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OMG, this guy has no idea what is he talking about. I don't think he can AP at all and has read some info on the subject and made his own interpretations. For example here is a one of his quotes:

"The astral is a lot closer to the physical, and imposes its own limitations: one can only astral travel where the physical body could go. It is not possible, for example, to astral travel to a different planet, although it is possible to do it mentally. The astral plane is bound to time (but is distance free), whereas the mental plane is free from both time and space."

This is a complete BS. I am sorry, I usually don't get frustrated with things like that, but this guy is misleading beginners.

The chances to trigger vibrations just by counting and relaxing are very slim. Also, if you are too awake, it wont happen either. Please use a specific technique that involves focusing your mind away from your physical body, to raise your inner frequencies. Aping would have been a mass phenomenon if it was as easy as being in a very relaxed state. It takes more than that. First, you need to practice a specific technique for some time in order to raise your inner energies to match with the astral ones.
I will give you my technique and you can choose to use it, or to select a different one. I use visualization/motion. Every night before bed I visualize that I am in a tropical island, walking on the beach, feeling the sand, touching sea shells, observing the surroundings, etc. That way you are sending so to speak your inner body away. If you are not good at visualization, you can imagine that you are running very fast. Feel the inner motion. Motion during half awake, half asleep works wonders in triggering vibrations. If I happen to wake up briefly during the nigh, I just stay still and start swaying my inner body, like my bed is a swing. Upon falling asleep the vibrations start. Now, that is another important factor, your brain waves must be diminished to a point of falling asleep. You cant be too awake and project, unless your case is one of the rare ones. So, practice a technique, do this for at least two to three weeks every night and you will start noticing the signs of an upcoming OBE. You may not experience vibrations necessarily. Everyone is different. But you will become aware one way or another and you just have to take control after that.

Please describe what do you do while waiting for the vibrations - thought wise?

What an absolutely wonderful experience! This interests me in trying to awaken people in my obes.

Thanks for sharing

You can experience OBE together with anyone you wish. They may or may not remember the experience though. That depends if they are more or less attuned to within. Some people are so preoccupied with the physical lives that they never think about spiritual matters. they don't pay attention to their dreams, they are very grounded, and so they will not likely perceive in any way such an experience. But you can experiment and see what happens. It also depends on the connection between you and the other person. My sister and I for example are very close and it makes sense that we are connected at all time at some level. Sometimes we even have the same thoughts or feeling while going through our daily lives, even we live in different continents. So, it all depends, but give it a try. It definitely is more fun when you interact with people or different entities.

Very interesting, though, about the time factor. Kinda like a 4th or 5th dimension, eh? Haha.

yes, I posted this experience to point the time misalignment, but that just shows that the astral experiences are not governed by time and space. And even though we have a perception that we here are, just outside of our physical senses there is a whole other invisible (while we are awake) multiverse that we constantly interact with whether we realize it or not. We are actually in it, just cant perceive it while "awake". Like blind people cant perceive objects, but that does not mean they are not around them.

I wonder how you'd react if sis sent the mail earlier, on the day of the experience?
I hope you can do this again,  the emotional side being kept under control must have been difficult.
You managed it very well.

ha ha, I knew she would not have experienced it in synchrony with me, because she was awake at that time. The only way would have been if she 'd experienced dual reality perception. But that is extremely rare. She by the way has a very heightened sixth sense and has precognitive experiences very often. I have told her how to use techniques and she can easily achieve it, but I think she is a little scared and is  not admitting it to me. But she has the same beliefs and knowledge as I do. Just hesitates to practice AP.

About the emotions and control, I no longer have problems staying out long no matter how strong the emotions or excitement gets. And I cant help but get excited every time. It still blows my mind that one is able to do that. It never gets old even after over 10 years of experience. I guess because the adventures and possibilities are endless and the sense of immortality kicks in, also the realization of perfection and true happiness, unlimited joy and fear free. I think that one can never get tired of being in such a state of being.

One question I have though is, in the beginning of your experience you say "During a regular dream where I was at my childhood home with my sister. I realized that I was dreaming and from that point on I took control and it became an OBE."

I should have been more clear. Yes, becoming lucid converted the dream into an OBE. So for the beginners, my dream was taking place in the astral as well, but it was created and lead by my subconsciousness. When we realize that we are dreaming we become lucid and our consciousness takes control and this is what we call an OBE. At least these are the terms established so that we can distinguish certain occurrences. This is one way to project, from a lucid dream. I have them quite often. I use affirmation before falling asleep that remain aware and I have been noticing an increase in lucidity. If anyone wants to practice this technique, it is extremely important to do the affirmations as you are falling asleep, so that it can carry over. In fact all OBE techniques must be practiced while your brain is changing waves stages. If your brain is too awake the chance to project is very slim. That's why we have so many people saying that they lay there for hours and nothing happen. Just a meditation during the day when you physical body and brain are refreshed and recharged will only relax you for a little bit but it will be very hard to fully project. So, make it easy, practice before falling asleep and you will either be awaken buy the vibrations, or become aware in your dreams.

