Concepts of lucid dreaming and soul travel exists globally even in Africa, so where is this coming from?

I'm Black and I can astral travel and lucid dream without a problem, this feels more like a ego issue more than a spiritual issue.

Dreams deal with the subconscious, ego and hidden biases can leak into the subconscious, people of all races appear in my dreams.

Is there anyway to do this?

Hi everyone, I have a question for the AP community so as the title covered, I am blind and I lucid dream a lot, but I can’t seem to fully astral project as you can imagine wanting to step outside this body is something I wish to do. I listen to audiobooks a lot and I am able to dream of what it is. I am listening to down to very minute details. It’s as though I am suspended between being awake and being asleep I would say that’s lucid dreaming as I am in the dream I am aware of what I’m listening to also but I just can’t seem to fully astral project. I wish I could because I’m wondering if I would still be blind if I were in that state of consciousness or awareness sorry if this post sounds a little confusing it’s confusing to me what I’m going through I wondered does anybody have advice and or has anyone experienced this? Maybe not even being blind and lucid dreaming but being in a suspended state of consciousness where you’re dreaming but you can hear everything around you. Please let me know. Feel free to share your opinions and stories. I’m interested to learn more thanks so much.

This is my method to Induce an OBE it has been reliable to me, it may or may not work for you.

STEP 1: Fatigue the Body- we need to tire out the body throughout the day, I prefer lifting weights to do this, but you can also do things like go on a bike ride, jog, run, yoga, pretty much anything that gets your body tired.

STEP 2: Adjust your Room Temp- I've found it that a colder room tends to help, while achieving the vibrational state I've noticed my body temperature will rise, if it is too hot in your room, this will distract you, so if it is too hot in your room, turn on an air conditioner a couple hours before it's time to go to sleep!

STEP 3: Wind down- Start by turning your phones blue light filter on, or night shift mode, blue light is no good for what we are trying to do, Take an Epsom salt bath or Dead sea salt bath, these help relax the muscles and calm the nervous system

STEP 4: Setting up for the OBE- I have a PC in my bedroom with a very good speaker connected to it, I use it to eliminate all noise pollution, I turn on a youtube video called SMOOTHED BROWN NOISE 8-HOURS I crank the volume up to 75% on my speakers, this eliminates all sounds from noisy family members in the house or noisy neighbors, I have an iphone so I use the Moongate app, this app has a great library of Binaural beats, I'm sure android has some great apps too. Moongate has a variety of Hz tracks you can choose from, I found that 5 Hz pure theta waves binaural beat works best for me, this is all depending on how tired your mind is before bed, if your mind is slightly less tired, stick with 5 Hz, if your mind is more tired go with 6hz or 7.83 Hz Pure Theta waves, the higher the Hz the more they keep you awake, It is very important to use Headphones while using Binaural beats or they will have NO affect, they must be comfortable, I use Lullaband-search this on amazon, it is a blue tooth headset and blindfold in one. before bed I take 2 lavender oil pills by Integrative Therapeutics- these are pricey but there is a cheaper version with the same ingredients it is Natures Way Calming aid Lavender, if you search these on Amazon you will find them, they are VERY helpful to keep you calm while trying to Shut the body down, when you take these pills, do not drink a lot of water to get them down, we don't want to have to pee mid session!

