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I haven't been on here in quite a while until just recently.  My friend had an OBE and I was trying to help them as best as I could so I ended up coming back here to reference some of my posts.  I figured I'd try again to have an OBE since my interest went up again.

The way I exit is through lucid dreaming.  Once I'm lucid I tell myself to go to my body and I end up exiting.  Everything went just fine, no exit symptoms like when I first started years ago (voices, wind, etc.).  It felt real of course so to test it out I "jumped" down the small set of stairs that lead to the bedroom.  It feel like I was floating so I knew at that point it was an OBE.  I didn't plan on doing a lot the first time out and didn't have any expectations so I just stayed in my living room for a minute looking around.  The OBE changed as there is normally another set of stairs that go down to more bedrooms, it was almost an indoor balcony where I could see part of the neighborhood.

To take a second, I do associate a lot of things in dreams/lucid dreams/OBEs with dogs.  I have no idea why but beings I've met or things that have attacked me are typically dogs.

Anyway, I looked through the "glass" and right away this one tiny dog with bull horns started coming towards the glass I was looking through and started ramming it to come towards me (it wasn't breaking however).  Then I scanned the rest of the neighborhood and saw probably a dozen other dogs (all smaller sized) looking up at me and barking.  They all looked pretty strange and had big underbites.  A couple of dogs did come behind me but they were friendly.  I remember one of them, again smaller sized, had just one eye so I thought that was interesting.  There was a small indent where the other one should have been making him look a little haggard.  It stated to fade and I felt myself being tugged back towards my body.

Anyway, that was it I just thought I'd share.  This time around I'm not going to try to have as many expectations or over analyze anything.  Just enjoy it for what it is.  I'm not sure if the above has any meaning but it was entertaining.

I started projecting maybe 3 or 4 years ago.  Recently I've kinda stopped because it didn't make any sense to me.

Anyway I was talking to my friend last night and he said that he can look at people and sort of identify the person.  Basically each person who is "awake" has a magnetic pull towards light or dark.  If they aren't awake then they aren't pulled towards either.  Well I asked what he saw when he looked at me and he said that I'm definitely awake but that I'm unable to percieve what's good or bad.  When I thought about that it kind of made sense.  Every projection I've had, unless the person/thing attacks me I have no idea what the heck they are.  I've seen plenty of dogs(friendly and aggressive), gnomes(they were working with the land near my house), and all kinds of different people(most of them friendly).  He said that it's probably not a good thing to entertain entities that you're unsure of.

Does anyone else have the same ability as my friend?  Or has anyone had the experiences I have?

Has anyone had any experiences with items that people sell that say they are enchanted or have a djinn bound to them?  For example this one on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Haunted-Ring-Powerful-Djinn-Genie-Wish-Wiccan-Spell_W0QQitemZ170189317182QQihZ007QQcategoryZ102514QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm really looking to satisfy my own curiousity.  Some of these things say they will bring you love, money, etc., and honestly that doesn't tempt me in the least.  Speaking with a spirit(a positive one) sounds interesting and I just kind of wondered if any of this stuff was legit.

Does anyone else channel music either in the astral or in the early stages of OBE's?

I've heard a few tunes when I was having an OBE(however I've chosen to stop having them at the moment), but lately I've been hearing some songs when I feel vibrations and instead of leaving my body I just lay there block out anything visual and focus on my hearing and I've heard some amazing songs really vividly as if I have headphones on.

Maybe part of the reason is that I play guitar and I'm really into music.

For instance today I listened to about a minute(after that my cat woke me up) of a song by the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.  However it was never a song that he ever made.  I can remember the chord progression for the verse(although I can't remember the key) and the only lyrics I remember was the chorus(which I assume the song would be called) "Don't Mean Nothin'".  I wonder if he actually created that song and I somehow channeled it or I just kind of made it up and used his voice on it.  Any ideas?

Anybody else have anything similiar?

Ok so I was watching a movie today and ever since I left the theatre my mind has been completely blank.  No thoughts no emotions or anything.  It's like I'm in a constant state of meditation.  I haven't tried fighting it I'm just kind of going with the flow.

But has this happened to anyone else?  It just feels weird.  It's like I have no attachments to anything and I don't react emotionally at all to anything and there are no thoughts running through my head.

