Mind from the Inside

[Arkilogue]

This happened to me a couple times when I was younger and was playing around with meditation.  I felt the body was being pulled down by an incredible force of gravity, so I couldn't move (even though I wasn't really trying to).  Then-- whoosh!  Freedom.

But in my case, I didn't know it was a lucid dream, as I experienced it as an OBE.  I started walking around my room, turned around, and saw myself lying there.

I think in my case lucid dreams mostly have happened when something almost woke me up, but not quite.  So as I fell back asleep, I did so with some knowledge, "Hey. . . I'm sleeping."  But definitely, thinking about lucid dreaming a lot made it occur more often.  Keeping a dream diary and writing every morning helped a lot, too-- I started having much better dream recall, and a more general ability to pass between waking and dreaming states.

It's a natural experience with many children.

Yeah, that sinking feeling I think is an inversion point...like we collapse to a singularity and flip inside out...there is a "bounce back point". I think a lot of people are afraid there isn't, and the internal sink into darkness is never ending. Fear of death.

Did you expect your body to be there? The default state is different for each person but the initial OBE/lucid state is a near copy of the physical environment and largely responds to expectation. I expected my body to be there but it wasn't.

Expectation is another key. For instance when I started playing with being able to create something for myself others in the lucid dream state, it's helpful to expect it to be literally "right around the corner". I want to find an intrument to play, I go look someplace that was formerly just out of sight. I can create jewels, gems, butterflies etc in my cupped hands by enclosing a space with them and breathing into it. When I open my hands, the item in mind is there.