I think the reason that this thread is not going the way you would like is because you are so sure that your symptoms are ascension related that you have established that as your starting point and are attempting to frame all of our responses to fit that narrative when we are not at all sure that is correct, or even a reasonable hypothesis. This is the same dynamic that occurred in some of the early sessions when Laura asked the Cassiopaeans questions that were loaded with assumptions and they got a bit snippy with her. The answer was never going to be exactly what she wanted to hear, and they end up dancing round and round each other having an incomplete dialog or the question became just plain unanswerable, depending on the severity of the assumptions. With this in mind, I would echo what others have said about diet, hormones, and the more prosaic explanations first. Also 99% of the time, running female software on male hardware is just asking for problems. You yourself admitted to how difficult and traumatic the transition is on the body in the transgenderism thread.
Now if you've investigated all of that and moved past it, which appears unlikely based on how you framed the question, I can see where these answers would be unsatisfactory to you and so I will give you a little of what you want. It turns out that I've had all of the symptoms that you've described at one point or another except for the "etheric body viewing," many of them years ago and some this year, and I haven't materially ascended to any degree. It is my opinion that these experiences are tests and trainings for 4D, and not ascension side effects, per se. The paranormal possibilities that hyperdimensional realities provide are subtle and only occur around the periphery of our reality, for the most part it is very solid and subject to fixed "natural laws," and so if you can't handle the occasional artefact that these realities create when they intersect with ours, you have no chance at all surviving in a reality where what we call paranormal is king. Also, there is a war going on on our planet between 4D STS and 4D STO. As far as their battles are concerned, we're just being dragged along with it until we reach 4D awareness, which in large part is what the war seems to be over, at which point we will become caught up in it. If your consciousness does not have the discipline of a warrior-ascetic, you will not survive, or you will get absorbed by 4D STS. Now with that in mind, I will go through your experiences, when they happened to me, and how I dealt with it.
Hot Flashes-2020 This occurred to me while I was watching some old episodes of Star Trek Deep Space 9. Now DS9 had always been my least favorite Star Trek, it didn't have near the exploration aspect that the others did and it seemed very political. The politics weren't even that interesting and seemed dry compared to something like Game of Thrones. I've kind of gotten my grandma turned on to sci-fi, but we had watched all of the series that I considered worthwhile up to this point, so I decided to revisit DS9 since I was now a lot older and could appreciate it more. Well, after about 10 episodes, it just wasn't happening. My boredom was creating this warm feeling that would bubble up from my legs and move into my head. On subsequent nights I skipped around, bypassing the most obviously boring episodes, and moved through a couple of seasons, occasionally finding a good episode, but overall I felt like I was wasting my time. One night, while I was on the fence about continuing, the warm feeling suddenly ignited and I had a "flash fever" somewhat reminiscent of a severe flu where it felt like I was going to burn out of my own skin and I almost passed out. I actually started sweating slightly. Now usually when I'm watching something intellectually stimulating I have this cool electrical feeling in my body/brain. It's like there was too much resistance building up in my energy system from doing something that I knew wasn't really in my best interest, and something overheated. I got the message and immediately ceased watching the program. The hot flashes ceased as well. Was it a message from the universe, or some 4D being giving me a poke or some future version myself, or some kind of subconscious feedback system? Maybe. Who knows? There was definitely a message and I took it to heart.
As for depression, yeah that comes and goes and I'm not going to go into any specific examples of that, some are posted here on the forum. I'd say it's related to the hot flashes and the severe, debilitating kind of depression that makes you want to die usually results from not doing something you should be doing and expanding your horizons; you're not putting enough into life and you become "stuck." All imbalances will be resolved one way or another, and you want to be the one who chooses how that's done rather than being subjected to the universal cleaning and recycling program.
