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I had this exact same thought a few years ago without any research. I was just thinking, one day, that the world was infinite, in a way. Because a circle is infinite. Meaning, it had no end. Then, I put the concept together with my theory of space being infinite. And the only way I really see something as being 'infinite' in a linear way is if it just goes in a straight line forever. Hmm. To me, this seemed less likely because it's hard to imagine something going on forever in a straight line. So, I went "What if this universe is a sphere inside of another universe?"

And the process could go on and on. We could all be little bubbles inside of larger universes which are bubbles inside of even larger ones. I bet we are a speck, on another speck, on another speck, on another speck.

Once, I stayed up for two days and two nights straight (45-48 hours or so, give or take.) when I was laying down to go sleep on the end of that second night, I just couldn't fall asleep! I ended up staying up for another few hours or so until finally falling asleep. I basically became so tired that the tiredness went away... if that makes sense. I felt like my body started functioning in auto pilot mode, which took up less energy. Mentally, I was not there 100%, but I was capable of my usual daily tasks, and it stopped being exhausting, and just started being automatic. Of course, I was feeling very loopy and in a state of delirium at this point. It was kinda fun. 

Oh yes, he has a high I.Q. and he teaches me many things, including the thing about light sleeping and dreaming.

However, he just leaves it there whereas I will dig deeper to find a deeper spiritual meaning.

See, he has called actual astral projection and OBE baloney.  It's just light sleep or hypnogogic trance.

And in a way, he could be right, from a physical standpoint. I just always take in the possibility of that X factor; the unknown.

On a side note:

I HAD THE BEST DREAM EVER LAST NIGHT. 

I have this repetitive dream where I go into a thrift store and shuffle through a bunch of random junk. The funny thing is, it has new junk every time, in my dreams.

I actually remember dreaming and saying "I have this dream so many times! Good thing I'm actually awake and in an actual thrift shop!" Tehehe.

How easily the mind can be fooled. Apparently, for some, shuffling through worthless junk is heavenly and is a great place to just escape. The sad bit is that I remember grabbing three gorgeous outfits, purchasing them at the register, and now they're gone because they were never mine in the first place!

I always wanted to just turn into a mermaid on the astral and breathe underwater. But instead, when I see dark astral water, I just go "No thanks" and reject the whole scenario. Hahaha. I'm such a chicken.

-Lionheart

I have considered this, yet. I know I cannot change or undo anything and I just reached a point where I became tired of pointing a finger at myself. What was there to gain? I screwed up so many times. But so what? So what? And so, I asked myself this simple question, and realized that I was making it a bigger deal than it had to be. I so long for true forgiveness. I so long to just be able to say "Yes, I've made a huge mess of a part of my life. But that's okay, because it will teach me."

I think I'm close to getting there. It's a good feeling when you're getting close.

-Voyager

I just re-read your post and wanted to comment on something.

When I was in grade four, I was in class one day, and I was staring at a book titled 'Nobody Listens To Andrew' and I thought "Remember this moment years down the line. Remember this moment in time, you were in grade four, staring at this book."

And I always have remembered that moment.

Maybe there are certain moments we just aren't meant to forget. Something may make them special. Maybe it's our job to figure out what makes a moment truly special at its core.

Also, I too am able to tell who certain people are through voices. You just have a really special gift with your memory. These memories are likely stored, in a certain way, and there's a way to access them. You can access them. Hoorah.

A few years ago, I gained the ability to AP out of my lucid dreams. I would have the same dreams repetitively to a point where I began waking up in these dreams because my mind immediately would go like "Ah, it's the Titanic dream again...."

At this point, I would astral project out of the lucid dream by staring out of a window/door in the dream and staying absolutely still. I would then direct all of my energy into flying out of the window/door in my dream.

This would always follow up with a falling sensation, and a sensation of zooming at high speeds into NPR, and having a whole HD 360 view and the whole enchilada.

When I'd AP out of a lucid Titanic dream, I'd use that method of staring into a window/door and I'd end up just projecting back into the Titanic except it would be more life-like. I am terrified of the ocean in real life and as much as I love the Titanic, I just never stick around because thinking of all those people going into that water really saddens me. Even if I find myself above astral water, I freak out. I had a dream I was on a jet ski in the middle of the ocean at night and I became lucid and flipped the heck out, screaming "Ahhhhhhhhhh, the ocean!"

