Oh my goodness.... sounds like I'm Superman, defender of the innocent! lol!  You're right, nexus... my first inclination is to respond that anything is possible and that I'm just not sure what to make of it.  I'd certainly hope that there are lots of people who are also doing the same types of things I seem to be doing during sleep.  I may just have a little better conscious recall of some of them?  That one dream of me being "omni-everything" was the only one where I was actually hunting down some evil spiritual entity, as far as I can remember.  But then again, there's the operative word... "remember".  It seems that the conscious mind is only "allowed" to recall certain events that occur during these dream-time adventures.  I've often felt that there is a heck of a lot more going on somewhere in my mind, but that my conscious mind isn't "allowed" to know what it is... at least not yet, at any rate.  I do hope that someday it will all be 'revealed' (or remembered), but then again, that's the entire goal.... the integration of the Higher Self with our consciousness.  I don't get the feeling that any amount of spiritual cleansing and mediation by my consciousness is going to speed the process up any, though.  It feels like there's some kind of pre-set auto timed release of information that goes on.  Maybe it's because if one were to suddenly become aware of the Truth, we might go mad.  Just a thought, at any rate.

Put the word "bimbo" in a thread title and watch the view count! 

Thanks for defending the innocent and vision impaired. It is so true about the difference between what happens in dream-time adventures and what one recalls in the morning.  I've decided while asleep that certain details were of profound importance, and so much common sense that I would remember them in the morning.  I wanted to get up and write a note, but was so certain that I could recall the details.  Meaning in that state is often much more relavent to the unconscious than can be expressed in written words.  I believe the Akashic record was written in Greek--only a Superwo/man could decipher it properly when awake. Thanks! You're my super hero!  I'll be watching for you tonight as I fight the good fight.

My experience on the Ayahausca was that I was in an incredibly higher state of awareness.  The feeling was not as if I had entered a dream, but as if I had awoken from one, as in my life now is the dream, and the Ayahausca woke me up.

In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1947) by P. D. Ouspensky:

Gurdjieff: "A man does not see the real world. The real world is hidden from him by the wall of imagination. He lives in sleep. He is asleep.

Only by beginning to remember himself does a man really awaken. And then all surrounding life acquires for him a different aspect. He sees that it is the life of sleeping people, a life in sleep. All that men say, all that they do, they say and do in sleep.

How can one awaken? How can one escape this sleep? These questions are the most important, the most vital that can ever confront a man."

             P.D. OUSPENSKY
             THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN'S POSSIBLE
              EVOLUTION:

..."It is necessary to understand here that the first state of consciousness, that is, sleep, does not disappear when the second state arrives, that is, when man awakes. Sleep remains there, with all its dreams and impressions, only a more critical attitude towards one's own impressions, more connected thoughts, more disciplined actions become added to it, and because of the vividness of sense impressions, desires and feelings— particularly the feeling of contradiction or impossibility, which is entirely absent in sleep—dreams become invisible exactly as the stars and moon become invisible in the glare of the sun. But they are all there, and they often influence all our thoughts, feelings and actions—sometimes even more than the actual perceptions of the moment.
In connection with this I must say at once that I do not mean what is called in modern psychology 'the subconscious' or the 'subconscious mind.' These are simply wrong expressions, wrong terms, which mean nothing and do not refer to any real facts. There is nothing permanently subconscious in us because there is nothing permanently conscious; and there is no 'subconscious mind' for the very simple reason that there is no 'conscious mind.' Later you will see how this mistake occurred and how this wrong terminology came into being, and became almost generally accepted.
But let us return to the states of consciousness which really exist. The first is sleep. The second is 'waking sleep' or 'relative consciousness.'
The first, as I have said, is a purely subjective state. The second is less subjective; man already distinguishes 'I' and 'not I' in the sense of his body and objects different from his body, and he can, to a certain extent, orientate among them and know their position and qualities. But it cannot be said that man is awake in this state, because he is very strongly influenced by dreams, and really lives more in dreams than in fact. All the absurdities and all the contradictions of people, and of human life in general, become explained when we realise that people live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know that they are asleep.
It is useful to remember that this is the inner meaning of many ancient doctrines. The best known to us is Christianity, or the Gospel teaching, in which, the idea that men live in sleep and must first of all awake, is the basis of all the explanations of human life, although it is very rarely understood as it should be understood, in this case literally.
But the question is, how can a man awake?
The Gospel teaching demands awakening, but does not say how to awaken.
But the psychological study of consciousness shows that only when a man realises that he is asleep, is it possible to say that he is on the way to awakening. He never can awaken without first realising his sleep.
These two states, sleep and waking sleep, are the only two states of consciousness in which man lives. Besides them there are two states of consciousness possible for man, but they become accessible to a man only after a hard and prolonged struggle.
These two higher states of consciousness are called 'self-consciousness' and 'objective consciousness.'
We generally think that we possess self-consciousness, that is, that we are conscious of ourselves, or in any case that we can be conscious of ourselves, at any moment we wish, but in truth 'selfconsciousness'
is a state which we ascribe to ourselves without any right. 'Objective consciousness' is a state about which we know nothing.
Self consciousness is a state in which man becomes objective towards himself, and objective consciousness is a state in which he comes into contact with the real, or objective world from which he is now shut off by the senses, dreams and subjective states of consciousness.
Another definition of the four states of consciousness can be made from the point of view of the possible cognition of truth.
In the first state of consciousness, that is, in sleep, we cannot know anything of the truth. Even if some real perceptions or feelings come to us, they become mixed with dreams, and in the state of sleep we cannot distinguish between dreams and reality.
In the second state of consciousness, that is, in waking sleep, we can only know relative truth, and from this comes the term relative consciousness.
In the third state of consciousness, that is, the state of self-consciousness, we can know the full truth about ourselves.
In the fourth state of consciousness, that is, in the state of objective consciousness, we are supposed to be able to know the full truth about everything: we can study 'things in themselves,' 'the world as it is.'
This is so far from us that we cannot even think about it in the right way, and we must try to understand that even glimpses of objective consciousness can only come in the fully developed state of self-consciousness.
In the state of sleep we can have glimpses of relative consciousness. In the state of relative consciousness we can have glimpses of self-consciousness. But if we want to have more prolonged periods of self-consciousness and not merely glimpses, we must understand that they cannot come by themselves, they need will action. This means that frequency and duration of moments of self-consciousness depend on the command one has over oneself. So it means that consciousness and will are almost one and the same thing, or, in any case aspects of the same thing.
At this point, it must be understood that the first obstacle in the way of the development of self-consciousness in man, is his conviction that he already possesses self-consciousness or at any rate, that he can have it at any time he likes. It is very difficult to persuade a man that he is not conscious and cannot be conscious at will. It is particularly difficult because here nature plays a very funny trick.
If you ask a man if he is conscious or if you say to him that he is not conscious, he will answer that he is conscious and that it is absurd to say that he is not, because he hears and understands you.
And he will be quite right, although at the same time quite wrong. This is nature's trick. He will be right because your question or your remark has made him vaguely conscious for a moment. Next moment consciousness will disappear. But he will remember what you said and what he answered, and he will certainly consider himself conscious.
In reality, acquiring self-consciousness means long and hard work. How can a man agree to this work if he thinks he already possesses the very thing which is promised him as the result of long and hard work? Naturally a man will not begin this work and will not consider it necessary until he becomes convinced that he possesses neither self-consciousness nor all that is connected with it, that is, unity or individuality, permanent 'I' and will."...

