From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   This past month, having intensified efforts to practice the WILD method as   
   described & mastered by slider (aka Brian Aherne), practising regularly   
   and with discipline, I made some progress.   
      
   I reached some reference points I will try to come back to in my future   
   attempts until progressing into more advanced stages. This refers mainly   
   to seeing hypnagogia. To explain shortly: I used to be an avid dreamer   
    from early childhood on. It happened to me naturally as slider describes   
   in his teaching & book. Yet with me, I very often had nightmares. With   
   this terror at night, it was frightening and energy depleting for my   
   entire being and affected day time overall condition.   
      
   Interesting also: during some intense phases, I could not tell the   
   difference between waking and dreaming reality. My parents sometimes told   
   me that I had been speaking, screaming or acting out. They also had to   
   reassure me I was in bed and that what I was sure I had just experienced   
   did not happen in this so-called waking reality.   
      
   This is kind of a report and at the same time a foreword to what I   
   actually wished to share with you.   
      
   I have had some in my experience unique & special dream experiences on the   
   verge... The dream & characters from the other side seemed to respond to   
   my intention/ effort to ‚cross over‘ and visit:   
      
   Dream no 1:   
      
   After looking at stage one hypnagogia and some blurred shapes/forms,   
   between & after just being in black, silent space...kind of a   
   ‚window/portal opens - there is like a street scene in a city, very   
   civilised and harmonious. I am surprised, but on the other side a young   
   man in a casual suit, walking by on the sidewalk at a street, seems   
   equally as surprised as I am - stops and walks a few steps towards me. We   
   simultaneously ! reach out and greet each other with a hand shake - write   
   through the gateway. I am not in the dream yet, but what seems to be my   
   bedroom or intermediate place. The tactile sensation of his hand, the   
   touch of his skin, temperature and pressure feel so real that my natural   
   surprise reaction/ check, like a reflex mechanism, is too strong, and I   
   wake up....   
      
   Dream no. 2:   
      
   I am again on the verge...looking through a portal/window/gate and looking   
   at a street scene. Could be a place compared to Amsterdam early at night,   
   already getting dark. I see the waterways (canal), small streets and   
   pedestrian areas/sidewalks. There is a crowd outside, gathering to enjoy   
   the nightlife...young men and women, dressed up nicely, all attractive   
   people, good looking. Engaging in low noice talk and laughter. Some cars   
   and people who pass by, going home from work or from a walk to the park,   
   head back home. I actually wish to remain in the observer position... I   
   sense I am still in my pyjama dress, yet within the gateway I   
   simultaneously seem to look out a big window from a modern, nice hotel   
   room just right there facing this scenery. And again: the other ‚side‘   
   seems to want to meet me half way - one could also think they want to   
   invite me in! This could mean no effort or struggle involved, but rather   
   letting go of’ when the condition and one's own preparedness are right.   
      
   A young man caught sight of me, as he was standing in a loose circle with   
   others, playing loosely with a kind of basketball, just bouncing around a   
   little in a relaxed way. He is walking towards me, smiling - I go into   
   hiding, still hoping to remain unrecognized, but it is too late: he is   
   playfully throwing the ball through my hotelwindow and I catch it...   
   murmuring something like - why don‘t you come out and join us...   
      
   With this surprise, again too strong of a force on me, I lose my   
   balance/stability and wake up.   
      
   ### - here's a guy whose defo on his way now, all his attempts before were   
   somehow only half-hearted because he wasn't really convinced it could   
   actually happen... now, however, he's starting to make some real progress,   
   and is really only a matter of time (a few more experiences of this   
   nature) before he starts exercising his 'choice' in all this...   
      
   i.e., the day he's finds himself looking at a similar window/portal and   
   consciously chooses to step 'into' the dream scene he can see before him,   
   is the same day he'll realise it's really all down to him to stop being so   
   passive about it all, and act...   
      
   he's very close now, he's defo gonna make it, good stuff :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)