Meeting people in lucid dreams or astral projections

[pyrogen]

Has anyone else had this experience?

I have "met" people in lucid dreams or astral experiences before - then *met* the person *in real life* and it looked just like the person.

One thing that's happened twice is that I've met someone in a dream that was lucid, and just for fun, decided to start a relationship (uh, or something a little cruder than that ) with them since hey, it's my dream, my reality.

Within a few days in each case I actually met and got asked out by a person who looked just like them.

Or sometimes I have just met someone, period, then met the person in real life - has that happened to anyone?

There is a guided meditation I do where you do something similar to a pathworking, it is probably heavily Huna based because the authors of this book are really into that. You go to the "love planet" and you meet your life mate in a treehouse. I've had success meeting people for dating using that, in the past. But usually I just see an "energy", not a specific person.

In the case of the two dreams - they were *specific people* who I was not acquainted with prior to the dream.

[StacyT]

The other night I had a dream I was in a mall. I started asking all of the people in the mall if they were dream characters or if they were real. Everyone I asked disappeared, except for one.

It was a guy about my age, and he said, "I'm having a dream too!" Isn't this so cool??" We started talking and I found out he was from New York. I told him I lived in Connecticut, but guarded myself by not telling him what city (for fear he would track me down when we woke up? I don't know?). He said, "Check this out", and picked up a huge wad of cash on the floor. Then he suggested we head off to the Apple store. I told him, "OK, but whatever you buy, you won't be able to take it back with you!"

Anyway, I am convinced that this was an actual person and not a dream character - I haven't met him in real life, but would not be surprised if this person came into my life in some way. I still remember what he looks like and what he was wearing.

That morning I told my husband about my dream...and he said to me, "Did you tell the guy you were married?" HONESTLY!

[SimonaRich]

Originally Posted by StacyT

The other night I had a dream I was in a mall. I started asking all of the people in the mall if they were dream characters or if they were real. Everyone I asked disappeared, except for one.

It was a guy about my age, and he said, "I'm having a dream too!" Isn't this so cool??" We started talking and I found out he was from New York. I told him I lived in Connecticut, but guarded myself by not telling him what city (for fear he would track me down when we woke up? I don't know?). He said, "Check this out", and picked up a huge wad of cash on the floor. Then he suggested we head off to the Apple store. I told him, "OK, but whatever you buy, you won't be able to take it back with you!"

Anyway, I am convinced that this was an actual person and not a dream character - I haven't met him in real life, but would not be surprised if this person came into my life in some way. I still remember what he looks like and what he was wearing.

That morning I told my husband about my dream...and he said to me, "Did you tell the guy you were married?" HONESTLY!

That is soooo amazing!!!! I really really want to have lucid dreams. I am at the stage or writing all my dreams down. I really hope I will have lucid dreams soon.

If you have some special techniques you used to become a lucid dreamer, please share them! I would appreciate that!

[StacyT]

Originally Posted by SimonaRich

If you have some special techniques you used to become a lucid dreamer, please share them! I would appreciate that!

I usually just decide to have a lucid dream before going to sleep, and it happens. But there can be stretches of time when lucid dreams don't come easily, in which case I set my alarm clock for some ungodly hour, like 3 a.m.

Just let your alarm clock wake you up and then go back to sleep with the intention of having a lucid dream. You can say to yourself "this is a dream" as you are falling back to sleep. I don't know why this works, but it does. Hope you are able to do it - it's fun!

[Michele]

I like your idea of asking the people if they were dream people or real. I will try that.
I think that the real people that I meet are different types including: people who are also asleep like me or in a state of meditation, people who have died so have no physical body. I haven't met any of the people I met in dreams in waking life but I have met the same people in dreams on more than one occasion. I think it would be possible to meet the person in the dream and share the experience but also you could possibly start to overlay it with your own thoughts and desires so for instance you could begin with a real conversation but then start to project your desires on top and have a sexual relationship that you have invented and that the real person did not share with you. So if you met that person waking life you should be careful you didn't think you had shared the whole experience with them.

For the girl who met your 'crush' in a dream and then found he did not share the experience it could be that he simply did not remember it in his waking state or that he had projected some of it onto him and maybe shared part of the conversation but that he could not remember it.

Michele

[Daffy Duck]

Originally Posted by StacyT

That morning I told my husband about my dream...and he said to me, "Did you tell the guy you were married?" HONESTLY!

Hahahaha! That's priceless.

[Albalida]

I've been trying to do this, using a CGI dreamscape specifically designed for this purpose:

How to get to the Lucid Crossroads
About the Lucid Crossroads experiment

I only got there once, and did a "summoning spell" in the dream to call everyone in the lucid dreaming discussion forums I used to be a member of... none of those members in waking life recalled being called in the dream. Oh, well.

