Topics

Hi all,

its been a while, hope everyone is doing well

anyway I've been projecting a lot, basically through the WILD technique, but each time I do it's just a blurry mess of my immediate surroundings. Sometimes I'll get out of hand and try to fly or something only to end up blacking out and getting lost in my consciousness.
Does anyone have any advice on how to reach higher planes for a more meaningful experience? I have tried contacting guides after projecting but nothing usually happens. Part of me was thinking that maybe I have to get my concentration on these lower planes down before going any 'further', but i'd love to hear from you all.

Thanks,
-Firmitas

5/24/12
   Longest lucid dream to date. Lasted for what seemed like hours. I even had a conversation with a guide that I met who told me that you can dream for months in one night's sleep. After meeting with this guide, he basically just stepped back and monitored my lucid dreaming. I was roaming a city in Japan. while it wasn't exactly the same as the city in mind, it was basically my dream copy. I kept surprising myself that the dream was still going on because, usually they will only last minutes at most. There were even times when I would lose focus and, in the darkness, I could hear the guide's voice guiding me back to the dream. There I would wake up in the dream and be right back where I was before. The guide told me his name and instructed me how to get a  hold of him during my time there. After doing so again, he guided me through the sky and showed me the entire dream world. He was explaining about the millions of people that make up this world and how they are all part of us, basically referencing to our physical world as well.  I don't remember all of the message but I remember it being awe inspiring. After this, we met another guide who instructed me on how to get to this type of higher level meeting ground, with other guides. He called it the essence of something, i cant remember. After successfully getting there, I arrive in what looks like an outdoor room in Japan. There, there are four guides, two of which I had met already. I sat with them and felt this extremely strong and comforting connection with everyone. We played some type of game though and after losing, I was told that I had to leave this dream world for four sleep cycles. I was very scared that I wouldn't know how to get back to this wonderful place, but after they reassured me that it was possible I complied. I remember I tried to come back early because I was scared that I had forgotten and they seemed somewhat upset with me. After that I decided to let go and try again another day. This was truly an amazing experience.

-Firmitas

I just started taking it recently but I am a bit worried about the spiritual/energy repercussions that it may have.
Anyone have any insight?

Thank you
-Firmitas

I remember seeing a post a while back about 'Planet X' which was essentially another planet in our solar system that wasn't visible by us. Correct my if I'm wrong, please.
I had a few projections this morning and my level of focus was much better than usual. This could have been because I did a little bit of meditating before hand and went back to sleep while holding my crystal.
I decided to try flying again and flew up straight through the clouds and saw not just the moon, but the outline of another planet that was either a lot closer to earth or much bigger than the moon. From my perspective it looked about 10x bigger than the moon.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
-Firmitas

Hey everyone,

So I posted a question on this guy's youtube comment area. The question was, " I almost always project after waking up for an hour or so and going back to sleep. The problem I always seem to have though, is that once projecting, the clarity is very poor. Everything appears very sepia like and I am feel as if i am not in complete control. Do you have any video's or advice you can point me to?"

His response was, "it sounds like maybe you're 'landing in the lower astral-ish'... so having a higher vibration when you get out would land you in a higher realm where there is more color and light. Soo, if you focus on your heart chakra, & think abt & focus on things you love or on being more loving, this can really help move you into a higher obe 'place'. I have used it myself. Use before getting out, or after you are out. Good luck, let me know if ya try it."

anyone have any input? Im definitely going to try this out though. For those who haven't checked out his videos, his username is Rich2150x and he has some great videos! check them out.

-Firmitas

Hi guys,

So I was meditating last night in a kind of half lotus position. I had this mantra kind of going off in my head so I decided to chant it (in my head) while meditating with very light, slow breathing. After a while of doing this I kind of got the urge to focus on levitating my body up. By this point my 3rd eye and crown chakra were pulsating like crazy. I just go along with it, since I'm used to it. I start visualizing my other chakras lighting up though and I feel a little bit of a spark in each one of them. Now at this point I realized that I was starting to enter paralysis which got me super excited since, I have never reached that point through upwards sitting meditation.
After this I start to hear a monotoned ringing (not like the inner ear ringing but the pre-projection ringing) followed by a different tone every now and then that harmonized with the first ringing. Then I started to hear voices again. This always seems to happen to me right before actually projecting. As if my consciousness is somewhere else and Im slowly changing consciousness and I can hear everyone around me. Usually its a girls voice that I hear though.