I'm not sure what forum to post this on.  Anyway I wondered if anyone here has really had bad experiences in their life and whether or not they attribute them to karma from their past lives?  It seems I have horrible luck with just about everything.  People seem to rarely ever like me.  Not that anyone strongly dislikes me but it just seems no matter what I do sometimes people just are turned off by me.  I ask some people and they say it's just something about me.  I've had most of my friends and family turn on me(steal, lie or otherwise) so much that it just seems odd.  I realize I'm kind of unconventional in a lot of ways but that's just who I am.  I don't ever criticize people or say anything bad about them(especially when they aren't present).  I try to always help people and never think of myself as better than other people.  I value friendship above just about anything else yet people still dislike me or try to screw me over in some way.  It's just so much it seems like something is out to get me.  My only explination really is past karma.  Anyone else feel the same way about their life?

I try my best to do what is right so that my "karma" will even out.  And I'm not doing it to get credit for something, just because it's right.  That seems like another thing that makes people mad.  I will do what is right even to people that are my "enemies".  I don't think doing something bad to someone is okay just because they have bad intentions.  I can forgive people quite easily and will keep my word even if I'm dealing with someone who is "bad".  People think I'm an idiot but I think that you should stand by your values and morals even when your dealing with someone that isn't your buddy.  I think the way you treat strangers and your enemies is just as important as how you treat your friends.  Yet hardly anyone ever agrees with me.  They are just like "Screw them.  They are trying to screw you over so you screw them over first."  I don't know if I keep running into people like that to test me, because of karma, or what really.

Anyone else feel the same?

Well I used to post semi-regularly, but just kind of drifted away.  I just wondered if anyone has experienced what I have, or maybe some suggestions if I should change anything, related to OBE's.

I learned to project pretty quick(within a month) through lucid dreaming.  I could make myself lucid dream every night so projecting out of them were pretty easy, I thought.  After about a year or 2 of projecting I looked back at my notes(I wrote down most of my experiences) and really came to the conclusion that astral projecting and being able to lucid dream just confused me more than when I never did them.

I was always trying to go different places.  Or trying to communicate with my guides or my higher self.  And trying to find answers about myself and the world I live in.  While I have met people/things in projection it really never seemed beneficial.  Half of the time it was something that tried to scare me(which after a point really didn't scare me in the least bit) or someone/something that just didn't make any sense to me(one time a little girl came down from a cloud and this music started playing.  I just kind of looked at her and said, "Umm what the heck?").

In lucid dreaming I managed to speak with some "guides"(probably just part of my subconcious though) and even then I really never learned anything really.  They never made any sense.

I even tried just projecting and just interacting and not really expecting anything.  And things weren't really any different.

So I just kind of stopped doing all of that.  I feel that I could switch it all back on within a week of meditation and just willing myself.  But I don't know, it just doesn't seem worth it.  Has anyone else felt this way?  Or a suggestion to change it if I decided to get back into it?  Thanks.

Well I had an odd dream.  Basically it was about this girl who's father was an angel.  Only he was a fallen angel.  He wasn't evil but he definitely wasn't as good as an angel like Michael or Gabriel or someone like that.

I remember seeing a flashback of me, her, and some friends(when we were kids) running around and seeing a panther.  And we were like wow what a big kitty.  So we followed it and saw more.  And we came up to see her dad with some demons behind him.  Only I didn't feel an evil presence.

Now all I can recall is when I was in the present I was in my house and she was sleeping on the bed.  I had a machete(knife) and woke up and saw her dad and those demons again.  I don't know what they said but it was like they were hostile now.  So I went and woke her up and gave her a weapon too.  And told here that they were here.  But we searched and searched and couldn't find them.

So I went outside and prayed for an angel to help us.  And from the sky an angel came down.  He looked hispanic and was dressed a little odd but I could tell he was an angel.

We started talking and decided that we had to go and defeat her father.  And he asked how do we plan to do this(he knew the answer)?  I said, "Well I know these weapons won't do anything.  And you could give us celestial weapons, but I doubt God would want us to fight like that."  And he said, "Yeah God wouldn't want that."

