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Hi everyone,

Has anyone ever experienced anything like spirit guides or angels when astral projecting?

I have never astral projected so I have no experience with this. I'm just curious if other people have seen or experienced other beings while in the astral plane, and specifically ones that are there to guide or help. I'm just curious if this kind of thing exists.

What are your thoughts?

Hi everyone,

I've lurked here for a while but finally decided to start posting as I am just kind of stuck with this astral projection thing.

To give you an idea, I've been trying to project for around 7 months now, for about an hour each day. I gave up for a week in frustration, but then couldn't resist and started trying again.

Throughout this time I've been getting mainly vibrations or internal tingling/buzzing and feelings of floating, sinking, or spinning. Other times I feel extreme pressure in my head and sometimes see lights to various degrees. I rarely hear noises but I listen to binaural beats/isochronic tones the whole time (I have chronic tinnitus in my ear and it seem to distract me without some auditory aid).

No matter what I do, I can't seem to astral project at all. I just can't separate, I never have. I have also tried lucid dreaming, but after about 6 months of hitting brick walls with that, I gave up.

I have thought about some problems I'm encountering. The biggest problem I think I have is anxiety, though sometimes it's excitement. I am already an anxious person (I have tried pretty much every type of help for this and meditation has probably helped the most) But I thought I might look into other herbal anxiety remedies, cutting out sugar and most caffeine out of my diet, and eating as healthy as possible. (I already exercise and don't drink)

I've never tried affirmations but I wonder if that would help with the anxiety, although I have no clue what affirmations to use. Anyone ever tried that and did it help with your projection? I also am trying to step up my concentration meditation to help detach from anxiety. For the last month I've been doing this before projection attempts (which I've started trying the phasing method to do), but it hasn't really helped the anxiety I get when I get the "exit symptoms." When I start getting really extreme vibrations or see lights I just start sort of hyperventilating from fear and sometimes my heart feels like it's going to explode it beats so fast. How can I not focus on this strange experience?

I think I also have a fear of ghosts. When I was a teenager my stepdad was into the occult and he did lots of spell work. I developed a really strong fear of ghosts around that time. Later on, I became an atheist and my fear of this kind of thing vanished. Then I decided I was an agnostic, I just didn't know what did or didn't exist (I try to be open minded). Now, with this mindset, ghosts may or may not exist. I wonder if the old fears of the paranormal are returning to my mind when I attempt projection now. Sigh.

For this, I thought maybe I should also try affirmations ("ghosts can't hurt me" kind of thing) or even self-hypnosis. I read something where Robert Bruce said that if you can no longer project due to a scary experience, self-hypnosis could make it possible again. Anyone ever tried this?

My other main problem I think is insomnia. If I try to project right before sleep, I completely wake up and sometimes am awake all night. If I try the "wake back to bed" method, I just wake up and can't go back to sleep. I find that despite my insomnia, when I finally do sleep, I'm like a corpse in the morning, where I can't mentally wake up or concentrate at all. So far, my projection attempts upon waking from a full night's sleep result in being totally scatterbrained and I can't focus much at all. I thought maybe my addiction to coffee is partly to blame for this. Should I stop drinking coffee? (I only have 2 cups in the morning) I kind of feel like my brain doesn't start working until I have that first cup of coffee.

I can't for the life of me take naps. I just lie in bed awake. I believe my insomnia has sabotaged my lucid dreaming attempts. But I got hope when I read that you can astral project from wakefulness. Is this true? Is that 180 degree switch in phasing really a state of wakefulness? If so, maybe there's hope for me.

The solutions I can think of for insomnia are really identical to that of anxiety, it's like the two go hand in hand. Anyone here suffer from insomnia and have you found anything helpful for it?

Anyway, I pretty much just attempt projection in the evening, several hours before bed, from a state of wakefulness. That seems to prevent insomnia. But I can't help but wonder how much this method is hurting my chance of projecting. It seems like most methods I read tie projecting in with sleep somehow.

The other problems I seem to have is that I don't know when to actively attempt "separation." I have read that when you get vibrations that's your cue to start flying up or climbing a rope or rolling over etc. But sometimes I have prolonged vibrations. I even get them a few minutes into my attempt, though they vary in degree and are sometimes more an internal buzzing. I just don't when to try, I don't have an instinct that says "do it now" I don't know. If I wait and try to separate later I just refocus on my body. If I try to separate quickly the same thing seems to happen.

Also, how does one separate? I mean, I've read about phasing where you concentrate on the blackness in front of you, and then you focus on shapes that appear in the blackness. But how do you then
a. know suddenly when to separate, especially if you're trying not to focus on the symptoms
b. know when to switch your concentration to your separation method in order to separate. For instance, to mentally detach from my body I can try to focus on a shape completely, but then if I try the climbing a rope method, doesn't my attempt to separate break my focus and thus my detachment from my body?

Sheesh, sorry this is so long. Don't worry if this is too long to reply to lol. Perhaps I should start keeping a journal.

Anyway, this is a really interesting discussion board. Glad I found it.

Take care everyone.