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Hi. The past few years I've drifted away from all of the projection stuff having been focusing a lot on school. Fortunately, I've re-sparked my interest of it and am asking if people could just throw any good book recommendations with a sentence or two describing what they are about. I read Robert Monroe's Ultimate Journey and loved it. All that he experienced in that book helped motivate me to continue practicing and lucid experiences that he described were very intriguing. I would buy all the books if I could, but as a broke college student, I can only afford to purchase maybe one or two for now, but your recommendations will allow me to make a list for later. I've been considering purchasing Out Ultimate Reality by Adrian Cooper as is listed in one of the posts, and I've also looked at Conversations with Laarkmaa: A Pleiadian View of the New Reality by Pia Smith Orleane. If anyone has any feedback on either of these, that would also be much appreciated. Thanks!

so last night i had an interesting dream in which my friends and i went to someones house. at that house a number of people appeared friendly, but later on kidnapped my friends and killed them. it was pretty wacky and a lot of it didn't make all that much sense (except for when i was dreaming it), but basically, when searching to either find my kidnapped friends or avenge them, i was in some grocery store. i became aware that i was dreaming, but decided to keep on with my mission. however, i decided to try and speak to whomever i came into contact whilst interpreting to the best of my ability whether they were simply projections of my mind, or if they had their own objective existence. i've been reading Robert Monroe's Ultimate Journey, and i remember him talking about a reoccurring dream that he used to have and later realized that the entities that make up his higher-self had made him dream that dream. anyways, in MY dream i came into contact with some person in the store and wanted to see what they were, so i flew up to the top of the ceiling to see if they could do the same, and they did. i remember knowing his first name somehow, and asked who or what he was. he replied that he was somewhat of a computer program. he also mentioned that he was cold, and then our conversation ended the environment of my dream changed. so i figured perhaps he was just some "program" in my dream put there to be apart of my dream environment.

when my environment changed (keep in mind i'm still lucid), i arrived at an area above an extremely high cliff that overlooked a large and beautiful valley. i looked around and there were a bunch of large, stone sculptures of birds that closely resembled owls but were still somewhat different in appearance. my assumption was that they may have been actual size of the birds they resembled. as i looked around at each sculpture, a sudden flash picture of an actual animal resembled by the statues appeared before my eyes which only lasted a second or two. after seeing this, i felt like i was put into auto-pilot. i turned toward the cliff and started running until i launched off the edge and began flying. i've flown many many times before in dreams & while astral projecting, but something about this experience made it feel much more amazing. i even remember hearing epic music as if i was in a movie lol. anywho, as i woke up out of my dream while flying over the valley.

So earlier today, I woke up in sleep paralysis with my eyes open. I wasn't sure if I was in sleep paralysis, so I closed my eyes and attempted to exit my body. Separation felt very difficult. I recall noticing that having attempted to separate, I was now "flipped" as If I had made an instant 180* turn and instead of laying on my stomach, I was now on my back. I felt that I had separated and assumed that I would be able to see my physical body, but I wasn't able to. The confusion ended the short projection, and I found my consciousness back in my physical body laying face down with a blanket over my body. Now, I was still in paralysis having returned back physical consciousness and I felt physical movement scurring up and down my body. I could feel and hear the movement perfectly as if it were real, and I even feeling the animal jump over from my left side to my right. One moment, the animal actually attempted to get under my blanket by sticking its feet and nose under. By now, I was pretty like wtf. The moment I was able to get out of paralysis, I hopped out of bed, took my blanket and shook it at a reasonable distance so that if the animal were to fall out from it, I'd be able to fend it off or evade it if it decided to run. I was pretty much like -____- having waited for half a minute and realizing that there was no mouse haha. Anyways, I felt like it was worth posting because I RARELY ever think about mice. They aren't something I fear. It was super super random.

