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Hello all. If any of you are like me, I have often found myself half in and half out of my body not being able to fully project because I'm stuck. Well, last night, my higher self shared this technique with me and it worked wonders so I'd like to pass it on in case it helps others too.

Once your astral arms are out, pull up both your knees to your chest, wrap your arms around your legs and lock your hands, firmly. Then roll over to the side. You are out.

Hi all,

Ive been meaning to ask this for some time now. What things can we do when we become lucid? Is there a way we can do anything meaningful? eg, speak to spirit guides, access past lives, have obes, etc, or get access to information we wouldnt during waking life.

Flying and sticking my hands/head through walls can be fun, but it doesnt seem like a meaningful experience in the sense that i have a feeling i could be getting so much more out of these states of being.

Do you have any suggestions what to do when lucid?

Thanks.

ok i am going to be annoying here and post yet another of those 'was it an obe' threads.

this one is a bit different though, as it happened in a dream within a dream  :confused:  

to make it short and simple, i was dreaming that i went to sleep and so i had another dream within a dream. in this second dream, i realized i was dreaming and i remembered that i wanted to try have an obe next time i have a lucid dream. so i commanded to be in the astral, and i found myself in my bedroom in what i think was my first and original dream, having an obe.

i remember i moved an object on my bedside table to leave as evidence, but when i woke up it obviously was where it always is. - can you even move stuff in the astral, that affects the real world?

i clearly felt the separation from my body, but since it was in a dream within a dream i am a bit confused wether i actually dreamt it or if it really happened.

so what do you think? part of me just thinks if i believe it was one, it was one and if i dont it wasnt. but surely it cant be that simple.. or?

I am doing a design project about environmental issues. In a nutshell, the aim is to take something that is harmful to the environment, and promote a solution to the problem. I would very much appreciate if you could take the time to answer my questions, as this would be part of my primary research.

I've decided to focus on the issue of how we dispose of our dead. The two most popular ways of doing this are burial and cremation. Due to global warming, floods and cataclysms are likely to increase dramatically, which will reduce the amount of land we have to inhabit. Cemeteries take up vast amounts of space, and we will definitely need that space if the weather keeps on going at this rate. Cremation is also a threat to the environment, due to the greenhouse gases (nitrous oxide) that are released when burning the bodies, as well as the harmful gases produced when burning the coffins.

My proposal for solving the problem would be deatomization.

Deatomization would be the process of breaking down atoms to their simplest form, which is (according to superstring theory) pure vibrating energy. By doing this, there would be no bi-products produced that would be harmful to the environment. The possibility even exists, to take this energy and use it as a source for electricity, etc.

The ceremonial aspect of the "funeral" would still be available, and people would be allowed to be present during the process, much like at a cremation. The only difference would be that instead of being buried or cremated, the person would be deatomized. Since people will want to have a place to visit, or have something to remind them of their loved ones, one could "capture" some of the energy released and seal it in a small glass bottle. It would be similar to the idea of keeping the person's ashes, and it would hold sentimental value.

Although the idea of deatomization is possible in theory, I realize that it will take quite a few years until we have the technology and the vast amounts of energy needed to do this. But let's disregard that fact for a moment, and pretend that it is available today.

- Would you use it?

- If not, why not?

- If you are religious, and your religion does not permit cremation, would it allow deatomization?

- If not, why not? I would appreciate if you could try to explain in more detail why your religion would not permit this, and if there would be ways around this.

- Let's say that cremation and burial would be banned, and only deatomization permitted. What problems / consequences can you see arising from this?

- How many years from now do you think we'll have the technology to do this?


Thank you to all who participated, its much appreciated!

i woke up at around 9.30, went to pee, went back to sleep. started doing deep breathing and fell asleep eventually. next thing i remember is lifting my hands up in front of me and i could see them although they were see through plasma like. had the same contours as my real arms and hands though. remember touching my arms to see if i had sensation and i did. tried getting out of my body, dont really remember how, maybe rope method, remember trying to roll out too, not sure about the chronology. but i recall the feeling when i separated, and i thought to myself wow this time its for real. this followed by a few  moments of confusion where i couldnt see properly, it was like when u look cross eyed at things, and i dunno if this was because i couldnt really keep my real eyes open or what, but it was difficult to get orientated, i thought i was somewhere but i was somewhere else (in my room). i didnt see anything at all at times, it was as if my eyes were closed. i felt like i was floating around randomly in the room, and once when i "opened" my eyes i saw my room as if i was up in the top right corner in some odd upsidedown sideways position. im not sure when but i know i went back into my body, remembering that one should keep their first time short. i could feel it when i went back into my body. then i came out again and i decided to try to go through walls or fly, and to see what my roomate was doing to find some evidence, i was kinda excited at this point, but things became more like a dream and i thought i dreamt this part when i woke up, but i went into the bathroom and my friend was taking a shower, and i watched her for a while. it looked like she looked straight at me a few times so i got scared and went back. she had taken a shower the night before so i found it odd that she showered again this morning, so i wrote it off as a dream, but this morning she told me she had indeed taken a shower.. so i dunno what to think, imean it could just be a coincidence. i doubt i heard her though and made it all up cause i slept with earplugs. so what do you think, obe or just a vivid dream?