In any case, I never was able to fully project. I think its because I was getting distracted by all that was going on (my solar plexus chakra was pounding off the charts as usual).
If anyone has any advice on how to break past where I'm at, I'd love it.

Thanks,
-Firmitas

Hey guys, It's been a while since I was on the pulse, hope you are all doing well

So basically I've been getting random signs here and there that have shown accurate predictions for the outcomes of certain things. These mainly occur in my dreams and they are often always after doing heavy energy meditation before going to sleep.
For example:
first a quick side note for those who dont know, a hostess bar is a bar where women work (usually Japanese) in kind of fancy club-like clothes and men will pay a load of money to just sit and drink/talk to them. The whole notion of this kind of bothers me, mainly because i've seen the types of guys that go in to those clubs first hand.
So a couple weeks back I had a very vivid dream of my girlfriend standing in front of me wearing a hostess dress and she said, "im cheating on you". I confronted her about the dream the next day and she said, "well... you're dream might be somewhat right. I got an offer to go back and work at the hostess club (she had worked there previously when we weren't dating).
The second occurred last night. I had another vivid dream of someone saying to me, "starting tomorrow, the strokes (my favorite band) will start previewing their new album". Low and behold I go on the internet this morning and they have started previewing it.

I made a post a while back about the random shoots of energy that will start at the back of my neck, and then work its way down to the base of my spine and sides of my back. Someone had told me that this was intuition and that I should follow it. I've been trying to but it happens at such random times throughout the day that I have no idea what to follow haha.

In any case, any output or info is greatly appreciated.

-Firmitas

Hey guys,

so retrievals are something that I want to eventually do. I had a very strange experience yesterday and I can't tell if it was a retrieval or not.

So I project at about 10am and go out of the window of my dads house into the street on the side. I immediately start asking for a guide or kind of willing one. Still no luck yet
I make my way down the street and realize what my goal for my next projection was. To meditate while projecting.
So I sit down in the lotus position and start meditating with my eyes open. I start to feel some vibrations up and down my spine and then I notice I am slowly turning counter clockwise. I keep turning until all the sudden I stop. I am facing directly towards a house and I have a strong urge to go inside.
When I get up to the door I hear a little boy say, "NO NO! go away you cant come here." So I gesture that its ok and start to walk away from the house. Not wanting to cause any harm. He then says," Ok its fine, come here." and he has shut the door to his house and is standing on the front porch.
I cant remember if I asked him or he told me, but I know that his name was Andrew and he was about 10 years old. He had short red hair and freckles. From the way he was looking at me it was as if he was seeing a ghost and knew it. He gestures for me to come inside.
The house is 2 stories and pretty big. I notice he is home all alone. He tells me,
"its fine if you are here, but someone else is here and they won't leave...its Jesus.. she's in this room over here."
"Im sorry SHE'S?" I said. "here tell me if you can see her, look through these blinds." So I then poke my head up to the blinds and start to look in a bit. My heart is RACING afraid of what I will see. So I tell him, "Im sorry buddy, I cant do this. I completely believe you but I am not ready for this." He then says that its ok and that we should go downstairs.
After sitting on his white couch for a minute I hear the door open and close upstairs. My heart starts rushing again as I look at Andrew. "Thats her..." he says.
On the 2nd story I see the woman frantically walk across this upstairs hallway, and down the first set up stairs. Suddenly she stops.
She was wearing bicycle shorts and a white T-shirt with dark brown hair to her shoulders and bangs.
She is looking at me like a dear in headlights. Her eyes must have been 1.5 inches in diameter.
"YOU!" she says. "ITS YOU!! YOU'RE THE THIEF!"
"what are you talking about?" I respond.
"YOU ARE A THIEF, YOU DONT BELONG HERE. GET OUT! NOW! YOU STOLE SOMETHING." she screams.
I respond by telling her that I haven't stolen anything and I am just talking, there is no harm.
She starts walking frantically towards me, eyes still penetrating.
Before she gets to me I become too scared and close my eyes to shake out of the projection. As I am doing this I hear Andrew yell, "NO!!"
Once awake in my bed my heart is pounding. I realize that I can project again in just a minute but I dont want to risk going back to that house. I wait a few seconds and then start to project again. As I am doing this though, I can still here Andrew and the woman yelling. As if I was still there but not fully conscious. I focus harder on not going there and eventually just project into my room again.

