Waking dreams/transportation to dream world when awake

[jafar]

Hi all,

This is something I have been experiencing for a while. I've asked around online and with friends/family, and no one really seems to relate.

I've experienced dreams that have felt very vivid and familiar. Dreams that have stuck with me for whatever reason. Generally, the ones that stick with me are ones where I am simply in a place. There's not a whole lot of action, I simply "am" in a dream, in a place that resonates with me on some level. These are typically the dreams where I experience the "waking transportation to the dream world" (I don't know how else to describe it.)

The experience seems to almost defy description. This isn't day dreaming.... it's not that I am meandering in my mind, recalling the setting/feeling of these dreams. It's happen on more than one level than just the mental, if that makes sense.

Again, it is difficult to explain the experience, but I will attempt to in this post.

The experience will happen at any moment, without warning and without any (obvious) trigger.

For example, I will be walking down the street and all of a sudden I am simply "there" in one of these dream worlds. It's like the physical world freezes and I am now in another realm. For all intents and purposes, "I" am no longer in the physical world when this occurs. However, I am still awake physiologically, it's not that I become unconscious and fall asleep when this happens.

These experiences will typically last 30-45 seconds at the most, and then "I" am back to the physical.

The first time I ever experienced this, I was on a high dose psilocybin mushrooms. This actually happens quite frequently when I take psychedelics (LSD or mushrooms.) When I experience this on psychedelics, it is typically way more intense and lasts longer.

Again, it is extremely difficult for me to explain this experience with words. However, I'm curious if anyone has any insights into what might be happening when this occurs, on the etheric/astral/etc level. Or if you can even relate to this. I haven't found anyone who can.....

I've experienced similar things as you've described, but for my case it happened whenever I'm sleeping or in deep meditation. People labeled such experience as "Astral Projection", and you can search around using such keyword to dig up more and read stories on how other people experienced such phenomenon.

I never and intentionally do not want to experience such thing during wakeful state, as it can be dangerous, such as when I need to concentrate on driving a car.

It seems maybe for your case since you've taken psychedelics, which I haven't and do not wish to do so, the 'plug' of 'consciousness projection' has starting to get 'loose', so to speak.

For me it usually started with 'seeing' while my eyes closed, either on sleep or in meditation.

Initially the environment is similar to the physical world, and I know I'm in such state when I can start to leave my physical body.

Afterwards it depends on our 'vibrational level' during such time, when it's high then the environment starting to change to something beautiful, when it's low then the environment will be gloomier.

When I'm such state I can literally teleport / fly to any time/space context that I wish to, communicate with any beings that I encountered using telepathy. I can even become 'a tree' or 'a rock' and see how the 'life' experience from their perspective.

After doing some research it seems that what happened is the 'consciousness' is temporarily projecting it's focus not on the physical body but to the other layers of the body. The explanation from Yogic tradition about 5 layers of body is adequate to give some explanation to what I've experienced.
https://www.doyou.com/understanding-the-...s-of-self/

I first realize that this is not merely my imagination or my brain went havoc when I saw Jurgen Ziewe's video about his own experience.
https://youtu.be/p998pkuUZxY
Because I saw the exact same scenery to what he has described and visualized using paintings and computer graphics.

So yes you're definitely not alone on experiencing the phenomenon...