hello!!! so I am kinda new to astral projection and I have been studying it for roughly the past week or so, but I’m clearly still a beginner.
I would like to share my story on how I astral projected on my first try, and maybe I can help some others, or people could tell me if what I experienced was truly astral projection, or give me some tips, as I didn’t get that far :(
so first I went to bed an hour early, and I laid in bed (on my back I heard it helps) with no music, no phone, just a fan and my physical body :3
then I slowly felt a tingling sensation in my knees, hands, and feet, I tried to remain calm and I slowly started to feel myself spinning when my physical body wasn’t moving at all, I then slowly started using the rope method, and I think it worked! I slowly lifted up out of my body, it was like something I have never felt before, I felt myself rising up, but then all of a sudden I got too excited, and I thumped back into my physical body :)
Im just so happy I made it so far <3

can someone share a method that actually worked for them after many failed attempts at astral projection? i've honestly started losing hope, i've tried around 20 times now, and lately, im just not making any progress, i keep trying for a while, but eventually, i give up and go to sleep

i'd really appreciate any advice or tips from people who have successfully done it

Yesterday I had a projection where I saw myself in the mirror. The mirror was oval shaped in what looked like a restroom. I saw myself as tho looking in the mirror at myself. I looked a bit different but same age. The feeling I got was that I was seeing another version of myself inside a parallel reality where I exist. I’ve had many projections where I’m looking down on myself but inside the same reality which I’m guessing would qualify OBE, but this one was different in the sense that I knew it was me but I also knew that it’s from a different subjective experience

Hello all. I am unsure of my experience and really have no one to talk to about it that would understand.
I’ve always had some abilities that connect to some collective consciousness. My first lucid dream was when I was about seven or eight. Especially when napping during the day. And as I’ve gotten an older if I take a nap during the day, (which was like very rare)I have what feels like sleep paralysis. It feels like I’m getting sucked into some kind of vortex. I hear loud buzzing and feel a strong vibration. I get really scared and do everything I can to not get sucked in. And make myself wake up. I feel like I’m going to die.
It’s in a state between sleep and awake that this happens. Well, now that I have cancer i’ve been napping during the day a lot. The other day I had that feeling, as I was coming out of a deep sleep. I heard extremely loud buzzing and when I opened my eyes, I could see like bright electricity jumping all around. I was scared because it was extremely loud. But I just allowed it and told myself I would be OK. It looked like something ripping open in front of me, the electricity?And I was looking into a white living room with a beige couch and a coffee table. I tried to hold it and it faded. This morning I was woken up early and tried to go back to sleep and it happened again and this time I was looking at what looked like some kind of underground prison bathroom? I have no other way to describe it.
Sometimes while falling asleep I experience something that’s similar, kind of hard to describe, but it’s like I’m experiencing things through multiple people‘s eyes, really random pointless things and it happens really fast, same kind of vortex feeling, not as strong and I have no control, it’s kind of fun and it doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I actually really enjoy it. It feels like a ride.
I don’t know what this is. It’s not a dream. I am fully aware.

I've just learnt about the concept of AP, tho I've never had a lucid dream or AP, i'm curious to know how do you get back from an AP, have you ever felt stuck in one? Have you ever met someone else irl, whom you've met before in an AP?

from my dream journal:

oct 12th: still dont really remember dreaming but i remember being in somewhat of a hypnagogic state and i saw my girlfriends water bottle on the dresser in front of her bed, and when i tried to focus on it it disappeared right away and i woke up fully. not too sure why, i didn’t get excited or anything, but i felt 100% aware and KNEW i was physically in my own bed at home, and not at my girlfriends.

it’s been years since ive been able to get to a state like this. i used to be able to get into the vibrational stage quiet often but fell out of practice because i couldn’t ap after years of trying. this experience sparked my drive to keep going again

Hi everyone!
I’ve been practicing astral projection for a while now, and I’m happy to say that I’m no longer afraid. I actually feel pretty brave and excited about the experience!
I can reach the state where my body feels completely asleep while my mind stays awake pretty quickly.
Once I reach that state, I start imagining myself floating out of my body or climbing an imaginary rope. However, I still haven’t been successful.
My questions are:
How long should I keep visualizing myself floating or climbing the rope?
Should I keep trying for several minutes, or just relax and let it happen naturally?
Am I supposed to feel something specific before attempting these techniques?
Does anyone have tips that helped them get past this stage?
I feel like I’m getting closer, but I’m not sure what I’m missing.
I’d love to hear about your experiences and what worked for you!
Thank you!

