hi everyone,
this is my very first post on the astral pulse, i greet ye all.
a little while ago i came across the astral arts. deep fascination is a somewhat suitable description for what i feel for this. a big round of thanks is in order to all of you, for sharing your experiences. it has been very helpful.
i have been exploring this art for four days now. so as you would expect, i really dont know whats going on. ive been reading around the forum a bit, and while finding a lot of the answers to my questions there, it still doesnt quite quench my knowledge thirst.
heres a not so brief retrospective of the past four days experiences:
day1: nearly nothing. tried like mad to move my energy body. no use ofcourse.
i ended up moving my physical body instead.
day 2: pretty much the same as day 1. i opened my physical eyes instead of my astral eyes...but i did notice a sense of my body giving me reduced sensory input. and i had a less profound feeling of the spacial position of my physical body.
day3: i made a little discovery of how to get somewhere quicker and easier: take a deep breath and catch the train to dreamland. i jump off again before i lose consciousness. by dojng that, i find that body has a tendency of nearly falling asleep.
i read later that steve 2b (i think it was) also uses this teq. he calls it 'nosediving into sleep'.
just about no clue where arms and legs are located, unless i specifically focus on it. even then its hard to tell. especially the extremeties like fingers and toes. i feel extremely realxed and slightly euforic. somewhere along the way i stop giving a damn whether im exploring new territory, because i feel so comfortable, being only slightly aware of having a body. i notice my breathing now and then. seems like the autonomous nervous system has partially taken over that. get a few very short visuals and 'snapshots'. 2 that i remember: one, the snapshot was of a log, with the sky as background. the other visual was like a video clip, and quite lucid: a blue creature of some sort breaking through a vertical wall of running water. quite spectacular. took my breath away.
day4 (about half hour ago): again, after 'jumping off the dream train', my body feels fuzzy. i think it is by others descibed as sleep paralysis. but im not sure. todays experience was very interesting indeed. at some point i notice a sensation of my body being shaken. as soon as i notice this, it seems to disappear again. my skin feels warm. very warm, feels like im lying in the sun. very comfortable. my consciousness seems to fade a bit and i have one or two images, like yesterday, but nowhere as lucid. suddenly i hear a woman talking..almost whispering. i dont understand what shes saying, neither do i really take much notice of it. it comes closer, and the voice finishes the sentence right in my ear with the word "shopping". the last word was very loud and jerked my consciousness out of whatever state it may have been in..what a weird thing for a woman to whisper in my ear anyway. :confused:
after a little while i sort of drift off again. another sound i coming closer. this time its a pair of scissors being opened and closed several times. again, it jerks me almost back to c1.
i become less and less aware of my body, again it feels like i am drifing off to sleep, but not quite as much as before. my body feels flat. like a sheet of paper. a sheet of paper that was suddenly being tugged at, shaken, and squished. these sensations are acompanied by my heartbeat going crazy, and my body nearly hyperventilating. again, my skin feels very warm. and i get an adrenaline rush all of a sudden. tingling, etc..
thats the experiences of the four days i have been attemting to do something along the astral arts.
the problem being exactly that: what am i doing, and where am i going? some of these sensations, according to quite a few people, are precursors and indicators of projection. but they have a tendency to pull me back almost to c1, exept my body is still..numb. then i just let my mind soar and play around from there, see what happens.
the feeling of going to sleep, should i work against it , or just go with the flow?
peace be
this is my very first post on the astral pulse, i greet ye all.
a little while ago i came across the astral arts. deep fascination is a somewhat suitable description for what i feel for this. a big round of thanks is in order to all of you, for sharing your experiences. it has been very helpful.
i have been exploring this art for four days now. so as you would expect, i really dont know whats going on. ive been reading around the forum a bit, and while finding a lot of the answers to my questions there, it still doesnt quite quench my knowledge thirst.
heres a not so brief retrospective of the past four days experiences:
day1: nearly nothing. tried like mad to move my energy body. no use ofcourse.
i ended up moving my physical body instead. day 2: pretty much the same as day 1. i opened my physical eyes instead of my astral eyes...but i did notice a sense of my body giving me reduced sensory input. and i had a less profound feeling of the spacial position of my physical body.
day3: i made a little discovery of how to get somewhere quicker and easier: take a deep breath and catch the train to dreamland. i jump off again before i lose consciousness. by dojng that, i find that body has a tendency of nearly falling asleep.
i read later that steve 2b (i think it was) also uses this teq. he calls it 'nosediving into sleep'.
just about no clue where arms and legs are located, unless i specifically focus on it. even then its hard to tell. especially the extremeties like fingers and toes. i feel extremely realxed and slightly euforic. somewhere along the way i stop giving a damn whether im exploring new territory, because i feel so comfortable, being only slightly aware of having a body. i notice my breathing now and then. seems like the autonomous nervous system has partially taken over that. get a few very short visuals and 'snapshots'. 2 that i remember: one, the snapshot was of a log, with the sky as background. the other visual was like a video clip, and quite lucid: a blue creature of some sort breaking through a vertical wall of running water. quite spectacular. took my breath away.
day4 (about half hour ago): again, after 'jumping off the dream train', my body feels fuzzy. i think it is by others descibed as sleep paralysis. but im not sure. todays experience was very interesting indeed. at some point i notice a sensation of my body being shaken. as soon as i notice this, it seems to disappear again. my skin feels warm. very warm, feels like im lying in the sun. very comfortable. my consciousness seems to fade a bit and i have one or two images, like yesterday, but nowhere as lucid. suddenly i hear a woman talking..almost whispering. i dont understand what shes saying, neither do i really take much notice of it. it comes closer, and the voice finishes the sentence right in my ear with the word "shopping". the last word was very loud and jerked my consciousness out of whatever state it may have been in..what a weird thing for a woman to whisper in my ear anyway. :confused:
after a little while i sort of drift off again. another sound i coming closer. this time its a pair of scissors being opened and closed several times. again, it jerks me almost back to c1.
i become less and less aware of my body, again it feels like i am drifing off to sleep, but not quite as much as before. my body feels flat. like a sheet of paper. a sheet of paper that was suddenly being tugged at, shaken, and squished. these sensations are acompanied by my heartbeat going crazy, and my body nearly hyperventilating. again, my skin feels very warm. and i get an adrenaline rush all of a sudden. tingling, etc..
thats the experiences of the four days i have been attemting to do something along the astral arts.
the problem being exactly that: what am i doing, and where am i going? some of these sensations, according to quite a few people, are precursors and indicators of projection. but they have a tendency to pull me back almost to c1, exept my body is still..numb. then i just let my mind soar and play around from there, see what happens.
the feeling of going to sleep, should i work against it , or just go with the flow?
peace be