I've had lots of interesting spiritual experiences while fully awake, but the ones I really want to understand are those that happened at night or early in the morning, when I was falling asleep or just waking up. When I was really young, I had a number of interesting experiences. For a while, every morning around 5:00 a.m., I would wake to see a cloud rise up out of the floor, hold its position next to my face, and then after a while, lift up and go through the ceiling. Once it was red in color, but usually it was gray. It seemed to be a cloud of energy. At first I thought these may be dreams, but I knew my eyes were open, and I sensed that this thing had awakened me. At this same time in the morning, I would also be asleep when I felt something move in my room. I'd wake up and see something that looked like a huge cluster of fireflies. This felt like it was alive, and it was moving very fast. It was beautiful - it's hard to describe. It looked like little gold lights that were zipping from corner to corner in my room, stopping in places and moving again. I still see this sometimes, though not as often as I used to. Despite how strange these experiences sound, I remember that I would usually think to myself that I just wanted to get some sleep! I would love to know what was happening, and what these encounters might mean.
- M.
Dreamchaser:
I feel the gray cloud that would hover around you while you were in that state of being half awake/half asleep was some type of alien being.
You have been taken at night while you sleep since you were born. When this happened early in the morning, you were being brought back from spending the night away with them.
The fireflies were not insects flitting around your room. In fact, this wasn't even your room! It was what APPEARED to be your room so that you wouldn't freak out and try to run away. You were actually in another place when you saw these things that looked like fireflies.
This was some sort of star system or star structure - that's why you've never seen anything like it and can't fully describe it. The word fireflies is just the best word you have for what this looked like.
I was one of those people who was scared to death of aliens, and thought that they would only come to kill us. I too have been taken by them since I was a child. I believe that's why I was so scared of them. I have spoken before of my alien spirit guide
named Oz. He has helped calm my fears and explained a lot of things to me.
There are also quite a number of people who have firsthand knowledge through direct contact with alien beings who are coming out, writing books, going on the lecture circuit, etc. Some of these people were involved in various government agencies.
For example, there is a man named Donald Ware who is a former high ranking military officer. He speaks of Area 53 and 54 as top secret landing bases for aliens. There, aliens are taught how to blend with humans. You can search for him on the internet.
I have heard him speak in person, though he is just one example of many people who are now telling us that these things exist. Alien life exists! Aliens do come and take us to help fix
us.
Some of what they are doing to help us is changing our DNA structure; we are being upgraded to 12-strand DNA. No one is really sure why this is happening. I personally have heard from Oz that it's to prepare us for a New World, and that the changes are all designed to be positive and helpful to us.
These aliens are not harming us. The New World is supposed to come some time after 2012, and then aliens will emerge in a more obvious way. They will definitely come in peace.
May you heal your instinctive fears via the higher spiritual knowledge within you!
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Astrea:
The alpha state has been described in different ways. Ray Yungen, author of A Time of Departing, says it's like putting the mind in neutral. Classical meditation teaches that it's more a matter of tuning in to a different frequency.
Others say it's a thin
place, a sacred place, ecstasy. Both New Age and Christian leaders say that it can be a way to speak to God, and in most religions, quiet reflection has always been used to access the divine.
To some, God is a cloud of energy without a human face. God may appear as light in bolts and flashes, and at the last, what you describe as fireflies
when you were returning to full consciousness.
Many believe that the alpha state is the springboard for all psychic and magical practices. During meditation, information enters our consciousness through the third eye, and we become more imbued with Light energy. Since most of the information in the universe is carried by light one way or another, it's reasonable to think that alpha experiences are Light related.
Almost anyone can learn to use an alpha state experience to their advantage, but it takes care and lots of time. To one degree or another, we all enter the alpha state every day. While many pursue it via focused spiritual practice, it can also happen when we simply sit down to relax after strenuous exercise.
Excluding the use of psychotropic drugs, most of us can learn how to have visionary experiences via trance through various forms of spiritual practice and contemplation.
I think what you're describing as this cloud followed by fireflies is something that many of us see, and your description is a pretty good one. My fireflies vary from purple to green when I see them. I like seeing that energy cloud, and I reach for it and try to experience it as much as possible.
Children see this sort of thing naturally, but as we get older, we tend to forget that we have to practice to keep our psychic abilities working smoothly.
If you'd like to have these experiences come to you more frequently, you'll have to learn to quiet your adult mind, which is no doubt filled with everything you have to do each day for survival.
Cultivate peace in your life, stay away from anger and discord as much as possible, and find a teacher who can lead you into alpha without endangering you before you strike out on your own to explore this other dimension.
You won't have to be with the teacher for long before you regain your ability to put yourself into the quiet state of mind where that cloud of energy comes to you. Usually, it only takes about three months for people to reawaken their psychic abilities.
Astrea:
Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.
Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!
While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!
I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!
As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.
I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.
You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!
Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.
A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.
You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.