This OBE was an interesting one because of the aftermath, and you will see what I am talking about at the end.

During a regular dream where I was at my childhood home with my sister. I realized that I was dreaming and from that point on I took control and it became an OBE. I told my sister with an exciting tone of voice "We are out of our bodies right now. I'll show you" and then I asked mentally my deceased grandfather to show up. Next moment he is walking through the door of the living room. He was smiling and my sister was looking in shock. Then I called mentally my father who's death my sister suffered greatly. He too walked in the door and at that moment my sister gave a cry and jumped into his arms. After that I told her "Now, we are going to go back in time and experience one of our Christmases when we were kids". I grabbed her hand so we can "teleport" together and I don't loose her and few seconds later we were in the same room, but this time was all decorated for Christmas and on the table there were all kinds of food. The emotions were unbelievable. I cant even start to describe. After that I said to her "Now do you want to fly around, because we can". She hesitated and I sensed that she was a little afraid, so I said "Don't worry, we are going to fly with a car, so you can feel safer". We went outside and infront of our house was parked a blue convertible (I don't know what brand) car. We jumped inside, I gave a command and the car raised into the air. I said to myself "I want to go to a big city at night time". Instantly we are flying over a city with tall sky scrapers with millions of lights. It was breathtaking.

At that time I woke up slightly vibrating from the experience, looked at the clock and realized that my sister was awake at that time on the other side of the globe and probably at work. So, I thought that I was going to wait and see if she will mention anything possible a feeling, a thought, etc related to our AP together. So one day later she sends me an email that she had an amazing dream involving seeing our father and her hugging him. Also she mentioned me and her sitting at a table eating lots of food.

So, the conclusion: Even though she experienced a similar event with me and our father was at a different physical time than my OBE. However, I think both experienced even being apart by physical time indication happened at the same "time" in the astral. Only, because she was awake during my OBE where I made her aware, she experienced it first thing after her physical senses shut down during sleep and she was able to perceive the experience. Does that make sense? At least this is how I interpret it. When I received her email about her dream, I was like, OMG I was waiting for this, and I told her the whole experience. She said she had the same feelings especially because she misses father so much and she felt shocked that she was actually seeing him and hugging him. She said that when she woke up she was laying on her back and she felt slight inner shaking upon awaking. So, I told her that she was OBEing, but because she does not train she could not gain control and perceived it as a very vivid dream. I am still smiling thinking about this experience. Priceless!!!!!

I have experienced APs in numerous occasions with my sister. I will make a separate post about one particular experience from 2 days ago related to this topic and will add the link later in here.
But, yes, everyone's spirits, or parts of their spirits is experiencing the astral as we speak, but this part of ourselves just isn't aware of it because our brains cant translate this information. We become aware of our activities in the astral during our dreams and OBEs. Our awake physical senses are suppressing in a way the access to the other worlds, but again, as we speak, parts of our spirits are existing and interacting with the inner worlds. So, you can have an experience with anyone you can think of, but they may remember glimpses in forms of feelings, thoughts, etc, or they will experience something similar next time they fall asleep and dream, just like it happened with my sister.

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_out_of_body_experiences/obe_with_sister_and_synchronization-t43204.0.html

That is excellent. This guy is exactly like me. I never succeeded from meditative state. I use the early hr technique as well very often. He is right by saying that you have to make a point of remembering and noticing how many times you will wake up briefly at night. All of us do it either to turn on the other side, drink some water or use the bathroom. The problem is that most of us feel so groggy during these few seconds of awakefulness that all we want to do is to pass out back to sleep. But if we make an affirmation before going to bed to become more aware during night wake ups and hold consciousness for a little, then lay still, it will produce a quick SP. I for example as soon as I become aware that I am awake, I turn on my favorite side and start imagining that my bed is swaying. The inner motion gives me instant vibrations. But it is hard to achieve this when your brain is too awake, like in the middle of the day when you are not sleepy or tired and just lay for a meditation session. So, yeah, I strongly encourage everyone to try this technique.

then why aren't there any techniques that can teach people how to reliably navigate the world once they're out there?

