I have noticed that I am able to do things that are physically inconceivable in this space and time. Such as flying around, levitating, shape shifting, manifesting objects out of thin air, having sex with random people (which isn't inconceivable in this space and time, but it looks REALLY weird in the dream state), and playing with energy, which all feels very real. So I am guessing astral projection is the ability to roam in a 'spiritual body' of some sort in real time? Sort of like remote viewing and bio-location? Which I am assuming takes some time to cultivate, which some how relates to Shen? I am also assuming that such a gift isn't developed freely but usually bestowed upon the individual, unless they take the easy way out and harnesses an entity that allows one to do so freely. Sorcery. Witch craft etc. But what one thinks, they become So I wouldn't advocate such practices! But what is the difference?

I'm sorry to jack your thread, but this inspires me to share a dream I had that contained dragons, they were the western type dragons, the ones that knights fought: It began with a grand meeting, we were all in human form (we had the ability to shapeshift from dragons to humans, but the hall we were in contained a gem/diamond the suppressed us into human form) and the eldest dragon (who was covered in gems, even his eyes were gems and he was in dragon form) spoke he said:'up there, the stars is our home and we must return to our brothers'. In the meeting we had discovered a traitor, so me being a General, I had to take him and get him to come clean about being a traitor. The humans (cowboy era) built a gaint boat with wings that could shoot fire. I saw it and realised that the others were in danger. I tried to fly (still in human form) but was lacking/in need of power. I had the intention of drinking/consuming the blood of a human because that's our food. Then I woke up.

Very interesting. Yes, seeing what I saw as a child, it was f*cking crazy to say the least. I forgot to mention that there was a second exorcism, just to make sure this entity was gone and strangely enough there was a second out burst, but I remember that the second time was not as bad, the relative no longer suffered from this entity. What sucked was the witch doctor sent all of this energy BACK to the other relative and she ended up having to cope with what she put out unfortunately, to teach her a lesson apparently. Hence, the build up of energy. Very interesting stuff. I am very happy to finally find some answers to this stuff. It always stood in the back of my mind growing up as to what I saw as a child, because most people rarely see such events occur. Yes, I highly agree. Depending upon where I am located through out the day, or when I happen to engage with certain people I do tend to feel a sensation behind my head. I have been able to feel this even more so after keeping a steady meditation schedule as well kicking all the bad habits to explore and remain 'clean'. I even sometimes feel entities while merely surfing this site. lolz. Some times it feels as if some one is tapping into my pineal near the back of my head. Sort of like this diagram. I some times even feel things that seek to attach themselves to my lower dan tien or seek to penetrate it. I had felt a hand once in my lower dan tien, it hurt like hell. That same night I got a vision of chakras. They all had light in them, except the top ones. I felt as if some one was seeking to extinguish them. Strange stuff. How did you go about destroying this entity? I've never destroyed an entity, but I have deflated one once in a dream. I had first saw it in a tree, the thing began circling around my head and was complaining about too much peace of mind and it slowly began to dwindle and deflated into a balloon. lol. In another dream, I had seen another relative who had a black orb floating around her which I shot energy at in my dream scape. I had seen another black orb floating around my room. I woke up out of body and shot energy out of my right hand at the orb and never saw it again. This happened instantaneously without thought. Mind you, it seems I was cleaning up what was weaved by some paid psychics or sorcerer. I have learned so much by just observing my family and learning about all the skeletons in the closet. It's a shame, but you can definitely find light in the dark. I've also been socked in the eye once by a dragon apparently. I wasn't aware of chaos magickians, but after reading about people being able to invoke cartoon characters I had seen Goku appear in my minds eye and protect me. lol. Crazy stuff.

Lucid dreaming or vision or astral projection...whatever you call it. In fact, my precognition ability came from my dream visions. No, I don't do drugs and losing my consciousness in my waking state. Do you take drugs? If so, our conversations would end immediately.