After thinking about this for some time, It almost seems as if that woman was keeping Andrew in that house. By telling him that she was Jesus.
I cant really tell if what I experienced was a retrieval or just me projecting into the RTZ and my brain was going off or what.
I projected another 2 times that session and had about 2 false awakenings. By the time I actually woke up, I felt like I was in the movie inception. I couldnt tell if I was awake or not.

Anyway I would love all of the advice I can get.
I am still extremely new to all of this. Astral movement is still really hard for me, and I have yet to meet my guide (I think). But I would love to help in any way I can with a retrieval.

Thanks and sorry for the long post,
-Firmitas

Hello everyone,

I am just returning from a brief trip to the east coast. So cold compared to CA!
anyway I had my most exciting projection over there so I thought I'd share it with yall.

I lay down to go to sleep in one of my dreams and I wake up in my physical body. I realized that I hadn't moved yet so I hold still and wait for the vibrations to kick in. Low and behold they start and Im out of my body within 10 seconds. I was really surprised at how fast it happened.
When i look back at the projection it still feels like I wasn't 100% in control but like 80%.
I remember seeing someone for the first time in a projection, so i decided to talk to them (in hopes to find my guide). He told me his name and I remember it being EXTREMELY long so he told me to just call him. "_ _ _". Because this projection was so long I couldn't recall his name. I just know that it was 3 letters. He took me around with him and told me so many things. Of course I dont remember what they were in detail but I remember being extremely shocked and excited. I would start to lose concentration every now and then so I brought up my hands and focused on them. In doing this, i was able to make this projection last 15-20 minutes!
I really want to remember what he was telling me but I haven't the slightest idea.

Next I woke up again but didn't move so I decided to try another projection.
Once again im out within 10 seconds.
I had trouble flying again but I continued to practice willing myself to move. This method works but I often psyche myself out. Towards the end of the projection I remember jumping in the air and i felt like there were rockets on my feet or something. So everytime I jumped with one leg I would shoot a certain direction. This was an interesting technique.

So in my last projection, I remember being in this courtyard where I met the first person " _ _ _" who showed me around.
I find another person and ask him where _ _ _ is. he looks reluctant as if he doesn't understand me.
He says something to me but I have no idea what it is. It sounded like a combination of a different language, feeling really disoriented, and my ears not working haha.  After this I started to lose focus and woke up again.

So far every time I project I try to move physically in the astral. This leaves me with the feeling of being paralyzed.
So I've started just willing myself to speak or move instead of physically doing it. Still have a ton of work to do.

-Firmitas

Happy New Year everyone,

So I had a pretty big experience last night. I was at a music festival sitting up in the bleachers with my girlfriend. I end up talking to a guy sitting behind me who is wearing a bandana with a 3rd eye in the center of it. I ask him, "Hey is that your 3rd eye??" in attempts to direct the conversation to a more spiritual area. "Yea" he says.

After a while he says, "Hey I want to show you guys something." then him and 2 of his friends + my girlfriend and I are sitting in a circle holding hands. He then says, "now focus... wait for it.. ok there! now close your eyes" after this I feel vibrations going over my head and I see a square image that is black and white and spinning clockwise. After a while he says, "ok now im going to reverse the direction" and of course i feel the vibrations go across the other way and the square then starts spinning counter clockwise.
This absolutely blew my mind away. Lucky for me I am in touch with the person who did this so hopefully he can teach me a thing or two. For the rest of the night I had this extremely strong sense of belonging and assurance. Like I just hit a checkpoint in a videogame, letting me know I am on the correct path.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I really want to know more about it.

-Firmitas

Any thoughts on this?
For example: The theory about floride preventing use of the paneal gland

Hi everyone,

So last night I attempted my usual WILD technique into projection. I've found that this method is perfect for me.
Like clockwork, after I fall asleep doing this technique, I always have a dream that I am driving and then everything goes black. I've learned that when this occurs, projection is imminent.
So after everything goes black in the dream, I am just sort of in that black dreamspace waiting for the vibrations to kick in. As usual, last night they did. I let the vibrations take over me and eventually will myself out of my body. The only thing is, I was laying on my stomach as opposed to my back. So I projected on my stomach to the floor of my room and it was pitch black. I couldn't move at all. It felt as if the sleep paralysis followed me into that stage of consciousness. I tried yelling something like, "clarity now!" to test it out but I couldn't force any words to come out.