I absolutely cannot tolerate being anywhere near the water, not even astrally. Can't do it. If I project to the Titanic or go lucid in a Titanic dream, I usually stick to the inside where I see the architecture before the destruction. In my regular and lucid dreams, I've seen the chaos and destruction, and the screaming, but the times I've been there briefly in full astral consciousness, I just couldn't stick around to see all that water. I have issues with water in this incarnation.

Had too many nightmares where a skyscraper sized tidal wave kills me.   They should never have let me watch Deep Impact as a kid.

Wouldn't it be cool if you met someone in the astral and got their email address? That would be the ultimate proof for non-believers if it turned out to be legit.

No no, I meant a lot of times, I will see the Titanic more in chaos than in positivity. That's how I see her, most times - in panic mode. When astral and around a scary or 'negative' situation, I become empathetic to the fear/negativity in the air. Same as when I'm around positive things. When I see the Titanic in particular, a sense of doom lingers around her in the astral. At least when I visit.

I'm sorry, isn't fear a negative energy? I said nothing about negative entities.

I like visiting the Titanic when it's full of raw fear and full of screaming people and sinking. That's just down right sad and scary for me to see, though. It's the way things went down that night, but it was sad. I'm surely not the only one who feels sensitive to happiness/sadness in astral. That's what I meant by negative energies - your own inability to cope with seeing something sad/scary can manifest in extreme mental trauma. At least for me. So I pull away.

I keep getting pulled astrally and in dreams to the Titanic.

Titanic has been a major theme in my life. The movie came out in 1997. In 1993, we moved to America. We were dirt poor and had no money and no t.v. Around 1995, my dad asked us which Imax movie we wanted to see (our first time ever going to an Imax showing): Antarctica, Titanic, Ancient Egypt, or something on space. I remember yelling out "Titanic!" He looked at me all weird and asked if I even knew what the Titanic was. I just kept exclaiming that I wanted to see it.

It was a documentary about the ship. I was fascinated by it. A few years later, the movie came out and an amazing game came out called Titanic Adventure Out Of Time on Windows 95. Hah. I was glued to all things Titanic.

I started having Titanic dreams. I've probably had a hundred by now. Then, when I would go astral, I would sometimes go straight to the Titanic because it just keeps pulling me in. Plus, I have a two foot model of it in my bedroom.

I typically don't linger because it's a scary place to find yourself when sensitive to negative energies like you're prone to in the astral.

When I see someone do something weird, I smile, and I forget about it eventually.

Here's a secret: Everyone is too busy being self absorbed with themselves to pay too much mind to you. And, those who do spent their time obsessing over someone's mistake or holding it against them, are simply bullies.

Either way, you could have been out there singing Jesus Loves Me at the top of your lungs for anyone cared. This is your planet, too, and you have the right to do ANYTHING on it so long as you're not hurting others. 

Funny you mentioned songs.  Last night, I was merely walking around in my dream, singing Somewhere from West Side Story on repeat. 

Try relaxing and letting go of expectations. Fall into the abyss without trying to force yourself in there.

I find that I enjoy being OBE and LD so much that I sometimes go about acting like I completely detest the physical and like I just want to get back into OBE and I want to do it NOWWW!!!

Once I step back and realize that my reasons (though they seemed pure), are selfish, in part, I find it easier to relax and let go enough to gain what I set out to gain.

Karma eats me up inside because of my memory, sometimes. I remember doing many bad or wrong things. In full clarity, no less. It's hard to remember some things. It's also hard remembering how others have hurt you, in such clarity. It's easy to let things eat you up if you can't forget some things. People will always doubt how you know what you know, or remember what you remember, but at least you remember it. And the great thing about that is that you'll always remember the good and beautiful things about life.  Yes, along with the bad, but you need to just learn how to shut some emotional faucets off. The memory will be there. The trick is, if it's bad, you need to shut off the emotional connection to it. Don't feed it.

Based off of what some of you guys are saying, it's safe to say that this very dimension could be a mass-consciousness experiment in which we ALL participated when we incarnated. However, we would work much more harmoniously if we all focused on being one piece of a big jigsaw puzzle rather than scattering and trying to stray from the big picture. This could explain chaos in the world - it is influenced by the collective chaos in the mass consciousness. Now, you can apply this concept to creating astral constructs. The mass consciousness is one huge melting pot. That means I am a piece of its puzzle, and so are you, and so is everyone on Earth. If we all sat around and meditated on several key things, I do believe major progress could be manifested in this realm. Something as amazing as creating an astral island? Sure, why not. The more you implant an idea into the mass consciousness, the better chance it has of manifesting.

