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How many people in general know how to go out of body, whether naturally talented or otherwise? I'm talking about people who know they go out of body and can control it.

Can I get a base figure here, not just everyone knows or no one knows; it'd be nice to have a good figure to go by. And also whom might be the best type of person to ask face to face(known psychic, hypnotist, psychologist)?

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring this one out. It would be very helpful to me in knowing the truth about how many people actually go out of body and know they do, so they can talk about it physically.

Also what is the average age of learning individuals? Is it teenagers, young adults, adults? This is a question that has gotten me worried that I might be the only person my age(21) learning this and I may be missing out on somethings that people may be not telling me.

It would be really helpful if people were truthful in answering this question I'm really having a problem figuring it out.

Thanks,

Spite

I was wondering if the astralpulse hosted any chatrooms? It would be nice so we can talk directly to eachother.

I don't want to claim that I'm going crazy yet, but recently I've come to believe that I have been reaching into other peoples sub-concious thought and even more so, people in the astral realm. I cannot project at will yet, but I have gotten out of body. I'm new to this whole thing, but this problem has interrupted my whole mediataion cycle and OBE expierences.

What takes place is that I hear voices of a conglomerate, male and female voices and also a background of chatter. It seems as though the people who I hear want to be around me or in my realm of thought. Some speak to me and others just listen, but they all know whats going on. Its strange to be saying this because I've tried to claim I was going insane, but I have proved to myself I can atleast effect a situation around me.

For example: One time I was riding in a car with my friends, my one friend was driving and he sneezed. In my mind I said," Bless You" directly to him, but I didn't speak anything verbally. And he responded verbally saying, "Thank You."

This freaked me out because I couldn't tell what had just took place. I know for a fact I didn't say anything verbally and that I did say bless you in my head. What is this phenomena? Am I really someone who is missing out or am I reaching a status which many have not acheived?

Beyond all those questions, I sometimes feel as if I can control every situation I happen to get myself in and at times that I am the one who is supposed to be in control. I've actually done nothing in those situations before, just sat and watched what would happen. Everyone starts acting weird, they all seem lost as if they have no clue of what to do with themselves.

For example: I was walking with about 8 friends to a house through the town that we live in. Some people were talking and I was just walking enjoying the conversation when I suddenly forgot where we were going. We happened to be passing a random food court area and so I contemplated in my head saying, "Aren't we supposed to stop and hang out here?" After I said that in my mind everyone suddenly agreed to sit down and started to move towards a table close by and sit down. Then right before I sat down I looked around and thought in my mind, "Wait we are supposed to be going to the house." And just as I started thinking that statement everyone else started realizing what had just happened and started laughing that we all forgot where we were going all at the same time, and that all of us decided to sit down together.

This was a very profound moment in my life because no one to this day has ever mentioned to me that they hear my thoughts. And it seemed too wierd that a group of 8 people would all forget at the same time that we were walking to a house, something that seems almost the opposite of hanging out at some random area, especially when the area isn't even a very familiar place we hang out.

I've talked to one friend who likes talking about paranormal activity and he seems almost certain that I am talking through the barrier of the astral and reaching not just people there in the etheric but peoples sub-concious feelings and thoughts here in the physical.

If anyone knows what is going on please help me out. If you have any questions please ask, I will try my best to answer. This is something I have to get used to or get rid of, its slowly driving me crazy.

Ok this is my problem, recently I've been doing my regular OBE practice, and after each practice I take a nap and actually end up lifting out of my body, but I can't maintain that status for long.
Today, for instance, I lifted out after practice and rolled off my bed next to my body. I started to get up then was sucked back in. Happy that I actually acheived OBE status, I settled down and got back into the vibrations then lifted out again. This time I floated towards a pole in my room and grabbed it so I wouldn't get sucked back in. To my surprise it worked for a little bit, as soon as I let go of the pole I started moving towards a door outside and right as I got towards the door I felt a pull and the next thing I know i'm again in the blackness of my thoughts. Then again still happy that I can achieve OBE status, I settle down then feel for the vibrations, as they come I decided to lift out a different way, to my surprise I got out with barely an trouble and I started moving to another destination, upstairs then outside. I moved very slowly upstairs and almost got outside and then bam got sucked back in and this time I lost the trance.
This has been happening to me recently, where I can get out but I can only stay out for a limited time and during that time I really can't concentrate on anything because I keep getting pulled back to my body.
I would like to ask for some insight on this problem, it seems I am there but I lack something that can keep my body from pulling me back.

I'm sooo close, please help

Spite

I've been having these for a few months now, recently they've been getting less frequent. I've been meditating for a little less then half a year, studying Robert Monroe's Gateway Experience, I've just recently started studying Robert Bruce's methods, both are highly recommendable. I seem to have more dreams, lucid and uncontrolled, then AP or OBE. When I started studying astral projection, I was able to get out almost instantaneously, I had about 5 OBE's within the first week of training with Dr. Monroe's method. I kept them short and sweet like recommended and everything was swinging fine. Then I hit a wall, and the OBE's stopped and I've had maybe 4 since that time where strange things happen when I get out( thats for another post ). But the OBE's stopped right when these dreams started and as much as I enjoy the dreams, I think I need to learn something from them first before I can OBE again. Can anyone help, please read this dream I wrote about. It happened recently.

