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I'm gonna try to tackle my fears tonight. The fear i felt last night was so pure and immense, yet maybe because it was in it's purest form, no monster or deathly claw or disturbing being, whoever is guiding me knows that I can conquer the very concept of fear at this point but it'll take me a lot of trial. I've read on many people's fear tests and most seem to take form of specific trials. But to confront an essence...A powerful lesson indeed. Perhaps besides letting go, I'm being told that my fears are making me run away from the challenges I should be facing and that I shouldn't run when i'm alone cause I'll do the same when I'm trying to care for someone else....

I don't know if I will have an OBE for another few years or another few minutes.But I've developed a resolve to change and get past this. I can't simply wish away my obstacless like i so easily do in the physical world. It's time to be Brave I think...
Experience is the greatest teacher.

Thanks guys in advance.Will try to keep yall posted as I hope you all shall in sharing your wisdom and experience as well. It gives me hope

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Hey everyone, it's me.Been a long time since I've been here since I had given up on astral projection and focused on other things that preoccupied my life for a while...I...didn't think this would ever happen again but...let me explain.

I went to sleep around 2 am after typing an essay...Suddenly I awoke. My room lay before me exactly as it is in the real world and everything was tinted a perfect blood red. A bizarre, completely devouring terror clutched me as I stared at my room. I had never felt this scared before ever I think. For some reason, every facet of my being was screaming that I had to leave.Escape.Don't know why, don't know what happened before but it just clutched me, an uncontrollable fear.I quickly whipped out of my bed, my soul going back into my body and the world snapping into normal night colors. In a matter of seconds I rushed toward my ceiling light and switched it on. Yellow filled the room and I felt a bit better yet my hard was beating like a hammer and I couldn't stop shaking. I couldn't go to sleep for 2 hours after that, traumatized of falling asleep again.

I can't say why I had that sudden fear but I'm sure I astral projected because when I last did so when I was 12, things were the exact same cept my vision was blue and misty and I was only confused. Something paralyzed me back then and I was scared but eventually that left and I wasn't too shaken up. This one was absolutely terryfying beyond comprehension.

Now to be fair my mind is pretty twisted from various forms of media combined with a very powerful imagination that I've had all my life. That's actually one of the reasons why I'm so scared to obe ever. I know I'd draw malicious and frightening constructs or spirits to me. I'm not as spiritual as I used to be so I feel very on my own in the astral. Even though it seems I always project to the RTZ straight from my body sitting up. I just feel lost and scared and i wish i had a guide but it seems they're no where to be found. Sometimes I wish i could be rid of my sporadic ability to astral project, other times I wish I were brave enough to master it. I'm just so...confused.

A college student with spirits, gpa's and dreams of rock life on his mind. How weird can ya get?

Anyway, I wanted to come to you all cause I know you all have better experience than I with such matters. Could it have been a spirit? Or just my mind going insane? Or maybe even a higher frequency being that made me feel terror. Please gimme your thoughts and also reccomend how I can fix myself...I just want my exploration free.

Much thanks,
Peter.

PS: I remember a strange figment of what might've been a dream before I projected? I saw the half moon up above outside my window as I stood and stared at it. The moon was slowly eclipsed by sheer, darkness and the only thing I could think was..."something horrible is coming." ...Told you I was messed up in the imagination.

I've been researching astral projection for maybe 6 months now and to be completely honest, astral projection progress has unfortunately been sparse. I eventually decided to take a month break to keep my head off astral projection for a while.While I took my break though, I decided to keep a dream journal.It was amazing what I was missing out on!The dreams I was having were so intricate, so creative, so breathtaking that I began to love going to sleep.I would have a small amount of lucidity in these dreams but otherwise I'd just go along with it. (Basically I knew I was dreaming but I didn't try to question it). Then, as soon as I woke up I'd write everything I remembered down...There would only be a little I'd remember at first, but then suddenly the experiences would rush back to my brain in giant chunks.About 1 to 4 dream chunks I'd say.They'd be filled with lush, detailed landscapes, unique strangers, and amazing events.Grand cities filled with indian spires and dark mountains on the horizon.And I would be there, experiencing it all. It was better than any movie I'd ever seen. I guess I should probably get to the actual point of all this.

Should I try to induce astral projection through dreams or from a waking state?

I tried tactile methods but those didn't work very well.Phasing I had luck with when it came to visualizing, but I couldn't hold my focus long enough.Lucid dreaming seems to be the most promising route for me at this point.Thoughts?