Full text at:   http://www.livingstonemusic.net/Psychology%20of%20Man's%20Possible%20Evolution.pdf

also a very helpful stuff on 4 Density in his book "TERTIUM ORGANUM" :

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/to/index.htm

    Ouspensky (1878-1947) was a mystic who traveled widely in Europe and the East looking for esoteric knowledge. He later studied with G.I. Gurdjieff. In this book, he uses the concept of the fourth dimension as an extended metaphor for the esoteric nature of reality. Einstein and other physicists had at that time validated the study of higher dimensions, and Ouspensky was fixated on this idea.

We'll see if there is anything I can address with any coherence.  First off, the concept of duality.  Yes, I realize that labels on things just limit things that are infinitely complex to a simple explanation.  What I am trying to understand with duality, has more to do with the simple rules of life.  For instance there are rules like do unto others as you would have done to you.  Do you need to follow this rule to be successful?  No but it does help alot if you are trying to be a nice person and make friends with people.  This is the same with duality.  The concept of duality has carried itself down over many centuries, and I therefore figured there may be a significant lesson to be taken if it can be understood.  It also relates specifically to me and my own situation.  I fight myself almost non stop, as I am beginning to realize, and this fighting of the self drains my energy, depresses me, causes me to look at other individuals as first a possible threat before looking at them as a possible friend.  One of the more interesting pieces of the concept of duality whose concept is currently crystallizing in my mind, is the concept that pain must be required for pleasure (for lack of better wording).  It goes that I have spent my whole life running from effort, from pain, from conflict, from anything that causes pain.  And yet I feel pain, and depression and other negative feelings.  I have noticed that the only time that I feel really empowered and happiest, is when I face the struggles of life head on.  Yes it is painful to face these struggles, but I feel pain when I don't face them too.  And when I do face a struggle and succeed or benefit, I feel a great feeling of success or improvement.  So how does this relate to duality?  Well I have labeled something in my life bad, and avoided it thusly.  And by avoiding these things that I labeled bad, they only get worse and worse and don't go away.  So this is a benefit I hoped to see from understanding the concept of duality.