It started in a cold night where it seemed that I was searching for something, clueless to where I was I ventured out in the wilderness. I followed some type of street, a small walk way more like it, it kinda zig-zagged. I saw some type of enemy in the distance, he was wearing some crazy outfit, it looked kinda cool. He was around a corner to the left. As I approached the person I grabbed the being from behind, got some information from them( I couldn't tell what it said, it was blurred ). As I was about to leave another enemy happened to be in front of the other being, kinda walking in the other direction talking, he spun around to see me suppress his friend into submission. As he noticed this he started throwing these crazy kunai type knives.
- kunai are ninja throwing knives. Each looked like a kunai shape at the end where its sharp but the top had a chain attached to it, so you could spin them and get a maximum velocity toss very accurately if trained well.

He threw a few straight at me, but I used his friend to block them and kept the limp body in front of me as a nice shield. While ducked under cover I managed to pick up one of his kunai and throw it back nailing him in the head, what luck I thought because I threw the thing horribly, almost like a girl...it was funny to me at the time. I escaped unharmed and ready to pounce, so next thing I remember is walking up to this huge skyscraper type building in the late afternoon. I bust into the building and I start moving so fast that everything slows down to a jog next to me. A hoard of those kunai knives fly from every direction and I'm dodging them with ease; I actually started to manage to grab them out of the air and throw them back with pace.
- It was unimaginable to me, I'm thinking to my self at this moment, how am I doing this? I know its not really possible, but its fun as hell. All the enemies were the same looking, just like all the games I play. So I'm assuming I'm just playing a game, but it gets interesting from here on.

I end up getting to the top floor basically massacring all these poor enemies, they really didn't stand a chance. I glance into the background behind the beings and see a woman tied up and Bill Murray( the actor ) holding her and a shiny black ball type thing in his hand. The next thing I know there is about 3 enemies left and I vanquish them with ease. I rush over to the girl and untie her, she secures the black ball and we leave. I didn't do anything to Bill for some odd reason, he seemed like an enemy, at first, but I wonder if he was showing me the prize or something. But anyway, the lady and I end up on a bus where she showed her gratitude for saving her, which I accepted happily as she was a very good looking girl. The bus was going up some mountain to a house where unfortunately I had to stop the bus and get out because we got attacked by some forest monsters. Just a little distraction nothing harmful...I think the girl even killed some. But eventually we settled at this house where people were eating and gathering. There was one thing that was wrong, the house was full of enemies. Everyone there was a person I was fighting against, even Billy boy was there chatting away all disgruntled about how they all were beaten by me.
   - Right now I felt kinda awkward because I didn't just go to a safe haven I was in the buzzards nest right after I stole the egg. It was like complete irony, like I was rubbing it in there face hardcore style. It felt good, but that feeling was totally unparalleled by the feeling of fear. Just earlier in my dream they were trying to strike me and I was striking them and now I'm there. Well this is the end of it all, its still confuses me.

I end up in the basement with the girl, we're getting intimate and close then I hear a alarming voice behind me saying something like "give it back." I turn around semi-ticked because of obvious reasons and I throw the black orb at the guy. I said something like, "Take it, I don't really need it, but on one condition, you leave me and my girls alone." And with that statement he jetted away, I walked outside with my girl, kinda hugged her and the sun blurred me out and I woke up.
   - This couldn't of been more like a movie, there is only a few things that bother me. The first was that I was doing all those actions on my own, whilst thinking what the heck am I doing!? Furthermore, what was that black thing representing? I've seen this before, like when I'm using the Monroe method, he asks to put all things that might hinder your experience into a box. For a time I had a problem with this black ball figure breaking out of the box, even when I didn't want it to, I couldn't stop it. So what I did was make a bag that I carry with me that has a direct relationship with my box, and I store the black ball in it, and if it tried to escape I can keep it stored. I have no clue what its supposed to represent, I've seen this orb ball thingy many times in my dreams, lucid and what not. I have no clue what to guess, I've looked around and seen that some people claim fighting in a dream represents change. I didn't change too much in my life when this happened and have no clue as to what that black ball could mean other then something bad. Also this dream wasn't the first; it was part of many dreams like this, with same and different enemies. But every dream always has a point or an objective, which is subconsciously known to me, but I can't try to think of it because when I do my head hurts, so I have to wait until the end of the dream. And lastly every dream I always find myself sliding back and forth between good and evil. Like I fight the evil, but never the good, but at times I always end up around evil and not getting attacked. There are times when they act like my friends and such. Overall I enjoy these dreams a lot, I guess the reasoning being because I like crazy things like that, especially cool martial art fighting stuff. But I would like to see what the meaning behind these are, because I don't think I would be having these for any particular reason, I'll have to put more thought behind it.