I origionally checked out the api concept about 2 years ago and found it very intresting. To date I've projected 3 times. The first time was about 12 years ago while lying in bed and in a deep meditative state visualizing light energy charging up my chakra's I heard a high pitch ringing in my ear and heard popping sounds then whooosh silence I was in blackness. I could hear sounds but nothing that i could understand then about 15 seconds later I popped back into my body. The second time was a week later but this time I heard the ringing and heard the popping then I saw white light pulsing very quickly and whoosh I was out of my body and could see. I couldn't believe it I actually did it I was floating above my body but couldn't move, I kept telling myself to calm down and tried to turn my head to the right i slowly started to look around and began to move closer and closer to the ceiling I was just about to go through the ceiling when wham I popped back into my body. I was so siked so charged up but never really tried to do it again. I think part of it was that in my mind I knew that I did it and I could always do it again if and when I wanted to. Another reason was that at the time I liked sleeping on my stomach and only lied down on my back when I wanted to work on projecting. I started sleeping on my stomach again. Another reason I may not have wanted to do it again was because when I was out the 1st and 2nd time I heard things and felt like something was watching me, I didn't like that feeling and I didn't know where the whispering was coming from. About 2 years ago was my 3rd time, this time it was very different. I was dreaming and all of a sudden I found myself in full control of myself and awake I was hovering on a highway. I saw a red truck coming toward me and it ran through me I then found myself in the passenger seat of the truck and the driver seemed to realize that I was there and he freaked out and pulled his car over to the side of the highway. I lifted up through the roof of the truck and flew through the air and wham I woke up. Now I know the 3rd time was a projection because it felt just like the 1st and 2nd time except it was in the day not at night, but what I didn't understand was how did the driver of the car see me. I mean this guy was scared and it wasn't like he saw me but it was like he didn't know what he saw he had a shocked look on his face and was very scared. I don't think the 3rd time was a lucid dream it seemed like a projection it felt like a projection but how did that guy see me? I don't know. Anyway I'd like to start practicing projection again and I'd like to try and get to API. Does anyone have any tips for a person who has little experience and no control like myself. Thanks everyone.