heres my latest experience. i was meditating focusing on each bodypart for a few seconds then moving on to the next, to get to the mind awake body asleep stage. first i did my right side and it felt more vibrating, and heavier than the left after it.

then when i had done my whole body, it felt as if my hands were floating, they felt cold, as if there was a cool breeze over them. i couldnt feel if my hands were touching the blanket or not, it felt like they were floating in the air. i also felt as if my hands were together on my tummy but in fact they were on the side.

(in the past i got that feeling a lot, i was sitting somewhere and i felt as if my hands were a certain way but when i looked down they werent. was that my astral arms being in that pose?)

then, i felt twisted out of shape, as if i was lying in a twisted semi sideways pose, (upper body) but i wasnt.

i also felt rushes of tingles, a rocking motion, and pinpoint pain,
as if i was pricked with a needle.

when i scanned both sides of my body i felt like a i was shrinking sideways, as if i was being compressed inwards on the sides. felt like my consciousness shifted and compressed into my  head and chest area.

felt a magentic sensation when slightly moving my arms, as if my body was a huge magnet, one side plus, other minus.

so how am i doing? was i even close?

yesterday while i was waiting for my train, i decided to meditate. i was focusing on my breathing and relaxing and  then all of a sudden i heard people walking by in front of me and i could see them through my eyelids. it wasnt clear like day light or anything it was like a black shadow outline of their bodies, but it wasnt like when something passes in front of your eye and everything goes black i could actually see their leg as they stepped so it was pretty detailed. i was surprised to say the least so i decided to test it and put my hand in front of my face and i could see my fingers, like shadows. but then i thought maybe my eyes are jut a bit open and light is going in and thats why i see this, not cause im seeing through my eyelids. but it had never happened to me before, so it was pretty cool either way. any comments on wheter this was it or not?

hi all, heres something ive been wondering about for a while. do bodypiercings in any affect way the energy flow of the chakras? lets say if someone had their bellybutton pierced would this effect the navel chakra? the thought occured to me because its a piece of metal in an energy centre which could bee seen as electric, and maybe putting a piece of metal in it would disupt or change the flow of energy there. anyone have any insight on this? thanks!

i woke up this morning and decided to try to OBE. i relaxed and all that, and eventually i felt like a tingle or a chill, going through parts of my body. it was like a wave, started of light, got to its peak and faded away. it happened several times, sometimes stronger than others, but never too strong. so im just wondering was this those vibrations everyone talks about? it felt more like chills or tingles or my body going numb than vibrations. any ideas, cause i dont know how they are meant to feel.

something strange happened to me last night.. im not sure this is the right place to post it. i was trying to project using the white light method earlier in the evening and it didnt work. i went to bed a bit later and woke up in the middle of the night but was in that half awake, half asleep state so i decided this is the perfect state to try and project. i tried sitting up in my bed and i think i did but then i looked down and i thought, damn its my real body sitting, and then i remember rolling out of bed onto the floor, but i dont see how this would have happened without me hitting my head it the nightstand plus there were loads of pillows on the floor. but then too i looked on the bed and i thought damn, its my real body because i couldnt see myself on the bed. i did see my room though and it looked realistic, i dont know if my eyes were open or closed, things seemed a bit blurred. and then i remember lying in my bed again and suddenly i felt as if someone was walking on me! i could feel steps on my body and i got scared and i tried to scream. it went away after a while and i went to sleep again. does anyone know what this was, if anything? was someone really walking on me and if yes who and why or was i just dreaming it? i do know that i was awake in the beginning, like between sleep and awake.
i appreciate any insights or comments!

hi im new to this, and i need some help. i tried astral projecting using the white light method but i am not very good at visualizing and i just couldnt imagine myself surrounded by white light, and especially not having this light entering my crown chakra. everytime i tried, it was as if something was blocking it and it gave me a headache. also, whenever i breathe deeply, i fall asleep, which is what happened here, i started slipping into dreams and had to catch myself to come back and remember to focus on the white light thing, but it just wasnt working. what am i doing wrong?

edited to add: also, whats the deal with the body having to fall alseep in order to project? i dont see how my body could fall alseep but not my mind because usually my mind drifts off first and then my body, and when i feel my mind drifting off i wake up and so does my body.