The navigation technique is simple, your thoughts are the navigator. That's what everyone is trying to explain that every individual has different thoughts, beliefs, fears, etc that influence their AP experiences, including responses to their commands to go to pint A or point B as we understand it here in this reality. Sometimes your command may work and take you to your desired destination, but sometimes you may end up some place else depending on your current state of mind. If you have limited beliefs, you may not be able to reach higher frequency realms. P Locations are not exactly the same as the actual place here as we know it, because your are observing higher frequency realities that match your own frequency, therefore these locations are duplicates of the physical reality, or completely different realms. As long as we are connected to our physical bodies, we can observe the physical reality 100% only while in our bodies. NDE accounts make me think that when we completely detach, the experiences are a lot clearer, with details about the physical event taking place around your body, etc, so some day we will be able to observe our physical universe, family members, friends, etc in however happens in physical time frame, if you wish to visit. But while we are alive I think we can only observe their astral extensions, which may change as well according to your own thoughts. That does not mean that it is an illusion. Nothing is NOT REAL. Just because it takes time here to manifest your thoughts, doesn't mean that if they manifest instantly in the astral, they are not real. So, bottom line, you cant mix the laws of this dens frequency reality with other that are more thoughts responsive and where time and space are just a matter of focus.

Summary
1. The technique to travel in the astral is by thoughts.
2. Physical laws are not to be applied
3. Everything that is created in the astral is REAL, but the interpretation could be tricky. For example fears can manifest as a monster in front of you, but here is where your spiritual development comes to play to be able to realize what does it mean and what is your lesson to be learned.
4. The closest you can observe a physical location is the Real Time Zone, but that as well can be different that the actual location as you know it.
5. While you are connected to your physical body, your APs are somewhat restricted in terms of clarity, navigation ease, level of frequency, etc
6. You need to experience it for yourself to completely comprehend what are we trying to explain, because as I said the laws of the outer realities cant be written in a form of mathematical formulas.
7. The point of AP is to experience your spirit, observe your beliefs, learn lessons, realize who you truly are and expand your wisdom. Offer help to those who need guidance either on the other side or your fellow men.

It's Astralcody btw! I had a name change.

Oh, it's nice to talk to you again, Astralcody 

When I drive I am usually deep in thought.

You said it yourself, "deep in THOUGHT", not absent of thought. You were not thinking about the driving, but thinking about something else, and that "something" is whatever you choose to think during meditation. The point is to focus on one single goal (line of thoughts) with great intention in order to achieve results.

AWWW, that was just plain sweet there, Lightbeam! 

thanks, Lion! Sometimes I feel like I am the protector and comforter of the universe. If I was a Goddess, that would be my specialty lol

Another that I heard after said "I am lost" perhaps when I am able to successfully phase I will encounter one of these voices face to face.

There is nothing more satisfying to me than helping lost souls. I hope that soon you will get to experience some interactions and light the way for many spirits

I hear random voices from time to time during sleep paralysis. On several occasions I heard my name being yelled. I think this occurs because we transition to a higher frequency and all our inner senses get turned on, so we can hear the thoughts of others that could be connected somehow to us consciously or subconsciously. One of these voices that yelled my name I think was from a spirit that needed help, because after I "separated" I saw a group of people in a foggy type of environment that seemed lost. I posted this story somewhere here, but long story short, I mentally started communicating with them letting them know that they had their own power and all they needed to do was to free their minds of fears. Then they started disappearing one by one, hopefully to a better place.  

I totally agree with my fellow moderators. If you try to completely empty your mind while you are physically awake, you will only torture yourself and maybe achieve few seconds here and there of absolutely no thoughts. But even if you do, you will probably fall asleep, or achieve nothing by doing so. Your thoughts are present at any time, even when we are asleep, they are active in the astral environment and produce the dreams as we know them. In fact they are active at all time and exist in all levels where your spirit exists because they are a part of your very essence. I never try to quiet my mind during meditation, but I try to relax my body and bring my thoughts to a state of a deep pleasant slow motion.
If you want to achieve something like SP, then you can try a relaxation meditation. I for example start thinking that each group of my muscles deeply relax, by focusing my attention on them starting from the tip of my toes and move slowly to the top of my head. By that time you wont even feel your physical body anymore. Then it depends on your goal, you can start some healing concentration, or simply create a pleasant environment and imagine yourself there. I like to imagine that I am laying in a hammock by a beach. I  imagine that I am swaying from side to side, listening to the waves, feeling the sea air on my skin. By doing that you will most likely provoke later when you are actually asleep either vibrations, or LD awareness. So, give it a try. Use your thoughts to experience something pleasant and rejuvenating.

Anyway, I continue the dream for a little bit, but remember reading that I can try to make an exit attempt from a Lucid Dream, so I imagine returning to my body.

