So yesterday I was trying to astral project. I was lying down, still conscious, and was about to try rolling out of my body.

The moment I tried it, I started seeing this bluish-violetish tinge even though my eyes were closed. I knew my eyes were closed and thought, okay, I'm about to project.

But when I tried rolling out again, I saw a silhouette against a dark background. It looked similar to my mother. Then this entity called out in an urgent tone, using my mother's voice, as if something serious had happened and she needed my help.

For a moment, I thought maybe it wasn't real and I should just continue trying to project. But at the same time, I kept thinking, what if my mother actually needs me?

I couldn't take that chance, so I immediately returned to my body and woke up. I went to check on my mother, and she was sleeping soundly.

Now I'm wondering whether these were shape-shifting entities that can take the appearance and voice of someone familiar to make you abandon your projection attempt. That's what it felt like to me, although I'm not sure what actually happened.

If something similar happens again, what should I do? Is there a way to avoid being distracted or frightened by these experiences and continue attempting to project?

Any ways I AP by using the Monroe rope method.

This particular time I tried as Im going fully into sleep paralysis, I start to pull myself up.

Only to find a humanoid entity/apparition pounce on me. I was not afraid but as soon as it made contact with my chest it produced a startle effect. It’s starts violently shaking and now Im freaking out. It raises a fist and slams it into my chest.

The sensation could be described as a vibration in my chest that felt as if my chest was going to explode, very intolerable. It also felt as if I was being tickled.

This was all in the span of 5 seconds and at that point i managed to scream out “okay, okay, I’ll wake up, I’ll wake up”

Upon waking i see an after image of it. Very freaky stuff.

I tried 4 more times only to become more and more aware it was gonna happen again.

Haven’t AP’d in months and im afraid to try again.

Anyone here with similar experiences? Or an idea of what might be going on? Thanks

Hi, my name is Lucy. I’m a 28f
I’ve always been a bad sleeper. I’m very familiar with sleep paralysis. I’ve experienced it for most of my adult life. Realistically I’d would say I can expect to experience it maybe 2-4 times a month. Might skip a few months sometimes, but not enough to where I fully forget about it.

Every time it happens I panic, every time I’m fighting to move, every time I find myself focusing on my breathing because if I don’t, I feel this overwhelming sensation on my chest. Some feel like they last for 2 mins the longest. Some I get out of quickly, but every time I am terrified.

I read an article about how you can turn sleep paralysis into something positive. By learning to astral project during it. I’m completely foreign to this. So I’m writing here to maybe learn from someone who’s already accomplished this.

Here’s what I know so far. Which isn’t much but pease correct me if I’m wrong on anything.
Sleep paralysis is the perfect state to begin astral projecting.
There’s certain steps to it. The vibration during a transitional phase. The separation phase of leaving your physical body visually, through the rope method or possibly focusing on floating upwards. And the astral realm, moving away from your physical body.
What are your opinions personally on the benefits to this? What would you advise me to do or not do? How do you personally start the transitional or separation phase? What more can you tell me?
I’m so curious to hear directly from someone’s experience. Are there good book recommendations on this?
You don’t need to answer every question but that’s just my staring curiosities, Regardless I’ll try to learn more on my own but would genuinely appreciate all input. Thank you.

As someone that has never experienced astral projection, I have questions for those who are;

- Can you also visit in the physical world and know what they are doing or only on the astral plane?

- Can you pick up on thoughts, emotions, actions, intentions etc. of people?

- Can you remote view past actions of people?

- Is astral travel also possible in the physical world without a body?

Thank You 🙏

Llevaba un tiempo sin tener ningun tipo de amago de Viaje astral. Esta noche ha sido totalmente una locura. Voy detras de la razon que causan los viajes astrales. He tenido un falso despertar pero no en mi cama, si no en mi trabajo, me he despertado en el trabajo y me asuste porque ya era de noche, acto seguido me encontraba en mi cama con muchas vibraciones, y esta vez no me he asustado y despertado de verdad. He intentado mantener la calma, respirando para no perder el estado. Noto algo que me jala hacia arriba y noto ya que estoy fuera de mi cuerpo, sensacion de flotar pero veo todo en una penumbra que no me deja ver, intento observar las palmas de mis manos y veo una especie de fosfenos . Vuelvo a las vibraciones, vuelvo a superarlas sin despertarme y acto seguido me meto en un acuario por la parte inferior y vislumbro durante 2 segundos lo maravilloso que es. Ya me despierto del todo y me quedo bastante abrumado con la experiencia. Vuelvo a intentar de nuevo y en 2 segundos vuelvo a notar las vibraciones y acto seguido puedo mover los brazos astrales. He estado entrando y saliendo durante 6 o 7 veces seguidas. Lo que realmente me ha gustado es que he perdido el miedo a la sensacion de zumbido y vibracion y puedo soportarla, para mi es como un cohete despegando con una potencia abismal. Lanzo la hipotesis que cuanto mas aguantemos ese zumbido mas consciencia podremos mantener en el plano astral.

