538-LD: Five lucid dreams back to back

 

6:47 am

I took both magnesium and B6 together tonight and had five lucid dreams back-to-back—very clear. I only remember fragments of them. Night before, got up and 4:30 am and could not sleep back. So tonight could be REM-rebound.

In the first one, I found myself in a fenced-up area, standing, and suddenly became lucid. I wanted to test reality, so I pinched my nose and could still breathe. That’s when I knew I was lucid. But when I repeated the pinched-nose test, I couldn’t breathe. Somehow, expectation affected the result.

I tried to fly and think I floated a little above the ground.

In the second lucid dream, I was walking along a road. It was daytime. I asked people questions, and they talked to me. I also looked at the palms of my hands and could see them clearly.

In another lucid dream, I can’t remember much, but I was out there again, walking around. Everything was very clear, and I had no trouble maintaining the dream. It stayed intact without any effort. It all felt so effortless—and incredibly real. I remember walking around, amazed at how real everything felt.

When I spoke, my voice sounded like a young girl’s or a young boy’s voice.

I think there were a few more dreams in between, but I can’t remember them. Each time I exited a dream, I easily slipped into the next one—repeatedly, back-to-back.

In the last one, I experienced immediately re-entering a lucid dream after exiting the previous one. I was walking around a room and said, “Oh, here’s another one—another lucid dream.” I was so happy, talking to myself.

Then I walked into the USM library. It was dark, with a bit of light. I said, “Wow, another lucid dream—and it’s USM. Wow, I like USM. I mean, it’s a perfect library. It’s so nice.”

I think there were some people there. I was talking a lot and walking inside—and then the dream faded.

537-OB: Lying in bed with tm mantra

8:41 am

I did the TM mantra and the work throughout the day, and I found myself in an early-morning phase state. I tried to deepen it using the TM mantra, and it worked. I managed to feel my right-hand fingers rubbing with a familiar rubbery sensation. Then I used the TM mantra again to deepen the phase state, and it became deeper. I then felt my left fingers rubbing as well. After that, I imagined both my palms rubbing, and sure enough, my dream hands materialized in front of me and started rubbing. I felt the familiar rubbery sensation.

Then the dream body shifted in bed to face upwards. I imagined that my legs were beginning to move, getting ready to stand up on the floor of my bedroom, and it worked. I also imagined my face near the curtain, and I stood up on the floor of my bedroom. I then rubbed the curtain on my left and walked towards the bookshelf in my bedroom. I wanted to walk towards the door, but the dream faded.

Then I found myself back in bed in the same position, lying on my right. I used the TM mantra to deepen it again and still managed to feel the dream hands—my right hand with that rubbery sensation. I used the TM mantra once more to deepen the state, and an image of a book appeared. I found myself rubbing the book with my dream hands. I remembered that in previous dreams I could induce an OBE by rubbing objects with my hands, and it became real—I was rubbing the book.

Then I did the same thing: I swung my feet over and stood up on the floor of my bedroom. I continued walking quickly towards the door of my bedroom. I reached the door, opened it, and walked out into the living room. I tried to feel all the objects with my hands to bring more light and color. I did it hastily—left and right, left and right—looking at my palms. I managed to faintly see some texture on my palms, and then the dream faded.

 

536-LD: Seated in a bus

 

7:37 am

I sat in a bus, and on my left there was a girl. I put both my knees up on the front seat and leaned back. It was comfortable. In front, there were others as well, and they all looked very weird—white-ish kind of people. The bus stopped, and they all got off, but the girl and I stayed seated together.

After a while, I said, “Let’s go down. I want to pass urine.”
She replied, “Okay, I also want to pass urine.”

As we were about to get down, at the staircase of the bus, it suddenly moved. She said, “The bus is moving—wait, wait.” She put her hands on my shoulder and stood behind me. We waited like that as the bus moved.

Eventually, I said, “Let’s go and sit down first.”
She said, “Okay,” so we went back to sit down. The bus moved further and further away, and there were others as well who did not get off.

After a while, the bus went some distance, and then I found myself going into a building. I wanted to look for the boss who managed the place, and I was hoping to find the same girl who had sat beside me on the bus.

The place was brightly lit, but it looked very cramped and small. The walls were very bright.

I walked straight to a door and opened it. There was a guy inside, facing a mirror, adjusting his appearance. I said, “Sorry,” and closed the door. I turned right and opened another door, and there was another guy there, also facing a mirror and adjusting his appearance. I closed that door as well.

