Hi Everyone,
I've just signed up to the Forum so thought I'd introduce myself and also have a couple of questions to ask.
I've been into LD/AP/OBE for about 4 years now since reading about it on the net.
I'd had a few as a child but never knew what they were, or that it was something that could be experienced on purpose.
I've always been a very vivid Dreamer (now a blessing, once a curse), had very good Dream recall and once I started trying to get into the NP, was very lucky having 3 LD/AP/OBE in my first week trying.
After that it was sort of like turning on a tap and I started having them more and more, with practice I'm now at the point where I can get into the non physical on a nightly basis.
My first question is about something interesting I read on here, a post by Xaneth saying that it's your awareness level that dictates your experience, that to be 100% conscious and having full waking memory is the holly grail of Astral Projection.
In about 95% of my experiences I do feel 100% conscious though, have full waking memory and everything feels as real, if not more real than how I'm feeling right now, I also have no problem remembering goals or remembering something I've read that I want to try.
Sometimes I get into the NP by becoming aware during a vivid Dream, mostly though I get in by holding on to my consciousness while I go through the vibrations and humming sensations, I then feel as though I'm flying up into the air, or falling through my bed and this is also often accompanied by whispering or laughing in my ears.
I wait for the sensations to stop after around a minute or so and then just get up out of body.
Would this all be concidered AP? even though in some I become aware during a Dream and in others I go through sensations, then get up out of my body?
I spend most of my time in the RTZ, often getting out of body in my bed and going out into my local area, or somewhere I've spent a lot of time in my life, basicly a copy of this World but with some minor differences.
I've been many other places I've never been before as well though, different Planets and different times but I've been reading a little lately about higher Astral Planes and the akashic records, things like that and it's got me wondering so I'd really like to hear from people who believe, or don't believe these higher planes exist.
Having had so many experiences now, I've had a lot of fun testing things out and doing the impossible, but I've started to feel I want to use it for deeper, more meaningful experiences.
Being from England I'm not a very Religious person but I have an open and inquisitive mind and am often attracted to the mystical or paranormal.
Since having these experiences, I've also become very interested in the nature of reality and things like that.
Don't want to make the post to long so thanks for reading and I look forward to talking with like minded people.
I've just signed up to the Forum so thought I'd introduce myself and also have a couple of questions to ask.
I've been into LD/AP/OBE for about 4 years now since reading about it on the net.
I'd had a few as a child but never knew what they were, or that it was something that could be experienced on purpose.
I've always been a very vivid Dreamer (now a blessing, once a curse), had very good Dream recall and once I started trying to get into the NP, was very lucky having 3 LD/AP/OBE in my first week trying.
After that it was sort of like turning on a tap and I started having them more and more, with practice I'm now at the point where I can get into the non physical on a nightly basis.
My first question is about something interesting I read on here, a post by Xaneth saying that it's your awareness level that dictates your experience, that to be 100% conscious and having full waking memory is the holly grail of Astral Projection.
In about 95% of my experiences I do feel 100% conscious though, have full waking memory and everything feels as real, if not more real than how I'm feeling right now, I also have no problem remembering goals or remembering something I've read that I want to try.
Sometimes I get into the NP by becoming aware during a vivid Dream, mostly though I get in by holding on to my consciousness while I go through the vibrations and humming sensations, I then feel as though I'm flying up into the air, or falling through my bed and this is also often accompanied by whispering or laughing in my ears.
I wait for the sensations to stop after around a minute or so and then just get up out of body.
Would this all be concidered AP? even though in some I become aware during a Dream and in others I go through sensations, then get up out of my body?
I spend most of my time in the RTZ, often getting out of body in my bed and going out into my local area, or somewhere I've spent a lot of time in my life, basicly a copy of this World but with some minor differences.
I've been many other places I've never been before as well though, different Planets and different times but I've been reading a little lately about higher Astral Planes and the akashic records, things like that and it's got me wondering so I'd really like to hear from people who believe, or don't believe these higher planes exist.
Having had so many experiences now, I've had a lot of fun testing things out and doing the impossible, but I've started to feel I want to use it for deeper, more meaningful experiences.
Being from England I'm not a very Religious person but I have an open and inquisitive mind and am often attracted to the mystical or paranormal.
Since having these experiences, I've also become very interested in the nature of reality and things like that.
Don't want to make the post to long so thanks for reading and I look forward to talking with like minded people.