Any advice on what this is?

Thanks,
-Firmitas

Hi everyone,

So ever since I can remember, when I talk to certain people I feel waves of energy coming over the backside of my body. Starting from the back of my neck and working its way down to the base of my spine usually ( depending on the intensity of it). Since I started getting more into energy work/meditation/astral projection, I have been feeling this waves non stop.
If I haven't been thinking about it and I suddenly do, I get the same waves (which feel pretty good ) along my back.
Especially when I talk to certain people now as well. For instance, I talked to a guy in one of my classes recently who I had always wanted to strike up a conversation with for some reason. As he was talking to me I was getting this waves shooting down my back for literally 10 minutes straight. It basically felt like getting literal, "good vibes" from somebody. Which feels very peaceful and makes me only want to be around those kinds of people actually haha.

Anyway, any advice on this? Im not really too sure what to think.

Thanks,
-Firmitas

Hey guys, so I never thought that I would actually have a traditional OBE but, as of last night I guess I was wrong

I woke up at 4am to attempt my usual WILD technique. I got back to bed around 5:15 and I felt like maybe I stayed up for too long because I was having trouble getting back to sleep. I eventually give up and roll on my stomach. after dosing off for a little I found myself in a dream that usually indicates upcoming lucidity for me. I was driving with a cup of coffee in my hand and suddenly i become completely disoriented and cant see a thing! I feel myself get out of the car, drop the coffee, and feel around for and signs as to what is going on. I thought that maybe my body was under water and this was the result of being unconscious so I started to hold my breath haha. I tried slapping myself to wake up but my limbs were so heavy I could barely touch my face. After this I wake up and I am on my back, completely paralyzed. I start feeling extremely heavy vibrations and weird noises in my inner ear. I get a bid startled and the vibrations and everything fade. "as usual..." I thought. I go off into another dream to find myself woken up again though the same process that I was before.
This time instead of imagining some dream scenery that I know ill drift off into. I imagine nothing. Just complete blackness. Before I know it the vibrations came back. 
I started to have very accepting thoughts. I am pretty fearful of "spirits" and the unknown and I think this acts as a huge roadblock for me. This time was different. I told myself that I wanted this and that I DESERVE this. I have been working hard at it and nothing as stupid as "fear" is going to get in my way. I imagined all of the possibilities for not only self exploration, but exploration of the world. I thought about how much I could learn by doing this. Its what I've been looking for and fear isn't getting in my way this time.
I start to feel my body rise up as the vibrations continue. Naturally I get a bit scared but just let things take their course. this continued for a while and i eventually found myself just floating halfway in and out of my body. Still nothing was happening. I felt an extreme heat coming from my solar plexus. I notice my eyelids opening slightly which made me think, " oh excrement this always happens.. I open my eyes a bit and the trance stops!" But through my cracked eyelids I realized that the lights were on in my room. But I never turned them on. "This is it. This is the Astral" I thought.
Quickly I acted. I just rolled out of my bed like I always would when I normally get up. and Boom, I was in my fully lit room, in my etheric body. My vision was extremely blurry which caught me off guard since I usually hear about the beautiful colors and vividness of the Astral.
I then jumped in fear as I saw some black thing near my bed. It was trying to jump up into my bed! I got scared but then again denied myself the fear. I sat down and let the black object come over to me. As it got closer my vision cleared and it was a cute little brown animal! haha. It looked like a weird cross between a baby big and a Dauchsund. I scratched it on its head, which it seemed to absolutely love. I then tried to contact a spirit guide. I didn't really know what to do so I said, can I speak with a spirit guide please. I had read that you are supposed to just "will" it and they will show up. If you ask like that they wont. But I wasn't really thinking clearly and persisted to ask. " Spirit guide please?" I asked. Nothing happened to I just continued on. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I decided to get out of my room as fast as I could, since I didn't have much time. I jumped through my window, and over my balcony, soaring in the cool night air. I felt the mist against my body and thought, "WOW." I actually remember saying those words haha. Again, my vision was still really blurry and since it was night, I really couldn't see much at all. I flew up into the sky and shot towards my neighbors apartment. I remember getting a bit disoriented in my flight and pencil diving (feet first) into the ground. I couldn't stop myself at the ground and shot straight into the earth. I could still see the ground which was where I wanted to be and before I knew it, I was standing there again. I ran towards 2 or 3 women I could see, to test if they could see me. I yelled something like, "boo" haha. I remember that they didn't look so i assumed they were in focus 1.
I remembered that I wanted to go see a friend of mine but I couldn't figure out how to get to his house. So I asked the question out loud, "Where is Eric??" attempting to will myself to his house. As it didn't work, I decide to fly up into the air to get an overhead view. I catch myself making a swimming motion in the air and attempted to just "will" the flight instead of thinking about it in physical terms. To my surprise, and against what I have experienced so far in LDs, It worked! I was flying up into the air, not making a single motion. as I got higher though, my vision blurred more and I blacked out.
I then had one False Awakening back into my lit room again. I even started petting that animal next to my bed again and didn't think twice about it lol.

