WILD
Using a new astral projection technique I finally have another beautiful experience.
For the last couple of months I have been trying a mixture of techniques to achieve astral projection but none have been successful. Since my last experience I had continued to use the original technique I had started off with, which I had found to be very successful but this required me to wake up naturally, which I am no longer able to do now that lockdown is over. I am back at work full-time, meaning that I am setting an alarm in the mornings. I tried using my old technique at the weekends but it had stopped working for me altogether. Is the reason for this due to the fact that I am trying to AP less often or is it because of the last experience had caused a bit of anxiety and therefore fear is stopping any further experiences? I am not sure what the answer is.
I started to incorporate new techniques during the week that aims at keeping the mind awake while the body sleeps. As you can imagine this is very tricky to do and needless to say I couldn’t do it. I have not had any experiences worth writing about. However, while in sleep on about two or three occasions my mind has become consciously aware that I’m going through the portal/tunnel of light/energy and I do recall anticipating what is going to come next knowing that I am now at the beginning of an AP experience. After exiting the tunnel/portal my memory cannot recall what happened next. I have also felt vibrations in my body after coming out of sleep and feeling a slight separation beginning to happen but nothing had come of it.
I was feeling very frustrated with the fact I had learnt this weird and wonderful skill that I had been totally unaware was possible to have, being able to induce the experience whenever I had a strong intention to now not being able to bring the experience to fruition. After continuing to read many book s and listening to podcasts about AP I came across an app recommendation which was Lucidity. This app contained five different techniques that could be used to achieve AP which were all abbreviated (as shown in the above image on the left). I was unsure which one to focus my attention on for the next few days so I asked my Guides for help. This is a subject in itself which I will be writing about soon in this blog. I asked my Guides which one of these techniques will work for me. I then go to grab my dream/AP journal to begin writing a plan of action that I will begin to practice until my sign is given to me. But before I go to open up the journal I notice a sticker on the front cover of my book (right of the image above)… and there was my sign…..WILD.
So I tried the WILD technique and it worked first time!
Flying Without Sight
My blog about my creative and spiritual journey through art and Astra Projection.
I went into a deep meditation for 30 minutes before bed to get myself into a good mindset before my OBE and I woke at 1am. After getting up to go to the bathroom I then repeated ‘I am strong, I am flying, I am out of body’ before I went back to sleep. Like the previous experience, I was again dreaming and sensed the electricity flowing in my physical body so I focused my attention on my toes then move it to my foot and I said in my mind ‘I am flying’. Straight away I floated out of my body and rushed through the white tunnel/portal in a blur. Then I felt I was flying very fast but not being able to see anything. Just a white haze around me but it felt exhilarating none the less. I said ‘Take me to Nirvana’ and I continued flying, sensing the motion and feeling excited and free as I sense the vastness around me. After a few moments I could make out foliage underneath me going past in almost a white blur. I felt so happy and I remember saying ‘I am powerful, I am strong’. I felt these affirmations were vibrating through me with such power as I was saying them out loud. It was amazing. I wanted to change my surroundings before I would get pinged back in my body so I requested to go to Andromeda but I run out of steam and got pinged back before anything happened.
Moving forwards I really need to demand clarity or awareness with great intention next time as I understand from other peoples experiences that this will work for me. Taking the time to meditate before bed really helped with a more positive experience. I feel this is going to be a ritual of mine.
Moving From a Dream to Astral Projection
My blog about my creative and spiritual journey through art and Astral Projection.
So this method of achieving astral projection was new to me as I got there via a dream unintentionally. So I set my alarm for 12.45am after going to bed at 9pm and I am dreaming. I begin to notice while dreaming that I can sense the ‘electricity’ feeling in my physical body. This makes me become more aware and I know what I have to do. So I begin to manipulate that energy. I pull the energy to the top of my head and mentally ‘squeeze’ it which causes me to rush through this light tunnel/portal that I often go through before I experience an OBE. The only difference now is the portal is white and no longer has a green/blue tinge to it. While travelling through the tunnel I am aware that I am astral projection and I am anticipating what I am going to experience this time. I can’t see much apart from movement and white light. Seconds later I find myself gazing up at a ceiling and appears I am travelling through corridors in a fluid movement.
Then some people come into focus at my side who are looking down at me. I sense that I am in a hospital and these are doctors because they are in white and they seem concerned while I am being rushed through the corridors. I have a man in a white gown at my feet and a lady with dark bobbed hair to my right and I think to myself that I need to get the lady’s attention to let her know that I’m ok and there is no need to worry. So I look at her intently and I smile. She then looks at me and returns a warm friendly smile.
