The more experiences i have, the less I know what to think. I always exit out of my window and most of the time I don’t direct or intend where I want to go. Each time I exit, I’m somewhere completely different. It mostly looks like earth but cooler like sometimes changing colors or animals that communicate. It always starts for me with flying and then landing and exploring. Sometimes it feels like a neighborhood and lately I’ve had experiences in neighborhoods in tunnels/caves.

Am I exploring my own consciousness? Am I interacting with energies that my brain filters as things I’m used to like houses, people, animals?

When I talk to people and ask them what their story is, they generally say they are from there (the astral), some say they have passed and some look confused like they are dreaming.

I had one weird thing happen where i exited and felt like i landed in a hole and could feel dirt and rocks. I couldn’t see and then i felt a hand and the message asking if i want help. I said yes and flew out and was brought into a town in a cave and whoever helped me looked like a pretty young woman who said she was a guide for the realm.

Another weird thing that happened is i was having a typical experience but saw my family and was talking to them (i thought maybe they were dreaming and ended up there). Then one of the peoples faces changed as i was talking to him and i said hey this doesn’t make sense is this even really you? Then the whole environment changed to a dark place where someone noticed i noticed and had people chasing me. Another guide took me out in time and when I looked down at where i left from i saw the whole area was connected and i felt being controlled by a huge dark looking tree.

I know this all sounds wild. I don’t know what to make of any of it. I’m just exploring and documenting it. Other people seem to see lights and energies and ETs. I don’t know what to think or how to interpret any of it and would love to hear if anyone can relate?

Sorry it’s so long. Summary: seeing if anyone has similar weird experiences during AP and how they interpret what they are actually doing/interacting with

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

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.

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?

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.

2 nights ago, in a lucid dream, I was floating near the ceiling and watching myself working at my desk below. I felt fully aware and separate from my physical body.

Suddenly a glowing green energy entity appeared. It wasn’t a solid form or a ball — more like a formless, electric energy field that kept shifting and changing shape (almost star-like at times with crackling light). It pushed me and forced me back into my bed / physical reality.

Once I was back, it came extremely close — about 10 inches from my face — and seemed to be looking into me or scanning my mind. It stayed there for roughly 10 seconds, still morphing and glowing, then disappeared.

The whole time I had a strong feeling that I wasn’t supposed to be out there and that the entity didn’t want me in that state. It clearly wanted me back in my physical body.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with a formless energy field forcing them back during a lucid dream or OBE and then coming in close like that?

Some context: I've had some vivid recall of some spontaneous experiences I've had in the astral a few times over the course of my life, but more recently in the last few months I've been more intentional about meditation, learning about conscious lucid dreaming and astral travel techniques, and working on myself to clear out of lot of noise and subconscious fear etc. This experience comes after about a month of more intentional practice.

TL;DR: (This is pretty long) I had a very vivid experience of starting out in what appeared to be the streets of a city in a lower astral realm, then becoming lucid as I walked around, then raising my vibration to rise higher and higher into the air, then was surrounded by light before waking up.

The lower astral city, and become very lucid

I remember being in some sort of dirty dive bar like establishment, and there were large pretty obese people sitting in booths drinking and eating. One of them raised a glass of beer (?) to me and asked me to join him in drinking (he did seem kind of friendly) but I turned him down. I next remember looking at the bar area, and seeing really obese pig like people kind of slumped over the bar in their seats. Some of them were nearly naked, and more pig like in appearance than people like. The bartender told me they were there for anything, including sex (which seemed revolting to me in the moment), but I got the impression they were all trying to indulge some addiction to drinking and the bar environment, but I wasn't quite sure.

I walked out of the bar into some relatively narrow street, and everything became really clear and sharp. I noticed all kinds of details in the street, and saw other shops etc. as I walked. It then suddenly occurred to me to look down at my hands, and that's when the clearest lucidity of the whole experience hit me. I remember being super excited while looking at my hands and telling myself "Ok if you're really lucid remember something, like 4-3-2-1", and I repeated the number sequence to myself while looking at my hands and it seemed to work! I was fully lucid, and walked around and away from the more cramped streets I was looking at.

"City center" area, having fun!

I next found myself in a more upscale looking part of the city, with taller buildings and better paved streets. I was at some intersection when I started to get happier and more joyful, and realized I could jump really high! I spent some time jumping from ledge to ledge of some tall buildings around the intersection area I was in. I saw some other people sitting higher up on ledges too, and I got the impression that they were also trying out some new ability, or maybe they were inspired because the saw me, but I wasn't sure. I noticed I was getting higher and higher, and I started to have longer sustained periods of just floating and feeling really good. And that's when I noticed some beings who were really starting to not like my presence there for some reason.

