I am going back and forth in my head on how positive weed can be for this journey. Like I don’t want to have a negative association with it and don’t want to use it as an escape. I guess my main question is, does anyone here smoke a little still or maybe even drink here and there, and still able to actively dream/project willingly? I went sober for 7 days and it was great and was dreaming a lot, but then went back to smokin not even a lot, like max one joint a day and wasn’t attempting to project after I smoke. But I can’t tell if I’m thinking too hard about it and making it more of a big deal than it should be. I’ve been told the habit will just fall away easily when I truly want to stop and for those 7 days, it was the easiest that’s been, but then I picked it back up and now I’m back in the loop lmao

I feel like if you can visit the future from astral projection what if our subconscious does this and we only remember fragments while it’s happening physically? Just a thought!

I was able to find and crash a Huge Halloween Party in the astral last night; so, I made a Halloween Special about it. :-)

Enjoy and Happy Halloween!

Spooktacular Soiree

(It's really not that spooky.)

Are dream and astral realms somehow connected? Or are they completely separate?

As anyone here ever gotten meaningful help through AP? Like talked to a higher entity and gotten answers or guidance for real life problems like money, health or relationship? If so, how did their advice work out when/if you tried to apply it?

I’ve stumbled upon astral projecting on accident. A few years ago, it just happened and I didn’t even know what it was. Since then, and lots of research later I continue to try to go further and experience more. But the past year I’ve not been able to AP at all. Dry spell I guess. Normally it only happens through deep meditation during the day, never at night. But here’s the funny thing. About 3 weeks ago I bought grounding sheets for my bed, of course being skeptical but was willing to try anything for my chronic muscle pain. Night one sleeping on them, I AP’d for the first time in probably a year. And I think 2nd time it’s ever happened at night. I can now lay down in bed during the day with almost 100% success. So I guess I’m just wondering, would being grounded have an effect? I guess it would be too much to ask for a scientific explanation but has anyone had experience or anecdotal evidence? I just woke up once again from a strangely beautiful place so I thought I would ask.

Last night I meditated as I usually do, without giving too much detail, after entering a trance state I tried to do astral projection but I didn't succeed so I turned over on my right side and closed my eyes, only to realize that I could somehow see with my eyes closed.

Confused, I opened my eyes again and closed them again, I could still see, so I tried to visualize myself moving a hand and I could do it, it felt very real. Little by little and concentrating I was already standing up and I could see my room very clearly.

I realized that I could feel my body that was lying in bed and my body that was walking around my house at the same time (obviously, one felt much denser) and I had to stay really focused so I wouldn't lose it and just feel my physical body.

I took my time walking around and saw a couple of non human beings, it wasn't that big of a deal... A while later I thought about calling out to my deity but figured it would be better to do that another time since I wasn't so sure if what I was doing was astral projection or something else, and whatever it was I was just learning to focus enough to stay in that state...

Idk if it was astral projection, I didn't think you could feel both of your bodies at the same time and you had to be very focused on the ethereal one. Does anyone have any idea what it was? On the one hand I also thought it might have been something with my third eye, I had never been able to visualize so clearly and navigate a place.

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I need to understand what I experienced. Today, I had an astral projection. During this, I was greeted by a being named Azrael, who, as I’m now finding out, is known as the angel of death. What I don’t know is if he is good or bad. I asked him to show me things about the future, and although I saw very positive things for my life, there were other things related to family matters that affected me quite a bit.

My question is: What is Azrael’s true purpose? Why did he choose me? Is he good or bad?

*I don’t speak english, so this is a traduction.

I’ve AP’ed before, but this was different. It was the first time I didn’t feel like a “spectator.” It made me feel so uneasy that I had to post about it, this is my first post on Reddit ever so pls be nice.