So basically, from what I can recall, I found myself with a large group of friends returning to a large hotel-like building of some sort. I just want to point out that this hotel seems to be a reoccurring location for many of my dreams. Whenever it pops up, I find myself familiar with the surroundings. For example, in a separate dream in which I was having a magic flying fight with someone, I was trying to escape and I flew into an elevator, as if I knew exactly where it was. Anyways, after returning from this trip, we were all saying our goodbyes. I only said goodbye to those in which I "knew" in the dream. I felt like the people I was saying bye to were cousins. Mind, in real life, I wouldn't recognize them. After the goodbyes, my dream shifted ahead, and I found myself in one of the hotel rooms. I don't remember what I was doing, but a friend of mine popped out of nowhere and startled me. It was a girl who in real life I wouldn't recognize, but in the dream, she was like a best friend. The whole night, we stayed up chatting and sharing laughs and doing whatever other stuff I can't remember, but later that night or early early morning, I received a text saying a girl had died. (When I woke up from my dream, I wrote down that her name was Cassie so I'm gonna trust my instinct and go with that name). After I received that text, she disappeared. I believe we may have said goodbye and THEN I received the text, but I'm unsure. The next morning, my dream shifted forward again, and I found myself outside. My mom was telling me that a girl had passed away, but I was confused and told her that it was pretty much impossible because I was with her the whole night. After a number of seconds of confusion, I got hit with a blast of emotional distress, and I pretty much broke down in heavy tears. I quickly turned away and speed-walked my way back towards the hotel. While I was walking/breaking down, a girl whom I recognize to be a friend of mine or a model that looks like her (lol), appeared behind me out of nowhere and gave me some emotional support in one sentence. She told me something about the importance of friends or assured me that I had friends. I don't remember exactly, but it was something friends. This girl appeared in that dream earlier and I felt from her presence that she was guiding me and wasn't just some projection from memory. Anyways, I woke up devastated for a moment. I actually felt like a friend of mine had really passed away or something. The thing is, I've never broken down like that in real life, so I found it highly unusual that I experienced such emotion for the first time in a dream.

So, in one of my earliest OBE's, I saw the figure of a clown on my ceiling of which its body seemed to be made up of what looked most similar to christmas lights. Last week, I went to colorado to visit my grandparents, and I had a pretty confusing OBE in which I rolled off the couch. I fell to the floor and my vision was quite dark so I began spinning because I wasn't sure if I were actually having an OBE or if I was spinning on the floor like an idiot lol. While spinning, I entered some sort of dark void (I'm not sure what else to call it), in which it seemed like I were in a tornado of sorts kind of like the one from the Wizard of Oz. I kept seeing the strangest images, but the only one that I can recall and that stood out the most was a half spider-half human entity made up of the same christmas light-type body. I'm just curious if anyone has seen anything similar to the whole christmas light thing.

so last night was probably one of the most "successful" projections that i've ever had. i had much more progress grounding myself in the non-physical allowing me to prolong the duration of my projection and the place that i explored was one of the most interesting places i have been. unfortunately, upon returning back to my physical body, i got lazy and fell back asleep. since, i've only been able to remember the the beginning of my projection. i'm so sad .. but anywho, i found it funny that when i was already in my non-physical body, i was using techniques such as "kicking" to get myself out of my body, but what i didn't realize at first was that i was already out. after a handful of times of kicking my wall (i could even hear the sound), i realized i could just get out of bed like i do physically. i've read that mirrors can lead you to interesting places, so recently i've been remembering that whenever i project. however, when i tried to enter my large mirror in my room, it wouldn't allow me to stick my hand through it. after failing, i made my way to my window. i found that i could simply touch the blinds and sliding glass to let it raise or open itself. it was like magic . when i opened my window, there appeared an almost fantasy-like location. all i remember was flying out, exploring my surroundings and mingling with a few entities. i know it was one of the most intriguing places i've ever been to and i regret not writing about it.

anyways, i was just wondering if anyone had any advice on entering mirrors, walking through walls, etc.

