Wish everyone a Happy New Year

I make this an opportunity to wish my friends (all 3 rows of them, lol), fellow Astral Pulse forum members, visitors, visitors-to-come, fellow OBEers, APers, Lucid dreamers and truth seekers...

A Very Happy New Year, filled with good health, plenty of wealth and abundant spiritual surprises and experiences.

May you all become Enlightened!

Total Lucidity, after a long time, using the sleep/wake/sleep method...

I must shoot myself for not using the sleep/wake/sleep technique all this while. I have used it once successfully and out of ignorance I haven't used it for more a year and have been worrying about not becoming lucid!

The technique was named sleep/wake/sleep or the nap technique (which I found somewhere online). Because one should wake up from sleep, stay awake for a little while and go back to sleep for this method to work. It works great for me. But I feel sleepy at office the next day :-)

So here's what happened...

I was reading about lucid dreaming from Friday and was having a great desire to become lucid. I set the alarm for 3 am yesterday, but after feeling 'lazy' deactivated the alarm before going to bed!.

But fortunately, I woke up feeling something crawling under my back... freaked out. It was a big, black ant! (it was 03:36 am) Since I woke up, I went and had a glass of water and went to the washroom. Once I'm back in bed, I fired up the browser in my mobile phone and read an article about lucid dreaming. When it was almost 20 minutes since I woke up, I switched the light off and went back to sleep.

I started telling myself "I will be aware when I am dreaming...". And (this is the important part) I look for images building up... that is, I just look in the darkness behind my eyelids while i fall asleep for any images I start seeing. Once I start seeing, I try to imagine/project something or some place I want to see in my dream... since I am watching very carefully and because I am reminding myself to be aware when I am dreaming, it happens! I became lucid. 3 or 4 times as I remember. I go straight into a lucid dream.

This is the 1st time, I had some dream characters in the dream.

I was walking on the road when the 1st dream started, I saw a girl walking ahead of me (well, what else a guy needs in a lucid dream lol ). Wearing slacks and a short-sleeved shirt. I looked back and saw a guy walking too. He was the brother of that girl. But who cares, since this is a lucid dream, I went closer to her boldly and started talking to her while walking beside her. I was asking some questions and she was answering me (which I don't remember). I touch her slowly to feel her skin, she blushes, but keeps communicating with me. I feel her buttocks with my hands too. My heart was racing. When I looked back, the brother of the girl was approaching us fast with a frowning face... uh oh! He came closer and pinched me hard on my back. lol.

But I didn't want to hurt him. I am not the type of guy who would go and touch a girl on the road or hit a guy (though I touched a girl in a lucid dream ;-) ). So what I did was, took hold of his hand, lifted him up spin once and threw him over my head (while wishing he should land safely). It was a playground to which he was thrown... so I watched him land in slow-motion as I wished. He too enjoys the 'landing'. He smiles and walks away :-) He didn't bother us after that. I woke up though.

But again I induced a dream the same way, wishing to be in the same place with the girl and it happened. Though she was wearing a different dress and the place looked a little bit different. I took hold of her hand and we ran fast together, giggling... it was fun. And I stopped in a hill and looked at her... she came close to me and we kissed. The 1st kiss in a lucid dream. It felt so real that I could feel my erection in bed (the physical one I mean), while I am in the dream. We walked a couple of steps ahead and I lost the dream again. I couldn't enter it after that.

But I had another lucid dream in another place for a brief period, where I was in a room and wanted to get out of it to try some flying. But my uncle was there in the room and was talking to me. Because I wanted to get out of the room I 'wish' my phone must ring... and it happens! So I excuse him and get out of there (how nice it would be if these things would work in the physical world too... lol). Once I am outside, I start levitating... I feel the cool breeze when I rise up slowly, while gazing at the stars in the sky... but it didn't last for a long time. I woke up.

After that I found it very difficult to sleep, let alone become lucid. So it was the end of a nice session of lucid dreams, after a very long period. I guess I would be lucid more often hereafter. Because my mind is now set in it. Got to control the urge to see women in the dreams though, cos' I am missing out on seeing great landscapes and other interesting things that are only accessible in lucid dreams.

The day at office was a sleepy one for me. Some good portion of sleep is lost because of this technique I guess.

Happy dreaming.

How I get upto the vibrational stage... in simple English

Moments ago, I replied to a post in Astral Pulse forum, to someone who wanted instructions to get started in Astral projection, in plain English.

Since I have experience only in getting upto the vibrational stage successfully, I replied as follows:

I have experience getting upto the vibrations, like this...