I, personally, keep having dreams where I go back to high school and am thrust into a scenario with many busy souls who seem flustered and agitated. Usually, every teacher or clerk at the school will be harsh and very strict. When I become lucid in these dreams, I stop to examine the busy people around me. I realize they're all high school drop outs, like me. They never finished high school so they kept returning to the high school scenario over and over (like I did). I never had high school dreams until I dropped out of high school due to health issues and personal problems. I've had this underlying theory that all of us high school dropouts formed a little group in the mass consciousness where we'd subliminally construct the high school environment in very dramatic and stressful constructs so that we could resolve the karmic issues and whatnot.

Thus, like I said, I truly believe that API could be constructed if enough people focused on it. In fact, I betcha that if someone made a documentary on API and put it on youtube to spread the word beyond the forum and other places, API may become more energetically stable. Just a thought, though. My two cents on mass consciousness and astral constructs.

Oh man, I can completely relate. I always feel like we're all just a melting pot of conflicting inner personalities which add up to the whole (us). I mean, this explains why some people go from being rainbows and lolli pops one moment to wanting to drown puppies the next. When a sub personality is able to be domineering over the rest, that probably manifests itself as bi polar disorder or borderline personality disorder. But I agree, some personalities are stubborn and will not comply with the wiser ones that easily. It's like how a child sometimes completely disregards an adult's opinion. They simply do not care. The goal of life very well could be to keep all of these little personalities in check and have them all in zen and harmony. 

I can't remember everything since birth but I do remember my own birth (I've spoken of it on here, as well) and I remember things as early from 1991. I was born in 1990. I remember many conversations and situations back from when I was 1-3 years old. I guess we are just better with accessing our stored memories. In theory, we are super machines - each and every one of us. Some people are just 'gifted', so to say. You got blessed with a good memory. It may be a karmic reward or an ability you've learned over the course of lifetimes.

Also, as for the lucid dream part... I've phased before for roughly 1 minute before, too. Don't get scared. I know why most people get scared. It isn't just all about fearing bad entities; people get scared because NPR feels so bizarre, at first. For me, it just felt bizarrely weird and 'real'. I remember wondering if it was air that I was breathing. *recalling a scene from the Matrix movie*

I once closed my eyes to rest them for a second and found myself standing in my driveway, with full clarity, and a 360* view. I walked around for a bit, spun around, and I ended up getting overly excited and did nothing interesting but walk around, and exclaim how excited I was.  I woke up to find hardly any time went by since I first closed my eyes.

As for the going into someone's dream part... yes and maybe.

Think of your dream and other people's dreams as being realms with a thin wall of glass between them. Influencing something doesn't mean taking away the fact that it's also being influenced by itself, as well. My boyfriend and I dream about each other A LOT. Do we ever wake up and have 100% similar experiences to each other in the dream world? No, but sometimes, eerily enough, certain aspects will match up but our own influences are what made the dream its own. In other words, I've definitely felt certain people tap into my dreams, before, and leave an essence, but I've never had a 100% scenario match up with someone except for twice, and both times were with my mother. My mother and I are spooky and will literally visit each other in the dream world all the time, and twice, we remembered the dreams the next morning and both recalled the same stories.

Welcome to the astral pulse! We're very friendly and welcoming, here.

I sometimes will sit and have a talk with myself when on the influence of cannabis.  Hahaha. Sounds so loopy.

I will speak to myself in a dual sort of way. One part of me will be the wise, rational one, and the other will be the ego. We will sit and have a back and forth conversation for a while. Usually, the wiser part of me will play the role of the psychologist and the ego will be the patient. This is usually when I work on clearing my karma. The ego part of me is more inclined to comply with the spirit when under the influence of cannabis. I will sit there and tell the ego that it has to change certain things, and learn to let go of fears, and of doubt, but the ego will always argue and plead its case.

Basically, sometimes when I smoke, my head becomes filled with the chattering of my sub-personalities. They just talk and talk and talk.

