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Regardless of how one feels about the validity of psychic attacks, I don't think anyone will deny that being around negative people can influence our own thoughts end emotions in a negative manner.

"Attack" indicates a conscious decision so it only makes sense to me that if an a-hole wants to make you feel bad, then it will work if the "target" is open to the possibility. We all know how easy it is tick someone off intentionally. We're just not comfortable with the idea that someone can do it from a great distance away.

I'm not sure how I feel about all this but I believe in a lot of things that many believe to be fairy tales. I've noticed that since I consider myself to be open minded, I've actually used this trait to be dismissive of other things.

"I believe in such and such so if there was any truth to this, I would surely be able to recognize it."

WRONG!

Welcome Blue Fox. I love foxes, both the literal canine mammalian and the figurative human kind.

It sounds like you had quite an experience. A disembodied head is spooky, no matter how you look at it.

Anyways, I agree with Beedeekin (as usual).

You said that you have had quite a few experiences already so I assume you don't need a learn a method in order to project. You just need to learn how to better control your experiences.

It always stands out to me when someone says that they question whether or not that they are crazy because of how real the experiences feel. It's usually just a figure of speech anyways but still, I take notice.

It's completely understandable to have some apprehension when someone first becomes aware of a new reality. New to their awareness, that is.

Unless you already have some preexisting mental health conditions, I wouldn't worry too much about going crazy from these experiences.

Hopefully you will find this site to be as valuable as many of us have. Be sure to read the old threads but always feel free to ask any questions if you want.

And once more, welcome.

CxxK started this thread wanting to hear from other Christians and wasn't trying to start a debate about anything.

I am not a Christian anymore either but if anyone tries to tell CxxK how he is "wrong" about anything, I will just delete those posts. I don't imagine that anyone will though since we're all mature here.

This is his thread and he did not ask for a debate. Another thread can easily be started for that if anyone wishes.

BTW, Hindsight, what you did was very commendable.

What really helped me to become lucid in my dreams was wrighting down all my dreams and doing realty checks. You ask yourself several time throughout the day "am I dreaming" and try to put your fingers through your hand but you have to mean it. Do it when something seems off in reality. In your dreams your fingers will go through your hand that's when you know your dreaming. Or you can wright a letter on your finger and look at it throughout the day. Also a real head start into dream memory is setting up and alarm every hour and wrighting down your dream then go back to sleep. I become lucid every night, usually after I wake up and then sleep again, sometimes create my own dream (WILD teq). If not lucid exptremly vivid. I can hold lucidity for long periods of time, it's all about not becoming too excited. If you feel yourself loosing your dream pick something from the dream an really focus on it, the color, emotion, texture, ext.

I hope this helped!! Happy dreaming!

This really does work so anyone who is interested in gaining progress should take these tips seriously.

The problem with waiting to feel the vibrations means that you are waiting on physical sensations. This means you're still focused on your physical body.

I'm sure you can see why this is a paradox.

Just do some mental rundowns and have no expectations. Rundowns are just short simulations that you imagine. Something like walking on a beach or in a forest. You should try and incorporate all of your senses when you do this.

Do that and the vibrations will come but when they do, try not to get too excited. Just acknowledge them and continue with your rundowns. As soon as you get stuck and can't imagine anything else for a particular situation, just move on to the first thing that pops up.

Good luck. BTW, feeling the vibrations are completely not necessary in order to project.

I can't say for sure if I have since I don't know your real name.

The paper has a lot of images and is in a large font so for those of you that did not want a long read, don't worry. The 60 pages fly by pretty fast.

I did not completely agree with your statement that it is self evident that dreams are organized thoughts. The mental processes we go through while attempting to sleep certainly are but once we "click" out and then become aware that we are dreaming, we can't say for sure what is happening.

Another factor in precognitive dreams is our ability to relate to the subject matter. For example, I had a precog in which I saw this girl and her surroundings very clearly. I even remembered her voice but she had something big on her head that I just could not make out.

