I tried to will the vibrational state to happen—where one’s body begins to hum, on the edge of waking and sleep, and heard whispering.  I heard a particular voice, and it sounded a bit distorted, as if it was coming to me through something with a particular shape that gave it a echo-ey resonance.  Male, female, I’m not sure.  It said, “Is she ready?” and then said other things that I think were instructions to me, but might have been directed at others.

While I don’t think I had an out of body experience, I did have lucid dreams induced from a waking state, and that is pretty freakin awesome.  I did use a few things from the book from people’s experiences with OBE’s, namely, asking for clarity, and keeping calm when I would close my eyes in the dream and have to figure out how to open my eyes again without doing it physically, because that would wake me up.

A strange thing about the lucid dreams was how real everything felt.  I walked around my mom’s house, knowing that my eyes were closed, but I could see everything clearly, but a bit differently, like the patterns on the floor were shimmering and shifting, but I physically felt myself walking, touching walls.

In another, the one I remember the best, there was a boy, maybe 12-14, sitting on top of a church.  When I called to him, he took off, so I climbed the building and often had to edge myself sideways, marveling at the feel of the red stone and brick that the church was made of and how balanced I was with only an inch or two of anything to hang onto.  I got to the rooftop, which was a really neat roof, covered with stones and grasses, more like it was a hilltop than a church roof. 

There was nothing to hang onto, so I lifted one of the flat stones up to hold onto what was beneath it.  I reached my hand down into a crevice and my hand touched a stick broken from a tree and it felt absolutely real.  I looked at the stick for a moment, turning it over in my hand, amazed at how real it felt.  I figured I was ready to try to fly, because I’d been doubting if I could get myself to do it, and my feet left the edge they were upon and my body ended up flipping in the air because I hadn’t let go with my hands. 

On the roof, there was an acolyte’s… thingy there.  The one I used as an acolyte was a long rod, and one side had an empty brass bell on it for snuffing candles, and the other side had a long tube through which a wick was run so the wick can be lit to light candles that are high up.  What I saw on the roof wasn’t the whole rod though, it was just the end of it, and this one was silver, tarnished black.

I found an area to get inside the highest part of the building, and the kid was hiding there, in this haphazard wooden room, unfinished and warm.  He looked different, and I saw a side by side photo comparison of him with blond hair and him with light brown hair.  He was much older with the darker hair than I initially thought, and seemed to think we were playing hide and seek of some sort.  He grinned and climbed out of the place.  I followed him but I’m not sure if I caught up to him again.

A few times my cell phone, with its dying battery, beeped, and I would jump back into awareness of my physical body.  I also lost conscious awareness  a couple times, so things aren’t as clear in my memory as they were earlier, so I am forgetting some things.  I probably spent a good two hours in a lucid dreaming state.  I remember everything in my vision spinning, and I was trying to look around while I was spinning to see what was around, but I don’t recall. 

One issue about the lucid dreaming is that while I’m aware that I am dreaming, I don’t have the awareness that I can readily shape the world around me and go anywhere I want.  Instead I seem to find myself in a situation and I play through it rather than go create or explore my own little wonderland.  In any event, this is freaking AWESOME.  I can’t remember what book I read that had it, but Waking Induced Lucid Dreams—or WILDs were things I never thought I’d be able to experience.  I can imagine myself spending days just lying around lucid dreaming.

But OBEs are definitely the goal of the moment.  It may take a few months, but I’ll get it eventually.