Ever since I had the experience I describe below, I have been looking if anyone else ever has had a similar experiences, or if someone knows about it some more.

I had this experience in a meditation where I was traveling upwards through the chakras. When I reached the third eye something happened that I will never forget, and is one of my most unique experiences ever. All of a sudden I had made a connection of awareness with another presence, but that presence turned out to be me too.

I was simply in my own regular self sifting through my life, to make associations, insights, understanding of events. The presence had been asleep before and it was dreaming my life. The moment I (myself leading the life) became aware of the presence, I therefore somehow pulled my-dreaming-self into the dream, and so the dream of my life became a lucid dream to the "dreamer". My two selves, here and there connected and were fully aware of each other. The unque thing about the experience was that all of a sudden I found myself as if in two minds at once, but both were mine. Just the feeling of awareness of each other and knowing we were both the same "i" was mind blowing.

The experience also gave me an incredble sense of ability to decide and create my life. If I was dreaming it up somehow, and I could dream my life lucidly, then I had the ability to consciously pick my life's path (including choosing the lessons I need to learn).

I ended up traveling to the dreamer's world one more time, not via the awareness connection this time, but by fully experiencing the dreamer, and the dreamer woke up from its dream (my life). It gave me a chance to look at its environment. The dreamer was floating in an endless ocean. It was a world of soothing, warm, nurturing but endless body of dark water, with only a star sky above. It seemed that for the dreamer too it was the first time in a loooooooong time they could see where they were. Nor was it able to stay awake for long, and went drowsily back to dreaming. The ocean was almost like a soothing crib to keep the dreamer asleep.

The dreamer seemed almost to be just "mind" alone, and its sole resource to experience life was through the dream.

Now, I'm not saying this ocean was an actual place...it did not seem to have either a time or a moment of existence in space. The ocean may have well been a visual translation for me to understand it. When I made the connection the first time, it felt like this dreamer was far away, and yet at the same time may have been buried deep in the center of my brain.

Some people may connect this to the dreamtime concept of the Aboriginals. But I have always understood the dreamtime to be about social development of a group of people, and not at all about one life.

I never knew this at least consciously, but in my search for any mythology remotely likely to what I experienced, the only myth that resonates with my experience is Vishnu sleeping in his "cosmic ocean" and dreaming the universe.

Any else who can shed some light on that myth, or has heard from other people experiencing something similar, or has experienced something like it?