I tend not to get too detailed with my visions and dreams. I will try to be short. Oh, is Tara, not Tetra. I often asked for dream interpretations over at the ATS board. Here, it has more to do with the method of cultivation. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread894426/pg1 Originally, I thought she was Vishnu but from her holding a pair of scissors, she turned out to be Tara. In this dream, I did feel a sense of motherly love from her. It was her love for me that she cut the blanket over my head. So that I could see....However, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to see. To see what? This could have many interpretations. Maybe I am supposed to see into nothing. I have been expecting to see something in my life. Also, looking into the goddess of Kali. She is the destroyer of the ego of the tenth degree. She would have no problems belittling you and me if she wants to. So, one should keep their ego in check.

Hrmm. Yes I have seen Kuan Yuim as well. One's sense of consciousness is different in a dream though rather than waking consciousness, mind you.

Interesting interpretation. I remember falling asleep upstairs and briefly imagining a pentagram on the floor with canldes, but I figured it was a figment of my imagination. Possibly a portal of some sort. Needless to say, I felt that this dragon needed to be balanced or else I could have ended up hurting some one if I was a selfish or careless person. I still feel that this dragon I was given was a dirty trick to harm me, to desecrate, the act of depriving something of its sacred character so I could then be vulnerable to attack by those crazy witches. Reason being, I once talked to a channel-er who had told me about a gold dragon from a past life. I have also had dreams about wu-tang and how supposedly there use to be a fued between blacks and asians. That was another crazy dream, because there was a bunch of foot soldiers in that dream. I dont know if it was past life stuff I was digging up or what, but it sure felt that way. I had another dream about another man fighting and killing others in a sports like fashion. I believe this was wu-tang. The victims blood was then used to paint the patio where this man and others would meditate. Strange stuff. Any ways, thank you Horus for helping me in a vulnerable moment. Whether it was past life stuff or not, there are some crazy power hungry people out there in the astral realms. One thing I have noticed as well, I was born with a keen sense of awareness. When I tend to hang around certain people and places, like bars, strip clubs, etc. This gift gets fuzzy and I can literally feel the difference in my brain. I guess darkness does that to the mind. I guess Horus sort of explains why I always see the Falcons when I am outside. Very interesting stuff. There is so much more. A lot of this stuff stopped after I saw KwanYin the Goddess in a dream state. I remember when I took my mom for acupuncture and had fell asleep in the car, probably because I wasn't grounding myself properly. A women had came into my field of view and was pissed at me apparently. No idea why. She was wearing oriental clothing and said she was going to be working on me. The next morning I had a dream where I had find myself with some old friends and we were smoking weed. I had felt the effects of the weed in the dream. I was wandering around and had happen to swallow a whistle in the dream and literally felt it as if it was real. I woke up and had heard some one say "materialize" but the sensation went away. It was f*cking crazy. I was very confused as to why visiting my mother's acupuncture therapist triggered an attack on myself to say the least.

Don't tell me you regularly converse with Christ and Buddha.... First, I had a dream of having sex with Kali and she told me something...instructions. That was it. I never saw her again. Second, I saw Tatra (in Buddhism she is Kuan yuim), Kali counter-part, who was cutting a blanket over my head in order for me to see. I was crying in the process because I was afraid to see but not sure what. That was it. I saw her no more. Third, a talking stature head in clear blue of Arminius burst out from some sand dune on the ground. The whole sky and the ground cracked open and turned red. I fell to the ground and in some sort of terror, looking up at this massive giant. Here, he smiled at me and give me a sword because he said that I deserved it because of my innate ability to grasp and gain knowledge without external aids. I saw it once and that was it. Here, I knew nothing of these deities until I saw them in my dreams and did some research on them. How can you even negotiate with these ancient, mythological spirit beings??? Talk to them for more than once? What's matter? You didn't get the message the first time?

It sounds as if the black dragon represents the unconscious, the reptile brain, fear of attack, fear of being tricked, fear of the unknown, and the occult shop the power of your subconscious to unleash its dragon of creativity filled with spiritual power of lightening, electron flow. Unconscious fear of this power taking on a life of its own and opening you up the Pandora's box of the unconscious worries, attackers, haters, sabotaging influences beneath the surface within you. Horus being the upper brain or super-conscious that rules the unconscious was able to put the snake back in its bamboo and protect you from any harm. So the dragon is really a gift, a sign that your unconscious wants to work with you, and that your super-conscious will protect you as you do, it's up to you to trim the dragon with super-conscious white and gold. Cool dream!!!!!!!!

