reply to post by jedimiller
Actually I had one of these in 2006, and posted about it on another forum...
When it happened I jumped out of bed and ran to the computer and posted the whole thing in stream of consciousness and lots of all-caps text, which is
unlike me, haha.
It was very 'real', but it was not like ordinary 'reality' i.e. I couldn't exactly read a book (which is a test of lucid dreaming).
I've also 'been to Heaven' twice. I don't mean I saw god, but the first time was like being in the presence of something giving off energy.
The first time was very visceral and involved eternal 'bliss' and flying through orangeish red clouds, like an IMAX movie. There were other bodies
around me and we were all flying the same direction. Some were facing up and others facing down.
Now, sci-fi fans will maybe recognize some themes here, and I have read this novel, but when I had this dream I had NOT seen this cover and the novel
didn't really have a scene like this. Here, the bodies were orange, but in my 'OOBE' the clouds were approx. this color and I did not know I had a
'body', it was pure 'space behind your forehead' stuff. Also these bodies are turned the wrong way, the bodies were head first in my experience, I
was sort of 'face down' in that I had a sense of looking down.
When I read this in the 80s, this is the cover of the book I had:
The second time wasn't too long ago and involved me singing a cosmic 'note' that was just so beautiful that it was transcendent. It was like the
scene in The Fifth Element, with the Diva
Lucia di Lammermmor-il dolce suono only it was basically one or two notes for part of it and very
high register.
The funny thing is, I'm not that great a singer (read: lousy), though I'm an amateur musician.
What distinguishes these from other 'dreams' in my experience is that there is a very visceral reaction. I felt 'G-forces' and head rushes and
other things and when the first one was done, I felt like I had just gotten off of a roller coaster, with the tight stomach and the blood rushing
around. Even the most vivid dreams I've had at other times were all in my head, no body rushes.
In the singing dream, my head and shoulders were all involved and I felt the physical sense of singing. Again, it was just one or two notes, but it
was sublime and I felt like I was affecting things around me in the dream sonically. The singing didn't stop for a breath but just went on and on and
I felt like it would be cool to just do this forever. Great feeling when I woke up and it stuck with me for a while. It was not as starting as the
OOBE thing. I woke up from that very, uh vocally and oddly my wife started talking to me and telling me stuff at the moment I became awake, as though
she knew what was going on.
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Anyway forgive me for posting all that stuff, but I wanted to be detailed enough to give a sense of the complexity and continuity of the
experiences.
Jedi, I've looked over your experience and I really appreciate your posting me the link. Sounds -very- neat.