“I don’t remember much about this dream but I remember knowing it was a dream. It was this alien like world where the people were varying shades of blue, green, and purple. They had large green stone buildings, think like green granite buildings with and bridges connecting them, they were massive. It was like it was both outdoors and indoors at the same time I don’t know how to explain it. The person I was with was also “dreaming” too, I told them don’t tell anyone we’re dreaming just try and blend in, as this could be dangerous. We are also the same colors of blue and green, almost as if we infiltrated the bodies of these alien citizens. They’re were lots of murmurs about some one / supreme leader that everybody follows and at that point I knew we should try and blend in as much as possible to prevent danger or being caught as not being one of them. They had these weird elevators that were extremely tiny, I’m talking like 1-3 people can fit and they’re touching. We see that these elevators go extremely high like 150+ floors we get in one and get almost to the top but I got a weird feeling. A feeling like I wanted to go down like I was scared to see what was at the top. In the hustle and bustle instead of getting in the up elevator I click the down arrow just as my companion gets in the up elevator. I cram myself into the elevator going down as my companion is ushered confusingly into the up elevator and we are separated. They go up and I squeeze into the down elevator with two other people. People are trying their best to squeeze into the down elevator that’s when I knew I made the right decision as it appeared that people were more interested in getting away and going down. The elevator flies down and it’s almost as if this is the elevator back to my physical body that is asleep and I wake up once the elevator hits the bottom. I think it was a place where sleeping spirits go to go to another plane, but I didn’t feel ready and felt scared so I came back to my body to wake up. “

Also I kinda woke up feeling guilty for sending homeboy up the elevator when I went down. Hope he’s doing well lol

First my lower body started to float upward after that my upper body. I reached a certain height in my room. It feels like real. I have no experience before like this. After that I looked at my hand. It can see. Then suddenly a white screen appeared like big movie screen. So many pictures started to appear. What I think appear there. Then a human standing behind me. He started to tease me. Suddenly a force pull me backward. I wake up. This was happened in the evening nap.

Is this astral projection or lucid dream or normal dream ?

I have never experienced this type of reality before any of my dreams!

I'm continuing my OBE journey after what I believe were successful attempts.

One thing that is frustrating me is that in all my "successful" attempts so far (I'd count 4-5 different nights, with 3-5 successful OBEs each night, typically one immediately after the other - ie after being "sent back").

I'd say realism is at 50-60% of real life. Mainly because sight is almost null (either I'm totally blind or I see very, very badly. I've had one or two situations only where I could see, even if not crystal clear).

The main problem I have so far is that the "trips" are very very short - I'd say 30 seconds or so.

I'm following Michael Raduga's method - which involves 3 goals once OBed:

1. go to a mirror and look at it (spoiler: sometimes I see a blur of myself, other times I don't see a reflection)

2. go eat something

3. do a personal goal

And this is what has ALWAYS happened so far:

1. I get up, go to the bedroom's bathroom, look at the mirror. I do other things on the way there and once there (mainly tactile experiences, which have been the most real aspect of my experience, where I feel the walls, the cold mirror, the metal faucet...)

2. I try to leave the bedroom area to go to the kitchen

3. I am open my eyes back in my body somewhere between 1 and 2.

I have never even reached the kitchen.

I wanted your feedback on whether it is normal for the experiences to be so short in duration (as mentioned, this is 30 seconds, 1 minute tops) and what can I do to prolong them.

When I attempt to get close to AP my heart starts pumping from the fear, I did some digging with AP throughout the years and I recall seeing that it can be really dangerous and my anticipation of what could happen frightens me, any way to overcome this?

I’ve astral projected once on accident, but when I realized what was happening my heart started racing and I was sucked back into my body and it almost happened on accident again on another occasion where my ears were ringing but my heart was racing and I brought myself out of it.

I had a pretty weird dream and then I woke up at 3 AM.

Then I went back to sleep and I had another dream during which I did a reality check and realized it is a dream. I tried to astral project and I think I managed to. (I felt vibrations and when I started floating the room looked similar to the hotel room I am in) I dodn't look at my body.

Afterwards I said: "Take me to the Gnostic Church". I teleported to a table and on the other side there was a humanoid bear. It startead roaring and everything got blurry.

Then I woke up in a normal dream.

Any interpretation?

I know it is possible because my mom has done it and she has never had a reason to lie to me, but I have not done it myself yet. I am just a little worried that I won't be able to come back if I do do it. How do I come back to reality ? Also my mom said she saw a door that was dark on the Inside but said she was too scared to go through it. Any ideas on what lies behind that door?

