In the past I thought it was something bad inside of me then after a little soul searching I realized that who we are right now is the bad part of us and who follow us is our inner-self who wants to rejoin with us or according to our present us “kill us”. The Ego is afraid to be terminated and sees this presence near us like a dark presence, but most likely is the other way around. Maybe it’s our mind that can only see black that interpret the other self in us as dark. If you think about it, when we close our eyes what what is that we see?

The other day after few months I had put lucid dreams on a side I started again to do my practice for inducing them and right away I had two the first and the second night (today is the forth night, is always good to take a break every other night or two). During the first one I also think I was about to astral project but I was scared and it didn’t happen.

Now a little info on the difference between the two from my point of view, even if I don’t astral project I learned to realize which one is which. After lucid dreaming for a while I found myself almost glued to the bed with this strange energy all around me. It was like I could feel electricity in the air and on my skin, the place was dark but I felt I recognize the atmosphere then I felt a Dark Presence which my mind translated as a Dark Ninja and I heard with him a buzzing noise. Right away my mind interpreted that as something bad like he wanted to do something strange to me so I pulled myself up with all my effort faked like I was some kind of feline and sent the message to him not to get close and so I jumped off the window and of course he followed like a shadow would do, then I woke up.

At night I always listen to the dreams I record in the morning. That gives me a better prospective on what happened 12 hours before. In fact all seemed more clear when I listened to the tape.

The intensive sensitivity I had on my skin, the electricity around me and the room were the perception of my 2nd body, the Energy Body. Instead the buzzing noise coming closer with my dear shadow friend was the noise that many say to hear when they are about to leave their astral body.
So in a nut shell what I want to say is that I don’t think that what one sees in dreams is always what one sees really because most of what we see that we don’t know very often is interpreted by our small mind (mind in Italian is =mente, which also means it lies) as dangerous. Our mind, I don’t know if you noticed, always want to give an interpretation even when it doesn’t know what it sees. Animals at times are interpreted as hostile if they are too big and of the wild type and people in darkness or people who come towards us are considered automatically enemy by our mind.

To finish, I also want to mention how astonished I am by how quickly I was able to have very lucid dreams after so many months I didn’t have any lucid dreams or even dreams.
The only things I do is to be in darkness and watch the darkness with closed eyes so that I can gather watchfulness energy in my eyes which will be used to remain awake when the sleep comes, and when I wake up at 6am I take 1 5mg of Vinpocetine and 1 500mg of acetyl l-carnitine.

For me these type of combination work great and it doesn’t interfere with my sleep and help me to have a lucid dream almost 90% of the time. Other supplements keep me too awake or even are too aggressive like Galantamine. I had a horrible experience with that. Good Krill Oil is great to increase dreaming recall, that reminds me I have to go and get some.:)
I hope my experience was of some interest to you.
Happy Lucid Dream!!!!!!:)