I welcome any other comments here, because were are getting into what could be considered very subjective experiences. Elyse, your questions are very good ones. Until our site populates more and more material like this to fill in the gaps, you can probably expect to see a lot of holes in the topics we discuss, and the holes can be filled by these types of questions…so thank you! 🙂

First off, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of different meditative practices from the various spiritual and cultural traditions the world over. First, let’s cover vibrating. When the inner essence, or soul, or higher self, or astral body, or etheric body, or whatever you want to call it begins to separate from the physical body, many people report that the physical body feels like it is vibrating. Some have apparently “proven” that the body actually does vibrate, but others insist that it merely feels like it is vibrating. Either way, it is not something that should be forced upon yourself. Rather it is a natural manifestation of the process. There are many processes that transit this state of vibration, including astral projection, out of body experiences, some lucid dreaming, and even some forms of meditation.

Your experience of “thinking of nothing” is a state that many people actually attempt to achieve in some forms of meditation. Mindfulness meditation does not necessarily TRY to achieve it, but after much practice, this is exactly what will inevitably happen. The mind is naturally very active, and to try and shut the thoughts down purposefully, particularly in the very young stages, can be somewhat problematic. But when thoughts are automatically conditioned and tamed, your blissful experience is a natural by-product of a lack of thoughts.

One important thing to remember, though, is that we never accomplish (never say never, right?)…never accomplish meditation specifically just to have these experiences. This will inevitably cause frustration in yourself when it doesn’t pan out. Then, after a few times of failure, you quit because you can’t get back to the purple smoke (incidentally, Elyse, the colors you saw were the highest colors of spiritual progression…green, blue, indigo, violet). Your experience was actually fairly common, and proves you can achieve these blissful states without the use of psychedelic drugs (fasting and spiritual preparation are very good ways to do this).

So, many books and websites have written on this very topic. I know I haven’t answered your questions to completion, but this post will be a work in progress. I’m sure there are many more people here than can add to this conversation. So, thank you for starting it!

I can always rely on Sherriann to ask the very important questions! 🙂 I grappled with this very issue, and resolved it with the following considerations. The first thing that came to my mind is exactly what you brought up in your question. People are submitting these old dreams at this time because they either consciously feel the dream is about to unfold or because they unconsciously know that this is exactly the right time to submit it. Now, of course, the analytical people will want something more concrete than this answer, and so I went a bit further. I spent a couple of weeks running two different bots: 1) the series included the new DreamBase dreams (i.e. the “old” dreams that you mentioned) and 2) the same series except it excluded any and all DreamBase dreams altogether. There was never a difference. Here’s the deal…our current DreamBase dreams constitute such a tiny portion of the overall dream content that is matters very little whether the dreams are on time or not. The same concept applies to “Documented Cases” (for those who aren’t familiar, these dreams are precognitive dreams that have already come true)…there are such a small sample of these dreams that it simply doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of the DreamBot runs.

Another consideration for this question is that a lot of these “old” dreams are coming in from people who just found the site, which are still trickling in from the Coast to Coast audience. The last couple of weeks since that radio show was quite unique in that lots of new dreamers entered the database and wanted to catch up with their old dreams. I don’t consider this to be an on-going activity, or at least with the volume we saw since that show. There will always be new people coming in, but probably not at the alarming rate that we saw recently. Therefore, the amount of old dreams coming in will probably be a rather low amount going forward when compared to weeks past. This will keep the “old” dreams at a regularly low rate as to remain “watered down” compared to the vast collective dream content.

One final note here is the long-term aspect of the DreamBot runs. In the distant future, we’ll have magnitudes more dreams coming in daily, but eventually, I’ll have created a new community-level database where I can determine exactly which dreams are to be counted and which ones to be ignored. Of course, right now, I’m at least able to prevent Project August dreams from being analyzed by the daily DreamBot, and vice versa when it comes time to analyze the PA dreams. They are totally separate. In the future, I’ll also separate “Documented Cases” from the dreams that haven’t come true yet.

Great question, Sherriann! If anyone has more concerns, please shout them out. I’m hoping this process isn’t too mysterious, because on my end it’s rather straightforward.

See http://nationaldreamcenter.com/wp/2014/06/reality-dreami…sister-returns/