Sorry for the long post. This was a HUGE development in my spiritual awakening though I am really happy that it happened!!
Does anyone have any thoughts on talking to a guide ( I would love to get some advice) or the animal next to my bed?

Thanks,
-Firmitas

Hi everyone, I just thought I would share my experience this morning and see if anyone has any comments.

I woke up at 6am to study (damn finals) then went back to bed at 7am. I was already pretty up and active so my imagination was running wild while I was trying to sleep. It got to the point where I was watching what was happening in my dream as I imagined it but I was also analyzing it at the same time. For example, in the dream, my car had a GPS device in it and I thought, "thats how you know its a dream, when something is different." Somehow, I was saying this to myself but still not realizing that I was dreaming. Its like I was split between both areas of consciousness. So I start thinking about driving down a nearby street and BAM im there. Im flying down the street about as fast as I would normally drive but, there is no car or anything, im just shooting down the road. I realize whats happening and that I wanted to look at my hands next time this happened. So i attempt to move my hands up to see them (my vision was blurring and I read that this helps) but I couldnt move them. So i tried harder and i guess I moved my physical body because before I know it, i heard a loud WHOOOOOP sound and I was back in my body. I had full on sleep paralysis at this point so i attempted to phase again. I was probably thinking about it too much because I remember actually being in the next dream thinking, " I hope im doing this phasing technique right!" without realizing im already dreaming haha. Overall though, great progress. Im starting to see a familiar method I can go with now. For those who are having trouble with this. WAKE UP AND GO BACK TO BED! It makes a world of difference

-Firmitas

P.S.
Does anyone have any experience with guides helping them in this process? If so I would love to try

3rd official Lucid Dream! I am sitting in the lounge of a boat when something strange happens. In my head I start to think about it and I realize, Oh.. I'm dreaming!! My vision got really blurry from the excitement of realizing this, as I had never been able to realize I am dreaming in a dream before. I quickly calmed down and remembered what I wanted to try the next time I had a lucid dream.  In Robert Waggoners book, "Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner self," he does an experiment with the lucid dream by asking each dream figure, "what do you represent?" To his surprise, each dream figure answered with a unique, different response. So I walk down the hall of this ship and see two girls talking on the stairs. "hey! What do you represent?" I remember feeling strange asking this as it was the first lucid statement I have ever made in a dream. "Industrialization" she responds. So I ask the other girl and she says "Industrialization as well." I then notice two men standing behind me and I ask them the same question. From the excitement of it all I can't recall what the two men said. I thanked them all for their time and turned my attention to the hallway.
   I remember in Waggoner's book he asks the dream its self a question. In doing this, Waggoner was always shown a unique response from someone behind the curtains who seemed to have set up the dream. At one point, Waggoner reads about something called a "feeling-tone." Waggoner uses this as an experiment to see what happens when he asks the dream space about something he is completely oblivious to. In doing this, Waggoner has an experience of joining a larger whole of consciousness, completely forgetting his physical name, life, etc. So I naturally want to experience this more than anything. I already know, it's the feeling I've been looking for. I think about asking my dream space this same question however, I get a strange feeling that, that wouldn't be the best idea quite yet. I feel as though I am not ready for this experience. Not wanting to force anything, I push on to another question. I yell out to the dream space, "Hey! How do I change my Lucid Dream?" Upon saying that, my vision starts to blur intensely. I get a little frightened but remember what I just asked. I hold on to consciousness and just stay focused on what's In front of me. Everything starts to go black and I accept it. Maintaining focus, I start to see the outline of a figure appear in the black nothingness. Focusing on that, other things in my field of vision start to become clear now. Before you know it, Boom, I'm in another Lucid Dream. Sadly though, I let my mind wander too much and lost lucidity in the dream. All I remember is walking behind a man.
   For my next Lucid Dream, I will try interacting with the dream figures more, to see if I can get some valuable information or experience.