1. Prepare your mind (Reading alot about other people's astral experiences will help)

Once in bed...
2. Start repeating in your mind "MIND AWAKE, BODY ASLEEP" (can be done in your native language)
3. Relax your body part by part

you will reach the vibrational stage soon (after falling almost asleep couple times, if done with a real need for projection!)

after that, you will need the guidance of the experts (me too! )

Good luck

Hope it would help someone. Looking forward to the stages beyond vibrations...

Isabella, the stranger in the dream

Had this dream last night...

I was in the town where I went to school, walking through the road that leads to my school. Its a little far from the town and is almost a remote area with full of tall trees, winding narrow roads, hills etc. It's always nice to dream this school-road...

I was having this "where is my car" thought in my mind from the beginning of the dream. As though I don't remember where I left my car (obvious in a dream!)... when passing a curve, I hear a vehicle coming, and I start walking a little more closer to the fence on the side of the road (created with wild plants and barbwire). Since it's almost dark, the vehicle passes me with it's light beaming brightly lighting up the road ahead.

As it passes, I notice a slim, fair girl, seemingly young (like a college girl), coming from a lane and crossing the road ahead of me. She glances at me while crossing the road until she gets to the side of the road on which I am walking.

She walks slow while looking back at me time to time, as though she is expecting to talk to me once I come close to her. As usual, the mind starts fantasizing everything ;-)

I get close and she starts asking me something about computers! Dream characters are so telepathic it seems, they know one's profession in an instant :-) I start walking slowly with her too (she walks to the side of the fence). I explain something politely while thinking of a way to break the ice!

Fortunately I see a small detour on the road ahead of her and because she is concentrating on what I am saying while looking at my face, I casually pull her gently away from the detour towards me by slipping my hand between her arms and hips. Her skin felt soft. She was a little shocked at my bold move, which was evident in her blushed face.

It sparked a sensual bond between us, and I notice she touches my hand time to time too when she agrees on something I say while nodding her head.

Then I think I get too excited... my mind runs wild and I lost focus on the dream and didn't remember what happened for a while.

Again I am walking in the same road leading to the school with a couple of my friends and I happen to pass her house... the roof and the lawn are visible from the road... I look down and see her standing there in the lawn reading something. She looks up and says something similar to "Hi computer guy" (don't remember the correct wordings).

I tell her, "Hi, I'll drop by when I am returning", and I am a little blushed too, since my friends look at my face with a "who the hell is that?" look in their face :-)

I tell them it's Isabella! (I don't even remember how I got to know her name in the first place).

I get to a place where my car is parked. My friends vanish from the dream magically and I start and park the car in another place. Then I walk and see a huge bus. And it is parked right behind a detour. I get into the bus and try my best to start and drive it for a short distance. Turning the steering wheel with all my might to make sure the bus keeps away from the detour. Then I don't remember parking anywhere or getting out of it...

School road again... I walk straight to Isabella's house. She is there inside and I go and have a seat and start chatting with her. While her parents also have a chat with me time to time. Though my mind is all excited whenever she is around (and she seemed to be very interested in me too!), nothing 'happens' between us ;-) damn I should have been lucid.

I remember walking back towards the town thinking "I have been looking for the perfect girlfriend everywhere in the world, while she has been living right next to my school all these years..."

That's all I remember about the dream. I felt as if I am missing her already, when I woke up. Wish I can see her again in a dream. Well, it would be even better if I see her in real life ;-) I might freak out if someone named Isabella comes and talks to me tomorrow though... lol

Happy dreaming...

"Waking Life" the movie about dreams and lucid dreams

I happen to watch a movie about dreams after a long long time... actually it was after "The Matrix". This isn't an action movie though.

"Waking Life" tells the story of a young man who drifts in an out of a cycle of dreams, trying hard to wake up for real... he is so frustrated because he could not wake up breaking the chain of dreams and lucid dreams.

But hey, if it was me, I will never want to wake up from a lucid dream... It's a dream of everyone to have lucid dreams continuously like that ;-)

It addresses philosophical ideas in depth too... And this movie launched or brought back the desire to have lucid dreams back in me. So I recommend this to every lucid dreaming enthusiast.

What's more, I discovered a new musician (new to me)... Guy Forsyth, from this movie (yes he plays as a dream character in a scene too). I really liked the way he played the Mandolin, or some instrument like that :-) in the movie scene while talking about dreams with the movie's main character.

The video editing is so cool. They have used a technique that makes the whole movie look almost like a dream.

There was a scene where the main character meets a hot girl, and they start kissing... And I thought, well, this is a lucid dream and he is going to make love to her, but he wakes up in the middle of the kiss, as it happens to all of us ;-) God only knows why we tend to snap out of a lucid dream and wake up suddenly when we are excited seeing a hot girl in a lucid dream ;-)

Anyway, this is a cool movie, that every 'dreamer' should watch.

Happy dreaming.