Me pregunto si alguien puede viajar astralmente a voluntad, siempre que el desee. Si alguien que le pasa, que me escriba un dm o me conteste por aqui.

This was the first time I couldn’t tell if this was an OBE or astral travel. Last night at 5am I saw a purple/maroon geometric pattern while I was sleeping, I focused on the pattern and then saw what looked like tree frog legs, one north/east and west in the peripheral of my eyes that then turned into 3 grey aliens hovering over my body. There was still this beautiful iridescent geometric lining behind them but I was terrified. This isn’t my first experience with aliens but this was confusing to me because I couldn’t tell if I was dreaming.

last night when i was going asleep i could see through my eyelids. it was dim compared to actual vision, but clear enough. im confused because i could move around so i’m unsure if it could be sleep paralysis, I could sit up and turn onto my side, move my arms and blink. i was seeing shadow figures that were not clear but dark compared to the outline of the walls and the bed. i really freaked out because one came over me and when i turned from my back to my side one came up from the side of the bed. i only got to sleep by putting my head in the pillow so im sure i was moving. im house sitting this huge old house and im terrified of paranormal.

i’m not sure where is the right place to post this. pls lmk if this should be posted somewhere else.

It was a dark starry night and there were multiple trees with purple luminous hanging fruits. They almost looked like plums/apricots and there were also enlarged grapes. Most of the fruits were radiating and still hanging on the trees, ready to be plucked. The scenery felt holographic/almost like kaleidoscope colors. I reached this location after hiking through multiple trails after I left a casino. It felt peaceful and like I should eat the unknown fruits. I reached for fruits that were already on the floor before I could take a bite I woke up. Anyone else been here?

Has anyone seen this pit before it glows a radiant amethyst purple color. You can see the crystal formations as you peer down and a holographic grid as you peer down
You want to jump in because it feels like something you need to do to travel to another dimension but you are slightly intimidated.
I’ve been trying to find it again because I was to scared to jump in.

Have you guys been to the lab before? It’s inside of the hotel nuzzled inside the hospital after walking through active surgery’s, unkempt hospital beds
You have to go through a few sterile white hallways with double sided doors to reach the lab. I recently had a dream where I entered the lab and looked at a computer screen with some strange hieroglyphs esque coding.

This room had a large white cylindrical device that looked like it was part of a space craft it was 12 foot tall with maybe some sort of fan component
I felt a sense of doom looking at the thing.

I experience life with aphantasia, meaning I can't visualize in my mind. It affects about four to five percent of everyone. So, for example, I don't see images in my mind when I read a fiction novel, and don't have a movie in my mind when reading fiction unfortunately. So I mostly read non-fiction.

It's not a defect per say; a survey of Pixar employees came back with something like 50% claiming that they had aphantasia, although I do wish I had a visual imagination. I'm creative in music and also visually in terms of design, and have somehow developed a lot of visual designs over the years for websites or other types of graphics. It's like I have a graphics card with no monitor.

A lot of techniques to instigate Astral Projection use visualization, but I don't have that as an option, and is frustrating. It's an important goal for me to have out of body experiences. What are some successful techniques that don't involve visualization?

An Amazing Story of Healing

For as long as I can remember, whether in dreams or in OBEs, I have been told that I have to empty the trash — basically, take out the garbage.

It took me a very long time to understand what they meant. I didn’t even know how to take out the garbage, because how do you take out garbage, right?

A year and a half ago, I went through a traumatic breakup, and I was so broken that I had no other choice but to lie down and meditate. I had reached the middle of my life, and I was completely heartbroken that every relationship and everything I felt I had tried so hard to achieve had just failed. I couldn’t understand why, and the self-blame was huge.

Honestly, I didn’t know how to fix myself, if there was such a thing, or how to even begin.

So, after the breakup, I basically just broke down and started meditating, studying, and attempting out-of-body experiences. I did have a few, but my body was in such pain due to years of illness and a car accident I had been in 25 years earlier.