Normally, though, I never hear voices. Plus, these aren't really voices, they're more like... my own thoughts, and my own words, just being spontaneously thought without much of my own effort. If that makes sense. When I smoke, sometimes, I feel like my thoughts aren't even my own. I'll feel wiser and like Buddha -- like my thoughts are MINE but coming from a part of myself that is more enlightened.

I have 24/7 ringing in my ears, too. The more my spirit has seemed to evolve, the louder they have become. When I started to become lucid or go into SP, that's when they began. Now that I project and am lucid all the time, the vibrating in my head has increased. In fact, even giving my energy or thought into talking about the noises in my head makes them grow louder. As I typed this, it grew louder for a moment.

If I smoke any cannabis or reach a deeper state of meditation, this noise will get louder. I'm convinced it has something to do with the nonphysical noises of energies. Sometimes, I completely tune it out and pay no mind to it at all. Thinking about it definitely elevates it, though. But yeah, I go lucid all the time and OBE sometimes or find myself in SP. I wonder if us hearing this noise means we may be tapping in to something.

Oh, yes, it IS sometimes good creatively. I meant, for me personally, it's sometimes not good creatively when trying to meditate or go lucid in OBE. I'll feel like my mind will just go blank when entering deeper forms of meditation during cannabis use. In order for me to phase, I need to be able to see things in clarity. It relaxes me too much, maybe. And when we sleep, a deep dreamless sleep usually means too many delta waves, and that is exactly what I get after taking a nap after smoking cannabis. No visuals, nothing, nada. But this is only when sleeping or trying to meditate. While awake, I will definitely feel the creative influences from it, for sure. I've composed entire songs on cannabis because melodies would just spontaneously start playing in my head and wouldn't shut up until I turned them into music.  

@Bedeekin

My boyfriend and I mirror in our spiritual beliefs. I try to find a metaphysical explanation for everything. He, on the other hand, will seek out a 'logical' explanation for everything before he will entertain the notion. He believes lucid dreams are merely the result of being in a light sleep. Usually, if he ever becomes more aware during a dream, he will get pulled away and will wake up immediately. Thus, he has come to the conclusion that when a dream is really vivid and life-like, we are already really close to physical awakening so that's why that happens. He just doesn't search for a deeper meaning behind some things.  I've told him about my projections. They went over his head. I told him about my sleep paralysis, too, and I don't think he understands that too much, either... 

@ChopstickFox

False awakenings make sense. I guess I'm having lucid false awakenings about sleep paralysis, then. This has just started and is a new thing. I'll wake up in a false awakening and may still be dreaming, but will still battle against the sleep paralysis and will feel as confined as I do when I wake up with legit SP. Like I said, my dreams are just being taken to a whole new level. I was never one to jump on the ascension bandwagon, but now, I'm starting to think that spiritual evolution is happening right now, for many people.

I'll notice that if I smoke any, I just won't have any dreams that night, especially if I had some shortly before falling asleep. I have a theory that cannabis may initiate the production of deep delta waves in our brain. Delta waves are the waves that quiet down brain activity, including the creative aspects. For creativity, you want theta waves and some alpha waves. Gamma are for really high, concentrated tasks. If we produce theta during sleep, we will have dreams. If we produce delta, we will be in too deep a sleep to dream. It's just a theory but considering the facts, it does make sense (in my head), of course, I'm not expert on brain waves.  I've found though, that listening to a theta/alpha binaural beat or isochronic tone right before bed will counteract this. I also find that if I take some melatonin before sleep, my dreams/meditations will be more vivid and will counteract the imagination stunting effects of cannabis. I've been taking melatonin on and off for about three years and I do notice a difference when I do take it. I've read it helps stimulate the pineal gland so I tried it out a few years ago. I got good results.

I'd love to see an alien in OBE but I haven't, yet. Call me crazy but part of me has always wondered if I was a starseed of some kind. I've always felt alien, for sure. I'd love to make new alien pals, for sure.

What's this I keep hearing though about negative alien entities? Should one just ignore them on the astral?

Well, I guess most of us are just black sheep.

Obviously, if you can feel it, touch it, smell it, and taste it, it is by all means real.

If we live in our minds anyways, and can only go by what is tangible, then that's real, as well.