I guess now I will move onto my favorite new topic, awareness.  From my understanding from my readings, the main difference between densities such as 1st/2nd/3rd/4th etc, is the level of consciousness.  Density is a now commonly used metaphysical term used to understand the progression or evolution of a soul.  The common description is that inanimate objects such as atoms, and rocks are first Density, Simple life like plants and animals are second density, and humans represent third density consciousness.  Now, one of the fundamental concepts that is described often by montalk in the beginning with the coming Wave that will transport human consciousness into the 4th density for those who are ready.  So I often try to understand what this 4th density experience could be.  I recently came across a reference in the cassiopean material that suggests that hallucinogenic drugs offer one a glimpse into the 4th density.  Now what the 4th density seems to me to be, is the beginning of the ability to exist in a fluid, etheric, nonphysical reality, while retaining physicality.  One experience I will give is that I was looking up at the starry sky and lines began drawing themselves between the stars.  These lines were not like some blurry bleeding or streaking, these were as if I was in a futuristic computer simulation, and someone was drawing lines between the stars in the simulation, so that in effect the change was not happening in my mind but to reality itself.  The ancient shamans called Ayahausca ceremonies "dreaming awake", and I think that may be a good explanation.  It is very hard to conceive of exactly what is happening when you are walking down a path and you see the path go into another reality, as if you walked down that path it would not lead to the same place, or even dimension as it would where your consciousness not altered.  I will also mention now why I asked what the level of consciousness was during the out of body dreams, or alternate body dreams that were described.  My experience on the Ayahausca was that I was in an incredibly higher state of awareness.  The feeling was not as if I had entered a dream, but as if I had awoken from one, as in my life now is the dream, and the Ayahausca woke me up. 

Well thats about as much as I can handle today, my brain is all tapped out.

I've been thinking about another possibility regarding your dream. 

But first, just one block to your consideration of this possibility might be [not saying it is, but this idea is floating around the 'new age' sites] that you may believe that angels/demons and good/evil are illusory.  That is, that they are merely our own mental projections and are not objectively real.  My own interpretation of my own experience forces me to disagree with that.  I accept the truth that all beings, and all good and evil created by beings, are emanations of the ALLGod.  And that from the highest perspective of the ONE.... all is ONE.  Yes.  But that's only because the ONE is aware of ITSELF as the ESSENCE of all things at inner levels.  At outer levels there is manifest evil in the material universe (created not by the ALLGod, but by beings with freewill, who fell into duality consciousness) and so evil must be reckoned with by souls incarnate in the material planes.   Evil cannot be transmuted and transcended by denying it's manifestation.  In the lower planes, where we are now most conscious, we yet deal with evil, in ourselves and others, and that the only way to triumph over duality consciousness (in it's many forms) is to unite with our higher- Self which is our God consciousness.  The higher- Self is our soul's refuge (in the divine powers) of absolute GoOD and IT is the antidote to absolute evil in the lower planes.... wherever it appears.

Anyway, that's something to munch on while considering where i'm coming from with my interpretation of your dream.  But only insofar as it explains my firm belief that evil is a force to be dealt with in the planes of matter.  True, from the perspective of essence, evil is not ultimately real.  But we must prove that by allowing our inner-Self to defeat it's manifestation in ourselves.... and wherever else it manifests as a force opposing the higher- will within us.  That said, you might still consider my questions speculative. 

[Edit] ...[ i just read your reply to capitan.  Don't know how i missed that.  But looks like you accept that freewill beings  inhabit other realms and act as they will.  They can go no higher than the subtle material planes (only lower ones) and cannot enter the planes of spirit without "the wedding garment" (the light body).  The thing we seem to differ on is that i believe that beings who are one with their spiritual- Self cannot be successfully opposed by beings who are not.  These beings may have powers but they are as nothing compared to spiritual beings who are ONE with the light of spirit.]

I believe the higher- Self can give you a dream that approximates what you were really doing while your body slept.   In the form of a dream, your higher- Self can reproduce a scenario that closely resembles your real activities while you're soul travelled out of the body during sleep.  It may be that your HS impressed (in an instant) the whole scenario on your etheric body (your memory body) and your brain, so that you would have a point of reference in your outer waking awareness for an even higher experience which your HS will not yet reveal.

Pinkrylq,  You referred in your dream to your powers to direct light rays (from your solar plexus chakra} at threatening entities to disable them.... and to 360 degree spherical visioin.... and your ability to focus your own consciousness to inhabit the body of the agressors to disable them.... and to "be" in those bodies and anywhere else in an instant.... and basically, your perfect knowledge of your essential threat environment to be anywhere instantly ( because you were aware of everywhere simultaneously).  These are all real powers and faculties of the soul under the direction of the higher- Self.  They are not simply dream fodder produced by the mental body.   For the purposes of your battle environment you displayed Omniscience ( All Knowingness),  Omnipresence (everywhere present) and Omnipotence (everywhere potent).  These powers are well documented (as the Divne Attributes of God... east and west) and are an absolute winning combination to easily defeat any lesser manifestation of consciousness  (ie,,, the vibration of evil).... embodied or disembodied.  This is why the spiritual adepts are invulnerable.  They can employ their power in any plane of activity, consciously and at will.  To them, the whole material universe is a dream in which they are fully lucid / conscious and fully adept because they know all it's laws.