He gave us a bible quote(for some reason) and said here lies your answer.  So she went to find a bible.  I found one first and saw the quote saying something like, "The destination you need is not in New York or Dallas, but in your heart."  Then he showed me a picture of a ship with the number 17 on it.  He said that a few thousand years ago this ship wrecked and the lady on board died.  So I said, "So wherever we are going she might die?".  He shrugged but said No.

When he left I looked out my patio door and there were giant sea waves bashing against the house(like we were on a boat).  At first I closed the sliding glass door to prevent water from coming in, then realized she hadn't come back.  So I ran out there(getting soaked of course) yelling, "Susan!!!".  And right then my alarm woke me up.

Any ideas?

For those who have been projecting a while, what do you do now that you have been projecting a while?

I started trying to learn last November and within a week or so I was able to project.  And since then I have had 100's of lucid dreams/obe's.  But now I tend to get a little bored.

I am grateful for everything it's just that being in the RTZ so many times kinda gets a little boring if not a lot happens.  I have gone to the astral plane a few times but it's like nothing meaningful happens, if you know what I mean.

It just seems like it's a extremely cool video game.  Like it's fun and all but even the most exciting video game can get boring if it's mostly the same stuff over and over.

I know this might sound a little odd but does anyone ever get the feeling that this physical reality is just a dream?  I don't mean for it to sound like the movie the Matrix.  And I am not trying to talk philosophy but just explain a feeling that I get.  Just sometimes throughout the day I will feel like I am in a dream.  Or I feel out of place like I just came from somewhere else.  If that makes any sense.

Anyone else get this?

Well at least for a year or 2 I have been having these dreams of going back to school.  Generally it's high school but sometimes it's elementry, however all the people tend to be the age I am now(21).

And what happens in the dream is that part way through I will realized that I have already graduated and there is no point to any of this.  Teachers will sometimes lecture me and I will tell them "I already graduated anyway so it doesn't matter."  Either they will support me, or they will lecture me some more and I will just take off.

I have been to college but I really have no desire to go back to school, I just don't care for it.  So I don't think it has to do with that.  Any ideas?

The other night I projected from a relatives house that I was visiting and instead of projecting out into the RTZ where I was at, I projected to my own bedroom(400 miles away), and I saw my body on my bed.  When I walked out a little ways a humanoid figure was standing there.  I tried shooting white light at it, to no avail and it felt like I was being pushed back.  I stood there and watched as it went up to(what I thought) my physical body and started doing something to it.  And I saw my body start to twitch and spasm.  So I immediately went back to my body and woke up, however nothing seemed wrong when I woke up.

No one slept in my room when I was gone, so did I just imagine that place I was sleeping it to be the place I normally sleep?  And any idea what that figure was?  I wasn't afraid of it but it didn't talk and seemed kind of controlling.

Okay I know I am the one who can answer this best but I wanted some other opinions.

I was having an OBE the other day and upon reentry I maintained astral sight and was staring in my room when 3 symbols appeared in front of me.

One of a christian cross.  The other a yin yang.  And the other symbol was the number "4" with vines growing around it.

I am really not sure what it means.  The cross I represents my beliefs a little bit because I believe in one God or Source and think Jesus is an important spiritual figure.  And the yin yang I definitely believe to be true.  Opposite forces are in harmony with one another and contain the opposing forces with in themselves.

But I don't understand what the 4 with vines growing around it means, nor what all the symbols have in common with each other...Any ideas?

I assume accessing the Akashic Records via lucid dream is possible, correct?

Well I was in a lucid dream and decided to try to find it.  I flew all over the place, tried to image it, and asked everyone I ran into(this took a few lucid dreams) took a bunch of bogus leads.  Finally I get to this Chinese restaurant called Chow Fat.  And I go in the back and ask the middle aged oriental man about getting info on my past life and accessing the Akashic Records.  He asks me my name and I tell him.  And I look at his paper and my name is already on there(along with other peoples).  And he says, "Okay I will have all the information you will need in 3 months."  I say, "Okay is your time the same as my time in the physical world?  What does God tell you to go by?".  He said he wasn't sure.  So I said, "I will come back to the Chow Fat restaurant in 3 months, correct?"  He agreed and I left.

