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Pondering Strange Events

A short discourse on dreams and reality

Yesterday, there was no sign of rain in Hilo, only a brilliant Sun, and very few clouds. Alas, it was time to cut the grass.

However, this gives me a couple of hours to listen to the iPOD and yesterday, I was listening to a Coast-to-Coast  interview with Rosemarie Ellen Guiley (Feb 27, 2009) on EVP and dreams. As most of you know, I am planning a bit of research into EVP and ITC with Martin who recently passed on. Therefore, this George Noory interview has been of particular interest.

Two things in particular came up as I listened to this podcast.

1.) Could what we think of as reality, be just a dream?

I have written on this topic and discussed it on TBD. Indeed, what we think of as "reality" may be, as Einstein said, "A grand illusion." The processing power of the human brain is stupendous and can render what our five senses present as "the real thing" as that grand illusion.

George made an interesting comment. I flashed back to the last hours in London with Martin: What if when a person dies, this is the way of removing themselves from the dream?
I thought about that as I watched Martin's organ systems shutting down, much like we turn off a computer, external drives, etc., one at a time. But how, in the case of death, is this accomplished? I thought hard on this and I have yet to come up with an answer. Perhaps it is a fading away from the dream as Mr. Noory suggested.

2.) A caller asked if it was possible to go from the dream state to an OBE state.

Ms. Guiley said that of course it can happen. I have a recent experience that took place shortly after my return from London:

I had the iPOD playing The Oh Of Pleasure - the tune often played at the start of Whitley Strieber's Dreamland - followed by a radio interview with Anne Strieber and Robert Moss' Dreams and the Iroquois. This in turn, was followed by the sound track of the movie, Forbidden Planet.

I want to tell you about a dream that occurred after the first playing of these tunes. I remember waking up to the Krell music, resetting the timer for another hour and later, hearing the whale song. This was the dream:

I was talking with someone and it was pointed out to me that I could jump to a parallel universe. NB: I must mention here that the concept of parallel universes and the Copenhagen theory in physics is one that I truly believe and I have often wondered if a "jump" to a parallel universe is a possibility.
I headed out the door to the garage. It was a different garage than what we have but after opening the door from the house, the large garage was pitch black. I knew that across the garage was another similar exit door and I took off running, estimating where the doorknob should be and indeed I was on target.

I approached the door at a run, opened it into a large courtyard/drive way. It was pitch black outside but the ski was slightly overcast but I looked up to see Orion high and slightly to the left. I began to run straight ahead, faster and faster and I yelled, "Take me to that parallel universe!" I jumped as if leaping up to the night sky.

Immediately, I found myself in my bed, lying face down as would be my custom but something was different! It was still dark in the room but, as we keep a night light on in the bathroom, I could see my wife to my right (she and my son Doushi are always to my left) and she appeared to be lying on her left side, her back to me and Doushi was asleep to her right. But she was in a large crib, and she was pale skinned and had her right arm extended up and her hand, fingers thin and spindly, were in a claw-like attitude and she was shaking as if she was having a seizure.

I reached over the shake her, called her name and I realized that I was about two feet above my bed! The feeling was exactly as if I was floating, slowly rising! My eyes (at this point) were physically open and I began to see the outline of the table lamp and items on the bed-side table and that feeling of floating stopped and I was back on the firmness of the bed again. Then I saw that the plastic bed rail that we have used since Doushi was a child, may have simulated the look of the rail of a crib . . . and I realized that it all had been a dream.

I took some time to think about it. For sure, the sensation of leaping up, off the ground as if "flying" into another dimension was a pleasant sensation! The strange look of my wife and her clawed hand was not upsetting, just strange and during that part of the dream, I watched as an interested observer.
The settling back down into my body was a bit disappointing, but I seemed to have no control. The experience was automatically ending at that point but not abruptly, just slowly and surely.

Was this but a dream?

To be continued . . .

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