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Hi everyone,

Recently, I began practicing astral projection again, and I decided to use Xanth's noticing method.

Once I'm in a very relaxed/meditative state, I will start to see an image of a place (like my living room or my front yard). It won't be perfectly clear, but it will feel more real and tangible than if I had just imagined the place while I was fully conscious.

(In other words, I can see the image, but I can also see the blackness behind my physical eyelids.)

If I maintain an "air of curiosity", I can pretend that I'm in the environment and start noticing more details within it (this sort of just starts happening by itself, almost feels like a lucid dream, but I know I'm still awake).

As I do this, the environment becomes clearer and more tangible to me. Soon after, the environment becomes so clear that it feels as real as "real life" (the physical world), and I feel like I'm almost in the environment I pictured.

So far so good, right? Unfortunately, whenever I get to this stage, my physical eyes will inevitably move and try to look at what I see in my mind's eye. This snaps my awareness back to my physical body, ending my foray into the astral world.  

Am I really close to phasing to the astral?

I would appreciate some advice on how to proceed. I feel that I just need to keep doing what I'm doing until I learn to suppress the involuntary movement of my eyes.

Also, didn't Frank Kepple mention having this same problem in some of his posts?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I've been experimenting with astral projection for the past few months, and I believe that I have successfully projected several times.

Sometimes, I wake up early in the morning in a state of sleep paralysis. When this happens, I simply focus on the intention of leaving my physical body, and I feel my astral body effortlessly slide out from my physical body through my head, sort of like a snake unsheathing itself from its old skin.

Then, I either feel myself go through the wall behind my bed or float down onto the floor beside my bed.

However, every time this happens, I can't see anything. On my latest attempt, I kept shouting "Clarity now!" in my mind, and I willed myself to see, but with no luck.

On a previous attempt, I tried opening my eyes, but I ended up opening my physical body's eyes instead, causing me to move back to my physical body.

(The mind-split effect feels very interesting by the way, like being able to control two bodies at once.)

Not being able to see anything kind of frustrates me and causes me to give up once I'm out.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to gain my astral sight. Does anyone know why this happens?

Thank you.