I was a conscious dreamer as a child with much experience lucid dreaming. It started I believe, in part due to my laying on my back very still when it was "lights out" and I wasn't yet sleepy. Over time my body began to feel as if I was falling and rising, growing and shrinking at the same time. I would then feel an energetic "thickness" around my body; sometimes I would vibrate. I see myself falling in a tunnel where there were many doors. Some I could enter, others I couldn't, and some pulled me in. I couldn't necessarily control my dreams per se, but I learned how to ask for another door, which would usually present as a donut-shaped cloud that I could fly through to enter a different dream.

As I entered puberty, the inner awareness shifted to the outer. The lucid dreaming faded as my mind focused on other preoccupations. As I reached an older teenage year, I wanted to learn astral travel, but when practicing leaving the body I had some lower 4D experiences and visitors that I didn't want to experience again, so I stopped. However, several years later, I was camping with my sister and a friend, sleeping under the stars. They had fallen asleep and I was awake, lying on my back gazing at the milky way. I started to sense that I was on the side of a planet where in the grand scheme of things there really is no up or down, so I was looking down at the stars as much as I was looking up. When I could physically feel this, I started to hear a sound and then a "pop" like a cork being pulled out of a champagne bottle, then I "fell" out of my body and floated up towards the sky. I was elated as I didn't feel the fear that I had from those previous astral experiences. I felt connected to my body and safe. Just as I was starting to fly my sister energetically pulled me back! She had no recollection of this, lol.

Years have gone by with all of this in a chapter long passed. Now again I am practicing laying consciously, scanning the body with a loving energy and inviting the awake dreaming once more. I feel there is very important remembering that can be whispered to us when we move into dreamtime. That what we experience there is as important, if not more so, than our waking "beta" time. I feel that to learn to be conscious in both "worlds" is our birthright. I invite the dreamer to dream! =i=