IN THE OOBE REALM - PART 6






	B. Meeting People: Dead Verses Dreamers


     Meeting people in the OOBE realm is one of the most fascinating
and eye-opening aspects of the projection experience.  Now, there are
a variety of aspects when it comes to meeting people during
your OOBEs.  First, some authors report that you can observe
people who are on the physical plane while you are out-of-body. 
Monroe for example makes this claim.  In my own personal 
experiences I have never been able to do this, except perhaps
once during my very first astral projection and a couple other
times that were, however, very ambiguous.  So, if it is your
intention to spy on people while you are out-of-body, good luck
cause you're on your own - I have no experience with this to
share with you!
     When I meet people during my projections, they are actually
on the subplane I am on.   And, like nonhuman entities, people you
meet in the planes will respond to you in all manner of ways, from
friendly to hostile to ignoring you.  
     Now, theoretically, if you accept the occult viewpoint, there
are two main classes of people you can meet during an OOBE:
dreamers and deceased or "discarnate" humans.   I think I 
have met both during different projections.  Of course,
it is very difficult to verify if someone you meet during an OOBE
is a dreamer or a discarnate person.  If you can get a name or 
address or phone number from the person, then you are doing very
well and have some kind of evidence to determine if the person
you met does or ever existed here on our physical plane.  I will 
get more into the idea of questioning the people you meet during 
an OOBE below.
     Now, I suspect that there are different subplanes for dreamers
and discarnate humans.  I think that there is a "dreamers current"
in the subplanes close to our physical plane, and it is on this
"dream current" that most of us go every night when we dream.  On 
the other hand, I think that the regions inhabited by discarnate 
people are "farther away" from the physical plane.  Living people
exude a different type of energy than do discarnate people, and
as oil does not mix with water, I think that living people (i.e.
dreamers) tend not to mix with the deceased, except under certain
special conditions.  For example, we have all heard stories
of people meeting deceased relatives in their dreams.  In this
case, a strong emotional tie between the individuals either "pulls"
the dreamer to the regions where discarnate humans dwell, or
"pulls" the deceased person to the regions where dreamers dwell.
If a strong enough force, or emotional resonance, is exerted, one 
could conceivably bring the deceased person's aura very close 
to the physical plane, in which case one may see ghosts.  This 
latter idea is the basis of seances and spiritualism where, 100 
years ago, it was fashionable to attempt to communicate with 
deceased relatives.
     Now, how can you tell a deceased person from a dreamer?  Again,
there is no sure method to do so.  It is only in extreme cases 
that you might be able to make a reasonable guess.  You might
think that by becoming lucid during a dream that the people 
around you are dreamers too, and this is a reasonable presumption.
If you meet people in your OOBEs who are dressed in fashions from
another era, this may be a clue that it is a deceased person. 
Likewise, if you find yourself in a region that looks like a 
past era, it is conceivable that the people there (if there are
people there) are the deceased who lived in that era.  However,
there are simply no guarantees about this.  
     The only way you can be sure you met a dreamer is by getting 
their name, phone number or address, remembering these upon waking 
and contacting the person here on the physical plane. Next, you
will have to find out what this person looks like. If you can
actually do this, and the person you contact here on the physical 
plane is indeed the person you met in your OOBE, then you can
say pretty much for sure that this person was a dreamer.  Actually,
if you can bring a valid name and phone number back from a 
