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[christconsciousness]

I'm new to the forum, but I'm a reasonably experienced dreamer and out-of-body experience-er. I'm very interested in lucid dreaming and anything that happens during the sleep period. As I've said I've had out of body experiences and these are different from lucid dreams in that they feel 'more real' than waking or dreaming life, as if I were transported into another dimension. I've read literature by William Buhlman about out-of-body experiences and I like his theory that we are multi-dimensional spiritual beings and that our physical body is just a temporary vehicle, and that, clearly, 'reality' is multi-dimensional. My OBEs include floating above my body and turning around to smell my hair to see if it was real, and sure enough it was. I've also had some frightening painful experiences with OBEs as I have collided with other energies and felt intense pain as the two energies interacted. I also had an experience, which was perhaps the free-est I've felt in my life, where I did a 360 flip out of my body and sort of curled into a ball in mid air, then awoke back in my body. My lucid dreams include running down a suburban street with a bunch of other people, up a spiral staircase, into a massive train depot with old trains, which was my first ever lucid dream. What I find so great about them is the liberation of the mind you feel, like as if physical reality were a bit of a burden and suddenly you were allowed to go home. I've also had erotic experiences, making a girl appear out of nowhere, grabbing a handful of dirt and taking a whif to compare it to waking life and finding it was exactly the same. I also experienced another liberating lucid dream which lasted around 10 minutes where I ran onto a basketball court and high-fived "myself" or some dream character and then went into a library of some kind, after escaping the basketball court by climbing over the barbed wire fence. Inside the library I flew graciously around then suddenly remembered the 360degree vision thing from the movie Waking Life, and tried it, and it worked! The spectrum of light was shifted in such a way I'd imagine a insects to be (they have different receptor cells on their eyes to us). That was a really liberating dream and I haven't had one like it since. I have experienced the Mexican Dream Herb (Calea zachatchichi (sp)) and the African Dream Root (Silene capensis). The Mexican Dream Herb gave me a divine experience that appeared to be based in the 70s, where I was with a group of vagabonds during the height of the USAs industrial might, in a car, travelling. The feeling I had was that I was God, dreaming. The African Dream Root gave me a frightening experience where a hideous clown laughed at me in some kind of archetypal nightmare, then a spirit of some kind of comical makeup (like it was from a cartoon or story) appeared and said things that I do not remember but there was a theme in there like I wasn't ready to experience what that Dream Root had to offer. It was very spiritual and ancient... Anyway, there's a brief run-down, I hope I can meet some like-minded people here and learn about lucid dreaming. My first newbie question would be: what is a dream guide and how do I meet one?

[Seeker]

Hiya!! I don't know a lot about OBE and herbs and such, but I can maybe help with your Dream guide question. The best way to meet your dream guide is to either search for them or to call out for them in your lucid dream. One word of advice though, do not automatically believe everything dream characters tell you. If one tells you they are your dream guide, question them about it.

[christconsciousness]

Thanks.