Any practicing mage here familiar with sequences? I was told I was stuck in one in a dream I had a while back concerning some family members. From what I can garner it is a spell or 'psychic letter' or something of that sort that is casted for a certain scenario to unfold or to be pushed upon the victim. I wanted to read up more on this and figure out wtf is going on. Some of my family members don't know how to get along and resort to magick to get what they want

I am posting this because I wanted to inquire about a dream I had about a year ago. I had to go out of town to visit a relative at her house who lives sort of near the coast. Needless to say one morning I had woke up from one hell of a sequence of dreams. In the first dream I had went out of body and found myself walking around town. Interesting enough I had walked by a 'spiritual shop' there in town and had saw the imprint or outline of a dragon there, which was also by a chinese restaraunt (go figure). It seemed to have been guarding that local area because I could not walk past it in the dream state. I then found myself in some other realm with who I think was a sage of some kind. This man had a magickal shop. I remember on the banner for this shop, there was a pentagram of sorts. I walked into this shop and this man, who was wearing martial art like clothing, all black, had gave me a toy black dragon. I had no idea why. I had asked the man if he could put some white or gold trimming on the dragon and he told me I could do that myself. I remember after holding the dragon, I then saw it 'activate' so to speak. I saw a dragon flying the air in a lightning storm. This is where the dream got weird. I then found myself being attacked by a bunch of witches and Ms. Cleo looking women. Oddly enough a being that looked exactly like Horus the falcon God appeared in the dream and the attacked stopped. He appeared in the sky. Interesting enough, ive never prayed to Horus in my life. I guess giving me the black dragon was a dirty trick I suppose? Desecration? I can't find myself identifying with it.

Hello OldGreen, Thanks for the advice. Yes influence is a big deal if your a neophite. I stopped talking to said people once I realized that my very own free will was being manipulated, which I did not like at all, for the egotistical fantasies of others. If anything I learned to trust myself even more and that making mistakes can also be the best teacher as well. But I am not aware of the use of purple and gold around one's aura, I guess it is all in the intention. On good days I can sense if I am being read or possibly tampered with. If I am meditating I can sometimes catch glimpses of beings reading me who tend to flash in and out of my minds eye. It's rather interesting seeing these beings that people assiociate with. Some people can begin practicing magick and may not even realized who the entities they are working with or are possibly possessed by. Lack of awareness can be a grave danger, especially in the dark arts. Ive had a couple of dreams and third eye moments where I have literally seen psychics and mages in my field of vision. Unfortunately in the hispanic community, relying on psychics, mages, sorcerers, tarot card readers is a big phenomeon. Many people will come to these kind of people who are seeking 'help' with their desires and intentions, which are not always pure to say the least. The idea of dominance and taking advantage of lessed developed souls is what tends to happen. My entire journey of awakening began because I knew I was being tampered with spiritually but I did not have the eyes to see or the hears to hear at the time. I remember the first night I had stupidily let my guard down (to explore and understand) and I had felt someone shove their hand into my lower dan tian, it hurt! Constantly being hit with heavy energy and dealing with the lies of your own family is no fun. It takes a toll on your health and can give rise to psychological stress and paranoia. I know when a family member is up to something because they usually show up in my dream scape with a candle or an object of some kind or I find I am being attacked by some sorcerers spiritual slave or demon. I have seen the goat of mendes as well a few times. But I have also seen catholic saints, Jesus with a rainbow body, monks, Goddesses, disincarnate souls, etc.. Needless to say, in dealing with such crap, I found that sending whatever energy back into the earth is a great way to nuetralize whatever it may be coming at one's self. I also tend to send ghost to the post-mortal realm, since I don't believe in sorcery and would want someone to help me cross over if I was stuck in a rut on earth after death. I believe they are not suppose to be here and feeding them energy is like having a pet animal. Hence why I said that many who practice magick tend to be looking for power. We reap what we sow, and this I know. In developing this sense of self-defense I have realized that I missed a few things concerning cultivation just so I can be 'aware'. Which sucks. I am hoping to perfect and pursue better health for now and continuously work on learning and cultivating a sense of understanding, every trial being a blessing in disguise I believe.

