SPIRITUAL SPECTRUM STORIES

Dream, Lucid, Clairvoyant, Other Dreamlike Mysterious Events

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51.  Sam Experience. 7/25/10  I jumped up and ran downstairs where she and her mom were putting their coats on and she ran over to me and hugged me, kissed me on the forehead (which she usually didn't do) and said Bye Uncle Sam...See ya tonight" then she ran out the door in front of her mom and yelled something to a friend walking by. Suddenly I was back on the cot upstairs and heard them talking as if they were still getting ready to leave. I jumped up and went downstairs and exactly the same thing happened. I even knew she would run out the door in front of her mom and yell something to her friend. It was like I was in a movie and something  fast forwarded me to that part then instantly I was back at the part I got fast forwarded from and did it all again. Almost like that movie called "Groundhog day" where the same thing happened every day. Only this just happened once.
Premonition dream.  Saw exactly what would happen, then it really did a few minutes later.

50.  Denise F Experience. 6/19/10 I cannot find words or language to describe her. I was amazed that I saw the red color of her hair, as I was always concerned and aware that I never dreamed in color before, only shades of gray and white. I was surprised that I was able to see such brilliant and beautiful colors. I looked at her and did not immediately know who she was until she moved closer. I suddenly realized she was my mother! I was shocked. I remembered my mother when she died. I was age 12. She was 38,overweight and looked nothing like this. She was physically perfect in every way and elated at seeing me. Her happiness was beyond joy, impossible to put into words but a feeling that I could experience beyond anything possible here.
Research scientist shares vision from time of brain surgery.

49.  Ralph J Experience. 5/15/10 I was praying late one night our church chapel when I felt a tremendous terror: even though I was lying face down, face in arms, it was like I could “see” a Satanic figure entering the front doors of our church, walking down the main aisle of the sanctuary getting ready to turn left toward the chapel area. I have never, ever experienced such utter horror and fear. I was praying frantically, confessing any sin, but suddenly found myself desperately screaming in prayer for the safety of our country. After a long time, quite late at night, I felt it was over and that we were OK. At the time, I had the strong impression (and had told others later) that some unauthorized person or group in the Soviet Union was about to pull the nuclear trigger (or had pulled it—I couldn’t decide which).
Incredible waking vision during prayer!

48.  Brigitte C Experience. 5/9/10 From France, Original in French, translated to English by Kathy.    It was a premonitory dream because three days after my dream, a friend was killed at night while returning from her grandmother’s.  Her boyfriend was driving and fell asleep at the wheel, they fell into a ravine, he had his seat belt on and was practically unhurt but she, who was lying next to him sleeping, hadn’t put on her belt and went through the windshield and was killed instantly.
Premonition dream.

47.  David A Experiences.  4/6/10   I had a prophetic dream that made no sense to me at the time.  In the dream, I turned the corner of a building and saw a gigantic, blue-colored block of something I couldn't identify.  The following week, a family friend took my brother and I cross-country skiing.  On the way to our hotel room, I turned the corner of the balcony that lead to our room and stopped dead in my tracks, my mouth agape.  My brother said my face had turned white.  It was a gigantic block of ice that had been pushed up vertically onto the shore of Lake Superior.  It was identical to what I'd seen in the dream.  It was my first experience with the unexplainable.
Several prophetic dreams, an STE, an OBE.

46.  Julia Experience.  2/25/10 I have had several visions and one voice ' my son 3 yr old who had died for 4 minutes call me. He had went to visit his father , he had a mild cold but the climate change must have made it worse because it turned into pneumonia. I heard one of my kids call me while my cousin and I were out dancing with others… I ran into the hospital and there was my son in an oxygen tent . Doctors said they lost him for 4 minutes at the same time I had heard him call me just a couple hours earlier.
Several premonitions.

45.  Katherine M Experience.  2/25/10  I had a dream in which I saw someone I was close to emotionally, my first awareness was at the intersection of where the incident occurred but the car had already been removed...or just had...I was aware of the amount and location of the damage on the car....I didn't "stay" there long...I "headed" for the address of the person involved (the owner of the car) then I was in a small room (doctors examining room) just above the individual, (the owner of the car) the room seemed dark around me...a doctor was examining my friends forehead, I remember feeling that "it wasn't bad"....the next day I wrote a letter telling my friend about the dream  and as it turned out I had the intersection right...the car as I already knew wasn't too bad, and my friend required 3 stitches on his on his forehead but was otherwise ok.
Premonition dream of auto accident and doctor office visit of a friend.  Premonition observations later confirmed.

