Newbie needing some guidance

[Amongthestarz333]

@Lumaza thank you again for all of your wonderful information and resources. As for phasing, I hope that one day I could attain this! I do try sometimes, but have yet to succeed. Phasing was the first methods I read about on here. Overtime, I hope I can be one of the ones who achieve this! Thank you <3

@Tak hi! It's good to be back. Almost* at will haha. A lot of the time I set an intention of LD / AP and will have a very REAL dream. Typically unpleasant too. Like this morning, I was practicing and unfortunately just woke from a very unpleasant, hyper realistic, dream awareness. Sometimes I feel like my subconscious tries to let me know I'm in a LD by making me uncomfortable! Lol

But if I give it a couple days I'm sure I'll be back to more successful attempts.

TYSM for the guidance. Setting that type of intention and including that I'll be there long, sounds like a perfect idea. I am starting to understand the power that holds with intentions. The other night I said I wanted to wake up early without my alarm, and so I did! Really miraculous. You, EV, and many others are right, in the NPR I need to start behaving as such. Sometimes I don't recognize my energy body LOL she forgets everything she learns here in the PR. Perhaps I must work on my intentions for this as well. You are a 100% right about the mindfulness, I am a work in progress.

@EscapeVelocity! It's so good to hear from you. Thank you for all of your time and guidance over this time, along with everyone else's. I am truly so grateful to be able to come here to all of my teachers. What a place.

You are right on the dot, my OOB self is a bit rogue sometimes and forgets all of her teachings XD I may include some rewiring of her in my intentions. I am patient, I can move lightly as energy, or something a long these lines, so it may carry over. You're right, those were great tests and I failed haha. I think that's probably why I end up in my room so often with this heavy globby self. My guides trying to teach me how to move in the NPR. Time and time again, I show them I cannot. But I'm certain, next time, I will. No door or window will stop me also, I will stay in my LD next time. I have been trying so hard for one outcome, I completely dodged the other.

Thank you!
-B

[Amongthestarz333]

Since my last experience, I have been having trouble lucid dreaming/gaining awareness. Instead of gaining a sense of awareness that I am dreaming, I'll wake up in my dream and then wake up again in the physical. That's happened a few times, or I just dream.

That being said, I still had a very interesting dream this morning.

I was a young man and I was taking my brother and I away from a place that started to get bombed/attacked. My understanding was we were some type of refugees. We ran to our safe house and checked to see if our father was alive. He was! And so I wake up. But I'm in another dream, this time I'm myself, telling my best friend that I had a past life dream and I'm explaining the dream to her over a salad. Then I wake up again in the physical. Ah I overslept.

Haha, Happy New Year, Everyone!
-B

[Amongthestarz333]

Hello Everyone,

Came to log my recent experience and really try to remember and understand it. This was a bit chaotic so bare with me.

1/19/2025

I woke up in the morning and went back to sleep, setting the intention to have an OBE. So I wake up and I feel like I can slip out. I think of a motion in my head, something I was thinking about & it helps me project. At first it is difficult, I can't tell what's the physical or not. Feels like I'm moving my real body, but I try to tell myself I'm not. There were so many exits I don't really remember the timeline here.
I think I snapped back to my body and then fully slipped out again. Through my feet. Then I was falling or flying, I think I see a sign of some sort, I can't remember it now. I think I end up back in my room, floating, remembering that this might be a test to figure out how to move in the NP. So I try, I think I spin a bit, go through the floor, a wall, but I have very little control. It's like a force is moving me. At some point I think my fingers get stuck somewhere and I can feel the pain, and I thought this was strange.. I'm like how can I feel pain here unless... my physical body is experiencing pain. Okay I snap back again and my fingers were uncomfortable—but in hindsight that was maybe a FA. Because I was not awake the way I am now writing to you. I slip out the same way again. This time everything is more clear, better.

Okay so now I'm flying over this place, looks like a creepy building with washing machines? There's one woman doing her laundry. She has short hair and she appears African American. I talk to her but I thought I was going to leave, until I stop myself and think maybe I'm supposed to talk to her. She appeared sad, confused, and I think she was talking to herself. This laundry room or building felt eerie, sad.