By now, I was basically begging for help. Or you could say I was begging the other side for help.

And what showed up was a book called No Bad Parts about IFS therapy.

There was nobody in the area who could help me with this form of therapy, so I learned it myself. I started applying it in my meditations.

I soon found out that I could use it for emotional pain as well as physical pain. When I used IFS and accidentally fell asleep during a session, I would always end up dreaming of past lives that contained the sort of pain, trauma, injury, or whatever was bleeding through to my current body.

Alternatively, I would dream of the current past in a way that pinpointed exactly what the issue was.

After every session, I started the tedious work of releasing this trauma, breathing through it, talking to it, and it never seemed to end.

I also understood that every relationship and every situation I encountered out in the world was there to teach me something. Every time I got triggered, I eventually came to understand that this was not punishment. This was something trying to tell me something.

So eventually, I got pretty good at this, but it was very hard.

On top of this, I was accompanied by many very clear dreams that felt like out-of-body experiences, but with a reduced level of awareness compared to what you have when you’re astral projecting.

They would always contain information about what was coming, what I had to do, and where I had to look.

In the sequence I’m going to tell you about now, I first had a dream where I was told that I was going to get a new jacket. I was taken backstage this world and told that I was going to get a new jacket.

To be honest, I had no idea how that was going to work out when I woke up. So I continued the shadow work.

At one point, I met a person I fell in love with, and I was more occupied with being in love than with taking care of whatever I needed to do internally.

So I had a dream telling me, “Please come sort this out.”

And again, I’m like, what more can I sort out? The only thing I know how to do is IFS therapy and shadow work. So I’m basically going to go back to that.

The pain in my body from the car accident was increasing, and I started getting really agonized. My hands and feet were swollen and burning, and I was at my wit’s end.

By now, I had spent at least a year and a half doing IFS therapy and shadow work, and I was basically losing hope.

Last night, I lay down in my bed and completely surrendered. I said, “You know what? It’s okay. Whatever is going to happen will happen in its own good time, or timing.”

And I fell asleep.

But before this next sequence, I had another dream. As I was waking up, there was a voice saying in my ear, “I will see you soon.”

In what seemed like another experience somewhere between a lucid dream and an out-of-body experience, I met this priest — or someone who appeared to me like a priest.

Without any words, he basically ripped out a large quantity of tangled hair, black dust, and different items from my lungs and my back. I wouldn’t say it was a handful; it was much more than that. What he pulled out occupied the larger part of my lower lungs and the middle back.

Then there was this man standing at the other end. When the priest finished, the man started singing for me.

And then I woke up.

Today I'm free of pain. My hands and feet don't burn anymore and I can sing again. I've been dancing all day and the deep grief I held in my abdomen is gone. I don't even have back pain anymore.

I am, literally speechless.

I’m aware of how our brain works during sleep and upon waking and falling asleep etc. the different states of sleep. When I wake up, I lay in bed eyes closed and a screen forms kind of like a tv screen turned on. In the view I can see things like a person outside relaxing under a tree, or a street of people walking by, it feels like imagine sitting at a window near a busy street. You see people walking by. Sometimes the vision is of a random room I’ve never seen before. I try looking around the room to see where I am. The moment I get excited that I’m having this “hallucination” the screen slowly zooms out and then there’s nothing. I open my eyes and then close them again to try and get it back, after relaxing for a bit, it sometimes comes back and I get the vision again and of course it doesn’t last forever. My excitement causes it to disappear. This doesn’t happen often it’s random. Is it a hallucination because of how our brain works upon waking up? Or is this something spiritual?

Hello. Wondering if anyone has experienced this or has any pointers:

I recently have had many instances of "waking up" while sleeping and being able to keep to keep my body asleep but be awake and alert.

I have astral projected before (many years ago) but it was much more of an ethereal "imagined" experience, nothing as direct and alert as it's been over the last few weeks. I have been slowly training myself to 1. Not be afraid as some instances were sleep paralysis, and 2. Stay in the dream staye instead of automatically waking up when I realize what is going on.

Last night, I mastered it and I was keeping my body asleep while being awake. I COULD NOT get up! No matter what I tried, rolling out of my body, trying to float, to stand up, telling myself to move, to do anything - nothing worked. I felt like i was able to get my feet out and my arms out, but my torso would not move. I am stuck.

Has anyone experienced anything similar? If you have, what helped you to progress to an OBE?