So what would you do?  Would you hold off your search and wait 3 months?  Or would you just discount it and try anyway?  I am a pretty patient guy and 3 months really isn't that long to wait for something like that, but I don't want to postpone my search if he was lying.

Okay well my last two OBE's(one was today the other a few days ago) have involved these 3 dogs.  Now normally when I see a negative entity(or manifestation) it attacks me or scares me and I get bad vibes from it, but I didn't get that with these.  I just wondered what they were?

The first time I came out of my body I came out in my hallway, said a prayer, and came out with ZERO fear.  I saw these 3 dogs in the hallway and they backed off like they were intimidated but they stood there watching me.  Then I got sucked back into my body.

The second time I came out again they backed off a little bit like they were a little intimidated, but then I looked at them and got a good look at them this time.  They looked just like a "mutt" breed of a dog that were grey and black.  Except there jaws were about half the size of a normal dog.  The "leader", I'm assuming came up to me and I tried shooting out positive energy(but it didn't work this time(it works off and on)) and said "In the name of Jesus Christ I welcome you".  This made it pretty happy and started licking my hand and I started petting it.  I noticed the others were just kind of looking around almost like they were guarding me.  I gently grabbed the leader dogs head and imagined white light going into it and this made it even happier as it tried to lick my face.  But then I couldn't hold the projection anymore...

Any idea what they are?  Are they like astral pets or something?  I pray for protection every night and do golden-white light barriers.  So I am not sure.

For those who have contacted your Higher Self, what is he/she(it) like?  And is it possible through Lucid Dreaming or only when I am having an OBE?

Because I was lucid dreaming, and decided to ask for my Higher Self and this room appeared that was all white.  And this person appeared (he looked kinda like Harry Potter with blonde hair and without glasses, he even acted British).  I asked "are you my higher self"?  He said "yes I am".  I asked his name and he said Moss.  Then he said "why have you contacted me"?  I said "Just for some general advice and to see if there is anything I should be doing."  He said, "No."  I was kinda confused why he would say no, so I said, "why not?".  Then he started to saying something about animal scents and I couldn't maintain the lucid dream anymore because of wasting too much time beforehand(before I asked for my higher self).

I wouldn't see why my higher self couldn't contact me in a lucid dream.  But while this guy was confident and had a certain charisma, he seemed rather stuck up, which I really wouldn't envision my higher self to be.  So what are your guys' thoughts?

It seems most the dreams I have now are about me living in exile or hiding for some reason.  Either from an extremely oppressive government or a disaster or something along the lines.  A lot of times there are people that support me or a person that I am living with.  What do these themes generally mean?

Well I finally held a projection long enough to meet someone and talk to them a minute.  They said they met me at this place I went to which I didn't understand.  And started opening "blinds" and letting light in which I didn't understand either.

Anyway my point is how do you guys communicate with spirits in an OBE?  I find that if I try to talk my physical voice talks from my body(unlike lucid dreams).  I tried talking in my head, like thinking things and she understood what I was saying, but it was like I had to jump up and down to grab her attention first.

Can anyone help me staying out of my body longer?  I can't even stay out 30 seconds without ending my projection.  I have been doing this for about 4 months.  And have had at least 20 or 25 projections.

I will be walking or flying along and in a matter of 2 seconds I black out and feel back in my physical body.  I move away from my body and that doesn't even work.  Is it just a practice makes perfect sort of thing?  Like after 50-100 then I will automatically stay out longer?  Hopefully someone else has had this problem and overcame it.

Okay maybe this has been discussed here but has anyone read the prophecies of Nostradamus?  A lot of people that I run into say, "Whoa how did he do it?"  I am assuming that he went to the Akashic Records through divination, unless he did astral project.

And the reason for not all of his predictions being true was the fact that we have free will and the future is never set in stone.  And what he saw was just the most probable thing to happen.  So since he was alive almost 500 years ago probably less and less of his things will be true since so much has changed since then.

I know a lot of people have probably already made the same conclusions but I just wondered what everyone thought.

Okay well I had two projections today from lucid dreams.  And basically on my second OBE as soon as I left my bedroom this thing that looked like the Grim Reaper came after me with this horrible scream.  He had the skull face the black cloak.  And of course the trademark scythe.  Now I don't scare easily and I have been attacked by lower entity's and had virtually no fear.  But this thing scared the living crap out of me.  Does anyone know what this is?