2 days ago I successfully unintentionally projected. However it was quite odd. After projecting I tried to fly(this is the first thing I try) but couldn’t so I assumed I wasn’t actually projecting so I looked at my bed and saw myself sleeping even then I was still in denial so I “touched” my hand and was instantly jolted awake then within seconds I was back asleep. What’s weird is I completely forgot until today

I came to this sub after doing meditation, please excuse if I'm not writing properly, I just tried my first try, and it took me to some weird dark place like a sky where I was surrounded by all the starts and my body was floating, my heart rate was going crazy and I can feel it, when I was in that state and I felt some one was taking my pants off of me what was that I felt, I just need some guidance and I'm feeling really light headed now and feel this strong buzz right on the middle of my forehead.

Straight to the point. I’ve always been a very conscious, rational, scientific person. Always tried to explain reality (wtv reality is) through these “parameters”. 1 year ago, I started to look into frequencies and how our brain could be affected by them. After a ton of research on the types of frequencies followed by the possible effects or our brain, somehow I got introduced to astral projection. Well, maybe the inner me trying to explain the spiritual through science. Ps- I have always been a guy that could easily have lucid dreams and sleep paralysis It came a day where I was asleep, woke up, went to the bathroom came back and tries to fall back asleep, like every human would do. Seconds after I have laid down a strong vibration started to happen in my WHOLE body. I can’t really describe because it felt like every single atom in my body was vibrating so strongly. Because in that time I have read about astral projection experiences, I thought to myself “stay calm, this is the beginning of an out of body experience, embrace it”. A few more seconds after I started to see some kind of light and for some reason I focused in that same light (maybe because it’s all pitch black, my body is vibrating like never before and I thought that was a good idea to focus on the light?! No idea). Suddenly I got projected to the middle of my room. At 1st everything was monochrome and it was like when u wake up and u see things blurry, a few seconds in and everything was clear and I was clearly conscious in the middle of my room. After this, the story is just me exploring the house in that state until my phone alarm goes off and woke form the best experience of my life. After this event and every time I try to explain to close friends I feel like I am talking about the most intimate personal experience I have ever had.

I was laying down and feeling tired and fell into sleep. This sleep lasted about 25 minutes, during which I had a dream. In this dream a certain event happened which made me become lucid. From that darkness I rememberd AP and decided to try and leave my body. My instinct was to make aa leap from my body which resulted in short but great burst of air that whooshed past me along with a weird clicking sound or sensation somewhere in my body that came and went with the air. It felt like I had “moved up” and I was seeing many small groups of circles colored red, green and blue in the center of my vision, similar to what is described my Oripheal in his book and in his cover of "the art and practice of astral projection". I noticed my body feeling heavy but I think the shock of the wind may of woken me up and or some noise that was happening outside of my room because the colors started to fade and my eyelights become light which led me to opening them and the session ended there. What are your guys thoughts on this, do you think I was close to APing? A very interesting experience for me.

Anyways anywho it was a black and white world, aka black white dimension maybe even perhaps the fifth dimension, the source code to all life? I wish i can go back i would just like to take a second look and interact with the surroundings in the area. edit: 2010 not 2012

I want to preface by saying that I don't believe that I have ever successfully AP nor have I really ever attempted this, but I believe what I am experiencing ties into AP. I am looking for advice. Back in June or July, I was meditating and visualized a doorway opening in front of me. I traveled to a garden, spent some time there, then came out of the meditation. Since then, my life has basically started to unravel. I started having entities speak to me and they have gained some control of my body. They create facial expressions for me, laugh when it's inappropriate, move my hips, have had intercourse with me. I thought of myself as a very spiritual person and had been using a pendulum to communicate with spirits since 2020. I believed these entities were "spirit guides" that were trying to guide me to my destiny. This has led to a divorce from a 10 year relationship, 3 psychiatric ward admissions, the loss of my full time job, isolation from friends/family, confusion (to say the least) for my daughter. There is pretty consistent chatter from them in my mind to the point that I have a very difficult time focusing. I want to also say that I have had multiple psychiatric evaluations and have been cleared each time. An antipsychotic did nothing to stop the chatter. These entities pretended to be spirit guides originally but have started to tell me the truth now about who they are and where they come from. They believe they are from the astral realm but are not sure of this. They don't know if they all died or had previous lifetimes or even how they got to where they are. They've basically explained that they just float around and communicate with each other in their own realm. They came across my "portal" and basically describe it as some sort of matrix that they can freely enter and leave on their own accord. When they enter this portal, it leads to them being inside of my body from what I understand. I have not used this portal to travel to any other realms. I just want to remove the entities and close the portal completely. Has anyone experienced something like this/has any advice to offer?