If i said to you that there are spiritual beings who are constantly 'at work' in the lower astral and lower mental planes defending us from attacks by astral entities and who employ the consciousness and powers you displayed in your dream, would you believe it?   And that the occasional attacks against us which we do experience, are allowed to happen only to show us the reality of these threatening astral forces? [or for karmic reasons].  I know for sure that these friendly spiritual beings exist and that they do this work on our behalf.  Is it thinkable to your mind, that you are a part of their number, and you are being assisted to relearn and re- use your latent power (long forgotten) to engage in battle again on behalf of vulnerable souls?  And that, that is what in fact you were doing in your soul consciousness on that night? and perhaps other nights you've forgotten?.... the memory completely sealed?   The real scenes of your soul's nocturnal activity, being shielded from your outer awareness by impressing a dream upon you (on this occasion) to familiarise your 'waking' self with your expanded consciousness....  to better integrate the experience at all levels and to give you confidence in your ability? 

You also had interactions with a wiser Self which makes sense in this scenario because your soul is not yet fused permanently together.  But you got your encouragement.  You are "on the side of the Light".... And that sister, is no mere illusion of duality.

Your answer to questions like mine may simply be... "Anything's possible i suppose.  I don't know for sure what it all means".   I just wanted to add these thoughts into the pot and also thank you for recording your dream so lucidly for us.   You virtually disappeared for months after i arrived, or so it appeared, and i wish you hadn't now.  Thanks pink.  And don't listen to titmouse.  I'm much, much nicer than he thinks. 

Hey Pinkrlyq, we're on to nexus, so I think you are okay if you haven't any long-haired canine friends; and I hope you do your own hair.  Watch out for the professional hair products used in beauty shops!

Can I have a gold star too?  I read the whole thingy. Nice last effort! 

hmm.... Thanks for the warning.  I'll keep an eye out for those suspicious looking salon products.

And here's your gold star, titmouse_! Good Job!

Not to worry, my smiting powers only worked in that one dream, so feel free to say anything you like.

That's great that you're focusing your thoughts and ideas into write a story.  It may be synchronisitic that you got the idea around the time I started posting about these dreams.  I wish I'd have some greater depth of understanding about all of this to help your ideas along, but I'm still trying to figure it all out, too.

By density, you mean dimension, right? Whereas, this reality is 3rd density/dimension and the 4th one is supposed to be the astral, and therefore when one's in the astral realms, one's  awareness is also increased?

Well, yes and no.  We are all connected on a subatomic level... We're all connected at the quantum field (if I understand it correctly).  But each of our soul's vibrations has a unique frequency, and so each of us manifests our wills in unique ways.  Even though we're all human, we all have different thoughts and ideas, otherwise we'd be of one hive mind.  So when my astral self travels into another person's body (if that's what's happening in these dreams), there are two unique wills in one body.  I wouldn't have thought that could be true, but maybe it is possible.  So, even though we're all made of the same "stuff", we use it differently.  It's Free Will.

Well, I'm not sure if the dream was only symbolic or if it was a glimpse into a potential bad-ass version of myself.  It certain felt 'realistic', and in that case, non-duality wouldn't really apply.  Even if it was only symbolic, I think people here (meaning Earth) usually believe that complete awareness is only reserved for those beings who are 'enlightened' or 'evolved' (or 'ascended'), and therefore must have surpassed certain boundaries we consider 'lower vibration' traits.  This isn't necessarily true.  There are beings who were birthed from the foulest realms that have just as much knowledge and awareness as an "angel" would... the difference is in their desire of how they manifest their free will.  I don't think that having a higher awareness necessarily rids a being of their individuality and their free will... Just like here on Earth; two college graduates who've had exposure to the same knowledge don't always agree on everything and tend to apply their knowledge in different ways, to achieve their goals (and their goals may be different, too).  I guess a better way to say it is that most people think that if another person could know the exact same thing(s) they do, that the other person would see everything the same way they do, but that's just not true.  I believe another misconception is of the popular thinking that if some being(s) could attain absolute knowledge and wisdom of every last nook and cranny in existence, then they'd be "above" it all or somehow beyond the troublesome patterns that seem to plague the lesser evolved species, and then everything would finally be better.  ...maybe, but then again, maybe it'd get pretty boring real fast, too.

So I guess I'm trying to say that I don't really agree with the whole concept of complete non-duality having anything to do with awareness level or an 'enlightened' mind.  I believe there are wars going on in other realms/dimensions/worlds who's inhabitants have knowledge and abilities that would make even us today believe that they are truly "gods" (much like the aliens of this world's past may have been viewed by our distant ancestors).   And just because there are higher vibrational realms out there doesn't mean that there isn't the same things going on in those places..... it's just way over our current comprehension to understand the types of issues they're fighting over and the kinds of weapons they employ.  Don't get me wrong... I'm far from a war supporter, but misunderstandings and disagreements always seem to have a way of spiraling out of control, no matter how enlightened beings may be.  That seems to be the trend in this version of the universe, in any case.  If you strip away all the double-talk and pseudoscience of 'ascension', it looks very similar to the Christian concept of 'heaven' (or maybe willful 'rapture') or the Zen concept of finding 'nirvana' or the 49 odd virgins that the Muslims believe is their paradise (wonder if that goes for Muslim women, as well?..then it sounds a bit like 'hell'), and the new, intellectual spin on it all is called 'ascension'... bah, it's all one-and-the-same concept to me, just the packaging that's different.  It's the beliefs that there is something more out there to strive towards to remind us that we're more magnificent than just a walking meat sack who's a slave to it's own biochemical-electric processes.  The paths and descriptions may vary, but the goals are similar.  Also, though, just as unique as all of our individual frequencies of souls are, there are just as many unique ways to achieve our goals.  No one person can claim, "I know the ultimate path to enlightenment..."  It may be true for that one soul, but only that one soul, even if his/her intentions are pure.  We really must all find our own paths, and no one experience is ever the same as another's.  I'm reminded of the phrase "one's man's heaven is the next man's hell"  For me, there's a lot of truth in that statement.  So, I guess my advice to you, Capitan, would be not to get too hung up on any one concept, such as non-duality.  Not every experience will fit neatly into one concept box... It may share a veranda or two with another concept sometimes.  Something I keep in mind is that everything (including us) is always in a constant state of flux.