44.  Maria G Experience.  8/29/09 From Columbia  I shut my eyes and could see my spinal column above my body, just the column, a neon blue in colour with some white, full of light. I began to hear the sound of drums alongside my spinal column, and I could see the vibrations of the music, in white light. After this, I felt my spine moving vigorously from side to side (all this was on another plane), and by then I could move myself and I saw on this other plane a being of light, as tall as the trees, and on one side a floating city of white light. I entered the city, where all the forms were curves and all the beings were of light, except one whom I could see normally like a human being, but not very clearly. Then I opened my eyes and saw in the room many silhouettes of light-beings, they seemed like angels, and my mother was at my side... I said to her "Mami the room is full of angels," but then they vanished.
Shamanic and other dreams.

43.  Anita G Experience.  2/15/09 From Australia I was dreaming that I was living in a farm in a small country community, and my dream seemed like it went on forever. People were running from everywhere with their kids, animals and hoses, screaming GET OUT , GET OUT, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE . I remember in my dream feeling calm at first and watching these people trying to make sense of what was going on. Then I was standing next to this farmer with a flannel shirt, jeans and an acubra hat, hosing crazy on his house and lawn, And then I felt panicky. This man seemed significant in my dream, but in real life I don't know him. I remember I was then hosing and screaming out for other people to run and get in their cars and the I saw sheep on fire running from the bush with people and kids alongside them. The panic in these peoples faces and the screams I heard in my dream, still haunt me now in this waking moment, I feel ill. I can see these peoples faces for some reason and the shear panic in their faces, it was horrible.
Precognitive dream of Australia brush fires.

42.  Mary K Experience.  7/27/08 English & Spanish.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon. But as we were about to watch the movie, around 8.00 pm, we were seated, my brother in one corner and myself in the other, when I saw a light which shone right through my brother's whole body. It was a very intense and narrow light. I was in shock, not knowing what to say, but paralysed, seeing my brother, then looking at his eyes, where I saw a deep, black emptiness in them. When I looked, astounded, I reacted by crying out, and I told him what had happened, but he laughed and said to me that he could see nothing surrounding me.
Precognitive waking vision.

41.  Amy Experience.  2/7/08 The painting was born from a vision that I had while trying to get to sleep...with eyes closed I saw the great light behind me and to my left out there in the black void of space; and it felt as though the whole room was lit up. I opened my eyes but nothing was different, I was still in my bed and it was still nighttime.
Really interesting painting!  You can see the spirit orbs.

40. Raymond S Experience.  1/12/08  From Netherlands, Original in Dutch translated to English by Garry After all this talk I leaned back on the bench, to sit awhile longer before I set off on my journey, in a few minutes the familiar scene around me disappeared and everything became brightness before my eyes. A circle of clouds formed and within this a golden shade.  In the centre was a very bright light, whiter than white and hard to look at. the centre of this cloud "tunnel" was quite round and there was a yellow goldish light that could be seen through it.
Waking vision after intense argument.

39. Luane Experience.  4/23/07  From Italy, Original in Italian translated to English by Maurizio B I was in a wonderful. marvelous place : there were some green meadows, I was  upon a cliff  which overlooks vertical on the sea. In front of me, an huge blue ocean extended.  I looked at me, I wore a white dress, a tunic.  I felt a great sensation of peace, of love, of self-fulfilment, the problems that I had on the earth didn't exist anymore, it was like  if I had forgotten the world and the  material life.  I wanted to overlook at the edge of the high cliff  ... but it was  lengthening  in front of my way, it didn't let me  lean out the abyss that ended  in a cliff in the sea. But I knew the color of roks was a pure white.

38. Margaret O's Experience.  9/7/06  I was floating in the air still very scared asking to go back to my son. they just kept saying, remember this place we take you to ,when we arrived there it was a small bridge, they pointed over and there on the edge near a brook was a baby wrapped in a blanket, they said remember ,I replied I will but please take me home… 9 years later we decided to move house we still had one son we didn't want anymore so now was the right time. we fond a house we loved and moved in at the back of the house was waste land 2 years after moving there they built a small housing development on the waste land when they cleared the waste land we found we had a brook at the bottom of our garden, when they tided it up I recognized the place from my experience. I was convinced I was going to find an abandoned baby there, I looked almost everyday .but then I became pregnant my son was now 13 this was a big shock but should it have been.
Apparent prophetic dream of future birth of a child at a future home location.

