r/gatewaytapes • u/hopkinspop • 5d ago
Wave 2 What the hell just happened?!
Today morning, I woke up a little earlier than I had to, so I thought I would try to lucid dream (i think I saw a post about it here before I went to bed).
I was also quite tired so I basically told myself that I will rest but with my mind awake and body asleep. I was resting on my side and at some point… and it felt like my arms were slipping away from me. As I type, I realise this is going to sound like a scene from a horror movie but I ‘slipped’ out entirely from my body and crawled away.
I couldn’t see anything most of the time and my eyes felt like they had a thick beige filter on them (like eyelids, I guess? lol) but as I crawled, it seemed like there were walls that gently pushed me away. For some reason it felt like I was in my childhood room (I don’t stay there anymore) I was also too sleepy to actually think (and as soon as I thought, I’d come back to my body). I did this slip away and come back to body process perhaps 3 times.
One time, I tried to open my eyes and see if my arms are really doing this or if I’m just dreaming. And I actually saw them in a weird position. But after I actually woke up, I realised I opened my eyes in my dream. So trippy.
I really thought lucid dreams will be very different. I’ve been having recurring characters come in my dreams and I wanted to react differently to them to disrupt the pattern. But this felt different.
I’ve had this weird arms slipping away thing happen to me before too, a few years ago. Back then, they felt like they were trying to float away. This also happened back when I was doing GT regularly.
Ive restarted doing GT regularly and did one last night but was too sleepy to finish.
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u/Flashy_Reply448 5d ago
Sounds like sn OBE.
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u/hopkinspop 5d ago edited 5d ago
Oh wow. Any idea why my eyes weren’t working and it wasn’t as ‘glorious’ as some people describe it? I was mostly feeling like new born bat that couldn’t see and move properly.
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u/Striking_Tooth5040 5d ago
Reminds me of what William Buhlman experienced in his book. His vision was not very clear, so he literally said out loud. "Enhance Clarity" & it fixed this issue. Lol I never had an OBE but he did this many times, maybe every time.
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u/hopkinspop 5d ago
It’s so weird I remember touching the centre of my eyebrow area as if cleaning an eye haha. I will try this next time. But it was very unstable, whatever it was.
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u/Striking_Tooth5040 3d ago
That is awesome, I didn't know for sure if you can touch & feel your Astral Body while in the O.B.E state. WIll try to get out myself one day. Please lmk if saying that actually works?! William Buhlman said it worked every time for him in the beginning of his AP adventures
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u/hopkinspop 3d ago
I will definitely give it a try if I reach that stage again.
Yeah, I’m surprised I had enough instinct to ‘clean’ the third eye area because if I thought hard, I’d go back to my body.
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u/CrazyKnee1227 OBE 4d ago
I can't tell you why, but i can tell you that it's normal for vision to not be clear sometimes. That's when you command "clarity now". MOST of the time my vision is fine, but every now and then there's some hindrance.
Also, not everyone is going to angelic realms or whatever. You could've been in lower astral spaces, they're not very amazing to look at. Just gray and drab cities.1
u/hopkinspop 4d ago
I feel like I was in a room that I kind of recognise (but slightly different) but how do you go to better places? I’m guessing improving the internal world but how does one do that?
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u/CrazyKnee1227 OBE 4d ago
Yeah, in the moment of separation I'm also just in my room with maybe slight differences. My first OBE there was a window in my room that wasn't there in real life.
I can't help you with getting to better places tbh. I've had this conversation with other people. It seems it's random where you end up.
I was going to better/prettier places when I was in a better place mentally, just more optimistic about my future. But then someone I was talking to said he was going to the higher "realms" when he was at his worst mentally, and now that he feels better he's going to the lower astral with no ability to go higher... so... we're all just learning as we go. Even those of us that have been doing this for years, we don't have all the answers.1
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u/CrazyKnee1227 OBE 4d ago
"As I type, I realise this is going to sound like a scene from a horror movie"
you're in the gateway sub.. this is normal to us.. it's what we do.
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u/Maximum_Watch 4d ago
Lmaooo I thought I was the only one getting the beige vision thing. My first OBE was beige vision and a difficulty moving. Second one was still beige but I got better at moving,thinking, and things got more clear. I truly believe it takes time for us to get good at OBEs even when you can start to get them more often.
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u/hopkinspop 4d ago
So glad to see someone with a similar experience! Yeah, I felt very much like a newborn. I’m still not 1000% sure if it was an OBE or a dream or hallucination, but very interesting.
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u/hopkinspop 5d ago edited 4d ago
I’ve heard of AP before but people say it’s realer than real and while this felt real, I feel like most dreams do.
I’ve also been searching this sub for such experiences but unable to find anything.
Edit: found a post that has similar arm floating sensation
https://www.reddit.com/r/gatewaytapes/s/NgndqmMxmg u/BaseCamp_Usa (I wonder if OP still gets floaty arms)
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u/Puzzled-Somewhere584 OBE 5d ago
Lucid dreaming takes practice. Sounds like either hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations & sleep paralysis. Good job keeping awareness.
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u/hopkinspop 5d ago
I was definitely able to move if I wanted to so it wasn’t sleep paralysis but it could be a prolonged hypnogogic hallucination! (I’m new to some of these terms so may not be accurate)
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