Now after this experience I have stopped watching anything negative or scary the night before I intend to have an OBE because on this plane it is VERY sensitive to thought. So saying this, I vaguely remember feeling a bit apprehensive at one point then automatically I find myself being grabbed by two odd looking mischievous characters who appear to my left. They march me down the corridor while holding onto me. I am not scared by this but more annoyed that I can’t investigate this experience more and find out who those people were.
I am mainly focused on doing some proper exploring which I have wanted to do from day one so I try flinging my ‘arms’ about to shake these two off me but movement is still a bit tricky for me and my ‘arms’ feel heavy. I feel that my apprehension/nervousness affected what I saw. Again it doesn’t appear that I have a body and I am just a point of consciousness. Moments later I get placed into a dark room and I hear the door slam shut and the turning of a key. But as soon as I find myself in this room I remember that it is possible to move through walls and doors etc. So that’s what I do but as soon as I walk through the door I am back in my body.
Moving forwards I will not watch anything negative on tv before I attempt an OBE as this seems to interfere with my experience. I want to have a clear mind and be full of positivity because your mind frame will spill over to this place.
Two Incomplete OBEs
I’m practicing with my prana energy and it is allowing me to exit my physical body and travel on the astral plane.
The night before I didn’t set as much intention as I normally do and I now recognise that it crucial to have an OBE. The intention is letting your subconscious know what you are wanting to achieve so repeating it over in your mind before sleep or writing it down will solidify the plan of action . Due to the lack of intention I put out there beforehand I kept forgetting to perform my normal techniques whenever I came out of sleep and it’s vital to do them in the first few seconds of coming out of sleep. I will write up my techniques in another blog. When I did remember what I should be doing those vital early seconds were long past. So I went with using my prana energy as described in my previous blog instead. I focused my energy from my toes to the top of my head and held it there while mentally squeezing it to the crown of my head.
I didn’t need to repeat this action because I immediately felt that I was lifted up vertically and then catapulted forwards in a blur. I couldn’t make out anything around me but I was aware that I was out of my body because I had that ‘knowing’ sensation that I am now familiar with. I didn’t feel the actual exit this time, however after reading many peoples experiences the exit isn’t always felt. The other determinate factor of how I knew I was out of my body is that I seem to go through a tunnel or portal at very high speed. the tunnel feels like it’s full of motion or energy which whizzes past me in a blur. Everything around me has a green/blue haze to it which is what I experience every time I have had an OBE.. Also the environment just has this different energy to it. It makes me a little nervous when I first enter this ‘place’ but I am not as scared as I was the first time. I think it doesn’t help that I cannot see clearly when I’m there. Apparently your vision does become crystal clear when you’ve experienced a few OBEs but this is my third time so it’s still very early days for me. Now I cannot make out any objects or any indicators of where I may be but oddly I can feel my eye mask still on my physical face. So I automatically go to take it off in the hopes that I can see better. The number one rule when you’re out of body is that if you think of the physical body you immediately get pinged back which was what happened to me.
Annoyed with myself I tried focusing on my energy again and a few moments later I feel my light energy/astral body inside me but I couldn’t seem to get it out this time and then seconds later that feeling went.
So moving forwards I have decided that the intention is crucial. You just need to prepare your subconscious on what you want to do so I will go back to writing out my plan and repeat them in my mind before I drift to sleep. Lastly, I need to remember to not think of my physical body.
One night this week I had played around with my inner energy…moving it around like a wave for about 30 minutes before I went to sleep and I woke up at some point in the night with my ears ringing and the energy was moving itself up and down my body without my mental direction. I then felt my consciousness move inwards as though it was going to go deep within me. I wish I could describe the feeling better but I was very drowsy and it was my subconscious trying to take me there. I was not fully awake at this point but the feeling was not familiar to me and I felt panic and before anything could actually happen that pulling sensation to go deeper then stopped. I just need to surrender to whatever my consciousness wants to show me.
Stuck Mid-Transition
My experiences with Astral Projection. I have had two experiences so far in the last two weeks and today I get stuck mid-transition.
