Astral Projection Experience Explained

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 7 years before Jul 30, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

From Pavlina"s Forum:

Midwinter Mist Wrote:

I had a bit of an odd dream in which I was... astral projecting?

I was waking up in this dream. Of course, at that point, I didn't know it was a dream. Suddenly, I feel my dream body paralyzing. My body immediately feels somewhat 'fuzzy', and I could feel some sort of shift in myself. It's the sort of symptoms I've read about, and I wondered if by accident I was finally trying to astral project. However, there's a major downside and that's my sudden struggle to breathe. Then, I didn't feel good. I just felt worried about this feeling. I suddenly thought to myself... "What if I'm being violated."

So, I started to call upon angels and imagine white light, but it wasn't helping. I managed to clap my hands and snap out of all of it, but like tiredness dragging me down, my body suddenly went back into it, my eyes closing to the darkness, the weight holding me down and the returning of all the symptoms.

I could remember the title of a topic I saw on RPGFO. It's the topic somebody wrote (forgot who) about being scared by an accidental astral projection.

However, this time, I managed to shift away the negativity and get rid of that feeling of 'violation'. However, it was still hard to breathe, but I wondered if that was just the paralyzed body breathing on a very low scale during rest. I was trying to move my astral body, but ended up shaking my head to get out, but once again I was pulled down through a feeling of tiredness and again it went on, but this time I decided I wanted to take all the advantage.

I started trying techniques to make it happen, but it was difficult. I kept trying to open my eyes but I could only open them to a blur. They kept closing to tiredness.

Eventually, I was in my room, but it had changed. I can't remember for sure, but I think I might have just decided to quit and somehow just got up. But this time I checked my fingers, decided to count, and I knew I was dreaming. The only downside is that my awareness was very low, so despite I knew I was dreaming, I still shrugged a lot of things off as being normal.

Anyway, I started to play about with the curtains. It was the night, and I didn't want people seeing through the windows, so I kept thinking of colours and then rolling then these curtains, one after another. It was silly but a little funny. Then, it came back to me - my priority. I want to meet my guide. So, I jumped through the window, but by this point I was being pulled back and forth between being lucid and simply dreaming. I ended up in another dream, logging on to these very forums to talk about it.  [Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)]

Then, at some point, I was suddenly lucid again, but again at a mild level. I was outside at the location in which I've always planned to meet the guides, but I was distracted by noises. I was floating above my house, which appeared to be a mansion now (lol), and I stopped time, and then made sure all went silent, which it did. Great, but then, quite like an independent agent, somebody was defying it. I heard a tapping sound, wondered how it was possible, then looked down to see a man in a white suit. He sort of looked like a business man, and had a bag of letters like a postman. He gave me a letter, calling it a reminder, which I unfolded and boy was it long! This paper just kept on going and content was written on every page. While going through it, I actually saw an address and told myself that I should visit that address in a dream, because let's face it, that could prove quite an interesting ordeal.

Anyway, I got to this point in the letter where it said:

Dear Reminder,

- and then there was a lot of stuff that I didn't even try to read, sadly. If I were lucid enough, I would have investigated it. And, then, sadly, I was pulling away from that dream and soon woke up.

There was another dream earlier that night with lots of cats. Lots and lots of cats. I've made it quite clear that I want to use cats as a way of triggering my lucid dreams, because I dream of them all the time. I've tried to make this point in my head, directing it to guides, and my dreams are starting to provide more and more cats, but I'm still not snapping out of it in the dream. I feel that was an attempt, even by my own self, to get me to become lucid.

Anyway, a weird dream. I don't know if that actually was me trying to astral project. I don't know if this man was in fact a guide or the mail man of a higher world. In any case, it was all quite interesting.

MiBeloved's Response:

I just want to clear up a few things. First of all, the experience is normal for a beginner to astral project experiences. The second thing is that astral projection is happening each time the physical body sleeps.

This might sound weird because most people on the Internet do not say so. However I am insisting on it, stating that astral projection is happening every time the physical body sleeps but we say it is astral projection, when a person becomes aware during the separation process of the two bodies.

Lucid dreaming is when your awareness is shifted over to the subtle level while the astral body is still inter-spaced into the physical one but in astral projection, the astral body de-synchronizes from the physical one.

The paralysis occurs when you become aware of the two bodies and they are not in perfect sync and that can happen both when they are about to separate and when they are about to be fused into each other.

The logic in this is that since astral projection is happening every time the physical body sleeps, then there must be a psychic mechanism in the psyche which operates the separation and then re-unification of the two bodies. And this also means that if you could monitor that mechanism you could decrease the frequency of sleep paralysis experiences and have more astral experience which are favorable.