So, in one of my earliest posts, I described being able to see patterns of color flowing through almost anything if I focused on it well enough. I've come to believe that I'm able to see an energy flow and recently, I've been been noticing that with my eyes closed, I can also see something similar. It's almost as if I might be able to see the energy past my eyelids. Yesterday, I was laying down and resting and I attempted to focus on the flow. Normally, everything appears blurry as if moving too fast for me to be able to focus on any individual particle, but yesterday, I was messing around with how I was focusing my vision, and I was able to put into focus a very clear and distinct shape. The patterns that made up the shape were somewhat intricate. Last night, before I slept, I tried focusing on the same thing but was unable to. Instead I began seeing shadowy images that took the form of entities. I wasn't sure if they manifested from my thinking, or if they actually existed, but usually there would be one or two at a time and would move around my vision often in circular motions. I can't be certain of this, but I can recall being fully conscious of what was going on, and I do not believe that I was falling asleep and seeing dream imagery. I opened my eyes curious as to whether or not what I was seeing was real, and in the dark of my room, along with the colorful energy flowing through my room, I saw dark shadowy figures flying around my room in the same motions I saw with my eyes closed. It startled me for a bit and then they faded and disappeared. Am I hallucinating and simply seeing what my mind thinks I'm seeing?

So this shaking bed occurance happened last night, but there have been other times that i can recall this happening in the past. I'm not EXACTLY sure on how everything happened but here's what I think happened. Last night I was in the middle of a random hot sweat (the first I've had in a while) and after about an hour or so I believe, I was finally able to fall asleep. I remember dreaming, but for some apparent reason i awoke abruptly from my dream in sleep paralysis, but I didn't realize i was in the state until after attempting to move failed. I closed my eyes and immediately wound back up in my dream (which never happens). It caught my by surprised and confused me so much that I back up. When this happened, I began feeling vibrations, but my eyes were open (which also never happens). Just to add to speculation, in a recent most I talked about how I could see spiritual body leaving my physical body with an eye open. So while i felt these vibrations, I could feel my body shaking and I remember asking myself if it was an earthquake or not. After a few moments, I closed my eyes again and felt even stronger vibrations and saw IMMENSE white light much like I've experienced during my very first few experiences which is odd because recently, due to the many more OBE's I've had, I don't usually feel the vibrations so strong or see the light so bright anymore. This is irrelevant, but I think I should mention it because the shaking bed + strong vibrations + super bright light + random hot sweat aren't very common with my recent experiences. Once I felt the phase, I began separation, but quickly changed my mind because I had been so frustrated with being unable to sleep due to the hot sweat, and I had a final i had to take in 4 hours. This morning I checked if there was an earthquake on the internet, but there was nothing, so I got all confused haha.

So, the last couple months or so i've been busy with school and other things, so i really haven't been lusting for any OBE's. a couple days ago i decided to go on this site, and read a bunch of posts which motivated me to start practicing again. correct me if i'm wrong, but that night i became aware that with my eyelids closed, i could either look forward with my physical eyes or i could open my astral eyes. i didn't have any crazy experience because i lost focus due to my sleepiness, so i dazzled myself and played with the flow of energy and went to sleep. the next day, i was at my girlfriends house taking a nap on the couch while she watched tv, and for some reason i awoke from my nap in the right state to separate. i awoke a number of times each time closer to projection than the other. it was really weird though because i was having trouble figuring out which eyes to open and which ones to close. i was in the perfect state to separate and i actually did partially separate the few times i woke up before my full separation. the way i was laying down the couch had me facing my girlfriend sitting on a couch across the room. i remember i began separation with my legs but i kept having to open and close my eyes. my physical right eye was open during my attempted exit. i could even see my nonphysical leg separating for a moment and then i lost it and awoke. when i finally did successfully separate, my vision was somewhat blurry but i quickly just forced things to become clear. it took me a couple moments to open up the right eyes. my gf told me i was staring at her with one eye for a bit lol. but once i had my astral eyes open, i felt 100% satisfied. i assume i could hear the television with my physical body, but i could see everything else quite clearly including my physical body and my gf which is coool cause i didn't think i'd be able to experience a projection with people that i know. i walked to the bathroom and projection of my gf appeared and held me as i looked in the mirror. my body looked the same except the whites of my eyes were really pinkish red. this stood out to me but i didn't really understand why it was that way, so i just took it into account and proceeded to leave out the front door. when i opened it, the yard and neighborhood in which we lived was completely different. after this i just walked down the street and it began shifting into a short dream and then i woke up.