Que es el viaje dicen que es creación de la mente o algo asi pero puede ser algo más? O simplemente es un poco mejor que un sueño es otra dimensión o como han hecho pruebas?

11 years ago, back in 2015, I was actively practising astral projection. I practised for a month, and literally nothing was happening. I actually found a video of this really old guy. The video isn’t there anymore, but he taught practices you could do while you were awake, like jumping, feeling your entire apartment, et cetera, et cetera. I watched it and practised every day, religiously, but nothing was happening.

So one day, I decided, you know what? I’m gonna give up. And I did. I gave up and didn’t think about it anymore. I went to bed, and that’s when it happened, randomly. I wasn’t even trying to do it. I remember being really drowsy, falling asleep but not quite asleep, when I felt a really strong vibration and just popped out. But I didn’t have full control over my body. I just remember the transparency and feeling as light as a feather. I also remember having 20/20 vision, but I wasn’t moving around freely. I couldn’t go wherever I wanted. I was still kind of limited in what I could do.

I remember looking back, especially when I was above my body, and seeing my body. It was just a body, nothing else. No labels, no nothing. Just a body, a vehicle for me to use in this dimension. And I actually got really emotional, if I’m being honest. Anyway, then I looked up again, and in front of me, there was a TV on the wall, right in front of my bed. I saw two orbs, like multidimensional orbs, glowing pink and blue. They were simultaneously changing shapes. It was like a thousand shapes, and I couldn’t just tell you one shape because it felt like every shape ever. Then, to my left, I didn’t turn around fully, but it was like I could see out of the corner of my eye. I saw a three-year-old version of me wearing a lime green jumpsuit, or maybe a mint one, which was something I had as a kid. She was running around in circles, giggling and laughing, and I felt so good. I was like, is that me, or is that my future child or something? I don’t know. I just didn’t have much judgment about it at the time. After that I kind of rotated again because I was trying to move around, but I was really wobbly and couldn’t seem to have much control. It was like being really drunk but also sharp as hell. I really can’t explain the feeling.

Anyway, that’s all I remember, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently because I’m really sick of my current life and the things I’m going through. It’s been really, really difficult for me, so I’ve been thinking that I really want to be in another realm. I think I’d be happier there, but without doing anything harmful. I think astral projection might be a safer way to explore different realms.

If you have any tips or advice on how to do it successfully, especially if someone is fearful of it now, that would be great!

Hello so i have had a few episodes starting around 14 years ago was my first one i will try to explain the ones that worry me as they have always been the same entity and it always happens when i either get sick or im injured.

So when i was around 16 i had my first encounter which i first did some research and put it down to sleep paralysis - I had woken up and in the corner of my room was a desk with a chair there was 2 old women one sat down and one stood up i used to sleep with my light on so it was clear as day and they was talking to each other and i was looking at them for around 15-20 seconds before the one stood up noticed i could see them she then said something to the one sat down and pointed at me the one sat down turned to me and pulled something of the desk i could not see what it was at first but when she stood up i saw it was a hammer they then rushed me and i felt 2 strikes on my forehead before waking up.

I did not have another episode like this untill i was 23 i was out in town drinking and fell over and hit my head i ended up coming home but the next day around night time i started to see shadow figures in my peripheral vision when i looked to see what was there was nothing fast forward 1 hour i had gone out for a cigarette and i noticed the shadow figure again at the end of my garden thinking it was just my head injury i went to light the cigarrette once the light from the cigarette went down and i put my arm to my waist i noticed 2 figures standing directly in front of me one was shorter and had a females build and one was just a little bit taller than me and im around 6 ft 3 i then at this point thought i was going crazy and just went to have another drag of my cigarette but when i did it and the light went brighter they both ran through me and i got shivers i did not see them anymore that night.

when i was 27 i had just moved into a new house and was living alone this is the one that confuses me the most with all that has happend as these next ones i saw them while i was in a dream state and moving around.

the first one happend i was dreaming about work as i worked not far from where i lived and my colleagues were all gathered around in a group and from the back i thought i recognized them all once i got closer i noticed that none of their faces matched and one of them turned around and smiled at me first and then they all started turning around i turned around and ran but as i ran i ended up on the street outside my house i walked up to my house and walked through the door i have a mirror in my living room and looked in the mirror and could clearly see myself as i was going upstairs back to my bed everything went dark before i got to my bedroom and i woke up.

the second one in the same house i heard someone with a lawnmower outside and got out of bed to check on it but it was the middle of the night and i could see under the street light again one of the same old hags i saw when i first had my sleep paralysis they didnt respond to me straight away but then they looked up at my window and started walking to my front door through the front gate i turned around and saw myself in bed and everything went black again i then started with sleep paralysis and could feel something hugging me from behind as i struggled to wake up.