projection with you, you've done something quite amazing.  I've
never succeeded at doing this though I try every chance I get.
I have never done this for reasons I will get to shortly.  
     To be sure you met a deceased person you will have to go through 
a similar process; get the person's name, the general era in which
they lived, where they lived, and if you can, some facts about 
their life.  Then, again, presuming you can remember all this
information upon waking, if you can verify this information, then
you can say with a high degree of certainty that you met a deceased
person.
     Now, the above methods are only valid for people that are 
strangers.  Different factors seem to be operating if you 
meet someone you know during an OOBE.  In many of my 
projections I have seen and interacted with my close friends.
Throughout these notes I refer to a fellow named J.C., or John, and
this is a close friend of mine who answers to both names.  
Numerous times I have met J.C. in my projections, yet I don't know
what to make of my having met him during an OOBE.  In some cases
he was awake here on the physical plane when I met him in my OOBE.
In other cases he was sleeping here on the physical plane when I
met him in one of my OOBEs.  I don't understand what is going on
when I meet J.C. during an OOBE while he is awake here on the 
physical plane.  Am I only conjuring up his image in my OOBEs
(i.e. creating a thought-form of him)?  That is, when I meet J.C. is 
he merely a hallucination within my OOBE?  Alternatively, am I 
meeting a part of his subconscious mind in my OOBEs?  I do not 
know the answers to these questions.  I know that there is no 
apparent correlation between what he is doing while he is awake 
and what he was doing, apparently at the same time when I have
met him in my OOBEs.  Likewise, the times I've met him when he was 
in bed sleeping here on the physical plane, he has never once 
woken up and remembered meeting me in my OOBE.  
     So, unlike other authors who claim to meet people they
know during their OOBEs and later get confirmation of this meeting
from the person here on the physical plane, I have never had
such confirmation.  I do not have the slightest clue what is
going on when I meet people I know within one of my OOBEs.  This
is why I said above that the methods I suggest to use if you
want to prove a person is a dreamer or deceased person will
only work with strangers.  If you can meet a stranger during an
OOBE, then later, here in the physical world, actually confirm
that that person does or did exist here in the physical plane,
then you have gotten very strong evidence of meeting a bona fide
person during your OOBE.  
     However, I have had three experiences that are very close to
being confirmations that I really did interact with a specific 
person during one of my OOBEs.  In the first case, I had
a long OOBE in one of those resting places for deceased 
people that I mentioned earlier.  While I was in this
"Rehab Center", I found a friend of mine who I knew
from about 10 years prior.  This frind of mine, whose name
was Steve, had muscular dystrophy (and was confined to a wheelchair)
and we were very good friends in junior high school.  I lost 
contact with Steve during high school because I moved away and 
have never contacted him since.  The only time I have seen 
Steve since junior high was in a projection I had in 1987.  
When I saw Steve in the projection, he was completely 
dazed. He was in a complete stupor (I will talk more about people
being in a stupor immediatly below), and he did not recognize
me.  But it was Steve, in his wheelchair, looking very much like
I remembered him.  In the projection, I told him that he didn't
need to be in a wheelchair because he was in the astral plane, and
he could do anything he wanted, but he didn't seem to hear me.
I then introduced him to a couple other guys that were in the
room with us who were in wheelchairs too.  These guys were 
much more lucid that Steve and they took to him.  The three
of them then wheeled off out of the room and I went on to
other adventures in the projection.
