The threshold is a gateway to quite a few different kinds of experiences, and without the physical world as a reference point it can be really difficult to know when you're observing something or just observing your own projections (and mistaking them for something 'real'). The whole succubus thing is a cultural overlay projected on to the experience by the mind, most of the time IMO. In modern times it tends to take the form of alien abduction instead. Can there be an external entity underneath the projection.. I think there can be, but more often than not it is your mind creating a projection to satisfy the fear it feels.
I've always had vivid dreams, lucid dreams, and all sorts of threshold experiences since I was young enough to remember. Once you amass a large enough repository of experiences you can begin to triangulate things, and in my opinion there are entities that can mask themselves behind your projections. I think these things exist in what gets referred to as 'the astral', which incidentally is the same space you enter under DMT. I think we're actually 'there' all the time, we just can't see it under normal circumstances, but for some reason during dreaming and threshold states we're 'closer' to it.
As an example, I've consciously 'attacked' a lot of characters in my dreams over the years. Typically they've done something that has irritated me in the dream, such as me explaining why their previous action was ridiculous but then they stare at you like a dog that has just been shown a card trick. Completely vacant shells, obviously my projections I'm arguing with.. *bitch slap*. Well, sometimes they fight back and the response feels like movement not within the dream itself.. very difficult to explain.. it's like a 6th sense type of perception, like the dream was a mask on top of that astral space and you just sucker punched through the mask and hit the guy underneath the costume. I had this happen last week in fact. I started to strangle a dream character for being unnecessarily bitchy inside an erotic dream I was enjoying until that point (lol), then the dream itself evaporated (still asleep), and I felt that movement of something 'not me' encroaching towards my point of observation like I had just stepped on someone's shoes and they are moving to confront you.
I don't think those things are necessarily evil. From my experiences they are more like parasites trying to evoke certain emotional responses, particularly sexual arousal, and tap some of the energy from that process.
Sweet dreams.
Just remembered, there was a book I read years ago by Robert Bruce about a lot of this dream/threshold astral type stuff. Whilst I don't agree with some of his conclusions I did find tremendous overlap with what I had experienced and also similarities with the methods he uses to evoke these types of experiences e.g. progressive relaxation and techniques to pull yourself out of the body. His theory surrounding the threshold state, why we have it and what is actually going on, is interesting. Something worth investigating if you're interested.
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