A Lucid Dreamer Is An Explorer

Our dreams are incredible worlds full of possibilities and wonder, yet most of us never realize more than a small fraction of our dream potential. With practice and self discipline anyone can achieve the lucid dream state. Once you become lucid you are limited only by your own imagination as to where you can go and what you can do. Lucid dreams can be a great way to work out issues, problems, decisions and to help you get in touch with yourself.

The dream world is not limited by physical laws or the limits of space and time. If you really think about it dreams are a wild frontier where new discoveries await all of us - if we will only look for them.

Have you ever had an Out Of Body Experience (or N.D.E.) or wondered what it was like to travel outside your own body? I am a dream traveler, not like a passive passenger on a bus but more like a tourist with a camera and a notebook looking for souveniers.

One night I happened upon an unusual experience where I actually stepped outside my body.

I sat up on the bed and looked down at myself lying there asleep. I got up and walked over to the window and looked out. It was a nice, bright sunny day. I opened the window and jumped up on the sill.

I sat there in the window looking outside and glancing over at my body still lying there on the bed. I took in all the smells and listened to the birds singing in the trees. I was amazed at how real everything looked and felt. I bounced my weight up and down and could literally feel the pressure of the wood. I stuck my face farther out the window and closed my eyes, I could feel the sunshine and it was bright through my closed eyelids.

I launched myself out the two-story window and flew. I flew all around the town looking down at the people, and the streets and traffic. I flew close to the ground and then I soared higher and into the clouds.

Finally I flew back to my window and went back into my room. I stood there thinking how wild this was and how amazing I felt. Even though I had left my body I still felt solid and could feel my weight when I shifted my feet. Eventually I sat down on the bed and laid back down into my body.

I cannot stress how real everything felt in this experience. Everything right down to the smells, the wind, the sounds, and the warmth of the sunshine.

After it was all over I marveled at myself for returning back to my body so soon. Why didn’t I stay out longer? What prompted me to return to my body when I did?

My personal belief is that there is no such thing as an actual out of body experience. I believe these experiences occur within our own minds in much the same way as a dream. In fact what I experienced was really a massive lucid dream. When I jumped out that window I was fully aware that I could fly because I was in a dream. When I looked down and saw that I was getting up out of my own body I became lucid. Though I was flying in the bright sunlight I knew that I was in reality asleep in bed and it was the middle of the night.