     Well, it was maybe a year after this projection (1988) that I 
had found out that Steve had died in 1983.  All I could
figure is I found Steve in the after-death state.
     A second instance that I had during a projection that seemed to
possess an uncanny validity also involved a deceased friend
of mine.  One of my very close musician friends committed suicide
in 1987.  About 6 months after his death, I saw him in a projection.
He was complaining about how much the world sucked.  He and I
got in a big argument and I told him that just because he was dead
didn't mean anything, he was still being an asshole and that he'd
better quit feeling so sorry for himself and get his act together.
In my mind, this was a very legitimate meeting.  My friend, who obviously
was so desolate that he took his life, had the same attitudes after
death.   For whatever reason, I was drawn to him in one of my 
projections, and I gave him my two cents worth!  Whatever the case,
I feel I really did meet him in the after-death state while I 
was out-of-body.
     Finally, my third close call was when I met one of my best 
friends during a projection.  I came upon this friend, whose name
is Tim, while I was flying through a strange city.  Tim was sitting
on the ledge of a building and naturally I was surprised to see him.
I went over to him and started to talk to him.  I knew that it was 
early Sunday morning and chances were good that Tim was home sleeping
on the physical plane.  I decided I would see if I could help him
become lucid so that when he woke, he would recall our meeting. 
I told him that we were projecting and that we were in the world 
of dreams.  At first he responded as if in a daze, but I started 
shaking him and kept telling him to wake up (i.e become lucid).  
Finally, he seemed to become himself, which is to say, he started 
to act lucid.  I then showed him how to fly and we proceeded to explore 
the city we were in.  I kept pointing things out to him, telling him
to remember all we were seeing so that when he woke up he would
remember it.  I also kept telling him to call me as soon as he woke
up.  Well, we were together for a long time in the projection
and I kept reminding him to call me when he woke up.  Eventually,
I lost him and continued with my projection.  I woke up straight
from my projection and it was about 11:00 AM.  And then,
within minutes of waking up from my projection, Tim called
me!  For real - on the physical plane!  I was very excited, but
didn't say anything to him about the projection.  I asked him
how long he had been awake, and he said he just woke up, which
meant that he really had been sleeping at the same time I was projecting. 
I then asked him if he had had any dreams that he could remember.
He couldn't remember anything though, but he said he had an urge 
to call me!  
     So, these three episodes were the closest I have ever come to
having a meeting with a specific person during an OOBE verified.  Now,
if you were a hardcore skeptic, you'd probably think I was grasping
at straws, but, then again, if you are a hardcore skeptic, you have
never even astral projected, so I'd ignore you.  
     Still, in spite of these three provocative episodes,
the fact that I have never been able, with any absolute 
certainty, to confirm the meetings I have with people during
my OOBEs makes me leery of people who make such claims, and 
also makes me question just how far we can take the projection
experience as occurring in some kind of "objective" world.  However,
because I have not done this does not mean it is impossible. To
think such a thing would be completely foolish.  Lots of people can
do things I cannot do.   So, the bottom line here is that I am
in no position to pass judgement on people's claims of meeting 
and verifying meetings with other living (or deceased) people.
I still remain open minded that it is possible to interact
with other people (living or not) during an OOBE, and am constantly 
testing and looking for ways to verify the validity of my
meetings with people, friends or strangers, during my own OOBEs.
     