I try to stay, I ask her how she is doing.. I'm not sure we have a really long conversation.. I don't remember what she tells me but after a little bit I get pulled back.

That's the last thing I remember. I can't remember the other exits, I think I fell asleep after then woke up.

Interesting experience. Thanks for listening.

B

[Tak]

At some point I think my fingers get stuck somewhere and I can feel the pain, and I thought this was strange.. I'm like how can I feel pain here unless... my physical body is experiencing pain. Okay I snap back again and my fingers were uncomfortable—but in hindsight that was maybe a FA.

It's incredible how the mind is capable of reproducing almost perfectly what we've learned in the physical. We can reproduce a reality identical to this one, feeling aromas, flavors, temperature, and even pain - yes, in the non-physical realm. In my case, sometimes animals bite me, but it's never intense pain; it's like when your dog or cat bites you playfully, a gentle sensation.

On the other hand, I realized while being in my energy body that it's not completely subtle; it's still material in some way, just vibrating at a higher speed, but still having some degree of density. That's why we can perceive certain textures and sensations, as described by Monroe and Buhlman in their books, when touching certain materials, for example. In my case, I enjoy rubbing my hands together; it's like a magnetic sensation, like many particles frictioning against each other.

Keep sharing!

[Amongthestarz333]

1/31/2025

Ah. This was a restless night. Sometimes I make the awful mistake of setting an intention and to have an OBE before going to bed along with a meditation. For me, this is the worst thing to do because—forget sleep! The next 3 or 4 hours I am trying to fall asleep, then waking up either with my eyes closed, or to a noise in my ears, every time I'm almost falling asleep. So basically I'm almost projecting every time I fall asleep. I'm like being woken up every time I'm falling asleep. But now, it's been happening for hours, and either my dog starts snoring, moving, or my mind won't shut up. I beg to my guides please just let me fall asleeeep, I have work in the morning LOL.

So after about 4 hours of this, I finally escape! Haha okay. Yay. I must admit it's hard to have a clear mind for this experience, and again the timeline is also a bit jumbled. I'll do my best to relay it.

I believe the first exit, I ended up going through that tunnel I typically fall through. I fall through fast and this time there's beautiful lights. This is a place I go through before I enter my next place, so I set an intention of receiving a healing. I understand there are healing guides and masters in the astral so I wanted to potentially meet them. I get taken to a place, and to be honest I'm not sure if things started to mix a little. At first I see these intergalactic being heads, who I assumed were going to work on me, and their faces were blurry. But then as I either rubbed my hands or really tried to stay present their faces morphed and so did the place. They turned into some kind of men who seemed upset I was there, there was trash on the floor, and I felt like I should not be there. I was floating above them which also seemed Like an intrusion on their place. So I snapped back. I'm not sure if I created them, because I was falling asleep or what really happened. I think they were kind of bald? Maybe.

Next I was back in my body, and thought I was awake but really I was able to slip out. I ended up floating around my room, went through my ceiling, I tasted things. I don't remember what I tasted but I did it so I could be more present because it was really hard to stay focused here. I remember thinking wow, I'm doing much better floating with my energy body also I worked on going through the ceiling, and felt like every layer. So that was fun.

I think that was all of my experience. Then I finally woke up and then went to sleep.

Thanks for listening!
B

[Amongthestarz333]

2/9/25:

Good Morning! I just wanted to log my attempt from this morning. I woke up lying on my stomach which is a common projection position for me. Earlier when I woke up I thought, next time I wake up, I'll try again. So I set that intention.

Next, I feel myself flipping over, and then falling through the floor. I can't see anything and I don't try to open my eyes too much because of the proximity. Instead, I do something funny, I taste something; and it's sweet! Idk what I taste, but it's sweet. I did attempt to move around to find balance, but I couldn't; I just kept "falling". Then I ended back in the physical. I stayed still for a while hoping I could maybe leave again. But nada. Interesting though, it felt like I ate a strip of something sweet.

Little victories?

Thanks for listening!
B

[EscapeVelocity]

I agree that this may be a 'little victory'.
I could possibly speculate as to a more complex answer, but often I think the simplest answer is probably the correct answer.

