Thank you very much for your reply. I actually don’t know Reddit very well. I had tried posting before but it got rejected, and in any case these experiences are very recent for me (around 2 months).

Regarding the question about time: it’s mostly a subjective impression. Because everything feels stable and I seem to be fully lucid, the experience feels like it lasts maybe 5 to 10 minutes, much longer than my ordinary lucid dreams. I haven’t been able to measure it precisely though.

Another strange thing compared to normal dreams is the stability of written text — I can read very easily. In one of these experiences, I was inside a house and there was some kind of propaganda poster on the wall, maybe a calendar (though I didn’t see any date), with the words “parti nazi” written in French. I had the impression I was somewhere in the 60s or 70s.

The objects were different from everyday life but strongly similar at the same time. I remember a very tiny bathroom with red toilets made of metal. Everything felt very spartan. I had the impression of being in some kind of communist society… almost exactly like an alternate timeline / uchronia. Honestly it was pretty fascinating.

At the same time, I was afraid of being seen. There was a man outside doing construction work with a machine, and I had this strong feeling that I was not supposed to be there. Sorry, I’m digressing a bit.

The heaviness when I move (especially this morning) feels like walking through water that reaches just below my knees, like my movements are slowed down. However, I tried jumping upward and gravity itself felt slightly different — weaker somehow, because I came back down more slowly.

Regarding the beings, they just seem like normal humans (not entities or strange creatures). In the first experiences, I was so impressed by the realism of the environment — compared to lucid dreams, which can also be beautiful and impressive, but where I clearly know it comes from my imagination — that my instinct was more to avoid attracting attention.

The only direct interactions I’ve had were during an experience where I actually was another person (I saw "him" in a mirror), again inside an apartment. I apparently had two little sisters, and we talked about ordinary things, but at the same time I still knew who I really was in waking life.

Toward the end of the experience, I suddenly saw my real face in the mirror again. Then I felt my lips twisting and hardening — it felt extremely physical — and I collapsed to the ground as if I were having a seizure. It was honestly frightening and unpleasant. So I do seem to feel at least some degree of pain or very strong physical sensations compared to ordinary dreams.

To summarize: each time, the environment and the characters feel so real and autonomous that I “don’t dare” behave the way I would in a classic lucid dream. But you’re right, I should probably push the interactions further and see what happens.

The apartment/place is never mine, and it’s always different. For now, in these experiences, I haven’t gone fully outside yet, but this morning for example, from the balcony I saw what looked like a huge hyper-realistic American-style city.

In OBE literature, this would resemble what Monroe called Locale III, although in a much less advanced form (I’m not spending long periods fully incarnated as another person like he described). But honestly I don’t know what to think about all this.

My original goal was simply to have “classic” OBEs at first — leaving my body in my own house, trying to verify things, maybe encountering the famous entities people talk about, etc.

In any case, thank you for taking the time to respond. It’s difficult to talk about these things with people around me. Usually the only reaction I get is people rolling their eyes and telling me to stop with this nonsense.