Most people's opinion of what is 'real' only extend out to the material. I know people who claim to have very vivid dreams. My boyfriend claims to have very vivid dreams, like HD movies. I asked him if he has ever become lucid or tried. He told me no. He said he merely goes along with the simulation and hardly ever questions it. I asked him if he'd ever try being lucid and gain awareness, and he said "I don't believe in that stuff" as simple as that.

So, it doesn't matter how vivid or life-like something appears. What matters is how much you're willing to examine it or accept it.

Something weird has been going on with me. Either my waking reality is becoming more dream-like or my dreams are becoming more life- like! Yes, yes, I know that 'life-like' is such an obscure term. What I mean is, my dreams have been doing a great job in mimicking the material plane, senses included, it seems...

Basically, I've been waking up with what feels like sleep paralysis except I will not be in my room, or even in this dimension sometimes (it seems), and I'll still be dreaming. Ie, I'll be in a dream scenario. Either that or I get mad wild hallucinations during SP.

The also crazy thing is: it doesn't even always have to be paralysis. Lately, I've been able to hang around the dream scene after I break my paralysis, which, makes me wonder if I'm even as awake as I think I am. Like I said, I'm not claiming this is 'real'.

I basically woke up, I tried to get up, and found myself paralyzed. My room looked a bit different than it does now but it contained a lot of my things mixed with things I didn't buy along with a different arrangement pattern of the furniture. Odd. The paralysis wore off (with much effort) and I became very weak. I got up, walked around, and realized it wasn't my room (despite the fact that it felt physical), and I found myself being whooshed back to my room, into my body.

Then, more recently, I woke up feeling very weak (not paralyzed but I felt like I was 1000 pounds and expanded) and I wasn't even in my room. I was in a dream scene, somewhere I've never been before. I kept fighting for strength and it kept draining me of energy. I realized what was happening and projected out of there and found myself back in my room and in my body.

Sometimes, I will wake up in full paralysis and will have the typical hallucinations, but I will break free of my paralysis, and will chill out (I will be mobile but very weak and heavy) with my hallucinations for a few minutes after the paralysis, until everything just goes back to normal. Sometimes, I won't even be in my room.

A few years ago, I had this one episode in particular where I woke up with a momentary sleep paralysis and I wiggled my arm, reached for the remote very weakly (it always feels like I'm really heavy), turned on the t.v., and CNN was talking about how they were about to interview Natalee Holloway who was the victim of being sold into sex slavery. The paralysis broke, and I moved around some. The news cast continued for a minute until the t.v. turned off and the program was no longer anywhere to be found.

The reason I'm not sure if this is a false awakening, astral, or SP is because my dreams are becoming more and more lucid and my energetic body has been doing a great job of tapping into my physical senses. Well, at least, it imitates them really well, leaving me unsure of my reality, at times. Just the other night, I had a dream where I was at a bar, ordering dirty martinis and getting drunk. And you know what? That martini tasted fabulous. It went down nice and cold down my throat and tasted just like a dirty martini. I also started to feel dream drunk. That's a first. Head spinning, vertigo, ordering tasty dirty martinis that I could actually taste, in my dream... it was FABULOUS. With no risk of alcohol poisoning and no hangover. 

I have a feeling I'm already projecting in SP and sometimes spontaneously project upon awakening, to an environment usually similar to that one around me, etc etc. My first reaction is always to try to get up to go about my daily business even if there's a leprechaun dancing around my room. Nothing really bothers me anymore. If it feels physical, I assume it is. Thing is, a lot of times, things will feel physical but I know they are not. This is a new thing for me and I've never had it before. I've been lucid but I've never been having what I described happen until just recently. I sense it's only good, though.

Indeed it has. First, I started receiving telepathic messages through my dreams. I became more and more psychic and started to have dream scenarios that later appeared in life. I've developed spiritual bonds with people, especially via dreaming.

One night, my third eye opened when I was 14 or so. I had a false awakening that turned into a lucid dream, which turned into me waking up in REM with sleep paralysis for the first time ever. I've heard of the phenomena seeing as I was always interested in the metaphysical as a child. Since then, I started getting more and more lucid dreams and false awakenings. There was major third eye stuff going on, it was great. Soon after, I was able to astrally project through my dreams and shed my dream body for my astral body. Soon after, and more recently, I was able to project through deep thought and meditation. My consciousness is forever expanding, constantly, and I feel blessed to have experienced being awake on the astral plane, yes.  *chokes up*