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I'd rather report a successful obe then constantly asking questions, but hey! You guys are so helpful in here :3 Now I'm sure this as anything can be solved with practice and patience... but that is kinda why I am now loosing sleep over it now too. 
I am making some progress though, earlier I made a post about a different problem I had, but thanks to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRar8IOwic8&feature=BFa&list=PLEB923BB17E5849A3&lf=plpp_video
that Lionheart posted somewhere that seem to have sort of vanished.

I've also started to meditate every day for an hour or a half.

But now when I shut out all the mind shatter when trying to AP I end up just laying fully conscious for hours... or half asleep without getting any rest. I also managed to startle myself in that state by touching the cold bedroom wall with my knee ... ._.;
So I guess something is up it is just not progressing into anything else.
I tried to push it a bit after 3 hours of that madness by focusing my eyes behind my eyelids and I did start feeling changes but I also started to clench causing me such discomfort I had to flip over and my body just screamed as it was somehow asleep and I forced it to move ..

Oh I did manage to move my astral arms around some night ago by doing the above in reversed order but even then I realized I could be doing it all night without actually getting anywhere.

It feels like my mind has become too ... "active" now and I can't turn it off. And I don't mean active as in a ton of random thoughts but just ... too conscious ... so I can't start dreaming or AP because it requires thought for action right? Or am I wrong and something should just happen without me needing to think it?   
   

Hi everyone,

This is my first post in this part of the forum so I hope i'm not in the wrong place ^^;

I've been taking reiki courses all the way up to master level so I thought I wouldn't be running in to problems like this, but I guess sometimes healers need help from other healers to find what is wonky at times.

I'm not sure how to describe my problem since I'm having trouble grasping the core of it. What I'm bothered by most is the fact that I can't seem to relax.. ever. I've tried meditation during both day and just before bed. If I do it during the day I get sleepy and have to take a nap to get back on track. At night I try to either just relax or astral project. I usually get a feeling of strong discomfort in my legs and arms from this or I do get a feeling of some kind of altered consciousness but it never gets further then this as if my energy body or mind just seem to refuse to "step outside" or let go.

I've had nightmares for many years and overall felt like crap mentally but this was taken care of through reiki treatments and initiations. Basically I think I'm fine.. I feel fine, but I "know" I'm not. There is still something there beyond my reach and grasp, something preventing me from letting go. I don't know it is fear or something else. A clear sign of this is that my dreams, even though I do have lucid dreams at times or am overall skillful at getting out of nasty situations in normal dreams is that those dreams are still pretty screwed up. There is a lot of pain and danger in there. Always some kind of struggle for survival, fighting. Never those beautiful cool things people talk about.
I never even dream about this world I live in, it is always different worlds unless it is related to my past, but those dreams I can tell they are there to resolve stuff ._.;

I just want to be able to have dreams that can put my mind at peace instead of scrambling it. I want to be able to relax and focus my mind... or at least find an answer to all that ... sick destruction and constant struggle that I experience during dreamtime.

If someone could help with healing or if anyone is willing to chime in and maybe give a clue to whats up beyond my own understanding I would be very grateful.

- Silwer

Hi there!

Before I start digging around in this forum like some psycho in search for the key to astral projection I think I should introduce myself!

Im a 21 years old artist/writer and have only for a few years been interested in lucid dreaming and astral projection. I cant say I've had much experience with it, but I can say I have some pretty vivid dreams from time to time, occasional lucid dreams .. and I miiight have fumbled around on the astral sometime (cant say for sure as I've never projected consciously) but I aim to learn it properly  so I can do it frequently and at will...

but I'm a bit confused about the difference between astral projection and lucid dreaming because some dreams i've had has felt and looked so real that I could almost swear I was standing in a different world!

I really love to read and talk about these things so I joined this forum. I'm quite surprised that so many on this forum have had experience with astral projections. Most forums I've found this far have only had a few people on them who "almost" managed to do it. Or maybe the experts just didn't want to talk about it

Thats it I guess, now I will try and read through all the forum sections... unless there is something else you want to know before I drown in all the awesomeness!

bye everyone!