-Firmitas

I apologize for the length of this post. It is a major breakthrough for me and there is some interesting info for those who are interested.


11/23
   1st ever WILD attempt and success. I woke up at 4:30am then went back to bed at around 4:50. Tried usual OBE meditation but after having read a book at 4:30 my brain was too active and spontaneous, Also I kept getting restless leg syndrome (which is my worst enemy when it comes to OBE meditation). I decided to go to sleep and try to catch my consciousness right before I drift off to sleep. I realized that in my dreams, I often find myself running extremely fast on all four hands and legs. I suddenly catch myself doing this again and I hold on to this image of a cabin in the woods with a giant cliff in front of it. Below the cliff is a forest that extends for miles. I watch myself in 1st person running as fast as I can on all fours towards the edge of the cliff; I come to the realization that I am actually a bear. In my waking reality and dreams, I have a lot of fears and confidence issues however, upon coming to this realization I stand up tall on my hind legs, let out an earthshaking roar, and get this amazing feeling of confidence and fearlessness. Almost as if it were a message to me. once I get to the edge of the cliff I make a powerful leap into the air. At this point I feel heavy vibrations all over my body and without thinking about it, I snap in and I'm high in the air, above this beautiful forest, seeing it as clear as I see the computer screen right now. Amazed and excited that I am having my first ever successful LD, I realize that I can't get over excited because it will shut down the LD (Robert Waggoner-Lucid Dreaming-Gateway to the inner self), so I remain calm and almost submissive to what is happening. I soar over the beautiful grey/green forest for a few seconds and then catch myself thinking, "oh no, If I have doubt about flying then I wont be able to!.. wait.. I just doubted myself didn't I?" I often have problems about psyching myself out this way. So I start to decline pretty fast into the forest, cash, and then blackness. I don't know how long I remained conscious in the blackness but I do remember consciousness.
   Before I know it, I'm in another dream and I don't realize it. This time im IN that cabin I spoke of, just before the face of the cliff. I lay down to go to sleep in my dream and subconsciously I try the same method for WILD in my dream. All of this seems to be brought over to my dream habitually since I always try it before I sleep in my waking reality. And then BOOM! Im pulled right out of my physical body from my feet. At this point again, SNAP, im conscious. I realize what just happened in my dream and that im flying through blackness. However I felt relaxed, peaceful, and felt absolutely no fear. This seems to be a major breakthrough for me as I am somewhat scared of the unknown and the dark. (I remember this scenario happening before and I freaked out which ended with me waking up). Before I know it I am conscious again in a valley/desert. Similar to Riverside, CA. (if anyone has been). I remember the colors being extremely vivid. Almost as if everything was colored with pastel. Without thinking, I decide again to just fly straight up. Im not sure why I keep doing this, I would really like to explore the dream in depth more. I assume that my ego realizes whats happening and wants to do the most extreme thing first. So im flying straight up over this valley with some trees and a few hills, going higher and higher and then suddenly, I catch myself thinking again, "If I think about not being able to fly, I wont be able to! Oh no I just did!". Then I proceed to fall straight down again and am surrounded by blackness.
   Although these LDs were EXTREMELY short, I am still very excited as they were a huge breakthrough. I highly recommend the WILD technique for anyone who is having troubles having a LD.
   What I find interesting is that my knowledge about what is possible in an LD transfers over into my dreams. For example, after my 2 LD's I have a dream (not lucid) about me teaching a stranger who was watching me, how to jump up on top of a huge building by saying, "hey you see that building, its plastic." Although I don't understand what I was talking about, the dream figure sure seemed to as he immediately soared into the air and landed on the building. I then find myself regretting the info taught to him as I thought it might spread around too much and cause chaos. I team up with him to find the other girl he taught how to, "power jump" as I have labeled it from my video game days. In doing this I teach him again how we can jump right through walls and buildings! "all we have to do is believe that we can and look! (I proceed to jump through a pillar) its totally possible". I tell him.
Next time I have a LD I will try to remember to look at my hands to remain lucid for longer. and not try to fly yet since it seems to be too much for me.

If anyone has any info about the bear I keep becoming, psyching myself out, or anything else that would be wonderful.
Again I apologize for the long post, for those who read it I hope you liked some of the info.

