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Anyone been to another dimension?
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I have...I think.
It was a dimension outside of my own physical body or so I believe. A dimension where I see people but people don't see me. Motion is difficult to describe, people move but in a different pattern. Lines of white were everywhere, light I guess. I had no weight, I floated. It was this.
It was a dimension outside of my own physical body or so I believe. A dimension where I see people but people don't see me. Motion is difficult to describe, people move but in a different pattern. Lines of white were everywhere, light I guess. I had no weight, I floated. It was this.
IssphitiKOzS
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Usually dreams feel that way, not sure if they really are.
When I tried Salvia I turned into a couch shaped boat... one draw of 20x did this to me, a regular weed smoker and occasional rave drug taker (Ketamine/Extacy/shrooms/MDMA mostly only at events). I experimented with Cough syrup one day, that was like a parallel dimension, everything the same but brighter. like taking off the shades in a 3d movie.
When I tried Salvia I turned into a couch shaped boat... one draw of 20x did this to me, a regular weed smoker and occasional rave drug taker (Ketamine/Extacy/shrooms/MDMA mostly only at events). I experimented with Cough syrup one day, that was like a parallel dimension, everything the same but brighter. like taking off the shades in a 3d movie.
IssphitiKOzS
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Have you seen Donnie Darko?, was it anything like that.
CoryJames
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I achieved an out of body experience, only for a few seconds, through deep deep meditation and relaxation. I was trying to do so, and the shock of how real and true the experience was, and how scary it was brought me back.
I am not bullshitting when I say it was real because I was completely conscious through the whole process. I was in a place with no physical sensation, my body was completely turned off, but the only way I can describe it was like the scene from 2001: A space odyssey, where he is flying through the prism of color. It was weird. But awesome. I haven't been able to achieve it again.
I am not bullshitting when I say it was real because I was completely conscious through the whole process. I was in a place with no physical sensation, my body was completely turned off, but the only way I can describe it was like the scene from 2001: A space odyssey, where he is flying through the prism of color. It was weird. But awesome. I haven't been able to achieve it again.
IssphitiKOzS
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Do you need to learn how to meditate?, or can I just read a wikihow page?
I've always been interested in meditation, but can never turn off my mind, even with closed eyes I'm still criticizing and analyzing the darkness and how it could be darker or if it's necessary etc...
Moocow
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I've only had an out of body experience while invoking a lucid dream. I've never achieved one while fully awake and meditating but my girlfriend has. Do you remember at all how you did it?
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I once smoked a ton of weed, passed out, and saw the demon that has been attacking my life. And I saw my three past lives, and my three future lives, and how they all played a role in my fight against my demon.
CoryJames
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I would read up on different techniques and then its all about practice. You aren't going to be able to do it your first time, especially being an INTP. But you will reach a surprising state of calmness if you try, and you will be able to just keep reaching milestones and knowing you can helps a lot. You could also try downloading guided meditation mp3's for extra help.
What worked for me was just trying to clear me head, and then every time a stray thought interrupts, focus on it, then exhale and at the same time imagine yourself letting the thought go with your minds grip, like loosening a fist. When you have reached a reasonable state of calmness and new thoughts have slowed down coming, focus on individual body parts starting at your toes and breath all tension out and slowly move upwards until you have relaxed every part. Then, imagine a place that is calm for you (for me oddly enough it is a white mountain face with the sun shining on it, then breath yourself to even more calm while simply letting go of your body, not focusing on it at all. You will find that you cannot even feel that it is there, and that you don't even want to move. When you reach true, perfect relaxation you will know it. It is an immensely refreshing state, and while you are in this place, you can bring one thought to your mind at a time and analyze it with the fullness of your brain that makes your usual objectivity look pathetic. Keep practicing, don't give up on it.
Read above. I was also trying to induce a lucid dream, but a wake induced one, I had no intention of falling asleep and did not let myself drift into unconsciousness. I was laying on my bed exercising that technique, but rather than breathing down into a mental setting as I describe there, I just breathed myself into the super calm state and remained conscious of my body, but was so relaxed I couldn't have moved it if I tried. I tried a technique I read about, and attempted to move my spiritual or astral body out of my physical one. I succeeded, but lost control of where I was going and began, like I said, flying through what I could only describe as space time, but it was not at all like dreaming and the reality of it scared me back to my body.
Saeros
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I once went into a small door that i found in my office and ended up in John Malkovich's head. Then after 15 minutes, i re-appeared near the New Jersey Turnpike, which was kind of annoying since I live on the other side of the world, and had to spend 20 hours on a plane.
CoryJames
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Were you by any chance experimenting with hallucinogens? Or well disguised teleportation machines?
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oh, yeah for sure man but it's not another dimension it's just... "it"
I "go" there too from salvia, for me it is like this,
I am a person, and I live in a place called reality.