I'm sure you're not alone in that department.  I remember having many more abilities when I was younger, too, but once they're 'shut off', it doesn't seem that easy to just flip a switch to turn them on again.  I wish it were that easy or that I could offer some kind of advice!  I'm sure these abilities are still somewhere inside of you, but I think only you can find a way to coax them back to life.

I'm curious to know more about your ayahuasca experiences.  I've always been fascinated by people explaining their experiences and journeys with ayahausca, but I haven't had an opportunity to take part in one of the ceremonies myself, nor have I ever tried DMT.  (not to mention that it scares me quite a bit... not having the ability to wake out of it if it gets too intense is really scary to me)

I agree... to have conscious control over one's pineal gland would be a major trip! lol! And you really do bring up a good point about it.  One of it's main functions is melatonin production, so I'm not sure if that may be a factor in those hypnagogic states you've experienced during your ayahausca twilights?  It's really interesting to me that the pineal gland is larger during childhood and shrinks (and sometimes calcifies!) during adulthood.  Maybe another reason children are able to experience and do metaphysical things more easily than adults?  Interesting stuff... then again, that's why thePTB want to demonize things like ayahausca, peyote, DMT, salvia (just to name a few).  God forbid we use a substance that can broaden our awareness because then we may learn a few things that they want exclusivity to.

I don't know how familiar you have become with the concept of 3rd density, and 4th density, but it appears the difference between the two is the level of awareness of the individual.  What you mentioned in your "kung foo" story was a much greater level of awareness.  I have what I will call a "memory" of this greater level of awareness.  It is very faint and is not like word imprinted knowledge that I usually think of as a memory.  It is like an emotional, vibrational imprint, that when I think of it it changes my level of consciousness a little bit.  The memory brings a feeling of ease, and the feeling like I should be a lot more aware then I am.  It seems that you are possibly getting glimpses of 4D.  The ability to switch your point of view between all your different selves, this concept being based on the idea that there is only one entity in existence, and you, I, me, we are all it.  So you are just switching your awareness between the different selves that you are a part of the whole.   

Quite interestingly as well the story about your future self also reflected the awareness of the non dualistic nature that I mentioned before.  When you ended up killing the cop that was trying to kill you, the more aware you did not react.  But you considered that action to be bad, and reacted so.  The future you looked at the incident as only necessary. However, I just ran into a point of confusion.  The future you said to you, "No, I am on the side of good"  Hmmm.  See this still gets me all spun up in knots.  Non-duality does not label good and evil.  There just is, and you accept it.  Well I can tell I have a long way to go to either understanding or moving on from this non-duality concept.   

The last thing I would touch on, is that it seems you may be experiencing some of the 4D effects already.  When you mentioned being aware full 360 for a while, I believe that state has been called the hypnagogic state.  It is the state of mind that Thomas Edison tried to enter when trying to invent things.  I am sure it has been called other things as well.  I think it can be a natural thing for many of us.  I think because of the many complexities of the situations and conditions on this planet, that these abilities have been purposely suppressed from humanity.  I believe I had the ability to tap into these abilities but lost them out of some type of rejection on behalf of myself. If no one else could hear, how long would you go on trying to describe sounds to people when no one could understand what you were talking about.  And especially on my part, it seems like I shut off my ability because it did not fit in with the world that others told me existed.   

I have had three such experiences with hyper awareness that I can recall, all three coming from the use of the psychedelic substance "Ayahausca".  The substance produces quite an amazing effect on an individual.  It is essentially forces you to become completely aware of another reality, or another aspect of reality.  I believe it is a place that we could enter naturally, but there are things that block that from happening.  Scientifically what psychedelics do is provide a chemical substance to the DMT receptors in the brain.  DMT being like a fuel for the pineal gland, or third eye to turn it on.  So liken it to the idea that somehow imagine all humans eyes had been sown shut.  And you go a full life with no sight, and then you take your sown shut eyes, cut the stitches and tape your eyelids open so you couldn't close them if you wanted to.  Only I believe an active pineal is a much more powerful sensory organ than any other.  Having it open allows for a much greater level of consciousness as well.  When I would come down from "Ayahausca" the last stage of altered consciousness was what I call the hypnagogic state, or hyperawareness.  I cannot be sure if the hypnagogic state was caused by the intensity of the experiences I had, or if the hypnagogic state is directly linked to the function of the pineal, and could be considered to be one of the lower states of its active functioning.  At any rate any individual who can activate their pineal functionality would be in for one hell of a consciousness experience.

