531-OB: Walking to lift

 

7:12 am

I had two OBs back-to-back.

I was in and out of, I think, some dreams. And before that, I made the intention to have an OB tonight.

In one of the dreams, I woke up and was in a hazy state of mind. I said, “Okay, let’s try to do an OB.”

I managed to rub my fingers and my hands together. I was on the bed, and then I rubbed my face. I continued to rub my face and hands, and as I was rubbing, I rubbed my torso as well.

Then… I wanted to roll over and stand up on the floor, and I managed to do that.

I stood up on the floor of my bedroom. I think I touched the curtains on the left and also the bed on the right.

I was stomping on the floor just to make it feel more real. I also spoke out loud so that I could hear myself, and I did—I managed to hear myself talking.

I walked to the door of my bedroom. As I walked, I touched objects on the left and right. On the left, I touched the wall. When I reached near the bathroom, I also touched the wall on the right.

Then I touched the door of my bedroom, grabbed the handle, opened it, and walked out into the living room.

I was looking around, and I remembered to continue rubbing my hands together to maintain the lucidity. I forgot to look at the palms of my hands. I also forgot to do peering to make more light and color appear.

So I was looking around the living room, looking at objects, and then the dream faded.

Then I tried to re-enter the dream by imagining touching objects, and I managed to re-enter it again.

This time, I was also on the bed. I rubbed my hands together, swung my feet over, and stood up on the floor.

I ran to the door of my bedroom, opened it, and walked out into the living room. Then I went straight to the door of the living room, opened it, and walked out into the corridor.

I touched the sides of the walls and quickly walked to the metal grill. I opened the metal grill gate and walked out, touching the wall as I moved toward the lift.

As I was walking to the lift, I remembered to peer at my palms this time. So I looked at the palms of my hands to try to make the world appear—and it did appear beyond my palms.

All this while, I remembered to keep rubbing my palms together.

After a while, the dream faded.

530-OB Getting up from bed

 

7:50 am

I was in and out of dreams, and then I think I came out of one, and I am lying on my right.

So I thought let's to try to induce the early morning state, and I managed to feel my fingers rubbing the familiar rubbery sensations, and also starting on my left and right fingers rubbing.

Then I brought the palms together and rubbed them as well.

Then I rubbed my face.

Then I rubbed the mattress and then I tried to swing over, and I stand up, but the state fizzled out.

529-OB: Raja Uda veranda

7:34 am

I did the Sedona Method to rest and easily fall asleep.

I got up to pass urine and drink water, then got back to bed and had the intention to do the out-of-body experience techniques.

I found myself using the Sedona Method to fall asleep easily as well.

After using the Sedona Method to relax, I intentionally willed myself to feel the early-morning, lack-of-sleep kind of familiar fuzzy feeling.

I managed to feel it, and that caused me to be able to perform the exit technique—rubbing my fingers and so on.

Then I found myself in the correct state of mind, a bit hazy and fuzzy.

I managed to rub my fingers, then rub my hands together.

Then I rubbed my face, my torso, and also the bed.

I used my mind to intend to swing my feet over the bed and place them on the floor of my bedroom.

I managed to do that.

I then stood up on the floor of my bedroom.

I used my hands—my knuckles—to tap on the floor. I could hear the tapping sound, and I also felt the floor clearly.

I then rubbed the side of the bed frame and the left curtain.

This time, I chose to walk straight to the door in front of my Raja Uda house.

I opened the door, walked out, went to the staircase, touched the bannister, and walked all the way down to the lower floor.

I turned left into the living room.

I saw my father and mother, hugged them, and wished them well.

Then I walked toward the main door of the living room.

I opened it and walked out.

I then felt that the familiar surroundings helped maintain lucidity easily.

So I interacted with objects on the veranda. I spent some time touching objects here and there.

I also examined, I think, some wood grain textures and other objects to increase the light and colour.