Out of Body Experience-2009 This occurred after I was having a dream about gathering different "spirit essences," mainly from plants. I returned from my "shamanic journey" or at least I thought I did, but I was still dreaming. I saw some kind of greyish tunnel/wormhole in my wall and there was some sort of sound/signal be emitted through it that sounded kind of like a radio buzz/squeal. At some point after that my focus changed and I really did wake up, however I had this intense tingling sensation in my body. I realized that my vantage point was about a foot higher than it should be and that I was kind of floating. My post-sleep grogginess suddenly wore off and I frenetically thought, "Floating! Now what am I supposed to do? How can I exist in this state? What's happening?" Fear overtook me and then SNAP! Like a rubber band suddenly contracting back to its original shape I was back in my body and spent most of the next day wondering if that really happened. Fortunately there wasn't a wormhole in my wall or I probably would've lost it. I'm a bit disappointed that it hasn't happened since, because I will be more prepared for it next time and maybe have some fun with it, but such is life. So was the wormhole some kind of roadway for me to travel to the other realm where I was communing with plant spirits? Who knows, and it probably isn't that important. The main takeaway from these types of experiences is that it opens one's mind to unlimited possibilities, and maybe I won't be so lost in 4D if I ever get there.
Entity Visitations- Now this one depends on what your threshold is for such as a "visitation." I have three experiences here that I'll illustrate. 90% of dealing with these "visitations" is your state of mind.
Possession Attempt-2007 This is the only one I'm pretty sure was a real incursion, however it also happened in that in between waking and dream state, and carries that element of unreality to it. I was having a "dark man dream" where I was being chased by semi-solid amorphous shadowy humanoid creatures. In the dream there was a city which had risen out of the ocean near an island. I grabbed a boat and ran into some tunnels underneath the city. At some point I got kind of cornered and pulled some kind of grate off the floor, diving into it as a last desperate attempt to get away. Then the dream was interrupted, I heard a crash on the bathroom floor, but was sure no one was there because I was the only one who used that bathroom. I woke up, I think. An icy cold presence enveloped the room and then I felt it flood into my body and I felt myself slipping away. I decided to resist it. Once it felt my resistance my body started convulsing and I started some incoherent guttural babbling while my head was rolling back and forth. I kept trying to gain control of my body and tell it to f*ck off but all I could do is interrupt the babbling and move my mouth a bit. I snapped into another dream where I was inside a house at night with a storm raging. I could see the silhouettes of the shadowy humanoids circling around the house illuminated against the lightning. I decided to go outside and confront them. I basically ended up channeling and directing the lightning and zapping them all. The scene then snapped back to my bedroom and this time it was easier to interrupt the babbling and stop the convulsing. After a few rounds of babbling I finally managed to tell the thing to f*ck off and threatened to destroy it. I regained full control of my body and the cold field dissipated. Some time later I woke up for the final time, but felt kind of groggy and out of it like I didn't get that much sleep that night.
Alien Gym-2008 This one is similar to the last one in many ways, except not quite as intense. I was inside some type of military base, all of the rooms seemed to be made out of a smooth metal alloy and there were fiber optic looking controls. The place had a very Star Trek feel to it. At the front of the facility there were two or three entities that looked kind of like Greys, who were tagging people and sorting them into different categories. Now when the Greys appear in my dreams, I usually want to be some place that they aren't, because I find them creepy and not very fun to be around at all. This almost always results in some kind of fight or flight situation. So I only saw them for a moment and didn't pay too much attention to what they were doing. The facility was divided into a series of "gymnasiums," large rooms where people with different types of psychic abilities were congregating. The first one was the telepathy gym, where everyone was learning to talk telepathically and how to control it. I remember getting kind of annoyed by hearing everyone's thoughts and I left. The next one was electrokinesis, and I entertained myself with condensing orbs of energy out of the air and try to make them turn different colors. I walked into a few more; it turned out that whatever room I walked into I was able to learn the ability being studied after briefly interacting with the people there. Everything was fine until I walked into the telekinesis room. I was using telekinesis to fly around and apparently somehow ended up upsetting one of the aliens. The dream abruptly ended, maybe, and I found myself back in bed, but with severe sleep paralysis, I couldn't