LOL!! Nexus!!  Hey, wait a tic.... Wasn't there some sort of Illuminati speak in connection with you in one of these threads somewhere?.... (just kidding) 

But really, talk about having a total BAD ASS dream!  I don't think my subconscious could ever top that one!  When I woke up, I was thinking the only thing missing from that entire night was a soundtrack going in the background of "Everybody was kung-fu fight-ing... Yeah, those cats were quick as lightnin'..."
It sounds nuts, but I was really shocked when the future me just snapped that cop's neck, and the me in bed was thinking, "Oh my God!  I've gone over to the dark side!", and somehow that thought got through to the future me in the dream, and I got a response that was no-nonsense.  Future me told me (jeebuz, now I sound like Hiro from Heroes) that "NO! You are on the side of good and light, but there is no room for sentimentality."  It was very much a "warrior mindset".  It was a cool dream, but I don't know if I'd really want that to be my future.

Anyway, nexus, no worries... unless you decide to go all redneck and chase me down with a big piece of lumber.... then I can't guarantee your safety.

[Edit:  OH YEAH!! I almost forgot! Here ya go, nexus! http://flyangler.ca/forum/style_emotico … ldstar.gif Good Job, Man!!]

Hey Pinkrlyq, we're on to nexus, so I think you are okay if you haven't any long-haired canine friends; and I hope you do your own hair.  Watch out for the professional hair products used in beauty shops!

Can I have a gold star too?  I read the whole thingy. Nice last effort! 

But really, talk about having a total BAD ASS dream!  I don't think my subconscious could ever top that one!  When I woke up, I was thinking the only thing missing from that entire night was a soundtrack going in the background of "Everybody was kung-fu fight-ing... Yeah, those cats were quick as lightnin'..."
It sounds nuts, but I was really shocked when the future me just snapped that cop's neck, and the me in bed was thinking, "Oh my God!  I've gone over to the dark side!", and somehow that thought got through to the future me in the dream, and I got a response that was no-nonsense.  Future me told me (jeebuz, now I sound like Hiro from Heroes) that "NO! You are on the side of good and light, but there is no room for sentimentality."  It was very much a "warrior mindset".  It was a cool dream, but I don't know if I'd really want that to be my future.

Anyway, nexus, no worries... unless you decide to go all redneck and chase me down with a big piece of lumber.... then I can't guarantee your safety.

[Edit:  OH YEAH!! I almost forgot! Here ya go, nexus! Good Job, Man!!]

In the dream, I 'blasted' a couple of red-necks and a cop who were attacking me, but when I blasted them, there was no effect on any of them.... which I understood to mean that none of them were under the influence of this demon I was looking for.  This frustrated my future self immensely, because future me couldn't believe they'd attacked me without reason.  You see, the light blast would only destroy a demon, but it would have no effect on a human.  Anyway, as comic-book as that sounds, it was all very realistic and took place in a town not too far fr So before I visually saw three men step out of the shadows, I'd already known their positions and intentions.  There were two cops that got out of a car about 30 yards ahead of me and another redneck (the other guys' buddy) approaching from about 10 o'clock.  The redneck made the first move, but they all moved almost simultaneously.  Redneck came at a full run towards me, ready to punch.  Cop on the left drew his weapon level at me, so I acted before thinking, eliminating the most serious threat first.  I threw a thought at the redneck that knocked him off his feet and he flew up and back, back, back until he hit the side of the building where I 'held' him there, about 20 feet off the ground.  My left arm was out, 'holding' him there, cutting off his air until he passed out, but at this point is when I'd blasted them with the bright light because I thought "for sure they can't be acting like this out of their own free will".  I was wrong, and frustrated, and my right arm flew up and and I rotated it 90 degrees, and the cop with the gun (his was beginning to pull the trigger) dropped with a broken neck.

Pinkrylyq?  You are really cool.  Have i ever told you that? 

And if there have ever been any misunderstandings between us?   Im sorry. 

Hi Capitan!  I know it sounds weird, but whenever I've had a dream that I'm not in my own body, it's not that difficult to move around.  I guess it's not weird to me because it's happened my entire life, so when I began thinking about how to answer your questions, I really had to stop and think one of the experiences through (like when someone's trying to explain how to drive a stick shift).  First of all, it's never been a conscious decision... So I don't ever go to bed thinking, "Okay, tonight I want to get inside so-and-so's head."  Nope, it's never worked that way for me.  I just fall asleep and the next thing I become aware of is being in a very vivid dream and having an awareness of who I am and where I am.  You know how you just know who you are and what you look like?  Well, when I'm in one of these dreams, I feel all of those things... and then I realize that all of those feelings don't match up with the "me" I know.  But as far as moving around or speaking or thinking, I've really not experienced any trouble.. it's always just like moving and speaking in my own body.  Sometimes it's like I'm just an invisible observer in the back of their mind.  Occasionally, it's more of a 'sharing' experience (like this last one).  When 'sharing' the body, I'm assuming that I wouldn't be allowed to take over unless it's in line with the person's own will.  With this last dream, when the bimbo was in control, I felt like I was just kind of spacing out, like being in a deep 'alpha state'.  When I took over, I don't know if her consciousness would have had the same experience, but we were definitely in the same body without any real 'complications'.

