Some dreams are just strange images and experiences, but others are much more intense. I've had a few dreams recently where I seemed to be traveling in the astral plane; in one I was zooming through a very pleasant meadow, in another I was floating in a large, strange, blue-lit chamber with giant mirrors. I get the impression that the first was higher up in the astral, and the second was lower. The second also had some sort of entity lean me close to a mirror, a pattern I've experienced in another vivid astral dream, in which I saw a much younger version of myself in the reflection. But in the two recent dreams, unlike past ones, I had a feeling of numbness when I returned to my body, and a feeling like a vibrating motor in my head, until I fully awoke. I've astral traveled other times, but didn't experience this when returning to my body.
While I'm at it, since you've taken up dreamwork, I'll add various other things I've seen/experienced:
* A rabbit hopping around outside, but it kept shifting its size and shape, and left rainbow after-images whenever it moved. * The experience of being in some vast underground prison of earth and stone, for what felt like weeks or months, before finally getting out and awakening. * Recently, staying in a fancy eastern style palace, a bit like a pagoda or Shinto temple; a conflict broiled up, leading to warfare, with bullets, shells and artillery; the building was damaged but not destroyed, and I sensed that the right-wing/anti-liberal side won. I wonder if that's a prophecy of some sort... *Within some sort of aztec/mayan temple complex; random things like a huge owl, but mainly this foreboding, dreadful sense of being in a spirit world with the presence of the dead; there was a sense of returning to the living world (changing clothes to do this) and not being the same afterwards. *A disembodied hand holding up a large black cube (palm facing up), floating in midair, and I had a foreboding sense of horror and dread, as if it were evil. * I thought I had died, it wasn't unpleasant, just floating; it was like an imaginary place made real; worried about getting back to my body, tried to get back in, and woke up. * The kid from Captain Planet with the heart power finally got fed up with being made fun of, so he summoned Amaterasu the Japanese sun goddess, who hit the earth with brilliant white laser-like beams of light, each one spawning a reptilian alien-like sun being which could fly through the air; these beings conquered the world and there was an eternal sunrise (or sunset).
That last one is a bit dramatic, really escalated quickly, but anyway, I'm just supplying this stuff as raw material to work with.
Anyway: Is this feeling of numbness/motor vibration a normal aspect of astral travel? Any reason that happened specifically on those recent occasions? The times I've drifted out of my body, I have a strong urge to get back into it. Is this normal self-preservation (because I'm not ready to leave this incarnation yet) or something else? Finally, anything else you can tell me about the stuff I've dreamed, or the feeling of an entity zooming me around or leaning me into a mirror, would be appreciated.
Astral travel and such
While I'm at it, since you've taken up dreamwork, I'll add various other things I've seen/experienced:
* A rabbit hopping around outside, but it kept shifting its size and shape, and left rainbow after-images whenever it moved.
* The experience of being in some vast underground prison of earth and stone, for what felt like weeks or months, before finally getting out and awakening.
* Recently, staying in a fancy eastern style palace, a bit like a pagoda or Shinto temple; a conflict broiled up, leading to warfare, with bullets, shells and artillery; the building was damaged but not destroyed, and I sensed that the right-wing/anti-liberal side won. I wonder if that's a prophecy of some sort...
*Within some sort of aztec/mayan temple complex; random things like a huge owl, but mainly this foreboding, dreadful sense of being in a spirit world with the presence of the dead; there was a sense of returning to the living world (changing clothes to do this) and not being the same afterwards.
*A disembodied hand holding up a large black cube (palm facing up), floating in midair, and I had a foreboding sense of horror and dread, as if it were evil.
* I thought I had died, it wasn't unpleasant, just floating; it was like an imaginary place made real; worried about getting back to my body, tried to get back in, and woke up.
* The kid from Captain Planet with the heart power finally got fed up with being made fun of, so he summoned Amaterasu the Japanese sun goddess, who hit the earth with brilliant white laser-like beams of light, each one spawning a reptilian alien-like sun being which could fly through the air; these beings conquered the world and there was an eternal sunrise (or sunset).
That last one is a bit dramatic, really escalated quickly, but anyway, I'm just supplying this stuff as raw material to work with.
Anyway:
Is this feeling of numbness/motor vibration a normal aspect of astral travel? Any reason that happened specifically on those recent occasions?
The times I've drifted out of my body, I have a strong urge to get back into it. Is this normal self-preservation (because I'm not ready to leave this incarnation yet) or something else?
Finally, anything else you can tell me about the stuff I've dreamed, or the feeling of an entity zooming me around or leaning me into a mirror, would be appreciated.