After a while, because the environment was familiar—and I was very familiar with my childhood home—it was quite easy to maintain lucidity.

Eventually, the dream faded.

Then I found myself staring at a white wooden post, and I was in the room.

I immediately took the opportunity to re-enter the dream by rubbing the wooden post with my hands.

So this is a new technique: whenever you are in a dream, and you are looking at an object in a hypnagogic state, you rub it—the object— feel the tactile sensation -- and you can re-enter the dream.

So I rubbed the white wooden post, and the world appeared.

This time, I looked at my hands—at the palms of my hands, left and right—clearly.

Each time I did that, beyond the palms of my hands, the world appeared.

It was a room, and I think there were some people—ladies, I think.

I tried to interact with them and talk to them.

Eventually, the dream faded.

 

528-OB: Metta in outdoor market

6:48 am

I did the Sedona Method to relax and fall asleep.

Then I got up to drink water and pass urine.

After that, I couldn’t sleep for a long time, but it didn’t bother me.

I did releasing via the Sedona Method.

Then, towards the morning, I also had the intention to do an out-of-body experience.

At one moment, I felt it was the correct time. I had that familiar early-morning, not-enough-sleep kind of feeling. I said, “Let’s try this.”

Then I managed to enter a hazy state and felt my fingers rubbing.

I rubbed my hands together and felt the familiar rubbery sensation. I rubbed my face and torso. Then I think I rubbed the bed and my clothes.

I swung my feet over, put them on the floor of my bedroom, stood up, and walked away from the bed while rubbing the left curtain and the right mattress.

I walked towards the bedroom door. Everything was still dark.

I opened the bedroom door and could feel it clearly. I walked out into the dark living room and kept peering at my hands to try to bring in some light and color.

I walked around the living room like that. It was dark—I couldn’t see anything.

I said, “Clarity now,” several times, and heard my voice in the distant part of the living room.

As I continued peering at my palm, I began to see color—skin tone, brown texture. Then, beyond my hands, the world appeared.

I didn’t stare too long at my palm but alternated between both palms.

After the world appeared, the first thing I saw was that I was walking outdoors in the daytime, on a road.

There was a palm tree. I put my hands on the tree trunk and rubbed it up and down.

Then I went to a second palm tree and did the same thing.

This became a long journey walking around a town area. I met many people.

At one point, I remembered to do some chanting: “Namo tassa bhagavato arahato…”

It felt like being in a temple. There was a monk on the right-hand side, and he was about to close the temple. So I walked away back into the street.

There were many people—like an outdoor market area. I walked around, looking left and right.

At one point, I almost lost the dream state, but I tried to regain it, and the scene changed.

I found myself in a boarded-up area with many primary school boys—Malays, I think. They were wearing primary school uniforms: black shorts and white shirts.

Many of them were lying around lazily on the ground beside me and tried to touch me. I tried to avoid them.

I managed to climb over a wooden fence and onto the road.

The road looked grey and a bit watery, but it was solid.

I walked across to the other side. It was daytime. It was a big white road, like in a town area.

I wondered whether I was a Malay boy or another race.

I saw a reflective surface on a nearby wall, like a mirror, so I walked towards it and looked at my reflection.

I saw that I was a handsome young Chinese male wearing white shorts and a white shirt.

I stood there, then turned left. There was a Caucasian male walking on the right.

I continued walking straight towards another outdoor shopping area. There were stalls on both sides, with people selling things.

I felt there was some food particle in my mouth and wanted to push it out with my lips.

Then I remembered not to do that, because it might cause my physical body to wake up. I could feel my physical body in bed and reminded myself not to use physical movements—everything should be done mentally.

So I ignored it and continued walking.

I turned right and saw many people selling things.

I also did loving-kindness practice there. I remembered:

“May all beings be happy.
May all beings be free from suffering.”

As I did that, I put my palms together and looked at the people passing by.

