For several weeks now, I have been practicing lucid dreaming; or for those of you who don't know what lucid dreaming is, it is the practice of becoming consious in your sleep, to manipulate and alter your dreams to however you can imagine them to be.
Anyway, having (mastered is too generous of a word) sucessfully becoming lucid, or aware, in my sleep, I've begun to have very frequent out of body experiences.
My first time, I was nearly asleep. I beleive I was in the phase where you're beginning to black out, although I can't remember exactly what stage of my sleep I was in. I began to feel my ears vibrating, and heard almost a humming sound. I began to feel weightless and couldn't move any muscles in my body physically, and I discovered this as I attempted to sit up. As I arose, I felt what I can only describe as static electricity luminating my body. I looked down to find my body laying in my bed, fast asleep. Stunned by this, I immediately, "snapped," per se, right back into my body. these events were followed by an unknown time frame of sleep paralysis, but to me, it felts like nearly 2 or 3 minutes. I was convinced it was just a dream, and nothing more, until it happened to me again.
The next night, I began to hear the buzzing, and I suppose that immediately had me thinking that I was drifting off to sleep. As I went to reach my pillow to readjust it, my hand went right through the pillow, althought it didn't look like my hand. It looked thin, unstructured, but most of all, very luminous. I was suddenly then hovering against my wall, and slowly descended downstairs though the floor; in which I vividly remember seeing the innards of the flooring; into my dining room, spectating my dog sleeping. I then snapped back into my body, but this time, there was no sleep paralysis. I was wide awake, and felt like I was not even asleep. My eyes weren't lazy, or red, I appeared to be fully awake, and felt that way. This happened to me a third time nearly a week later, when I discovered that I can float through walls, or any object of that matter. I looked in the mirror and saw nothing at all. In all seriousness, I had felt like a ghost, or a spirit or entity of some sort. And for some unexplainable reason, after my out of body experiences, I no longer have any fear of death; I just simply cannot explain. If I was forced to give a reason for that statement, then my closest guess would be that seeing my body sleeping almost looked like myself in a casket to me. I guess I had discovered a sort of acceptence towards passing, after witnessing my body. These experiences still occur to me very frequently, maybe once or twice a week. If I can find the article I read about it, I will post the link, but I read that this occurs to 80% of Americans, and only about 15% of them remember these experiences.
Anyway, I was wondering if anybody here has experienced something like this before, and if so, how was it for you? Did you enjoy it?
Nov 04, 2010 @ 07:40:13
..and no, you're not insane and could you please put some more of your drawings on your home page 