sorry if this is somewhat choppy and hard to follow, but leave comments! i love reading new replies to posts on this site. oh and any information as to why the whites of my eyes were discolored would be appreciated. maybe it has some meaning or maybe not. thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87PRVP4EQAo&feature=player_embedded

My friend sent me this link today. I wanna keep this discussion open to any related topics, opinions, etc. So, what does everyone think about the multiplying number of UFO sitings?

i think you should create an off-topic forum! for example, i wanna make a post pertaining to music interests of those on the forum. it's not on any main topic and some would say that i should just go to a music forum, but i wanna discuss such things with members of the astral pulse. and music is but one of many topics that could be discussed.

morning projection (03/06/2011 @ around 10am - 11am)
I woke up with a scissor lock and tried to move not knowing that i was in paralysis. This time the process of exiting was much more smooth because i'm starting to become familiar with the feeling as i have more and more experiences. wasnt sure if i really projected or if i had gotten up out of bed physically, so i checked if my body was still in bed. i felt the blanket and could feel my body, so i lifted the covers off and saw my body. i touched my face to make sure which felt hella awkward and weird, but i knew that i was having an OBE haha. i left my room, went downstairs and out the front door. it was raining outside and nighttime (in reality, it was sunny around 11am). i floated across my front lawn a bit and then took off flying. a boy on a bike said whatsup to me in my neighborhood as i flew above him, but i think i ignored it because i wanted to go to space. next time i might just try to communicate with whoever in the non-physical for it might be interesting. as i flew, i kept failing because when i would try to veer left or right, some force would push me in the opposite direction. even as i would fly straight upwards, i would slowly begin to drift left or right. despite my attempts go in one direction, id be forced in another and end up slamming into a house or the ground. from there i just starting walking or floating down the street which brought me to some sort of foreign downtown area. then i lost it and woke up. any advice?

This experience occured on March 2, 2011 @ around 4:00am. I typed everything out on my phone when i woke up so sorry if it's a bit choppy.

So i believe i turned a dream into an astral projection. in my dream, I was with a black friend of whom i dont know personally, and we began fighting physically. At that moment i knew i was dreaming, became lucid, and almost woke up. i remember feeling odd sensations and seeing light and and weird black shapes. I fought my body's urge to wake up and I wound back up in my dream with my friend. but became aware of what had happened, and i felt a "shift"'out of the dream again, but this time as the switch of consciousness began, i began to imagine a rope to climb out of my body with. my attempts brought on strong sensation, and i finally got out of my body. i dont recall exactly where i was except for that i was in a building. being able successful fly when i tried to surprised me. i flew into a wall hoping i could go through it but that didn't quite work. i knew id need to work on that so instead i looked for an opening. i flew up to the top from within this foreign bulding (almost like some sort of tower) and found a window to fly out. once outside, all i remember was looking up at the stars and seeing beautiful clusters of stars. i saw an orange group that caught most of my interst, so i began flying to it. as i was flying i attempted to pickup speed because i assumed i could simply surpass normal flying speed in the astral and arrive at my target quick. this sort of failed, but as i flew across the sky and got closer, the orange stars began to appear as flying birds that looked like flamingos. there was also a white group of stars that then passed me as some sort of large white birds. after seeing such a beautiful sight, i touched down to the ground. everything seemed was so beautiful and amazing, like a fantasy that i've yearned to experience all my life. also, i believe i can recall being with someone else. On the ground, I began walking and attempted to call a guide. At first nothing appeared, and i continued to walk. Then something occurred that made me turn around but i cant quite remember. After turning around, i saw a purple flower floating in mid-air. I believe it was some sort of device because i used it, figured out what it was, and kept it. Then a fellow appeared to me and we engaged in conversation. he appeared human shorter than me. the closest thing that i believe he seemed to resemble was that of a leperchaun. He seemed very excited to be there with me and the other person that i was with, because we were talking to eachother through our minds and speaking of how exciting and cool it was that we could do that. the guide and i spoke both telepathically and verbally and i told him i wished to go to the moon. for some reason he couldnt just bring me there so i decided to just fly there. one attempt at flying failed because i think i didnt have confidence in making it to the moon and i told him the problem. he told me to try again. i asked him if there were any portals that could simply take me there. he said yes and amongst the buildings and hills appeared a set of colorful "portals". he pointed at a certain one and i took off flying. i made it to the portal and it took us to an odd building with people in it. everything looked like it could be apart of the kingdom hearts world. i remembering holding two items in my hand: the rose and the other i cannot recall. with both in my hands i flew through openings and hallways, all that led upward. but, on my way up i passed a friend of mine in real life who's words he spoke when i passed him disturbed me. he said something along the lines of, "[my name], im here, you know im mad". i assumed it was just part of my mind intruding and at first i fought it off, but as i flew out the top of the building into open sky surrounded by what appeared to be trees, his words haunted my mind and i began to lose a grip on my reality. i started falling slowly and my vision began to darken as i became engulfed in blackness. i could feel my body now and i once tried to move and wake up, but i couldnt for a few seconds but i felt a few body sensations. i tried again and woke up.

