For years human evolution has been happening at a steady rate, that is without us knowing. The fact that human beings have come so far, is absolutely astounding. Throughout life, we change, we fear change and some resist it. Changing slowly is Evolution and fast or rapidly is, Revolution. These changes begin to shape who we are and how we are. Change dictates our lifestyle and views, our perspectives and thoughts and feelings. If something is a fact, it is that we are bound to change. Similarly, during the early days of the year 2014, I began to develop an interest in something which was very unknown to our kind, on a fairly relative scale. Even though it was practiced for centuries, even more, we know nothing about it to boast about. Commonly known in the occult circles as “astral projection" and lucid dreaming in fairly modern times, these practices have often been frowned upon by many orthodox scientists and materialists. Some say, that it is 'pure nonsense’, while others say it has potential for the betterment of human kind. Throughout the course of history, if something can be learned about these phenomena, it is that it has been long subjected to conflicting beliefs. It’s obvious to say that practices like these will be met by varying degrees of criticism by the majority of Earth’s population. For as we know it, we aren’t the only ones in the distant universe, it is inevitable that someday or some time, leaks of these secret occult activities will break out into the public spheres of life. In the month of December, 2014, being unable to remember the exact date of the event, I recall very specific details about an event that seemingly changed the course of a 14 year old young boy’s perspective. What happens when you meet the source of the Fire? Perhaps one could only imagine. It was a cold night, hands were freezing at the rate of the speed of light. Being barely able to put on the blanket after having dinner, I slept thinking what a great day would be the day after. It is important to note, a few days ago I was immersed in reading a book that was my first book I had ever bought with my own saved up money. Not mentioning the name of the book for obvious reasons, I can say that the book was a simple, glorified text on the Buddhist practice of Dream Yoga and Lucid dreaming. Regardless, the book was fascinating, as I found myself having electric currents running through my body and tingling my brain everytime I felt I came by a synchronicity while reading. This book was like a literal dream, except I was awake. During the cold night in December, cozying up into the sheets, I felt the need to try one of the mentioned techniques in the book. It was a method to realise when one was in the dream state, allowing themselves to become conscious while dreaming and possibly have all the fun intended. The technique was an instruction to simply stare at your hands before going to bed and then dozing off. I succeeded in the dozing off part, while no success was achieved in the conscious dreaming aspect of the process. Next morning I woke up , awake and alert, it was a new day dawning into existence. The birds were chirping a bit loud, louder than usual. I was still in bed, decided to get up and go to the bathroom. After about an estimate of five minutes, while walking towards the destination, I felt the need to stop. I looked at the bed sheets. It felt strange? I was sitting in bed as though I had never gotten up to go to the bathroom. “Weird!” I thought. Struggling to connect the vague dots, I got up, went to the bathroom, emptied the bladder and came back. “ It’s too much blue outside! Damn! Must be a cloudy sky!” While going back to bed I realised, something was odd.. I saw a man, roughly aged 22, lying on the bed. The shockwave had hit me, it was moments after I realised I was lying down in the bed, already. “ A glitch in the Matrix?” Perhaps, I joked it off. This took quite a few attempts to figure out what was going on, and getting out of bed followed by a sense of high pitched vibration in my ears. It felt like two hours had passed. I woke up, it was 8:30 AM by the clock. What had happened? I looked around feeling disoriented and felt as if I was part of a worldwide earthquake that had just happened. It was confusing to say the least. It took me 8 days of synchronicities and bumps into reality to realise what had happened to me. It was not usual. I had a false awakening that morning. What is a false awakening? It is a state in which the sleeping individual gets out of bed, goes about his day and slips on a piece of banana peel, to hit his head and find out, he’s still lying in bed. He had never gotten up. Crazy? Isn’t it? Throughout life we have this experience of false awakenings, so much so that our view of reality is distorted. We fail to distinguish between reality and dream, as both feel strikingly similar, while the latter can sometimes feel too real. Human beings dream for a third of their lifetime and never realise the potential of the dream state and seemingly non physical locales that exist beyond the perceived physical universe and beyond the confines of physical matter. If there is a truth, it is that we are “more than our physical bodies". But, is it a new thing? Certainly not! Throughout the ages of the ancient times, the states of expanded awareness have aided humans to realise their full potential and seemingly do the unthinkable. Often the people who do these things are labelled, crazy, psycho, mentally ill, and so on. We now know that people are not in fact, mentally ill when they have these spontaneous experiences. Things like out of body experiences, near death experiences, are all common where the person sees their consciousness, go beyond space and time and seemingly leave their physical bodies behind for a short time. These experiences are often life changing and rewarding, as they have the potential of completely altering the belief systems of man. What are these exactly? I do not know! But I sure know, we are barely seeing the tip of the iceberg. What is the actual truth? Nobody knows, for sure. We can only speculate. But as time comes, things will become more clearer. What lies beyond the veils of life and death? Let us pledge to find out…