...more than that...you have to really desire it a lot - build new habits that will enable you to finally do it. Start adopting the various practices that are recommended at the astral traveling websites. Several times an hour you should check in with your reality and ask yourself, "Am I dreaming right now?" If you ingrain this habit within yourself, you should eventually wake up in the dream when you ask yourself this. You realize, yes you are dreaming. There is also the 'wake to sleep' method, where you purposefully set your alarm clock to wake you earlier than you really need to wake up. Then you go back to sleep with the intent to wake in the dream. To actually lay down and purposefully astral travel without falling to sleep first, you must master complete relaxation - see savasana yoga pose - see progressive neuromuscular relaxation technique, etc....you must put your body to sleep fully while keeping your mind awake. It shuts a part of your brain down that interfaces with body sensation...there are so many techniques you must learn just to get out of your body. Build your daily practices layer by layer from all sides. Do your research.

I felt heat by my balls this morning. It felt like my youth was being restored. Rejuvenation. Lolz. I also find it interesting that i decided to search this very topic today and noticed all of these recent post. Interesting. I also woke up from a dream the other night. Someone had introduced themselves to me and offered to heal me at their clinic. Whoever this is, thank you for your humble generosity. I didnt get the name though, i woke up when i realized i was talking telapathically to some one.

You are in a way correct, that food and drinks you consume during the day would inhibit your chi cultivation process. I know because my night time meditation would often produce less meditation results (completing the microcosmic orbit with a good health of warm chi) than in the morning. At night, I could meditate for over an hour and could barely feel the chi. In the morning, after waking up, within 25 minutes, I would experience multiple microcosmic orbits. I guess, over the course of my sleep, my body is cleansing itself. In fact, I often felt a sense of extreme hunger in the morning. So great that I dream of being hungry in my dreams.

The following book: There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce by Thomas J. Sugrue, Edgar Cayce is an excellent book and an interesting read from the standpoint of understanding that the so called science community simply cannot and will not tolerate this sort of "non-sense".Even what appears to be toleration - is dis-ingenuous in the sense of any real push to incorporate it or treat it in a way that is not something like a parent tolerates adolescent experimentation. I have great hope for the Eastern Medical practices - because over there - East does meet West - they have centuries old medicine and they have heart transplants. You have arthritis - you go on a fast and get rid of it. Lack vitality - take up Tai Chi or Qi Gong. They have hospitals using Qi. Spirit is a part of medicine in the East - here at best - God - may be invoked but the doctors here for the most part see it as a placebo effect that cannot hurt and "can give them some comfort" (even if it is a pipe dream).

tons of binaural beats and isochronic ones and mixed ones on youtube...many with links for free downloads...just search for them. Here is an excerpt from a classic book on astral projection (forgot the name): " Ordinary habit and ordinary desire, although they will sometimes bring about projection, in the proper temperament, will as a rule not impress the subconscious mind strongly. Intense desire and long-standing habit, as you can see, will make a stronger impression upon the subconscious mind, and are therefore more positive. In fact, long-standing habit and intense desire root themselves in the subconscious mind. If you have a deep-rooted habit, and suddenly break it, the stress of expression becomes intensified in the subconscious mind. The breaking of a long-standing habit, or the suppressing of a desire, are stronger factors than mere habit or desire. The subconscious Will and the conscious Will are two different things. Everyone follows some routine, and the action becomes, through repetition, deeply routed in the subconscious mind. It is the rooting of the habit which becomes so strong that it bursts forth-thus suggesting to the subconscious Will to perform the action. It is the suggestion which bursts forth- not the subconscious will. The may come from either the conscious or the subconscious mind. When the subconscious Will decides to move the body when we sleep- it merely takes a suggestion from the subconscious mind. It is the suggestion which suddenly comes forth, and the reason we use “tenacious routine” is to impress that suggestion, so that it will come forth by night. If there is anything which needs to be strengthened, it is the conscious will, so that we shall stick steadfastly to our routine and force its impression upon the subconscious mind. When an act or thought is repeated and repeated, naturally it is more strongly impressed upon the subconscious mind, and naturally it will “suggest” itself more easily. When we use our conscious will power, and hold tenaciously to a routine, or when we like (desire) the routine so much that we hold fast to it, we impress it so strongly upon the subconscious mind that it stays there, on the surface, or comes to the surface, when we sleep (suggests itself) and the subconscious will is impelled to move the body. A suppressed desire is really an intensified desire in the subconscious mind, and thus it comes to the surface and acts as a suggestion while we sleep. If the suggestion of “routine” comes to the surface of the subconscious mind, while we sleep, and we project in the astral body, unless we become conscious and direct our movements, the phantom will go through the movements of the routine. A dream can cause a habit. A habit can cause a dream. A desire can cause a habit. A habit can cause a desire. A desire can cause a dream. A dream can cause a desire, etc. You will find by analysis that all somnambulisms and all astral projections are caused by the same fundamental factors- desire, habit, or dream of the proper type. You should so thoroughly saturate your subconscious mind with ‘astral projection’ that it creates a stress of astral projection in your mind. You do this through your conscious mind, through tenacious study of the art-practice of the art, thinking of the art. Desire plus habit will dominate the subconscious Will more completely than habit alone. Develop a strong habit of the study of astral projection, make a routine of the practice of the art, desire the ability to project in your astral body so strongly that your mind is dominated by “astral projection.” Induce complete passivity of the physical body, and “rise” to sleep, visualizing the route the phantom invariably takes on projecting. That is the way to project at will. " ...anyways, so astral projection takes work is what it is saying...unless you are one of those people who naturally do it without trying...but basically it takes as much cultivation as any intermediate level spiritual goal, up to 6 months to a year of work in a lot of individuals...if you seriously want to do it, try a forum specifically devoted to it, such as http://www.forumforastral.com/ or http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/index.php or others...they have all the techniques posted and a billion people ready to give advice. Usually you start by learning to lucid dream.

