Posted by Feywon on June 17, 2009 at 7:15am in Astral
http://theunexplained.ning.com/group/astral/forum/topic/show?id=217...
"i wasn't sure what group to post this in because not sure it involves astral travel, definitely wasn't a dream. i was wide awake each time. So I'm thinking out loud here and hoping questions or suggestions about cause will help me discover the meaning of it.
We know some people can control where they go when astral traveling, some are at the mercy of what is paramount in their consciousness as they 'drift off'. Is it possible that someone unbalanced (to the point of frequently being put on psychotropic drugs for various diagnoses) could spontaneously astral travel to harass someone? There is a part of me that resents my mind even needing (for self protective reasons) to consider the possibility. Especially as the early morning event(s) prompting this line of thought were not in themselves threatening. But because my last ex husband has stalked me in real world twice (divorce final 12/99, 1st stalking spring 2003, 2nd July 2007) and at least twice at the astral level--which i handled easily with some banishing rituals and salt across my thresholds. First time in 2001, second was last August/September (not long after order of protection expired).
It is possible that two different consciousnesses were involved that were unrelated, but what a coincidence that they both took olfactory form!
About 4 a.m. i got up for my routine early morning trip to bathroom. i go back to bed and usually meditate until about 4:30 a.m. As i settled myself i smelled a woman's perfume: a sweet distinctly feminine scent tho i could not place/name it. Now, i sometimes put scent on my pillows...but i tend to like sandalwood, amber wood that sort of thing not this dainty sweet aroma, that i could not associate with anyone i know. (Perhaps my favorite Aunt wears it now...it's been 2 decades since I've seen her in person.) That alone would not have bothered me. But then about 4:45a.m. i stepped outside to dump what i scooped from the cats' litter box into the garbage can i keep behind my front steps, and i was surrounded by a distinctly masculine aroma. Again it was pleasant but i could not place either the scent or anyone i know who wears it. You have to understand where it was would have meant someone coming in my fenced/gated yard and standing on my porch, a bit disconcerting...but i still did not feel 'threatened' or invaded as i did last year when ex was trying to contact me on astral plane...i did dream of him 2 nights ago and i dream of him much less in any calendar year than i do my first husband, who has been deceased over 30 yrs. But what made me feel this was not some random 'picking up' on someone was that when i went to the end of the drive to get my paper from the box attached to my fence at about 5:20 a.m., i was surrounded by that masculine scent again as if someone wearing it had stood there a long while. If a live male did, that's disturbing, if a projection, that is too. And i am now more inclined to think it non corporeal because it was not on the porch anymore but was there in the driveway. My curtain had been open and i would have seen anyone standing there threw the window behind my computer. Wind could not have moved it as there was none. If there was wind, well we rarely have gentle breezes here, its 'strong winds' that would easily disperse the lingering scent of a 'real' person. All 3 times the scents were definitely manufactured ones. And the 2 outside were the same masculine scent.
I'm a big believer in the value of 'brainstorming' getting input from others. So any all comments welcome. Even if you don't 'nail' the cause...what you say might help me figure it out for myself...the mind (especially mine) is not always linear in how it sorts things out. Now the waiting/watching/asking for insight in dreams tonight.
Footnote: Never got more info, but has not repeated. However, a week later we got home and phone ringing. It was a UW # but not my department. i called left word that i was curious as to why someone was calling me from there. The person whose phone it was called back. He'd been out of town for a couple of days and just returned. Has no idea who might have called. Guess where he works? Engineering building where my ex is a custodian. Ex usually works mornings last i heard...but...one wonders at the 'coincidence'. Oh and by the way my ex at various times has considered himself a solitary practitioner of Wicca (told stories of using 'black' magic) and also a devout Jehovah's Witness. (i know weird...but the man was pathological in many ways)...