I saw the young lady enter the room with head down, and despondent, she headed for a beat up couch to sit down. Next door to us I sensed activity of a gymnasium within a college. The room we were in was like a lounge, rest area off to the side.

I had asked my guide if we could make this retrieval more real seeming as my PE partner and I discussed, we really didn't know if what we were doing was "real" or perhaps it was all in our heads. Of course, now I know this activity is very real. I'll try to explain why and how I came to that conclusion as I go on.
This retrieval was done around 2001 or 02. I had been doing in the afternoon prior to the retrieval an exercise known as energy gathering where you move energy up through and around your body in a circle movement, expanding it outward as high up as you can imagine, then letting your self travel upwards in image with the energy.

The exercise had considerably relaxed me into a sort of euphoric state. That night I went to lay down, feeling suddenly exhausted, but pleasurably so, I was flouncing towards my bed and the inviting pillow when my energy body separated from the physical and stood up to my wonder a lady guide was standing there, ready to take me on a retrieval. That was when we discussed I wanted it to be made "real" to me, as I didn't want to continue putting my energy perhaps into something that I was possibly making up.
She nodded her head and off we went, into some dark swift current, I could call a trail of electricity, or a current, very fluid like.
Suddenly I was in that room described above. I was aware I was in my energy body and more aware than I am, or the same degree of awareness as I have in waking consciousness, except I have this other body to use. I was still in a semi euphoric state and some mild excitement I could be this alert out of body.
I attributed that to the exercise performed that day, I have heard it named NEW. New Energy Ways.
As well, in this retrieval, I don't remember actually falling asleep, I just remember falling to the bed.
Continuing, I was now looking at my subject and wondering how to get her attention. This is the main retriever's job, to get the attention of the person. She was quite young. I found out later only 16. I remembered about unconditional love, which I equated with the way dogs love people, that the dog has this value to get our attention, making us feel love. All at once just like a regular shaman, I took the form of a large, clumsy, over-friendly dog and was promptly at her knees, drooling and looking upon her lovely sad face with utter adoration.
She smiled and patted me on the head, and it was only then I noticed I was on the floor, and must be appearing as a dog; it had happened so swiftly, I hadn't had to think of this form to take.
I asked her name, and we communicated mentally. She was not all surprised to talk this way with an animal. Maybe she saw me as I am? An older woman, but I know the dog like love I had for her, and the pat on the head, just seemed too coincidental, and so I prefer thinking she had been awoken to a retriever in the guise of the dog.

She answered her name was Cami and we discussed how to spell it. I asked her about her family. She recalled an aunt whom she had gone to live with. The aunt had a boyfriend whom apparently took a fancy to Cami. There was jealousy involved, and I sensed foul play here. The trauma was too much for her to remember, and I sensed I should not pry; time enough for that later. Some girls appeared in the gym, cheerleader type, and began doing their exercises. One of the girls, a tall one informed me mentally I was to bring Cami's attention to her, and they would do the rest of the retrieval.
The tall girl shouted at Cami to come and join them and Cami slowly became aware of her friends.
I became aware that Cami had spent many a pleasurable time with these girls, and that is why when she died to the body, she gravitated to the place where she had felt love, and felt safe, here with her peers.
At once she was surrounded by her friends and they went off. Cami would no more come into the lounge, a sad and forlorn teen, stuck in the astral. My heart was bursting with motherly love, for I had raised twin girls, I was perfectly placed with this retrieval. I was freed from my job but not returning to my body, so I sensed this new freedom to wander about and explore the astral. I was entering some future vista where 3 male guides awaited to greet me. I asked where I was, or rather I asked what the physical location of Cami had been. I was told SD, and given a town also which I remembered.
I tried to find a Cami in that town who had died by irregular means. I could find nothing through the internet.

I had made a heart connection. Whenever you make a heart connection to your retreivee, you do not forget them. You continue to love them and love is very real. I do not see anything else as real. Only love is real to me. I am considered a little strange, but many understand me.
Also what else made it real is some personal predictions I received that night by the guides which came true. I considered they had gifted me with this info, as well, they had informed me that I had done good, as many had tried to get Cami's attention and failed. This of course went a long ways to build my confidence, I was on the right track. As well, I had felt her leg, it was solid, and warm flesh I was feeling, as I leaned into her legs while kneeling. I have been told and trust this is true, that nonphysical beings believe they are solid, and so I received verification that what they believe is so.
When I returned to my body I simply opened my eyes and looked at the clock. 8 hours had gone by and it was now morning, and I couldn't remember going to sleep; it just seemed like I had been gone all night and now just got home. As I searched for evidence of Cami in SD I came upon a college near to the town she had resided in. I had not gotten a date or any other details, but the town's name, found on the map, I considered a major hit. a Langford town, a name I could not possibly have made up actually existed near to a college.

I no longer have to ask to have it made real to me, as I said the sense of accomplishment is within the heart area, that we are able to assist life this way, it gives a peaceful feeling to know there are other retrievers out there doing the same and that perhaps we can make a difference this way, so that we alleviate needless suffering in this small measure, one by one. As others have often said, we are really only helping ourselves when we retrieve another. love, alysia