Buzzing

Zillah

Right here's one for ya. Something that happened a couple of weeks ago, only getting around to posting it now though.


I went to bed, fell asleep. Much later I woke up and the sun was just coming up. I drifted back to sleep. Then I have a bizzarre sensation of vibration. This is while asleep, either a very very intense dream or I actually was vibrating while half asleep. The vibration was extremely intense, I didn't get the impression of anything else moving, just me as far as I can tell. I try to get out of bed and it takes a few seconds, I seem to struggle for quite a while to get out of bed. I decide to have a cigarette and I do, out the window, but things are wierd. The cigarrette seems to be gone almost immediately and I don't remember lighting it or putting it out. After a blank moment I find myself wandering down a completely irrelevant street near my home. I'm only walking for a few seconds and then I find myself waking up, in bed. I didn't have cigarettes in my room at the time it turns out.


This all seems like a dream but two things make me think it could be more. One, I've heard that vibrations are a precursor to astral travel, and two, it was an extremely intense sensation, far more intense than anything I've ever felt in a dream before.

Thoughts?

(Edit : I'm well aware of all the mundane explanations for this and I'm perfectly open to accepting it was nothing more than a screwed up lucid dream, I'm just wondering what else others think it might have been.)

stevenmu

Definitly sounds like astral travelling to me. The vibrations you felt are generally associated with the "spirit" entering or leaving the body, they feel kind of like you're having a mini seizure or something right ?. You can get the same effect if you wake up too fast and try to move while still under sleep paralysis.

The fact that you ended up on some irrelevant street shows you probably weren't fully lucid and your subconcious was still in control of what was going on. That's generally what's happened in my own experiences but with practise many people gain full control of what happens them in the astral plane. This site MysticWeb has good general info and they run free courses on astral projection if you're interested, I think there's one starting soon (thanks to Saruman for the link).

As you say there are plenty of mundane explanations but either way it adds a bit of excitment to the sleep process. Personally I want to find out if people from the physical world meet each other in the astral plane can one of them tell the other say a number between 1 and 1000 and then both remember it when they wake up.

Gordon

Vibrations exist on many levels. Personally I think that it was a dream but either way I believe you to have been experiencing such vibrations. Maybe the fact that you experienced your current bodily vibration (am very curious to know what that frequency was - was it a buzzing or a slow motion hum?) could be due to you linking closely with your core physical essence.

Therefore if you were experiencing the body as one unique entity - what does it mean? One thing could be your smoking: Your whole body could be crying out for you to stop smoking (just a theory). One hypothesis could be that your core physical entirety is fed up with you travelling roads that you have no idea why you are travelling.

Whatever it is, I think that hitting the vibrational essence of your physical (and I guess spiritual) being is important and you should look into what this means to you personally.

Do you see a hidden message in what you experienced? (oh yeah, hidden messages are hidden for a reason huh?! scrap that)

Stark

Sounds like a classic case of astral projection to me.

Zillah

Thanks for all the responses, and I'm sorry I don't have time for a very thorough reply. I'll definately check out mystic web. As for the frequency, it was relatively high pitched, certainly not a slow hum. Although the word "buzzing" is a little misleading, that seems too high. I'll check in later. While I'm off desperately arranging stuff for college, feel free to discuss your own experiences.