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That one is also beatiful, I like the way the colors are mixed.

Thanks. 

I agree with you that there are a lot of talented artists on the forum here.
I enjoy seeing their artwork. 

I've been to a shop to look for a crystal sphere like yours Kurt, but they had only much smaller ones and they cost already 83,- Euro, which is 113,- dollars. Then the larger ones must cost hundreds of dollars?   

Hi Solbreaks, welcome to the forums. I hope your "astral path" will continue and that you will find a lot of helpful roadmarks here on the Astral Pulse. 

Here is another one:

Hello Asheen, very nice to meet you here and welcome. Hope to read about your experiences soon, they sound intriquing. 

Hey Lee, thank you for the compliment! Your photographs are very good. You turned the one with the lightning into an artistic and abstract photo. It looks like art! And your avatar is also beautiful. 

@Rob
These are really beautiful experiences that you had, I wish I had them. However, I sometimes also hear beautiful music in my dreams or while I am waking up. Sometimes a woman singing, or pianomusic or a melody on the Native American flute. I try to remember them very hard, and sometimes I can recall one melody line because I can define the intervals between the notes and I can recognise the rhythm. But it's still difficult, I can never remember the whole song. I never tried to change the music though, might try it.  

Hi Julia, welcome! I look forward to hearing how it all started when you were 5, that's really young! and how your astral travels are now. 

No I've never experienced it, just a heavy feeling in my body. 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11791351/Lucid-Dreaming-Manual-M-Van-de-Keere

You'll find the piece on page 98 till 103.

When you have vibrations during a lucid dream you have a great opportunity to project at that moment. I once meditated in a lucid dream and got vibrations immediately, but they were so intense that I stopped. Now I use the method that is also in this book, changing my perception from lucid dream into an OBE. So if you have the need to lable, lable your
LD's as OBE's and there you go!  

Hello! Nice to meet you and welcome. 

I have an electric blanket and it doesn't stop me from projecting. However, I only have it switched on 45 min. before I go to bed and then switch it off when I go to bed because it is then warm enough. But I don't think it will stop you even if you have it on at night. 

This is what M. vander Keere says about it.

Lucid Dreams or Out-of-Body Experiences? : The Endless Debate
Was my lucid dream an out of body experience? Or was my out of body experience really a lucid dream?This is an endless debate that continually rears its head in many lucid dreaming circles. By definition, an out of body experience is an experience in which you leave your physical body and are able to maintainfull consciousness. While lacking a physical body you usually do possess some form of "out-of-body"body whether it is termed an astral body, your double, or your dreaming body. In some cases you can even exist as a single point of awareness, but even when your perspective is coming from one localized focal point, you are still operating without your physical body. According to this loose definition, a lucid dream would fit into the category of an out of body experience because you have projected your awareness out of your physical body and into a conscious dream. However, even though lucid dreams fit into this category by definition that does not necessarily mean that out of body experiences are lucid dreams. It gets a little more complicated than just heaping the two experiences together because they have several subjective differences.I have experienced both lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences and believe that they are separate but related phenomenon. It is all a matter of how you choose to view it, much like the "observer effect". Ibelieve that the determining characteristic is how you perceive the experience at the time that it is occurring. For example, if you become lucid in a dream, you would be thinking, "Wow, I am in a lucid dream!". When you find yourself in the full-blown vibrational state associated with sleep paralysis and then you feel yourself lifting out of yourself, it's safe to conclude that you will be thinking, "WOW! I am having an out-of-body experience!". The problem is that all these experiences are not clear cut and some have overlapping qualities. Whenever anyone asks me to determine if their experience was a lucid dream or an //out-of-body experience, I usually respond by asking them how they perceived it at the time.There seems to be endless debate over what was this and what was that. Many people are so thoroughly caught up in the labeling and the semantics that they lose sight of the most important thing, the experience itself. From my experience I have concluded that they are definitely two different experiences, but they are extremely related. I liken the differences as being similar to the differences between salmon and mackerel. They are both fish, but they also possess their own specific qualities. Now if we were to compare beef to fish there would be much more difference but still there would be many similar properties. With this in mind we could view our waking "reality" as the beef and our dreaming"reality" as the fish. The out of body experiences and the lucid dreams are just different versions of the fish. Enough with the food analogy, but hopefully that line of reasoning helps you get a better picture of how our different states of consciousness are related and interwoven, yet each state can exhibit its own subtle nuances that account for the subjective differences.   

I can give you the link of the ebook if you want it.
Hope this helps. 

I can't project from meditation, but two weeks after I started meditating every day I had my first OBE. And they kept coming since then. Don't know if that was a coincidence, it may help anyway. 

Hello Shadowsong. Welcome, hope you will feel at home here on the Astral Pulse. 

Most of the times I wake myself up to write the dream down, (pen and paper are next to my pillow) but sometimes I don't feel like turning on the light and I write a few words down in the dark. When I wake up the next morning I remember the whole dream when I see these words.
Sometimes I have too many dreams and then I only write down the ones that are very clear or have a clear message in them.
But I always write down a lucid dream or OBE right after I wake up from them.

Just put everything you may need close to you, so you don't have to get up. And have a small extra light to turn on so your eyes don't have to get used to a bright lamp. Then decide if the dream is worth writing down or recording. 

Hi Ixidor, nice to meet you and welcome. 

So, one of my major fears is that if I leave my body,  I will not be able to return to it. In other words, I might die. To others harboring the same fear, I recommend the following article.

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/wellness/wellness/view/20100216-253394/Is-it-possible-for-one--to-die-during-astral-travel

Realisation, have you read the above, including the link?
Be positive and go for it. 

All people project when they die...   

I also think AstralDynamics is a very good book, but Out of body experiences by Robert Peterson is a very pleasant book to read. For me especially because English is not my first language, and I had no difficulties in understanding the book. Here is a link so you can browse it or start reading it. 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6868466/RobertPetersonOutofBodyExperiences

Hey, congrats on your 1000! You're a 5-star man now. 

Hey! Welcome, and I look forward to reading about your spiritual journey. 

Hi Ryan, welcome! 

Thanks. I don't remember thinking strange thoughts or hearing sentences, but I saw a whole group staring at me, twice. Before you started mentioning them in your posts.

Hi Synchronicity. A decade? That's long!
Welcome to the forums from me too!