Astral Projecion Questions For School Project

[riskline]

Hi there everyone,
I realy need your help here. i'm making school exam project on lucid dreaming and i need completely anyones help here with even zero knowledge or experience with obe's. i need as much people as possible to fill the form below. you may answer very shortly if you want to, but as longer as better.
some questions might seem pretty dum, repetitive and gramaticaly incorect (sry for my english)), but still just answer it as you understand it. answer just as post. if someone cares, than this information wont be posted anywhere else on internet, just in my presentation. and last, please fill this till sunday (counting). i posted this in few homepages ,so you would know this is not some kind of spam, if needed i will remove all posted topics. realy appreciate!!
  (just write number and answer next to it)
1. your age
2.have u ever had an experience of lucid dream?
3.how long you've been practising lucid dreaming?
4. is lucid dream just a dream in head or an out of body experience?(completely your oppinion)
5.when was the first time you had an obe / lucid dream?
6.how often you are lucid dreaming?
7.how many experiences you have had with obe's / lucid d.?
8.how important do you think is control a dream / have an obe?
9.how well you remember your dreams? generally - do you have dreams every night? (just your individual oppinion)
10.with what purpes u want to have an obe / lucid dream? (for spiritual, meet higher beings, just for fun, to see if there is life after death..... else)
11.do you think daily awarness is something important for obe'e / lucid d.? (again your oppinion, forget all you've read)
12.after increasing awareness (not just in daily, but even just before projecting), how did it affected your experiences with astral?
13.how aware do you think you are in daily life?
14. how did your world view changed after having lucid dream, or hearing or reading someones experiences about it?

[Xanth]

Hi riskline,

I split this out into it's own thread to give it the attention it so deserves. 

1. 31
2. Many
3. I've been having Lucid Experiences all my life.
4. I believe it's a projection (out of body).
5. I was very young, I couldn't tell you exactly.
6. At least once a month on average
7. With lucid dreams in particular, too many to count... astral projections (obes) that I'm aware of probably in the dozen mark right now.
8. I don't believe Dream control is important at all.  I believe that conscious awareness is more important and that's separate from control.
9. generally, I remember my dreams fairly well.  It's a per experience thing though.
10. I have spiritual reasons for learning to Lucid Dream and Astral project at will.
11. Daily awareness, as in "living the moment"?  If you can do that, you'll greatly increase your chances for lucid and astral experiences.
12. Once aware that the experience can occur, it should increase your chances of it... but sometimes not as well.
13. I'm unsure of the question... I'm very aware during my waking time.
14. For me it's something that I've just always been doing.  What changes my view of the physical was that when I figured out that lucid dreams were astral projections.

Anyway, I hope that helps. 

Goodluck with your school work.

[personalreality]

1. 24
2. yes
3. 5+ years
4. both LD and AP are "out of body experiences".  however, "out of body" is not an appropriate term.  i believe that your consciousness is never really IN the body but rather is non-local and receives sensory input through the human energy system.  so the appropriate term would be "body disassociation" because you are dis-associating your consciousness from the sensory input of the body.
5. i had some lucid dreams as a kid, but it was only within the past 5 years or so that i have actively attempted to achieve these mind-states.
6. rarely
7. 30+ OBE/AP, handful of LD
8. I differ from Xanth slightly.  I see conscious awareness as being prime, but that conscious awareness leads to control.  i feel that control of the experience is how you turn it from a novel experience into a personally/spiritually meaningful experience.
9. Not well, I've had to spend a lot of time training myself to remember dreams.  But even still, when I don't make the intention to remember my dreams clear in my mind the night before, I barely remember any.
10. You could call my reasons spiritual, but to me that encompasses the whole of reality.  I believe that the secret/mystery of reality and existence lies in consciousness and I see these experiences as a way to really explore consciousness.  I even have intentions to utilize things I've learned through AP/OBE/LD practice in my future psychological career.
11. To an extent yes.  You ought to be relatively focused on things of a similar nature in your daily life.  It helps you focus later on when you practice AP/OBE/LD.  However, it's an interesting cycle because practicing these things alters your daily perception which in turn alters your practice.  Kind of a chicken or the egg thing goin on.
12. I'm more aware of the experience, it doesn't seem so abstract and intangible when I've focused my attention.
13. Sometimes more than I want to be.  It makes life difficult when you are forced to contemplate and interact with society at large.  You realize that you just don't have anything in common with "normal" people anymore and the status quo just isn't good enough.  It definitely can make you feel like a tortured soul.  But in the end, you feel better for it.
14. It made the world seem a lot bigger.