Proud to call himself an official Lucid Dreamer, 
-Firmitas

Hello everyone,

In attempting a WILD I read that it is best to wake up between 4:30 and 5:00am. However, this is after falling asleep at what time?
I generally sleep later so I dont know exactly when to wake up.

-Firmitas

Hey guys,

So i've been steadily trying out lucid dreaming techniques for a few weeks now. So far no luck however, I am able to remember a huge section of my dreams every morning. They are actually very clear to me when I wake up every morning. And Im usually able to remember them until the late afternoon; before which I write them down.
Anyway, I found that a few times in my dreams I didn't become lucid but the information that I have been reading about lucidity and having control over dreams seeped into my dream world. I remember in a recent dream I was running from some epic monster and I realized, Oh i know I can do anything here, I'll jump over that building. Or make a car appear or something. Yet I dont every think, am i dreaming?

any suggestions as to where I'm at? Or any advice on what to try?

Thanks,
-Firmitas

Has anyone had any luck with this? I always hear people saying that they meditate and then project while on their backs, however, I am much more comfortable on my stomach.

-Firmitas

Hey guys,

I've been trying this technique on and off for about a week now. Sometimes if im really busy I dont really remember to do affirmations on whether or not I am dreaming. But most of the time I can fit them in. Also I usually check my hands when I do this i hopes that it will pass on to my dream state. However, I haven't had much luck becoming lucid in any dreams yet!

are there any other techniques or advice you all would recommend?

thanks,
-Firmitas

Hi guys,

Ill make this one quick. So about a week ago I had a projection through a dream that was very effortless. It just happened like second nature but its still a bit fuzzy and it ended pretty quickly.
Knowing this, i've been thinking about my possibilities while dreaming. So last night I remember I was in a dream and I took my right hand, placed it on my chest, and said the words, "I dismiss my body" (I was not lucid at this point I just remember it happening in the dream). After this the flood gates basically opened. I felt like I was waiting at the top of a huge water slide and i got sucked down. Unlike Frank Kepples explanation about rising up, I was sucked through the feet.
I continued to get sucked through this dark tunnel with some random, not bright but not dark, light patters and an echoing sound of someones voice. The voice was kind of yelling but it was soft and ominous.

any thoughts on this?

Take care,
-Firmitas

Hello everyone,

Last night I had an interesting experience. In a dream, I laid down in a bed to go to sleep. (not my own bed now but a different one in a house I lived in years ago). Now I should say that from time to time in my sleep, I recall instances where I feel the vibrations that come from a traditional OBE. But when I think about them in the morning, it kind of seems a little fuzzy.
So last night I laid down to sleep in my dream. Then I remember feeling those vibrations and it was like second nature to me, I just got up. In my dream I realized that I had left my body and just looked up and jumped as high as i could through the roof. I came back down and just started running down the hall to the next room and jumped outside the window that lead outside. I wasn't able to fly but I soared for a few seconds then reached the ground again. Once I thought about returning to by body it just happened.
At the time, all of this seemed like it was completely real. But when I think about it now it seems a little fuzzy like a normal dream would feel. My reaction at the time was, oh my god I just projected! But now im wondering if it was just a dream.

Any thoughts?

thank you,
-Firmitas

Hey guys,

I did my first chakra meditation last night to a binaural beat I found for opening chakras. I have actually never felt like I was closer to an OBE, it got to the point where I could feel all 7 main chakras pulsating! Then I would have phases where my body was completely in F10 and I could feel a sort of pulling away sensation from my physical body when i would focus on somewhere I wanted to project. I never fully projected though.
One strange occurrence was when I had a strong desire for someone (a spirit guide or helper) to help me exit my body. The second I had that thought it my mind I heard what sounded like 7 people all talking at the same time!  
Is there any correlation? also as far as projecting was there anything you would have tried to fully exit? I was focusing on phasing out of my body to another location in my mind.

