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I’m not sure but I think I had a bit of a phantasmagoric experience last night.

This has never really happened to me before, not so strongly. I was half-lucid dreaming, trying to control my dream, aware that I was dreaming but not quite able to turn it to my own advantage. It was absolutely crazy, I kept seeing weird little soldiers marching on the ceiling and kind of disturbing things. I could hear music as well, very clearly.This started to freak me out a little, so I would try to direct it, try to fly from this room or create water that I could swim into, so that I could relax into sleep, but I couldn’t quite manage it. Then I was somehow stuck on this wooden chair spinning around in the exact centre of a room, I would see something going on on the ceiling and the lights fixed to the floor and then I would turn and see the bare boards of the floor.. It was like some sort of film clip but very dark. Soon these little lightning flashes began in my left eye. I was trying to ignore them, spinning around in mid-air on this chair, because I knew something was trying very heard to interfere in my dream. Flashing and flashing, then I heard my own voice, strongly, say “Are you there?” and this feeling of a presence… Then my own voice saying “I know you are there..” the presence again (still spinning on this madman’s chair-ride). My own voice: “I can’t hear you” and then from the right side this awful windy scary voice full of dust and violence started to wail without tone, not a wail, like a sussurration of a wail, like they do in heavy metal….And I freaked out, my own voice shunning it away, talking to it, saying things like “Do not harm me, you cannot control me..” and I remember trying to move my arms to get it away but something was compelling my body so strongly that I couldn’t win, so I told myself to wake up. Didn’t work the first time but the second time suddenly I could, sat straight up and turned on the light.

I finished my book, took some valerian and meditated a bit until I fell asleep again. No more trouble after that, but I was seriously disturbed. I have a couple of very sensitive friends and I have heard some very intense things about spirits in dreams and things like that, which I dubiously believed in, always a little cynical, but last night…. that was something else. But I feel very strong that I can block it if I want to to, it was only by allowing it in that I was able to hear the voice, but I shut it out straight away. Should I try to contact it perhaps? I was very very scared but it can’t hurt me… Perhaps I should try to help it?

I suppose it could be my own subconcious, refecting my inner world, but this felt distinctly alien, and the fact that I was aware of the dream but not able to control it like I usually can under such circumstances really points to some kind of outside force….

Thoughts?

I know this all sounds kind of ludicrous, but it felt very, very real.

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