I'm well-acquainted with an active astral projector, who in all her years of experience only had that happen to her twice. Here, most recently. Personally... I like to lie low, so, nobody I can see sees me while I'm out of body, and those who can see me I guess are or were probably too high-plane for me to see them if we were looking for each other at all.


(And I won't nag Mrs Pavlina to at least joke about charging for that in-dream reading.)

[Daffy Duck]

My girlfriend recently told me a story about how she dreamed about a dinner party her friend had recently went to. She described the people, the setup, the way the tables looked, and all sorts of other details from her dreams. When she told her friend about her dream, her friend was shocked. She said, "How did you know all those things? I never told you!" It shocked my girlfriend too.

[Maxwell Jennings]

From the end of 1993 through 1996 I was working closely with a female friend on a 'spirtitual' project. One big aspect of this project was the dream state. We had over a dozen associated dreams where either of us could describe it to the other and confirm details of the events and location. She even had a few associated dreams with coworkers and their jaws would drop when she described what the person was doing or what was going on in the dream. We figured that dreams are probably out-of-body experiences and up to that period of experimentation, we had been controlled to dream in specific areas we called the dreaming grounds. We experimented with various objects, such as dreamcatchers and crystals, to try to increase our conscious levels while dreaming and to also increase our defenses.

One night, I was awake and focusing on annihilating some negative stuff and my friend was asleep in the back. I mentally pictured an area surrounded by water and my activity was causing the waves to increase in size. I then pictured my friend across the way and I actually raised both arms above my head and moved them in a "hey! over here!" manner. After a few minutes, she came out from the back room and described the scene exactly! She said, "I asked about the turbulent water and the dream-guards said there was a war going on in the distance and then I saw someone waving their hands over their head."

[pyrogen]

As of last month, it happened yet again - though this was not really a "lucid" dream.

I had a dream about sitting in a restaurant with a man of the following description: Germanic-looking, blue eyes, fair skin, clean-shaven head. It wasn't a "lucid" dream and it didn't go very far - just conversed, locked eyes and felt very attracted.

I met him - in a restaurant that I'd never visited before, but looked exactly like that same restaurant - a few weeks later and felt an instant connection and imagined I was "picking up where we left off" on some level.

I am now presently dealing with the aftermath of whatever-that-was.

I am beginning to feel that this "knowing" is not a gift. I really wish I did not "know" most of my exes before meeting them. The ones where I didn't, there was far less expectation, there was no instant feeling of connection (it built over time) and it went much more smoothly.

The trouble is - now I know MOST of the time.

Actually, now I know pretty much all of the time.

It did not come as a surprise to me, for example, that my ex changed gender. Even though it should have. The ex was very conforming to previous gender, expressed no desire to change his gender whatsoever. But I had a dream about it where he came and told me that he wished to do this, and I believed him.

I SHOULD have been surprised.

[Mynder]

Are you afraid of the truth?

Would you prefer stumbling along blindly, falling into the traps that you could have avoided had you "just known"? Is feeling surprised that valuable to you?

"Ignorance is bliss" is a saying, but is it really?


You will have to answer this question for yourself. One answer has to do with personal growth, taking responsibility, being honest and facing truths. The other has to do with pulling the veil back over your eyes and living your life without giving these things another look.

The blue or the red pill - which do you choose?

[pyrogen]

...what d'yall think?

[Mynder]

Well...did you think about the things I asked in my comment?

Are you still "afraid of knowing", or did you come to embrace this part of yourself in teh meantime?

If you want to get something out of this, you need to walk the walk, otherwise you can get loads of stories about how other people lucid dream and enjoy it (hell, you can find tons of material on lucid dreaming in almost every corner of the web), but it won't magically transform you to feel happy about it. That has to come from yourself.

"Bump" this all you like, but I for one was waiting for a response from YOU.

[skydust]

It's happened to me on a couple of occasions that I dreamt of a stranger and met them later, or saw them somewhere. It's very strange and I don't really understand how it happens or what I am supposed to do with it. Oh well..

[Brown Eyed Mystic]

...what d'yall think?

Well pyrogen if you'd ask me, I think if its something that "helps" you to understand the deeper hidden meanings of things, it should be super cool. I feel maybe you are trying to close off from it, if you'd not try to resist, probably you'd be able to look into more than just relationships? It is very possible that things are waiting for you to be unleashed...Infact another thing that struck me here, if you can be in the knowing of somenone being your lover in the near future, can't it be possible that you go farther in the future...and get "sign posts" of tentative outcomes of the relationships too...? Just contemplating. All in all, I think knowing already about your ex's is a part of one big whole. So probably delving into things will make the bigger picture available to you, if you so wish.

Still pyro, in the end, its obviously you who gets to choose, and decide if you are comfortable with the supposed knowings or not.

[LisaSparkle]

Pyrogen, did you ever ask the people if they remembered meeting you too or if you looked at all familiar?