Hope your all doing well,  
-Firmitas

Hello all,

Im interested in further developing/opening chakras. I have been able to feel my third eye and crown chakra so i want to focus on everything else. I've had a pretty emotionally traumatizing past so im hoping to clear up some blockages too. Hopefully this will help with an OBE.
anyway, If anyone has any links to any exercises that would be great!

take care,
-Firmitas

Hello everyone,

Since I can remember I've always had this burning sense in me that this physical realm is nothing close to everything thats out there. I always had such a huge desire to see it all. After reading into Astral Projection as well as Monroe's views on 'Phasing' and having experienced a small portion of it (being able to open my crown chakra and third eye and reaching deep meditative states) I cant tell whats "real" anymore. I find myself in day to day life questioning things like, "Well if I remember driving to work today, and the only proof of that action is whats left in my memory, what differentiates my imagination (dreams/thoughts/desires) which contains things that I can visualize just as much as a memory of something I actually did. I keep waking up throughout the day feeling like I've been dreaming the whole time. And then this whole process starts again. I hope im phrasing this all correctly. Im just having trouble seeing a difference and feeling anything "real". I was so badly to fully experience the astral world and learn as much as i can from it that its kind of frustrating at times that I haven't been able to yet. Im hoping that if I accept it as much as I do now, and genuinely want it as bad as i do now, something will happen

Hope you're all doing well,
-Firmitas

Hi everyone,
I apologize for the frequent questions. Even though I just joined this forum =\

Anyway, As mentioned before in a previous post, I just started the phasing process and everything about this process seems to make perfect sense to me. Of course this is still a sense of doubt in my mind simply because I have yet to experience it.
There are 2 concerns on my mind,

1 is that I read some of Frank's posts about phasing (thank you Xanth for posting them ) and about the "consciousness cone". The bottom of the cone being your C1 and the top being the astral border. I have been listening to monroe's Gateway Experience CD's (only track cd 1 track 2 so far) and i can reach F10 (mind awake body asleep) fairly easily however, I cant stop the little REM eye movements! I actually end up thinking about how i need them to stop more and it just gets worse and eventually my eyes start to strain
I was actually able to let go for a few seconds and I felt my consciousness rise for a second, but sadly my eyes moved again after that and I returned to normal. I read on a few other posts about the 3D stereogram pictures that help your eyes relax and ive been doing them, so hopefully that will work. Other than that, any suggestions?

The second question is going to be a little hard to phrase so please bear with me.

In the Gateway Experience, I read on several posts about peoples' process of phasing. Like Franks for instance where his resonance tuning takes place on top of a pyramid, his declaration takes place with two people in white robes as he places his hand on an orb etc.
As I have a pretty vivid imagination, I was able to construct a pretty good process for myself however, at no point to I actually "see" my process. I mean I can see it in my mind but I dont ever Phase into it as suggested in previous posts. Am I just supposed to keep imagining and try to consciousness rising process?

Again I am very sorry for the length of this question.
To be honest, getting into the astral plane is the only thing I can think about recently and I just want to make sure im doing things right.

Thanks a lot,
Firmitas

Hello everyone,

I have been attempting the traditional style of AP through meditation and then projection for about 2 months now. I recently came across a lot of posts by Frank (which were extremely interesting/helpful btw thank you Frank) that deal with Phasing. I got the whole Gateway experience set by the monroe institute and just started practicing phasing through the guided meditation. To be honest, this form of AP feels like it makes a lot more sense to me personally than the traditional exit techniques i.e the rope technique or rolling over. I have always had a very strong imagination and so far am doing fairly well with these cd's from monroe.
However, the thing I am concerned about is, should i focus on projecting the traditional way before attempting it this way? I am curious because I cant find many topics on Phasing at all! I honestly want this more than anything else and I'm trying to find whats right for me.
anyway sorry for the length of the question, any feedback at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Firmitas

Hello everyone,

I am very happy to have found a forum that is so lively on the topic of AP. I am relatively new to all of this (just started attempting AP 1 month ago).
Anyway my question was, Is it dangerous to attempt to project out of my physical body without much training in the matter?
I just started reading Robert Bruce's Mastering Astral Projection and they briefly mentioned that in doing so, I can create energy blocks that will hinder my chances of projecting. I started off listening to some binaural beats and focusing on relaxing and feeling the presence of my etheric body. I was able to get to the point where i could feel a slight separation from my physical body, extreme beating of the heart chakra, and vibrations. I didnt practice meditating for 2 weeks or so and now when I try, I either just fall asleep or get to the point where my body is relatively numb (not everywhere however just my leggs and arms    ) but nowhere further. So should I just stick to this 90 day program that Robert Bruce talks about to avoid messing things up?

Sorry for the long question, any feedback at all would be great

I look forward to getting to know you all

-Firmitas