Now that I've had this experience, in retrospect, I can trace it back to a weird dream I had late last year in which a male entity had me decide what I wanted to dream while taking notes on it. I could never discern why this happened and assumed it was what happened at the beginning of every dream but we usually just forget. I was lucid, but went nonlucid as soon as I went into the dream I chose
Astral travel and lucid dreaming actually run in my family, but I think it was stunted for me due to constant sleep paralysis attacks as a child in which not only did they take away my life force, something that had to be returned to me this year through my lucid dreams, but I shut myself off from that plane
now, I've found myself having at least a little bit of lucid dreaming every night, especially the past several nights. It also helped me to understand part of why I was visited by perhaps the same or similar entity a couple of years ago and they had me exercise banishing dark entities from my presence
a few nights ago, I had a dream in which I was approached by several negative entities and I had to fight them off energetically using what I'd learned those couple of years back
I don't think I'll be able to stop having lucid dreams now, but I've decided that there are special nights in which I want to have sacred rituals I perform in order to learn something, exercise a skill, or heal something more that needs to be healed. As I grow, I'd also love to speak directly to my guides, to beautiful higher beings, and to visit various places I can't in my waking life or that only exist in the etheric realms
in a vivid yet nonlucid dream this past week I also found myself writing poetry, good poetry, and fortunately i was able to remember some that I wrote down as soon as I woke up. Funnily, I woke up right after that with the intention of writing down my words so as not to forget
Now last night, I had a very strange dream-- I was in my room and I think I was being antagonized by various lower entities. It was more frustrating than scary. I performed a protection sigil on myself and attempted to ask them why they were antagonizing me. I remember there being this strange, mini giraffe like entity I had to physically fight, but it wasn't too bad. I kept just hoping I'd wake up, not remember I know how to wake up from lucid dreams
but the truly strange part was when I saw a large grey hand peak out from my doorframe, gently grazing me, trying to get my attention to follow it, but i resisted. I didn't want to follow. Out of the light from the door frame, a blond woman came out and asked me to follow her. I didn't want to and asked if she would hurt me if I didn't go with her to which she replied 'yes', although I wonder if she was just being cheeky because I was in dream paranoia mode at the time
In any case, a part of me was just curious as she told me she had some things she wanted to show me. She wanted to help me grow in my abilities to translocate within dreams, to travel, although tbh, I didn't learn much on that front. I grew moreso in my abilities to create and manifest what I desire within my dreams. But I also got the feeling she wasn't gonna visit me only once and that I may see her again, especially if I want to, and i certainly am curious
Another interesting part is that she took me to an ordinary office-like building that seemed so mundane and as if it was inhabited by conscious beings, not figments of my imagination. Although I am aware that conscious entities can take on forms that we choose or that they choose or otherwise that just make sense to me
she took me to her office which is where we got into a deeper conversation and she indicated she wanted to teach me some things. I wondered if it was somehow related to witchcraft and I do believe there's a connection between dream manifestation and magic, but I'll have to explore that further
she took me to a weird airplane hanger like place where she had me practice dream travel, but I ended up being a lot better at simply bringing things to myself rather than traveling to them, though I'm interested in learning all I can to the point of mastery
after our little lesson, she took me to what appeared to be an ordinary neighborhood again with conscious people all chilling, playing, talking, enjoying themselves. I asked her if they were conscious because they seemed like they were, and she explained to me that they were and that some people had learned how to congregate together in astral
I entered into someone's house where I was chilling with some cool people. To be honest, I spend a lot of my dream manifestation abilities on food lmfao. Up until last night, my food usually came out lackluster and just not up to par, which is something I've wanted to work on, not just applying to food, but everything manifested in the dreamworld. So I am happy I had that lesson
The woman of the house had several pets, mostly dogs, but two of which were large, black cats. I asked her if these were her pets in real life or just in astral and I I can't remember exactly how she answered that question, but she told me her husband had 'embedded' the cats' essences into the house in astral form
I had a theory about the ability to embed objects or beings from the waking life into astral before having this dream. I have ideas for creating rooms for myself I can visit astrally dedicated to specific exercises and practices. One for study, one for physical exercise, one for magical practices, one for pure creativity, and one for physical healing. I'm wondering if I can somehow channel books into a room dedicated to study. Weird theory, but I am gonna test it. My idea is to design these rooms partially with my waking mind and decide what I want them to be, my intention for them, and what they'll contain. I believe I should do this under sacred rituals as these will be sacred places for me
I'm excited about this because obviously there's only so much time you have in a day. I want my dreams to be an extension of my waking life intentions and needs. I also do want to discover is dreamstate exercise affects the waking life self as I remember someone recounting how their guides had them do obstacle courses every single night in their dreams and they'd wake up sweating and panting
another even more interesting endeavor for me would be to explore ideas, skills, and concepts that I know nothing about. i want to see if I can learn, truly learn within the astral world. I do know my soul is attached to a fountain of vast, infinite etheric knowledge, which is another story altogether. I'd love to explore that, but I also want to explore Earthly knowledge
Just some thoughts and theories. I intend to wholeheartedly become a master of these skills and I appreciate that I've been guided to lucid dreaming and journeying
at this time, I'm recovering from a bottom wisdom tooth extraction, so I'm not exactly up to my peak self, but I'm gonna heal as soon as possible