Strangest Dream/OOBE: Night of Aug 24. Woke up from dream at 1.30am. Went to bed around 11.40pm. Took melatonin 6mg 30 minutes before going to bed. State of mind prior to sleeping was as usual.
Events (sequential order in that world)
1. Someone/something helping me to project/transition.
- This part is the most difficult to remember. Don’t really remember how I went out of my body
Vague recall of ‘beings’ helping me out. They felt ethereal.
Next thing I know I’m somewhere else! The realization that I am not in my physical body made me hyper excited! I felt like an explorer in uncharted waters..
2. Old House
- Some old house, was dark, but not scary. Was night time, house with many rooms, (probably an upper floor too?).
Meeting my ‘mentor’, a guy who lives in this house. Gave me the impression of being an old man, don’t remember his face clearly. I ‘came into’ this house after my transition.
I was very excited about being out I asked him a million questions. His demeanor was that of an old man trying to help but dealing with an overenthusiastic student. But he did give me a lot of tips. Also told me a little about that world and its rules, none of which I remember after awakening.
I was following him everywhere like a puppy, and he was trying to make me sit in one place. As he walked (or floated?), I barged in with him to one of his rooms. He had a creepy daughter, sitting in the dark. But she was friendly to me and me to her. There was an adjoining room that opened to his room and it was closed shut. I wanted to go in there too, but he strictly warned me no to. I had the impression something big and dangerous (like a yeti) was behind the door, so I quickly backed away.
3. Large carnival/celebration
- Day time, clear and pleasant weather.
Major celebration going on, not unlike the scene from KOTR. People walking around, it was like a carnival.
Still in my excited state, I was walking around talking to everyone I could see.
Tried flying and a few similar things since I knew I wasn’t in my physical body. Can’t recall success or failure in this
4. Vaguely remember talking to random people. Also took part in some of their activities/missions (not sure exactly what – don’t recall) that required use of senses/faculties that were common knowledge to them, but not to me (mind reading for example). Vaguely recall being successful in some, at which point I was very proud of myself, even more so because the people thought I was a ‘local’ of that world. In some situations I had to tell them I was actually only a day old in their world. Ofcourse I knew that only a few hours had passed since I came to this ‘city’, but I somehow felt I shouldn’t tell them that. Most people I told that to were impressed I could do these things considering I didn’t have much time to learn them.
5. Failed in some of these activities miserably, leading them to look at me in a very strange way. “how can you not know how to do this???!!” they thought I should be like them (probably looked like them) and also probably thought I was a retard.
6. Still at the carnival, this Chinese lady approaches me, very petite wearing some kind of light green silk flowing dress up to her thighs. The impression I got from her was that of a smooth talking sales girl who is only after the next sales deal. Was urging me to buy/consider something but I wasn’t interested. Moved on talking to more people and exploring the carnival.
7. Indian girl whom I met at the carnival
- Looking for my next victim whom I could talk to death, found this very indian looking girl wearing an expensive looking cream colored saree with broad embroidered borders, with a matching clutch in her hand, wearing matching white high heeled shoes. Looked like someone important. She gave me a glance and I did a double take, then went to her. She looked mid-30s, neatly dressed, make up.
She said, I think I know you from somewhere, have we met? I said I am not sure, but you seem to be familiar to me too. Noticed she had a 10 year old looking girl child with her, her hair tied neatly into 2 ponytails, smiling in the background.
We started walking together, talking and passed an archway that looked either like it was the entrance of a church or mortuary (huge grill arch gates in some kind of floral design) – I couldn’t decide what. A man passed by and I asked her is that your husband. She laughed and said no, let me take you to him. He approached ahead, a man with a white beard, looking in his 60s. We talked, he was very friendly.
After a while, I told him I have to leave as I had a lot of exploring to do. He took me back to the main road through a back alley, quite cleanly kept. We parted ways and I was on my own again, still excited to explore!
8. As I was crossing the street in a small intersection, remember thinking if I ran into a speeding car would it hit me or not (or would it hurt?). Turned to the left to see Chinese girl who I met at the carnival, also crossing the street, leaving the carnival. It looked like the carnival was over and people were slowly drifting off. She started her sales pitch about something again, and I refused her and moved on again.
9. Remember (vaguely) talking to 2 friends having (what looks like) a beer and we strike up a conversation. At this point I ask them to tell me something interesting about this place since I am new here (and only a day old, I told them). Not sure if it was in the carnival or after I left that scene.