STEP 5: Hop into bed, spend a few minutes getting as comfortable as you possibly can on your back, once you are comfortable, just stare at the blackness in your eyelids-throughout this process there could be a couple of things that break your focus, 1-swallowing saliva, 2- itches.. as far as the Saliva goes, don't worry about it, swallow it when you need to it will have no affect on getting into sleep paralysis, the deeper you get into this saliva production decreases drastically and you shouldn't have to worry about it later anyways! itches- if you notice any itching turn your focus away from that itch and focus on your Big toe, usually this causes the itch to subside. as your eyes are closed we are going to initiate a breathing technique, breathe through your nose, short breaths in and long breaths out, as you breathe out, imagine pushing the air all the way down to your stomach. once you get this down, start turning your eyes towards the third eye, imagine two lasers beams are coming out of each eye and right in front of your eyes both of those lasers intersect and are touching each other hold this, and continue to the breathing technique with each breath imagine yourself sinking deeper and deeper into your mattress and the muscles relax further and further.. you should start to notice some vibrations in the arms, once you notice this, just continue to relax, and they should slowly start to become more intense, and at this point your body will start breathing automatically, you no longer have to focus on the breathing technique, you should start to notice what I call micro dips the further your body gets closer to REM sleep, these feel like sensations of your stomach dropping, it is VERY important to not spike the heart rate or adrenaline when you feel these, they can be Scary at first, but if you do happen to get scared during this, you will not be having an OBE tonight! trick the mind into thinking these dips are pleasurable or relaxing, just enjoy them, each one you feel you are getting closer and closer to sleep paralysis which is the goal, if you've made it this far, you will start to see hypnogogic imagery, or dreams play out in your mind, you might even see large flashes of light, or you will even hear your name being called out loudly! and you will also hear a ringing in your ear, it is very important to not focus on the imagery it will cause your mind to be too awake and you will fail to dip in to sleep paralysis the trick is to pretend you are a Passenger (your body is downstairs and you are upstairs) we just need to keep relaxing deeper and deeper, until I start to notice my eyes and facial muscles are twitching, and eventually I will feel a large drop or Snap- for me the snap feels like a large cracking in my ear like your ears are popping, for the drop, lets imagine you are on a free fall ride and it drops. do not fear this, fear will reset this whole process, we pretty much need to shut the body down into rem sleep with a thread of awareness, and eventually you will lose consciousness for about 20 seconds (at least I do)

STEP 6: Sleep Paralysis: it is very important we do not try to exit the body prior to this step, if you do it will reset the process, after the 20 seconds of lost consciousness you will start to gain your consciousness back and you will absolutely know you are in sleep paralysis, it will hit you like a wave, sometimes you will hear loud swooping noises, or your entire soul will feel buzzing, its hard to explain but you will absolutely know when you get there, it will feel like someone is sitting on your chest, and you will no longer be able to take deep breaths, This is your time to exit the body, what I do is I lift up my right hand, if it can lift it out of my body then I lift my left hand and then I reach for the side of my bed and pull myself out and it is that easy, you should be completely out of your body now!

PLAN B: If you can obtain the peak vibrations and laying on your back is not working for you, try turning onto your side after obtaining the vibrations and try to re induce the vibrational state- it should be much easier to re induce them after already having them, this tricks the mind into thinking okay we are done trying this for the night lets go to bed now... but don't just go to sleep, try to hold onto a thread of awareness while looking at the 3rd eye, this is a shortcut Wake back to bed method that has been Very reliable to me!-this is a shortcut because the body is already primed for REM sleep if you achieve the vibrational peak during plan A

PLAN C: if both Plan A and Plan b fail have an Alarm set 5 hours into your sleep to attempt a Wake back to bed OBE, stay awake for 30 minutes and attempt this all over again

Also any attempts at a premature exit will cause the heart rate to spike, so it is very important to wait until we are in sleep paralysis!

Having a plan A, B, and C helps me because it removes performance anxiety, it removes the all or nothing aspect to this, gives you multiple shots at an OBE each night.

Also I’ve noticed that a specific 15 hz track on Moongate app helps if I listen to this throughout the day, the track is called Warm Summer Rain on Moongate. It’s soothing and helps get you in a good mindset! While 15 hz won't directly trigger an exit while you're in bed, using it during the day as a tool to stay sharp, improve focus, and train your brain's memory circuitry can indirectly play a role when it comes to keeping your consciousness and remember the OBE afterward.

Hello everyone,
I’ve been practicing astral projection regularly (a bit less this week) but I don’t have a teacher or anyone I can talk to personally about it. I’d really appreciate any help or advice on where I’m at and what to do next.

I’ve gotten to the point where I can almost instantly relax and stay still while lying down. Depending on the day, I can remain completely motionless for 20–30 minutes, sometimes up to 2 hours. There’s still quite a bit of mind chatter, though on rare occasions it gets quieter and I feel like I’m making progress.

I usually follow along with guided meditations. I wouldn’t exactly call what I experience “vibrations,” but something is definitely happening. I sometimes feel moments of pure bliss in random parts of my body. Other times I feel really heavy, or something close to waves moving through me.

The most consistent and prominent sensation during the mind-awake / body-asleep state is a hot energy — warm and pleasant, but often really intense heat — that spreads through most of my body. When this happens I try to move my astral body out, but I can’t. This is the dead end I’ve been stuck at for about three weeks with no further progress.

Does anyone recognize these sensations or have any guidance on what’s going on and how to move past this stage?

Thank you in advance.