I looked for another way to go, and suddenly, on the right, the room became bigger. I realized that this was a dream, because I remembered that in dreams, things change—the second time you look at something, it looks different.

Then I became lucid.

I touched the objects around me. There was a sink—a toilet sink—and I touched it and said, “This is so real, like I’m really here.” I kept exploring the place like that. I went down to the ground, rubbing it and feeling its texture, and it became even more real.

Then everything started to darken. The room became darker and darker, and I knew the dream was fading. So I stared at the palms of my hands, trying to bring back the color and the light. I could still see the palms of my hands, which were brown, but eventually, the dream faded.

535-LD: High above misty tree tops

 

7:30 am

I couldn't sleep for a long time, and then I dreamed that I couldn't sleep for a long time, lying down in a room.

Then I took off my sleeping mask, got out of the house, and walked across to my real, actual home. I saw my mother; she was in the kitchen cleaning. I thought that I needed to find my sleeping mask because I would try to sleep in this house to attempt an out-of-body experience. I also asked her where are my sleeping masks.

The house was almost empty. It was nine o'clock in the morning, and I needed to sleep to induce an out-of-body experience. So I went around looking for a sleeping mask. I found a few small ones—funny-looking ones, some even plastic and transparent—but they were not good enough.

Then I opened a door and walked into a room. When I went in, it was empty, and I suspected that something was strange. I walked straight ahead, opened a second door, and entered another room—it was also empty. Then I walked into a third room, opened the door, and it was empty as well.

So I said, “This must be a dream.” I realized that it was a dream. I rubbed my fingers and my hands, and I could feel a rubbery sensation. I said, “Okay, let's try to fly.”

I flew out of the house, through the roof, and up into the sky. When I looked down, I could see greenery; it was misty, the color of the treetops. Then I tried to fly down and touch the top leaves of the trees. After that, I flew up again into the sky, looked down again, and flew down once more.

This time, I wanted to feel the tree trunks. So I put my hands together and flew all the way down, holding onto them. When I landed on the ground, I moved onto the road. I saw the road and touched it. I looked closely at its texture and could feel the roughness of the surface. That helped increase the lucidity. I rubbed along the road surface, over and over, examining its texture.

Then I looked at my hands—the palms of my hands—trying to bring in some light and color. At that moment, I was already in another room, an unknown room, but it was dark. I wanted light, so I looked at my palms, from the left to the right and back again, repeatedly. I focused on the texture of my skin and requested light.

Gradually, the light came, and the room began to brighten. I could see beyond my hands into the room.

And then the dream suddenly faded.

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.

 

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.

524-OB: Floating verandah covered grass

9.31 am

I have been practicing Ajahn Lee's mindfulness of breathing all night long to fall asleep and to relax. The method involves being very, very gentle—trying to make the breathing pleasurable so that the mind naturally wants to feel the breath. And it really works every time.

Then I've been having so many dreams, in and out and in and out—so many dreams. Before going back into sleep, I set the intention that I want to have an out-of-body experience—that I will come out of the dream slowly and then try the exit technique.

And true enough, after having many dreams, I found myself in a proper hazy state of mind and tried to feel my fingers rubbing. I managed to rub my fingers and rub my palms together, then rub the mattress of the bed, swing my feet over, and stand up on the floor of my bedroom.

I then peered at my hands and walked forward, and the world appeared. I was outdoors in a shaded area. I touched every object that continued to appear with my hands and rubbed them. I also touched the ground and could feel it. At one point it became grass, and I touched the grass and pulled on it. I was also floating around. I touched the objects around me as much as I could.

There was a fence. I went near the fence while floating around. Then the dream faded.

But just before it faded, I remembered I was holding something—an object. A brick. A triangular brick. I could still faintly feel the brick in my hands. Then I focused on the feeling of the brick, and I re-entered the dream again—holding the brick—and I was walking around once more. I could feel my feet on the ground, stamping on the floor as I walked.

I spoke to myself: “This is a dream. I am dreaming. This is a dream.” And I could hear my voice.

I was looking through the fence, outdoors, toward the beyond. Again, I reached a pole—a metal pole. And again, the dream faded. But I could still faintly feel the metal pole in my hands—the coolness and the solidity.

Based on that sensation, I managed to re-enter the dream again. The trick is not to rush out and record, but instead to try to prolong and re-enter. And it works.