I was drifting in and out of sleep a few times between 4am and 7.45am and during this period I ran through the techniques I needed to perform to exit my body. I had tried these a few times before falling back asleep and it was starting to get light outside. I thought to myself that I really need to be getting up for the day but I thought I’d keep pushing through with the techniques a little longer. I then had an image behind my eyelids, of being in space. I could see thousands of stars in the far distance and I thought instinctively to focus on my energy/chi that I could feel prickling under my skin. I drew this energy from the bottom to the top of my body and then mentally squeezed that energy when it reached my head. Now, after reading Dr Joe Dispenza’s book ‘Becoming Supernatural’ and also watching a video on Youtube that was explaining a similar topic, I committed myself to doing some of the recommended breathing techniques that helps activate the pineal gland. The idea is to focus your attention from the root chakra and following the focus all the way to the top of your head or to the third eye (depending on which technique you’re following). As you start your attention at the root chakra you inhale a breath while clenching the muscles in the root chakra as well as clenching the stomach and throat muscles as it travels up and when the energy reaches the final destination (third eye or top of the head) you hold the breath and focus on that area.
I started doing these randomly throughout the day even before I experienced my first AP. Since performing these breathing exercises I have noticed that whenever I am still, such as when I am lying in bed, most of the time I can feel the energy prickling under my skin. So when I saw the image of being in space I decided to pull that energy to the top of my head and mentally squeezed it there and as I did I began to exit my body. With my eyes still closed I could feel my body lighten and then there was that ‘knowing’ that I am now familiar with, which is telling me that I can now leave my physical body. As I began to exit I immediately had audio hallucinations, which were the same as before. I could hear my daughter moving around outside my bedroom door. I knew they were not real and I continued trying to move the energy up again as I seemed to be stuck in mid-transition. So I asked, in my mind, for assistance. I have read that some people have been helped when trying to exit and have felt a hand grab them and pull them out but what I got instead was a mans voice ask ‘You want to get out?’, another hallucination? I continue to ask for assistance but without luck. I then realised that my right foot was tucked under my left thigh, which is sometimes how I sleep. But when attempting to AP apparently a lot of people can achieve it when they’re on their back and legs straight down and slightly apart. Thinking that this was the problem I stupidly moved my leg and I was fully back in my body. You are not supposed to move a muscle when trying to AP or think of your physical body otherwise it halts the process.
What I took away from this experience is that I seem to be able to manipulate this prana energy that I can feel inside me to help in exiting. I need to experiment with this energy and I need to continue to follow my intuition. Also when I feel my energy/astral body I should not think of my physical body nor move it otherwise it’ll prematurely stop the process.
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After experiencing vibrations and sleep paralysis one night I discovered that they are precursors for an astral projection/out of body experience. I spent two weeks researching this area and the following week I have two first hand experiences.
I would have never imagined that my first blog would be about Astral Projection/Out of Body Experience
Three weeks ago I was in bed and became aware during the night that I was unable to move. I was not fully awake and yet I was not asleep. I have had this experience before and it’s known as sleep paralysis, which we all have every night but we are unaware of it because we are in a deep sleep. Along with this paralysis I felt a very strong pulsing sensation flowing up and down my body. From the top of my head to my feet. I felt that these combined sensations were building up to a peak of some sort. After a couple of moments I became completely conscious and I immediately felt panic and eventually pulled myself out of this ‘state’. I went online the next day to do some research because that energy was something I had never consciously felt before and I wanted to know whether anyone else had experienced the same thing before. It was completely new to me and the energy that was travelling through my body was quite intense and startling. I wanted to know what it all meant. As I was doing some digging I came across links to Astral Projection (AP)/Out of Body Experiences (OBE). Apparently these sensations are felt in the hypnagogic stage of sleep, which is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep or the hypnopompic stage, which is the transition state from sleep to wakefulness. Apparently the wave like energy and sleep paralysis are precursors to an AP/OBE. I was very intrigued by this so I decided to take a nap that same day to see if I could muster up the same sensations. It came again and so did the automatic fear which caused it to stop once again.
AP was something I was unfamiliar with BUT I am an open minded person and so I began to do some more research into it; podcasts, books, articles and after finding a particularly in-depth technique online with a supposedly high success rate, I followed these instructions to the T…. and then I experienced my first Astral Projection.
