Cool OobDude. I once became lucid in a dream, and then it immediately turned into an OBE. I too looked at my hands, and they were like real, and they didn't melt. Of course you might say "So, you actually were still in a lucid dream" but there are some indicators speaking against it: I was in my sleeping room, could see every detail, could touch and feel physical (appearing as) matter and move through it with my hands. No consciousness break; I said to myself: Now you have to wake up and make notes, so that you won't forget it" and I did it, I really had to work hard to awake because my body was absolutely sound asleep. My bedroom was exactly as I've seen it before, only the lighting was slightly different. But, in that OBE there was something similar like the melting hands: When I stretched out my arms to reach to a chair, I stretched farther than it would have been physically possible. At that moment, my hands became fuzzy, unsharp, though I could still feel touching the chair. This partly gives Robert Bruces theory some credit, as when I did something which was not possible physically, but which I nevertheless did, I came into an internal conflict, which ended in a compromise, the hands were still there, but unsharp.
Quote:I then decided to visit "the park." I closed off all visual input, like metally closing my eyes.
I do that too in my mind journeys (phasing) when I focus on visiting a certain place.
Well, it's a pity you don't remember where you went to! But quite good you remembered The Park with physical consciousness in that dream.
Quote:It is a very common occurance for me to recieve information or to simply be communicating with someone with a lucidity, superb vocabulary, greater knowledge of the topic, better flow, confidence, and non-hesitation that is noncomparable to my normal waking state.
Indeed, that's a strange thing. I have that too sometimes while phasing. Very speedy information exchange, multi-media. It's hard to really bring it down to the physical. You just don't get it all together again then. Because I can't manage it to detach very much from my body, there is quite some tension building up in my body on such occasions, and finally I have to go back to cool down.
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