Now, with that said, I've also got to say it looks like Murphy's Law does exist in the astral realms, too.....I've only ever experienced one time that I kind of freaked-out  ("kind of" is putting it mildly, in retrospect)... I really hope it was just a dream, because if not, I completely insulted an innocent woman and her sister.  I thought I was waking up out of a dream where I was a young male soldier, but I didn't wake up in my own body.  I found myself in a quite 'full-figured', middle-aged woman, and for a minute, I thought that was my own body, and I couldn't figure out what was going on.  Her sister was nearby, and when I accidentally entered this woman's body, they were just getting ready to go out to the store.  I popped in when the woman was in mid-sentence about how she much she liked her new scarf and hat or some such.  When I gained 'awareness', I blurted out, "What the F*CK?!  This isn't right!  I'm not this fat!!" and then her sister said something like, "Margie?!  What's wrong, Margie??", and I retorted, "Who the f*ck are YOU?!"  Her poor sister became a little hysterical trying to calm 'Margie' down... unfortunately, no one involved seemed to realize what had happened, and because I thought I was zooming back into my own body, I must have 'manifested' in full force.  I mean, I really hope that all of this was just a dream.  But if it wasn't, I hope that after I left the woman was alright (aka-back to 'normal').  I didn't do anything to physically or mentally harm her (if I did, I would have felt it as if it were happening to me), but I feel horrible that I freaked out like that.  I think when I'm in those states, it's my subconscious mind that's really in control.  In my waking state, I would have never used such foul language so consistently.  Anyway, I finally did manage to wake up in my own body (after turretically dropping the f-bomb a few more times).... I didn't know if I should have laughed or been scared, but I certainly was relieved to be back in the correct body.

I really wish I knew if there was any truth to any of these wild dreams I've had over the years.  For all I know, I've just got a couple of synapses that are wired wrong or something! lol!  When I was a kid, nearly all of these types of experiences took place 'off planet', and they really were like little adventures.  I remember being killed in a war on a planet similar to Earth when I was 7 or 8 years old, and then my consciousness flew up into another being right afterwards.  I didn't realize that there was anything weird about it.  When I got older and listened to debates about religion, I didn't understand why people were wondering what happens after we 'die'.  To me, I'd already seen it first hand, but when I tried to tell anyone, they thought I was joking or told me I was stupid because I didn't know the difference between dreams and reality.  After a while, I just stopped trying to tell anyone about it.   It wasn't until I was about 19 years old that I was at Barnes and Nobles, looking through the books about UFOs and aliens that I came across a book that had drawings of various aliens that people had claimed to witness.  I'll never forget when I began flipping through that book.  I got the chills, the kind that creep all the way up to tingle at your cheeks.  There were at least 3 'aliens' drawn in that book that were identical to some of my dreams as a kid.  Hell, I shared consciousness with a couple of those aliens in my dreams!  And there I was, thinking how in the living craptacular can this BE?!  These people saw this one in '57 and in a different country.... And the kicker is that this book had accounts from the witnesses describing the behaviors of the aliens, and the behaviors matched exactly with my dreams, too!  For a while I thought that these dreams must have been true, but then I got older and opened my mind some more to the other realms of possibilities, and now I'm not sure what is going on.  I don't have enough information to be able to even make an educated guess.  Did my soul come from some other planet where we could go OBE and share others' bodies at will?  Is any of it even "real"?  What's real, then?  Is it all happening in some astral world...or alternate dimensions...or?  Why can't I have conscious control over this 'ability' if it truly is an 'ability'?  Will I ever have conscious control, like I dreamed of when I was my future self?  I dunno... So I like to read about what other people have experienced and learn about new perspectives and ideas.  That's what attracted me to Noble Realms in the first place.  Everyone's extremely open-minded and friendly.

