Hi Steve. Do you think you could share your out of body experience here ?
I see I never finished this. It was simply that i was awake dreaming and actually walked through the house then outside. Suddenly the world outside had features that were not really there in this dimension but I opened my eyes with my fingers and saw that I was awake. Closed my eyes and could briefly see the dream. We can sometimes exist on two or more plains simultaneously it would seem. At times i have experienced this truth in meditation as well. The subconscious is much more active in meditation. Yet we can be awake and witness its activity. Irene has much more revelation to add to this, hopefully she will, because I have read of one of her experiences.
hi steve it sounds like you're describing the astral plane
i see what you are saying since the material universe is a dim reflection of the astral universe we may be occasionally privy to a more subtle and rare look at the reality before us. We may even mistake it for unreal since we are so convinced that our senses tell us the truth when in reality we may be perceiving truth first hand and not distorted by this physical realm. Lucid dreaming has that flowing quality somewhat akin to automatic writing, free association etc.