Backflips through space.  Sounds fun except that I just had lunch and I’m not sure my stomach could handle it.  It’s amazing to me that you can go back to the same place and that, as Spooky indicates, it’s not that difficult once you get the trick.  What’s great, though, it to learn that the lady moved on.  Congratulations!

yes thank you Rob, I hope Dude doesn't mind I hog tied his journal. he just gets me thinking about retrievals a lot. just let me know if I should keep my noise down Dude and be glad to do that. love, alysia

ROLF! out of body dude, you are POPULAR!  I think its because so seldom we get  this kind of thing here where its ongoing.

so if u don't mind, I'm still learning too. love, alysia

hey! it was TOO special!

you're just being humble I suspect   oh boy, now you got me started comparing my experience to yours again..but u said u didn't mind. and btw, as your grandmother I must admonish you to write your journal on your own puter for safekeeping. years from now, you may need your notes.

wow, thats 27 so far. you call yours Wake Induced Lucid Dream, I call a similar happenstance from C1 a dual consciousness situation. Were you aware of your physical body, like a split consciousness? like being in two places at the same time or where you completely unconscious that you had a physical body?

the word you were searching is hynogogic. maybe thats where you were too.
for me that state is where I am before coffee, for about 30 minutes. seems like not all of me is back from sleep yet. in that state I can "hear" board conversations before I go to the board, or I'll hear personal messages from disc members to me, or from guides, helpers or even my higher self which knows everything, lol.

frequently out there the sense of direction is reversed. perhaps because the astral realm is a mirror, and when looking into a mirror everything is reversed.

btw, better not form any opinions yet that this is a lucid dream, as the lucid dream can generate an obe and also the obe can swing into a lucid dream, it just depends on your intentions that you set and other factors of how we can blink in and out of consciousness out there.

jumping into images, yes, your awareness becomes a part of the image. thats how I did it too. I jumped into the images as the star player on a couple of occassions but first I had an observer self who asked me if I wanted to be in the movie. sure, why not? lol.

no two experiences will be the same. expectations are useless, so one time your hands are translucent, another time they seem solid.

heres a brief rundown I did in the 80's. I relaxed in a chair for 20 minutes then popped out of the forehead area (theres a chakra portal there) I was just aware of energy coming from the forehead. I found myself focused on this energy and a screen opened up seemed inside my head and my body form was on the movie screen, still aware of my physical body throughout, so called it dual consciousness.
I had a destination in the world so I started moving..although I could always see my physical body sitting in the chair when I wanted to, like looking down at something large, while this awareness was smaller, had an overview.  I walked down then flew down, a country road I didn't recognize, I saw trees whizzing by me, I was looking for the ocean, it was taking too long even though I was flying..looked down at my arms and legs and they started to disappear which scared me...next I was a roundish orb, like a ball of light, I kept thinking, this is totally unexpected, I NEED my arms and legs!
some intuition or guide said I could travel faster as an orb so I stopped arguing, after all, I didn't want to blow this experience by not believing this could happen. I'd been trying too long and too hard to blink back now.

then like you, I did something fun. I found the rocks and spontaneously decided to bounce off the rocks as this bouncey orb thing. boing!!! boing!! ha! hadn't had that much fun in years....   I had some guidance which told me it wasn't the proper time to go scare my brother..he wouldn't  know why I was there. so I played on the beach.

I didn't do flying tricks, I stayed low to the ground and glided a little lilting fashion, a little bouncy thing...never repeated the same experience, but one is fine!

you're doing good since if you get a feeling of fun, and maybe a feeling of freedom too, those are indications of success in what you're learning. truly moments to treasure of our intinsic free spirits who are not trapped in our bodies as we tend to think.
pat yourself on the back, because believe me, nobody else will! well, take that back, some will understand because they had a similar circumstance.

You're free now. go with the joy and excitement. it will take u where you want to go. love, alysia

well I'm definetely hoping to see if anything results from reaching focus 21 so I hope you come back.   I've never used tapes, too cheap to buy them and too overwhelmed with my own personal studies so I appreciate your journal.

I'm posting up Monroe's explanation of focus levels for newbies and also his philosophy which helps to explain what we've been doing on the other threads to get to understanding.  and maybe if u check out focus 21 again, tell me if you see any kind of bridge or cross over point? thanks...

Focus Levels:

Focus 10 -- Mind awake, body asleep

Focus 12 -- Expanded mind

Focus 15 -- No time, view past lives, future lives

Focus 21 -- The bridge to the afterlife

Focus 22 -- place where Alzheimers patients,
drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. hang


Focus 23 -- Afterlife BSTs where souls get stuck

Focus 24, 25, 26 -- Belief system territories, a continuence of bst's, as in many mansions type of thing.

Focus 27 -- The Park, TMI There, Reception
Center, hall of knowlege, akashic records, hospitals for process of healing from belief you are still sick, etc.
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The below statement I learned from Elias, a channelled entity.

your attention is a function of your energy being-creative

your mind simply responds to your attention
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There is no beginning, there is no end,
   There is only change.
There is no teacher, there is no student,
   There is only remembering.
There is no good, there is no evil,
   There is only expression.
There is no union, there is no sharing,
   There is only one.
There is no joy, there is no sadness,
   There is only love.
There is no greater, there is no lesser,
   There is only balance.
There is no statis, there is no entropy,
   There is only motion.
There is no wakefulness, there is no sleep,
   There is only being.
There is no limit, there is no chance,
   There is only a plan.

It amazes me that you could lift off before you got the ipod hooked up to your ears.  Do you get the effect of an exercise before you do it very often?  Interesting about the class.  I wonder what the subject was.  When did you realize you interrupted a real class?  When you moved the desk, when everyone looked at you or when you ended up back in your body?  I also hope you'll ask your friend what he was doing at the time.