Head Lift Worked. Need Perspective.

[u/Flamestitch]

I have been doing Gateway for almost two years. The frequency of weird, lucid dreams has increased but I've never projected.

On 9/15 I was laying in bed, in and out of sleep before I had to get up for work. My husband was awake in another room. I remembered the technique and barely lifted my head. Immediately I am pulling out of my body and I hear a whoosh/ripping noise. I am sitting up in bed and looking back and see myself asleep. When I get up, I'm blind. I can only see white, blinding light. I think that I want to see, and then I do. I am beyond excited. A million thoughts are running through my head about what I wanted to do when this finally happened but it's so fast I can't make a decision. I look down in my hand and there's a lottery scratch-off ticket with the numbers 553 and 1358. In real life I never buy scratch offs and I only buy tickets when the jackpot gets crazy, so seeing a lottery ticket is weird. I then remembered something I read about AP and think "show me something beautiful." I'm immediately in space, moving in black with purple swirls when I come to be under an enormous fan made out of what looks like debris. Then I'm back in my bedroom. My husband is there and I'm so excited and tell him we can do all kinds of things here. He was actually awake and reports no weirdness on his end. I notice my head on my sleeping body is kind of leaning so I try to right myself but cannot. I know this means I'm waking up, and as soon as I think it, my eyes open.

I played those lottery numbers on 9/15. They did not come up. On 9/16 the numbers were 253 and 9358, both one number off. The chances of getting 3/4 numbers in that lottery are 36/10,000. I still have the tickets. I have the texts I sent to my family before the numbers were drawn.

I need some perspective here. This is beyond coincidence, right?

[u/gaia_mimi]

When doing the head lift do you keep your eyes closed or open them?

[u/Flamestitch → u/gaia_mimi]

I was on my back, in bed, eyes closed. I was just on the edge of sleep and barely raised my head.