(Oh and sorry about the whole first paragraph.I guess I just got excited about recalling the feelings I felt)

Wow this stuff is amazing!You're right xanth it does make a lot of sense!But I think phasing appeals most to us dreamers.Those people who used to drift off in class completely absorbed in a mental world or the kids that played make believe where everything was just so REAL.It's strange though, how easy it sounds now that it's been explained in such a different way.I kind of expected something more complicated though.And when you phase and shift the surroundings around you, can you still choose to wander in your astral body rather than just rotate your location?

Hm so I guess it's just a permanent side effect of learning how to OBE. And nope, I don't do it on purpose.It just...happens sometimes.

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Whenever it's night time or even during the afternoon, I notice that if im sitting upright my conscience always has this weird melting feeling.Like I could pop out any second.Now naturally i don't get carried with the tide cause I'm still having my day so I snap back into reality and i feel glued back into my body again.It's really weird but has anyone had this happen to them?Cause for me it happens about every night!I having been trying to have OBE's very much lately might i've been using lots of lucid dream techniques (Mental imagery and saying the key words of my dream as soon as i wake up".

So anyone have similar sensations?

PS: The only time i OBE'ed was while i was sitting upright.Maybe that's just my ideal position.

Now I understand it's not really a belief as much as it is concrete knowledge but when speaking of it what do you usually call it?Astralism?Cause everytime someone asks what religion i believe in I am at a lost.I tire of having to explain the whole concept of layers and the soul and dreams and stuff.And I dont wanna say I'm atheist cause i'm not.None of us are really.So what do you call it?Is there a unified name for our philosophy?What do I say when people ask me that same old question?

Seeing as how we're so used to the idea of detaching from the body anyway and also being at peace with physical death. Now of course there is the possibility of a painful demise but besides that, will death simply feel like phasing or drifting away into realms already familiar to us?

haha yeah maybe.   

Well I live in California at the edge of a desert although there's been some very damp weather lately.Strangely I can hear both ringings in my ears when I sit up cross legged and meditate which was how I first projected.Im worried though that i'll detach from by body and it'll land on my bed and wake me up or something.Strange but true and yes i can focus but i'd prefer to hear them in both ears so that it can envelop my mind basically.

Oh and side question.Has anyone projected sitting up?Cause that's how I did it the one time I successfully had an OBE and saw that my body was lying on my bed.Also, can anyone help me with the whole 3rd eye concept?

I've always been able to tune in to my "astral frequencies" pretty easily.In fact, when i was a child I used to hear the ringing all the time till i came to hate it.Now though, I can only hear one ear ringing although as long as it's quiet i can tune  in on it well.What I'm wondering is, how do I get the ringing in my other ear back?How does it sound like?What's wrong?

I have this feeling that i f I remedy this issue I'll be able to astral project taking the whole buzzing sound route.

as always, thanks very much in advance.

Well II try designating my body as one color and my head as the other.When I inhale i say "mind awake", I try to imagine the head color getting brighter; then when i say "body asleep" i imagine my designated body color glowing brighter. It was a technique i found on the forums although ill admit I haven't spent as much time on it as I should.

Is this technique effective because I'm very good at visualizing and imagining and tuning in to the ringing I hear.
Is there an easy beginner technique that any of you would suggest, especially for very mentally visual people?

I've only had one OBE experience in my life which was while i was reading before going to sleep (like i used to every night) I have yet to project again because it feels like there's this block.Let me explain:

         I've attempted to project by first relaxing my body and using the mind awake/body asleep technique but that didn't really help me much.I focused on brightening the colors too much so i gave up.Then I thought I could make my astral body disalign with my physical body by trying to recreate the sensations i feel when i dance.So I went from toes to head and I  could feel my soul vibrating out yet suddenly I was hit with a strange sensation of my soul being stuck in a washer, spinning endlessly as I tried to tear away yet I couldn't. I tried to imagine floating up or being pulled yet it felt like my astral body was snagged on the center of my chest and wouldn't break free . I finally gave up and found that I hadn't been breathing very deeply the whole time.

        Can anyone explain why these happened to me and what i should do to get across that final bridge?Should I read till my body falls asleep from exhaustion like I did the first time or is there a better technique out there?Help would be much appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Ah~!One more thing just in case this helps.As I growing There were always many constant instances where my ears would begin to ring. I can focus on it still and will quickly begin to vibrate.Would this help at all?