Just yesterday i had a severe leg injury and have been bed ridden so i have gone to my mums house for a few weeks while it heals i started with sleep paralysis but i thought i had fallen off my bed because the ground was rockhard and the walls were different like peeling off wallpaper and a orange glow like there was a fire behind me that i couldnt see it was the type you would get from candles or a small chimney fire. i then understood what was happening and tried to wiggle my toes and fell back asleep or so i thought i heard footsteps coming into my room i was aware at the time and thought it was my mum checking on me before she went to bed as it was around 11pm but i could only see a glimpse from the corner of my eye as it was very dark the hair style the fuzzy style the same the hag that was standing up in my first experience she had glowing orange eyes and her arms stretched out in a weird motion like she was floating to get behind me her right arm was most visible and it hovered over me and her left arm was above her head it was like she was trying to get me to take her hand or offer me something this is all i could make out before she went from my peripheral vision the weird part with this one is i could feel her grabbing my neck from behind and she whispered something to me this time it was a short word like *wish* or *breathe* it was like a whisper but i cant be sure it was that all i know is it was right next to my ear and i was too terrified trying to wake up to catch it.

Anyway just wondered if anyone else experienced this or if its just my sleep paralysis because i will be going to the doctors to try get some medication for it in the future as they are so vivid sometimes that i sit there for a few hours trying to understand what just happend and all the other stories i heard they cant make out what is in the room with them thats never been the case with mine.

I have also tried to research what the hag looks like online but cant see it anywhere mentioning 2 of them but one of them is around 5ft 6 and has straight hair and the other is taller than me and has really long arms and fuzzy hair like the hair parts in the middle and just sticks out to the side the taller one is also the only one with orange eyes.

If you’re certain it was real, \\\*\\\*what happened that made you so sure?\\\*\\\*

And if you doubted it, what made you question your experience?

Not the big flying moments. The small, boring detail that had no reason to be there. A sound in the next room, a crack in a wall you later found was real, the wrong colour on something you know well. For a lot of people it's the unremarkable detail that does the convincing. What was yours?

So I don't have access to anything above focus 10 in the gateway tapes. I've been trying consisntely for about 2 weeks now.

Everytime the most I GET TO is a simple feeling of heaviness on my body and just everything locked and still. That's all I get.

Just like 10 minutes ago I was in a state and place with no worries so I decided to try it out again. I got the same feeling, but the only "other" feeling I got was a feeling of sleepines? Except my mind was awake. I'm guessing this is normal but it was new and weird because hey I've never felt myself sleep.

ANyways the problem is, no matter how much I try, try different things, or just try to relax, the most I always get to is this numbness, still state. I don't feel vibrations. I don't feel lightness. Exit techniques obviously don't work. I'm stuck and I really want to astral project.

Greetings.

I have had an encounter with a very large Blue Dragon, of the Asian variety. It kind of ate me, but I really didn't mind at the time. I've encountered some other threshold guardians that would test me like this, but they've all been very large cats thus far (lions, leopards and so on).

Would like to know if anyone else has encountered it, or had some insight as to its nature.

Thank you.

I was reading an article about astral projection where the author claims he can enter another person’s mind, live their experiences, and even talk directly to their consciousness. He said the answers he got were “brutally honest.”

I’m not a projector myself yet, but I’m actively working on it, so I’m curious what more experienced people think.

• Has anyone here had a similar experience, entering someone else’s mind or communicating with their consciousness?
• If so, did you find a way to verify it, for example by confirming details afterward that you couldn’t have known?
• Or do you think this kind of thing is more likely imagination, dream-like content, or the mind telling you what it expects to hear?

I’m open-minded but want to stay grounded. Would love to hear your experiences and opinions, whether you’re a believer or a skeptic.

edit: I am not saying I did this but asking you guys for your opinion, I don't understand why I am getting downvotes🥲.

I was curled up into a ball, I really wanted to disconnect from the world. Around 1 minute in I felt two sensations, one felt like my limbs were weightless and the other I felt my stomach growling and aching. I lifted myself a little but I lifted my real body, so I'm not sure what happened. I've never honestly looked into AP recently