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A little history about me before I present my situation.  I first got interested in Astral Travel about a decade ago when I was 15 or 16.  It was merely a curiosity thing after I read about it somewhere on the internet.  Well being the kid and novice I was, I was very susceptible to fluff I would come across and basically "psyched" myself out and got frustrated and gave up.  I focused on lucid dreaming instead and found that very fulfilling in a relatively short amount of time.

Anyway,  about 2 years ago I came across a book call Pagan Metaphysics 101: A Guide to Enlightenment.  Besides being an excellent read I found that this once again sparked my interest into Astral Travel.  Perhaps being more mature lead to my success, but I had my first Astral experience after about 3 weeks of on and off practice I believe.  My first experience was "okay".  I found myself more disoriented than anything and was very short.  After that, I was having intermittent success.  I still was a bit nervous about it all and found myself projecting at a low vibration, which I'm sure some of you know, that won't help your fear issues at all.    As they say practice makes perfect and after much practice was able to keep myself in a mindset that I would automatically project to a higher vibration that I wouldn't have to try and force myself there after I was already out.  And the rest is history until recently.

I'm not sure what has changed, but last month I found myself projecting at a lower vibration again and finding it a real struggle to get to a higher level.  To be perfectly honest, when this happens I get frustrated and usually just say forget it and end the travel.  But, the strange thing is, even when I go to project in a positive, focused mindset, I'm still finding myself in a lower vibration and I'm not quite sure why.  I can when I truly have the desire can put myself at a higher level, but most of the time I don't feel like dealing with the bottom-feeders in the lower levels.  To be honest, they really don't distract me much anymore.  I know for the most part which ones are more bark-than-bite and which ones to get out of dodge. But regardless, they still find a way to be a nuisance and in my opinion aren't worth my time or effort to deal with, but I digress.  Attempting to talk to my spirit guide about the issue has been, to say the least, unfruitful.  She seems to want to be very shaded with this particular predicament. So, I'm kind of at a loss as to why the sudden change.

I only have one friend that has the ability to consciously Astral Travel and she says she's never had anything like that happen to her since her beginning days of projecting, so I'm kind of at a standstill right now.  Like I stated earlier, even when I'm going out with a positive mindset and direction, I'm still ending up in a lower level.  Nothing in my life has really changed recently, besides maybe some frustration with my recent Astral experiences, but I try not to focus on this "hiccup".

With all that said, anyone with experience in this matter know what might be going on?  I'm not sure how to say this without sounding a bit rude, but I mean no disrespect to the ones just learning in the community; I'm looking for serious advice from those that have a good deal of experience with Astral Travel.  However, I am open to all suggestions or theories.  

Thanks in advance and hope for some guidance in this situation!

Cheers.

Edited for grammatical errors

I don't know how many of you out there are aware of a movie called "Silent Hill".  It's a very disturbing, creepy movie with fairly bad acting.  Well anyway, out of boredom I watched the movie a few nights ago and decided to push myself towards a lucid dream of the movie setting, the town of "Silent Hill".  Not the greatest idea.  The dream started out somewhere else, in my backyard or something before I became lucid.  When I became lucid I realized that the dream has been lasting a while and I'm probably not going to be dreaming much longer so I need to get a move on.  I redirected myself by thinking of the Silent Hill setting while using a pulsing relocation technique I taught myself.  Soon enough, I found myself in the fog-ridden town of silent hill.  Needless to say it was creepy, but nothing was terrifying like I would be expecting it to be.  The dream began to fade because honestly I think I was getting bored just walking through a foggy town, so I focused on my hands and spun and the dream cleared up again. 
Then hell broke loose.
If you are familiar with the movie then you will probably know, a fire siren going off is not a good thing.  Well, I hear the siren go off and the town begins to change into the hellish world.  Everything is rusted and I couldn't imagine hell, itself, looking any worse.  I'm starting to freak out because I'm hearing screams and just unnatural sounds.  I decide to get out of this dream world and go to the island I bail out to when I'm trying to get out of a bad dream.  I turn around to start spinning and as I turn around I see the pyramid head guy with the huge sword carrying a nurse with a hole in her face.  This scared the living crap out of me.  I'm pretty sure I yelled loud enough in my dream that the real world heard it. haha I immediately, without thinking, just jump straight up into the air and fly away and wake up almost immediately after.

So, what did I learn?  Never, ever, try to live out a horror movie.    Thankfully, I was lucid enough to be able to bail out when I needed to, but I have a feeling if I would have lost lucidity at a point, I may have been quite traumatized when I woke up.  Although, it was an experience I am glad I had, I definitely have learned my lesson and will not be doing anything like that again very soon.