So I re-entered the dream again. I could feel the pole. I rubbed my hands and arms down, and it became real. The whole world appeared again. I kept telling myself, “This is a dream. I am lucid. This is a dream. I am lucid.”

Eventually, the dream faded again. And this time, I let it go.

 

523-OB: Road with pine trees

8.19 am

Earlier, I did the Buddho Breath Mindfulness Meditation to fall asleep. Then later, I switched to dream yoga, reminding myself that this is all a dream.

I then went into and out of several dreams successively, reminding myself that I would wake up slowly from a dream and try to do the exit technique.

In one of the dreams that I came out of, I tried to feel my fingers using the exit technique. And I… I managed to feel the familiar rubbery sensation. I rubbed the right-hand finger and let it develop further. Then I rubbed the left fingers and also managed to feel the rubbery sensations.

Then I… as the sensation increased, I rubbed both palms together and felt the rubbery sensation as well. Then I rubbed my forearms of both hands and then rubbed the mattress I’m lying on.

I swung my left leg over the bed and stood up. I put my feet on the ground, on the floor of my bedroom. Then I stood beside my bed, in my bedroom.

I then touched the objects around me and also continued to rub my hands together as I walked forward. Then I did peering. While walking forwards, I did peering. I peered at the palms of both hands, alternately left and right, and rubbed, then peered, and rubbed, and peered alternately.

As I did that, the colour of my skin, of my palms, materialised. I could see it. Then around me, the world changed. The world appeared with colour and light as well.

I found myself outdoors beside a road, surrounded by pine trees. It was like there was not much light, probably in a cold country.

Then on the left, there was… I continued to touch the ground and peered as well at my palms, rubbing, not keeping still, not staring at one object for too long.

Then on the left, there was some kind of shop and some people there. I approached it and asked a man wearing a black jacket, “What day is it?”

He talked, he mentioned something, but I did not understand. I then continued walking and continued rubbing my fingers, rubbing my palms together, and continued walking.

I thought, “Let’s do loving-kindness.” And then I immediately, spontaneously — Om Mani Padme Hum — came out of my mouth.

So I did the mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, repeatedly, many times, and looked around. Then from my chest, my heart, I radiated loving-kindness to the entire world, to the surroundings, and also to the entire world.

I turned around and around doing this. I also imagined Avalokiteshvara and continued loving-kindness with Om Mani Padme Hum. I did this for some time.

Then I floated upwards and then downwards again, and walked on the road. As I walked, on the right-hand side of the road, I talked to myself a lot.

I love being in a lucid state, in a lucid dream like this, because I know that I’m dreaming — or something similar like that — as I walk forward. I could hear my voice clearly as I mentioned these words.

Then from a distance, there was a car coming towards me. I floated up above the car and wanted to touch the windscreen at the front of the car.

And then the dream faded.

 

522-OB: Buddho breath in bedroom

 

7.57 am

I did the breath “Buddho” meditation all night long to fall asleep. Somewhere in the middle of the night, while I was counting the breath with “Buddho,” I felt the vibration and the phase state spontaneously arising as I counted and breathed. I just let it develop.

As I continued counting the breath and repeating “Buddho,” the vibration eventually faded. Then, toward morning, I was still doing the same meditation and fell into a very deep, easy, fuzzy feeling.

I spontaneously felt my fingers rubbing and experienced the familiar rubbery sensations. So I continued rubbing my fingers and also touched the mattress, then intended to put my feet on the bedroom floor.

I stood up and managed to remain standing. I tried to touch the curtain and continued to feel the rubbery sensations. Then I tried to walk toward the bookshelf in my bedroom. And the dream faded.

521-LD:Wrong outdoor of house

 

6.52 am

During the day, I practice dream yoga, recognizing waking reality as the dream state.

I had a dream where I recognized the dream state.

My wife and I were conducting some business in a terrace house. After we concluded the business, we walked out the door. Instead of finding the usual expected scenery, we found something different. I think we expected to see our car or something like that. But instead, we walked out and saw a completely different scene.

Immediately, I recognized that we were in a dream and became lucid. WP panicked and walked across the road. It was already night.

I said, “Don’t run there. Come back here. I will tell you how to get out of this dream.”

I held her close to me and knew that everything would be fine. I kept still. I knew that we would somehow return to the other side of the outdoor area where it was supposed to be.

After a while, the dream faded, and I woke up.

So I actually recognized the dream state and managed to wake up.

