Hello everyone. This is my first post here and I'd like to start off by introducing myself. My name is Ivy and I am a 20 year old professional artist and art student. It's lovely to find such an active community and I look forward to meeting you all and chatting 
I first came to know the term "Astral Projection" a few weeks ago after doing some research on Lucid Dreaming. I've had lucid dreams since childhood naturally and wanted to learn more about them. After stumbling upon a website centered around astral projection, I was immediately intrigued and wanted to look into it. One of the reasons I was so interested was due to the nature of some of my lucid dreams. In many of these lucid dreams, I can recall floating around in my house freely and I wondered if I might have been really astral projecting all this time without being aware.
I read more and more and became interested in astral projecting consciously. To be honest...I still don't know very much about astral projecting and this is why I come to you all now. After briefly reading through a few techniques, I decided on a whim I would try to do it last night for the first time. I planned to sleep for a couple of hours, wake, and then try to meditate and focus on projecting while my body was in a sleepy, relaxed and calm state.
After thirty minutes of relaxing in bed, I fell off to sleep. I slept for a good while before awaking and opening my eyes. Except, I think I was opening my eyes. You see, I'm still at odds at whether I actually woke up or if I was in a lucid dream. When I opened my eyes, I was in the same position I fell asleep in and I was in my room. Everything in my room was the same and the night light next to my bed was on (I turned it on for once this very night). While I was laying in reality/lucid dream state, I began to visualize my astral self coming out of my physical body. I started with my arms. I visualized my 'astral arms' lifting from my physical body and going back down. I did this for a bit and I then began to visualize my entire body lifting upwards..this is when something strange happened.
My body began to feel this light vibrational sensation inside (similar to the feeling one gets when they are close to loud, blaring music). I tried not to get nervous, as I read fear keeps you from going on. I tried to stay focused and kept visualizing. Soon after, I began to hear this loud, pulsating bass-like noise (the only way I can describe it was a low WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP sound). My vision began to shake (like there was an internal earthquake going on within me) and everything around me began to get hazy. I began to hear a new sound that sounded like popping in my ears (similar to ones ears popping after swimming). I was extremely frightened by this bass-like low sound and popping and immediately stopped visualizing all together. I remember squinting my eyes in fear and it all stopped. I can't remember anything after that and I'm guessing I either fell back asleep in reality or my lucid dream ended (like I said before, I'm still unsure if I was really opening my eyes or if I was in a lucid dream..my lucid dreams are extremely realistic and it's hard to tell sometimes). I was by NO means expecting anything to happen last night. I truly did not think I would feel anything and I think this is why I became so frightened. I've always been very skeptical by nature and this feeling that came over me shook me greatly. I don't know of anyone I can go to about this in real life besides my boyfriend. I worry that if I let anyone in on my experience that they'll ridicule me or view me as strange.
When I woke up in the morning, I immediately thought of the experience I had earlier that night. I've been arguing internally whether it really happened or not and I still do not know for sure. This experience was unlike anything I had ever felt before and a part of me wants to try again...but I'm afraid of the unsettling noises I heard before..particularly the low bass noise. I've always had a weird aversion to low noises. I have had bad anxiety all my life as well so I think it's definitely something I need to work on.
Has anyone had similar experiences to mine and was it possible I was about to project? This was my first shaky attempt ever and I was very surprised and taken aback by feeling something..I'm still in awe. Also, how can I get over this awful fear of the unknown? I so desperately want to experience something amazing, but my vivid imagination and fear gets the best of me. Any help or insight is deeply appreciated.
I first came to know the term "Astral Projection" a few weeks ago after doing some research on Lucid Dreaming. I've had lucid dreams since childhood naturally and wanted to learn more about them. After stumbling upon a website centered around astral projection, I was immediately intrigued and wanted to look into it. One of the reasons I was so interested was due to the nature of some of my lucid dreams. In many of these lucid dreams, I can recall floating around in my house freely and I wondered if I might have been really astral projecting all this time without being aware.
I read more and more and became interested in astral projecting consciously. To be honest...I still don't know very much about astral projecting and this is why I come to you all now. After briefly reading through a few techniques, I decided on a whim I would try to do it last night for the first time. I planned to sleep for a couple of hours, wake, and then try to meditate and focus on projecting while my body was in a sleepy, relaxed and calm state.
After thirty minutes of relaxing in bed, I fell off to sleep. I slept for a good while before awaking and opening my eyes. Except, I think I was opening my eyes. You see, I'm still at odds at whether I actually woke up or if I was in a lucid dream. When I opened my eyes, I was in the same position I fell asleep in and I was in my room. Everything in my room was the same and the night light next to my bed was on (I turned it on for once this very night). While I was laying in reality/lucid dream state, I began to visualize my astral self coming out of my physical body. I started with my arms. I visualized my 'astral arms' lifting from my physical body and going back down. I did this for a bit and I then began to visualize my entire body lifting upwards..this is when something strange happened.
My body began to feel this light vibrational sensation inside (similar to the feeling one gets when they are close to loud, blaring music). I tried not to get nervous, as I read fear keeps you from going on. I tried to stay focused and kept visualizing. Soon after, I began to hear this loud, pulsating bass-like noise (the only way I can describe it was a low WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP sound). My vision began to shake (like there was an internal earthquake going on within me) and everything around me began to get hazy. I began to hear a new sound that sounded like popping in my ears (similar to ones ears popping after swimming). I was extremely frightened by this bass-like low sound and popping and immediately stopped visualizing all together. I remember squinting my eyes in fear and it all stopped. I can't remember anything after that and I'm guessing I either fell back asleep in reality or my lucid dream ended (like I said before, I'm still unsure if I was really opening my eyes or if I was in a lucid dream..my lucid dreams are extremely realistic and it's hard to tell sometimes). I was by NO means expecting anything to happen last night. I truly did not think I would feel anything and I think this is why I became so frightened. I've always been very skeptical by nature and this feeling that came over me shook me greatly. I don't know of anyone I can go to about this in real life besides my boyfriend. I worry that if I let anyone in on my experience that they'll ridicule me or view me as strange.
When I woke up in the morning, I immediately thought of the experience I had earlier that night. I've been arguing internally whether it really happened or not and I still do not know for sure. This experience was unlike anything I had ever felt before and a part of me wants to try again...but I'm afraid of the unsettling noises I heard before..particularly the low bass noise. I've always had a weird aversion to low noises. I have had bad anxiety all my life as well so I think it's definitely something I need to work on.
Has anyone had similar experiences to mine and was it possible I was about to project? This was my first shaky attempt ever and I was very surprised and taken aback by feeling something..I'm still in awe. Also, how can I get over this awful fear of the unknown? I so desperately want to experience something amazing, but my vivid imagination and fear gets the best of me. Any help or insight is deeply appreciated.