When i had awoke, it felt almost like a distant memory. It seemed almost too dream-like to be a projection after waking up, but i remember the body sensations from the shift of dream consciousness into an out of my body one. i remember the feelings of the rope exiting technique. at first i projected into darkness but my vision began to clear up. as to what i was holding on to and who i was with, i am uncertain. also, there were moments where i would start thinking of my physical body, but i fought the idea of these thoughts because i knew that thinking of my physical body might cause me to wake up. Not entirely sure if this was a dream or a projection, but either way, it was the most vivid and amazing experience that i can ever recall having.

I can't quite find any posts on it, so any thoughts on the Codex Gigas and the mystery as to how it was written and the satanic imagery that it supposedly contains? According to Wikipedia "The codex has a unified look as the nature of the writing is unchanged throughout, showing no signs of age, disease or mood on the part of the scribe. This may have led to the belief that the whole book was written in a very short time (see Legend). But scientists are starting to believe and research the theory that it took over 20 years to complete" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas). The national geographic episode on the book clarified that it is a mystery (for those who don't trust wiki). Speculation, thoughts, comments?

Ever since I've joined this site and done a lot of research, I'm no longer very religious because I'm more interested in learning from my own experiences in this world and through astral projection; however, I still attempt to piece together the truths and mysteries of religion based people and concepts such as Jesus. I was born and raised a catholic (and I've researched it's corruption), but I was thinking that maybe Jesus was just one who could communicate with a higher being, "God", who taught him PUL or wanted him to teach others these ways. So maybe the Christian God is just mistaken for one of MANY higher beings that exist in the higher levels of existance. Also, I was thinking that maybe the holy spirit in the holy trinity is simply mistook for being the ONLY holy spirit when it is actually a spirit guide of many that exist. I'm not saying I believe this nor that I do not believe this. The thought simply crossed my mind and I would like to hear opinions and comments on the matter.

So, last night i believe i had an OBE, but due to the fact that i was tired from drinking before, it shifted from an OBE into a dream or vice versa. I've separated my dream into two parts because I'm not completely sure of the order in which they happened; however, I'm pretty sure that they are in the correct order.

Part 1.
A few days ago, i read a post pertaining to contacting spirit guides where the person had attempted to contact his spirit guide, and it appeared to him in a dream. In mine, I couldn't recall where i was and i can't quite remember what it my surroundings looked like, but for some reason this was the most lucid I have ever been and i was able to maintain my lucidity without waking up. So, i was walking down an empty street and i think it's safe to say that there were old structures around me. It was nighttime, and as i walked, i attempted to contact my spirit guide by trying to communicate with it through my mind. The next thing i knew, there was some being up ahead in a small courtyard (I'm starting to remember it more vividly as i type this). I walked up to it and it was talking to me, but i can't remember what it said. I'm not even sure if it was communicating to me in English. Also, it didn't appear to be human. I can just recall that it was a dark figure wearing some sort of cloak I'm guessing? It could have been standing or it could have been floating. It looked like it was wearing a mask, but maybe that was actually it's face, i'm not sure. Anyways, after it had finished talking to me, I realized that because i was lucid, i could possibly induce an OBE. All my out of body experiences have been done so by becoming lucid. So, i exited my dream and woke up with the usual vibrational sensations and i started to roll out of my body. Usually, it's hard for me to roll out, but this time i could feel myself separating from my physical body. I believe i exited successfully but i projected into blackness. Then, I said something such as clarity now or vision now without thinking. I believe my subconscious was helping me, because I've only read about yelling such terms, i never intended to use them. Once i said whatever i had said, I was given vision and i can just recall being confused because my room was very dark. It was actually a false awakening because i thought that i had woken up physically.