520-OB-Touch walls walking to bedroom door

 

10.10 am

Lying on my left side, I was going in and out, in and out, of several dreams. Earlier, I had formed the intention that whenever I came out of a dream, I would come out slowly and not move — to keep still and exit the dream consciously.

This time, after coming out of a dream, I kept still and did not move. I tried to exit gently. I felt the phase state was there, and I managed to imagine rubbing my fingers. I then rubbed my fingers and heard a familiar rubbery sound.

I put my palms together and rubbed them, feeling the same rubbery sensation. I rubbed my forearms on both sides, then rubbed my face and my body. After that, I rubbed the mattress on my right and on my left. Then I confidently swung my feet over and placed them on the floor of my bedroom.

I stood up easily. I rubbed the left window, felt the curtains, and rubbed my bed on the right. I walked toward the bookshelf, then rubbed the floor of my bedroom and felt it clearly.

The objects were still a bit blurred, and I intended for them to become clearer. I probably should have done more peering. Instead, as I touched each object, I told myself what I was doing — touching the window, touching the bed, touching the floor.

I turned right and walked toward the bedroom door, continuing to rub objects along the way — the floor and the left wall. When I reached the bathroom, I touched the right side and then the left wall. Just as I was about to reach the door, I think I slipped into a kind of sleepy, dreamy state.

My mind became too drowsy, and I fell into sleep. There was a loss of lucidity, and the experience faded away.

519-LD: Taking selfie with wife in legal firm

 

10:05 am

I practised oneness to fall asleep.

I was working in a legal firm and Wai Peng also. I was sitting at a corner table.

It was a huge office, and on the right of my table was an artificial grass patch.

I read the newspaper, Times, to understand some legal terminology.

And I put the paper on the grass, and then it was time to go for lunch.

And the back door opened, and there was a beautiful, long corridor of outdoors.

It was very surreal, and I was with Wai Peng.

So then I held the camera up to take a photo, a selfie.

But then the...

The aspect ratio of the screen was wrong, and I reset it.

But I couldn't quite get it right.

And then, suddenly, I realized this could be a dream.

I told Wai Peng, did you know that this is a dream?

And why? Because all the...

The dream world was like fuzzy and hazy.

So realistic.

And then I tried to adjust it and go somewhere to take a photo.

And she was walking away.

And the dream faded.

518-LD: With bicycle in N-Park lift with no buttons

 

8:56 am

I was practicing oneness, and I dreamed that I entered a lift with a bicycle, pushing the bicycle.

It's an N-park lift, and in the middle of the lift, I wanted to press the button, but there was no buttons to go up or down.

And then I felt a sense of rising panic, and then suddenly, I realized that this could be a dream. It was so real like I was actually there. And become lucid.

And I was so relieved, like that, I rubbed my hands, and then the dream faded.

517-OB: Office interview after exiting Regal hotel

 

9.50am

I was lying down in my hotel room, bed Regal Hotel, and I in and out of several dreams.

And finally, as I came out of one of the dreams, I remembered to do the exit technique.

By rubbing my fingers, and I continue to rub my palms together, rub my forearms, rub my body, and all the way down to my legs.

And then I rubbed the mattress, and then intended to swing my leg over and step on the floor.

And I did manage to stand up, and I tapped the floor, the marble floor, and then I felt the floor clearly.

And it was clear, I could see everything in the room, in the hotel room clearly.

And I also breathe in the smell, and also hear to increase lucidity, using all the senses.

I then walked to the door of the hotel room, and opened the door, and walked out.

And the moment I walked out, it was a different scenery.

There was a long corridor in white colour, it was very clear.

And in white colour, I walked to the end of it, and entered another room.

And inside I saw an office with tables and chairs, but there was nobody.

I was looking for people to interact with, then I walked into the next room again.

There was again nobody, and then I walked into the third room.

At this time, there were people, there were staff working, office workers, many of them, men and women.

And I appeared to be the boss, and I introduced myself.

I am Dr. Chin, and I can hear myself clearly.

And I then asked one of them, a lady, could I talk to you in private in my office.

Then she followed me, but I didn't know where my office was, so I just walked around, and found an empty room.

But there was a guy inside, and I said, please leave, I need to have an interview in private.

And then he left, and then she sat down on a chair, and I sat on beside her, and I ask do you want to

have interview with me. She looked away and said yes. I asked again, you want to have interview with me.

So I spoke to her and said I need to have resume.

And the dream faded.