move, and I was tingling all over. I fought it, and was able to sort of flop out of bed and then stumble into the bathroom. On my way back to bed, I noted the time on the alarm clock, it was like 3:40, almost 4 in the morning. I immediately fell into another dream, I was in a deep dark misty forest, with a sort of pale yellowish shadowy light filtering through the trees. Everything had the curious feature of being two dimensional, like cardboard cutouts, and I found the place foreboding and moved quickly. Eventually, I encountered something resembling a dragon and attempted to conjure my lightning bolt on it, but the dream ended and I woke up, or not. I had sleep paralysis again, but felt a presence in the room and felt pinned to the bed. I felt this sharp coldness inside my body like something was reaching around in there. Fearing that it was some kind of incursion, I told it to f*ck off, at which point the icy dagger in my body became much more intense and I felt like it was squeezing my heart. There was an audible hiss, like a giant serpent standing next to the bed, but I could move my eyes around the room and nothing was there. I fell asleep again, or woke up, by this time it was becoming hard to tell. I was in bed, no sleep paralysis, and the alarm clock read just a few minutes before 2AM. So, was I dreaming earlier that it was 4, or was I dreaming now that it was 2? I was too tired to care and went back to sleep or...something. The next thing that happened was that I was paralyzed again along with Hissy, who was doing his thing and I once again expressed my displeasure. I blacked out again and woke up (not really) and stared at the alarm clock and saw that it was almost 11:30. I was going to be late for class. Finally I woke up for real this time partially paralyzed, with a lingering tightness in the chest from where Hissy had grabbed it. It was now 9AM. The feelings quickly subsided and I took a walk outside the apartment and was able to go about the rest of my day without any more time skips. Other than feeling drained and like I hadn't really gotten any sleep like the previous experience, I was really no worse for wear. By this time I was extremely familiar with missing time and alien abduction and how higher dimensions kind of violate causality and I wondered if that's what had really happened. Hissy was more annoying than frightening, and I found the whole thing rather exciting once I became reanchored in 3D reality.
Realm Traveling Mentor 2018- I dreamed that I was standing in a misty grey void. Some sort of humanoid coalesced out of the mist and asked (telepathically) if I wanted to come with him. If you can imagine a man made out of mist, a bit blurry and without distinct features, occasionally flickering a bit, that is what he looked like. I agreed to come with him; it was better than standing in this somewhere-in-between place with no frame of reference and nothing to do. I could feel some kind of intense mental energy coming from him and suddenly found myself inside a black sphere that paradoxically seemed infinite and infinitesimal at the same time. Inside this space you could not really move relative to the sphere, you could only look at it and experience its "aroundness." On the "interior surface" of the sphere were all of these neon lights and colors, waves intersecting with each other and vibrating around. I could feel the entity focus on a particular part of the sphere and suddenly we were drawn into one of the colors which "opened up" into a whole physical universe; stars and planets rushed around me until we popped out a few feet over a field and my feet gracefully floated down onto the grass. This whole process of being projected out of the sphere took maybe half a second. We took a short walk (more like a float really) over to his village which was situated on the bank of a lake that was smooth as glass and almost mirror-like in appearance. It really wasn't much to look at honestly, a few huts with some purposefully placed driftwood and a curious abundance of stones neatly organized into different patterns. Another oddity I noticed was was with the trees, they all seemed blurred together into one entity, yet there was still a sense of manyness. A fairly thick white mist covered the lake and surrounding area and other mist beings were milling about. This lake seemed to be the center of their domain and I got the impression that they were nature spirits. The whole place had a simple, raw, and primal feel to it. At some point the guy I was following mentioned "the fisherman" and I became rather curious how a mist being goes about fishing. He told me that he was out on the lake and I stepped out into the water, except that the surface tension was enough to hold me up. It was at this point I looked down and realized I had a mist body too. I walked into the mist and become surrounded by it, with the lake underneath my feet. Shortly thereafter, I emerged at a rather ordinary dinghy with a mist being who was holding an ornately carved stick. I looked into his boat and saw the "fish." They appeared to be like rough gemstones, except they had an iridescent glow and intermittently emitted faint rays of light. They had a generally fishlike appearance, but were more like crystals which had grown together in the shape of a fish.