Hypnagog, yes I have only found myself in a library once. I was shown books by who I believe to be was a minion. I was also shown a certain form of divination by two witches it seems. They took a newspaper and then a piece of cloth and sewed them together and this would some how divine the future. I don't exactly remember how or why, because I don't practice divination. I also remember in this dream session. I also found myself surrounded by angels who were going in and out of caves to help others. The universe is a vast place. I definitely want to go back to the light ship. A very amazing expierence in first person view. I also wanted to make a note about 'predators'. There are people who are very skilled at psionics and energy work. People who have invested the time to study and know they have spiritual 'gifts'. I remember when I began to notice my level of increased awareness allowed me to know that some of these people who I use to accompany would find their ways into my dreams, dream weaving without me knowing. It was how I became aware of other people's conniving nature, especially over the internet where you don't get to meet people face to face. I would highly suggest not practicing magick or anything spiritual with individuals you have met over the internet, unless you acquire the chance to know this person personally for a extended period of time. There are people who will take advantage of a neophite concerning esoteric arts, sad but it is reality for some. If this life ever permits me, I would love to study with monks as they make excellent teachers (of course) and tend to NOT have subliminal motives, like acquiring money and such from their students. An example of a predator would be an individual who is seeking to know many personal things about yourself, which is obvious. Who may come off very innocent and benign, but are really a wolf in sheeps clothing to say the least. There is actually a whole genre of psionics on 'vampirism' and techniques one can use for energy work. But I wouldn't suggest developing such traits, as most of these people who take this path have a low sense of self-esteem and tend to hate everything about themselves and also developed addictive personalities and demonic chartacteristics that one can see and feel if one has the eye's to see and the ears to hear. Grounding all that negativity aside, I have also had plenty of benevelont expierences with monks and higher beings who I have encoutnered in my dream scape at some point in time. I remember having a dream with a bald monk who had shown me a form of meditation in which the energy around my head became very serene and peaceful. If I could describe it, it seemed like the ultimate state of nothingness, or nirvana perhaps. I remember going to work that day, being highly content for no reason at all, with this force field around my head. In the dream I went OOB in my room and had witnessed the monk levitating over me while he meditated in full lotus posture. A very interesting person who I never saw again. I guess having these dreams is a perk of keeping a highly open mind. Cat, where would you suggest I copy this too?

