Hello Martin, I have experienced this before too. You're correct, it is not VOM, it is falling asleep while your "mind" is awake. The senses are all very very vivid and this is from sensing through your astral body. Your subconscious is doing all the work which is why you have no control over the images. It is probably a good technique for starting a lucid dream. It may be a way to interact with the subconscious part of you depending on how symboilic or how prohetic you tend to dream. If you expolre it deeper you may become more familar with your inner landscape. Just some thoughts, but I think you knew most of this already... :-) Be well, Paul --- marto_friend <amimaestro@...> wrote: > Hello all, > Here my question came: > While practicing VOM at a deep level, I enter into a dreamlike state. > > I know that this is not the VOM idea, but I am almost dreaming awake > and I wonder whether developing this ability could help me in my > visualization exercises. The images that appear in this state are > absolutely plastic and real, (as in dreams), but I am conscious while > > that happen. The "problem" is that I do not call the images into > being. My thinking is that this last part would be the one that is > missing for mastering visualization exercise. I also think that this > is a way to understand in a practical way what dreams are. > > I do not know what could come by exploring this at a deeper level, I > would like to ask your opinion and interpretation. > > With sincere deep respect, > Martin > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > BardonPraxis-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com