37. Wilma A's Son's Experience.  11/8/05  I am writing this for my son who is 10 years old. This is our conversation about what he saw. 
OBE by 10 year old (as shared by mother) with prediction his mother would die.  Very NDE-like experience.

36. Lisa K's Experience.  11/8/05 I dreamt my mother had an operation but could not be fixed by doctors and as she was waking up from the operation I was wondering how I would tell her that she could not be fixed.  I awoke to a phone call telling me she was being rushed to hospital and had already fallen unconscious a few times.  My mother was not currently suffering from any immediately life threatening illness and none of us were expecting her to die. She was considering an operation to cure a minor illness but died of a DVT, which was unrelated and had been diagnosed and was being treated. I dreamt she has something inside her chest, which the doctors could not remove.  She died from a pulmonary embolism (blockage in the lungs), which was caused by the blood clot she had in her leg and the doctors at the hospital could not help her in any way once she realized she could not breathe properly. They said they tried everything.  My dream was very similar to what actually happened.
Multiple experiences including ADCs and precognitive dream.

35.  Kathy M's Experience 9/3/05  My dream was very vivid. I saw my ex boyfriend being stabbed over and over again and there was blood everywhere. It was the most horrible thing I had ever seen and I felt like I was watching it happen.  I was so taken by the dream that I went to visit his brother at his job to make sure he was okay. When I explained to his brother the purpose of my visit he looked at me like he had just saw a ghost and asked me "who told you". I replied "who told me what". He began to tell me that his brother had been stabbed in a club and it was very bad but he would be okay.  Every hair on my arms stood up and I felt a chill slide down the center of my body.
Dream with information later verified.

34.  Michelle K's Experience 8/13/05  The face was androgynous, but child-like. It had no body hair; no eyebrows, lashes, etc. It had large intense eyes of no distinct color. And the skin tone was warm, and peachy like. Although it had a youthful face, it was ageless, wise, adult in behavior (but not alien-like in any way). There were no need for words as everything was telepathic. In fact, it was so intense in wordless dialogue, I asked all my thoughts at once; like they were layered upon one another and asked in one sentence. The questions I asked (some but not all I am able to give here due to the inability to consciously review them; it was/is like even my subconscious was meant to keep it from my conscious self for a reason. If that makes any sense) included --'am I on the right life path? How can I keep going on? Will the world's people/future be okay?--It smiled at me and nodded it's head slowly to me.
Lucid dream with encounter with a wise spiritual being.

33.  Marie O's Experience 7/23/05  I was dreaming that I was sitting on a city bus and when realized I was dreaming. I got off at the bus stop and it was raining outside. I stood under the bus shelter amazed at how real the situation was. I touched the painted metal shelter and marveled at the realistic chipped paint and I could feel the coolness of the metal and the bumpiness of the paint. I could feel the rain as I stepped out. I examined the hedge by the sidewalk and felt the wet, shiny leaves. It was as real as if I were awake. It was fascinating. I decided not to change the dream too much as I had in other lucid dreams. There was a house near the bus stop that had a store on the bottom level. I decided to explore it. A woman sat there at a desk and I asked her for an umbrella. She admitted she had one of her own and that it was not for sale. I explained that this was just a dream and it did not really matter if she got it back or not. She gave me the umbrella and the dream ended.

32.  Karen C's Experience 6/17/05  Suddenly, I felt warmth on my back.  It felt like sunlight hitting my bare back (I was fully dressed).  I turned toward the window and saw a small white light moving toward me from outside the window.  As it got closer it got bigger.  It was so white and bright that looking back, I can hardly believe that I could have kept my eyes open to look at it, but it didn't hurt my eyes at all.  I wasn't afraid.  The light began to take form above my bed.  I was still on the floor.  I couldn't see any features (i.e., eyes, nose, hair), and I couldn't see through it.  It sat on my bed and I instinctively put my head on its lap.  I never felt more at peace.  I never felt more loved.  I felt as though I knew this entity very well - that we had a relationship somehow.  It was comforting me.  I'm not sure if my eyes were closed at this point, but suddenly I was looking down at my friend laying in his hospital bed. I started to cry again.  Then I saw what I perceived to be Jesus Christ standing over my friend.  He had a long white robe on which was tied at the waist with a brown sash.  He had long brown hair (typical Jesus image you might see in any church).  Jesus turned to look up at me, and then he looked back at my friend, placing his right hand on my friend's forehead. Without any words being said by anyone (the white light being, or Jesus), I knew that my friend would be all right.
Friend was in coma.  Vision occurred, followed by rapid healing of friend.