	    i.  The Character of People In OOBEs


     Now, to explain what I was saying above about these friends
of mine being in a daze, one of the most interesting things I have 
observed when meeting other humans in my OOBEs is generally how 
completely out of it they are.  What I mean by this is that, when 
I meet people in my OOBEs, these people, more often than not, act like
they are in a daze.  In other words, they are NOT lucid.  I will
present a number of examples of this from my journal.  In fact,
when I meet a person who responds to me the way a person would
respond to me here on the physical plane, I am very surprised.
Let me elaborate on what I am saying here in more detail.
     When I meet people during an OOBE I ask them a number of
questions.  This has become a habit with me and I strongly recommend
that you do this also.  Here are some of the questions I will 
ask people I meet during my OOBEs:


     1. What is your name?
     2. Where are we?  What city is this?
     3. Did you know we are in the dream world right now?
     4. What year is it?
     5. Are you dead or are you dreaming?


     You have to imagine what you would think if someone came
up to you out of the blue and just started asking you these 
questions.  If someone came up to you and said, "Hey, we are
dreaming right now", you'd think they were nuts or just being 
silly at the least.  If someone asked you your name, or the date, 
or what city you were in, you would be able to answer this 
immediately.  Well, the people I have met in my projections 
generally CANNOT answer these simple questions.  I think this 
is one of the most amazing discoveries I have made in my OOBE 
explorations.  That is to say, PEOPLE IN THE OOBE REALM ARE 
GENERALLY *NOT* AS LUCID AS PEOPLE IN THE PHYSICAL PLANE.  You 
will be doing very well if you get yourself into a postion 
where you can either confirm or refute this statement.
     A typical scenario of me meeting a person in one of my OOBEs
is as follows: I approach the person and they may or may not
respond to my presence.  If they do respond, it is a rather feeble
recognition that I am there.  I will then talk to the person, and,
more often than not, ask the questions I listed above.  And,
more often than not, the person will NOT know their name, will NOT
know where they are at, and generally speaking, will respond to 
me as if they are in a daze.  Examples of this are below.
     Now, another thing I've learned to do is the following, and 
I will give examples if this below too.  Sometimes I will be SLY with 
the person and not let on that I know I am astral projecting. I
will approach the person and interact with them in a matter of
fact way, without any indication that I know I am projecting.
Whatever is going on, I will just go along with it.  Then, out of 
the blue I will say something to the effect, "Hey, wake up,
we are in the dream world; This is all a dream."  Often, in such
circumstances, the person looks at me as if I am joking or I am
a nut.  And then, I will float up about five feet off the ground
and say, "Ha! Can you do this in the physical world?".  When I do 
this, I often elicit a reaction of surprise from the person I am 
talking to.  They no longer think I am joking!  Often they are
genuinely surprised.  However, depending on the circumstances,
they will either fall back into their catatonic stupor,
or I will bring them into some kind of adventure or another.
     Another thing I do when I meet people during my projections
is to teach them how to fly.  The overwhelming majority of
people you meet in your projections have no idea where they
are at and what they can do.  When you meet someone during an
OOBE, you can teach them to fly.  It's easy, it's fun, and, to 
some extent or another, you are helping that person out.
     Also, you will find situations where you can console
people.  You will find people who are scared or angry and violent,
and, simply because you are lucid and know your "powers", you
can often help mellow out both types of people.  I will give examples
of this kind of behavior too.
     Finally, before I start presenting journal entries, I want
to comment about one last aspect of meeting people during your 
OOBEs. This involves trying to tell a person you meet that
you are NOT in the physical world.  This is the strangest thing
to try to do.  A number of times in my projections, while I
am trying to tell someone that we are in the astral plane, it
dawns on me how weird it really is to try to communicate this 
idea to someone else DURING A PROJECTION.  See, we don't have such 
a problem here in the physical world.  It's totally trivial if I come
up to you and say, "Hey, we are in the physical world right now, 
and we are NOT in the dream world".  You'd look at me and say,
"yea, so what? big deal!"  I mean, it is so obvious to us that
we ARE in this physical world that we don't even think of any
other possible way it could be.  But imagine you are standing in
the world of dreams trying to tell somebody that you are in the
dream world and NOT in the physical world.  It's almost 
paradoxical trying to do this.  Don't forget, most of the people
you meet out-of-body are NOT lucid.  They have no idea where 
they are at in the first place, and then you come along and
try to tell them that there is this place called the "physical
plane" and that is where you come from, but that is not where
you and this other person happen to be at at the moment.  They
generally do not get it.  All I can say is, if you get the chance,
try to tell someone you meet in a projection that you are not in 
the physical world.
     So, let me summarize this section:


     1.  People you meet during OOBEs can potentially be: in
	 the physical plane, or dreamers, or deceased.  However,
	 it is very difficult to determine which is the case.


     2.  People you meet during OOBEs are generally in a catatonic
	 daze.  YOU will be lucid, but they will NOT be lucid.


     3.  Question people for as much information as you can.
	 Ask the kinds of questions I have listed above; simple
	 questions.  This will get you two types of information:
	 you will get information that could help verify if
	 the person you meet exists on the physical plane, and
	 you will get information that will allow you to gauge
	 how lucid this person is.


     4.  Teach people how to fly, or help them if they need help.


     5.  Try to tell the people you meet during a projection that 
	 you are not in the physical world.




      Ok, let me give you some examples from my journal 
illustrating what I've said above.




1>
	(In this episode, from my very first full-scale
	 projection, I had planned to go to J.C.'s room
	 if I actually left my body.  Our plan was that
	 whoever got out-of-body first would go to the 
	 other's room and see what they were doing.  And
	 that's exactly what I did.  Turns out in this case,
	 what I saw actually happened, only my projection
	 occurred about 3 hours after the events I saw.
	 This was a fourth case that was a type of 
	 confirmation of the validity of what I saw,
	 though this case too, like the other three,
	 is ambiguous.)