Hi. I am 24 years old boy. I intresting spritual thinks since 15. My bipolar medication is necessary for me to sleep. Stopping my medication is impossible. On the second day I don't take my medication, my senses become more heightened, and I can't sleep without it. Would it be sensible to try astral travel on the night of that second day? By the way, I'm a stable bipolar patient.

last night i tried to AP for the first time, im not really sure what im supposed to feel or how to know ive done it. last night i laid down in my bed( for context me and my brother are sharing a bed rn) i told him that i was going to try to astral project and he was nervous for me. i wasn’t scared because i really want to AP and truly believe its real. but i cant fully believe it unless i try. but i laid down in my bed my room was dark and he was asleep so i closed my eyes and focused on my breathing. there were moments where i felt like i was no longer in my body and that i was in my head, it sounds weird but this is what i felt like. then i realized that the black i was seeing from my eyes being closed was getting blacker, like a wave of the darkest black i’ve ever seen was taking over my eyes and then i swear for a second i saw i blue light come with the dark black taking over my mind. and then my brother moved and i was sent right back into reality. i tried again and after that i didn’t get the blue light again but the dark black was still taking over my vision. but i noticed that if a thought popped into my head immediately i was back into reality. is there any tips to having a quiet mind, or any tips really to AP im a beginner but i really want to be able to achieve this.

Hola tengo una duda como se puede calcular no exactamente creo pero calcular cuánto tiempo me puede tomar mi primer viaje astral

I had a strange dream recently and wanted to ask people who practice astral projection whether it sounds familiar.
I became partially lucid and realized I was on an island I’d dreamed about years ago. It had a main house, an outdoor area, and what seemed like a large party house.

In the earlier dream, it was nighttime and there was a party going on. I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there, and the whole thing felt unusually real. This time, I was on another part of the island during the day. I couldn’t clearly see the layout, but I somehow knew it was the same place.

While I was lucid, I had a strong feeling that the island was a real place people could visit in dreams. I even felt like I knew its name and location, though I can’t remember either now. I also felt as if I’d been there many times before, even though I only remember these two dreams.

I know vivid or lucid dreams can feel completely real, so I’m not assuming it was astral projection. I’m just curious whether this sounds familiar to anyone who has experienced it.

Have you ever visited a place during astral projection that felt familiar or seemed to exist independently of your mind? If you’ve experienced both astral projection and lucid dreaming, how do you tell the difference?

Here are a few questions:

1. How long does it usually take to astral project, especially for the first time?

2. Is it true that during AP you can meet other people who are doing it at the moment and other entities? Or is it just exploring your mind?

3. Do I need to be laying down on my back and my limbs can't be touching or does it just make AP easier?

4. Does my body phisically rest during AP?

I have tried to astral project once, but I somewhat have up (I guess I was a bit impatient at the time, but I can fix it). I wasn't moving at all, not even scratching, I was only breathing. I was feeling some "vibrations" in my arms (not literally were my arms vibrating, I don't know how to call that feeling so I hope you know what I mean) and it lasted a few minutes already so I gave up. I will gladly take any advice! By the way, I am already into spirituality – manifestation. Thank you for help!

I only ask because in my lucid dreams i can fly, use ki blast and ect and i know whatever applies to dreams can apply to ap with the right mental state.

He tenido varias experiencias a lo largo de mi vida, pocas, he sentido y siento miedo pero de alguna manera se que me queda poco para superarlo.

Me ayudó a tener experiencias la intención de tenerlas, pero no me valió solo con desear tenerlas. Tuve que materializar ese deseo en la vigilia. Como? Hice algo muy sencillo, escribir mi intención en un papel y ponerlo debajo de la almohada y a los pocos días tuve una experiencia. Ahora se que me fallo la atención y no pude sostener esa experiencia. Mi próximo experimento es materializar en estado de vigilia los dos conceptos de intención y atención a través de rituales. Como por ejemplo, crear obras de arte y esconderlos en lugares que produzcan una sensación mágica. Si funciona os lo haré saber.

Tengo la intuición que va a ser la moneda de cambio para conseguir consciencia en el Astral.

I was lying on my back, had no thoughts of having any type of experiences except a good night sleep. Suddenly I felt myself floating above my body but before I touched the ceiling, My Son burst into my room to tell me my Mom had fallen out of bed! I LITERALLY felt my lighter self SLAM back into my body and I heard myself say the Umph noise out loud! It really hurt! I have heard of you're abruptly interrupted that type of pain can happen, has anyone else experienced this? 👀

Have you ever transformed into something else during astral projection? Has anyone seen you in your astral form? Have you ever seen an astral being while you were wide awake?

I’m shocked that this is a thing. I think I have accidentally gotten close to AP as a kid without realizing. I would just get bored and picture the earth and imagine how small we are and how big the universe is, still visioning the earth, I’d feel myself gravitate towards earth then something would just take over my body and spring me awake leaving me in a brief sense of panic but that’s it. And I remember doing this on multiple occasions on purpose just bored at night. I look forward to learning more but I’m catholic and gotta do some research lol.

