atomheart
23rd March 2006, 03:14 PM
Last night I experienced a state of dual consciousness during a lucid dream (fell asleep while astral projecting). My guardians presented me with my own brain to demonstrate how I was experiencing a dual consciousness. I was outside my brain in a more subtle physical existence, a more lucid one and a more fluid one, it felt like I was made out of liquid, but quite thicker than water. My brain was presented as a display in a museum, it too possessed this fluid, LSD-like, appearance. It was brought to my attention by my guardians (although they are now but shadows in my memory, I do remember their giving hands) that I was in fact outside my brain looking at it, yet at the same time it was thinking, which means that I was thinking. Suddenly I felt my brain thinking, “I have astral projected, I must remember this when I wake up.†It is a paradox but I had in fact witnessed myself/mybrain thinking from an outside perspective, as if I was not my brain, or more like my brain had been objectified and diminished beyond my self. As soon as my brain started to think independently of me, it started witnessing me – the brainless me. So in effect, I was watching myself watching myself. It is very difficult to explain – imagine looking yourself at the mirror, while you are simultaneously behind the mirror looking at yourself through the mirror. This state didn’t last for long as I (which part of I?) tried to concentrate more on recording the incident so that I could remember it when I wake up and I soon came to waking consciousness...