31.  Kathleen F's Experience 4/17/05  I think I experienced the most amazing and intense visionary display and physical "transformation" that is possible for a human being.
Remarkable prolonged vision with an extraordinary amount of detailed content including visions of past and non-earthly entities, vision of future corruption of Internet by evil forces, and much more.

30.  Ginger S's Experience 3/12/05  So finally a week went by and I decided to ask her about it.  I asked her if she was in a minor car wreck recently and named the area of the intersection in which it took place.  She got really pail and started to cry instantly and asked me how I knew did someone call me and tell me...I paused for a second and said no..."I saw it about a week ago." Had dream daughter was in minor auto accident.  One week later confronted daughter, and confirmed details in dream.

29.  Stephen H's Experience 11/27/04 From the U.K.  In my dream, I “appeared” outside a terraced house with a door in front of me. A lady dressed completely in white was opening it. She smiled in a friendly way and I floated into the house and into a room. I noticed a long couch, like a psychiatrists couch, in the left corner of the room (as I was floating near the door). Then a dog appeared lying down on the couch – it was a German shepherd dog, lying on its side. I sensed my hand traveling towards its uppermost (right) ear, but when I did so I heard a high-pitched droning/whining sound – like someone rubbing the edge of a fine wine glass. As I took my hand away the sound lessened, and as I put my hand closer it got louder. I sensed that there must be something wrong with the dog’s hearing.   Precognitive lucid dream.

28.  Oxala's Experience 5/10/04 From Romania  As I am falling into sleep I can remain conscious and in some cases (but rarely) I can control my conscious dream. With the power of imagination I can do anything I imagine, experience sensations and adrenaline at maximum (time and space where at my disposal).
Very detailed description of lucid dream experiences.

27.  Jo A's Experience 5/10/04 From the U.K. Then it happened. Without warning the hillside lit up with this unearthly glow. And I was -while still standing before the sink- soaring somewhere else in utter bliss- fused with the elements-every atom-raindrop-beetle-rock.  And in that moment of bliss I KNEW that ALL WAS WELL......somehow.  Somewhere. As an incest survivor with a mother who had also had a terrible childhood, I studied and wrote about inexcusable child abuse...........and in this unity experience I remember thinking that EVERYTHING MADE SENSE-SOMEWHERE-SOMEHOW....BEYOND MY UNDERSTANDING....IT MADE SENSE AND ALL WAS WELL.
This was almost like a consciousness shift.

26.  Malcolm C's Experience 3/22/04  I woke up from being asleep, felt that I was not breathing and lay for what seemed a few seconds not able to move or breath and it was dark and I was laying on my bed.  Then I saw a brilliant light to the upper left of my vision that seemed distant.  It was incredibly hot and bright but I could look at it and I felt warm and safe.  I remember feeling very calm and happy and very emotional.  I wanted to be in the light and I felt like what was in the light was reality and the life I have I did not want to go back to.  I felt that everything I ever wanted to know about me was inside the light and that there were people there. 
A transcendent dream

25. Muslim Views on Dreams 2/28/04 By Shaza, From Sudan.

24. Martin's Experience 2/26/04 Original in French, Translated by Johanne From France.  I was resting on the hospital bed and I had fallen asleep when all of a sudden, I started having stronger and stronger palpitations. And suddenly, I went into a black house, and each time I was opening the doors, there was fire behind them which kind of pursued me. I was horrified, helpless, I was only hearing the huge sound of the flames. I was like jammed, I wanted to get out but I couldn’t, I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t either. There were men who wanted to push me into those flames but I resisted.
Although he says it wasn't a dream, there was no separation of consciousness from the body.  Therefore, it has to be a variant of dream such as a lucid dream or perhaps a waking vision.

