My "Vintage" APs (Without Knowing They Were)

Introduction

Since recently I've been on a dry period again, I thought I'd do a different kind of "update", a nostalgic backdate, so to speak. This excerpt is an unedited copy from a "normal" diary I had back then. Yes, should you wonder, I had done it in English indeed like my OBE journal later because the 'foreign' language allowed my the inner distance to do the personal writings I would not have done otherwise (not even started one in the first place).

So this is the original which I remembered and re-discovered recently. I wonder why I did not recall it when I started this diary to talk about my 'first' AP/OBEs.

It is funny to see how the Larger Consciousness System (to borrow TC's term this time) gave me a nudge in the right direction already back then.

2009 was the year I had started on my active spiritual journey altogether. The beginning was however not so good when in spring that year I had tried a regression hypnosis that failed, so I was a bit frustrated. Still I read some books about reincarnation and one also about Buddhism, iirc. This was the same year from where this journal record started - see first page in this journal.

However, this entry here was a few months before my NDE in the hospital of September the same year (see my first account in this journal) or the first intended OBE later. Back then in mid-2009 I did know and experiment a bit about dream programming (asking questions and waiting for an interpretable answer) and had just learnt about lucid dreaming (see text!). But I did not even really know what Astral Projection meant! Can you imagine? And I only knew the term OBE in connection with NDEs and did not really know how and that you could do it without being in a life threatening situation. I also had started a beginner's Yoga class the day before which I saw right now in the column to the right (not copied here), maybe that also had an influence?

There is reference to another "strange dream" from Feb 2003. It was on a trip to London for a training with my company. This is not from the diary as nothing was recorded but I give an account of it below, too, because it was another AP in the form of a False Awakening due to stressful alertness - which is what I today 'know', but of course did not back then in 2003, it was just a very, very very strange dream .

It is also funny to note how both of them have to do with the checking of electric appliances. But I assume that is just a(nother) coincidence. (The '3' in the orange field is a day rating I gave each day, 1-5 with 3 as the usual middle value. The "confirmation" refers to a dream question I put each night, I had a result from a night before that I wanted to have confirmed.).

17/Jul/2009
First "Lucid Dream": Electric Failures

17
Fr
3
dreams are strange sometimes
well first of all I did not dream any confirmation, but this night was nevertheless interesting
yesterday night had my first dream research on the internet, ordered a book and CD by Stephen Laberge, the most famous dream researcher and got other info about „LUCID DREAMING“ whcih means gaining active control and better memory from you dreams
I already read about „false awakening“ and the fact that in dreams light switches don't work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening
I experienced both this night/ morning!
the same thing that was even clearer to me in Feb 03 when in London in the hotel
but also this time... I „woke up“ in „my bed“ as usual, pushed the light switched, noticed it does not work, tried a few times, looked around the corner and saw that the light of the electric cable adapter was flickering again, but I had replaced it by a new one a few months ago, then I laid back and was a bit angry that I had to exchange the light bulbs over my bed again..
then I woke up
so it was both, switches not working and false awakening at once
funny and strange
I also took notes of a strange dream I rememberd, so it it really an exercise thing as I could read, I might start a dream diary now


11/Feb/2003
First "False Awakening": London Hotel (The Plug)

(As said above, this is a memory transcript I do right now the first since it has not been recorded yet, just referenced as in the 2009-entry above.)

I had just checked in late that day in a London hotel on my company's account. I was very nervous and had my alarm clock set several times. I did not want to miss the start and to be too late in the office the next morning. It was my first time in our English subsidiary then. I somehow had a feeling or anxiety that I might miss it by oversleeping because I would not hear the alarm clock or it would have been forgotten to be set.

During the night in that bed I woke up (for real) several times and checked if the alarm clock really was set with the little button pulled out. It was. So I went to sleep again.

The next mornig the alarm clock went off and I was happy that I did not miss it. I got up and was busy immediately. I put on my clothes. I reflected a bit on the day ahead. I might have eaten sth (not sure). I went to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth. I washed myself. Then I decided to have an electric shave. I fetched my electric razor from my bag and went back to the bathroom. All was business as usual. I might also have checked the clock again to make sure I was not too late. In the bathroom I was about to put the cable and plug into the socket. It was a European socket. Like this:



Wait a minute! This is not possible. Why is that? I'm in England, they have three slots, not two holes like we have, and the plug's form is different. Why is it European/German? And I have bought an adapter even.

This is what was to be expected actually:


That woke me up. I glanced at the alarm clock, afraid that I might have missed the right time. But it was just a few minutes early, a few minutes (or even one? not sure anymore) before the alarm would have gone off to awake me. Another possibility is that the timer indeed DID go off an this awoke me (I do not remember this clearly), but my realisation that sth wasn't right was definitely the thing that woke me up anyway in the dream.