Part 2.
I ended up in my bed. It was dark,  and on my ceiling i could see lights that created a clownish figure. In reality, I have a few glow in the dark stars, planets, and things like that. When i first moved here, i had a lot up on the ceiling but over the years, many have fallen. Anyways, in my dream, the things on my ceiling shined bright and colorful like christmas lights. The clown, however, was somewhat odd and out of place and almost a bit frightful. As i focused on it's figure, my body began floating up towards the ceiling and I found myself face to face with this clown.

If these are in the correct order, I think i was so confused and a bit frightened as to why my body would automatically float up to such an odd figure that made me feel somewhat uneasy, and that caused me to wake up.

So a couple weeks ago, i was reading a book for my English class when i heard someone call my name. It almost came from within my head or very close to my head for that matter, but it was quite clear. So clear that it startled me and i put my book down to check each area of my room. I felt like something was trying to contact me, but i didn't quite know what to do, so i tried communicating through thought in my head. I know that sometimes when you're sleepy your mind starts to wander and you'll hear things that you're thinking about, but this was different because i was 100% awake and focused on my book. Sometime this week, i got into bed ready to sleep and after a few minutes i heard like an abrupt creaking sound. I have read other posts on experiences similar to this, so I'm thinking it may be my spirit guide. Any ideas?

hello, i'm schockstuhh. i've kinda been on a quest to figure out the meaning behind life. a lot of stuff has happened over the years of my life and all i can say is that i'm almost COMPLETELY sure that everything happens for a reason. anywho, on with my experience:

about a month ago i started doing research on out of body experiences and astral projecting and about a week or two later i had my first experience! i hadn't been making that much progress but i was able to achieve some body numbness and "tingly" feelings from laying down and simply trying to leave my body. but one day i slept during the day and i woke up a few times and i heard a loud ringing in my ears and with my eyes closed, my vision would become bright white even though it was dark and i was under my blanket. the 3rd time this happened that day, i saw a girl singing in the middle of the white light and once i noticed what was going on, i tried "rolling" out of my body and i did so successfully after a few tries. my vision was really blurry and i was kinda confused as i looked down at my body and even touched it which was reaaaal weird haha. i felt like i was floating and i attempted to walk through my wall but i kinda just ran into it. this confused me even more so then i began to wake up and woke up back in my body.

my questions:
is there a difference between astral projecting and out of body experiences?
i also want to start my quest to enlightenment and from what i've read, it requires mastery of AP and a lot of energy work. i need help finding somewhere to start. i've experimented with the "purple flame" meditation and i was able to get some "tingly" sensations from that and also numbness in my legs.
also what's the best position to practice in because i've only been able to find success while laying on my side but that's from waking up and i think the idea is to achieve an OBE while being conscious.

thanks!

Hello, I'm pretty new to this forum. I had just started to attempt practicing and learning how to AP for a couple weeks now. I was actually successfully able to project once using techniques after awakening from sleep. A few days ago, i noticed that when i walked past a few rooms i was able to see what seemed to look like purple static in my peripheral vision that seemed to fill the doorways. Keep in mind that it was somewhat but not completely dark in my house. I wasn't completely sure what i was seeing so last night i spent some time trying to focus in on what i was seeing by laying on my back and staring at my ceiling and into the space above my body with the lights off at night. I started noticing what began to appear as spinning snowflakes of color but as i focused more intently, it changed into what seemed to be triangular shapes moving through my walls and ceilings at very fast speeds that what transition between green, red, and blue. Also, as this became easier to spot, i began to see bright specs that didn't seem to move accompanying what i had already been seeing. Does anyone know what i'm seeing? Also, if this post should be posted elsewhere, please let me know! Thanks