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GoldenOuroboros, I don't think it's just one other plane of reality, I think we can create them in dreams at least. During a long bout of depression I had a series of lucid dreams that took place in this "world." The geography of it was always the same and so were the characters. If I knew anything about 3-d animation I could map out this world still. I dreamt in this world for about two years. Some of my friends think that because the details and the people were always the same, it's quite possible I was doing that astral travel stuff. Now that I look back on it, I realize it was probably my subconscious helping me sort out my messy social life at the time because when I analyze it, everything was a symbolic representation of someone real in my life. Also, if you believe in it, these dreams revealed what people call a "totem animal."
Most of my dreams aren't very realistic and rarely feel that way. My lucid dreams are the opposite, though. Like Z said, the dreams involve all five of the senses, but they are still strangely unrealistic with a realistic feel. Oftentimes I can fly and do things that you wouldn't be able to do awake (and it's really not that hard to do in a dream). The subject matter of these dreams also vary quite a lot. My dreams never include gods, devils, angels, or demons, but they do sometimes have talking animals! Heh.
Some people mentioned dreaming about things that happen in real life and having major dejas vu. It sounds like they're describing what is typically called prophetic dreams. Other people mentioned sleep paralysis. I'm no expert on this, but I read in a book that says in Chinese mythology, this is caused by a rock ghost/spirit thing. What it does is sit on your chest so you can't move any part of your body and sucks the life from you slowly. Something like that, anyway.
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