[Xanth]

8. I differ from Xanth slightly.  I see conscious awareness as being prime, but that conscious awareness leads to control.  i feel that control of the experience is how you turn it from a novel experience into a personally/spiritually meaningful experience.

I can definitely get on board with that. 

[Under_the_Midnight_Sun]

1. 17
2. yes
3. approximately 10 years
4. A lucid dream is an OBE, all dreams are in my opinion
5. I had many lucid dreams very young, like 3 or 4. I never knew what they were though, and would get very frightened
6. lately I've been having the most OBE's ever in my life. So far in february 37 times
7. hundreds
8. I believe it is a very useful tool. We can begin to realize our purpose of existence, and know that others are part of ourselves.
9. hmm i remember dreams almost every night
10. I wish to find my true self, meet higher beings who can share some of their vast knowledge, and explore a frontier where anything is possible.
11. daily awareness is extremely important! You have to constantly be thinking about LD/OBE
12. very much so. One reason why I'm projecting now more than ever is because I'm thinking about it more than ever.
13. people have always told me i was very aware, ever since i was a baby
14. My world has changed drastically, for the better. Life makes more sense. It means more to me to be a "good person".

[Astral316]

1. 23
2. Yes
3. Approx. 2 years
4. OBE
5. Approx. 5-6
6. Depends on how much I practice meditation, at best maybe twice a week
7. Approx. 30 OBE, too many lucids to count
8. Control is fun but like Xanth said, full awareness is primary... I enjoy the occasional OBE where I'm brought somewhere not by my own intention.
9. Depends on how much I practice meditation. When I don't I get vague, unvarying dreams and at best I get plenty of LDs and OBEs.
10. All the above.
11. Well yea if you concentrate in/on the moment while awake that will carry over into dreams and projections, hence why meditation works.
12. Started having lucid dreams, pre-projection states and projections.
13. I think I'm too aware for my own good.
14. Now I believe the physical world is dependent on consciousness, not vice-versa.

[AstralBeginnings]

1. 29
2. Yes, only 2 Lucid Dreams though
3. I dont practice Lucid Dreaming specifically but as I think its the same as projection we can say since April 2010.
4) Both.  In your head is where the true reality lies in my opion - consciousness IS reality.  Is that in or out of our "heads"?
5) I have had OBE's all my life but didnt know what they were - my first time consciously was April 2010.
6) I have an OBE related experience normally around 1 time per month but sometimes more and sometimes less (when I am busy with work)
7) Since April 2010 I have had around the 10-15 mark, I am not sure as I dont update my journal/blog with every occurence - but prior to this I have had a fairly large amount throughout my life but didnt know what they were at the time.
I think OBE's and dream control / awareness are very important TO ME.  I have my own reasons and these are what makes them important for me.
9) I remember my dreams extremely well and in great depth.
10) Spiritual and for fun.
11) I am not sure what you mean by "daily awareness"?
12) Do you mean something like mindfulness? 
13) Very aware I guess.
14) My first conscious OBE changed me forever.

[astraladdict]

1. 15
2.Almost every night
3.Since i created this account
4. Dream in your head but under your control due to being concious
5. First obe was last year, when i was home because my mom took me out of school for a drug test
6.Almost every night
7.TONS heh
8.Depends on how personal it is to you
9.Everyone dreams, as for remembering i remember all of my LD's and LD awarenesses
10. I do many things while obe
11. Depends on what you mean by daily awareness
12. ^^
13.^^
14. LD's didn't change it, things i've learned have

[urshebear]

1. 20
2. A few short ones
3. have been practising for 4 months but have done it not knowing it actually had a name since my early teens
4. I think a lucid dream and an OBE are both in the mind but I also think physical waking life is a state of mind aswell
5.Early teens
6.Id say once every 3-4 months
7. maybe 4 LDs and 25 OBEs (estimate)
8.I dont think its important but I do think it makes life a heck of a lot more fun
9.if I sleep all night without interruptions I remember nothing, but usually I do wake up and go back to sleep a few times especially in the early morning. My early morning dreams I usually remember very clearly
10.At the moment for fun and self exploration but in the future when I get my head around it better I am interested in communicating with the dead and doing retrieval missions (rescuing lost souls)
11.Yes I think the more aware you are in waking life, the more aware you will be in your dreams
12.I havent been having OBEs for long enough to really know
13.not as aware as I would like to be
14. My world veiw didnt change after lucid dreaming as I thought it was normal and something everyone does but after having an OBE I became alot more excited about my life and the universe in general.