No matter how hard I tried to recall what was on her head, I just couldn't. When the event played out in real time, it finally made sense to me why I was never able to "see" what was on her head. That's because as it turned out, it was the last thing in the world that I would thought of. It was a panda bear.

Obviously, I know what a panda looks like but I never would have thought of it being a hat. Thus, I couldn't process it correctly. Since I was able to understand everything else that I was "seeing", I remembered the dream. If everything else had been as foreign to me as the concept of a panda bear being a hat, I might have completely dismissed it.

After reading your paper, it made me wonder how many dreams are actually precognitive but don't turn out as so because too many variables were influenced and caused a change to occur.

Very good read. thanks for sharing.

This group is suggesting that this surge is responsible for the NDE. Dr. Alexander had zero brain function for about a week according to the monitors and his Doctors.

No one knows when the NDE occurs but if you believe the person who had the experience, they can sometimes relate the events going on around them at the time. Most don't stick around the hospital though when there is a whole universe to explore.

It's just not possible to explain our philosophy of life on every post so it is possible to come away with the idea that most people here just don't trust science. You would, of course, be wrong if you did.

If you are relaxing with the intent to AP, it will eventually stop "catching" you unaware. Are you having a series of FA's wherein you check to see if you have projected but then determine that you are still awake?

I think you will most likely overcome this little change sooner than later. It happens to all of us and that's why it is always good to develop more than one method.

For a second there I confused Radin with Randi and thought you lost your mind...when it was I who lost mine.

The above post is in it's original form. I meant to reply but hit the modify button instead. Sorry.

People have spontaneous OOBE so you can't dismiss the off chance of a meet up but it's hard for experienced projectors to meet up intentionally so don't go making any plans just yet.


I shouldn't say that. Of course you should experiment and push the boundaries within ethical limits (don't try and force someone "out" against their wishes) but don't bet the house on it.

You should read (or about) Anthony Peake's theories, YAD knows them well *waves* of course, it's a theory amongst many others-
Basically part of his theory is that the surge brings you to a state of no-time.  And an explosion takes 'some' time.  But of course it's just a theory.  Or hypothesis.

I guess if everything that has been, is now, and will be can all exist in a single moment, then an explosion has nothing on it in regards to time.

Thanks for the reference. I will read into his theory.

Was this the first time you meditated? If not, was this the first time you experienced this extreme pressure? Did the pressure stop when you stopped meditating?

I have never experienced any sort of pressure in my head while meditating. Nothing that I would compare to a truck sitting on top of my head anyway.

Maybe you should try meditating in a different position and see if that helps.

Just realizing the issue and wanting to change already places you in elite company. This is just one of those random and made-up percentages but I'd guess that 90% of the people alive today are content with believing they can't find the answers to some of life's "hardest" questions.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying I have the answers, only that I believe some can be found.

This means working on fear and ego as you are starting to see.

I bet you didn't think your simple question would get so deep but you never know around here.

Xanth has answered your question fully. You can revisit that experience and feel every emotion as it occurred. It will probably take a lot of work to get there and re-experience the event as it happened. I'm sure you have already had many,many dreams that morphed it in one way or another.

And as Szaxx said, once you have become accustomed to AP, you will most likely lose the part of you that wants to relive that night so badly.  While I certainly understand your fondness of that night, real life usually works in the opposite direction for most people. It gets better with time and experience.

It seems as if you are holding that experience as the gold standard by which all other experiences must measure up to. Is it possible that you still have strong feelings for this girl and the sex isn't what really matters?

Anything else may need to be addressed by a therapist. I'm just being direct, not harsh.

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CFT has brought up a very good point. Just because science thinks they can explain something, they think this automatically removes the spirituality or "God" factor out of the life equation. To me, science should be defined as the study of "God's" work.

If this so called "surge" is indeed true, however, I don't agree that it serves as the mechanism for the life review. The unfortunate people who have found them selves to close to an explosion that vaporizes them in a single instance, for example, would probably not have the time for this "surge". Unless I have underestimated the amount of time needed for this to occur.

