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.
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.
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:
School tests, coming soon
After several nights of "special effects", last night was a quiet night of just plain dreaming. I didn't go to sleep until almost midnight, and these days going to sleep that late usually means I won't have any OBEs.
When I was in my twenties and thirties I used to be able to go to bed drunk at midnight and wake up at 2-3am with vibrations and OBEs, but at this age things don't work like that any more. If you've ever read the Carlos Castaneda books, don Juan talks about "energy" from time to time, and now I know what he means.
Inception notes
Just a few quick notes after watching Inception last night. First, whoever wrote it knew what they were writing about. The wife's emotions, the use of totems, environmental influences on dreams, and many other concepts were right on. I think someone would have to be an experienced lucid dreamer to know those things, or else they did their research very well.
Lucid dreams, Inception, and the totem
I felt a little sick this afternoon, so I decided to just take the rest of the day off. This was somewhere around 2pm. So I grabbed a sheet and quickly fell asleep in my reclining chair. Surprisingly, I fell into some lucid dreams, though they weren't lucid at first.
They began with me looking out a window from an apartment, maybe on the second or third story of an apartment building. Based on the streets I'll say I was in a city somewhere. What made me think it was an apartment was that as I turned I saw many of my things set up in the room.
Long night, long dreams
Last night was one of those nights where you go to bed at 11pm, have long, epic dreams all night, wake up feeling incredibly refreshed, and then find it's only 6:30am. Worse than that, I almost got up much earlier, feeling like I normally do, which is to say not 100% refreshed, but needing to get to work.
Succeeded at the card test again
For at least the sixth or seventh time, I have succeeded at the "card test". Last night's card was the two of hearts, which I clearly saw in a dream and documented at least three hours before waking up and going to see what card was in the living room.
Unlike seeing the card in an OBE as I have done before, I was able to get this to work last night for the first time in the normal dream state, which is very cool.
The card test
The card test is simple:
Recent OBE thoughts
Recent events reminded me of this OBE, where my "second body" (astral body, energy body, etc.) was pulled from my physical body, and eventually landed in the backyard of a house where I was house-sitting for a friend. The recent questions are "How do you see in the second body?", and "How do you hear in the second body?"
