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Let's face it, most people who ask these questions want to do pervey things. 

Yes, you can "do whatever you want"...

What you should be asking yourself is this:  SHOULD you do whatever you want?

I don't think you should worry so much about the "underlying" meaning of the experience and just enjoy the experience.

*HOWEVER*, with that said... what you see, do and experience while projecting (or even just dreaming) is a direct reflection you hold of yourself at your *BEING* level of consciousness.  Or more precisely, how you *WANT* yourself to be.

Done!   

I'd suggest agreeing to disagree and move on.  I'd hate to see someone get hurt here due to what is essentially an opinion/belief/perspective.
Subject matter of this thread aside, there's some good discussion going on.  Let's try to keep that discourse going on that level. 

Let's try to remember that we're all friends on the same side.

OK I think you get what I'm saying now. Perhaps you now see our talks about psychedelics in the past in a different light. 

Nope. 

Jesus or Christ is a very "charged" subject in our world today. He was a real human with a real life 2000 or so years ago. There is physical, non-biblical evidence of this, so people arguing against his existence are simply ignorant. However, personally I would not suggest the Bible as way to learn about who Jesus was.

I've love to read some if you have any to share, because as far as I've seen... there isn't and he isn't.

How would you define preach? Because I don't see anything inherently egotistical about teaching a topic passionately or public speaking.

Preach... like a priest preaching...

Like what I do here!   
I wouldn't listen to me either.

Kinda sounds like someone needs to learn to "allow everything to be as it is". 

Listen to video 1/3 here:  http://www.unlimitedboundaries.ca/2012/02/19/adyashanti-true-meditation-series/

This video was my first introduction to Adyashanti and ever since that day about 6 years ago I've been soaking every word he's said.

LOL perhaps I should define it further. Which is head in this sense would mean that all thoughts of astral projection or dreams would have originated causes in this physical world or ones own mind, and not in some other place outside the scientific understanding. Meaning if a thought can't be measured with a physical instrument then it never happened and never happened outside of ones head where it can't be measured. Now of course I know that thoughts can originate outside of the head, but of course we are talking about my brother here.

Annnnnnnnnd you lost it.    hehe

Yeah I'm glad to hear that you listen out opposing views Xanth, and I do understand that nobody wants to feel like they're having someone else's truth being shoved down their throat. But I don't really get it when people talk about ego like this. One persons truth could be another persons ego is it not? Christians could say that astral projectors are satisfying their ego desire to play God by taking control of spiritual matters that only God should be in control of. So what makes it ego and what makes it truth? Doesn't ego run to the very core of who we are? If we are in samsara then we have ego don't we? I actually just researched this as I was a bit confused, and as it turns out it's hard to define ego. Because it's a huge collection of beliefs that are grounded in "I" and "me." Ego can change and even be contradictory and I doubt that non-ego can be inherently grounded in objective truth. That is why enlightened people didn't discover science many moons ago. What I took away from it is that it's best to talk in terms like personal belief/truth. And in this case talk about being sensitive to others emotions and feelings because triggering them could backfire. But yeah I do get that nobody wants to feel like they're being force-feed someone else's truth.

Ego is when they're "preaching" perspective.
Truth is when they're "discussing" perspective.

It's actually EXTREMELY easy to tell the difference.

Woof! 

We can play the game of semantics here but it's blows down to how do you define head. By head do we mean mind, or the physical brain, subjective reality, or however one defines it. By head here I mean fully 100 percent subjective experience, all in the mind and brain, like a dream that has no connection to spirit or anything outside of ones own subjective thoughts.

I see the traces of beginning to understand in your words, Plasma. 

There was a few times I felt like I was an incarnation of a very important biblical figure like King David from the bible. Now I realize there is no way to really know for sure right now. So I embrace my unique time here and now in this life. Life is too short to be fantasizing about stuff like that. I'd as well be fantasizing that I was once Cleopatra. LOL

I always felt I was a god.

Funny when I found out... I WAS! 

I'll listen to any opposing view as long as it's presented in such a way that isn't trying to force-feed it to me.
Anything logical deserves attention.  But if you're telling me something to satiate your own ego, then no.  That's just wasting MY time.

Xanth - Maybe were supposed to feel like that all the time but the rigours of physical existence drills it out of us until we are just another sheep. I think I would have made a good Cleo😉

ACTUALLY... the rigours of physical existence doesn't do that to you.  YOU do that to you.
YOU choose to be a sheep, because it's easier than treading your own path through life.

Everyone wants to be the Lion, until it comes time to do Lion-things. 

I wish I had the patience to pratice meditation a lot lol. hopefully once Im out of college I'll have more time.

I wish I had more time to meditate.
Patience is a skill everyone should learn.
Sadly, it usually starts with your parents.

I wouldn't say it drives me crazy and the feeling went away as I got older. Is that really true about Cleo or are you teasing?

And it will go away as you grow older and more experienced.

And yes... and no. 
Cleopatra is probably one of the more dominant ideas fraud psychics use as a past life on people asking.
It's quite sad actually.

Although, in a sense, everyone HAS been Cleopatra.    LoL

All perfectly normal experiences. 
You're becoming aware of more of consciousness.

Only one person in my whole family thinks astral projection is all in your head. Everyone else thinks it's probably real but they aren't interested in it really though either.

But it is *all in your head*.
That doesn't make it less real.

This physical reality is also all in your head.

Everyone wants to be someone special. 
That desire drives a lot of crazy people.

Did you know that most people on the planet were Cleopatra in a past life? 

@Xanth well definately not my soul,but other that it isnt too bad I'll do it.

Then I'm sorry, I can't help.   

There are so many authors, and forum gurus, that claim to "first handedly know the truth", and there are almost no two "truths" alike. That's why I often ask people where do their convictions come from. Most of those questioned feel rubbed the wrong way, challenged, even indignant, but I honestly want to make an evaluation of how much weight should I assign to their statements, and also investigate if there is something I can directly apply myself in my quest for knowledge and evolvement (I don't trust the fish they sell, I want to learn to fish!). When I learn about another author, one of the first signs that puts me off is learning that they published a ton of books, and hold workshops, sooo they make money of this! With the advent of the Internet we were blessed with an enormous exposure of information, but we were also burdened with it.

I know that these things are real from my own experience with OBEs at first, synchronicities, and more recently autohypnosis. How to churn all the claims? Somebody makes several sententious statements. Should I give them a second thought? Somebody mentions an author that claims to know "how things really are". I google his name. Most his youtube interviews are one hour plus; he published several books on marketable subjects; he holds workshops; he looks and talks nicely, but how trustworthy is he? At the moment, I'd say: not much.

Well, here's the thing... *NO* two personal truths are the same.  And if you want my honest opinion, you shouldn't be giving ANY weight to anything anyone really says.
Although, that also doesn't mean you just blow off their knowledge and experience entirely.  Just put it off to the side for the time being.

But on the topic of money... everyone has to make a living to exist in this reality somehow, so don't let that be your defining factor of if you "believe" someone or not. 

Always work towards having your own experiences.  Having your own experiences is the ONLY way for you to move past the "belief" part of projection... because then you no longer have to believe!  You get to KNOW!

What are you willing to give up?

Another thing, guys please be friendly with each others, this thread started as a little question and ended up in a clash of ego's.

That sort of thing happens a lot in communities of this subject matter...

Wow, what a complete waste of time.  I feel sorry for you for wasting so much of your life on something so meaningless...

... I'm also locking this thread as it's only going to give people the wrong idea about Projection.  Not to mention do nothing but spread more misinformation and fear.