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Last night I went up through the focus levels without the hemisync audio... I got up to about Focus 17, found myself in a restaurant somewhere, decided to get up and go to bed. As sometimes happens, focus work lends itself to astral phenom.

This morning, I found myself lucid in a dream, sitting in front of a black mirror. I pressed on the mirror (my reality check) and found that it gave in response to my fingers. I didn't want to necessarily enter into it, as the blackness behind the mirror was a bit daunting. I tried writing a question on the mirror, and received an image of an empty room with a desk that didn't really correspond to my question.

So I tried altering the blackness behind the mirror, and saw a quickly revolving set of images... when I happened on an image of some trees with yellow leaves in a pleasant enough looking place, I tivo paused the image and decided to use it as an entrance to the astral. (This has happened to me before... scenarios shift VERY quickly in a reflective surface)

Matthew from the Saltcube site and I have discussed this technique before, and both of have experienced the cocoon phenomenon.

Apparently sometimes when you push through the mirror in an attempt to transition from LD to astral, you find yourself tightly wrapped in a cocoon. Matthew found that by struggling to break free of the cocoon, you found yourself BAM! immediately somewhere in the astral plane. I have found that for myself, if I don't struggle to break free of the cocoon, I'm transported as if in a vehicle, and find myself back in a state of dreaming (no longer lucid). This time I think I got about 3/4ths of the way into the mirror, and was again intrigued to see that the cocoon is both translucent and reflective, and what it reflects is the colors of the scenario you are attempting to enter. This is exactly the same thing I saw the last time I tried this; it's a stable enough phenomenon for me to attribute it to the transition moreso than some fragment of my dreaming mind, because a) I was about 98% lucid and b) not really thinking back to other cocoon experiences. I simply expected to push into the scenario.

The cocoon is quite heavy and close around the body, so I pushed back out of the mirror, felt full body vibrations and woke up.

I do wonder what it is?