     "...I remembered to try to go to John's room as we had 
planned... I stepped out into the hallway.  It felt a little 
eerie, but familiar recognition made me feel good and only fed my 
enthusiasm to push on.  I pushed forward about two feet, and 
instantly appeared going up the stairs to the third floor. I didn't 
quite think this at that point, but basically I quantized through 
space!  I was three or so steps from the top so I made my way up.  
There was John's closet which was in the hallway in front of his 
room.  Again the recognition filled me with enthusiasm.  I turned 
and looked at his door and it was closed. I did my new trick and 
looked away, then looked back, and it was open.  
     And there was John standing there facing toward me talking, 
and Gregor sitting on John's bed staring at the wall.  I was so 
surprised that our experiment had worked that I very 
enthusiastically rushed into the room shouting, "J.C., Hey 
J.C.!  I did it!".  This was very strange because, as I yelled, 
my voice seemed to come out of me in slow motion as if someone 
were playing a 78 record at 16 speed.  But at the same time, I 
was hearing this, I was hearing another "me" actually shouting 
out these things normally.  But this voice sounded far in the 
background and behind the slower voice.  As I'm realizing all 
this, meanwhile I'm rushing into the room trying desperately to 
get J.C.'s attention.  But he doesn't notice me.  I'm talking 
and shouting at him and trying to grab and shake him.  But to 
my surprise my arms pass right through him as I try to grab him.  
I notice that John seems to be talking about something that quite 
enthuses him but his back is to Gregor, and Gregor doesn't seem 
to be interested anyway, he's just sitting on John's bed, smoking 
a cigarette  and staring up at the wall.  
     It occurs to me to try to look at the clock and see what time 
it is.  The clock seemed to read 12:56, but I wasn't sure because 
it was blurry and not quite legible, no matter how hard I would 
try to focus on it.  Then, I seemed, for no apparent reason at 
all, to completely lose interest in the situation. I turned and 
left the room.  
     When I went back out into the hall, I looked into John's 
closet.  There was now a window right in the middle of his closet.  
In the window was a pink rainbow swirling mist that enchanted me 
enough to want to dive right into it.  I thought to myself, "Well, 
I've only gotten this far by pushin' on ahead!" And so I plunged 
into this glimmering, enchanting window. I really don't recall 
well what happened to me after this point, other than it really 
freaked me out in a very pleasant way..."




2>
	(Earlier, I presented me trying to pass through a wall
	 [FILE 8, entry 7 under "b. Moving through walls"].
	 Here are the events leading to that.  This was the
	 first time I met a "dazed" person during a projection
	 and it was a little child.  Note here also how I forgot
	 the children's names upon waking.  It is NOT easy
	 carrying information from the OOBE state back to the 
	 waking state.)


     "...When I regained my vision I was standing on steps leading 
down into what appeared to be a basement laundry mat.
     It was very distinct - a perfect lockmold, and I felt 
very conscious.  Yellow painted walls, pipes on the ceiling   
washing machines and wash tubs up and down the room.  It was a 
corridor extending for about 300 feet.  There were various other 
turns to my right but I did not explore these.  To my left was a 
wall with windows at the top which seemed to be at ground level.
     All of a sudden, a little colored boy about 10 comes walking 
out of nowhere.  He's wearing a blue parka but looks quite normal 
otherwise.  I said "Hello.  I love you"  but he didn't seem to hear 
me.  I thought "Wow! He must be sleeping" (that he was dead never 
entered my mind).  I said "Who are you?  What are you doing?"  He 
still didn't seem to hear me even though he was looking right at 
me.  I said "Who are you?" quite loudly in his face.  He turned 
dazedly and started walking away from me and he was mumbling his 
name.  I don't remember what he said, I forgot since I woke up.  
During the projection I heard it and it seemed to be quite important 
to me at that point. But he seemed uninterested in me and he 
disappeared into what I thought was a bathroom.  I stood waiting 
for him and out of the same door comes a little white boy, about 
10 or 11 years old.  He had reddish brown hair in a bowl cut, 
wearing a green shirt and blue jeans.  He was much more receptive.  
He came out and saw me and said "Where am I?  I'm scared here".  I 
said "Don't worry, you are only sleeping and you'll wake up soon.  
I asked him his name and he told me right away.  But it seemed 
to "blend" with the other boy's name and I just can't remember.
     Then the little colored boy comes out with us.  "How can we 
get out of here seems to be the mutual thought of all of us.  All  
I could see as an escape route were the windows to our left.  The
windows were sunk back and about 7 feet off the ground.  There 
were a series of pipes blocking the way so I hovered up into 
the air..."


