Cities in the Astral

This is so weird, I am sitting here a bit stunned. I just woke up, but let's call it more fled back here from the astral. I have run out of lucid goals. I wanted to challenge myself beyond super powers and the standard stuff. I decided to seriously try to figure out how to gain personal control over my entry into the astral dream realm and entry into the big city there. I did a WILD with this in mind. I intended to call out to "Dream Guides" in general if I needed to and to sit in seiza position if any confrontation happened to show my harmlessness.
I am a little embarrassed by the level of fear some folks from there caused me. Silly and foolish, I never seem to have enough forward clear reason and calm rationality when I go astral. I intended on showing restraint, and I did, but WOW, I panicked.

I WILD into a scene that appears to be a restaurant and an old lady is asking directions. My I-phone will not work. I realize it is a dream. I attempt to shift into the astral. I can not explain clearly how this is done, as I am actively trying to understand it myself at the moment. I think it worked right away. I have recently spent a year uncontacted by any Dream Guide types, because I asked the main guy to allow me some space to dream inside my own head, with out them always controlling/training me. I had been tired with every LD being a training session, or at the very least, subject to the rules and laws there. A few nights ago, I asked for re-entry and immediately was contacted (see naked rave dream). In that dream a security vehicle followed me around.

For my new dream goal I wanted to make the entry on my own if I could and then calmly make contact with some of the entities. I wanted to make good eye contact, and have a clear discussion. If things got weird I was going to sit to show harmlessness.

I walked around in what still looked like a dinner, but suddenly it shifted and soon I was there. The people were now emanating the special feel astral entities do. I was being watched and stared at. I sat at a table and I tried to talk with a large man. I could not understand him. He looked frustrated and increasingly angry at me looking at him. I seem to have somehow started an argument with him. I have sometimes thought they were testing if I would respond with violence (and often have) I tried to leave through a glass door. He tried to stomp after me. I held the door closed and he transformed into a polar bear and was pushing from his side and looking pissed.

I saw another man approach and asked him why this man was so angry. This man I could understand. He told me "Him? He was just delivering pizzas." ??? Well, maybe I could understand??? What? "He was just delivering food" The bear had gone from the scene so I stopped trying to hold the door. This guy hand me two pins, like would go in a shirt collar. What? I thought maybe they were some form of translating device, but fail to fully understand what they were, or how they could work.

I walked around behind the dinner and it was an semi-enclosed industrial looking court yard area. I was immediately approached by a man who looked very angry. I jumped up into a tree. So much for my plan of staying calm and showing harmlessness. This place has strong gravity that overcomes the ability to fly. I can fly for very short bursts but it exhausts me, and I am not sure many here can fly. He acted like he was going to grab me out of the tree, so I levitated (damn, the gravity was overwhelming) I barely got out of reach. I was forgetting my harmless bit. I mocked him "Can you fly?" He just shook some papers at me and repeated my words in an angry tone.

I snatched the papers from him and he stomped away. I tried to look at the papers, but they made no sense. I thought I picked up on some words that meant something about 2 types of blood and some public health issues. I gave up on understanding it.

I looked around and in the next area over was what looked like a large market store and a very tall tree like thing was in front. I figured I would hide in the branches and just watch people. I went over and floated up into the branches, but did not seem hidden from view. The tree was swaying with my weight and a passer by stared up at me like I frightened her. Soon a security type or at least a stern figure came and just somehow grabbed me down from the tree. I do not understand how. It looked like I was up off the ground a ways, but with a small gesture I was pulled down in front of him.

He looked angry and when I tried to talk he reached up and grabbed the pins they other guy had given me and shook them at me in his open palm. I could not understand him. I decided to go ahead and call out loud "Dream Guides!" I had decided on that phrase before hand, as this is still very confusing and my goal was to actually understand it more. Two more people rushed up, but I thought they looked angry too. I quickly went into the sitting position I had planned on to show I was not going to be a threat.

Things were going well in that sense, I had completed both goals, but I was on the ground surrounded by three unknown entities who looked angry. I panicked and decided to flee back to my own head. One of the people told me not to do it, but in my panic I felt it was a hostile order, and it just added to my fear. I closed my eyes and was a bit like Dorthy with they I want to go home stuff. One of them tapped on my shoulder, but I was panicking and made my escape.

I entered an ordinary LD (I think) but was creped out and made myself wake up.

I will not give up, I am going back in to try it again. I did not attack anyone. I called out "Dream Guides!" I sat saiza when confronted. So in that sense I succeeded in my goals. I also seem to have made the entry on purpose and without aid. I never thought that language type barriers would exist. I have not had time to think about that. Also, what is the meaning of the pins or the papers about public health issues?

For over a decade my adventures in the astral were haphazard at best, or guided carefully by a DG. Now, I think learning to understand and control this type of travel are the next step. I need to learn to stay calm and figure out how not to make people angry. I think the first guy could not understand me and was just yelling at me to leave him be (let him do his job) and I think the other guy wanted to know why I was creeping around behind the building. Fairly harmless stuff.