549-OB: Crawling with puppy

 

8:57 am

I took magnesium and vitamin B6 before bedtime.

I went to bed, got up, and passed urine.

I came back to bed but couldn’t sleep. So I had the intention of having an out-of-body experience. Then I practiced mindfulness of breathing and eventually fell asleep lying on my right.

Then I woke up and found myself in the correct state of mind for an out-of-body experience. I then managed to rub my palms and my hands together and felt the familiar rubbery sensations. I also rubbed my fingers together. Then I rubbed my forearms and my face.

Then I tried to rotate to the left. I also tried to touch the mattress on my bed. I peered at the palms of my hands and alternated that with rubbing. I also managed to sit up in bed.

I then got down onto the floor in front of my bed. I was on all fours on the brown parquet floor of my bedroom. I also looked at the palms of my hands and managed to bring color and light into the room.

I rubbed the floor of my bedroom and crawled all the way to the door of my bedroom. I could see the white-colored texture of my bedroom door. I rubbed it. I grabbed the handle and opened the bedroom door. Beyond it, I could see my living room. There was color and light. I could see my kitchen and furniture. Everything could be seen.

I then crawled on all fours to the door of my N-Park living room. I opened the door and looked out. I could see the corridor outside, leading to my metal iron grill, and it was daytime.

I crawled on all fours on the floor, towards the metal grill. Then, on the left wall, there was a switch handle. I turned the switch, and the metal door opened. Then I crawled out into the corridor leading to the lift.

As I approached the lift, I saw a Punjabi lady with her daughter, a small girl. I greeted them. I also touched the lady’s calf and asked for her name.

Then the lift came. I talked to her and asked her what her name was. She replied. When the lift came, I was friendly with them. The lift door opened, and inside, on the left, was a fridge—a cooler fridge—which contained some cold drinks.

Then there was a cute grey puppy inside. The Punjabi lady told me, “There’s a puppy there.”

She said, “There’s Ken, the puppy.”

So I crawled in, and the puppy walked towards me. I was afraid it was going to leave and come out of the lift. I wanted to play with the puppy, so I touched it with my right hand and said, “You are so cute.”

As I was trying to crawl into the lift, the dream ended.

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.

 

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.

457-LD: Big wooden-style legal office

 

6:39am

I did mindfulness of breathing in and out, and also feeling the whole body.

I got up to pass urine at 5 something, went back to bed, lying on my left, did the mindfulness to fall asleep.

I got in and out, in and out of several dreams.

Then, in one dream, I dream I was working as a clerk in a legal firm.

I was sitting in a very big, big office hall. It's made of wood and huge.

There were so many staff. I was sitting somewhere at the back.

There was a chief clerk on the left giving instructions, and everybody now has to go out for lunch.

There were some rules during lunch. Everybody has to vacate office and must do it fast.

There was a chief clerk there, shooing everybody out.

The last two person out was just me and another lady. She quickly dashed out of the open door, while the chief clerk was waiting on the left.

I followed quickly and ran out of the door too.

Outside now, there was a corridor. It was outdoors.

On the left, there was a row of shrubs, bushes.

I wanted to fly, so I got up and flew above the bushes and went out into the sky.

After lunch, I came back into the legal firm, but sat at somebody else's table in front, nearer to the exit.

It was a wooden table, and there was a senior staff, a man, Chinese in front, and there were other staff sitting left and right.

We were going to try to do some experiment to induce some kind of lucid dreaming state.

They gave me a piece of tissue paper, folded in triangular shape.

I was supposed to press it to cover my left eye.

I noticed there were some stains on the tissue paper used to wipe my mouth earlier.

I then put my elbows on the table and used my left hand to cover the tissue paper over my left eye, and with my right hand, I did the same thing over my right eye.

And then I had the feeling that once I did that, I'm going to enter a very deep state, a deep phase state, and all the rest will just find it difficult to wake me up later.

I then entered into a phase state and became lucid in that this is a dream.