- They said, everyone in this city has to go get their ‘time punched’, every day. Every punch was a reset of the time they would have left in the day. I sensed that I probably would need to go there to later in the day. The way to do that was also very specific – go to the train station, take a particular train, go through a series of travellators (down) into the basement and you’ll find him. There might be a queue and you may have to wait.
I thought that was weird. What kind of people live like this, I thought. Anyhow I politely excused myself and thanked them for the additional information. I also had to tell them I was just a few hours old in their world.
10. Walking through the city, I looked up at the sun through the trees, shining brightly. Felt like late afternoon. Felt like new york city. Bustling, busy and full of people from different races.
- Passed the ‘Caucasian’ quarter, through roadside shops selling stuff. Walked until I reached the ‘indian’ quarter, with indian shops and people dressed accordingly.
As I walked, if I started into people’s faces long enough they would change into someone else. Very confusing. I remember trying to will the face to change to people I know (back in the physical world) as a game, but it never worked. Have to learn a lot about this place and its rules, I thought to myself.
Suddenly the indian quarter ended and it seemed like I was in some seedier part of town, the color of the scene changing to bluish. A few guys from all directions suddenly encircled me, recognizing I was not a ‘local' resident of that world. At first I lied that I was, but that didn’t work. Seems they wanted what was left of the time for me in that day so they could increase theirs. I sensed that if they took it away then I would be back into my body. I tried to bargain with them but they didn’t listen. Started to beat me up, but it didn’t really hurt. In the process, I started to get furious and was about to hit them back when I realized that I had left the scene.
11. Felt myself drifting back and the next thing I feel is my physical body again and a strange sensation in my lower left abdomen, approximately near my kidney. I felt that, that is where I got hit the hardest and it transferred into my physical as a strange fuzzy feeling. But it went away in a minute.
12. I woke up, fully awake and wishing I had been a little more street smart.
Sensations in the ‘other’ world.
• Physical: Physically fine, feeling great actually.
• Mental: Very sound, can reason and think clearly, know that I am not in my body. Trying my best to prolong the experience as much as I can. Can also remember the literature I had read on the subject while in my physical body. But didn’t stop to think if I could be dreaming. I knew I was not, and my body was sleeping somewhere else. Probably has to do with things I don’t remember at this moment that made me so sure.
• Emotional: Exhilarated, thrilled. Like a whole new world has opened up to me. Felt like an explorer in a strange land. In hindsight it looks like a got a little too carried away, like a kid in a candy store. Made some stupid decisions (see below).
Parting thoughts & analysis
• I astral projected into a different world, with different rules. People were generally like in the physical world, but they had additional ‘super sixth senses’ (like ESP for example) that we don’t have. The technology of the place seemed to be set somewhere in the near future of our world. Attitudes of people I met were generally friendly.
• The change of scene and how it happened – don’t remember. But I have the distinct impression it was my own choice and effort.
• That world itself had a peculiar quality. It was solid, and not at the same time. For example, a car passing by the street looks and feels just like in the physical, but if you turned your gaze somewhere else and then looked back for one second, it has now transformed into a bus.
• So things seemed to change if your mind was pre-occupied. Focus of thoughts and feelings was very important to maintain stability of the outside world.
• The passage of time was unremarkable. I had a clear sense of time passing just like in the physical world. But I also sensed that the longer I was able to prolong my stay in that world, the more I would learn. The entire experience after the ‘house’ scene felt like a training exercise. It may be I went to the subsequent scenes to learn something specific, being guided by the old man.
• Time was money in that world. The attack on me by those thugs and my previous conversations with the 2 guys proved that. The ‘distribution’ of time to the population was by some central authority, and I sensed that ‘he’ was quite powerful.
• I feel like this is not even half of what happened, rest is fuzzy. Memory recall could be better. In the transition into this reality from the other one, some of the experiences were lost.
• Looking at the my room now as I type (physically), slight bleed through effect for a short while. The things/objects in the world that we take for granted (like the coffee table in the living room that is always there) as solid suddenly look like they might ‘shift’ or morph into something else.
• Mind is unusually clear, no thoughts chatter. Ability to articulate in my mind clearly than before. This only lasted an hour or so though.
, i think i need to start implementing some form of supplement to get me through my week of nights.
