30/04/2025 Theory ARE LUCID DREAMING AND ASTRAL PROJECTION DIFFERENT? It’s all a dream… But first, we must redefine the term dream: Dream: Anything that isn’t base reality. Consciousness is base reality. Everything else is dream. All perceived “reality” arises from consciousness. All perceived reality is, indeed, a dream. Consciousness is objective reality. All subjective realities — psychedelic trips, imagination, daydreams, other altered states, and even “physical reality” — are dreams. Understand that there is no separation between the physical and non-physical worlds. A world only appears physical when you resonate on its frequency and therefore inhabit it. Dreams seem “not real” until you're inside one. At that point, your waking world begins to appear as nothing more than a distant dream. Even if you agree that all experience aside from consciousness itself is a dream, you might still think some dreams are “less real” than others. This brings us to the discussion of whether the dreams we have at night are actual other dimensions — or just products of our minds, mere thoughtforms. Thoughts Are Real Thoughts are real — in fact, they are more real than physical reality itself. They are some of the underlying forces behind physical reality. Your thoughts — especially emotionally charged thoughts — dictate your reality. This is even more true in the non-physical world. What Are Dreams? Dreams are a paradox. So here’s both sides: Yes — dreams are, for the most part, projections of thoughtforms from your conscious and subconscious mind. But — there’s far more to this than meets the eye. I believe there is no difference between a lucid dream, an out-of-body experience (OBE), a near-death experience (NDE), and a heavy psychedelic trip. What varies is the degree of consciousness taken into the experience — and that dictates its quality. Every dream is an out-of-body experience. When you maintain awareness and allow your body to fall asleep while your mind stays awake, you will witness how dreams form. You naturally leave your body and often start in an exact replica of your bedroom — or, if you're lucky, the real-time zone (a waking-world overlap), where you may see your physical body sleeping beneath you. Very quickly — within seconds to a minute — your surroundings begin to shift. You find yourself elsewhere. This is where most people gain lucidity or start to recall the dream. We call this act “dreaming.” The environments and events that unfold are often tied closely to our lives — which is why we can extract meaningful lessons from dreams. Now, for the Paradox... What if I told you these worlds we visit are more than just thoughtforms? In order to fall asleep, one must enter a meditative state — a brief moment with little to no thought. Having too many thoughts while trying to sleep causes insomnia. We enter this meditative state naturally — and I believe it is one of immense clarity, free from conscious thought. "As above, so below. As within, so without." Your internal state determines your external reality. If that's the case, then the meditative state of clarity we enter at sleep’s threshold comes with us into the non-physical world — and reflects itself in that environment. This explains why a successful Wake-Induced Lucid Dream (WILD) — with no break in consciousness — almost always begins with you leaving your body and finding yourself in your room. The clear state of mind required for sleep projects a similarly clear external state — your room. Wherever you find yourself right after a successful WILD is what your mind looks like without much or any conscious thought — hence, it's often nearly identical to your physical surroundings. But Then It Changes... Very quickly, your environment begins to shift. Why? Because you’re not a monk. You haven’t trained your mind to maintain a still, thoughtless state for extended periods. Whether you’re aware of it or not, each passing second introduces more thoughts — your mind begins to stir, drawing up conscious and subconscious elements: daily life, childhood, potential futures. This new internal state reflects in your outer environment, just like it does in waking life. At first, objects may seem slightly misplaced. Soon enough, you might be in a completely unfamiliar world. This is what most people call dreaming or lucid dreaming. But those who stayed conscious during the full transition — from waking to the non-physical — will call it an astral projection or out-of-body experience. They’re both correct. Thoughtforms... or Real Worlds? Yes — your thoughts influence these changes. Yes — your thoughts “build” these worlds. But those worlds are real. The beings you meet have history, memories, families, beliefs, plans. To you, it may seem their world spawned from thin air. To them, it has always existed. Sometimes, you’ll enter these dimensions and instantly embody a version of yourself that has decades of memories and lived experience there. This is why we occasionally have entire lifetimes of memory within dreams. The entirety of Creation is already complete. We don’t “create” from nothing — we align our vibration with realities that already exist. The Deeper Truth These “created” dream worlds have always existed and will continue to exist after you leave. That’s why oneironauts can explore persistent realms or astral planes. These worlds reflect your internal state — your daily thoughts, your traumas, your subconscious, even your precognitive intuitions. That’s why they offer profound introspective lessons upon waking. People often assume that just because a dream reflects their inner thoughts so clearly, it must be merely of their mind and nothing more. They fail to recognize that their internal state is what tuned them to that world — a world that is independently real. Those who believe lucid dreams are just their own mental fabrications will only ever experience that — because that belief aligns them with dreamworlds where that is true. And everyone in those dreamworlds will believe it too. Creation is infinite. Everything already exists. Final Proof? Some people, by stilling their minds while out of body, are able to remain in the real-time zone — witnessing the waking world like a phantom. The more your thoughts run wild, the farther you drift from this dimension. But the closer you are in resonance, the more striking the similarities. Example: If you visit your parents’ room during the first few minutes of projection and peek into a wardrobe, you might find a note that reads: “Wash car — 4pm Monday.” Upon waking, you ask them about it. They say: “No such note exists… but weirdly, I was just thinking about washing the car at 4pm Monday.” This shows that when you're close to this reality dimensionally, you can perceive fragments of others’ mental landscapes reflected in the environments they inhabit. And Then… Shared Dreams I've had many shared dream experiences. And so have others. These worlds are real. But so is the paradox: Yes, your thoughts create them. And yet — these creations have always existed. We are not conjuring from nothing… we are tuning into infinite frequencies. Your internal state is your interdimensional travel vessel. And your thoughts? They’re the steering wheel.