Especially as it relates to tastes and smells in the Non-Physical Realms, I can only remember a very few and sporadic experiences such as the one you described. So, I think the simple answer may be that you are learning to develop the NP equivalent of the sense of taste and smell (which work together). Just like learning to see and touch, communicate and ambulate- these are PR senses and coordinations that have their NP equivalents, but they have to be learned in the sense of converting/translating energy/information into more recognizable versions of their PR forms. First, we learn to translate them into our PR terms, then we broaden our knowledge by understanding the extent of these senses in their NP forms. Some NP senses, such as communication, will naturally evolve into more complex forms such as telepathy and direct sensing. Other senses, such as clairvoyance, intuition, reading others, although relatively uncommon in the PR will become strengthened and improved as we move deeper into the NPR, their more natural environment.
So, it seems not so strange to me that we get these brief lessons in bringing new senses 'online', as it were. Taste and smell happened for me in very small and brief moments, just as you describe. I had the same questions back then...

[Volgerle]

Years ago I was on a market place and decided to try a chocolate cake. Did not have pay for it (no currency in the astral needed I suppose). The trader just gave it to me.

It tasted a bit like chocolate indeed but also somewhat peculiar and 'awkward' in a a way. Hard to describe.

I think that eating is one of the things we are in the physical to experience. And 'astral taste' shows us why. 

[Lumaza]

 The only thing I could add to the already fantastic replies here is that in Sleep studies Researchers have found the "falling" sensation and experience is aligned with either entering the state of "Hypnagogia" or leaving it, which in your case is a good thing. You became aware in that state and that is an important skill to have in the process and the practice of non-physical exploration. 

[Amongthestarz333]

Thanks everyone for your wonderful feedback. It seems my progress is slow but it's still there! Little by little, I continue to have experiences. I believe everything in divine timing.

@Lumaza, I suppose my question would be, when I am "falling" should I let it be until I stop? Maybe my attempt to do too much during this is what brought me back.

Thank you,
B.

[Amongthestarz333]

2/19/25
Today is actually a dream I would like your thoughts on. I was in a car and then someone attempted to shoot me through the seat in front of me. It doesn't work, and I noticed that to my left there's an eagle in the sky.

The dream shifts about this eagle. I run to it, I notice it falling almost and morphing, and losing parts of itself. Once it got to the ground it was pure energy and embodied the energy of a horse. I laid down next to it and I felt the energy of the horse come into me.

Really crazy feeling. I woke up after.

Thanks everyone!
B

[Xanth]

I suppose my question would be, when I am "falling" should I let it be until I stop? Maybe my attempt to do too much during this is what brought me back.

Just wanting to jump in here quickly... usually the "falling" is caught by you because your intellect gets engaged into the situation.  You "see" something, then your intellect jumps in and starts wanting to question and analyze it. 

Projecting is a 100% Intuitive process.  You need to figure how to put your Intellectual side aside and just allow the Intuitive side to process everything going on.

[Amongthestarz333]

@Xanth hi

Ah, this is something I am working on. I feel as I continue to go within in my PR, I will get better at doing this in the NPR.

Thank you so much for this advice. I feel like I will really have to work on my awareness in a more present way. This will allow my intuition to flow.

Thank you <3
B

[Frostytraveler]

I have learned that sometimes overthinking things can not only stop progress (such as exiting) as well as can abruptly end metaphysical events. Passively observing and going with the flow can be your friend. If you must analyze things (and we all do) best to do so when the event has ended. Triggering metaphysical events is always looked back on with the comment "it's far easier than I thought, why did I over complicate things". When we over analyze things, it gets our thinking mind and ego involved and keeps us in the body. This is why, for me, indirectly projecting is far easier than directly projecting. 

[Amongthestarz333]

@Frostytraveler all very true. Thank you. I am working on just being.

2/26/25:
So this morning I did a little bit of a different method. I went to bed early last night and woke up around 2:30am. During this time, I was in bed doing cycles of feeling all of my senses. I forget what this method was called. I think it's for LDing I read on here. I prematurely wake in a dream the first time, and wake up too much in the PR if that makes sense, but then the second time, I'm able to exit.

