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Originally posted by willthepathfinder
Hi, Will here.
I don't want to stick my nose in where it dose't belong, I'm new to this forum, but what you're talking about sounds like eveything I've ever read about astral projection or OOBE's. I know you don't want to hear that or probably even beleive in such a thing, but I'll tell you what I know if it interests you at all or might help. I can't say personally, but this is what I've read. AP (Astral Projection), can happen many ways they say; intentionally, accidentally (a shock or physical trauma), or through the dream state. They discribe many things witnessed in this state that sound like what you have witnessed yourself. You're mind or soul or whatever it is that leaves the body has no material form, it's enegy/thought, so it functions beyond the bounds of the physical world. Gravity does not hold you, you go where you want to simply by thinking it. You can pass through things, you have no pysical body to stop you. You can interact with people in the same state, but not with anyone who isn't. You can observe things as they happen in the physical world, see things, but can't interact with them/ move them because you don't have a body to manipulate them with. You can look back and see your body resting where you left it and like you found yourself, you can't just wake up where ever you are, you have to go back to your body to wake up. You don't have to wear anything in this state (no body) but, if you feel the need, if you bothered to notice, you can cloth yourself in say like a white robe with a blue belt. As far as time goes, your astral self they say is not held by the constraints of time. What felt like an hour can pass and when you get back a minute will have passed for your physical self. Ever had a dream that felt like hours or even days passed but, woke up to find it had only been 15 minutes? I think we come into contact with a part of ouselves when we dream that must be similar to an AP state. I think that is why people say they do this when they dream or meditate.
But, what the hell do I know? I promise I'm not a kook, I just think things like this are interesting.
Uhh...did you say anything about why my friends were with me in their white robes? Well, these types of things actually scare me :eek: ...b/c of my big fear of death. Also, why can I fly, b/c it is a dream. I can't really explain why my friend is scared of his duplicate, nor can I explain how I can communicate w/my 2 friends. The only thing that I know is that it does somewhat symbolize a dream to me. Also, I don't know exactly what the blue sash on my belly & the pink sashes on my friends' belly stands for. All I know that it is kind of snug, but I dare not loosen it like a belt (a bit of paranoia here), b/c I do not know what it symbolizes, & I don't want to untie it & find out. Also, did I mention that our duplicates are alive & breathing? Indeed, that does have to be a dream :D