Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "How to Have an Out of Body Experience" video.

  1. I should do more of this meditation stuff again. About 10 years ago I just went into some meditative state while traveling. And I was able to enforce lucid dreams, which your description of surfing matches very well. About two times, I still was fully conscious when I fell asleep and went into a lucid dream state, which is a very weird feeling. I want to be able to do this again.
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  2. Is an Out of Body Experience similar to riding a carousel, which is also a German phrase for the experience when being drunk, since it also feels similar.
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  3. I wouldn't say, lucid dreaming is the opposite of meditation or that you take control over your dream. It's like experiencing situations as if you were awake. Normally you can't do things you can't do in reality and often the situations are pretty normal. You can try to change the dream to your will, but this will probably destroy it. Especially if you try things, that are unrealistic. But if you don't stay focused, it will turn into a normal dream and you lose control and might also lose knowledge that it's a dream. It's possible to do things, which are plausible to you. For example if you are in some room, you can leave the room and go to another room or go outside. But you can't just start flying around or get some cute girl. But if there is something interesting to do, for example some girl is nearby, you can try to interact with her. Trying to do too much yourself will probably destroy the dream, though. You can still get some custom experiences using what I call dream logic. If you think, something might happen, it will happen. Your wishes and fears will become real, if they seem plausible. I walk outside, when it's dark and think "I hope, there are no wolves outside". Then the wolves were already attacking and eating me. This dream logic is basically how normal dreams work. But if you at least know, that you are in a dream, and don't want to waste too much concentration and destabilize your dream, you might think about what would be plausible to happen in the current situation, which you would like to experience, and it will happen. The best thing is, every emotion is intensified in a dream. So good experiences will feel even better. But emotions also make it difficult to concentrate and destabilize the dream again. Sometimes it's also possible to fly, just because I already had some flying dreams, so it might make sense to be able to fly while dreaming. But I can't enforce it. I can't just say, this has to be a dream, so I'll just fly, it's more like I know I'm dreaming, so it would make sense if I could fly. At least if I jump out of the window. At least that's my experience of it.
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