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I am having trouble attaining a state of trance. What seems to help is visualizing a screen of colors descending from Red to Violet (and then white).  However, I do not feel comfortable using chakra-related techniques. It is a bit complicated and scary to tell the truth. I do not think I have the patience to pay attention to each one specifically and open/close them, etc.. etc...

But so far, chakra-related techniques have seemed more successful than anything else. So are there any similar techniques to acquire a deep trance without using chakras.

Something about the countdown from 'color to color' and 'body area' to 'body area' (chakra to chakra) seems to be the key, I'm guessing. But I'm just not comfortable using these specific techniques. Any input?

Hello Astral Pulse,

I just wanted to quickly share a personal technique of mine I've been using for years to obtain a state of dreaming or fantasy. Only now that I'm a rookie APer, I use it to obtain a state of exploring my different levels of consciousness. I've always preferred to live in a dream world than the physical and this experience can be beneficial for others out there.

I use the term 'experience' rather than 'technique' because it's different for everyone.

It's quite simple actually.

First, you lay down and get comfortable as if you were falling asleep or just relaxing. I don't meditate or anything, just lay there perfectly aware of everything around me. Then close your eyes and focus on a spot to your left. SHIFT your imaginary consciousness to this spot. Pretend to be in this spot. Then shift your imaginary consciousness to your regular laying position. Repeat the process for the spots to your right, foot, head, above and below. I say imaginary only to get the feel of your consciousness. After a while, it WILL become your consciousness, if not, it's pretty close.

Next, I focus on a faraway location, it's mostly always imagined. Personally, I am obsessed with the show Charmed,and pretend I have the power to orb (magical transportation). So I would pretend that I orb my astral body to this magical location. Once here, I pick a sturdy object such as a fence, tree, or table and focus on it. Touch it, hold it, feel it, grab it and never let go. This sort of holds me to this location and I slowly feel my physical body fade away.

Then, once I feel I'm sturdy enough in my mind to walk around, and imagine different scenarios, I usually orb off to another location, and talk to people I imagine up or perform different magical feats. I say magical because it helps separate the idea of reality, which is a big obstacle in most OBE.

Gradually, the more time I spend imagining these places and scenarios, the less I have to use my imagination, it's like I'm breathing life into my own mind. And it gradually become it's own.

I found this to be the best exercise/technique for myself to obtain a sense of separated consciousness. It may work for most of you, but then again it might not. It works best for me because it simply does. I threw out all of the "techniques" I read about and simply sought an Out-of-body/Astral/Lucid experience and this technique described above NATURALLY happened. Find out what comes NATURALLY to you. Maybe this is it.

I've been trying to astral project for a total of one week now. I'm fairly new to all of it. But the more I read up on the idea of phasing and the other focus areas, I can't help but feel a sense of familiarity. As if I've done it before...consciously. I had this thing I could always do with my mind. I enjoyed the feeling of it and did it quite often, but was always scared and ended the effect rather soon afterward, let me explain.

I could be sitting down, laying down, or standing. I would become still and pick a point of focus, an area of wall most of the time and simply gaze (I was always able to visualize better with my eyes open). Then I would think over and over again the following statement. "What if I wasn't here." Or something similar. As I repeated the thought, I imagine myself slowly receding from the world.

EDIT: I also thought of the idea that the world and everything I know is just a temporary state of mind, like the world has already ended and I'm just a figment of some sort, This helped the disconnect that I sought for.

When I attained the state of mind that "I'm not here." It's like my mind is somewhere else. I get a sense that it's more up yet here at the same time. Everything would look the same, but feels different. I could look at a TV, a mirror, my favorite game, anything and know what it was, but at the same time have no actual concept of it. It's hard to explain. This is when I freak out, and try to bring my mind back. When it comes back, I sort of feel the MEANING to objects again.

When I was younger, I did it to show my brother, hopefully so he could do it too. But then when I entered the state, I couldn't willingly exit it. So I ran around the house freaked out because everything felt different. But as soon as I freaked out, my mind came back.


Does anyone know exactly what this is? Even right now, I'm channeling that same thought/feeling, and sense everything in my sight sort of fading in transparent blots. Was I entering another focus or body, and at the same time staying in my physical?
It would explain a lot, and I've spent YEARS of my life, wondering what it was. Could this be it?

Hey, quick question/thought.

I lucid dream frequently, in fact, I'll have a dream, and dream that I was lucid dreaming (a lucid dream within a dream). But these are just dreams, they're not really obes, I just know they weren't.

Anyway, in most to all of my dreams, lucid or NOT, I have this ability to hover, fly, levitate, or jump really high.
This could be for the whole dream, a section of the dream or sometimes just once, but I can do either of these fairly easy, as if it were as simple as walking or breathing.

Most of the time, it's mostly hovering within the dreamscape I'm in.
A couple of times, I would fly over the world.
The little jumps and levitations occur often, but the flying is the most occurring.

I always thought it was just that my ability to be unrestricted from waking life stress allowed me this dream ability, but now that I'm reading up on AP, can I possibility use this to obtain a full OBE? Does this mean I am close?

Any thoughts? Anyone have anything similar?