I would have loved to have the confidence to face it but I haven't the slightest clue how to fight astrally.  I tried creating a sword before but that didn't work.  Or to see if I can shoot light out of my hands and that didn't either.

And one more question if someone may know.  I always project from lucid dreams but what I don't understand is that every time I project it's dark outside(in my OBE) where in the physical world the sun is out and it's bright...

Okay for those of you that have experienced "Negs"(or negative energies) in an OBE what type of form do they come in?  Because my last OBE was really strange.  First I went through my walls outside and I saw all of these vehicles surrounding my house.  And out of one of them came this big dog and I kinda sent out love towards it(if that makes sense) and went to pet it but it immediately latched on to my arm and wasn't sure what to do.  I was going to try to shake it but in the far distance I saw another shape of a big dog coming IMPOSSIBLY fast so I was like screw this and left my OBE.  Upon waking up my (real)arm that was bitten was pulsating like crazy.

Are those things surrounding my house, or what's going on?  I do protections by praying and creating barriers around my house so I don't think anything can come in that's negative energy.

Okay I was on a roll projecting a few times at least every week, but a month ago my sleep patterns got all jacked up so I finally had an OBE today.

Anyway. The sun was setting but when I projected it was really dark outside aside from a few lights and the stars.  Maybe because I thought it was going to be dark so it was?  Well to make a long story short I decided to try to go to the astral plane, so I shot off towards a star that I saw.  And a few moments later it felt like I was projecting again and I saw that I was closer to the star.  So I went towards it again and saw a few triangles connected to each other that were bright orange.  I went closer and it seemed like they were on fire, so I backed out and came back to my body.

Was that an entry way to an astral plane?  I know bright colors are good but although I wasn't scared, logic told me that fire wasn't the best thing to go to.

I am not sure if this is remote viewing or what it is really.

The last time this happened I was lucid dreaming and I started flying as fast as I could towards this blue far away.  I asked for this spirit that I talked to a month ago(just to see if he would talk to me again but in a lucid dream instead of astral projection) and I heard a noise that sound like a bush being shaken.  I woke up and I heard the same noise(and I ignored it pretty much) and I realized I had astral sight and I saw this square.  Inside the square was a room somewhere that was rotating 360 degrees.  It was white, with a couch, and a treadmill.  I couldn't make it come closer or really focus in on it.  And after about 10-15 seconds it went away.

And the other day I was meditating and I heard a LOUD gunshot noise(which I ignored again, assuming it was astral noise of some sort) and I(I had astral sight again) saw the same square shape except this time a bedroom with a Canadian flag was in it.

This has happened a few more times in the past couple weeks.  What is going on?

Okay this is going to sound retarded.  But after one of my projections today I walked to my roommates bathroom to look in the mirror and see what I looked like.  My face looked kinda screwed up a little for some reason.  Not like cut or burnt, just like I would have down-syndrome or something.  I was like okay...Well when I looked to out in the hall in front of my door was the exact same thing(me) in front of my door.  It startled me at first but the feeling went away from curiosity.  And it didn't move or anything and it was like a dummy.  What the heck was it?

And I know this doesn't pertain to this but when I pushed him to the side a little I peeked in my room my cat looked like Garfield for some reason!  That was pretty weird too.

So I have been having OBE's for about a month now and I raise energy every day and I was wondering how much energy does it take to use for OBE's?  And does raising energy raise your "maximum storage of energy"?(if that makes sense)

Normally I have been averaging about 1-2 a week but last night I had about 3 or 4 OBE's.  After I come out of an OBE I was still in a deep trance so it was the perfect time to project again.  However it felt like I couldn't quite do it because of energy.  Well today I just kept waking up and either projecting into an OBE or Lucid Dream.

So maybe I just thought that it used a lot of energy so my subconscious would only let me do it once in a while?  Or is it because I raise energy all the time?

Does anyone have success contacting their guide/guardian angel/totem/etc. in lucid dreams?  I attempted this but since it was a lucid dream I have no idea if the guy was real(I am almost positive he wasn't my guide) or just something I created.