23. Admir S's Experience 1/13/04   I became lucid in a huge meeting hall  were hundreds of people were meeting, many walking in an out, a stairway connected the outside with the inside of the area. No sooner I had entered the place and girl took my hand and led me flying outside, and I found myself flying over people entering the from. The girl left me floating under the most gorgious, blue, sparsely cloudy sky which partially hid the sun, "What a marvelous thing, people!” I shouted.
Here's a frequent flyer from Brazil.  It is interesting because these experiences show the cross-overs between lucid dreaming and OBEs and add a cross-cultural flavor to the narratives.

22. KA B's Experience 11/2/03 I noticed that there was a boundary or dark void just beyond the Light as I moved into it.  Then suddenly I became aware that every question that I had ever had or could have had was answered in an instant.  There is no feeling like the Satisfaction of that experience.  As I moved further into the Light, I became aware of other Consciousnesses that were a part of the Light as water drops are a part of the ocean.  There was such Love for me there!  After some time, I saw a Hand of God appear and gently pluck me, as a tiny Ball of Light, out of the Oceanic Love, and sent me down, down, down where I was aware of slipping into my physical body through my head.
Lucid dream from falling asleep to a guided imagery tape.  Or is it an OBE?

21. Lisa M's Experience 11/2/03  One night this January I had a dream  I went to my fathers house and it was being ransacked by his mother and brother. I came in and said what the hell are you doing to my dads house? My grandmother turned around and said "Daddy die" I remember another person in the room but I could not see his face. I remember my stomach sinking I think I started to wake up so this person yelled at the top of his lungs "Stanley needs a chest x-ray" I woke up I think right after that, now any other time I would have ignored a dream. But he yelled so loud it stuck in my head. Dream ADC or ?

20.  Matty T's Experience 08/10/03  Then it seemed if i was jumping from place to place, I was back in the tunnel at what seemed to be the end of the tunnel was a light.  I was always on a pogo stick during this whole experience, as i got closer to the light i wanted to go in the light but my great grandfather was there and he spoke to me and told me not to go in the light it was not my time i heard his voice as he spoke and it sounded harsh.  i was angry because he was harsh and would not let me go to the light. 
She calls this experience a dream, yet it has OBE qualities and some NDE-like imagery.

19. Wanda S's Experience. 5/14/03. This is the best part.  I cannot begin to describe this energy, it was pure love.  It was a thing, it was tangible. I did not want to leave, ever!!!  There are no words that exist on earth that can describe this blue energy, no words to describe the ecstasy I felt.  I don't know how long I was there, not long enough.  I was then in bed, with tears streaming down my face.  I heard a masculine voice say, In order to have all, you must give up everything.  Then a chorus of beautiful female voices with one predominate voice said, Don't worry, everything is going to be perfect in the end.
Transcendent dream

18. Margaret KJ's Experience. 4/19/03. I was having a lucid dream - I am "moving" something like walking beside another person. I am a ball of blazing light, the "person" next to me is also light. I don't see faces, but I know that this is a "being". We are having a conversation but our mouths are not moving (so telepathically communicating).  We are moving down a very dark hall and then come into a large room that is filled with "people" i.e. other balls of light. The balls of light surround me, and I am overwhelmed by the communication, there is much chatter i.e. telepathic greetings, and I can hear everyone. There is a feeling of warmth, happiness and joy and familiarity like I know this group of beings.
This lucid dream really seems like she was in a different and wonderful place!

17. Kaylene L's Experience. 4/19/03.  I inherited my dad's old four wheel drive truck. I had put it into 4WD and couldn't get it to go back to normal drive. I was really worried and a bit upset as I thought I'd done something wrong or damaged it. That night, I dreamt that I was in my dad's truck, sitting in the passenger seat. There was someone (it may have been dad, but I didn't recognize the person as dad in the dream) in the driver's seat. They told me and showed me that to get it out of 4WD, you had to ensure it was moving forward just slightly and then it would slip into normal drive really easily. The next morning, I got up and tried it and it worked. It was a very vivid dream in terms of showing and telling me how to fix this problem.
Vivid dream that might have been an ADC helps her fix her dad's truck.