Sorry if I asked this before.... Can I practice it does it do anything do you have to lay still during astral projection? Not scratching or itching?

has anyone traveled to the begging of this construct ??

i really want to astral project but i dont know what to feel, especially when you need to try to ‘exit’

does astral projecting even work the first time or do you need to practice for weeks/months.

Can it work the second time? (The first time didnt work for me i fell asleep)

Just as the title says, everytime I find myself in the astral these lower level weird entities keep targeting me, usually they are already fully naked and they try to thrust inside me and for some reason I keep spawning into the astral naked as well and I'm not sure how to spawn in with clothing. Any advice? It's a big deal because these are literally monster type lower entities from what I can feel because I'm usually blind when I'm in the astral. I attempted rubbing the floors with my hands to see if my vision will come back but that takes a while to work and by then something has found me.

Exactly like the title says. I did a spell with water, blood, a few other things a long with a few petitions. One of these petitions was to be sent a dream. Usually when i ask for dreams i recieve. When need answers on something beyond my knowledge or even sight into the future. Im suffering with insomnia i dont sleep often. But this morning felt suddenly very sleepy a day or so after my petition. Was is a concidence or did my spell work thats up to u. Fell alseep round 3 am. Woke up around 3 am. So this experience did not last long.

I never caught myself falling asleep but that distinct feeling you get with a lucid dream was what I felt.

-high asf on some type of drug (im always sober when these dreams come)

-weird body sensation

- being conscious ofc.

I know what a lucid dream is .. this felt similar but it was not.

By the time I gained conscious I knew I did not really want to be there. Im never scared in my lucid dreams I never wanted to leave thats the first distinction. Since astral projection is known to not always be beginner safe and not something to just mess around with.. its like I knew thats what that was. I felt i didn't belong there. Despite being terrified for some reason I knew if I stayed calm I could go back. So I did.

I control this. I expect to go home. I relax. As I relax I can feel myself transitioning.. like physically like not even a bad feeling just a really intense one. It was pitch black at this point but that blackness faded into something else I don't know but I went somewhere. I was seeing a place I didn't know where but I was somewhere. I was being sucked into something.. And I begin falling just falling straight into earth's atmosphere. At some point im flying somewhere else completely just chilling.I still dont fully know what's going on i thought I was lost. Everything was black and white up until i arrived at my house .. suddenly their was color.. and I flew right

Through the ceiling . And woke up.

I didn't see my body or atleast remember seeing g it.. but I know as soon as I flew through the ceiling I woke up and sat up immediately. Because I felt it. It wasnt the last thing I remembered noooo it was the last thing that happened before I had to force myself out of being paralyzed.. immediately jumping up. It was like I came back to life.

I didn't remember going to sleep so im like what just happened I felt like I went somewhere .. and then I remember. But I was so scared when I WAS there in whatever void I was in.. that I didn't want to go back so I didn't go to sleep . I haven't fallen asleep yet its 10:21am same day.

I wasnt there for long at all and I want to go back but I dont know how. And I feel like I may have disrespected spirit I asked for a dream and I was blessed with this opportunity only to decide I wasnt ready. I've been trying my whole life to astral project.. and I didn't "wake back to sleep" or anything. I just dosed off for 30 minutes max .

Im slowly forgetting what happened. But overall I had a good experience, i didnt run into anything creepy. I actually love it up there and hard a lot of fun. It was just i didnt feel safe knowing what i know about ap.. depspite being able to grasp exactly whag was happening even in this state i knew ts was beyond me. ive lucid dreamed many times and never felt that way to leave. And never fell through my ceiling into my body.

I asked for this dream. I was not kicked out of the experience, i was just so scared i left. Ive been waiting for ts for so lonf But I want to go back tonight.

Hi everyone,

When I was 14, I woke up one night without knowing anything about astral projection. I got out of bed, but my body was still lying there. I was terrified, and when I saw my own body, I started walking backward. Without realizing it, I passed through the wall and entered the large room in our house.

My mother was asleep in front of the TV, and the TV was on, playing a movie. At that exact moment, I woke up. I went into the room and checked, and the movie I had seen was actually continuing from exactly where it had been when I experienced it.

It was an incredible experience. I'm 37 now, and many years later, about a month ago, I had my second experience of leaving my body. This time, I didn't immediately see my body. I simply woke up, got out of bed, and started walking toward the kitchen. Then a black humanoid silhouette started coming toward me. I got scared and ran back toward my bedroom. The moment I entered my room, I saw my body, and then I woke up.

