Hi everyone,
I had two intense dream experiences last week I want to share since they raised some long-standing questions for me. For context, my dreams are naturally very vivid, but I’ve been removing some unhelpful habits which has led to them being extra intense lately. My questions aren’t really about the scenery itself or any symbolism, but rather about what they might represent within the context of spiritul anatomy/Kundalini.
Third eye
While dreaming, my brow began to feel electric and very pleasurable. It grew to an almost overwhelming sensation like the brain equivalent of licking a 9V battery. It felt like it was sucking my soul forward into my brow, and I was afraid of what would happen if I let it, so I resisted. At one point, the electric sensation became a bit more tolerable, and I saw a series of thin blue circles emanating out from a central point in front of me almost like ripples. This then transformed into me being pulled through a tunnel of larger electric blue rings. At this point it felt less like dreaming and more like a true alternate dimension and I was very present within the experience. In short, it was very psychedelic, though I was not on any such substance. I don’t know when this ended, but I eventually returned to plain old vivid dreaming. I’ve had the electric brow sensation happen maybe two or three times during the last year, sometimes during sleep and sometimes during wakefulness. However, not to this visually immersive degree.
However, I did experience a similar reality shift one other time over a decade ago while meditating in bed without substances. I was doing Kegel exercises instinctually to pulse the warm sensation I had in my perineum, when I suddenly “rolled forward” into an alternate dimension of electric grid-like shapes. It startled me, and I quickly came back to reality. I knew nothing about kundalini or yoga at the time but do think it could be related given the associated perineal warmth.
Sleep paralysis
The other dream experience was entering a state of sleep paralysis. I’ve had sleep paralysis many times in my life, and usually it feels like there’s a fountain of energy running up my spine trying to pull me backwards down out of my head and into the stream like a backwards dive into a waterfall. I always resist, because there is a sense that if I did that it would destroy me, and I’d never return. Usually this is accompanied by the sense that somebody is in my house coming to get me.
In the experience last week, I was lying on a floor in a home I don’t know in real life but did in the dream, when suddenly my whole body felt electric, and I became paralyzed. However, instead of the normal fountain up the spine pulling me out of my head feeling, it was as if the energy was coming from behind me and enveloping my whole body, particularly my arms and legs. The energy was trying to pull me into it, but this time from a center point somewhere behind me. Again, I resisted out of fear that if it sucked me in it would destroy me and I would never come back or perhaps never exit the paralysis. I sensed that the energy, should I succumb to it, would “explode” over me into a wild buzzing and that I’d be stuck inside it even if I woke up…if I ever woke up.
Overall, I guess I’m wondering if these pulling/buzzing/paralyzing sensations are related to Kundalini. Furthermore, I wonder what would happen if I did get pulled into that energy. Would that awaken Kundalini? Would I die or be permanantly paralyzed? I have no intention on trying the experiment, as I’m trying dillgently to ground, stabilize, and heal myself in my waking life. It’s just that I’ve always wondered what was on the other side.
Curious to hear any thoughts and experiences.
-DreamWeaver
