Dream that wasn't a dream...

So, 3 nights ago, I had a very weird experience. It wouldn't be the first, but it's the first of this particular kind.

To be honest, I don't recall what I dreaming AT ALL, but I suddenly jolted straight up in bed. There was a voice in my head that told to sit up, so I did. The voice also said, "tilt your head up to the ceiling and take a breath". For whatever reason, I wasn't breathing. So I tilted my head up and took a deep breath. At that moment, I felt a vibration deep in my abdomen. Somehow, I knew this was "energy". At this point, I was not asleep. I was fully aware of what was happening, although still groggy. Anxious to go back to sleep, I laid back down and closed my eyes, but I didn't want to forget what happened.

In one instant, I knew that I had just switched bodies, like in "dimensions". Don't ask me how I know, because I don't know. It was an awareness I had in that semi-awake state, like it was no big deal, and there was "someone" helping me out, making sure my consciousness made the transition OK. The first "breath" sealed the deal, I guess....at least, that's the understanding I had when I experienced it.

Now, the strange thing is that this "dream" follows on the tail of another I had two nights before this. I was traveling through space a light speed and zoomed up on a small, dark planet-oid, which I somehow knew was Pluto. I was looking at Pluto. Then the number 11 flashed across my view and the word "INRI", which then morphed into my first name. I then saw an image of Christ on the cross, but when I looked closer, it was me. How weird is that???

Eh, don't judge me. All I'm doing is trying to understand. I didn't read or watch anything unusual before bed, so there wasn't anything influencing this. I will add that I have very vivid dreams quite regularly. However, I've had an unusual dry spell for a few weeks...I couldn't remember anything I dreamed AT ALL. That is VERY unlike me! So these dreams were in a large group of dreams that happened right after this "dry spell".

Oh, and when I woke up, nothing seemed different. So if I am in a different dimension, it's virtually identical.

Thoughts? And please, no jokes or jabs. I'm older, don't drink, don't do drugs, and don't have time to entertain nonsense, really. I posted to see if anyone out there might have some insight to help me out. These experiences have been weighing heavily on me the past few days, and are as vivid as what I had for supper.

Vivid dreams are amazing, in the least. That is a pretty interesting one you had from the sounds of it. I have only had vivid dreams twice, and they are for sure worth sharing. I don't have any answers, maybe you should ask a few questions to that subconscious mind of yours. It will give you a better response than any of us will be able to. Happy future dreaming.

reply to post by Gseven

Wow, the description of your dream really struck a chord with me because I've been having similar dreams as well. I'm still shaking while I type.
Mine have been slightly different, and I don't want to go into greater detail because this is about your dream and not mine, but I just had to share some of my observations.

In my dreams, (but not dreams, as I call them, they always happen in the afternoon when I'm napping)-- at first they just involved my eyes and my inability to open them while in this dream state, but eventually being able to see without them open. Fear was also an element at first, but as I got over the fear, I realized I could see, although it was hazy.

The dreams led me to some research and I read about how the Tibetan monks believe that if you don't wake in your dreams (lucid dreaming) while alive you will never wake on the other side after death. Dreams as preparation?

Last week I had the same kind of dream, but a new element entered and that was of breathing. I woke up in my dream again - feeling lethargic, no eyes but could see, and I told myself to breathe and breathe deeply, so I did. The feeling was like you described, like I hadn't been breathing at all, then taking huge breathes. The lethargy left me and I went downstairs looked around, things were the same but different, went back upstairs looked around, same thing, just slight variation -like a book on the table that isn't really there. Then I went back to bed and woke later (I don't know how long, but I only napped a total of an hour, and I remember everything in crystal clarity.)

So when you said that about the breathing and the dimensional shift it triggered a thought in my head. I've always wondered about the pole shift we are supposed to experience, what if the real shift is a dimensional one? And what would that look like? An inward shift in consciousness that doesn't have so much to do with death as it does with perception?

reply to post by saoirse33


Wow. I'd like to hear more about this Tibetan thing you mentioned. Would you explain it again, because I'm not quite sure I understood what you meant. Thanks for sharing!

reply to post by Gseven


Sure, I wish I had the source written down so I could direct you there, but I don't so I'll just give you what I wrote down in my notes.

Tibetan Buddhists believed that if you don't become conscious in your dreams you will not be conscious in death. They think of sleep as a form of nourishment, like food. That lucid dreaming can prepare you for the after world and that we should use the dream world to practice the in-between state-- the Bardo. You must prime yourself to recognize when you are dreaming, and then you will have a better chance of recognizing your situation in the in-between (Bardo) after death.

reply to post by Gseven


Hello G7. the part where you jolt up and look up and feel the energy in your stomach, that happens to me when i pray. I research it and found out that it is called kundalini experience in hindu philosophy. In christianity is basically the holly spirit. It is awakening of spirituality. Another things that happen to me during my praying is that i can't open my eyes, my head tilts backward my face is towards the sky, i spread my hands just as it's shown on your picture and the energy and shaking from the stomach intensifies and gets my whole body....plus some weird stuff
I think you'r rising your spirituality and you'r becoming awakened...or getting prepared.

reply to post by saoirse33


Is your information from the "Tibetan book of the dead" by any chance?

That happens to me when I have an Asthma attack in my sleep (actually the only time I ever have one IS in my sleep), but I wake up the same way, I have this nagging feeling that it's my soul coming back to my body because I was close to death, but something always wakes me and forces (like a CPR feeling) Air down into my lungs and it goes into my lungs but some of it goes through to my stomache. Oh and no, no one Physically is giving me CPR I just get air forced down my throat and my head gets tilted back the very same way the OP explains,except I don't sit up; but instead of it talking to me it forces my head back and forces air into me (like a person would if they were giving CPR). I know there is physically nobody there, because I am fully awakened from the pressure on my chest (From the attack) before it happens. My Cats are always there too, never fails when I am going to have an attack the cats sleep with me...we've got black mold no money to clean it and can't move...thanks to the backing up of our pipes from the park's pipes and they won't clean up from their stupid nasty mess so I gotta close off the back room of the house or I am sure to have an attack.
Wonder when it will start affecting the kids?

reply to post by Gridrebel


I believe it may be, but I'm not positive.

reply to post by vistina


Does the shaking feel like it is electrical in nature? I feel like electricity is coursing through my body--starting low and fanning up and outward until it seems to spill out of my fingertips. I guess it never dawned on my that this could happen during sleep and be experienced as a dream?

reply to post by saoirse33


yes it is kind of electrical and may start low and intensify or it can start very intense from the very beginning, it is different every time. also to me happens several times on and off during a regular session of 20 minutes of pray/meditation. it is so intense that my whole body shakes with unbelievable power and i go up in the air from the bed like 5 inches. i ussualy do it lying on the bed with face up, because it is easier for me. if i stand on my feet and do it i bend backwards until i am almost parallel with my upper body part to the ground and facing the sky with my face (i hope you can get the picture, not very good in explaining). and YES it always goes out to the fingers and you can feel like little balls of energy are going to the finger tips. also my fingers are all stretched and can not control their movement.
now i don;t know if it is a dream that you have or it is an actual thing happening to you and you think that it is a dream. like i said to me happens in plain conscious state while i pray. but to me both your and the account of the op look very similar to my experience so i decided to write on the thread.