There was a sick person on a stretcher being carried past. I put my palms together and looked at the person, thinking:

“May you be free from suffering.”

I continued walking and came across a girl sitting down, sewing. Beside her was her mother, who was larger in size.

I said, “This must be the mother.”

Both the mother and daughter looked up. I spoke to them.

The daughter said, “Yes, I am preparing to make money for school—for my education.”

Then I continued walking past them.

As I walked, I interacted with other people.

Then the dream faded.

 

527-LD: Floating in city

 

5:12 am:

I spontaneously became lucid in a dream and then continued to wrap my hands and try to keep the lucidity going.

I was flying around or floating around in the city area and flying above the road.

And I was flying up and down, up and down like that.

So I went round and round like that.

Eventually, the dream finished.

526-OB: Bright light in mirror

 

6.00 am

Earlier, I did the Buddho mindfulness breathing to try to fall asleep.
When I felt that the mind was too restless and agitated, I switched to mindfulness of mind states. I said, “This is a restless mind, an agitated mind,” and just remained mindful of the state of the mind.

I was in and out of several sleep cycles, and I had the intention of doing the exit technique. In one of the sleep cycles that I had just woken up from, I felt that I wanted to give it a try.

So I willed myself to enter the phase state and just relaxed without pushing too hard. I managed to have the experience of the early-morning type phase state.

I then tried to rub my fingers, and it worked. I rubbed my hands and felt a familiar rubbery sensation.

Then I swung my feet over the bed, put them on the floor of my bedroom, and stood up.

I then walked quickly to the main door of my bedroom, opened it, and felt the door clearly. Everything was still dark.

I then quickly walked into the living room of my N-Park condominium and opened the main door.

Then I felt something, and when I looked again, I was back in my bedroom, I think. I peered at my hands. Both palms of my hands became visible. I looked at the texture, and then light and color appeared. Then the world appeared. The light appeared.

I was in my bedroom, and in front of me there was a mirror. I could see my reflection in the mirror.

I was standing there and kept peering at my hands. The more I looked at my hands, the more the color and the light on the world appeared.

Eventually the light became clear.

I then did a bit of loving-kindness meditation and radiated it to the world. Then the dream faded.

525-OB: Hugging Darren in living room

 

6.43 am

I did the meditation: I am just the awareness that is observing everything, and everything that I feel, experience, or think of does not matter.

It helped me to fall asleep several times, and I had a good sleep.

Before going to sleep, I also had the intention that I would have an out-of-body experience.

Then, coming out of one of the sleeps, I had the idea that maybe I should try something. I remembered that I used to imagine starting a motor to induce an out-of-body experience because of the vibration of the motor.

So I imagined that I kept kick-starting the motor. When the motor started, there was the vibration of the engine. That caused me to enter the dream state.

The vibration.

I could feel the vibration in the body, and I entered the dream state.

I think I rubbed my hands and felt a familiar feeling, and also a loud vibration. The sensation deepened by itself while I was rubbing my hands, and it continued to deepen.

I was in the house, and I could hear Adrian and Darren in the other room in front.

I did Buddhist recitations. Then I did the radiation of loving-kindness to the surroundings, and to Darren.

I hugged Darren and wished him well with loving-kindness. I also wished loving-kindness to all beings.

While doing this, I walked around the room instead of keeping still. I walked towards the back, and at one point I thought of going to the other side of the wall, where there was a bright outdoor area.

But then I turned around, I thought that I should remain in the same room, because familiarity would strengthen and maintain the lucidity.

So I just walked around the room like that, looking at the walls.

After finishing the earlier recitations, I then did the Buddhist mantra:
Om Mani Padme Hum, Om Mani Padme Hum.

I walked around while chanting it.

As I was chanting Om Mani Padme Hum and walking around the room, the dream faded.

I initially wanted to re-enter the dream because I could still feel the vibration — the vibration in my hands and in the body.