3>  


	(Another dramatic example of how UNLUCID people
	 are that you meet in projections.  Notice too here 
	 in this entry something I have found; that it is
	 very difficult for me to read things during projections.)


     "...(I was flying through a sea of faces) As I was flying 
through the faces, I passed the face of a very beautiful woman and 
her beauty caught my attention so much that I reversed my motion 
until I came upon her face again.  I stared very hard trying to 
focus my lockmold and I began to materialize again!  And there she 
was standing in front of me, in the flesh!  We seemed to be in the 
middle of an old west town and she was in line at the theatre or 
something.  She was wearing a dark business outfit with green eye 
shadow and deep red lipstick.  She didn't look as beautiful now as 
her face appeared in the sea of faces.  I was standing there staring 
at her intensely and she looked at me and asked "Can I help you?"   
I asked her what city we were in, what is her name, what State 
is this.  She looked at me pensively, then a look of confusion 
swept her features.  Then, as a couple of policemen entered the 
street, she pointed to them and said "Why don't you ask them"?  And 
she hurried off into the building we were in front of.  I seem to 
recall her asking "Do you think I'm beautiful?" either when I first 
saw her or as she was leaving. At any rate, I went up to the 
policemen and asked them the same questions.  And I got the same 
response!  The cop I was addressing looked at his partner and 
they both shrugged their shoulders.  I noticed a sign in front of 
a building and got the idea to go try to read it so I thanked the 
cops and hurried off. The sign was on some steps leading into a 
building and I got the sense that it was some kind of official 
sign.  I tried to read it but had a very difficult time.  I could 
not get it into focus that easily.  All I could make out were 
the letters "OR", which for some reason I interpreted to mean 
Oregon, and the statement "Cheyan Country".  At that moment I 
thought to myself "This sign is senseless.  These dead people 
decorate their landscape, but there is no function for this sign  
it's just a decoration".  I gave up my attempt to read the sign 
and walked back down the steps somewhat shaken up.  I noticed my 
hand were in my pockets and thought to myself that I was glad I 
had materialized with clothes on this time.  I wondered if the 
cops would have noticed had I been naked.  
     I walked into the street again and tried to survey my 
surroundings.  The sign gave me a definite impression of the 
Old West.  The cops looked thoroughly modern  though.  The 
woman in green looked like someone from the late nineteen 
hundreds.   The city itself seemed to be a cross between the 
1920's and the 1950's in terms of the appearances of the 
buildings.  The buildings were at most 5 stories high, some 
of yellow or red (like a rose) brick, others of the usual brick 
red color.  I noticed I was on a dirt road. Then that flimsy 
feeling came over me again and I felt my lockmold fade.
I was now in the void again..."  




4>
	(Here is an example of teaching someone how to fly
	 as well as being an example of my being "sly"
	 with the person I meet.  Again, by "sly" I mean
	 going along with the person and whatever they are
	 doing, even though I know I am projecting.)


