[ArthurHung]

Intense experience.

As I described in another post (just yesterday) I recently bought the photoreading set that Steve keeps recommending and found it wonderful. 80% through the course I felt exhausted and decided to stop the program and sleep. I had previously learned about lucid dreaming/ out of body experiences/astral experiences through hunatrainer.com (a site I learned through one of Steve's posts about the blog's he reads for spiritual growth) and though I experimented with that through the hunatrainers techniques, I probably only accomplished 1% of an astral projection (not because his technique was bad, but because I was a newbie).

(Btw, I am using lucid dreaming/out of body experinces/ astral experinces interchangeably because right now I cannot tell the difference between the
3. In fact, I think they are one and the same. I don't know why but in my head right now I am certain that they are.)

Like I said I was exhausted after completeing 6 out of the 8 photoreading CDs, so I decided to nap for 10 minutes. I was completely aware that I was riding on a really large rhinocerous (spelling), a dinosaur sized rhinocerous! About 2 elephants combined was how big it was, but I wasn't afraid, and suprisingly, I had no clue that it was actually a dream. I was in an intensely curious state of mind, not exhaustion and when I woke up, I realized only then I had fallen asleep! Maybe I experienced a polyphasic experience? I don't know.

Then, I slept again to see if I could achieve similar results. But what happened was I saw very clearly a page that looked like the photoreading book in terms of its shape, and I could clearly read a sentence out of the book but then the words became unreadable (I could read them which I did enjoyably, but though all the words had proper vowels they had weren't any normal words such as one's that you could get out of the dictionary).

Very refreshing. I woke up and felt, like right now, completely refreshed and wanting with a strong desire to write something; you are seeing the results of this desire. These experiences have happened to me several times in my life, a lot more when I was much younger and I never understood them/tried to understand them. I simply shook it off as the brain re-organizing information. But now I'm not so sure, I feel intensely curious about lucid dreaming/astral projection/ out of body experiences and have a strong desire to have more of them.

Anyways, if anyone feels like making a comment on this supremely awkward but extremely enjoyable experience of mine, I'd appreciate any interpretations of it... because I for one cannot make any sense of any of it.

edit: 5 minutes after writing this post I realized that I had arbitrarily on a whim photoread and mindmapped within 1 1/2 minutes a dinosaur book in the library that randomly caught my attention (which may explain the huge rhinocerous). Also, I realized before I logged back in to make that dinosaur book comment that just yesterday I had photoread Steve's new "reality and perception post" which mentions astral projection. Don't know if that helps for any interpretations... hmm.