I managed to somehow fall asleep around 7 PM, just dead tired I guess.  I became lucid in one of my dreams, even though I wasn't intending to.  I remembered it couldn't have been past 8 when I feel asleep so I just decided to try and wake myself up so I wouldn't be up the rest of the night.  So I do what I usually do when I try to wake from a dream, except something different happened.  I felt a suctioning feeling in my core(abdomen region) and all of the sudden I'm standing in my living room next to my couch. I assumed I was just having a false awakening, but something was odd and I was starting to feel honestly kind of nauseous.  And I realized what was up, I could see everything.  I mean all around me.  It was insane.  I could see in a full circle 360 degrees.  I could only focus on one point at a time but my peripheral vision seemed endless.   I didn't know what was going on and unfortunately lost my cool and woke up.  My question is, what was this all about?  I'm assuming in was an OBE, because never in my life have I had a lucid dream where I could see like that and it just felt different than usual.  I don't know how to explain it.  I still had the dream haziness when I woke up, but when I was standing next to my couch, it didn't feel like a dream.  Any opinions from anyone on what this was?

Okay, so I'm going to give the lucid dream to OBE techniques more consideration.  My question is, how will you know when you are no longer dreaming and are now astral projecting?  Are things more clear, like real life or will they still have a dreamy/hazy type of feel to them.  Also how do they feel when you wake up?  Do they have the hazy feeling, like lucid dreams?

I just want to introduce myself before I get to a question I have.  My name is Tyson, I'm 20 years old and I'm an avid lucid dreamer.  I've been lucid dreaming for about a year and a half now and I'm looking to expand my horizons into the world of OBE's.  Now, I have tended to stray away from websites that dwell with psychic development, primarily due to the mass amount of adolescents trying to give advice on subjects they have no expertise in, but I'm going out on a long shot here.  I hope I didn't offend anyone with that and I apologize if I did, I've just had bad past experiences with websites/forums with subject matter such as this. 

Well anyway, here's my dilemma, I've been trying out various projection techniques(rope climbing, body rising, etc) and have been incorporating them with my focus techniques before bed.  Let me explain my focus technique briefly.  When I am lying in bed, I will keep my eyes open, not forcefully, but gently and look upwards.  And as my eyes get heavier and heavier, I will gently keep opening them, until I forcefully lose consciousness.  This is the technique I use for lucid dreaming and works very well for me.  Now, how I incorporate this into my projection technique is, I will keep my eyes open until I feel them getting heavy, this is usually when I get the floating feeling going on(which we all experience before falling asleep).  At this point, I don't open my eyes back up, but I keep them closed and begin my projection procedure.  I usually feel the "vibrations" many, many individuals have talked about fairly quickly and then comes my issue.  My leg muscles will just begin twitching, not violently, or swiftly, but enough to throw my attention away and cause me to lose the vibrations completely and then causing me to fall asleep.

I've also tried this at other times during the day and not before bed, but the twitches seem to be a problem at all times.  I have tried various relaxation techniques and many them have helped in a very nominal way, but nothing enough for me to keep my focus when the twitches begin.  My question is, is this a normal occurrence and if so, how can it be worked past?

I have a journal of nearly all my projection attempts written in a notebook and I can provide them to you for additional information if need be(just kind of a nuisance to type up, ya know?).  Any help would be appreciated and I will be more than happy to answer any questions anyone may have for me.  Thank you!

I quit working on energy development whenever I moved to my new apartment and began college, however I have begun working with energy once again.  Unfortunately, a new problem has come up.   It seems I get very tired very fast, almost to the point I could fall asleep on the spot.  It makes it extremely difficult to concentrate whenever all I can think about is falling asleep.  Typically, I will practice roughly half an hour then sleep for about two hours.  I usually get 7-9 hours of sleep a night, so I see no reason why I should be so exhausted from 20 minutes of practice, it's extremely frustrating.
Also,  I have been getting severe migraines with any kind of telekinetic practices.  I am getting good results during the practice, just afterwards is when the migraines hit me.  They typically only last about an hour, but does anyone know what could be causing this?

Any help is appreciated.

I have an odd situation at hand.
Around, I'd say, one year ago I began my venture into Astral Projection.  Well, I have a sleeping condition that is rather odd.  If  I simply lay on my back without anything over my face(pillow, blanket, etc.) I find myself paralyzed and then a menacing figure comes up and you probably know the drill, it screams in my face and basically makes my life a living hell for a few moments.  That's usually why I sleep on my side.
Now back to the astral projection issue. I find myself only having success when I try it on my back.  Well when I start getting the warping feeling and the feeling of vertigo, I always pull myself out.  I don't want to but it seems my subconsious does it on it's own.  As much as I really want to project, I can't and it just plain out sucks, because frankly I am afraid.  And I know when you project what you imagine becomes reality, so yeah.
So I ask of you guys, a serious, not made up response from the kids that just come around and post.  You guys can not understand the feeling I have towards all of this.  I want it so bad, and I know I can do it, and I'm stuck.  I'm stuck in a deep hole that I don't know I can get out of.  So please any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.