Adventures in Consciousness 4: Mr. Lamp

An aerospace industry communications specialist describes his experiments with lucid dreaming and out-of-body travel

The Adventures in Consciousness account I’m going to relate to you today comes out of intensive experiments and explorations I began in the early 1990s when I was a graduate student at the Center for Aerospace Sciences (CAS) at the University of North Dakota.

I was also employed as the chief staff writer for CAS at the time. By day, I wrote endless documents, articles and papers that focused on aspects of the aerospace industry as I also studied the mind-numbing intricacies of international space policies and infrastructure.

I worked grueling 18-hour days with both school and work, and I sometimes handled projects that required me to work 24 to 36 hours straight without a break or sleep.

At the end of each day, I was usually so exhausted I fell asleep before my proverbial head hit the proverbial pillow. But this did not stop me from attempting — each and every night — to set my intention to either:

(a) Program a lucid dream

(b) Induce an out-of-body experience (OBE)