That was your mistake. You have to understand that dreams and lucid dreams take place in the astral. The only difference between the above and OBE is the amount of awareness. You don't have to go back to your physical body in order to have an exit. You were already "out". What you did was you got yourself into a sleep paralysis from where you were not able to move due to fears, or not knowing exactly what to do to shift your awareness. So, as soon as you realize in a dream that you are dreaming, think instantly of a place you want to be, or simply start using your thoughts to navigate your experience. You are already in the astral, only during dreams your environment and circumstances are lead by your sub conscious thoughts, beliefs, fears, etc without conscious awareness. Also, if you find yourself in a sleep paralysis, quickly think that you are standing next to your bed, and then take it from there. Don't try to roll over. A physical like movement during shift of awareness is less effective than a thought of teleportation so to speak.

I dont have time to invest in the phasing process, and I suspect that I will not succeed anyway, because I have tried APing through deep meditation for a long time, but all I got was numbness, vision flashes and little things like that but not a full shift of conciseness. I apply the visualization/motion technique for 15 minutes every night while I am falling asleep and then sometime during the night I get awaken by strong vibrations. Often I become aware in my dreams and convert them to OBEs.

Hi! I just registered on this forum! And I think Lightbeam is my teacher...

Welcome, Salander! I am looking forward working with you. We'll have fun 

What do you mean by intensify Thoughts about getting out?  I kinda feel like I'd wake up.  I was just kind of thinking, "keep rolling....keep rolling....almost there I think....."

Strong Intent = Power and Success, not only with APing but with everything you do in your life. If you keep thinking ..Keep rolling....any time now....well, maybe it will work........I don't know if it is going to happen.....it's a little scary, etc. This is not intent. These are little careful steps you are trying out with uncertainty and perhaps fear. Intent is to state clear in your mind " I am free of my physical body. I am standing up". Notice that I am not saying "getting up, or will get up", you need to state a finished action like "I am (already) out", or "I am (already) standing". Your strong belief in your success precedes your actions in a way, which manifests what you want to achieve.

here is a tip: as soon as you realize that you are in SP, don't waste time and quickly think that you are standing next to your bed. DO NOT linger long in the SP state, this will only wake your physical body, create fears, etc. Be a little aggressive with your thoughts of being "out" and apply your greatest intention. KNOW that you consciousness is free of your physical body. It is not glued to it. Many people believe that our spirits are so attached to our physical bodies, that the concept itself creates the exact sensation of pull back, sluggishness, lack of senses and inability to move. Work on changing your perspective about your consciousness and it will get easier.

Hey Destynee,

You can add me as a teacher, but my requirement is 20+ years of age. Everyone who is interested in learning is welcome to join the pulse, read, ask questions and learn. I agree that one on one teaching is better, so I like your idea. I am located in California, but time zone should not really matter. I am not going to try to pull someone out of their body while they are sleeping. Astral projection is not that black and white as some inexperienced people think. I would suggest a little prep work and reading general statistics about OBE to get familiarized. There are some strictly personal experiences that are different for everyone, but there are also many events related to Astral projection that are very similar in occurrence for majority of people and it would be a great homework for the newbies  before we start teaching them actual techniques.

OMG, my very first  SP and vibrational state were with an earthquake like shake. It was about two weeks after I started a visualization technique before bed. It happened during sleep, I had my eyes closed, I could not see anything, but it lasted only few seconds because as soon as got shaken pretty hard, I woke up (in the physical), jumped out of bed, ran out of my room and looked at the big chandelier in the living room to try to figure out how strong the earthquake was. To my surprise the chandelier was not moving al all. Everything looked normal. I was sooo freaked out, but excited at the same time because I suspected that my energies must have started to rise and I was close to experiencing my first OBE. And sure enough after another week or so it happened. This time, I stayed calm during the vibrations and separated as instructed by Mr. Buhlman.
So, even though you said you are not doing any techniques, sometimes it happens spontaneously to though who read on the subject or had tried at some point meditation and techniques. I would suggest you take advantage of your energies being "awaken" so to speak, do some techniques and see if you will experience another conscious OBE.

All of our dreams take place in the astral realms. So, in a way they are indeed OBEs, however only navigated by our subconsciousness. And this is where I differentiate regular dreams from what we call APs. You said that it did not feel to you like waking life, and this is exactly because you did not gain enough awareness in your dream to start navigating consciously, which would feel even more real than the "real" life as you know it. So, your job now, is to raise your inner frequency through meditation and various techniques, so that the moment of realization during dreaming would happen more often. And that is one of the ways to AP, through conversion within lucidity.
By the way, during this episode you described, did you realize at some point that you were dreaming?