However, this stems more from the theory that our brain serves as a veil from the NPR and as a regulator for the physical body. This is why I believe that hallucinogens and people with Alzheimer are actually dealing with two realities simultaneously that are objectively real. Only the people that are on hallucinogens, sometimes have the benefit of knowing that their experience is not objectively "real" and can thus cope while under the effects.

"[But] we should be extremely cautious before drawing any conclusions about human near-death experiences: it is one thing to measure brain activity in rats during cardiac arrest, and quite another to relate that to human experience."

*DDDDDDUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Dr. Eben Alexander's NDE by itself totally negates any feasibility from this study if there was even a scrap of it to begin with IMO.

I do thank you for the article as it is showing how desperate science is trying to dispel this phenomenon.

Welcome to the forum.

There are many stickies at the top of each sub forum that give a ton of techniques. I think you should consider giving the a read.

I look forward to hearing about your future success stories.

Good look and keep exploring.

What's happening?

We have no idea about your situation so you will have to give us a lot more than that.

Try to relax.

Non physical realm? And I don't think I was wanking it lol. I was actually asleep, how could I be?

Reality but realm will work as well.

As for the rest, I couldn't help myself..

Welcome back.

I asked her twice why do I have astral projections and she never really answered. Kind of bummed me out. If anyone has a reason why this is please let me know.

Are you ready for another "static jolt"?.......because you have become aware of the NPR.

It also seemed like that she didn't really know to much about astral projection.

If she is the real deal than she is definitely aware of astral projection. Heck, even all of the fakes are so I don't what else to say about that one.

Would like to hear your thoughts on this one.......
After that I woke up, and my hand felt really, really funky.

I think you are most likely self realizing a desire and manifesting it non-physically. To be blunt and hopefully not offensive to any ladies, you're just wanking it.  

1) The only golden rule is that you have been awake all day when you take the nap and that you are tired. Book reading is great for pre-nap exercise because it tires the eyes and it's easy to nod off.

I would also add that while we are reading, we are exercising our NP muscles as we imagine the scenarios and context.

I am an avid reader and reading before bedtime has been a habit of mine since I was a wee lad. I did not start having OOBE until I was 19 but I succeeded rather quickly in comparison to some. Coincidence?

Yeah, probably.                                                  

edit: Just be aware of nodding off. Beedeekin is referring to the pre-nap and I am speaking of the pre-phase. So please don't let my advice confuse you.

I watched a doc about dolphins a while back. I wish that I could remember the exact one so I could reference it but I can't, sorry.

Anyhow, it talked about a pair of dolphins that were raised in captivity their entire life. They had never been separated for more than a day or two.

One of the dolphins became ill and died suddenly. I'm not sure why.

The remaining dolphin began to show signs of distress and was obviously depressed. It stopped eating regularly and did not want to interact with other dolphins that it was allowed to play with from time to time.

In its depression, the dolphin committed suicide. What?!?

Researchers concluded that this was indeed the truth. Remember that unlike us, marine mammals have to make a very conscious decision to breathe. It ate a final meal. Swam around in vigor for a few hours than came up for one last gulp of air. It then went to the bottom and never came back up.

Assuming I gave an accurate interpretation of the facts, does this sound like suicide?

Homeopathy is the biggie that stands out to me. Science can easily verify a lot of its validity if their wasn't financial money telling them not to (Phizer, Wyeth). To put this in the same debunked category as sheep growing from a tree is an obvious attempt to discredit something that works for millions of people and has been an effective ploy for many other things.

I don't care what science says, I know the sky is blue because smurfs like to dance in the clouds. The sun reflects off of them and..... You're all intelligent, I'm sure you know the rest.

Wow.. it reads like the index page on Erowid.com.

I thought I was reading the River Phoenix toxicology report.

First, stop all that stuff and admit to yourself that you weren't using because you couldn't AP.

Even if you were successful under the influence of most of that stuff you would never remember it anyway.

Next, tell us what techniques you have tried or are currently trying. We can work from that.

You are at at a good age to learn how to AP and I believe it will help you put a lot of that stuff behind you.