so this was a while ago now when i was working through don webb's energy magick of the vampyre book. i am still working through that book but want to talk about what happened during the opening rite. so this was my first real ritual and i put a lot of effort into it with dressing, equipment and all that. anyway, at the stage where the magician speaks as the vampire i had a really weird sensation. it was like i saw another world layered over this one. like i knew i was in my cellar but over it were images that felt different from imagination. they were all kind of i want to say Turkish like heavy sensual sort of feeling. it felt a bit like being smothered with velvet, like overpoweringly sensual. i had a sense of a dark presence watching over the whole thing, literally like a dark figure above the room watching all of this below. the atmopshere felt really sexual, like i had been lured into a seduction. the presence was unmistakably male and i am too so this was... kinda gay (i'm bi) then, in the middle of all this heavy kind of atmosphere i felt a really sharp, cold undercurrent that felt really fucking dangerous, like frightening dangerous, like beneath the velvet was the sharpest blade ever. i snapped out of it and was fully back in my room doing the ritual. i finsihed the ritual and went to bed. i dreamt i was back in that ottoman type room and there was a man there, he looked a bit like Elyes Gabel. he told me his name which im not going to give here. i woke up. over the following weeks i had moments of sensing this presence, again really sexual, really intense but that current of danger was always around. about six months after the opening rite i dreamt again of this being and that we were just sitting together in the same room and he was smiling at me really darkly. he said "I am going to give you something you can use to call me". i woke and i had had a wet dream and my hands were repeating the same gestures over and over again. i had been doing this in my sleep! not normal for me at all. i have used the gestures since and when i do i can feel the presence of this being really strongly. i messaged don webb on facebook about it and he was like "could be HGA could be future self, could be jungian projection". sooo that narrows it down! guys what do you think is happening here? is this a familiar? is this the vampire energy doing its thing? im not scared by it but i am kind of fascinated. tyia!