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i've had dreams that play out scene for scene in waking life the next day.
For instance an old flame that i had thought i'de put out of my mind for quite some time.
I dreamt that I met her in a corridor we hugged and talked.
the next morning she calls me out of the blue to ask how i've been doing since it seemed like ide vanished off the face of the earth
i wasn't surprised but i had the feeling she might have had the same dream but didn't ask cuz i didn't want to sound like a psycho
are there cases of this sort of thing happening does it tie in with OBE
or is it somthing else

p.s thank you to everyone who's replied to my many posts and anyone who replies to this one, some of this stuff may be outlandish but i'm really trying to figure this all out the best way i know how

some one tried to explain 4d to me one time like this,

imagine a line no matter how you look at it its just a line,(1d)
now imagine pulling that line untill its a square(2d)
now you tug on that square untill its a cube(3d)
now tug on the cube untill you have two cubes overlapping into themselves, thats 4d
kind of like the astral pulse logo at the top left of the page with the woman then the astral body emerging half way out
Is the astral body always there we just don't see it in the 3d world because its beyond comprehension?

the mayan calendar suggests that we're reaching a point where we're evolving so quickly that we'll be able to leave our bodies like turning a switch, i've heard psychics say that the veil is thinning (between the physical and spiritual world) What do you think?

Is it our human brains that make us unique? Or is it just energy resting in this vessle that isn't bound anymore once the Brain dies? can animals be astral travelers?

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tell me everything you've read that will help me better wrap my head around this anything related (i've said in another post my best tools as a child were some show at disney land and an episope of batman the animated series,waking life too) Anything

A couple people have mentioned that there are various levels you can ascend to that some are unimaginable or untreadable the higher you go.
Is this so? are these places what we'll no to be the afterlife or is my guess as good as anyones?

so after becoming somewhat infatuated yesterday thinking that the universe has brought me to this place to remember how to astral project (i don't even feel comfortable calling it that but i'm just trying to fit in i suppose) I went to bed with my mind buzzing with all this information, and i'm sure i'll be posting alot of what ifs and has this ever happened? sort of things but as i drifted off to sleep i tried not shut my eyes instead focussing very hard on the floural pattern on my sofa i think i could almost see through my eyelids again but who knows i could be manifesting it all. but i did dream of being at some party with faces i had never seen before which got me thinking about what Bertrand Russel said about imagination. its basicly this, you can only imagine things you've seen before and any number of combinations you can create with all the information you have, like i could imagine my 3rd grade teacher wearing a cowboy hat even though ive never seen her in a cowboy hat but have seen her as well as cowboy hats. just like i cannot imagine a color that i've never seen before. so upon seeing another astral traveler what do they look like? is it like your connecting to the global network of consciousness? what would someone who's been blind since birth see? can you really see other travelers?

I've had the experience of actually laying back down into my body to wake up is it possible for two people who can leave thier body to simply trade? Is there any groups or research being done to test any of this stuff in the field?

say you were on your deathbed due to a stroke that had left you unable to communctate and unable to move the right side of you body, your able to comunicate with your loved ones through a series of  thumbs up and thumbs down you can't write anything legible due to arthritis.
would the sheer frustration drive people unaware of astral projection to comunicate through dreams?

I remember that if I was out of my body I would have to return to the one I could see to wake up and that if i forced myself to wake up it felt as if i had just fallen into my bed upon awakening. Is this common?

Are their cases of people who were known by their friends and family to be into astral projection and they simply died in their sleep one night?

If you can remember doing this sort of thing as a child (astral project) yet have trouble now wouldn't it make more sense to figure out what made it easy before and try to duplicate the conditions? (pardon my ignorance but i'm new to this) is that somthing people do? or do you force it? or is it just somthing that happens and remembering that it happened is the hard part?

I was reading this Chogyam Trungpa book and he talks about the legend of Shambhala this city where the ruler decreed that everyone follow this form of meditation. The citizens were so enlightened that they say the whole city vanished and is just a collective dream now? is this sort of thing like that astral meeting thing on the linking website?

is this earthly body the only tool we have to astral project or is the spirit actually leaving the body?

When I was a kid I used to have the most beautiful dreams that I was floating about my house while evreyone slept. Although I was far to young to rationalize what was happening I knew these dreams were different somehow. I could see myself sleeping and the rest of my family sleeping, I soon came to realize that I didn't have a bedtime anymore and began using what little knowledge of the world I had picked up from the never ending stream of light and sound that was used to babysit more often than not (there was a t.v in every room of my house growng up) and my travels that I  barely remember (alot of family vacations as a very young kid) to figure out what was going on. I was able to play with astral projection far before I had any idea what it was I was potentially doing and long before I had lost my full imagination (I mean sure you may paint or write music but when was the last time you created an entire world for your stuffed animals or pretended your hand was a person who could carry a converstion)
Anyway on a trip to disney land I remember this show on the water near amazon land or somthing. The whole story was (i think) that mickey mouse is in the dream world and all his friends are captured by the disney villains and evetually someone tells him somthing like "but mickey if its all just a dream you can control everything" so he starts using his imagination to change everything (your not really big and mean,theres no cage etc) mickey saves the day and i'm weeping tears of joy. Later that night I remember thinking before I went to sleep " I can control everything, I can control everything..." so all of a sudden i'm floating around the motel room and I use my new found power to float through the door out to the pool then way up into the sky. another time I saw an episode of Bat Man the animated series where bat man's dealing with the mad hatter and realises the mad hatter used his new device to trap batman in his own dreams, but bat man see's through it  because he can't read any writing on the pages of a book or make out what time it is on a digital clock. So  put that theory to the test, the next time I had one of my floaty dreams I looked at the bookshelf in my room and could clearly make out the writing on the spines of the books. So really all I thought was that bat man was wrong or stupid. there were other times growing up that I remember distictly looking through my eyelids. I was at the pool (I couldn't swim,still can't) competting with my bother to see who could hold their breath the longest. I could see his face he was puffing out his cheeks and holding his nose I came up for air then he did. He won we laughed then I said somthing like "huh, you looked funny" then imitated him he said " you opened your eyes?" I replied "no, are you crazy it burns" he just gave me a wierd look then splashed me. On one other occasion (last one I promise) I had crashed my bike into fire hydrant after hitting a crack my handle bar spun around and slashed across one one of my eyes and just the top eyelid on the other. I didn't lose my eye (thank God) but I did have to keep a patch on the one eye and it was a strain to open the other. During my recovery I was lying in bed watching t.v getting frustrated that I couldn't see very well and since my one eye was partially shut I was getting sleepy but didn't want to sleep. So I turned on my side and cried I think. I was laying ther listening to the t.v trying to follow the story, all of a sudden i'm sitting up watching it with perfect sight. It was an episode of california dreams it was like saved by the bell but they were in a band, years later I saw a rerun of the same episode and I remembered the images.
But time passed and  now I have trouble doing what came so natural as a child, I feel like I've grown down rather than up, I saw the movie waking life and everything made sense and now i'm just trying to figure it out again. Is that what its like? was I on the astral plain? has any one else ever done that pool thing? i've seen these astral project in 20 minute cds for $29.95 what are those? how do they work? I had no idea there was an online community let alone people even thinking about this stuff and I guess thats why this post is so long I just had to tell someone who would believe me because I can't help thinking thats why it doesn't come naturally anymore because everyone laughed it off as my imagination or just a wierd dream or that I was lying. You know? are their any good books to read on the subject? Please let me know you Know where i'm coming from,thanks.