In a sense, dreams help us become aware of our unlimited selves. which we could call higher self.

limited self would be in the area what is defined as C1.

everyday waking conscious mind, necessarily focused on the days activities is C1.
the next state of consciousness is Focus 10. body asleep, mind awake.

Dreamwalkers is another term for those who surf their dreams for signs of reality, or gaining more lucidity of who and what we are, as human beings passing here.

physical reality is limited awareness, due to we are focused into generally, some job, or function we perform, or role we are in. In truth, we are unlimited beings when these dreams are trying to show us more info about ourselves.

In Dude's latest example, if we look at the emotions of the dream carefully we see a clue to who and what a human is. A useful clue, because once attained, Dude becomes aware that he loves his wife, but in his subconscious, he is fearful, and this produces a heartache as he describes it.

therefore, Dude becomes aware he is mistaken about the inference of the phone call, that he alone created the misperception. He relaxes, he creates his environment of returning to trust of his wife, he enhances the love that is there, which is the truth, and the fear was a misperception only.

To do all this, he stepped into focus 15, or into a future time and gathered the data, brought it back to real time and utilized it as he was supposed to.

Now, my complimentary obe story. I was traveling with a guide, a young man of nonphysical reality and I went for a test drive of the new van I would someday purchase, which I had asked him to find for me, in another state. This guide and I spoke mentally back and forth. he said he was inbetween lives. He did this sort of thing as a service to us in physical reality.

it was a pleasant ride. I accepted the van. several months later I move to the state, and find the van. Somehow I just "know", yes, this is the van and this saves me time of searching around for the "right" van. As I'd told him, it's very important, the motor is good, the ride is smooth, the color and body look good. when I drove in the van the first time, I re-experienced the same sensations of smoothness, and the same feeling of my mind expanding around the boundaries of the van. I was used to smaller vehicles..and the first time you drive something larger, you will know what I mean, about the feelings.

the dream had the same sensations as in real time, just as Dude experienced the effects of misperception of fear, or insecurity issues around his relationship.

The ability of the mind to go ahead of time and take a look at probabilities of what we will experience means the mind is in the act of creating it's own future outside of C1 boundaries.

It is taking ahold of the reins, and manning your own ship of destiny.

we are far more than we think we are.

recently I got guidance that before I can create my own reality, I must first be able to imagine it.
If I cannot imagine an event to take place, it will not happen. it must first be within the imagination which is to say I must entertain the possibilities, and then, if you entertain the possibilities long enough, it will be so.  focus has much to do with reality creating.

but it is true, we might be debating the egg or the chicken, which came first, from my pov, they both appeared simultaneously and both are real, as real is totally relative to the perceiver.

thanks Dude, it's been good to reflect on these things.

Reborn

The arm is a very good start.  Isn't it a cool feeling to have your energy body's arm floating around?  The best books to read on astral projection are Robert Bruces.  I own Astral Dynamics and have read it a couple times, that book should be at the top of your reading list if you want to learn about OBEs, for it contains both theoretical aspects and practical ones, not to mention he is one of the top explorers in the field(who is publicly known anyway).   

Its not a big deal if nothing happened your first time.  Its important to notice even the slightest changes in your state of concsiousness when doing these exercises, and yet you should expect nothing and just flow with the experience.  Any sensation out of the ordinary should be seen as progress.  Total relaxation is the key.  You want to obtain the most relaxed state as possible, by tensing/relaxing all of your muscles and doing mental exercises to quiet your mind.  Turning the lights off will best allow your eyes to relax, so therefore it should be done.

The best mental exercise to use, in my experience, is to simply notice what is happening in the blackness behind your eyelids.  This takes away focus from the physical and shifts your focus to nonphysical levels.  Usually when I use the gateway tracks, I do not try to leave my body, I instead phase my consciousness to other dimensions by doing exactly what I just said.  I usually begin to see snapshots of other realities and symbols relating to the nonphysical experience I am having.  As you progress further, the experiences will become more intense, more frequent, and more syncronistic in your physical life.  This is what you can expect if you regularly meditate with the gateway tracks... and its just the beginning.  Good luck!

Hi Reborn,
I'm practicing the TMI/Moen "phasing" method, which leads to a split consciousness, meaning I'm fully aware of my physical body, and at the same time aware of another "place". This is easy to achieve, most of those who use HemiSync or follow Bruce Moens advice can do this.
More difficult it is to achieve to become totally unaware of our physical body, as in dreams, but remain our awareness, the type of awareness we have in the physical, so that we're able to bring the memory of those experiences back to the physical. I had that a few times, I can't do it at will. I twice could look through my closed eylids, had two etheric OBEs (well, you KNOW when you have one ), a few lucid dreams with awsome visuals, and a similar case as you told under no.6 (I think I've told this already, sorry):
  I had slept, and awoke from a series of dreams with "cold surges", as you told, not uncomfortable, a cool-wind feeling through my body. I felt someone was entering my room. An inner voice, or I myself, said: Nothing to fear. So I remained to be bodily asleep, but mind awake. This entity laid down beside me, then melted with me, again with that cool feeling. I think it was a kind of OBE, but viewed from an aspect of me which had stayed in physical awareness. Robert Bruce has an elaborated theory of this. I doubt that this theory is true, but it surely is a kind of theory you can work with.
  I appreciate your effort to master these different consciousness states. I second Dude, when you're practicing with HemiSync, notice and remember (write down) everything what "happens" (or not happens).

