The only time i remember, is when i woke in the middle of the night thinking that someone was breaking into my house, after apparently hearing some noise or something.   

   I propped myself up in bed somewhat, and watched as a very tall and slender being start to walk slowly over to the bed wherein my wife and i were sleeping.   I became freaked out because after propping myself up initially, later on i couldn't move any part of my body.   Later on found out it this is called sleep paralysis, but at the time i thought that perhaps this being was doing this to me, which honestly freaked me out more than a bit. 

   It started to reach its hands towards my side, and i used every ounce of will i had to "move" my hand to stop this, and i slowly started to bend back its fingers.   I remember it all in "slow motion".    I couldn't "read" this being very well, either, but at that moment i remember sensing a definite sense of a sort of surprise at this.   

   I "felt" it physically, or so i thought, but later on i came to the conclusion that i was kind of inbetween physical and etheric state, kind of a half, spontaneous classic OBE state.    Had i been fully phased or centered in physical, i probably wouldn't have perceived this being to begin with, who had attributes of physicality, but seemed on a faster vibration than our "physical".   

  My precept is, that it could have touched me physically, and probably was, but to this day i don't really know what the whole incident was really about.    This, the whole thing was more "real" feeling than any lucid dream i have ever had, and more "real" feeling than another spontaneous OBE i had had later.

thanks for your posts...



hmm,
not that I recall
the closer to it being the ghosts stories
one of the man that had lost his wife
or those involved with drugs and partying
(maybe someone else have better examples?)

but here feels different to me

listen some more of what Kurt Leland had to say:
(since there's not much replies I'm not contaminating much I suppose... )

"... the entity did not give me any cause for alarm, 
other than the understandable surprise of my perceiving it in the first place.
(It) awakened me from sleep into an altered state, 
in which I would be able to leave my body 
   and travel with it into non physical reality.
The way it woke me up, by gently shaking my foot, reminded me of 
how my mother would get me out of bed for school. 
The entity seems to have chosen this action 
(or I had represented the entity's telepathically projected command 
   to awaken in this way)
so that I would realize that its intentions were as loving 
   and supportive as my mother's.
Furthermore, I was being awakened for a kind of schooling
-the exploration of non physical reality."

pp. 45-46

This resonated as closer to what had been experienced.

i also associated it with a vision
in the end of a meditation practice around the same period
i felt a presence as someone standing close and waiting for me to finish
seeing that i was not doing anything it stepped back a short distance
it looked as having the height of a kid
holding a book or something like it in it's arms, both folded over the breast
color was earth like, tones of brown and yellow but all very diffuse
floating over a dark background
more of an impression

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Has any one read Leland's book?
might interest you Vajra,
he's got some nice pages on Tibetan dream yoga
and I feel it gives Bruce's and Robert Monroe's book a new perspective
(adding new shades as would maybe say Justin)

it happened to me once.one night i was standing at a bar alone waiting to be served and i felt hand on my shoulder i turned around and there was no one there. it turned out that the bar was haunted and was investigated by a well known uk medium.

"jumper lifted up" what a naughty spirit

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Great!
I was starting to think I had invented myself that book

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Maybe an opportunity to practice acceptance?
At worse we will end up with as many translation maps as travellers

I think he has done a nice job on assigning titles from functions
even if it messes things up  a bit from our view point here

You could also check his web site:
http://www.kurtleland.com/
and his relation to Charles:
http://www.kurtleland.com/charles.htm