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So, last night I started to have a lucid dream, and I began to repeat awareness now, awareness now until the dream scenery disappeared. And it did but all of a sudden I couldn't see anything. Everything was dark, but I didn't feel like I was in the void, it felt like somewhere. So I repeated clarity now, clarity now, but nothing became clear. It still appeared I was in a dark nowhere. After a few more clarity now's I got scared and returned to my body.

A few questions

Next time this happens should I command a place or person or concept I want to visit?

Im interested in visiting the BST or other places where non earth bound spirits are existing in. From what I've read you go to where your energy takes you so to speak. Is that correct or is there more to it? Can you visit anywhere in the astral just by commanding it?

So at least once a month (sometimes more) for the past IDK decade I'll have a dream that my wife left me and I'm alone and desperate. I always turn to the Internet dating sites in hopes of finding a new mate, and every time I'm at this point in the dream I'm thinking I can't believe its come to this. You know, the whole how and the hell did I blow it with my wife and now I'm this desperate for someone.

Anyways the thing is I've been mattered for nine years. We've had our ups and downs, but lately our marriage has been almost ideal. Yet I had this dream 2 nights ago. Is there something else that this dream could mean other than the obvious, Interpretation of step up my game as a husband or face the prospect of online dating. IDK.

The other night I dreamt I was married to my ex girlfriend and she left me, and I was upset over the prospect of only seeing my son a few times a month and the dream ended with me creating an online profile on a dating site.

The only outside the box interpretation I can think of is that I'm looking for God/True love on the Internet instead of looking within. And this dream is calling me to look within I stead of spending hours looking at message boards like this one.

Thoughts???

So, in reading up on theories regarding the dreamworld most people here agree that the dream world and the astral world are the same or similar. And in fact everyone travels Astrally every night when they're dreaming. Which would lead me to conclude that our dreamworlds and actors are not created by our subconscious in the moment of the dream. I would argue that most of my dreams are in fact the creation of my subconscious. I think there's a part of us that is always creating because we are naturally creative beings. My dreams seem to to be created by me and serve one of the following functions:

1. Resolution of a past problem that cannot be resolved- the dream rewrites and desires to rewrite my past, especially situations where I messed up again and again.
2. Wish Fullfillment- Usually sexual dreams but sometimes having to do with playing high school sports for example because I never did.
3. Processing the Day Dreams- These dreams replay the day in strange ways sometimes and at other times in sensible ways.
4. Fantasy- lastly dreams that are fed by the imagination to create something else.

My dreams almost always fit in one of those categories. So it tells me these are personal places in my subconscious that I'm visiting not a pre existing place  in the astral world.

How does the other side of the argument go? Are these dreamworlds in the Astral Plane and Are they already created? Were they created by our subconscious? Are the people in our dreams our creation and therefore only existing within the dream and not real so to speak. And if someone could answer the title questions too I'd appreciate it.

Thx

JT

Monday Morning I woke up and couldn't believe what I was remembering and than I got my smartphone out right away and took some notes of my OBE. FYI, a year and a half ago I was able to experience a few OBE, but the exit sounds, sleep paralysis and the strange noises I heard while out scared me to the point where I just started thinking about trying to go out of body again. So this experience did come out of nowhere, I haven't been meditating or saying affirmations I've just been thinking about trying these things again. Anyways here's my notes from my phone journal that I keep.

Wow,

So I caught myself dreaming and started to control my dream. I started flying like usual and than I got brave and commanded awareness now repeatedly and the dream started to disintegrate slowly and I walked through it and entered an outside scene. There were thousands of stars twinkling and vibrating and the entire atmosphere had a pulse/vibration to it and it was indescribably beautiful. Everything in the atmosphere was breathing.

All of a sudden I took off and started flying and than I flew towards the stars at an uncomfortable speed. I got scared and told myself to slow down and asked for help. A person came to me and helped me control my flying and asked me where I wanted to go. I went to the college I attended 15 years ago and flew around the campus and landed at my fraternity house. The guy with me brought in three drunk girls into the house. Then he went into a bedroom with two and left me there with a girl who was extremely drunk. I was like what am I suppose to do with this. I asked her a few questions and it was clear that she was out cold and so I left and the dream ended.

I remember going back to my body and slowly waking up and being able to be at ease with the paralysis. I went back to sleep and had another dream. All in all it was an amazing experience and I can't believe it all happened without any work. Which leaves me convinced that work isn't really needed, not in the traditional sense, I think all one needs to project is a genuine desire and strong intention. Projecting doesn't need work, it's something we do very naturally.

A couple things about my experience:

1. The college I visited was the scene of one of the most traumatic events of my life, but we didn't even talk about it there. I just did something there that I've never done, go home with three coeds.

2. My helper told me that he was me.

3. When I first me my helper we talked about all sorts of interesting things and I forgot most of them upon awakening.

Hello,

I saw a similar thread about social anxiety here and thought maybe I could get some help or at least some advice in dealing with this illness. I've suffered from some form of depression my whole life and was diagnosed as Bipolar at the age of 19. So for 14 years now I've been seeing a psychiatrist and every two to three years I have to switch medications because my body/brain seems to build up a tolerance to it. I've reached a wall now where I'm in the process of switching meds again but in the meantime life is just very irritating for me in general. From work, to marriage and even being a father. I've been having anger outbursts and just feel off. As you probably know it takes a while for new psych meds to work.  And I'm just looking for help anywhere I can get it.I'm new to meditating and do realize this can help me.
Please send me help, insight, positivity, serenity etc from the astral if possible. I'm open to any advice if you got it.

Hello Astral Pulse,

This phrase comes up frequently throughout the posts on this forum and throughout the astral literature. However, no one goes beyond the obvious. So, if the astral world is thought responsive, can we........
1. Fool ourselves by creating loved ones and familiar environments and then become stuck there due to our own mis creations and inability to recognize them as our mis creations?
2. If so how do we know we haven't done that already and are in fact the product of one mind who is experiencing its afterlife?
3. Does the astral respond to our thoughts as language or the actual real object that the language represents?
4. Why would the medium of creation(The Multiverse) respond to thought in the form of language? IDK, this assertion seems like we put ourselves, culture and the timeframe we live in as the center of the universe.

Any clarification to the Astral being thought responsive would help.

Hello,

I have admired this site from a visitors point of view since August now and I love everything I have read thus far, not only is the material here entertaining and inspiring, everyone seems positive and helpful. It seems like the members here really care about each other and their spiritual growth.

I had my first Astral Projection OOBE in September. I tried some of Buhlman's techniques. Specifically the thirty minute meditation for thirty days one. I tried to meditate around the same time each day and used affirmations and visualization techniques during meditation times. I woke up things within me that I thought were only possible with drugs. But my first OOBE experience did not happen until I was sleeping around 20 days in the 30 day meditation. I caught myself dreaming which used to be almost never for me now I lucid dream a few times a week. Anyways I gave the command "awareness now"once I realized I was dreaming and dream quickly vaporized and I awoke in SP. Wow, was that some scary excrement. I did the roll out technique and was shocked that it actually worked, shocked and very very frightened. I heard strange noises, it sounded like a child screaming and adults talking right outside my house. I also felt like something was watching me and couldn't see anything. So after a few seconds out I freaked out and returned to my body, but I remained in SP for what seemed like forever.

After a few more experiences like this one I've decided to stop for a while until I work through that fear. My motivation for wanting to project is for the thrill of it and I wish to get in touch with my higher self.