Spooky

must have been higher self, or like your more unlimited self interacting with you, by telling you that you could trust it would be there whenever you focused in on it.

when I first started thinking about how TMI coined certain concepts for us, the C1 = limited perspective. as I/there.  "I" is limited perspective, so to gain a particular experience.

There is to mean our greater self, or unlimited self, which is formless, so we get all sorts of form images to work with in this area, you received the cartoon, a large cartoon. you were being told that when you shift your focus, HS is there. When you want to ground into physical reality, you make another shift in focus.

Might be relevant to the little finger bending exercise in Bruce's reference.
Some personal comparisons: the dual consciousness I experienced is quite similar to yours, only instead of HS coming in as a cartoon which engenders a trusting nature, it came in as looking exactly like myself in this same body, only the facial expression was relaxed and smiling.

what HS did for me, in this respect was to show a glowing light within the eyes, to say it was the real me, while I had been suffering from an inferior complex, this then was quite instructional, as well a delightful visitation of the future possibilities of myself.

thanks again for your journal. I very seldom enter another focus level from C1, waking, except, sometimes when blogging I cannot type fast enough with what's coming in. seems like a couple dozen perspectives try to feed into the same paragraph. in that case editing must be done.

I remember a few years ago, daily feeling like an alien; the body became quite foreign. It couldn't be me, I would say to myself, for I have no zipper to unzip it's mysteries, see what's inside of this thing. it seems it was a phase I went thru to understand what the real me is, the I/there.
when I started dreaming true, where the events would play out in real time, I began to panic, because I was now a puppet it seemed of HS. or once I called it a hologram of higher self, this body and personality/ego.
that seemed to work ok as a thought system for awhile, as a dream vision was given of a funnel of light narrowing one end to the body, and widening at the top to say, the connection was wider from HS.

I noticed a change in the obe scenario. instead of the energy body walking, running or leaping out there, instead I started to glide everywhere, attended by a feeling of mental spaciousness.

when I first started obe-ing I used to flap my arms to get off the ground. lol. the effort was excruciating and yielded only a few feet.
now I just glide or ride something like an escalator, or it's like I'm on it when I think of someone to visit.
I like the way you said your innermost being was being materialized into the flesh, and that your most prevalent mental state determined your experience.

I found this is true.

Reborn

You experienced what I call "clicking out".  This is when you have an experience in a nonphysical dimension, but cannot remember it due to your innability to translate it into physical terms.  Instead, you simply experience a period of missing time.  It used to happen to me all the time, and still does occasionally. 

During resonate tuning, I usually bring the energy through my mouth, or sometimes through my entire head, or sometimes through my whole body, as if it is seeping in into my pores.  I then release the old energy either out of my mouth, or out of my entire body, once again as if it is coming out of every pore in my body.  You should experiment with different techniques and do whatever seems to work best for you.

Thanks Blink and Dude.

The day (9th July) before yesterday I moved onto "advanced focus 10" session.  When I was doing my resonant tuning I felt that each time I breath in, I feel tingling all over my body like goose bumps.  I guess this is energy coming inside me.

Not much happened yesterday.  I did the resonant tuning but no tingling.  I did however feel tingling in my feet as I did the resonant energy balloon (visualizing energy coming out of my head like a fountain and then back into my feet).  But much of the tingle was in my right feet.

When I got into focus 10, there was no difference at the beginning.  Then after a while, I felt a change in state.  It felt darker and there was a build up of pressure in my head (I am all the while accepting the fact there is the energy balloon happening).

Dude:

I've heard a voice quite clearly numerous times. I've found that only one sentence at a time can be communicated this way.  There have been occasions where I had dialogues, but it is hard to remember what the dialogue was about once the conversation is over. I remember one time I was holding a conversation with a being and I noticed it was smiling at me funny, as it waited until I realized that I was having a conversation with a spirit being. As soon as I realized this the conversation ended.

For some reason it is easier to receive visual images than hear a voice. Even when it comes to dreams, either waking or asleep, very little dialogue takes place. It is more a matter of having an understanding of what was communicated.

My feeling is that spirits don't have vocal chords. Therefore, they create words that can be heard in a manner that is different than we create them. It also seems as if they deal with blocks of information, rather than a word by word manner. They also think in a manner that is more abstract yet more complete than linear thought.

JOURNAL ENTRY 67

This morning I entered an expanded state of consciousness as I remained awake while my body fell asleep.  I became aware of a presence approaching me to my left.  It came so close, it was touching me.  I felt its energy right against my body, a tingly warm pressure.  I knew it was some kind of spirit.  It touched my hand and began to speak to me.  I felt its gentle energetic hand in my hand.  I couldn't make out what it was saying, however.  It almost seemed as if it was speaking in different language.  I then snapped out of this state with a burning curiosity of who it was and what they wanted.  Ill find out in time... this is the second time this week I have heard a voice.  This time the being even touched me.  There must be a connection.