I asked for my guide and a few seconds later coming around the corner is a guy in this chariot and we greeted each other.  After talking to him for a minute I told him that I didn't have long because I will be waking up shortly(I didn't know how long I could hold the dream).  So I was like what's your name, how do I know you are really my guide?  And he said "Hold on a minute I gotta take a cigarette break, then I will answer your question."  And I said, "Umm first off that's not a real cigarette this is a lucid dream and...oh forget it, I will wait".  And after a few minutes I was like, "How about now?" Then he started talking with these other people.  Finally after about 3 or 4 minutes and yelling, "clarity now" and "stay in dream" a billion times I finally woke up.

Is there really any way to know if it was some weird spirit or just some guy I made up?

Astral Dynamics gave me a few ideas for conquering this obstacle.  How have you guys made yourself go through doors and walls?  I have done it once and I don't know how I did it.  My last 3 or so projections I get stuck.  I even tried going through windows and ceilings...

Well I started projecting about a month ago and a week or two ago it felt like every time I tried to project I had no energy(even though I raise it every chance I get).  So I tried to imagine a white light coming from heaven purifying myself and forming a white shield around my home and I had a HUGE energy rush and all my energy has returned tenfold.  So I assume some sort of negative energy was around?

Well now every time I come home from work(in the morning when the sun comes up) I see white flashes out of the corner of my eye.  And when I am meditating before I go to bed I see a white silhouette on the side of my bed.  I am not the least bit scared and neither me nor my cat(I am assuming with my cat) feel no negative presence.  A spirit guide maybe?  In one of my last OBE's I met an owl that said he was my spirit guide, maybe that's him?  I ask for communication when I am meditating but either I can't hear or it's not really a spirit.

Well I was remembering what had happened a couple of times a month or 2 ago when I first really got in to meditation and I wondered if anyone knew exactly the cause.  And I don't do it anymore for some reason.

Basically I was meditating when my head started bobbing and my hands started twitching and then my hands raised up and start swirling around on their own.  And it seemed they were making some sort of ball, if that makes sense.

I heard maybe it was a defense mechanism...but for what?  And why don't I do it anymore?

Since meditating and projecting I notice everything that pops up in my mind.  But a lot of times REALLY negative thoughts pop up.  They have no control at all over me and I am disgusted with them but I will them away pretty easy.  Only the positive actions/words are in control though.

To give an analogy: It's like my mind is a room with a control center.  An angel is manning all the controls for everything that I do.  But in that room is a demon caged in the corner.  He can NEVER get out(and he knows this) but he spits every curse he can at times.

Has anyone experienced this at all?  Is it just my conscience?

I searched some posts here but didn't find the info I wanted.

Basically since I have been meditating, raising energy, astral projecting, my senses have improved tremendously.  Well when I woke up about 6 hours into sleeping I heard a soft music playing somewhere.  It sounds like something you'd hear in a old church or movie.  It was a choir of(masculine) voices just singing, "eeeee aaahhh laaaaa ohhh"(not exactly those sounds but you get my point).  I was awake for about a minute or so with my eyes open and then it ended.  It was quite comforting.

Has anyone experienced this?  I would assume it was from either Jesus or a guardian angel...

Since I have been able to project for the past few weeks lately I have been waking up in a deep trance state and my body starts trying to project.  Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.  If it does my mind is not very awake like a normal projection so I don't remember a lot.

Anyway is this normal?

I am trying to determine if I had another OBE or not.  I remember I kept getting vibrations and after about 3 tries I projected out of my room like normal.  Except for a few things.  I wasn't as awake and in control as I normally was.  And it felt like I was holding my cat the whole time.  She does sleep with me all day but it's rare that I am ever holding her.

So yeah I am holding her and I go through my hallway to the living room and through the wall and I go outside and towards the road(It was a little darker than it should have been).  It's like I know where I want to go.  And I go to the street and float up to one of the electric lines and there is an owl.  And I said "You are my spirit guide?"(still holding my cat)  And he said "Yes my name is Ambielu(that's what I wrote down when I woke up.  Maybe it's spelled Ambaloo?)".  And basically since it wasn't a very controlled projection(or unless it was a dream) I started to lose control and don't remember what happened after that.