After using a particular technique it was around 6.30AM and I was beginning to wake up. I had been sleeping on my back and I felt that I wanted to roll on my side to get more comfortable. Part of the technique to have an AP/OBE was to roll over as soon as soon as I woke up but I had forgotten everything about wanting to this in those first few seconds…I was rolling over purely to get more comfortable. So in those first few seconds as I turned my head into the pillow to roll over, with my eyes still closed, I saw a bright light ping on behind my eyelids and a slight buzzing noise in my ears. I froze as I wondered what was going on…still with my eyes closed but by this time I was now fully conscious and no longer in-between wakefulness and sleep. My head was the only part of me that was ‘out’ as I hadn’t even rolled the rest of my body over. As I became aware of these sensations and remembering what i was trying to achieve before I had gone to bed and during the night too, it dawned on me that I had been successful in what I was trying to achieve. I felt like I was peering through a veil at that moment. It is very hard to describe what it felt like but I instantly knew that this was it and I could leave my body. It was an instant knowing. I stayed still for a couple of seconds once my consciousness had caught-up and when it did I sensed that the glowing from behind my eyes was coming from me. In this brief pause I tried to calm my nerves and then began to roll the rest of my body over. I was fully conscious at this point. As I was doing this it was like pulling myself out of water and therefore there was a drag. It was a bit of an effort to pull myself ‘out’ so I felt for the side of my bed to get some leverage and all that time I was thinking ‘I cannot believe I have done it’ and totally gobsmacked that this was actually happening. I was also mentally preparing myself for the unknown.
In a split second I am standing at the bottom of my bed in my dimly lit bedroom. How did I get from from one moment lying on my bed to another moment of standing up over here? I then tried to focus on what I had written down for the tasks I wanted to do if I ever managed to have this experience, whilst trying to stay calm. I need to emphasise that I am not asleep I am fully awake with my normal thought processes and I know I am somewhere other than normal reality even though it appears similar to what my bedroom looks like, but I couldn’t analyse it too much at that time because it was dimly lit. Over excitement or fear can ping you back into your body which I had read many times so I was trying my best to stay calm. The first task was to look in the mirror. As soon as I have this thought I instantaneously see my reflection in my bedroom door and I can see my physical self staring back at me. I really wanted to bring more light to the room and make my vision clearer so I shout ‘Clarity now!’. I cannot feel these words vibrate through me as I ‘speak’ them, nothing was felt in my voice box, but they still appeared in my consciousness and I could also see my reflection in the door mouthing these words. I then try another technique to bring clarity and light to my vision and that is to rub my hands together in front of my face but I found this difficult to do as my arms felt numb. I try shouting ‘clarity now’ with so much force that i’m intentionally using my body as i force the words out. I see the reflection of me react the way I am intending but from where I am standing I don’t feel anything still and as I looked down I realise that I cannot see any part of my body…just the floor. It appears I am simply a point of consciousness. Before I could decide on my next move, as this threw me completely, I then began to sink through my floor boards. I do not feel anything as I float downwards and I see the room rising up and my bed rising up. I really wanted to do some exploring in this new environment as I know that these opportunities do not come frequently to most but I felt quite scared to leave my body behind. Why was I heading downwards? That wasn’t caused by me as I didn’t intend for that to happen. I felt that I didn’t have much control of what was happening and therefore my confidence took a little dip. I had read many times that the second you want to return to your physical body all you would need to do is to look at it or think of it and you’ll go straight back. Hence why I kept my focus away from the bed all this time so as to prolong the experience. I decided quickly that I wanted to get back and as soon as I thought that the experience ended and I became aware that I was back in my bed lying on my back and my whole physical body had this strong tingling energy all over me.
This amazing, frightening, beautiful and unbelievable experience blew my mind as it confirmed for me that we are not just our physical bodies. The words I am using do not do the experience justice at all. I had witnessed a part of me that I never consciously experienced before and it is something I am determined to explore more of.
Even though I never left my bedroom, I didn’t meet any Beings or even fly through our universe seeing amazing sights… this experience changed my outlook on life completely and has awakened a powerful desire to connect to something greater and to look more closely at my inner world. Before this experience I thought I knew the way our reality works but I now know that there is so much we do not know.
Next time I will work on controlling any fear as I know there is a whole lot more to investigate and more profound aspects of the ‘other side/s’. After having conversations with others on an AP Facebook group and reading books such as ‘Adventures Beyond The Body’ by William Buhlman and ‘Hacking The Out Of Body Experience’ by Robert Peterson it’s common to feel fear but the key is to control it. The knowledge I am receiving from all these avenues are encouraging and inspires me to work hard on honing my skills on achieving another OBE as often as I can. I have tried since then to do it once more but without luck. However the technique I used requires you to wake up naturally and it’s not possible to do this on the days I have to work so the weekends will be my time to practice. I keep a journal of my experiences and I will post when I have another OBE.
I believe this ability is available to all of us. It will take practice but if you’re serious about it and you can keep an open mind to it then I see no reason why you cannot achieve it too.