516-OB: Talking to Chinese lady buying hawker food

 

9.40 am

I was dreaming of riding my motorcycle on Penang Road and then I became lucid and knew this is a dream. And then I woke up in bed in my hotel room, Regal Hotel.  I did the exit technique by rubbing my fingers together and then rubbing my hands and I also rubbed the bed frame.

And then I had the intention to stand up on the floor beside my bed. So I swung my legs over and stood up and then I felt my feet being planted firmly on the cold marble floor.I rubbed my palms on the ground to increase the lucidity. I could see the objects in the room clearly.

I then stood up and touched the objects and also the wall. And then I went to the window of my hotel room. I pulled open the blinds and I could see outside there were people standing outside. I opened the window and I climbed out of the room through the window to get out of the room. And in front there was an uncle and I tapped his back and I asked him: Are you OK? And he said OK.

And there was an Chinese girl wearing yellow t-shirt - waiting buying food from a hawker. And I spoke to her. She said she already had children. As I spoke to her - the dream faded.

515-OB: Fuzzy dark Regal hotel room

 

8.39am

Lying on my right, I dreamt that I was in the corner of a room, and somebody lifted up my leg and put it up in the corner of the room, on the ceiling.

And my face was facing down, I then suddenly realized that this is so strange, it must be a dream.

And I became lucid, and I then rubbed my fingers together and rubbed my hands, and then tried to do the exit technique from the bed in my Hong Kong room.

I managed to feel my fingers rubbing, and also rubbed my hands together, and I felt the familiar rubbery sensation.

I rubbed my foreheads and my face, and then also rubbed the mattress, and I wanted to stand up on the floor beside my bed.

So I used my mind to think of the floor, but my dream body did not respond to rolling over, nor sitting up and standing up.

So I imagined I just stood up already, and the room was dark, not clear, and I tried to peer with my right hand to bring in light color as well.

Eventually the dream ended.

514-OB: Two OBEs back to back in Regal Hotel

 

9.54 am

I am still in Hong Kong Hotel, lying on my right. I got up from several dreams. All the way, I remembered to do the checking for the phase state. Then I found myself in the phase state and I rubbed my fingers, rubbed my hands, and rubbed the bed. And then I took my time, rubbed my forearms as well. And then I took my time to slowly sink my feet on the floor over the edge of the bed.

And then I stood up, and then I walked around the room like this. And I was so happy. This is the second lucid dream tonight. And I was rubbing the floor as well. I peered at my hands. And the room was filled with light and colour.  [And I hugged the ones that were in the room, and I dreamt later. ] And that was the dream. I also had the same experience in all of my dreams. The dream faded.

Then I had my 3rd OBE tonight. As I lay down in bed and still had the same fuzzy feeling - so I tried the exit technique again. And I rubbed my fingers, rubbed my hands, rubbed my forearms as well. And then suddenly I kicked over the edge of the bed and touched the floor. I remembered to use my mind to move and not to use the physical body. And then I rubbed the floor. 

And the hotel room was a bit hazy. And then as I walked with this, I rubbed the floor. And I patted my hands, rubbed my fingers like this. And the dream faded.

513-OB: Rubbing grass lawn in Regal HK Hotel

 

8.19 am

I’m right now in bed in my Hong Kong hotel room, Regal Hotel. I’m lying on my right side.

I was practising dream yoga and non-resistance and mindfulness of breathing. I had a lot of dreams. And coming out of one, I remembered to check for the phase state and try exit technique.

Suddenly I found myself in a phase state. I rubbed my fingers, rubbed my hands, rubbed my face. Right after, I swung my legs over the bed and stood on the floor in the hotel room.

At first it was dark. Then I peered at my hands, and the hotel room became visible.

Everything was quite clear — I could already see things in daylight.

It was daylight. I walked around, touching the hotel room: touching the walls and other objects. I walked around the hotel room, my hands rubbing the wall on the left.

I felt quite happy just wandering.

So I walked around, touching the walls and looking right and left.

I went back to the large glass window on the right.

At first I thought I’d go through it — penetrate straight through the glass.

But then I changed my mind. I thought maybe I shouldn’t, since I didn’t know what was outside - and it would not help with lucidity. So I didn’t do it.

I turned left and walked back towards the bathroom area.

I kept touching things.

Then I found myself outdoors. There was a single-storey house in front of me. I was floating above the lawn grass. To the left was a paved road leading to the house. I touched the grass with the palms of my hands.

Eventually the dream faded.