Another out of body experience

Strange things happen when you go to sleep lying on your back.

Only this time, I wasn't really sleeping.  I somehow found myself in this halfway state, on the nexus between sleep and wakefulness, and everything was dark.

I distinctly remember thinking "This body is not me, I am consciousness".  This thought rang through my mind in a continuous loop.  The next thing I know, I was swimming through the blackness of my room, but it felt like I was somewhere else.  I had strange auditory hallucinations; a robotic choral voice singing a distinct A chord (strangely, this has happened before), children laughing and a voice telling me not to try to hard to force the sensation, to relax and let go.

In the midst of this, my mind raced through a number of very different dream scenes almost like someone randomly flicking through TV stations.  At the time, those dreams were very vivid, but I can't remember them now.

I woke from this feeling relaxed and calm, as I have done from all my past out of body experiences.

The chase

My general recollection of this dream is somewhat fuzzy, but what I have recorded here is what I remember.

In this dream, I recall being in the queue in some kind of shop .  The guy behind the counter had a misanthropic attitude and seemed to hate everyone.  When I got to the front of the queue, I started talking to him and was able to get past the hateful exterior to see his was actually quite a sensitive guy whose attitude was just a defence mechanism against being hurt.

When I got outside, I noticed that my girlfriend and a friend of hers had been waiting for me a little way up the road.  I started to walk towards them and my girlfriend proceeded to run up the road.  I just figured she was in a hurry to get home, so I didn't bother chasing her.  When I turned the corner, she was still running, so I called out, asking her to slow down.  She shouted back "No!".

I carried on walking, and continued up a hill.  Once I got to the top, I saw her talking to an older guy and she was pointing at me.  She then went and stood on the other side of the road as the guy came over to ask for directions (apparently my girlfriend had told him that I would know where he was trying to get to).  However, I wasn't in the mood, I wanted to get home and wanted to know why my girlfriend kept running off, so I slowed down time, struck the man in the chest and knocked him out.  (I wasn't trying to hurt him, I just wanted him out of the way, and thought that slowing down time would stop my girlfriend from running away).

After doing this, I went over to my girlfriend and noticed something on the floor by her feet.  It was a blood bag, the type you get in hospitals.  The bag was leaking, and blood and spilling onto the road.  On the bag was a note that said a person called Andrea Pisci had been banned from the shop I was just in for trying to send fraudulent mail abroad.  It turns out that in the dream, this Andrea Pisci person was my girlfriend's real name (which is not the case IRL), which suggested she had been lying to me all this time and wasn't who I though she was.  I was quite shocked by this sudden revelation, but then I woke up.

There was some strange, haunting music playing in the dream at this point just before I woke.

Apocalyptic foreshadowings

27th July

I had the following two dreams on the above date in the same morning.

In the first, I was in a supermarket, surrounded by people who were running away from something.  Apparently, some kind of doom was impending, but nobody would say what it was.  Even so, everybody was very frightened and hysterical.

In the second dream, I had started work again (I'd been off the previous week), but I was now working in Israel for some reason (a place I have never been to, and would not consider visiting any time soon).  There were guards and border control officers everywhere, and in order to go between offices and locations, I was constantly stopped and had to undergo checks and searches.  In this dream, I felt very uncomfortable and was worried a bomb might go off at any minute, and I would be caught in the midst of it.

Moving on to last night (i.e. the date this entry was posted), I dream there had been some sort of parasitic outbreak.  People were suddenly being consumed by a weird fungus that would grow out of their bodies and turn them into zombies.  Once the fungi had erupted from their bodies, they would let off spores into the atmosphere that would spread the parasites to more people.

The part I remember was being in some sort of train station.  I was with two other guys and a young, mixed race woman.  One of the guys wanted to leave the station to go and get something outside.  I tried to stop him, warning him about the outbreak, but he wouldn't listen.  So, we let him leave, and shut the door behind him.

Soon after that, I walked around to another door and saw the same guy outside.  He looked like he had now been infected as there was a large, leaf-like fungal growth protruding from his stomach.  His friend (the other guy) ran out to him.  I ran back and told the woman in our group that both the men had been infected, and as a result, we had to get away from them as quickly as possible as they would be coming after us.  So, the woman and I ran into the station.

On my advice, we took an escalator down into the lower levels of the station and it was then that we realised, to our horror that everyone else was infected there too.  There were scores of people on the platforms, in tube trains and on the escalators infected with the parasites, all trying to get to us.  The dream ended as we were running to avoid them all.