So i have sleep apnea and i understand ap isnt when you are asleep but my question is, will an apap machine help with astral projection because of similarity with sleep? Supposedly it helps increase your rem sleep through the night so would it do the same with ap?

The first time I tried to consciously AP in a while I started doing mental math in my head to keep myself awake (ik dork right xD) and eventually I started hearing random sounds and people talking and realized I was entering a dream state. At this point I started focusing more on relaxing my body and watching what is going on in my field of vision when my eyes were closed. The first time I did this my eyes “opened”- the space was pretty much black and looked like my room but it wasn’t- and I saw 100’s of what looked like wind spinners or geometric orbs spinning all around me and some made my vision blurry. Then out of nowhere a purple mist formed ever so slightly and morphed into this wooden door with a circular stained glass window that included all of the colors to the rainbow. I tried my best to get closer to the door, visually, but it kept getting further and further away until I couldn’t see it anymore. It reminded me of those crazy trip stories where the hallways are winding and the door is getting further and further away.

The next time I tried I went through the same things except when my eyes “opened” I saw this huge purplish-black flower that I remember thinking reminded me of a cannabis flower and all of the petals were falling off and onto me and my field of vision. I stopped because my neck felt uncomfortable lol-

What do you all make of this?

I have started listening to the gateway tapes and have so far only listened to orientation and wave 1 discovery 2. But i don't understand how exactly the tapes are going to help me. They don't talk about astral projection techniques or anything but more like relaxation audio. I have only listened to 2 tapes for now maybe other one would be more helpful. How did this tape help you all achieve AP? or which tape exactly. Do i have to listen to all of them before i'll be able to AP?

hello! im not necessarily in danger or anything, just a little confused and wondering if people who are better at shifting could give me some guidance. just warning you this is so niche LMAO so if you can't give me advice please don't worry about it. i also honestly did enjoy it so there is that!

for context, im a practicing witch of quite a few years, and i have NEVER successfully projected before yesterday. and it was on complete accident. i had heard of people projecting, and i figured i just couldnt due to being a system (i have did/osdd; im the host) or something.

i was in bed after i did some......... self soothing (not sure if it has anything to do w it) and i was singing a song with my headmates and i heard an intense electronic-like 'shiiiing' noise that cut my headmates off. i had thought thw noise came from outside, but didn't. things felt a little different when i looked at my body though, it was my bedroom, but i knew i most definitely wouldn't be staying in it for very long. i closed my eyes and focused on the resulting vibration from the shift, and then i focused harder on the song we were singing. shiiiiing i kept my eyes closed at this time. but i could see (albeit blurily) i was a sea creature (think nessie) in the middle of an ocean, on a boat.

captain, i presume, asked me who i was, and since im spiritual, i knew i could change my form with ease in the ether so i turned into me with some pirate clothes on and gave him a name ive been thinking about going by. we talked for a little and apparently i was in atlantis. apparently i had phased right through their gates, and if i remained the bulky nessie thing, i might've been fine. this was all the captain's theory, at least. im still trying to confirm all that/any of that at all.

then i felt my connection getting unstable. captain had said 'they' had found me, and were pulling me up soon. he gave me his name before i got yoinked like a disobedient cat.

'oceanus' - does this name ring any bells? to me it sounds way too cliche to be an atlantean's name, but do any of us know about that culture? perhaps its just how its translated? because i know i can't be making this up.

and then another supposed atlantean was speaking with me in a teal expanse. we were just floating there. he called me something along the lines of a sneaky traveler, and asked me how i did that he called himself 'indus' (yes like the river). i told him i knew as much as he did. so he sighed and asked if i wanted to know what was happening. i nodded. indus went on to say to be careful sharing a real name, to stay within this 'dimensional register' and to be generally respectful and cautious. then he asked me if i wanted to go back home. i asked if i could check on someone i hadnt seen nor heard from in a really long time. he allowed it. and sent me right over

after i did my checking on i called out for my headmates to yank on the string. thats something i'd heard from avid projectors so i figured it would work. i heard someone yell for me to sing any song and i also felt a slight tugging. cue 'sea shanty medley' by home free. suddenly im whipping down highways and through forests to get back to the body. i was singing as loud as i could, in hopes of going faster. after what felt like a few minutes of unadulterated flight, i feel an impact, take a sharp inhale and then exhale. this was when i bolted to grab my grimoire to write down what happened and what i did.