I have rights and libertys in my country
everything that I make sense of the world
makes sense to a person.
that is the central thing that ties it all together, like a spherical dome of yarn and hanging from it down to the middle is one loose end, and from that point in the center I experience my entire reality
so I take a breath of salvia and...
reality levels to a plane, the fabric of reality widens before my eyes and I slip between the threads to tumble into an abyss, as I tumble through the abyss, through the fabric of reality, it feels like I am going down a tube almost,
a narrowing tube,
and to pass through it's stages I am stripped of myself to fit into increasingly narrower and narrower stages, first stripped from me is my reality - I am removed from reality and reality becomes an isolated point suspended in the endless expance of nothing.
then stripped from me is the body that I tumble through the abyss within,
then stripped from me is my thoughts and then my senses and then my everything untill there is nothing left but me (whatever EYE am *winky face* (EYE am the thing that is aware of my persons thoughs, an observer thing))
and there eye am, in the middle of nowhere and everything I have ever known or cared about, everything that matters, my
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everything is isolated like a pin point in the middle of an endless expanse of nothing,
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that part of the trip happens in... oooh probably a couple minutes, that's how I experience my vision fading from sober vision into triptovision,
then, there eye am, suspended in nothing, really far away from everything that matters, and I start to get scared or panic, like wondering (to "god") "why, how could this happen to me, what is this" etc
and a narrators voice jests back " you? is that what you think you are? what are you "
god prompts me to define myself,
I flounder, I feel like I am the last to be let in on some stupid joke,
like everyone in that place called reality was in on it and they are all watching my judgment intently, some are just hysterical at how 'cute' they find my ignorance is, and it stings my ego.
i flounder, I think, but but you can't just do this, gimme a hint man! I got nothing to work with here! how can you force me to define myself when there's nothing even here, there's just a (and then I start to become self concsious and start to make progress, from this point on I raise myself from the depths of the abyss to the eventual return to my body in the place called reality) string of words that make thoughts being created as I think them...
and as I keep thinking, the string of words that make thoughts that are created as I think them spins a wonderful tapestry of reality, like a fabric, and as the tapestry is created, my eyes begin to see reality again and when i've finally woven for myself a concrete reality-
the end of the string, the one loose end falls from my mouth " I'm a person, a person " I hear myself say,
my body is shaking im in a cold sweat fear toxins are in my brain and I realise I am at home, comfortable in reality, "I am a person!" I emphaticly repeat, alone in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere in my car, just so happy to be back from my trip, back home in reality.
at least untill I smoke salvia again, which is to metaphoricly pick up that one loose end and give it a yank, have it all come unwraveled again =p
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the weirdest thing I find about the whole trip is that what I described is comparable to a mono compression of a stereo song...
not only does it feel like falling through the fabric of a flattened reality , then down a tube,
from the moment I breath salvia a vibration comes over me,
and at the same, from the momen I breath, a pulsation comes over me, like I've just become conscious of being a play thing in gods lap, like he's playing some patting and clapping game... very strange sensation.
and at the same time as that, the pulsation feels like the pages flipping in a book, like every moment is a page being flipped in a book. reality as an isolated point is like a book lonely on a shelf.
the passage of time is experienced while you read.... yet you create the words BY reading, very strange indeed...
was your salvia experience anything like mine have been?
I often wonder if committing suicide is similar to doing salvia, except without the whole... u know, coming back to reality part...
IssphitiKOzS
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Not closing that bracket was incredibly distracting.
But I shall genuinely take your supportive words of wisdom to heart and try harder. My problem -I think- is that I don't know if I actually want to do this for me, or just to satisfy my curiosity and see that it is actually possible.
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I think I have had similar experiences to coryjames. through meditation techniques, which I sort of impromptu made up, I have been able to induce OBEs. I like to do it at night, to take advantage of what I perceive to be an integral player in the experience, DMT. DMT is produced by the pineal gland and accounts for the hallucinations that people experience at night, commonly known as dreams. For further information on DMT, read DMT: The Spirit Molecule, which I tepidly recommend as an elucidating but somewhat dry read.
So, through some weird combinations of switching from lotus position, with a ramrod straight spine, to a supine, relaxed position, at some point I begin having this nauseous sensation, which sounds gross but is part of the thing so whatever. from here, one has to fight the urge to reassert control and go with the experience. after letting go, you should feel like you are floating, vibrating (for me this was at like 140 beats per minute throughout my whole body), and electrified at your extremities. i felt like raiden from mortal kombat, like i had this tremendous force in my hands; although i didnt know what to do with that energy. I should add that I was basically incapacitated for the few minutes this was going on; normal reality was overlaid with swirling orange spheres about the size of tennis balls.
I dont know what to extrapolate from these experiences, but as someone else said they certainly felt more real and I look forward to continued adventures in this realm.
So, through some weird combinations of switching from lotus position, with a ramrod straight spine, to a supine, relaxed position, at some point I begin having this nauseous sensation, which sounds gross but is part of the thing so whatever. from here, one has to fight the urge to reassert control and go with the experience. after letting go, you should feel like you are floating, vibrating (for me this was at like 140 beats per minute throughout my whole body), and electrified at your extremities. i felt like raiden from mortal kombat, like i had this tremendous force in my hands; although i didnt know what to do with that energy. I should add that I was basically incapacitated for the few minutes this was going on; normal reality was overlaid with swirling orange spheres about the size of tennis balls.
I dont know what to extrapolate from these experiences, but as someone else said they certainly felt more real and I look forward to continued adventures in this realm.