Thought I might add I often use to get sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming unintentionally. Something would always wake me up though haha

Hi!

​I will start the discussion by stating that I never reached the point of achieving an AP. Therefore, I would like your point of view on this subject:

​Robert Monroe, in his book called "Journeys Out of the Body", warned readers that once you open the gate to AP, you will never be able to sleep normally again. He claimed you will always be consciously awake, feeling the vibrations, and slipping out of your body. Is this really true?

​I love sleep deeply: the moment I hit the bed, I fall straight asleep and stay that way for a solid 7 or 8 hours. Before continuing to try and achieve AP, I want to be sure it won't ruin my night-time sleep routine.

​Here are my other questions:

- ​Does AP make you feel mentally exhausted?

-​Are you actually able to sleep normally? Or once you start with AP, are you constantly "out"?

- When you are out, are you able to get back without physically waking up?

Thanks a lot!

I projected to my grandparents old home today. I was hoping to see, or look for, my deceased grandmother, as I have seen her there once before.

Getting there didn’t take much effort. I flew in a horizontal line, past many houses (American suburbs), and then buildings, once I arrived to my home country/city. I wouldn’t really know how to get there from a traditional coordinate standpoint, because that would technically involve navigating to a different continent, but I never really have a hard time getting to this destination in particular. Perhaps because it’s so familiar.

The apartment is quite large, has many rooms, and it’s dark. Not a single light is on. I roam the halls, everything completely empty. I look out the window, and the city of Sao Paulo is quite beautiful at night. For someone who has lived in suburbs for the last 16 years, the city does invoke a sense of awe for some reason, especially at night.

I see buildings, I can see the favela (Paraisopolis), and things are mostly as I remember last seeing them.

I turn around, and float across the living room. All lights are off, but I can see clearly.

Before going in to my grandparents room, I float in to a different room, because I’m checking them one by one. This particular room is probably the one that holds the least significance. It’s not the room my mother grew up in, it’s not the one I grew up in, and no one really ever lived there. I slept in this room when I last visited, but it’s mostly an office that can be used as a guest room, because it has a couch that converts in to a bed.

I take a moment, look around, look out the window again, and then proceed to leave the room. When I’m about to leave the room, I see my wife. She’s standing just outside of the room.

She waves at me, I ask what is she doing there, and I can instantly tell something is off. I know this isn’t actually my wife.

I call it out, and say to it: -“I know you’re not my wife”.

It then takes the shape of a beautiful young blond woman, whom I have never met.

This is normally the point where I become hostile, as I don’t like when things try to deceive me. However, I didn’t get a negative feeling from it, nor malice.

So I say:

- “Wow, you’re beautiful”.

It responds:

-“Really…?”

With the way it responded, plus an intuitive feeling, I could tell it was extremely insecure, or worried, about its appearance.

The moment it responded to me, its appearance changed once again. This time it turned in to something non-human, to say the least.

I want to be very careful with how I describe this being, as to not be disrespectful. It was clearly not human, and very “animal-like”. I don’t know if I would call it “rat-like” or “wolf-like” or “dog-like”, but it’s cranium had the shape of an animal, with a snout, and whiskers. Its entire face and body was also covered in dark grey or black fur. Bipedal like a human. Clearly female, and had a soft female voice.

To be honest with you, I have no idea what I was looking at.

When I saw it, I got some sort of nonverbal communication. Not telepathy, not a download, just an intuitive knowing that it was afraid to show me it’s true form, because of the way I might react. It was insecure.

So when it morphed, and asked me the question, I guess I felt compassion for it. I grabbed its hand, kneeled with one leg, and kissed its hand. I don’t know why I did this, describing it sounds weird, but in the moment it was the first thing I thought of doing. Like an old timey greeting.

I guess I wanted to relieve its insecurity and that’s the first thing my dumb ass thought of doing. I wanted them to feel beautiful or normal. So I said:

- Yes, really. It’s nice to meet you.

- It’s nice to meet you too.

I’ve never greeted anyone in this manner before, but in the moment this is what I felt compelled to do. To kneel and make it feel special.

I guess you could say that it looked scary, and not conventionally attractive to human standards, but the sweetness in their voice made it likable and not intimidating. I wasn’t afraid of it, nor did I sense hostility. I just sensed a lot of insecurity, and that it wanted to run away.

I ask it:

- Could I please ask you some questions?

- Sure. (It had a very warm tone).

I gently grab its hand, and sit them next to me on the couch. It didn’t resist, and seemed flattered or happy to speak with me. Conversation went something like this (to keep it objective):

- I have to ask, why are you here?

