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And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great for thee. Sound familiar? Do you remember your parents ever waking you up to go to school, and then having dressed and gotten your books together, only to have your parents wake you up again? This may have happened to you several times. Or do you remember ever having turned off the alarm clock, only to have it buzz once again and wake you up? That’s a typical false awakening. You encounter false awakenings nearly every day, but they are far from always vivid. This lack of vividness is why people often do not recognize that a false awakening has occurred. Up to one-third of all sensations and movements that occur upon awakening do not happen in the real world, they just seem to be. (Edgaras) ...I was somewhere between 8 and 10 years old. The alarm clock went off, I was having a hard time getting out of bed. I thought for a few moments about how it was time to go to school... Then I got up out of bed, already wide awake, and went to the bathroom... All of the sudden mom came into the room and asked me to wake up and go to school... And this happened more than once... Let’s imagine that Elijah fell asleep not under a juniper tree, but in a comfortable apartment, and that his thoughts upon falling asleep had turned not to God, but to the fact that he had to go to school the next day. Would an angel have visited Elijah in that case? Or imagine Edgaras in Elijah’s place. Thinking about leaving the body while falling asleep is one of the key secrets to having an out-of-body experience upon later awakening. Meanwhile, you can think not only about leaving the body, but also about what you want to obtain from the experience itself... That’s why it is not at all surprising that the angel came to Elijah - who had been pondering his relationship with God - not during an afternoon walk, but just after he had fallen asleep. But Elijah did not