Hahaha. Hard to believe it was only a bit over 2 years ago that I was still SWIMMING.
To be fair, it was still commonly done on other forums then, and it takes some time to get comfortable with the foolhardy act of posting controversial and illegal activities online... especially as someone who lived through the worst parts of the Drug War.
I suppose everything we write here should be construed as the mad ravings of imaginative people with a tad too much free time on their hands. Hehehe.
(And we are all under surveillance anyway... right?)
The interesting thing about that OOBE type experience was that it wasn't like AP at all. Well, the feeling and look of things was fairly AP, but I didn't have a body, and I was aware of everything in a large and expanding radius. This was not just me wandering around in my dream body, but rather being "one being" that included hundreds of individuals (mostly sleeping)... and all the flora, fauna & inanimate objects to boot. It was also done sitting in lotus, while wide awake, and while I could have been in a type of SP, I was able to move myself as soon as I wanted to.
But the similarities are also uncanny. When I chose to, I could localize my consciousness anywhere within the field and have the experience of moving around as an individual without breaking the superconscious state. I may have even manifested a dream body at times, though I never became aware of it, and was not bound by any corporeal rules (physical or astral).
Anyway, thanks for bringing back that blast from the past. It makes me feel like going through my posts, wiki, lexicon and other contributions here and reading through them again. This might be a hefty undertaking, though... my posts tend to be rather long. I could have probably tripled my post count by just breaking them up into properly "post sized" nuggets.
;-)
HSF