Yay! Okay so I slip through my feet at first and I'm doing my best to stay present and then I sit up. I stand up and walking is difficult but not as difficult as before. I can see but not fully. I feel my dresser at the end of my bed that helps me get to my window. Everything feels so real! I have never gone through my window and I just want to get out of my room lol. I get to my window, and honestly I can't even tell if this is the NPR. I pinch myself, and I can't feel it. I try to put my thumb through my hand and I can't. Ugh. Oh well. So I open my window, even though I know I don't technically need to. And there's still the screen there but I tell myself it doesn't matter! So I push myself through it all.

I end up flying towards this complex/building which is unlike mine. I see some people in the pool and I think how exciting I'd love to go talk to them and so I do. But as soon as I do I get pulled back!

Lame! Haha

But I think this is the furthest I got out of my room in a long time. Which is exciting. YAY! Now to make the experience last longer. Also to get over my intellectual mind. I could hear all of you as I try to "walk" and "open the window". Yet I still do it. lol more meditation to come.

Thanks everyone!
-B

[Amongthestarz333]

3/15/25

Today I wasn't feeling well and ended up sleeping a lot more. So as I went to sleep I set an intention and did a cycle of feeling my senses.

I was in a dream and my grandmother who passed away who I'm certain is my soulmate was talking to me on the phone. God it was so real but I told her, you know you're not really here grandma you have passed. She says I know. I told her I love her and to watch over me and to ask God to watch over me. But the conversation—wow I haven't heard her voice in so long.

I ended up flying somewhere and then everything went dark and I felt my self phasing from my body. I was slipping out from my feet, and watching the little swirlies and stuff. I end up in a dark place with these spooky dementor looking things chasing me, but I don't have control over my body it's like a force moving me. So the whole time I had no fear and was just saying I only have love. And I kept repeating that. And so one of them caught onto me, and he turned into a man. I think I tried to hug him lol. He told me not to do that, and then tossed me over the edge of the building or whatever we were in.

I ended up going back to the click space until I got to a place with little cats and dogs, and I could speak with them. I think I pet some animals. I can't remember what we spoke about but one of the dogs was really shocked lol! Couldn't stay long, I feel this place fading.

I'm back to this dark click space like falling again. I say over and over I want to go to the moon. I envision the moon and after sometime I start moving upwards, and am able to move my body a little, but I can't see much. I can feel a card in my hand that I broke in half. I didn't make it to the moon. I made it back to my bed LOL.

What an interesting experience
Thanks for listening,
B.

[Amongthestarz333]

Hi everyone,

It's been a minute. Lots of life happened but I had a few experiences. Recently, I've had trouble holding on to the experiences. I'll gain awareness through a dream, and it will kinda change into a different level of astral awareness, and then I lose everything. I have tried touching, spinning, licking, grounding. But the experience just gets lost and I either wake up or I lose awareness.

Last night, I gained awareness in a dream, just by pretty much setting intentions everyday before bed. Then the dream turned into very heightened awareness. I was walking a path in this pink/peach land with a girl and it felt like I was truly there. I asked her, "I wonder why I'm guiding you when I have never been here myself." I have no idea why I said this but once I did everything broke and I was back in bed. I kept my eyes closed in hopes i could go back but I needed to pee and that was that lol.

The other day something similar happened, I gained awareness in a dream. I stopped the dream, I licked the floor I think and then I believe I thought that I was drooling on that floor but it felt so real I thought it was real life so I woke my physical body up to clean my mouth up and I was not drooling at all! lol

I have tried continuing the dream and just trying to "lucid dream" but same thing happens where I can't keep it going for more than a few seconds :-/ it's actually harder then if I stop the dream and it morphs into an astral awareness or something.

Anywho it's nice to talk to you all again. Lots of life lately so I'm sorry I haven't been around! But I continue to dream and attempt to travel in the NP. <3

[Lumaza]

I have tried continuing the dream and just trying to "lucid dream" but same thing happens where I can't keep it going for more than a few seconds :-/ it's actually harder then if I stop the dream and it morphs into an astral awareness or something.

I experienced the same thing and it was frustrating, but, then it all changed. You say you are using your nightly affirmations and because of that you have shown you are ready to "progress". A new teaching and experiences await. Learn to "passively observe" all with an "air of curiosity". Then you can move on to "reacting".