- I was just passing by, and then I saw you.

- Why did you take the form of my wife?

- Because I didn’t want to scare you.

- But why my wife?

- Because it’s familiar to you.

- What is your name?

- Mepremea (Mepremia?).

I began to feel sick during this conversation. Short of breath, dizzy.

I had several more questions for it, as it was very nice and willing to answer everything I was asking. When I went to ask the next question, I paused, and instead I said:

- I’m sorry, I have more questions, but for some reason I don’t feel well.

It gasped with concern, genuine concern:

- You need to go back, now. (It said so with a concerned and caring voice).

It grabbed me by the hand, flew me out the window, and as if with the speed of light, took me back to my room, next to my body. It tugged my arm, and almost threw me back in to it.

I opened my eyes that same second, looking for it, because there was almost no transitional time between states, but I felt EXTREMELY dehydrated and hot.

I keep the AC at 65 degrees, but I feel like it could easily be 80 in here. I chugged a ton of water, and my body temperature has still not come down, even 2h after. (By the 3rd hour now, it has).

I don’t feel sick like I have a fever or anything, I just feel very hot.

I didn’t lay down dehydrated or anything, so I wonder why that happened. I do have cardiac problems though, and some times this does happen naturally. I don't believe the entity was the cause of it necessarily, it could be coincidence/condition-related.

If you ask me what it was, or what my intuition tells me, the answer is I have no idea. I didn’t feel malice or danger, I felt it had a genuine sense of care and concern, but I wouldn’t know what to classify it as. No idea. Never seen anything quite like it.

Hey, I know this question probably gets asked a lot but I'd appreciate some advice.

Last night I went to bed with the intention of trying to astral project (for the first time). All was going well until about 20ish minutes id guess into my meditative state or whatever you want to call it. I started feel like my body was becoming weightless so I thought I must be close. Then I began to feel like everything was spinning really fast. Literially felt like I had the spins from being drunk even though I had my eyes closed.

I don't know why but I just became really scared for some reason - even though I'm trying hard to astral project and have been throughout this whole year. My heart started beating out of my chest I could literially hear it I was terrified for whatever reason, all while this spinning was still happening. I didn't give up though. I began thinking to myself "you're fine, you're safe" things like that and I began to calm down. But then it this spinning began to stop and it went back to normal.

I had a previous experience similar to this a few months ago when I managed to reach the vibrational stage - but I panicked and woke up.

How can I avoid this? Thanks

Has anyone of you guys attempted to astral project in to the atlantic ocean we all hear so many myths and legends of aswell as many stories that i belivehave become divinly insoired by entitys im curious if there are any and please dont make fun of me guys but im genraly curious if there are citys or hidden areas were you are not allowed to accses to secrets of the deep wawes nowonne knows about

I found this subreddit because Papa Meat just made a video about it so I thought it would be interesting to share my story and to see if anyone else had a similar experience.

I was in the Army and we were in the field for a gunnery exercise with our Bradley Fighting Vehicle. It was nighttime and January- even had snow that week in the desert and it was brutal. Our vehicles were staged for the night and we were sleeping. We had the the heat running full blast- which was definitely spewing out exhaust fumes. We were exhausted and freezing so we just ignored it.... All hatches closed and locked in for the night.

I was in my sleeping bag sleeping on the left bench seat. All of a sudden, my body gets really warm. All of a sudden, my whole body starts tingling. The best way I could describe it is the pins and needles feeling your foot or leg gets when it falls asleep- except the entire body.

All of a sudden, I start to float out of my body. I look at my body and my surroundings and everything was how it was in reality. My face towards the back of the bench seat and in my gray cold weather sleeping bag. I start floating up with a very warm and reassuring feeling. I came to the conclusion that I was dead but I just kind of accepted it. I floated up through the top of my Bradley. I start floating, accepting the new path I was on and I get around 25 to 30 ft above my vehicle looking down on it.

All of a sudden someone places their hand on my right shoulder from behind. It was a female's voice and all she said to me was "It's not your time yet.". Then she lowered me back down and I went back into my body.

As soon as I entered my body again, I woke up. Sweating profusely, disoriented, nauseous, and short of breath. I immediately opened the troop hatch behind me to air out the vehicle.

After that, I went to check on my driver. He seemed okay but I noticed the engine access panel wasnt latched that was next to him- so that couldn't have helped our situation either. I got that latched up, went outside to clear my head, and then went back to sleep with some hatches cracked open and the heater turned off.

That was my first out of body experience ever but ever since that experience, I have had more of them. Some have been scary and have turned into sleep paralysis, but others were warm and inviting.

However, I don't know who or what that being was that lowered me back into my body, but I really do feel like that experience potentially saved both my life and my driver's.