     "...(I had become lucid during a dream. I was in a typical 
looking suburb...)  Then I felt the heaviness come over me that 
indicated my lockmold was getting weak.  I was afraid that if I 
just kept walking I would lose my lockmold, so I turned and walked 
back by the school.  
     I met up with a young fellow who was walking home from school.  
I was really feeling my lockmold slip and I caught up with this kid.  
He was maybe a few years younger than me, heavyset and had greasy 
blond short hair and was wearing blue jean overalls.  I approached 
him and asked if I could hold onto him because I was going to 
disappear otherwise.  He was quite casual about it and said ok.  So 
as we walked for a few yards, I clung on to him and I felt my 
lockmold return.  It was stable but shaky and I knew I had to go 
along slow and not get too excited or I would lose it.  We 
started talking and he asked me if I would like to go hunting or 
fishing with him.  I really didn't want to, but I said ya anyway 
just to keep things smooth.  I thought the hunting was to take 
place over a small hill that we were walking up and I ran forward 
to the top of the hill.  The scenery had changed from suburban 
streets to a country-like environment and there were woods about 
and I saw a small lake about a quarter mile down beyond and 
through the trees.  My friend laughed and said the fishing spot was 
over the ridge and that we had to stop at his house first.
     We took a turn down another road into the woods, past what 
I thought was a garage and came to a shack that was his house.  
We went inside and the place was very small.  My friend's brother 
was there but he went into the bathroom.  My friend told him to 
hurry because we were going to go fishing.  While waiting I 
started talking some more.
     "What's your name?" I asked.
     "Cameron," he said.
     "Where you from?"
     "Cleveland," he said.
     I told him my name was Don.  But I started getting bored 
and decided I was going to fly away and explore, so I went outside.  
I was about to fly off and Cameron came out.
     "Aren't we going to wait for my brother?" he asked.
     I told him I was going to fly away.  He looked at me and 
started laughing as if I was joking, and he told me that I couldn't 
do that.  I was ignoring him and ready to fly away.  I jumped up to 
go but a tree got in my way and I only went up about 10 feet, so I 
smoothly landed back on my feet.  Cameron looked at me in awe, 
his mouth open and eyes wide.  I told him not to be so surprised, 
he could do it too if he wanted to.  "Try it," I told him, "but 
first let's go into some open space."  So we walked over to a gravel 
lot that was adjacent to his house.  I encouraged him to go on and 
try to fly.  So he took a long running start, like an airplane on 
a runway, and lifted off into the air with his arms flapping 
like a bird's wings.  He went up about 5 feet off the ground and 
coasted a few feet before landing.  I was standing there laughing 
cause he looked so funny flapping his arms.  But I was still 
enthusiastic with the fact that he had got off the ground.
     "All right!" I said, "I knew you could do it!"
     Cameron was quite surprised and happy about his first flight.  
Now I decided I was going to be a show-off and show him how it was 
really done.  "Watch this!" I said, and I shot straight up into 
the air, at least about 100 feet up.  Cameron was down below me 
telling me something, but I couldn't make out what he was saying.  
I shouted back to him:  "You should see the scenery from up here!"
     It was really quite beautiful.  I could see for miles around me 
in all directions and I realized that this was one of the best 
lockmolds I had ever had while I was flying.  I could see the 
landscape spread out below me.  It was a large forest area dotted 
by numerous little lakes.  It also looked like winter because 
everything seemed to have a thin layer of snow covering, though the 
water was sparkling blue where ever it was to be seen.  I circled 
around in the air currents a few times to get a good view, as it 
seemed like I was now quite a few hundred feet up.  I wanted to go 
explore, so I tried to make some direction with the wind, and I 
had began to drift away from Cameron and his house.  Cameron was 
below me running and trying to stay up with me, and he was shouting 
at me telling me to come back.  I could tell he didn't want me 
to leave and the wind was forcing me lower anyway.  I began to 
circle downwards towards a small field next to the gravel lot 
where we started out.  Cameron was running towards where I thought 
I was going to land, but as I got within 20 feet or so of the ground, 
I completely lost my lockmold and was laying in my bed wide 
awake.  I felt very refreshed upon waking."

End of lesson 12


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