ive honestly felt a little uneasy since that whole thing happened. this is because indus left a little warning for me. that a lot of entities 'know i exist' now and they 'know my scent'. as i said before, im a practicing witch, so i have protections for that sort of thing. but i still can't help but be a little shaken up by that because?????

so does anyone have a n y advice they could impart? i never thought i would successfully astral project, like ever, let alone doing it by accident of all things. ive also heard things similar to the electronic shing, so reading this subreddit is alleviating me some.

tldr; i accidentally astral projected to what might have been have been the city atlantis by singing a song and then i got a slap on the wrist and told to be more careful. happened to anyone else? anything helps.

Context- I AP, am in some mall like place, ask a question about orbs. Nobody wants to answer. I mean, I literally thought maybe they couldn't see me, so I say outloud, can they not see me. And one woman says yes, we can see you. Immediately get the "I'm not welcome vibe" as I'm walking away from this group of like 10 people. I notice a man's eyes. It's like yellowish, the whole thing. Picture human eyes but mustard yellow with a shine. As I'm analyzing his eye, i think to myself, maybe my consciousness isn't filtering the data properly. Then everyone, including him, smoothly morphs into like reptile humanoids versions of themselves. Green scaly skin with these yellow eyes and almost all have no hair. And then i notice how they all are looking at me. It startled me, and I woke up. And I've never had anything morph in front of me other than one time doing it to myself in a mirror.

A really strange night. I need your opinion.

I fell asleep peacefully, then I woke up, I first had a chill, I was afraid, then I started to see 5 human shadows leaning over me. Curiosity quickly took over my fear, I stood there looking at them, they sometimes touched my eyes. I think it's sleep paralysis, the problem is that I was convinced that I could move, but I didn't, I was fascinated by what I saw.

Then I went back to sleep, I started to dream and then in my dream a shelf started to fall on me, I could avoid it but I suddenly became a little lucid and I said to myself "what if we try quantum immortality? » (I also believe that since certain things all my dreams are very realistic) and when I ate the shelf in my face, it was as if my consciousness was coming out of my body, it was very intense, then I opened my eyes and I saw my room in darkness and when I closed my eyes I saw a bright light, I opened and closed my eyes for 5 minutes it was crazy, then I went back to sleep, there light and the strange feeling of leaving the body disappeared.

I would love to know your interpretation, thank you in advance 🙏

i had the idea to use AP as inspiration for storytelling. what if i go on a journey through the astral with the intention of "finding the sun". i look for directions and let whatever happens on this way, happen, as i look for the sun. the underlying intention is not to find the sun, but to create a story. i think this would be an awesome way to do that.

ive never fully AP'd and wonder: would this work? can i use AP to let my stories write themselves? in a world where i can go anywhere i want, can there be a place, where i cannot go? (God / the sun)

I've been thinking a lot about the potentialities in the astral since according to some it's highly impressionable to thoughts now I wonder if everything that the mind can conjure will manifest ?

it has been months since I last projected. my last projections were so flawed. some had blurry visions. some had flickering visions. sometimes i had no vision at all but I could feel my surroundings.

I noticed that I started to experience this less until I could not anymore. I went from going out from my body easily after entering the hypnogagic state to finding myself being sucked back into my body even tho i just got my chest out of my body until I just could not experience it anymore.

however, just recently during my afternoon sleep, i wondered about this thing and how I could not AP anymore. then I fell asleep.

to my shock, i found myself aware that I was sleeping which triggered a hypnogagic state. vibrations were coming in, colors were showing in my vision until I attempted to go out of my body again.

I successfully went out. But it was suspiciously different. I was not in my room. The location were i woke up was at a family house in another town. I found my cousins who were originally living there. however, what made it suspicious was finding my Mom there who is currently not in this country right now.

That made me think.. was that AP? did i wake up in a different reality? or universe? or was it lucid dreaming?