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In my dream, I rode in the back of an SUV, driven by a woman named Amanda. In the rear-view mirror, I caught the reflection of her eyes. They were completely black, similar to an alien's from the X-Files show. Amanda was a pretty girl I worked with about eight years ago, but she didn't seem so pretty now. It made her frightening, and this was all it took to make me realize that this wasn't real.

I said out loud, and excitedly, "I'm dreaming!"

Unfortunately, I should only have thought it, because she turned in her seat, catching me in her empty black stare. Her look was malevolent, and she said to me, "I heard that."

Since I had become lucid, I quickly took myself from the SUV, reappearing in a park. Unfortunately, her black eyes had disturbed me more than I expected - I felt creeped out. I decided to astral project instead of lucid dream.

Instantly I found myself in my astral body, but unable to travel. I could move my arms and head, but that was it. I could actually feel my hands gripping the bed sheets trying to pull myself along (which is the first time I've ever physically felt anything out-of-body).

As part of my struggle, I repeated as a mantra, "I'm dreaming!", as I still had those darned black eyes as a frozen image in my memory. My voice came out as a distant croak, and I struggled to scream it repeatedly to find my voice, as though it would give me more control.

Unfortunately, the struggle and stress caused me to awaken. I found myself laying on my back. The sheets were not clutched in my physical hands, and my body felt very relaxed, as opposed to the flailing struggle I'd been doing astrally. My wife slept easily beside me, enforcing the fact that my physical body had not mimicked my astral turmoil.

I lay in bed after that staring at the ceiling, almost afraid to close my eyes again, still feeling those black eyes as though she had been an actual evil entity. Finally, I became angry. I wouldn't let some dream entity ruin my dream and astral playground. With that, I rolled over and determinedly went back to sleep. Unfortunately, no lucid or astral experiences followed the rest of the night.

Ever since the first time I lucid dreamed, I have attempted to fly. Many of my attempts were doomed to failure, some worked, though nothing made it easy. Through six years of practice, I could not find an easy way.

What finally worked was throwing myself head-first into a superman position of flight. It seems simple enough. However, I have always tried to rise straight up from the ground. By traveling headfirst, with feet behind me, I was able to have close proximity to the ground without feeling the tug of gravity. I tested it a few times, landing, and then trying to fly again, and found it easy.

What might make this easier for someone trying to fly in a lucid dream is to run first, before flying. The momentum will give you the sensation of traveling. Dive forward and fly.

Last night I was visited by two ghosts in my dreams, though they were strangers. Their presence both helped me go lucid and possibly hindered my projecting.

The first ghost was an oriental woman. She looked either Japanese or Chinese. Her throat was bloody, but not in the damp theatrical sense, but more like something had bit her or she was in a very horrible accident. Obviously she couldn't talk, but she was a very good starer. My dream wasn't lucid, and I was in several different rooms. Everywhere I went, she would walk  in shortly after, stand in front of me, and stare. I tried to communicate with her. She nodded when I asked if she had a family to go to, but that was it.

Then another person appeared, this time a white male, a little on the stout side, and looking in his late 20's. He was able to talk. At this point in my dream, I was playing a video game, so when he appeared, I asked him if he could play games as a ghost. He said no, the buttons wouldn't respond for him.

So then I realized I was dreaming and immediately tried to astral project. I left the dream easily and quickly and went directly to my astral body. The thoughts of the ghosts were fresh in my mind, and I fleetingly thought of possession. I brushed the fear aside, choosing the desire to astral project over remaining in my body beaten by fears. I raised my head and torso out, and flailed around a bit to get the rest of me out as well. The room was dark, but my astral site picked up blurry movements from my attempting to roll. Perhaps the areas of dim light were the ghosts waiting for me, or just my astral site detecting objects. I don't know because the projection ended there. It lasted only a few seconds.

Because I woke up a little freaked out, I think the emotion must've been there strongly enough to ruin the experience. I'm still considering it another success, because even though it didn't last as long as previous ones, I still got out of body.

I have no way of knowing at this time if the two ghosts were real or a dream cast. If they were real, this throws my theory of just being visited by dead family out the window. However, my fear of ghosts, even gory ones, has diminished quite a bit, maybe making it easier for them to visit. However, the communication is rather poor, and if they don't look dead, I'd never know.

I've always dreamed in total color, and my lucid dreams are very vividly in color. However, there is a woman I work with that dreams only in black and white. She is very interested in lucid dreams, and has attempted to lucid dream, but with no luck.

Are there any lucid dreamers on this forum who dream in black and white? Do lucid dreams gain color when before there was none?

Yesterday morning was great for me, I was able to repeatedly step back into my lucid dreams every time I woke up, without any annoying false awakenings or drifting off into other dreams.

Anyway! For one of these lucid dreams I managed to pop out and astral project. During my short time out-of-body, I had two new experiences. I'm still an amateur with astral projecting, so these baby steps are very exciting for me, so bear with me.

The first new experience was astral projecting to another location, instead of directly next to my body. This was a first for me, though I've read that many people learn to project by choosing a destination away from their bodies. I astrally found myself at my parents' house, where I was raised.

The second new experience was that of walking through walls. I have strong limitations imposed on me by my mind when it comes to astral projecting, such as difficulty flying, etc. But my goal this time was to walk through a wall, which I'd never done before. I had to really focus to get my hand to pass through. The sensation was different. It felt very grainy. I don't know how else to describe it. Once most of my arm was in, I stepped forward, which brought my face into contact. That was very interesting, as my astral vision moved through the material of the wall, and being able to see everything I was passing through up close. I ended up back in my body shortly thereafter, however.