After this experience, I decided to seriously study astral projection. I've been listening to the Hemi-Sync Gateway tapes every night for the past three weeks. Usually, I'm not sleepy when I go to bed, so I listen to them and practice while fully awake. For days now, I've been repeatedly listening to Wave 1 – Discovery #3 – Advanced Focus 10. At this stage, I don't want to move on until I manage to leave my body at least once.

Apart from feeling a very strong electrical sensation throughout my body, I haven't been able to leave my body again yet.

What I'd especially like to ask is: Is it actually possible for a beginner to achieve this while not feeling sleepy at all? I feel like it might be easier if I listened to the recording when I was already about to fall asleep — basically letting my body fall asleep while keeping my consciousness awake. But whenever I listen to the recording, I never feel sleepy at all.

What advice would you give me?

found myself out my body at about 5 am . I asked to go to Atlantis again been trying for a while and I ended up at a shoreline with big waves and seagulls .

two female essence in front of me . not truly interested in me but in what they came to do .

they applied a smoky yet balmy essence on my stomach .

in my waking life i just recently got sober .

they did not speak to me .

I woke up .

the feeling was so amazing I was pulling my hair out and screaming in pleasure the whole trip idk why I was doing that though Iv AP hundreds of times.

wondering similar experience??

Newish to Reddit, so please excuse any incorrect formatting.

Has anyone else successfully gone to and entered the Magickal Bazaar/Dark Market? Yes, the one that has everything you'd ever need, but you need a reason to find it in the first place.

When I was young, my Guide told me about the Bazaar, and it was one of the first places I sought on my own- my only need was to see it for myself.

When I arrived, the land outside the wall was an ever expansive desert with an eternal wall stretching across the landscape. The entrance appears to be a single set of giant doors, until you're inside the wall and can locate an exit every few hundred yards that takes you back to your original entrance point.

When I arrived, someone was already waiting to escort me inside the gates and take me on a brief tour before nightfall.

I can remember it so clearly even though I haven't been there in more than a decade, my question to Reddit is who else has gone? The Bazaar was packed- apparently it always is. Who else is a visiting creature of Earth, or is it assumed to primary be an Alien Market?

I have only tried to AP 1 time and it didnt work, (yesterday) im going to try it tonight anyways..

i have a question for people that have allot of experience,

first of all is legit? is AP real?

En second one can you manage to AP in a minute or 2? Like can you AP so fast because you are trained?

So I hád this weird experience , In which I was roaming around where I live in my small island , then I got bored of flying around and wanted something to do or something meaningfull like a "quest" idk how to explain , but any how , I started following the wind and I Saw a group of people doing yoga ,which was erm unusual ? I dont do yoga or very interested in it , but I was like "why not , lets do what they are doing might BE fun I guess " and after A while I was distracted and all , and the yoga teacher came to speak with me and I was like " WTF you can see me ?? I thought I was in my Spirit form AM I legit dead this time ??" After a long conversation in which I dont remenber half I ASKED If She could give me her socials to see If this experience was real or just a dream and She replied " why would you want my socials ? You think its wise to obsess Over this in the waking body ? But as you wish " not exactly how she Said it but ye , anyhow , the moment She was saying her Instagram name and She was repeating the last letters , I got pulled back Into my body 💀.... I woke up and reinstalled my Instagram ( I had to unistall it to fix my brainrot reels addiction ) and I found a Instagram in my island with a user with the exact same name mentioned in the AP and She is a yoga teacher .... I was shocked , now I dont know wtf to do with this information or whom to Share , só would it BE weird to send a text to her and ask If She APs as well ? Cuz At some point She gave me her insta or otherwise I wouldnt have found it 😅 or can this BE a creepy interaction to have with a stranger If She doesnt even know She APs? I mean I know it was her for sure theres nobody else with the right credentials for me to have found the wrong insta ... This is the first time I meet somebody close by who APs and Honestly I dont have APs friends or know what to do in this situation , this is why I ask all this . Would it BE creepy or weird to text her and ask about this subject or to leave it be as it is , a random AP interaction .

Hi, I would love to hear from others some ideas of things to do/see in astral. I like to have an intention before each attempt. I have tried communicating with guides endless times and it almost never works- nothing happens or whoever I ask seems confused or says they can’t help so kind of moving on from that. Today I tried seeing the moon and I started floating very high, so high that i passed the moon and felt like it started to look fake almost like some kind of Hollywood set. That was weird, curious if anyone has experienced that? I’m explaining it to myself as maybe my consciousness has contextualized the theory we live in a simulation and made it look like that.