-Lisa

[MechanoidDolly]

Lucid dreaming is a skill I am growing. I recently have suffered 3 job losses and each time, the place I was living at fell out too. Now as I am going through it again, I have found a sense of control in how I dream. As my reality feels like its falling apart, my dream world has been coming together. I have launched a subconscious exploration with Mechanoid Dolly, a character who I am developing to help document the dream world and unlock my subconscious mind. Please contribute your dream experiences at M.Dolly's Dreams: Subconscious Exploration, and Tarot

My recent lucid dream experience was not what I expected. I had told my boyfriend to try and "meet me in the dream world". He told me I was being scary, so I realized he might not try to meet me in the dream world, BUT I did meet someone else.

During my dream's usual insanity, I suddenly walked around the corner and found a small store. It was owned by an older Chinese man, and he came up to me and looked DIRECTLY into my eyes. It was an experience that shocked me, because characters in my dreams are never that clear. It was like we were staring into each other's souls. I just wish I could remember our conversation...

[Randhir Rawatlal]

Hola!
Yes, I'm an on-again off-again projector, trying to take it more seriously at the moment. I'm writing because I found this thread pretty inspiring so I wanted to share an experience that involved meeting three entities, one with whom I am acquainted in 'real' life.

Anyway: I involuntarily projected one night, and saw a little impish astral creature crouched over my sleeping physical body, whispering horrible things in my ear. It was obvious the creature was trying to program me. In my mind's eye, my parents' religious leader appeared, pointed to it and said something to me like: "You see? This is the result of it." - I knew he meant my interest in the mysteries of life without being prepared for it. You have to understand, astral projections and a couple of other 'mind' experiences happen to me naturally from time to time, so I'm pretty relaxed about getting involved in practices without doing all kinds of purification and spiritual mumbo-jumbo stuff etc etc., and i think it used to irritate him. Once I'd been building up my energy body, and he practically jumped out of his skin when he saw me. Guess I looked kinda shiny heh heh

Anyway: I think he was hoping i'd be terrified or something, but i really felt FURIOUS. I mean, the thing crouched over me was saying some pretty nasty stuff. My ears are not a toilet!

So, I went after it; I mean I really lit into it. I just started punching like crazy, and the thing looked up at me as if to say 'oh ♥♥♥♥♥'. I assumed it would be much stronger (it looked a bit like a gargoyle, even had the wings), but it was actually very weak.. pretty brittle in fact. Crunchy, even.
As I punched, I could feel I was breaking wings and arms and ribs, and I don't know when I stopped. But I could feel this religious leader of my parents' at first really startled at me being so angry, then he tried to stop me, then he just faded away.

Anyway: A while later, somebody was transporting me somewhere. He looked like these spiritual-type people, and in a slightly geeky way, but he was also a bit cool in that he was just amused by everything, didn't seem phased by anything, completely thrilled with himself always. Just barely on the right side of the crazy line, to be honest.

So he took me into some kind of structure where this religious leader was. So the leader didn't really want to see me, but this guy was giving his own speech and didn't seem worried that no-one want to hear it. He said something like 'i am a person of monastic inclinations' - that was a phrase that stuck in my head.. the rest was something about that I was going to be travelling around anyway, can he please give me some help or something. And I think this religious leader put some kind of shield on me.

Next morning, i awoke (in the usual way) and thought to myself 'pfft! shields. i got my shields right here' - i was flexing my muscles to myself. Just then, my hand brushed my shoulder and I freaked out. It was a series of scratches at my neck where the entity had been trying to push itself away from me with its claws. I guess it made the whole thing very real to me; i normally only half-believe my projections, but claw-marks on your skin is indisputable evidence. I also didn't really think my astral gallivanting could affect my physical body.

I don't want my experience to alarm anyone; i don't think there is serious danger out there, and i do believe we are more than powerful enough to protect ourselves.

Astral travelling is not something i seriously pursue; it's filed more under nice-to-do-but-too-much-bother right now. I do occasionally project without intending; then it reminds me, and i start trying to do it until i get somewhere and then the interest fades again. What really interests me are the prelim things you need to do if you want to do it seriously: the concentration, awareness and relaxation training. These are extremely valuable in my day-work and creative pursuits. I think of projecting and Lucid Dreaming and psi-balls as cool side-effects that help keep my interest alive in cultivating greater concentration, awareness, and relaxation/above-body-consciousness.

Also, as much as I pretend otherwise, by the end of the day, i do actually respect the opinions of people like my parents' religious leader and others of his calibre. If only they could do what they do in a cooler way.. so serious and stiff as it is.. You know, I always seem to have these spiritual-type people in my life, but i never really feel comfortable around them. On the other hand, 'normal' people are pretty undisciplined, take ages to understand and do anything, and, well, not as CLEAR. And I'm like a monkey in the middle. anyway, hope you found that interesting; thanks for all the other stories on here.

Best,
R