16. Heather W's Experience. 4/19/03. I am a little girl (not myself) I am someone else. I am riding down a road on a sort of wagon. It was early 50s I would say. I am wearing a dirty white dress and no shoes. I must have been 7 or 8. I had blonde hair and a fair complexion. We turn right onto a long dirt road. I can see the wooden sign but I cant read it. We turn into my drive way. There is my house sitting on a hill slanted up from the road - a large 2 story white farm house   - i can still smell the fresh paint and feel the grass in between my toes as i run across the large hill in my front yard. We sold produce. I laid the apples in the box on the front yard the i carried a bail of hay to the stand and my brothers and sisters carries one to. There were to many siblings to count.
Is this vivid dream a past life experience or perhaps an alternate reality?

15. Nancy K's Experience. 4/19/03.  He began to talk.  Now I don't really remember anything much of what he said except a few things, but at the time it was such a revelation that I was looking for paper to write down things he said so I could remember them.  I remember he said that there would be ear marks or things to look for to find the path and he told me what these things were.  He finished by saying "You haven't done bad, but you could have done better."
Lucid dream that seemed so real, like being in an alternate reality.

14.  Audra M's Experience 3/8/03  It was a road full of love and the most peaceful feeling in the world. I start walking faster down this path and then there was a shape of a man. i could not make him out, but he looked at me with a smile and then he put his hand out for me to stop moving forward.  an amazingly bright light was behind him and then i jumped right out of my bed.
This is a dream that turned into a spiritually transformative event.

13.  Lucy M's Experience 2/15/03  i suddenly realized that i was semi conscious so i wondered if i could control my dream. i remember i was standing next to a staircase so i jumped and suddenly my whole body went tingly (like the feeling you get when your leg goes dead and then life comes back into it) i was actually floating at the time. then i woke up in my bed and my whole body was paralyzed. i tried to move and i couldn't.
Lucid dream experience with fear elements.

12.  Nadia C's Experience 2/2/03 I swear to God, few days later, I had the same identical experience - only it was real this time. We were coming from the beach, and strangely enough, I was not tense as usual, and I was even enjoying the ride! All at a sudden, just like I already imagined days in advance, a car crossed the road and my husband hit the car and the accident was identical in all details even the fall under the car with the wheel almost crossing my neck! Even there I was ready to feel the cracking noise of my neck bones, but, thanks God, the wheel stopped just next to my neck! Identical to the day dream I had! I still feel shaky when I think about it!
She had a waking vision that came true a few days later! 

11. LaVenia L's Experience 1/26/03  Then I began to see what looked like a movie on the walls all around me...Then I saw beings gliding on a street in a beautiful city...the most beautiful thing I had ever seen...The scene lasted for hours,...There were families, like Mom and Dad or 1 or 2 children...they just all glided about...The buildings were made of light...and Dad would have one of the children on his shoulders...Mom would have the other by the hand...This scene was of immense beauty...I can still see it...When I awoke in the morning it was gone, and everything looked awful without that beautiful city scene....
Waking vision shortly after child birth.

10. Tracy S's Experience 1/18/03 A man spoke in a very loud voice, but the words weren't exactly spoken. They WERE spoken--we all understood them and heard them, but one or two sentences contained much more meaning--and in the moment it was TRUTH, LOVE, Acknowledgement. The man was either emanating, radiating, or standing in but floating in a blue white light. Not that I could see it beginning in him--but it was all around and shining on me and flowing outwards towards us and down.  The words were something that he had "led me out--had shown me something--so that I would believe in Him"  Also the man had a beard-and I thought he was a prophet. I wish I could fully describe it. One word would be Glory! Definitely I was known by this man and by all the others in presence with us, and all good was desired for me. But I only know that from how I felt, yet I felt it because it WAS. 
Precognitive dreams about an attempted suicide at a later time.

9. Margaret K's Experience 1/16/03 I am now experiencing a very floating type of feeling. I am very aware of a immediate change in environment. I am alone in my grandparents house, but I am aware that it is not really their house, but a manifestation of it (my grandparents house was a home filled with tremendous love and safety). There are intense colors and an overwhelming sense of being in a different realm where everything is magnified (i.e. sensations). I physically feel that I am not connected to my body. There are no words to accurately describe the heightened sense of awareness and intense feelings. It is almost like I become one with everything around me. 
A lucid dream that involves an after-death communication with her grandmother.

