posted May 01, 2005 07:34 PM         

All of a sudden I hear people talking behind me and I had my lucid body turn around to look. Everything in my room was distorted and much bigger. And by my door there were 3 or4 people with masks on. I was so scared and told them to please leave.

Then one of them said it was ok and not to be scared, she seemed to be pleasant. She only wore half a mask covering her eyes and nose. I asked her why they all had masks on and she said that something had happened to their faces. Then I asked her if they were my spirit guides, and another woman answered very abruptly "NO". This other woman wasn't nice and didn't like me.
There were also two men that didnt say much. One man was short and chubby and I couldnt make out the other one.

Then we were transported to my Nana's(grandmother's) house. I sat on the couch with the one nice woman and she told me something I can't remember. I then asked her if my Nana was going to die, because we were at her house. but she said no, they just wanted to bring me there. I'm thinking this has something to do with my childhood because I felt safe there, and also my Nana is very spiritual/religious.

The one mean woman began to yell at me and tell me that she hated having to know what was on people's minds and has no respect for anyone anymore. She almost brought me to tears and the other people told her to get away from me. At this time we were in a different place, it reminded me of a huge parking garage, except there was sand for the ground.

Then the people were gathered around an old woman, wearing all white, with white hair. Her eyes are closed, and her arms are folded across her chest, but she is breathing and not dead. The sand slowly brings her under the ground. From my impressions she was a woman of authority or high status in this dream place.

The last image was of me in my car, and I look through my rearview window and a black man is in the back seat. I'm not sure if he was from before or not. I'm not at all scared of him being there and I look right into his eyes. Then I woke up right away. I
think him or the cat are my spirit guides. But then who were the other people? What is going on?

I'm beginning to think there's something wrong with me, why do these things keep happening to me. I've been having so many lucid and OOB dreams lately, its like second nature. I can't tell family or friends because they've never heard anything like it. I just feel bizarre.

posted May 03, 2005 04:42 AM         

Back soon.

posted May 10, 2005 04:28 AM         

Maybe "Reese" is your guide.

This is a very interesting experience. How do I explain this? ... my first impression has little to do with dreaming. There are groups out there, physical humans, who are in OBE/astral training, like the training conducted at the Monroe Institute.

Very simply, a group of trainees, conscious individuals, are guided into the OBE state and trained in various activities on the "Astral" planes, led or guided by a professional OBE-er. Some training sessions revolve around assisting and observing other individuals while they are unconsciously out-of-body, usually while "dreaming". A very attractive "training/observation target" is often someone who is experimenting with OBEs on their own. You are such a person.

Maybe one of the reasons for the increase in your astral activities, or remembering of them, is your association with such a group, or rather their association with you.

Could be.

What do you think about that possibility?

posted May 23, 2005 06:25 PM         

I was so suprised to read that there are actual institues that research astral travel and have trainees! That's really got me thinking. I'm glad that the idea of astral travel is recognized in science, or else I'd think I was going crazy. To tell you the truth, I've felt very isolated
after having all these experiences. And the hardest part is that its been so difficult to share these events in my lifewith those I'm close to. I've told my 2 besfriends and Mom so far and they were very interested but I became so frustrated trying to explain it and I've decided to just keep it private from now on. I just wish it was easier to explain and perceive, because it's made me feel odd from others.

I've come to the conclusion that this all must serve some purpose that I still need to find. I've never self induced these experiences so that's made me even more curious as to why I have them. I think I've always had this ability just that it's grown noticeably stronger in the past year. I only hope that I can learn how to channel these energies in order to make use of them.

posted May 24, 2005 03:58 AM         

I have an idea to entertain ... one of the claims-to-fame of the old witches (and the modern ones too, I guess) was the ability to travel astrally, hence all the flying associated with witches. Maybe you learned and nurtured this ability in a past life, as a witch, and so this time around you have retained the ability as natural, innate (kind of a karmic gift). You must have been a "witch" ... that would explain a lot!

Funny thing is, once you are able to direct your OBEs, you will be able to find out for yourself, first hand. When you do, please let me know!

Have I never mentioned Robert Monroe to you? Maybe I mentioned his books ... Journeys Out of the Body, etc. If not, you must read them, there are three. They read like a story, not like text or instruction. He had the same problem, in the beginning - spontaneous OBEs - but he became quite the explorer.

I don't think "Science" has really recognized Astral travel ... but actually Monroe approaches it very scientifically, to his credit. He even developed Hemi-Sync, hemispheric synchronization, a method by which sound tones are used to sychronize both hemispheres of the brain, and guiding the brain into specified brain-wave patterns, such as meditative, suggestive, imaginative, OBE, etc. He developed this by monitoring his own brain-wave patterns in the lab while in various states of awareness, which correlate to specific frequencies, then figuring out how to duplicate these frequencies in another through the use of sound. Anyway, it's fascinating stuff, and Monroe started the Monroe Institue, in Faber, Virginia, to research OBEs and altered states, and develop ever better training tools to aid those who search.

If you can't talk to anyone else, at least you can talk here ... and feel free to do so! I love this subject, and your 'story' is fascinating to me, truly.