[leoto5Fm]

Hi, I only discovered this site yesterday and haven't had a chance to start following through its instructions, but lately I have been wondering about an experience I had a few years ago, and this seems the best forum I've found yet to ask about it.

Background: I occasionally had very vivid dreams and episodes of weird sleep paralysis, but no OBEs as such before this. I came from a vaguely Christian background but am not religious, and was interested in the spiritual at the time, but more in a silly 'wowee check this out' way than a quest for actual development, I am ashamed to admit. :\ (I found this website partially because I am at a new stage in my life and want to take it more seriously now)

This was in around 2004. I was dozing off in bed with my boyfriend at the time, my eyes closed. I was pretty troubled at the time (still am ) but at that moment, I was unusually content with the world. I can't remember how my mind got on the topic now, but as I was drifting off to sleep I was wondering what it may have been like to see the Twin Towers in real life when they were still standing (I live in Australia and have never been to America) when the experience occured.

I saw, or imagined, the towers (or just one of them) outlined in my mind in electric blue lines. As this image formed my point of view followed the lines up and I felt the sensation of rising upwards very quickly and smoothly. I didn't make a conscious decision to do so, but I wasn't scared, it seemed like a natural movement (I had kinda-OBE experiences during dreams since then but the similar upwards movements were very slow, or sluggish, and I was always too intimidated to go through with them all the way)

And suddenly, I found myself in the middle of an unreal scene. Like I said, I had vivid dreams all the time, but something about this realm felt nothing like a dream, though it wasn't any kind of reality I had experienced before.

I was floating in the air and had no sensation of my body. I didn't feel like I was flying or falling; I was just suspended. The realm was massive and if there was any ground or floor it was too far below me for me to see it or sense it in any way. There was no wind and no sound.

Before me were clouds that seemed illuminated by a sunset more brilliant than I could imagine. The clouds were white, gold and pink and filled the entire sky that I could see (I didn't turn my head or look around during this).

In front of me, probably a few miles away if I had to judge it, were two pillars in the shape of the twin towers. They seemed to be representative of the WTC towers but were definitely not the same thing, more like featureless black pillars, and much, much larger, in keeping with the scale of the whole scene.

Behind the towers was a single pure white tower that was absolutely huge, too big for anything like it to exist on Earth. It was about four times as wide as one of the single black pillars and stretched upwards higher than I could see, disappearing into the golden clouds. It seemed to be made out of marble or something similar. It was almost as featureless as the black pillars, but just below where it disappeared into the clouds, I saw several (about fourteen I think) small black holes, like windows or arrow slits that you might find in medieval castles, and either below or above these windows (I can't remember exactly now unfortunately) was a black line, like an indent. These windows and the line were on the right side of the pillar (from my perspective) and only stretched part of the way across it.

This vision appeared to last for about ten seconds. Nothing else happened in it that I could see and there didn't seem to be anyone else around. I didn't feel any intense emotion... well that's not exactly right. I was immensely awed, but in a quiet way as if I had always expected something like this, rather than having a huge fireworks-display life-changing experience

I woke up afterwards. I had no sensation of waking, I went straight from seeing this vision to being back to lying in bed, fully alert.

Like I said, I had some vaguely OBE moments afterwards, but they were always mitigated in some way (I would attempt to be sucked upwards again but would freak out half-way and go back to regular dreaming, or I would think I'm having an OBE but was still just dreaming and had no conscious control over what I was doing. I had a lot of problems with scary sleep paralysis too before I figured out to sleep on my side instead of on my back). I was pretty shaken by the 9/11 attacks but I have no particular affinity or relation to the WTC. Someone suggested what I saw was a heavenly realm but didn't provide any details beyond that.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?

Thank you for reading at any rate I'll keep looking around the site in the meantime!

[Hammaduersnes]

Hi g. and welcome to the forums.

...was interested in the spiritual at the time, but more in a silly 'wowee check this out' way than a quest for actual development, I am ashamed to admit. Don't be ashamed. Those 'wowee' moments are what make us look deeper.

I saw, or imagined, the towers (or just one of them) outlined in my mind in electric blue lines. As this image formed my point of view followed the lines up and I felt the sensation of rising upwards very quickly and smoothly. I didn't make a conscious decision to do so, but I wasn't scared, it seemed like a natural movement (I had kinda-OBE experiences during dreams since then but the similar upwards movements were very slow, or sluggish, and I was always too intimidated to go through with them all the way) Sounds like you phased into an astral representation of the Twin Towers. This is not unheard of.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? Yep. Terms like phasing and astral environment should be in the AD Pedia, and there are tutorials in the OBE Research and Discussions subforums.

[leoto5Fm]

Thank you so much for your reply! I'll look into these topics more and will see what happens