Dream Journal
March 30, 1997
WOW! I had a full-on OBE at the Dark Tower!
I was doing lots of travel around the area of the Dark Tower, on route 330, route 303 and some others. Approaching the Dark Tower, the freeway seemed to rest on the treetops, and a beautiful sunset was going on as we drove. As I drove, I overlooked a forest where Ed was. I threw grapes out the window to him. After the drive I went to see Ed in the woods and when I arrived, the grapes I threw finally finished falling through the trees. Familiar Dark Tower buildings were nearby, perhaps even other towns or cities.
The Dark Tower is also near the big forest with hanging paths and worn, covered trails in the valleys cut away by the river. The Dark Tower is in such a valley. Within the Dark Tower were living quarters, including my Blaine House room. There was a murky green coloring to everything. There was also a huge new bookstore. Someone like Amanda worked there.
In my Blaine House room, I had an OBE in which I found out how to fly: jump and hold onto the “rising” part. I flew up through the wall and roof, and ended up on the deck outside my room in Blaine House. I looked around. Below me on the entrance side it was all the same as Blaine House, and there were flashing Xmas lights down there. The moon was in the sky above and the forest was on the other side, reminiscent of other Dark Tower lands & forest. It seemed that above my room, instead of the roof, was a part of the Dark Tower’s library.
I noticed that my astral body had circular impressions here and there along my skin. Perhaps these were nadis? Also, it was shimmering as if wet with sweat. I was talking to the Amanda-like library person and asked her if she noticed anything strange or different about me. She said “You look beautiful!”
I talked to some people I took to be physical, wondering if they’d remember my OB communication. I wondered if I was talking to their superconscious mind or not.
Later I was on the ground floor trying to fly back to my body many levels up and I noticed the silver cord. I touched it and it was warm. I followed it back to my body and examined it more: it got thicker within 10 feet, from thread size to computer power cable size.
Because I was knocking over books in the library as I flew, I must have been at least half dreaming this, but the flying was fully real and I was really lucid! I returned to my body because it had been a while, taking a second to reconnect. The doctor came, thinking it was a miracle I had lived, and Rebecca was there and I told her “I did it! I was fully out of body!” I felt such joy and I wanted to write down my discoveries. Rebecca was pissed but I started to write, then thought “I’m still dreaming”. So I woke up for real and started writing here.
The traveling to the Dark Tower seems a standard part of each dream of that locale. It’s very familiar. The Dark Tower seems like a boarding house in the spirit world. The forest is kinda trashy and dark and the tower is run down. But both are huge and full of people.
Dream to OBE and Back: This OBE from within a dream is a mix of my dream awareness and awareness from within my astral body.
This begins as a dream experience, with me rationalizing my fast travel as driving a car above the treetops. With Blaine House being my physical body metaphor, going to my Blaine House room meant focusing in my physical body. I then flew out of my room (left my body) and had adventures outside of it, all while being colored in with the dream scenery. Even though it absorbed the context of the Dark Tower, I was lucid and no longer rationalizing my flying. My awareness of the appearance of my astral body and the astral cord are direct perceptions of the astral body.
I return to my body and go directly into a dream where a doctor and girlfriend and worried about my OBE.
Time Twist: I threw the grapes from the tree freeway and much later in the dream I went to the forest and saw them finish their fall, as if I had to be present for them to continue their existence. This seems really important. Does time not progress unless someone is there to witness it? Or do I have to be present for my thought forms to continue? Or did they fall again because I was thinking about them?
Hyperspace Boarding House: I describe the Dark Tower here as a sort of boarding house. My room at Blaine House appears to be a room in the Dark Tower, so perhaps all the rooms are through hyperspace doorways. The outside of my window was all Blaine House, which would support that, but then I knew there was a library above my room — part of the Dark Tower.
Or.. perhaps this is just the form the idea of “my bedroom” takes, and that form flows into what’s outside the window as well.
How to Fly: In other words, jump and then forget about your expectation that you will fall. Simply extend the part where you’re rising by focusing your attention on it.
The Astral Body: This is a rare, unrationalized look at my astral body.
The Astral Cord: Note that I’m perceiving my astral cord in the vicinity of my physical body, but the scenery overlaid on this is the Dark Tower and Blaine House.
Exiting the Tower: I have a dorm room in the Dark Tower, and it’s my room from Blaine House. From within that room, I exit through the wall and ceiling (exit the body) in what I think of as an OBE, arriving outside Blaine House.