8. Narendran's Experience Non-Western Experience from INDIA.  12/22/02  A few minutes afterwards, I noticed the figure was still there.  It ordered me (but not in words) to come. I was adamant against following the figure.  The figure forced me to follow.  The moment i thought that figure pulled me, it did not even reached near to me but some how it did pull me.  In the next second, i was traveling over a path or tunnel covered by light.  The experience was like traveling through a huge pipe, but i could see other space materials. The travel was fast but lasted only seconds.  I found myself in the open upstairs of some house.  A  middle aged lady was there. She was like a white light having a grey or black long tail that would extended even at the steps and i did not see where it ended.
This is a lucid dream that may also qualify as an OBE. 

7. Irene K's Experience 12/8/02  I do remember it was important that I recognize the race of the many people traveling through this gateway. Many were Palestinians. The children primarily were Palestinian and I remember thinking that there were too many too young entering this pathway. I walked closer to this gateway but stopped when I realized I was at the edge. I was afraid and was worried. I had an urge to walk into this wind to experience what heaven might be like, but was focused enough to realize that if I walked into it, I may never be allowed to come back. I was afraid if I entered, in the real world, I would have died and I was afraid of leaving my children on earth alone.
There are every day dreams and then there are dreams of consciousness, of which these two are.

6. Marsalis's Experience 12/8/02  Next my grandfather appeared. How I knew it was him I cannot say because he did not have his face. He did not have a face, really. He was just a big ball of light. He came and stood near me by the tree and spoke to me. When he came close to me I felt the light coming off his body. I could feel it with my body not just see it and the light had a feeling like pure joy and unconditional love. It is beyond words. It enveloped me and I felt very loved and very at peace. I wanted to melt into him and stay there forever. As I do whenever I "visit" with my grandfather, I asked him a question. I asked him whether I would have children. I asked this with my mind. He responded- not in words- by showing me that there were all these orphans in the world that needed me and I did not have to worry about having my own kids.
This is a vivid dream, possible OBE, to other worlds and contact with her deceased grandfather.

5.  Wesley M's Experience.  11/9/02  My friend and I then started reading up on altered states of mind. I then tried to have an OBE and had a dream that turned into very lucid state where I was floating up and through the window in room and then outside up and through the window of the upstairs neighbor's apartment.  I then felt like I was into some kind of dream and than snapped back into the OBE state, only to find myself falling through the floor down into my room again.
This account has wonderful descriptions of the states of lucid dreaming and OBE and you can also see the transitions between the two.

4.  Liz K's Experience  6/4/02. "the next thing i know is i'm awake in a bright light , its really warm and peaceful and i'm moving closer to it and i'm not walking but i'm getting closer and then i see a big white wall but its not a wall all i see is never-ending white all up and down and both sides right and left and i'm wondering how will i get past it.  the next thing i know is i'm on the other side , i see people everywhere and hear them but they are not talking with there mouth its with there head, like ESP."
Dream with NDE-like elements and saw grandparents.

3.  Shawna K's Experience  6/4/02.  "Then it all became very strange, with a sense of drifting into a void.  It was bluish grey. I had a terrible thought that I had died, and I vividly remember thinking that I did not want to die. With that though I was quickly back in my body and feeling normal and awake." 
Although NDE-like and a separation of consciousness, this experience started as a dream without a clear delineation of waking up.  Perhaps this is the bridge between a lucid dream and an OBE.

2.  James K's Experience  6/4/02.  On this one particular night I had felt as if I had actually awoke in a place I've never seen before, and I saw myself standing in front of me. I was in a "praying on knees position" i.e. not the way I was sleeping, or in the room I was sleeping in I looked at myself "in front of me" and tried to speak, but instead the words moving my lips moving "the me on my knees" the standing ME's lips moved. What was I trying to say?" This experience starts as a dream, but the surreal events and feeling of waking up may be more of a lucid dream or even cross over into an OBE.
 
1.  DeAnna P's Experience  4/19/02.  "The significance of this dream is that I have always suffered poor "anger management". getting into fights as a child, being a "wild" teenager by being extremely stubborn and, well...angry. I still suffer problem with dealing with anger, though several "lessons" have been "thrown my way" that have allowed me to "mellow" a little." 
Our first lucid dream.  It looks like necessary life lessons being taught on the inner planes.

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