 I have learned to what has been called "dream walking". Almost nightly now, I am lucidly aware, (just as I am here), in my experiences. It has been so real that I no longer use the word "dream" while speaking about them. The trick I learned is to keep that fact that you are indeed having a lucid NPR experience, as far as you can in the back of your head. That way, you can interact just as you do here in wherever or whatever you are doing.

 Here's another tip, ask the characters in the experience you find yourself, why "they" are there.

[Amongthestarz333]

Hi @Lumaza

It's always a pleasure hearing from you. Thank you, I will continue my journey, although it feels slower. I'm still grateful for the little experiences I still have. I think becoming a passive observer is going to be a life long journey for me

It's interesting how when I am in the NP I have this knowing, that makes sense to me there but not so much here? I will ask why they are there next time..and hopefully have enough time to get a response.

[EscapeVelocity]

This is often a very frustrating transition to work through and most if not all, senior projectors have been where you are. The difficulty likely lies in the necessity to adjust your mindset to the subtleties of the various Non-Physical Realms, and there are no easy standard answers other than what Lumaza has shared with you- Do not try to control or impose your will/Intent on the environment. Keep your mind as still as possible and passively observe with a slight sense of curiosity. Go with the flow of whatever the environment is offering you.

If the new environment has you walking down the beach with a girl, then just walk down the beach with the girl and passively observe what occurs next. This is likely a simulation constructed by your Guide to teach you something; early in these experiences, what they are trying to teach you is probably a much more simple thing than you are expecting. A walk down the beach with a girl may be the entire exercise, maybe just to provide you an environment to practice "stilling the mind from all the monkey chatter", and learning to passively observe without interfering or over-thinking. These early lessons can really be that short, simple and subtle and tailored specifically to the individual. Just asking the girl a question appears to have gotten you booted out, seemingly prematurely, so I tend to think the challenge was to still your mind and passively observe.

Another mental adjustment they may be trying to impress upon you is to recognize the changes to your environment and the new requirements versus the old requirements. If I use the terminology of the multiple energy planes (etheric, astral, mental etc.), there are noticeable qualities unique to each. In an etheric projection, the environment is monochromatic- often grayish, drab greenish or lightly brownish. In the astral, the world opens into technicolor and in the mental 5K Ultra Hi-Def...
In the etheric, your mind can be all over the place, full of internal dialogue and foggy thinking. In the astral, you have to get full control of your emotions and improve your thinking or you go no further. In the mental plane, your mindset has to improve even moreso.

In the etheric, projectors often find they have to regularly "stabilize the environment" by grounding techniques such as spinning or touching objects around them to extend the experience. In the astral, this stabilization process is a much more interior or mental adjustment and no spinning or touching is needed. You were already in an astral state and misperceived what was required of you (go with the flow and passive observe) and instead applied an etheric technique. I wouldn't be surprised your Guide added the drooling effect as a signal to you of what you did wrong, LoL.

It may not feel like it but you are making progress. You describe multiple occurrences of becoming lucid in a normal dream and then recognizing the next level of heightened awareness...when that happens and your environment is in technicolor, then recognize you are already in the astral and can ignore any etheric plane limitations. Also, when you become lucid and then the dream environment changes, recognize that a Guide has stepped in to offer you a simulation or teaching situation and you should go into passive observe mode and go with the flow until you begin to notice the plot-line that has been developed for you.

Good work!

[Lumaza]

 The only part of your whole post that I found was sad EV, was that I could only click "like" once, when it deserves at least 5 of them!

 I would say that your entire post EV should be "stickied". What you shared here could be utilized by many, in a number of posts and enquiries that we receive here on Astral Pulse forums.

 Whenever I become consciously aware in a new environment. That "is" my "reality". After I get the gist of what is going on/lay of the land, per se, then and then only will I interact in it. It doesn't take long to do that. Many times the "knowing" that accompanies NPRs, is enough to fill in the blanks.. You just need to calm your mind. I say that like it is easy to do. I will tell you it isn't. But, it is necessary, if you wish to make this your new "norm"!