534-OB: False awakening in hostel room

 

8:43 am

I did Byron Katie’s The Work to release and let go, and fell asleep with the intention of having an OBE (out-of-body experience).

Then I found myself lying in bed on the right. I woke up from sleep, though it could have been a false awakening.

I then started trying to induce the phase state directly by imagining left and right, left and right in my mind, to create some kind of internal vestibular movement.

As I continued, I began to feel myself sinking left and right, left and right. Then suddenly, there was a loud humming sound that increased in frequency, and I saw things spinning in a circle.

At that point, I knew it was the right time to induce the out-of-body state.

I imagined rubbing my fingers together and managed to do so. Then I imagined rubbing my hands together, and my hands appeared. I rubbed them and felt a familiar rubbery sensation.

Next, I rubbed my face, my forearms, my torso, and even the bed mattress.

I then imagined slowly getting up—sitting up on the bed on the right and placing my legs on the ground—and it happened automatically. My body moved, sat upright on the bed, and then placed my feet on the floor.

I found myself in a shared bedroom, like a hostel. There was another person sleeping beside me, although I had the impression that he had already woken up earlier. He seemed like a student.

It was daytime—morning—and light was coming through the window on the right.

I stood up and started walking toward the main door of this large bedroom, touching the wall on the right as I moved.

As I walked, I didn’t want to bump into the other person. But I felt him guiding me—placing his hand on my back right shoulder to help me avoid obstacles.

I wondered how he could see me. He shouldn’t have been able to unless my physical body was moving. But I was not aware that this might be a false awakening.

Anyway, I opened the door of the bedroom and walked out. I felt that he might have been concerned I could fall, so I didn’t go too far. I held the banister on the left with my left hand and stood there for a while.

After some time, I turned around and walked back into the bedroom.

At that point, I thought I had woken up from the dream—realizing it had been a false awakening.

As I walked in, I saw a large bed—a huge bed. There was a window on the left.

I thought I was supposed to sleep in the center of the bed. I noticed that he had completely closed the curtains, perhaps to block out the light.

I then realized that my spot was actually toward the edge of the room, near the curtain.

So I walked there and lay down.

Only then did I truly wake up and realize that the previous awakening had been false—and that now, I was awake for real.

533-OB: Parting the curtains

 

7:07 am

I did The Work by Byron Katie, and it was early morning. I felt the early morning phase state.

I asked myself, “Let’s try to induce an out-of-body experience.”

I gently tried to feel my fingers rubbing, and slowly I felt the fingers of my left hand rubbing. I tried to do the same with my right hand, and then I felt them too.

Then I tried to bring my palms together to rub, and I saw the faint outline of both my hands materialize. I started to rub, and sure enough, I felt the familiar rubbery sensation.

I continued rubbing my hands and began to rub my face slowly, then my forearms, and down to my torso. I then rubbed the surface of the mattress, and my body started to rotate on its own—to the left.

It kept rotating to the left. It was preparing to stand up.

Automatically, my body moved, and my feet landed on the floor of my bedroom. My right hand was still touching the mattress on the right.

I stood up while continuing to rub the mattress with my right hand, and my left hand touched the curtains on the left. I then rubbed the curtains on the left while my right hand was still rubbing the mattress.

I walked toward the bedroom door. I also looked and peered at the palms of my hands to make the light and color appear.

I used my knuckles and tapped on the bedroom door.

“Tuk, tuk, tuk.”

I heard the sound. I grabbed the handle, turned it, opened the door, and walked out into the living room of my N-Park house.

To make sure I could hear the sound, I closed the door behind me, and I heard it slam gently. I tapped on the door again to hear the sound, and I could feel my knuckles tapping against it.

To my left, I could see my living room. It was partially lit by the morning light. I saw the TV on the wall to my left. I touched it and then walked toward the balcony area.

Now I was walking toward the curtains in the balcony area of my living room. I found that I actually was floating quite high up in the air, near the top part of the curtain.

I was floating in mid-air.

I used my hands to pull the curtain apart to let the light in. It was daylight outside. I pulled left and right to open the curtains. It took a bit of effort, but I managed to open them.

And while I was doing that, the dream faded.

532-OB: Walking down staircase

 

5:35 am

I had at least two OBEs back to back. This is the first.

I had been doing Byron Katie’s The Work and was lying on my right. I saw the ceiling, and there was a bunch of what looked like pubic hair stuck at the top center of the ceiling. I realized that I must be in the phase state.

I then rubbed my fingers left and right, rubbed my palms together, and tried to induce an out-of-body experience. I rubbed my face, and I think I also rubbed the bed.

I sat upright, moved nearer to the edge of the bed, put my feet on the bedroom floor, and stood up. I was in the bedroom of my Raja Uda house.

I then turned left and walked towards the door. I tried to peer at my palms to make color and light appear in the world. It worked a little bit, but I was still walking in darkness.

I reached the bedroom door, grabbed the handle, and tried to pull it open. It was very heavy, but in the end I managed to open it. I saw that it was dark outside.

I held onto the banister on the left and walked towards the staircase going downstairs. The rooms on my right and left, including the bathroom, were all in darkness.

I then walked down the staircase, holding onto the left banister. As I reached the bottom of the staircase, the area on the right, towards the kitchen, was dark.

I turned left into the living room and walked in. It was also dark. I again tried to peer at my hands—the skin and palms—trying to make more light and color appear.

Anyway, I ignored that and walked straight to the main door, opened the metal grille, and walked out. The moment I stepped outside, everything became bright and colored.

It was daytime.

I saw furniture all around. I touched a tabletop—a fairly high table, like a prayer table—on the right. I spoke out loud, “It’s like I’m really here,” and tapped on it.

I turned left and saw other furniture as well. I walked around, touching things, and kept telling myself, “It’s like I’m really here.”

I was amazed at how real it felt.

There was furniture on both the right and left. Then I turned and tried to walk out through another door. It was also a metal grille. When I tried to pass through it, the dream faded.

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6:35 am

This is the second OBE.

I did Byron Katie’s The Work to let go of everything. I was sleeping, and then I found myself in the correct phase state.

I imagined rubbing my fingers and managed to do so. Then I rubbed my hands together and felt a familiar, brief sensation. I managed to float out into the open, but it faded.

I tried to re-enter the state again and imagined rubbing my palms together this time. It would come and go—come and go.

Finally, I managed to feel my hands materialize and rub together. I felt a familiar, rubbery sensation and tried to take it further, but it faded again.

I think this happened one or two more times.

It seemed quite effortless. All I needed to do was have the intention—to have an out-of-body experience—and to think about it just before falling asleep.

Then it would happen.

I would find myself in the proper state of mind—the fuzzy, hazy type of feeling.

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.