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Hi folks, this is a follow-up to this thread.

I attempted Astral Projection again today. I, again, started off by meditating for about 20 minutes, until I felt that I was in a deep enough state of consciousness to do Astral Projection.
Then I tried becoming aware of my astral body again, and after that, "looking through it's eyes". I could see the environment around me, but it was dark and blurred. Then, I moved to above my physical body and could see it sitting. Went back in a few times and out again. Then I flew around a bit, first in the room I was in and then further around the house - then outside the house and to places I like in the physical world. My vision was getting better and the experience slightly more real. I still felt my physical body, like I described in the thread before this. However, the more I stayed focused on my astral body, the less I felt my physical body - it basically felt numb. I could still move it, and for example, if I got an itch then I had to scratch it. But it was quite numb.
All the while, I was wondering whether this was truly projection or just simply visualising the places I know from my memory. So here is a question of confirmation again.

Next, I wanted to try to fully get out of my body and experience Astral Projection like i'm really there - where I can see, feel, hear, and smell everything like in the real world. So first I tried swaying my astral body around left and right. It caused a slight change. Then I remembered a technique I read about in a book that was linked somewhere on this site: the Rope technique. I started doing that technique, and I felt myself being "pulled out" - slightly at first, but more intense as I climbed up. I also began seeing quite a lot of white. So, the more I climbed up, the more intense it got and eventually it got so intense that I got scared and dropped myself down..
So I think I was close to that kind of projection, but I was scared once I got close so I didn't continue. I think it has to do with my fear of Sleep Paralysis. Beedekin explained to me that his method of Astral Projection used Sleep Paralysis as the gateway to the Non-Physical Reality, so I thought that basically every method of Astral Projection had a stage of Sleep Paralysis you would go through before projecting. That was an assumption, and I wonder - was I right or wrong about that?
I had a Sleep Paralysis experience back when I was a child and it was absolutely terrifying. Especially the not being able to control your breathing. Can one stop breathing in Sleep Paralysis? Do you stop breathing when you try to consciously breathe in Sleep Paralysis, and fight for it to happen?

Well, that was my story again and my questions. Thanks for taking the time to answer these, folks

Hello =). I'm myyst.

I'm very interested in Astral Projection and want to learn more about it. I signed up here because I had a few questions about an attempt at Astral Projection that I did, which I posted in a seperate thread: (this one)

I had gotten close to Astral Projection (or at least I think I did.. did I?) a while back, while meditating.. During the meditation, eventually, I saw myself flying into the sky at a very high speed and felt myself becoming floaty - but I stopped myself.
And in some meditations before it, usually at some point my astral body had the tendency to start leaving my physical body and I had to stop it.
The reason I stopped myself during this period is because I still had a few worries about Astral Projection.

But the worries are gone now.

So, today, I tried Astral Projection consciously.
I was in the shower, sitting down - I started with a meditation to shift into a state better suited for projection. Eventually I focused my attention on the astral body and tried to become aware of it. I tried seeing my environment with my eyes closed, which worked pretty well and I could look around. I moved around the house a bit and tried to view things. While this happened, though, I was still very much aware of my physical body - yet I felt like I was out of my body, at least partly. I felt my body less than usual, it felt somewhat numb. Was I projecting or not? Is it only truly Astral Projection once you are completely unaware of your physical body?

So, not satisfied and thinking that I was not truly projecting, I started trying to push my astral body out, by force. Which was extremely unpleasant, got me a pretty bad headache, got to the point of me feeling like I was tumbling over backwards, and felt basically like I was damaging myself. But I did feel my astral body shifting a bit. So what happened there?

Now, somewhere inbetween these steps - I don't know exactly where - I started seeing white flashes (which happens to me often while in meditation or a trance, I think they're an indication of going into a deeper brain wave state - can anyone confirm this?). But at a certain point, whenever I would move my PHYSICAL body, I would see such a white flash. It felt like I was interrupting the projection, but it was very easy to shift back into the projection state. Simply by focussing on my astral body and not moving my physical body.