FINALLY

[RandomName]

Congrats on your success. My history was the same as yours. i tried for a while and finally lost track of attempts. it became, DARE I SAY IT, boring and annoying at the constant failures. Then one night, after a hard day at work, i laid down to sleep. I was asleep for about 7 hours when I feel grass under my feet and the warmth of the sun on my face. But the situation was odd. Just like your first experience, mine was caused in a weird way. i was using a toilet in my front yard that OBVIOUSLY was not there. Go ahead and laugh, i can wait....

ANYWAY... I glanced at my hands and they melted into nothingness. That sent a jolt of reality to my brain. i basically WOKE up while out of body. I know for a fact that i was wide awake OOB because I started experiment with things i had read about here and in Astral Dynamics. I attempted jumping with a bit of luck. I was able to jumped about 15 feet upwards. Then I tried to fly, feeling myself levetate off the ground. Not much luck. I jumped up onto a neighbors roof and started viewing my neighborhood. The sun had just risen into view. Soon i felt myself fall off the roof and land back in my bed. i sat up, caught the bed, and wrote it all down. Congrats

"View people like a shattered mirrior. The peices show the distorted personality. View the peices as a whole and you will see their true reflection."-Poem by Me

[Tia]

That is great!

Dont spoil your chances next time by remembering how scarey it was!  Nothing bad happened to you, so dont be afraid if it happens again.

[amcturbo]

Congratulations on your success, THAT IS GREAT!  As you continue to focus your attention and desire on having more and more Projections, and as you look back to your past successes and project those successful experiences into the future, you will begin to notice that those fears seem to begin to melt away, like snow in the warm sunshine, being replaced with that warm feeling of comfort that the sun shine of success brings to your face!  Congratulations!

Cheers!
Greg Taylor

"Whatever consciousness may be, it's not a small thing" - Ingo Swann
"Oh, I... ain't got no ... body" - David Lee Roth (Van Halen)

[manuel]

congrats man! i am happy for you!

[Gandalf]

Again, excellent work man!
Don't let fear stop you. You're story sounds very familiar to me as I first attempted a projection when I was 13, It was VERY succesful and I feaked just before exit.
I was scared witless and went into some sort of denial mode and lived in ABSOLUTE fear of recuring exist sensations (which I got now and again).

I only just faced my fear and got over it 14 years later when I was 27!!!

I've since projected a few times and love it, I want more!
I now see that all the fear was groundless and much time has been wasted.
The problem back then was, I had no one to talk about it with, this was in the days before the astral pulse forum or the net!  I felt very alone, Like I was the only one in the world who had this strange fear of obe and certainly the only living person who even knew anything about obe in my area.
Now, everything's cool. It will be with you as well because you've got all of us here and all the whacked out things that you may experience have been explored by others, It's a good thing to remember!

Regards,
Douglas

[The Student]

Thanks everyone for all the great support!

(Psi) - I can't say my experience was as vivid or as adventurous as yours, but I'm hoping to get to the point where I have more control over how long I'm out, and how well I am concious during it. But that's exactly how I felt with the constant failures and the like.

(Tia) - Trust me, the main reason I was so scared, was because it was the last thing ever to be on my mind at that point. During the time when I was frequently trying to project, I wouldn't have had the least bit of fear in me, because I was ready and wanted it, but when it happened so randomly, I thought I was getting taken by aliens! (lol, just kidding!)

(amcturbo) - Thanks, I'm logging everything next to my bed (for quick access in case this happens again!), so I can look back on it in the future to see my progress.

(Gandulf) - Man! 14 years you waited?? That's about how old I am! lol, but trust me, I won't wait nearly as long, I'm trying this weekend with a friend (I try and get my open minded friends into this), and I'm confident I can do it again.

Thanks everyone!

"Kill what you'd die for, and truley become yourself." (Lose all greed and desire, and learn true unity and enlightenment.)

[The Student]

OMG! I can't believe what has happned! I've finally left!!

There is no word to explain how happy I am! Ok, first, let me explain what has happened. Well, the last time I tried to project, or even do any energy raising was more then a month or two ago. I completely forgot about it because of school and cross-country, and it was the last thing on my mind. Well last night (10-14-02, never gonna forget the date!), I brushed my teeth, did all that good stuff, got in my boxers, and laid in my bed. All I wanted to do was go to sleep because I had a tough day of running and lifting weights, and I was so unbearibly tired and sore. Then, I was lying on my side for about 10 minutes, and I was thinking about things, trying to have a dream and fall asleep like I normally do. Here's how my dream went...

I don't know where I was, in some business of some sort, and there was an older woman over the counter (mid 30's). Well, considering I'm a teen, 15 years old, I'm easily arroused, so something happened, and she was touching me (like I said, I'm a teen, damn you hormones!). The wierd thing was that I was more then half awake, yet I could feel her touch from my shoulder down to my knee, and every where it went, it got all tingly (I didn't know it then, but I now realize that was my point of awareness moving and stimulating my chakras throughout my body), and all of a sudden my mind went completely blank. Soon my body was tingling all over like it did after my old medidation sessions, but I thought nothing of it. Soon everything was moving fast, WAY to fast for me, I was scared out of my wits, I was confused and frightened, but I knew what was happening, I realized it then. The first thing I did was calm my breathing as slow as I could and just let what was gonna happen happen. This loud noise accompanied the vibrations and it got so fast and loud that it finally ended with a bang, like a semi truck horn on your freaken face. All that was left was a ringing in my head, then silence, dead silence, it was so quite it scared me. I felt extremely wierd, and I couldn't see a thing. I felt like I wasn't on my bed anymore, because nothing was under me, and I was getting flashes of blurry vision ahead of me. I realized I was near the foot of my bed about waist height and crooked. I was here for what seemed about 2 min or less, and I kept trying to move, but I moved forward a bit, but it was like no friction, and I moved after I stopped trying too. This had to be the scariest thing that has ever happened to me, so I forced myself back, and I was back in my body, I knew it, because I could feel the bed again, when the vibrations started again, and just before it popped again, I forced my eyes open, and got up. My face had tears down it, and I knew I was crying for how scared I had been. I got up wrote EVERYTHING that happened down, and was afraid to go back to sleep, so I sat and thought about it the rest of the night. I know I shouldn't be afraid, but I was, and I won't be next time. And thanks to everyone here at Astral Pulse, I've been following everything you've all been posting, and it's helped a lot. I never thought I'd get here.

It was so incredible! I'm trying again in a few days with my AP buddy!
(Sorry this was so long, I got so excited just talking about it, I just went on and on).

"Kill what you'd die for, and truley become yourself." (Lose all greed and desire, and learn true unity and enlightenment.)