I saw a vision of me looking through a peephole at a table where I was sitting, and I got so excited.

I said, yes, this is it, and I almost lost the dream there.

But then I calmed down and entered the dream again, and I was so happy.

I started to walk, and I walked away from the table, and I tapped the floor with my hands and felt the cement floor.

And then I also touched objects on my right, and I rubbed my hands and felt the arms and hands rubbing.

I walked past the bookshelf, and I pulled out some books and let it land on the floor.

I had to keep moving to keep lucidity going.

I then talked to myself. I said, yes, Paul, you did it.

And I could hear myself talking clearly in this dream.

I was excited and happy, and I continued walking forward like this, a bit rushed.

And then the dream faded.

The mistake was my hands were not rubbing together, so I could not re-enter the dream and I also

did not peer at my hands to bring in more clarity.

My main practice today and at night as well was, no matter what, just do your best to try to feel the breath mindfully, and also feel the whole body while breathing.

Do your best, even though it's not easy, just do your best, but always try it.

And then during the day it's also the same.

In any action that you do throughout the day, just try your best to be as mindful of the breath, and then the breathing with the whole body as well.

Just be patient, and also don't force it. Be gentle while you're doing this.

456-LD: Muse-Indian on bicycle

 

9:38am

This is the second lucid dream. I went to bed again, practicing MUSE breathing, counting breathing in, out, counting one in, two out, one out, two in, two out, and then feeling the whole body repeating the same thing.

In, feel the whole body, two breathe, feel the whole body, and then I went in and out with several dreams, and each time I came out of the dream, I can easily go back to sleep just by doing the counting of the breath, thanks to the MUSE breathing, which I restarted earlier yesterday. I stopped MUSE for, I think one year plus, now I restarted again.

So in this second lucid dream, I was, found myself in a building, and I think it was white, inside, I was inside, and then realized that this could be a dream, and I clapped my hands, and I heard the clapping, it was so loud, and the clap feels very real, more real than

the other previous OBS and dreams.

And then I started flying, flying around, and I touched everything as I flew, I touched, and I flew out of the building, I flew very fast, up in the air, like Superman, and I flew with wild abandoned, not bothering whether or not the dream would fade, and below me the scenery zoomed very fast, and then I decided to land somewhere, and I landed on the grass, in the daytime, it was open area, there were houses all around, and I flew quite fast as I landed, and I rubbed my hands across the grass, the grass felt very real, and I was so happy.

And I also went to a tree, tree trunk, I put my both hands on the tree and touched it, and I could see some words inscribed in the tree, my name was there as well, and as I looked, the words keep changing, and this confirmed that it's a lucid dream also, because in lucid dreams, the text don't appear the same, it keeps changing, and I also had a digital watch, and when I look at the time, it also keep changing, the time keep changing.

And I was walking there along the grass patch, and beside there was a road, then there was somebody on a bicycle road pass, I touched him, but just barely, and he rode very fast away, he was an Indian man, and then along came another Indian man, and this time I asked him, he also rode bicycle very fast, asking what is your name, and he mentioned his name clearly, but I can't remember now, and then he also rode fast.

And then now I keep exploring the area there, touching everything, rubbing this and rubbing that, it was so realistic, so clear, everything was so clear, and I didn't bother to do sadhana or any of the mind-focusing thing, because I remember that trying to do sadhana, healing or loving-kindness, and any of the mind-focusing thing, it would cause the dream to collapse, so I just explore.

I keep moving and moving and exploring, and see how long it lasts, and then I think I reached one stage where I slowed down, and ran out of things to do, and I think that's when the dream faded.

So I think no matter what, if you keep on insisting on the breathing in and breathing out,

and counting, and feeling the breath, and feeling the whole body, for sure you can sleep,

just be patient, for sure you can sleep, and have lucid dreams.