I asked my Kung Fu teacher but he wasn't sure so I will ask it here.  The last 2 times I meditated(I was at work) and both times afterwords I feel sun burnt on my knees and spine especially.  They are both red and very hot for some reason.  It's not a constant burning or really any pain just it feels like I got a small sunburn on them.  Most of the rest of my body is fine and my normal temperature.  What is causing this?

I popped out my kneecap last year but it is doing it to both knees plus my spine so I don't think it's that...Any help would be appreciated.

Well I had my 4th OBE and now I really don't have much fear at all of projecting.  Going outside in the side in the sun really helped!

First question is, are my hand's supposed to be ethereal looking?  When I went outside I saw my dog and petted her but it felt like I was petting her.  Where as what I have heard is that your hand goes through them.  I can't remember what my hand looked like but it FELT solid.  Can that happen?  

And second question I asked for my spirit guide and a "sprinkler" like stream of water came on then stopped and then nothing happened.  I looked around for a minute and then just went back to my body.  Maybe I was just expecting something and that happened?  I don't know.  Sorry to ask so many questions.  Thanks.

I recently discovered how to see my own aura.  I haven't tried to read anyone/anything else's.  But I have a question.  The first time I saw my aura, which was yesterday, it was a light blue.  Now today it was a light purple.  I thought we had a predominant aura.  Why would it change?  I am hoping it's a good thing.

Both times it was done after meditation.  And I only looked at my hands not my whole body.  I just put a piece of white paper in front of my hands.  I will try to look at my head when I get a chance.  But any help would be appreciated.

Okay who has had an OBE through Lucid dreaming before?  Now if your tired does it ever seem like you get an OBE with a lot of dream like things?  Or are in an OBE and then it just turns into a dream?

Because I am pretty certain I had an OBE it just got really weird.  I asked for my body again, vibrations, grabbing out, etc.  Like I floated out like normal down my hallway and around a little to get the hang of things(it's only like my second or third OBE if in fact it was one) and ran into a wall on accident.  I floated down along side it past the window and saw a mirror(which isn't there) kind of by where my TV is in my living room(except the mirror was resting on the ground).  And I saw my "self" in a ghostly manner.  Only it had my eyes but the face and "hair" was that of a little girl.  It almost looked like a ghostly cabbage patch kid with my eyes.  And then things started getting even more dream like I pulled out a piece of paper and asked who I used to be and I lost it from there...

I think after I floated down past the window everything just went to crap.  I haven't had enough sleep for the past day or so, so it's possible I just went into a dream.

After about 3 or 4 weeks of trying to project I did it!  It was a little scary at first but exciting too.  I only did it for under 10 seconds like Robert Bruce suggested(good advice too because the memory of it is similar to a dream).

Basically I had been getting lucid dreams pretty often now.  And someone here suggested I say "take me to my body now!" and lo and behold I woke up mentally but not physically and the sinking feeling, followed by the wind sound and vibrations(They were pretty mild actually).  Then I could see my astral hands in front of me.  I tried to do the rope technique but that didn't work.  So what I did was reach for the edge of my door that was a little open and pull(that took a little bit of effort).  And then I popped right out.  Gave a quick prayer floated down the hallway and then I don't think I said anything but just thought of my body and started to fly back inside(I didn't see my body) and shouted "I will remember this".

I was half expecting something waiting for me when I popped out. Like a lower astral being or something.  I was ready to tell him off.  But there wasn't one.

So any recommendations on how soon I start exploring, asking for my spirit guide, and all that stuff?  Should my next few projections be ultra short as well?

Hello all.  I had a question about OBE's.  Well I practice Kung Fu and my teacher has had at least one(that he has told me about) successful OBE and warned me to be a little cautious when I do it because something could possess me.  I asked him how he knew and he said HIS master told him and gave him that warning.  And his master could supposedly do all these different things with his Chi and what not.  Which I don't believe my teacher would lie.

However I just finished reading Astral Dynamics and Robert Bruce explains how your body is just as safe as when you are awake.  I told my teacher that and he said he disagreed.  He said it is your soul you project and made an analogy to that of a person in a coma.  So it's not that I don't trust my teacher but I am getting conflicting information(and maybe he is misinformed).

So what is the truth?  I am not afraid of it happening but I just want to know the truth.