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Last week when I found this forum, I began reading up on different techniques to astral project. Before last week, I haven't tried to astral project in a year. The farthest I had ever gotten to was the vibrating. The successful seperatings I've had up until last week have been by accident.

So I read some posts and found that it's said to be easier to project once you first wake up so I told myself that I would try when I woke up the next morning. I went to bed and when I first regained consciousness, I tried astral projecting. It only took a few minutes until I started to seperate from my body. I heard a static-like noise and I was able to open my astral eyes and I realized that my astral head was not in sync with my body. I was lying on my back with my head lying more on it's right, but my astral head had moved out of position and was more on it's left. I could see my room, mostly the ceiling, but also my dresser and my door in my astral eyes' peripheral view. My head "went back in" and I tried moving my astral head again. I did, but I still felt that something wasn't right so I merged back. On the third time I was finally able to seperate and when I did, the noise stopped instantaneously.

I got out of my bed like I normally would. This was different because I've never just gotten up like you normally would after awaking. Before that, I'd fallen through my bed very fast onto the floor and had to crawl out from under my bed, or I've been yanked up, like being pulled up a wind tunnel, etc.

Anyway, I couldn't believe how real everything was. I walked out of my room and into my parents' room. My dad was lying across the bed, perpendicular to the way you're supposed to sleep. I looked out of his window and it was dark outside and it was snowing (which is odd because when I was in my room I could tell that it was daytime). I went downstairs and into the kitchen and said "oh my god" out loud. My voice sounded like it normally does, but it had a slight echo to it.

I went into the dining room and tried to do something that you can't do in your real body. I tried climbing the wall like Spider-Man but I couldn't do it.

I then wondered if I was advanced enough to teleport so I tried teleporting over a friend's house. I said my friend's name out loud and nothing happened. I said it again and then there was this whole warp effect. I don't know if it was like a reality warp or just light speed but I ended up over someone's house who I had never seen before in my life. It was some guy waking up outta bed. My presence woke him up and he started talking to me. He started showing me his piercings but then I couldn't make out anything else he was saying because I guess I started ignoring him because I didn't know who he was and I started backing up away from him and then I woke up.

When I woke up, I immediately went to my dad's room and discovered that he was sleeping in the exact same way that I saw him in while I was projecting.

The very next day, I tried APing again and it worked. My astral form's lower body seperated first, my head was the last thing to disconnect. I got up, amazed that I was actually able to astral project on command two days in a row. I went into my parents' room again and my dad was sleeping (the normal way this time) and I tried to pull the covers off of him to see if I could wake him but he didn't wake up. He was snoring like he usually is. I went to the doorway and figured that I'd begin some astral exercises. I opened my palm and looked at it and said "fire". I was trying to create a ball of fire in my hand. It didn't come in the palm of my hand though. Instead, many flames appeared in my dad's room, on the floor and on the covers. Then the door caught on fire and I said "ice" to put all the flames out. Ice covered all the flames and the door was in cased in ice too. It looked like an ice wall. I melted the ice wall by touching it and willing it to melt. Someone was with me too. I think it was my mom? They were worried that I'd get burned but as I walked to the landing I told them that as long as I was in the astral plane, then nothing could hurt me. I even pressed my hand down on a nail that I saw sticking up as I was going through a window to show them that it didn't hurt. Someone that I work with was looking through my window (not stalkerish though) and I saw that it was so beautiful and bright outside. I wanted to fly and recapture a scenario that I'd had a year or so ago when I flew through and over clouds, staring directly at the sun, in a lucid dream. But all I ended up doing was floating gently down to the ground on the patio in my back yard. From the ground I even tried lifting my arms and even jumping but to no avail and then I woke up. I immediately got up with a smile on my face and went down to the window that I was at on the astral plane and looked out of it and it was beautifully sunny.

I've read that you can ask spiritual guides for help, but I kinda don't want to. I wanna learn how to do things on my own right now.

On my third AP, I was able to see myself in a mirror (which I wanted to do before I projected). I looked like I always do.

So far I've succeeded in creating fire (though not in the way I intended) and ice as well as pick up/touch objects that I planned on touching, but I haven't been able to fly (on my second or third APs) or levitate sitting indian style or walk through solid walls. I tried walking through the kitchen wall on my 3rd OOBE only to hit it like I would a solid wall. I woke up laughing because well, it was funny and I bet I looked real stupid doing it.  

But I'm not gonna stop trying though.

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Hi, my name's Justin and I've been lurking for about a week now. I finally just registered. I'm 23 and a college student. I've always been fascinated with astral travel. The first OOBE that I remember happened when I was about 4 (I have a pretty good memory). I remember getting up out of my bed and leaving my room. My feet weren't touching the floor and my legs weren't moving. It felt like having roller skates on after you build up enough speed and just let them roll you along.

I approached the hallway and went into the bathroom, phased through the wall and gently glided on the air until I reached the back yard of the house next door, then I landed in the grass. It was early morning, about 6 or 7 o'clock during summer. The sky was blue and I remember hearing a gentle, peaceful melody. The grass was really green too. That's all I remember of it though and I'll never forget it.

In my late teens my father finally got a computer and I began surfing the net, often researching things like, astral projection, ESP, magick, etc. I started practicing meditation to learn to clear my mind to achieve better results in my psychic practices, like aura viewing and telekinesis. I learned how to see auras but never got the hang of TK. I soon stopped meditating though because I started feeling other presences besides myself sometimes and I'd be alone. I didn't like feeling like that and hoped that I'd stop feeling those presences and it did stop almost immediately.

About a year ago I began getting interested in ESP again and felt that I was a little stronger to face whatever's "out there". I also wanted to find a way to enhance my precognition because I had had quite a few precognitive dreams that came true (good things), I'd always know when a certain song would come on the radio and said out loud once "this song is on the radio right now" (just to make it feel more real and not so coincidental) and when I turned on the radio it was on. Also I think I had a telepathic experience while I was talking to a friend on the phone. She was talking about this person who I've never met before and I somehow cut her off and started telling her something about what the girl had said. My friend was like "how did you know?" I said "I don't know" and my friend was pretty freaked about it for a minute.  

Anyway, during this time, I was having lucid dreams often and they weren't good ones. They were downright terrifying and I noticed that they usually happened if I slept on my back, which I rarely do but I guess somewhere in the middle of the night or early morning I'd end up on my back. This went on for a good year and finally subsided last year. The last really bad lucid dream I had, ended up being a "two-for-one", which means I had two lucid dreams in just one night, where both times my body was paralyzed and something would be in my room with me. First it was a "Were-Man" like creature that stood on two legs that slowly rose from the side of my bed, and darted for me which caused my body to jerk and I fully awoke. I went to sleep again and had another lucid dream. This time there were zombies outside my room. It was dark and my mom ended up opening my door and said "Justin, do I look any different to you?" and she turned on my light and she was a zombie. Then all the zombies came rushing in my room and grabbed me by my neck and my body jerked me awake again. That was a bad night.

Since then, I haven't had any lucid dreams as bad. The night I found this site last week, I was actually able to astral project on command. I read that the easiest time to do it was when you first wake up and I was able to do it on my first try. I was able to do it again the next night too but with slightly better results. I'll save it for the astral experience thread or something. I've rambled on long enough.