Well, don't get too caught up by the colors of the light because that's not the real essence of the third eye. The essence of the third eye is to allow you to see, feel, dream, and think beyond yourself. In both good and bad situations. One night you may be encountering some spiritual being and the next night you may find yourself dealing with a whole new moral issue. Issues that you haven't thought or encountered before. For an example, witnessing yourself killed in a battlefield (possibility how you died with your past life self). Or locked up in a prison with some inmates calling you "brother." Like, how did you end up in a prison? You need a proper grounding to deal with what the third eye can reveal to you. Otherwise, you will lose it. Mime was opened the same night I had my Kundalini energy rising, at 18. In my late 30s right now. The color hasn't changed much, white/bluish. This light is the color of the Chi energy. The light itself isn't the actual third eye. 99% of the time I see this light only when my chi is circulating in my body. The only thing I am regretting is that my third eye does not exhibit its power when I am awakened. Shame... Only during meditation (seeing flashes of beings--people faces, monks, and recently female faces--and animal eyes in the past too). And in my dreams.

Brain damage? Check. Just because I am intelligent and aware does not mean I am not brain damaged. It is an affliction not an insult. Permanent tinnitus is one symptom of an acute strike to the base of my skull. But the fluoride came earlier in life and I've only recently learned that it could have a negative impact on spiritual sight. And it is the only explanation that i have come across that might explain why i am so perpetually unable to see clearly, or dream lucidly... Unless i am expected to starve myself and freeze my nuts off in the wild, doing nothing but meditate, in which case, keep your astral world to yourselves. its not worth suffering over.

Mmmhm. Recently in my dreaming I am in great huge libraries. These places are like labyrinths often with other occupants sometimes not. I open books and step into different layers of dreaming and they often contain images that leave impressions in my mind. The library always looks different but I wonder if it is simply the "akashic records" of which so many talk about. The other interesting thing that happens to me is that I often astral project or move into higher realms of dreaming while dreaming. After my experience in this "higher realm" (which is often more vivid that the previous) I will "wake up" into my previous dream and recollect my experience. Here is an example from a couple nights ago: My perspective is in 3 parts. One observing, the other two acting. There is an androidbeside me, face and body the same shape as my own but the texture of his skin is filled with blinking lights and coils of computer-chip jargon. As I move the android moves, trapped in an endless cycle. The third observing perspective moves into my organic one. The android must be fooled. We lie down, and I send a visualization, a wave of perception that peels apart my vision and opens into the androids own mine. Suddenly birds eye, the android is walking on a endless shore. The tide comes in, starting at the ankles but slowly moving up and up. The android continues walking but is quickly becoming submerged in water. Eventually the ocean brinks the androids head. As soon as the head is breached my awareness shoots upward, into pulsating blue rings of light and color. The feeling is indescribable. There is no "I" no body, only the awareness of this realm of light and sound. Eventually I feeling a downward sensation, my awareness plummets through the rings and back into my sleeping body, the android lays beside me.

Oh I forgot to mention this dream. I feel that it was in the higher realms. I was around people of indian descent. I found myself in a room with everything I ever needed. It was highly luxurious and quite spacious. I remember finding a pair of shoes I wanted and for some odd reason decided to steal them from this place. But before I tried to steal these shoes I was roaming around these mansion like rooms. I remember walking outside of these buildings that looked like apartments but when one entered they became utter mansions. Literally make-shift mansions. It was amazing. I remember sneaking out with these shoes into a dinning hall where there was a golden mermaid swimming about in a large pool side fountain and a bunch of indian men who I have never seen before eating at a big table laughing hysterically. I rememebr trying to leave this place, to only be told that I could stay and have whatever I wanted by my conscious was set on stealing these shoes and then the dream ended. I remember having another dream in this luxurious building where I was studying something, but have not been back since. Was it heaven... beats me

My my what an active soul! Hello! I am new here as well. I would first like to saw that my experience is similar to yours. Different, but similar. The active dreaming, interacting with Spirits and other humans in the dream state. Sensitivity to energy, violet rings around the third eye etc. I also se eshifting patterns of violet, blue, and sometimes green and yellow especially on blank surfaces when I am calm. I see rings of white energy around people that pulse with faint colors lke red yellow blue etc. Somtimes everything around me is one solid color, usually pink or violet. What does this mean? Is my third eye opening? When will it open fully? I really wonder. Maybe I will post about it. I am wondering also how old you are? I just turned 20 last month (pisces) I would love to talk about our journey more!