Some time later my "mentor" informed me that he had to travel to a human realm in order to gather some sort of information. It was determined that I should come along. We began floating up into the sky several hundred feet above the lake and we were looking down upon the mist beings' pristine green world with unbroken water and forests in every direction. He told me to summon the black sphere as that was the quickest way to get there. We would need to materialize human bodies around ourselves because we could not interact with them in our current state. I was apprehensive about all of this because I didn't really know what I was doing. He told me all I really needed was my mind. At some point, the sphere appeared somewhat unexpectedly, and I felt myself being pulled through another one of the color streams. We materialized in an alley, complete with wardrobe, and my mentor had transformed into a handsome and muscular middle-aged man. The city had a convoluted and discordant vibe, which made it seem like it really wasn't a good place to be and I would have rather stayed on the mist world. There were cobblestone streets and gas lamps, kind of neoclassical architecture and no cars to speak of. It felt like I was in Europe in 1910, but certain architectural details seemed off, like it was a parallel universe or something. We walked up to three women who were busy gossiping about these fancy new purses they had just bought. My mentor had put on the persona of being a jovial old chatterbox, but I wasn't particularly interested in their conversation and just drifted away. I can't remember much happening after that. When I woke up I thought it was a really interesting and vivid dream and hoped there would be an episode 2 so I could learn what happened, but there was never a continuation of that particular story. So what was it? It's another one of those take it or leave it type things.
If you're being attacked by entities, it seems that they often have to traverse some kind of "mindscape," which we experience as a dreamworld, in order to get to you. You can intercept them in the mindscape and do battle with them if necessary; what you can do is primarily limited by your state of awareness, and to a lesser extent the specific environment you find yourself in. I rarely enter the mindscape with my full conscious awareness, it is usually some diminished portion of myself with a fixed amount of energy, but enough to have some idea what is going on and how I dealt with sticky situations in other dreams. It seems to require a constant steady flow of energy to maintain one's physical form in the mindscape, which disintegrates after it is depleted and ejects you from the dream. Using any special powers accelerates your energy consumption dramtically, and you want to try to focus energy that is latent in the environment, which is nearly infinite, instead of depleting your own. The environment will respond to your thoughts, if there are boulders, use telekinesis to hurl them, concentrate energy out of the air and fashion it into a white lightning bolt over the target, etc. You can project energy barriers out of your hands and use telekinesis and teleportation to dodge projectiles. My expereince is that entities, assuming they're even real which I'll get to in a moment, suddenly become a whole lot more cautious when they realize they're dealing with something that can fight back. In fact the 2007 experience was the last one which I felt was really scary, and in the past 5 years I've only had a few minor scuffles. Also, I've found that alleged entities can't really kill you from the mindscape, the main purpose of the battles seems to be to wear you down and befuddle you, making you easier to control. Even if you die in the mindscape, you can still return to your physical body and so the stakes aren't that high, but I think it's better to deal with them there instead of allowing them to phase into your physical reality. Of course, take all of this with a huge grain of salt, if my tips & tricks happen to work for you, then great, but your mileage will vary.
It's difficult to assign any objective value to these experiences because there are no third party witnesses to corroborate what occurred in the overwhelming majority of cases, so no one can really know. A lot of the symbology and depiction of the events occurring seems somewhat subjective to the participants involved. While it is my hypothesis that much of what I have described is sort of a preview of 4D realities, someone is going to have to know how to deal with this stuff after the transition occurs, it is as of yet untestable, which makes it worthless as far as this forum is concerned. While it makes for some interesting storytelling, I don't think a lot of people on this forum really care because it doesn't help you much in the here and now. It does open your mind to wider possibilities and maybe provide you with some subtle hints regarding the true nature of your reality, but it won't help you hold a job or generally navigate 3D life at its most basic functional levels. While these experiences are interesting to me, I'm not emotionally attached to them, I just let them happen and record them for later reflection. The paranormal is tricky, entities can make you see what they want you to see and make you believe what they want you to believe. You can do it to yourself too. For all I know, "mentor" was giving me a fun fantasy to play around in while he was collecting the emotional energy it generated. I consider this highly unlikely given the circumstances, but it is a possibility. In conclusion, ascribing this stuff to lightbody integration is an inductive leap which cannot be supported by evidence, although it cannot be totally disproven either.
Disclosure: I've never taken any illicit or psychotropic drugs (well, I did take a Xanax tablet once) and am kind of afraid to because my reality can get trippy enough as is.
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