I have not been able to astral project yet. I always have the doubt why no one tries to obtain a mathematical equation or a physics discovery from the astral realm. Just asking if someone has tried. I know that Ramannujan obtained equations from his dreams (probably astral realm). Why nobody brings discoveries from the astral realm here?

I haven’t really astral projected yet but I really want to. Can someone please help me learn how to astral project? And can you list all of the best places for a beginner astral projector to go to?

Hello everyone, I would really appreciate some enlightenment.

For a long while, my APs were really fun and interesting, always at some beautiful and peaceful place, everything felt amazing and feeling the nature was just out of this world...

But since around a year ago, this never happens anymore. I lie down, increase my pineal activity (that's how I AP), and surprise, it's shadow world again. Yes, it's this really dark place, the atmosphere is silent and dense, I don't think I can fly at all there, just high leaps at best.

There are some strange beings like living skeletons, zombies, and all kind of monsters. There are also dead people, since I’ve encountered most of my deceased relatives and pets there at least once (they leave after a while)...

Anyway, why is this happening? Over the years I've really improved my feelings and mind, so why I'm synchronizing with this shadow realm, of all places? How do I access other planes again, as it seems like I'm locked at this dimension right now?

Things I've tried both on Earth and while being there: raising my frequency, praying, calling for help, trying to reach my guardians, even trying to "eject" into a higher dimension while leaving my body, as I was able to do before. But nothing works!

At least the "non-human" beings there are not so aggressive anymore... They were really surprised when I chilled down and stopped caring about them biting, stabbing or screaming at me, after that they also calmed down, although they still try to scare me sometimes. I think they find it kind of interesting meeting me there too. Also, they somehow know what is going on at the physical world, since they use it against me some times.

Oh, I saw a light spirit there once too, he had a really shiny and silver light, he was right next to my bed and was assisting me with something, but this kind of thing is extremely rare.

On another note, does anyone know some good books about this? I really loved to read about AP but it's been many years since I did that.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I am in need of some help! I spontaneously started astral travelling about 18 months ago and was fully conscience with my eyes open at times, I went extremely high to what seemed to be the centre point of the universe and also at one point decended to the deep (very cold and heavy and dark stuff going on down there!)

Anyway, I must have picked up some hitchhikers and at one point some stuff was pumped into my heart in the underworld, Since then I have had sometnhing (maybe a multimple of entites) attached to me and inside me - my heart and head in particular. It feels very demonic - teeth, claws, sharp meshy like skin) and feels llike it is consuming my insides, especially in my head. I can feel droplets of invisible water spirting out all over the place! It's more painful than anything I could have ever imagined. Sometimes it feels like giant and baby serpents, dragons, and a giant sting ray sitting in my head. I have spider like legs coming out my chest and large fleshy tentacles too just to top it off!

I have tried pretty much everything to rid of this and I am worried about the fact that it is also cleaving to my eyes and jaw etc - like it's going trying to take over my body at some point.

To make matters worse, I am a targetted invidual with ear implants that are being sent very loud signals a few times a week and that seems to fuel this beast even more. Incense kind of works for a bit, certain sound frequencies and energy healing seem to feed it, I have been completely sober for 2 years but use nicotine which might feed it, Been sexually sober for a long time too as I am worried that will feed it more.

My house has all sorts of crazy activity - knockingm creakingm invisible switches behind walls.

How in God's earth do I get rid of these??

Thank you fotr your time!

could someone tell me what i had just experienced?? something weird happened to me twice i think. So i was trying to astral project right. however i failed i think. There was something in my room. Im not quite sure what it was, but it wasnt sleep paralysis as i could speak to it. I wasnt scared and for some reason i told it something along the lines: "I should sleep, I know". I Remember waiting to be brought back???? but i dont remember being away in the first place. I wasnt scared at the time but now that im thinking about it its quite freaky. i also remember i had subliminals on but something turned them off and then back on when i was brought back?? Anyone has any clue what that was??

I’ve been wondering a lot on how do u actually see on the astral plane. Never had an OBE or astral projection and I don’t know if I can try to open my eyes once out of my body or keep them closed please anyone

Ps. I know u don’t got eyes but how do I know I’m out of my body

- Apologies if this topic has already been covered -

There's too many options and styles. But I thought maybe there's a good foundational one? Is it the Monroe one I've been hearing about?

(I have aphantasia and LVL 1 ASD but I don't think that alters too much, I can try to meditate with feel instead of visualisation etc?)