Re: Something sitting on my chest, false awakenings... bah!
Neil, you know these experiences are really common right? I still wonder exactly why they happen. I know Robert Monroe experienced such things and even perceived them as cats at some time. I have friends who have had similar episodes and I have as well. Some theorise that these episodes yield information if interpreted metaphorically, for instance, something sitting on your chest as something emotionally suffocating occurring in your life. Kurt Leland classifies these experiences in one of his books but a former student (I'm a teacher) has my copy so I can't quote for you right now. Maybe Oliver can help there.
The radio noise is common too. Monroe called it M band noise and considered it the emotions and thoughts of collective humanity. I think material from our own subconscious can get mixed up in it too.
Anyway, I hope this doesn't become too common an occurrence for you. I'm at a stage where such visitors invariably diminish the experience for me so that I'm essentially struggling with them rather than getting on with more interesting adventures. I suspect that this will pass once I re-develop presence of mind and composure in my waking life so that the quality of my lucid dreams and projections improves again. Whether or not they're thought forms and to be interpreted metaphorically, they seem a relatively harmless, though annoying, phase that many projectors pass through on the way to proficiency.
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
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