Having the shakes in the morning after meditation and chanting
Phew, I meditated and chanted so hard and long last night, I ended up dreaming an entirely different life overnight, one of those long dreams that seems to be many times longer than the actual time you slept, in this case several days of leading another life. As I write this, it's now more than one hour after I woke up from those dreams, and my body and hands are still shaking from the experience.
Seeing cards in a dream
Last night I was feeling very calm, and I was able to relax like I haven't been able to do in a long time. As I thumbed through an old book on Zen, I felt very calm, with no thoughts of the past or future disturbing me.
I thought I might be able to have an OBE, so I set things up for the card test. I did the usual thing, closing my eyes, shuffling the cards, taking one from the deck, placing it face up, walking away, then opening my eyes.
Lifting a house like Yoda
While the universe continues to remind me that this physical body is mortal and I'm just living here on borrowed time, my lucid dreams of late have been entertaining. Two of the last three nights I've had lucid dreams with friends and family members, along with a couple of people I don't know.
Moving the bed = new dreams
Just a quick note that due to a variety of circumstances, I ended up sleeping in a different area of the apartment last night, and as usual, my dreams seemed to change very dramatically, and were very vivid. The dreams themselves are irrelevant, but the point I want to make is that this happens very often, I move the bed and the dreams change.
Dreams of family members
I haven't had any time to write lately, and don't have much this morning, so I'll keep this brief.
About five days ago I had a nightmare about one of my family members, and jotted a note about it in the notebook I keep by the bed. I hadn't spoken with her in a while, I don't remember exactly how long, but it was certainly days and possibly weeks. The next day she sent an email saying she would need surgery.
Where do words and memories in dreams come from?
One dream last night involved an interaction with my father that made me wonder again how the dream state works. We were walking through a park, with other people walking around us, and we were talking about a comedian's sketch about Harry Caray broadcasting the first baseball game. If you like baseball and know your biblical references, it's a very funny sketch.
Lucid dreams and OBEs
Just a quick note that I spent most of the time from midnight until 3am this morning in lucid dreams and the OBE state. I didn't make any notes about them during the night because there wasn't anything remarkable about them, but after many more dreams from 3am until I woke up this morning, I don't remember a lot of detail about them, other than being happy that they finally started up again.
A few notes from the night:
Planes being shot down, precognition
For most of last night I considered the evening to be a severe disappointment. The setup yesterday was so perfect, I thought for sure I'd have one or more OBEs.
Yesterday morning at 11am I was sure I was about to have an OBE, except for the minor detail that I was driving a car, so I had to force myself to stay focused to make sure that didn't happen. (Usually before I have an OBE I know I'm going to have one, and that's what this feeling was.)
Alarm goes off in my head while sleeping
I've had a ton of dreams lately, including some levitating and light flying dreams, but I've been too busy to record them. One dream stands out from last night however.
Dreams with an upset stomach
I've been dealing with a bit of a stomach bug the last few nights, so I haven't been able to do any OBE or even an lucid dreaming stuff. I just wanted to make a few quick notes about one dream this morning.
In the dream I was working for some type of engineering company, and the dream itself was not pleasant at all. But, the things I wanted to note are:
