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I've had several occurrences of lucid dreams throughout my life but they were mainly in my younger years before I knew what they were.  At the time I just assumed everyone had them and thought no more about it, but as I have aged so did the experiences lessen.  However, within the last year I have become interested in LDs and OBEs and have since tried to induce both.  All attempts to consciously induce an OBE have failed, though I've had limited success inducing while asleep leading to sleep paralysis and what Mastering Astral Projection classes as internal projection (you experience the etheric body while in your physical body). So far, so good.  

A fortnight ago while asleep I became lucid.  I wasn't dreaming at the time, I simply became aware I was in a sleep state.  My first thought was to project and immediately felt the symptoms of my energy chakras opening.  I've experienced this several times now and wasn't concerned.  To describe the sensation, it starts as butterflies in your stomach that you get when you're nervous, and the feeling then sweeps right to your head like a wave of emotion flowing upwards through your body.  I've never had any other vibrations that people talk about except a time when I heard a buzzing noise, this time however I didn't notice that.

At this stage I felt my consciousness about to separate from my body when I heard a foreboding warning by an unseen voice saying "It's forbidden" or something similar.  Again, I wasn't concerned.  It was as though I was devoid of emotion, and besides I have read enough books and articles on Astral Pulse to know you should just ignore such things anyway and so that's what I did – I merely noted it and continued the process of separation.
 
When separation occurred I seemed to shoot across my bedroom to a picture on my far bedroom wall where I came to an abrupt halt.  My first thought was that I had projected successfully and I realised I was hovering.  This was swiftly followed by a thought that I couldn't fly in reality and with that I plummeted like a rock.  A second later I was back in my body.

I immediately tried projecting again.  This time I heard no voice and projected without difficulty.  At this point I was convinced it was an OBE I was having, but then a strange thing happened.  After I had projected my sight went black and I was back in my body.  I thought I was about to wake up but I concentrated and in my mind's eye I seemed to reconnect to what my astral body would see, lost it again, and reconnected once more.  It was as though my conscious sight was bouncing between my physical and astral forms.

I found myself back in my body, fully aware and somewhat confused.  I wondered if I was imagining everything rather than doing OBE, and was maybe more awake than I realised.  Having read Bruce Moen's books where he vocally recorded his experiences on tape, I tried saying something and with difficulty my body responded by mumbling something incoherent with sluggish lips.  I was vaguely aware of my body but the sensations were dulled considerably almost to the point of being imperceptible.  I'm convinced I was definitely in the Focus 10 state.  

I think I projected several times more after this but I can't for life of me recall it because afterwards I just went to sleep rather than awaken myself up to make notes.

Everything about the experience up to the end suggests it was an OBE, but the last section has left me in doubt as it seems to more indicative of a LD.  Has anyone else experienced losing and re-establishing the connection while OBE?  Does that make any sense?

Cheers,

Meneleus.

I decided about a month ago to see if I could view auric colours.  I've read several books on the subject and have done about 5 – 10 mins worth of attempts per day, nothing too intensive, but experienced nothing of note other than seeing a colourless outline around the body.

Tonight, I started as normal and saw the usual transparent outline devoid of colour, but then I thought I'd try a test.  A few days ago I started reading a book on chakras called "Wheels of Life" written by Anodea Judith.  In it she mentions a simple way to activate the chakras in the hands by outstretching your arms horizontally and rapidly clenching and unclenching your hands a dozen or so times.

Still viewing my aura, I tried this exercise and immediately saw a violet colour surrounding my hands and extending about 3 inches from the skin.  I realised the violet continued up my arms and shoulders but disappeared at the neck to become the usual colourless aura.  Try as I might I couldn't see any colour extending beyond my shoulders.  

Ten minutes after witnessing this I tried the same test again but had nothing as spectacular.  I sensed the same colour was there, easier to notice now I knew what to look for, but frustratingly I kept getting only fleeting glimpses.

Despite that, the experience of catching only a partial view of the auric colour kind of blew me away.  It's one thing reading about it but quite another experiencing.

Questions I hope some of you can answer are:

Would activating the hand chakras in this manner have influenced my auric colour in any manner, or was it just coincidence?  

Would what I saw be the etheric layer of the aura?  In Barbara Ann Brennan's book "Hands of Light" she mentions the etheric colour to be always blue, but what I saw was more of a violet colour.  Could I have been looking at what she called the emotional layer?

Thanks,

Meneleus.

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Meneleus.

[Then, I started concentrating on my breathing. I used a heavy breathing technique that sounded really loud to myself, didn't think it would work, but almost immediately I felt a tingling over my face.]

Hi Meneleus,

Then, I started concentrating on my breathing. I used a heavy breathing technique that sounded really loud to myself, didn't think it would work, but almost immediately I felt a tingling over my face.

It worked because you were totally focused, that is why I'm always telling people to find what works for them, not one technique is going to work for everyone.

ignored the sensation and carried on, and it started to spread to my stomach, chest, arms and finally legs. Then I felt my arms raising and curiously looked to see them physically raising. With difficulty I forced them to lower and the same happened again.

I'm a bit confused by this, do you mean you physically opened your eyes and saw your physical arms lifting or do you think it could have been you looking out of your eyelids and seeing your astral arms?  The latter seems more likely.

My body was very sluggish which took a while to clear, but my hands retained the strange feelings for a good few minutes which fascinated me (probably about 10 mins).

My limbs have kept the feeling after a failed OOBE. so that is normal as well. [] I'd say you are well on your way to a full blown projection. []

Good-luck and keep up the good work.

Nay