But getting back to your post, Capitan, about the demons and the duality of human nature.  I agree with what you said, as far as it relates to human psychology and nature.  I do also believe that there are 'real' demons out there, though, and they can take over a person's body by force (or maybe it's a kind of dark 'walk-in'?).  In any event, I've seen these people... and they look nearly like an ordinary person.  I'm sure there are full-blown possessions, like the Exorcist, but the ones I'm talking about are not that 'obvious' (for lack of a better word).  Maybe they're not as powerful and still need to rely on the original soul for something (that's a chilling thought).  In any event, in that one dream I had that I was in my future self and hunting down these types of 'demons', I was specifically looking for those demonic entities.  And when I found one (or thought I'd found one), there was a very bright and powerful blast of white/yellow light that somehow came from me, somewhere from the middle of my body or maybe the solar plexus area.  I have no idea how I would even be able to do something like that, but that's what I saw and felt in the dream.  When it happened, it felt like I was somehow able to focus all of my intent and will (from every molecule of my body) into one point in the middle of my body, and it was like a charge that built up until it burst forth from the center.  In the dream, I 'blasted' a red-neck and a couple of cops who were attacking me, but when I blasted them, there was no effect on any of them.... which I understood to mean that none of them were under the influence of this demon I was looking for.  This frustrated my future self immensely, because future me couldn't believe they'd attacked me without reason.  You see, the light blast would only destroy a demon, but it would have no effect on a human.  Anyway, as comic-book as that sounds, it was all very realistic and took place in a town not too far from where I live but don't frequent often.  I also had telekinetic abilities in this dream, too.  So... it went something like this.... I was in constant telepathic communication with another person just like me, but they were inside the building and I was outside.  We were coordinating our efforts to close in on this demon and gather more intel on a 'bigger fish' we wanted to eliminate.  I was outside and trying to get people to a shelter because there was a storm coming, when someone came up behind me.  I was able to see (without turning around) a large guy in a flannel shirt and baseball cap in mid-swing with a 2"x4" aimed at my back.  It appeared to be in slow motion to me, and I mentally threw the board out of his hand and entered into his mind at the same time.  I 'scanned' through his recent memories to see if he had any knowledge of what I was looking for (aka-the demon), and I saw that he did not.  I left his body and somehow 'made' him unconscious so he wouldn't come after me again.  I kept walking and launched a telepathic 'volley' to my 'partner' who was inside to update him on what just happened.  My partner sent me a telepathic 'packet' of information (blueprints, numbers, names, addresses, floor plans and security codes... all things I could store like pictures in my mind and recall later, just as vividly).  I was in the middle of receiving this information when I 'felt' three presences.  My mind or aura (not sure what it was) was able to sense and immediately identify life forms and organic movement at a significant range.  So before I visually saw three men step out of the shadows, I'd already known their positions and intentions.  There were two cops that got out of a car about 30 yards ahead of me and another redneck (the other guys' buddy) approaching from about 10 o'clock.  The redneck made the first move, but they all moved almost simultaneously.  Redneck came at a full run towards me, ready to punch.  Cop on the left drew his weapon level at me, so I acted before thinking, eliminating the most serious threat first.  I threw a thought at the redneck that knocked him off his feet and he flew up and back, back, back until he hit the side of the building where I 'held' him there, about 20 feet off the ground.  My left arm was out, 'holding' him there, cutting off his air until he passed out, but at this point is when I'd blasted them with the bright light because I thought "for sure they can't be acting like this out of their own free will".  I was wrong, and frustrated, and my right arm flew up and and I rotated it 90 degrees, and the cop with the gun (his was beginning to pull the trigger) dropped with a broken neck.  The last guy (the other cop) unsnapped his holster and went for the walkie on his shoulder at the same time.  I didn't want to harm him, so I entered his mind.  Now, the sleeping 'me' in my bed let out a loud "HUH!" because when I was in this cop's mind, I felt like I was him.  I felt my hand on the radio on his left shoulder, felt the weight of his middle-aged gut (from all those nights of nachos, beer, and football watching), I 'remembered' the day he graduated from the academy, his wife (Judy), his two little girls, his house, worries about his mortgage, his dog, his brother, his job, etc.  I took his hands off the walkie and holster and began scanning his memories for anything he would have thought unusual, but that I would have thought of as information on the thing I was tracking, like someone he knew who wasn't acting 'right' or something he thought he'd seen out of the corner of his eye, or anything else that stuck out as 'weird'.  At that point, the 'me' in bed woke up and decided I'd had enough.  Because I'd been getting up throughout this entire dream-time, trying to stop dreaming this intense thing, but every time I fell back asleep, I'd be right back there, picking up where I'd left off before I'd woken up.  That never happens to me normally, so this stood out as significant to me.  Also, at one point, I'd woken up because I thought one of my cats was having an asthma attack or something, but when I opened my eyes to look for the cat, I found two of my cats looking right at me with wide, fearful eyes.... I then realized that it was ME who was breathing like a heifer in heat!  I've never had that happen to me before, either!  That dream was so intense, I felt like I'd just run a mental and physical marathon, and for about an hour after I was awake, my brain felt like more of it was 'active'.  It's hard to explain, and I didn't even know that there was anything more to feel from my melon, but it felt like I was hyper aware of everything on a 360 degree viewpoint.  It felt like all the regions of my brain were waking and flexing, like they'd woken up after a long sleep.  I was hoping the feeling would last, and that maybe that dream had helped to get some synaptic juices flowing in those sleeping portions of my mind, but the feeling went away, and it hasn't come back since.

Woah!.. Helluva a side-track there, but I guess I'm trying to say that I understand the duality of good and evil as it relates to the human psyche, and we all carry our demons with us and deal with our shadows on a daily basis, but I guess my experience with good and evil has been on a more visceral level, if only in my dreams.  It's possible that it was all just a vivid playground my subconscious decided to use as a place in which to chase its own shadows, but I have to wonder, what if there's more to it than just symbolic meaning and fantasy realms?  At any rate, I think this is the longest post I've ever made, and I'm pretty sure it's the longest it's the longest I ever will make! lol!  It's late, and I forgot I was writing this in a post, so I just kept going as if I'd have been typing up a diary entry.  If anyone's read all this, you deserve a gold star or something!