I have believed in ghosts visiting me in my dreams for a very long time. When my great grandmother died when I was six (or seven?), she appeared in a dream to say goodbye. When my grandfather died, he started to visit me in my dreams. Then when my grandmother passed away, she too started visiting me in my dreams. When I am lucid, I can talk with them easier (I've posted a little about these a while back).

I'm not talking about ghostly manifestations. That's something altogether different. Sort of related, but I'm not going into that here. I'm not one of these so-called psychics like John Edwards or anything, and if I see a manifested ghost it tends to scare me.

So my mother stopped by today to drop off presents for my kids for Christmas. I decided I to quiz her if she had ever seen ghosts. She had a bunch of sories about seeing spirits, but the exciting part was that she had dream visitations as well. She's had visitations from her parents, plus her brother who died awhile back.

This begins to back up some of my theories about ghosts and dreams. I'm starting to believe we have an ancestral family spirit-thing going on. We aren't native american or oriental or any other culture that puts any faith into ancestors watching over us, just the average caucasian family that wouldn't have any foundation in ancestral spirits. Yet to me, I think a few of us in our family are able to keep a connection.

As a side note, neither of my sisters believe in this, and there are a few cousins I have yet to talk to. My aunt (mother's sister) believes strongly in ghosts, but doesn't dream about them. She's told me she feels she has offended her parents in some way. That is why she can't dream of them.

I had a slightly different induction into a lucid dream yesterday, and couldn't tell immediately if I was dreaming or if the other person in my dream (my wife) was the dreamer.

Here's the dream: I was in my kitchen talking with my wife. She was scolding me because her brother told her I'd done something I shouldn't have (which I can't remember). I told her I didn't do it. Then I realized that this situation could only be a dream, because it never happened. I didn't know which one of us was dreaming, so I told her that either she was dreaming or I was. I then realized it would have to be me, and entered into a lucid dream. I didn't do anything experimental, it broke down from there into a libido-controlled dream.

I just realized this morning that every time I astral project I see a television mounted on my bedroom wall, that isn't really there. As I go through the exit symptoms, I focus on this television, fully accepting its presence as real.

I'd never realized its always been there until this morning, when I was thinking about it. It's in all of my notes, ironically, but I've never really given it much thought. But, now when I see this television, I'll know I'm out of body.

To me this is really strange, I don't know what the television symbolizes personally, or why I'd have one mounted there on the wall. However, now when I see that television I think its going to make projecting easier, as I'll know I'm out, I just need to roll.

Last night during a lucid dream I decided I wanted to confront the idea that my dream was an illusion and tried to walk through a wall.

The first two attempts resulted in walking into the wall, and bouncing off. The third attempt, the wall warped to let me pass through it. Since that wasn't my intention, I turned and walked through it again, this time getting the desired experience of walking directly through the wall.

I bring this up to point out for those hampered by limitations in dreams (such as trouble flying or whatever), by examining the dream world as an illusion and confronting it as such, you can more easily bypass things your mind might hamper you from. Despite it taking me 4 tries to get walking through a wall right.

On a side note, it was snowing in my dream, and it still suprises me to be able to feel the cold and wetness of snow in a dream, even while realizing it's just an illusion. []

My major success to AP is from lucid dreaming. My last success was on July 9th. Since then, I've gone back to keeping a dream journal, and am recalling up to 4 dreams a night. However, I've had no luck of lucidity. I'm pretty sure I can do an AP if lucid, so I'm playing with an idea I found in a book called Lucid Dreaming.

I am making a recording of 1 hour. It will all be silence except for 3 seconds. Once an hour (it'll be set up on repeat), the 3 sec recording will play. All it'll say is "Garth, you're dreaming." Once I start dreaming, I should hear my voice reminding me. [] Once lucid, I'll see if I can maintain a level of AP success from lucidity. I'll post results.

Hi! Welcome to the forums!

Now about the situation... were you really tired? It could be exhaustion limited this dream. Hopefully this type of limitation will only be a part of this dream, and not there next time.

Things that might help are immediately trying for some sense of motion, spinning being the most popular (and later becomes unnecessary, though still highly useful for other things), and demanding vocally for more clarity or lucidity. Try looking around to experience the entire new dream world. []

Good luck!

My list of immortality methods:

Cryogenic freezing, cloning, genetic fixing, write a book, paint a masterpiece, win the presidency of a country...

Anyone read the book Time Enough for Love? Could be where the future is taking us for immortality...

Is it a feeling of reverence, or more frightening? Anytime that there is a lack of bugs and animals, I'd become suspicious. Then again, sometimes meeting something head-on is the way to go. [] I'm flip-flopping. []

umm..... I was gonna ask are there any other methods for AP except hypnogotic stage induction?

My father died about 8 monts ago; about six months before that I had a very clear dream where he came to me and said 'I won't be seeing you for a while'. I haven't had a dream of him since he died.

Could be an over active imagination.

Could be shadows.

Could be something that was always there, you just couldn't see it until you were more in tune with your Metaphysical surroundings.



It's a symptom of NEW, more energy and being more sensitive to what's always been there.

Hi astralpwka,

I had mostly 2 types of reflections...
One where I could only see my hairs and my clothes; but no face/arms...  No skinny/fleshy parts.
The other, I looked mostly "normal", but with crazy haircut []

Hi astralpwka,

Welcome to the Astral Pulse forums! []  It sounds as though you're quite far along with things, believe me, conscious exit projections do not come easy for many of us. Astral Dynamics is a great book, as well as a reference you can always return to.

Please take a little bit of time to explore all the features of the forum. There is a File Library with some great eBooks and downloads. Also, we have a Search engine that will help locate old posts by topic, for example. You may want to read over some of the threads in the Welcome to Permanent Astral Topics forum. These are topics that were made "sticky" because we thought there was a lot of useful information for members.

Looking forward to your participation,
Nick