And earlier in before this lucid dream, I also had very few dreams in which I was talking to a group of friends about lucid dreaming as well, and wished that we could share lucid dreams, and they agreed, and then there was a girl as well, I wanted to ask her to be a lucid dream partner, she was in a rush, rushing here, rushing there, and running, and it was at night, and in the end I told her, I did ask her that did you know about lucid, what is lucid dream, she doesn't know, and I explained a bit. And then she was so rushed that in the end I told her, are you in a hurry, she said yes, then I said maybe next time I'll talk to you, she looks like Chan Lin Li.

So now I'll pursue this new strategy that I started yesterday, I restarted the Muse headband yesterday, and I think I will use it for two purposes. Firstly to achieve enlightenment through mindfulness of breathing Anapanasati by practicing with the headband, and the second purpose is to use it to help me fall asleep at night, and whenever I awake from a dream, I will keep very still not to move, and I will use, then I will do the test - exit technique test,

and then I will do this breathe counting and fall back to sleep to get into the lucid dream or OBE, this will be my new strategy.  I will use the Muse headband for practice during the day, and at night do breathing, counting and breathing.

455-LD: Sluggish checking bed partner

 

8:21am

I have been doing mindfulness of breathing with counting, one breathe in, one breathe out, two breathe in, two breathe out, and so on, using muse. 

I got up pass urine as usual, drink water at 5 something, went back to bed and continue to do this breathing counting.

And I found myself in a dream, non-lucid, where I was in a Butterworth house, rented house, and in the house, my wife mentioned that she couldn't sleep with me in the bed,

in the same room tonight.

And there was another girl who looked like Ch'ng, and she was going to take her place, which is quite strange, and then at night, I went to bed wearing face mask.

And I was just wondering whether it was really Ch'ng, that was lying down on my right. It was dark, I was wearing face mask, I wanted to see, so I tried to pull out my face mask to see, but it was very sluggish, it was difficult to pull it up.

And I thought at first, why not just forget it and go back to sleep and try to induce a lucid dream, rather than trying to find out if it really was another girl who was taking the place of my wife in bed, but then I insist on trying to pull out the face mask to see.

And after pulling out the face mask to see, I was surprised that I was in my actual bed, and there was my wife WP instead, and this time I woke up, and then only realized that the first time I woke up in my bed, it was a false awakening.

454-OBE: Walk on sluggish white ground

 

8:20am

Did mindfulness of breathing, lying down on my left, I felt suddenly that I'm in a

light dream, or hypnagogia, walking somewhere. And it's white in color everywhere, and I suddenly realized that I could make this into a dream, so I clapped my hands and rub it, and I was already in a dream.

I then tried to increase the rubbing, and managed to feel a little bit of rubbing.

Then I ease up a little, and continue to rub my fingers, and I could feel my fingers. I wanted to increase the rubbing as well on the hands, and then I could hear the background voices talking. 

It was very heavy voices in the background talking, but I couldn't make out the words. I then tried to touch the ground with my right hand. I reached the ground and touched it. It seems to be whitish, the ground. Everything seems to be white. I then tried to step on the ground and walk. It was very sluggish. 

I think I managed to walk a little bit. It was still early stage of the dream, and everything felt very sluggish and slow. Eventually the dream faded. 

Earlier I had difficulty falling back to sleep, but I am patient. I tried to breathe, in, and out, and feel the whole body at the same time. It was difficult to feel the whole body at the same time. So I am patient. I start from beginning. Just be aware of the breathing in. I know I am breathing in. Breathing out. I know I am breathing out. 

Then once you are established in the mindfulness of the breathing in and out, then only breathe in and out and feel the whole body. Breathe in and feel the whole body. Breathe out and feel the whole body. Just be patient and repeat like this.

Eventually you will fall asleep. If you get distracted, gently come back again, starting all over, knowing you are breathing in, knowing you are breathing out. Then gradually, breathing in, feel the whole body, breathing out, feel the whole body, and just keep repeating. Eventually you will surely fall asleep and enter the phase state.

My mistake was being too rushed and forceful when trying to rub hands. Should also use psychic rubbing.