"Dementor" beings, getting chased

The beings looked like tattered flying black cloaks, and I remember calling them dementors when I first saw them because they really resembled that. However, I quickly realized they were actually just people wearing some sort of long black tattered cloaks, with some sort of masks on to obscure their faces! I was really shocked because it seemed like they could fly, or at least float for periods of time, and they were rising up off the street level directly towards me. I remember them saying something like "There's another one, stop him!" or something like that. I remember I wasn't afraid of them, just really shocked that they seemed mad I was doing what I was doing, and then shocked again that it seemed like they could fly up after me.

Raising vibration, entering the light realm, then waking up

I remember thinking to myself, "Think loving thoughts think loving and happy thoughts", and I starting floating upwards away from the ground and city much more quickly. The dementor people followed me for a while, but then they fell away back towards the ground. I kept rising and rising and feeling more and more joy and happiness! Then it seemed like a very quick transition in the atmosphere and I was surrounded by light. Everything everywhere was a golden light that penetrated my body and everything.

Suddenly, everything stopped being light, and I was staring into the face of a woman. I think she was trying to teach me to use a pencil, and I realized it must have been a memory I had when I was very young. I realized it must have had something to do with the joy I was feeling, like maybe it was a happy experience I had when I was a little kid, and that was the memory that was the source of my ability to rise higher into the air and into the light filled environment.

As I was thinking about this, I suddenly snapped awake, and was back lying in my bed. I wrote this whole experience down in my dream and astral experience journal, which has been a habit of mine for over a decade now.

What I think about this...

Overall, I would call this an astral experience, that maybe began from an earlier dream state. I've had lots of vivid "normal" dreams, but the quality of this experience was quite different, leading me to believe it wasn't simply a more lucid normal dream. I think it may have been something like a spontaneous "dream exit" into the astral, but not quite sure.

I'm still working on exiting my body in a more fully lucid way, rather than rely on spontaneous dream exits or similar. I've felt some aspects of the vibration stage a few times before while trying out the wake-back-to-sleep method, but I'll keep trying out what works for me and report back when I'm successful!

I’ve been actively trying to astral project for about a month now. I often get strong vibrations, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’ve never been able to actually separate. Until a few nights ago, when something happened that I’m still trying to make sense of.

I was dreaming, and partway through I realized I was lucid. My first thought was, “Perfect, now I can go out of my body.” The moment I thought that, I found myself lying in my own bed. Then it was like a trap door opened up under my mattress, and I fell backwards through the bed and out of my body.

The fall had a very specific shape to it. My back was rounded and leading the way down, with my arms and legs trailing up behind me, sort of a C shape, like falling backwards into deep water. While I was falling, I remember consciously telling myself not to get excited or scared, or I’d wake up.

Then I was in my bedroom. Everything looked dark and the same, except the edges of everything in the room were glowing slightly, a warm yellow-orange colour, almost like each object was outlined in light. I had a strong sense that something or someone was in the room with me, but I never saw them. I remember feeling that it felt real but then it just felt like I woke up.

So it felt like a crossover between a lucid dream and an out-of-body experience, and I’d love input from people who know this territory better than I do:

1. Does this sound like a lucid dream that turned into a genuine OBE, or a dream about having an OBE? Is there a way to tell the difference?
2. Has anyone else exited by falling or sinking through the mattress, back first? Most of what I’ve read describes rolling out or floating up, so the trap door feeling surprised me.
3. For those who got stuck at the vibration stage early on, did your first real exit come through a dream like this?

Thanks so much. I look forward to your comments.

I am currently hooked up to a Holter monitor for a test, and I just astral projected. It is common for me to astral project. There’s always a snap back when I come back into my body. It feels like an electric shock. I usually have a full body snap back, but sometimes part of my body experiences it more than others. Today, I snapped back into my body only in my left leg. Now my left leg hurts. I just need to get up and walk around. Spirit said the reason I snapped back into my leg is because of the Holter Monitor. It couldn’t enter into my chest so it chose my leg. I wonder if the Holter Monitor report even recorded that snap back. A snap back feels like electricity, so I wonder if it was recorded. How would I even tell my doctor I astral projected during the test? They would think I am crazy.

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