The Dream Thread

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I experienced something odd. I was done with a meditation, and as usual thanked everybody, but suddenly instead of opening my eyes, it seems that I fell in some kind of microsleep or something like that. In that "dream" I was seeing myself lying in the bed. I thought that I was awake, but now I see that I was probably sleeping; or maybe I was awake, but not my brain, I don't know... Anyway I could feel the difference between my body and "myself". So I tried to leave the body. When my head was outside the body, somebody shouted at me, and there was also an uncomfortable feeling or knowing that I shouldn't do that, so I got back into the body, but tried to "free" my legs. After a little struggle I could feel my legs in the air, but saw the physical legs lying there in the bed. That was awesome! I got really happy for achieving that. The feeling I had in that "dream" between the physical body and whatever form there is that inhabiting that body is very subtle; so I had to concentrate to feel that difference. And gravity that pulls you back into the body was extremely strong. It really took a lot of strength to fight it, to be able to hold the feet in the air, as they were drawn back into the physical body with quite a power. There were also people around me that I couldn't see who were talking quietly, and I knew that I was being watched by them. Nothing uncomfortable, just being watched. You know, like a mother watching her child playing and talking to her friend at the same time, but still having her eye on that mischievous child =) Then that "reality" or whatever it was I was experiencing started to change into becoming more "real" so to speak, and I understood that my brain started to wake up. I got disappointed thinking that now there was no point of trying more, and opened my physical eyes. Everything in that "dream" was exactly how it looks in reality: my bedroom, my body etc... Strange stuff...

Wow. All I can say is that once when I was meditating, I tried to "step out" of my body by simply starting to "view" (or envision) the room I was meditating in, and seeing myself from the outside. It was really interesting mostly because our yorkshire terrier LITERALLY freaked out on us and started to bark and cry at the same time. I came back and stopped, and the dog was very happy

She must be in this plane with me to keep me challenged to do meditation, as she moves me a little or confuses/distracts me when I am meditating at every 6-7 mins, so... yeah, I still love her, but it is interesting.