Hello. I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to my fellow wanderers. My name is Andrew but most of my friends and those on the internet call me Svetty.
This morning I had my first astral projection experience after making attempts for 6 or 7 days. I think I just didn't have the right method, cause I didn't feel drawn to any particular until now. I tried the "my mind is awake, my body's asleep" method the night before, but gave up on it as I simply did not have the energy to put enough effort into it. I had a few semi-lucid dreams that I can't quite remember. I call them semi-lucid because I know I'm dreaming, but I don't seem to have all my "common sense" with me... Or does this count as a "lucid dream"? Most of my dreams become lucid halfway through or atleast shortly before I wake up. Anyways, I'm digressing as per usual...
I woke up from my sleep and decided to try the mind-awake-body-asleep method and found that I was feeling the vibes in no time. I felt that I could move my astral arms away from my physical ones, and tried the rope method. I found myself pulling on nothing. I even tried imagining that I was really heavy and it took much effort to pull myself, and that there were big knots in the rope. This didn't work. I was basicly waving my astral arms in the air above me. I did notice that my third eye seemed to "suck" my arms towards it. I get this feeling in my heart chakra when I do reiki on myself and really get into it. Usually when I'm stoned. Luckily for me I've given up all intoxicants to help myself travel astrally.
ANYWAYS...
I gave up on the rope method and decided to see if I could float out of my body through force of will. It worked. I felt myself float out of my physical body, and I opened my astral eyes. I don't think I was in "real time zone" cause I wasn't in the room I was sleeping in, or anywhere near it from what I could tell. I was near a canal, like the one we have in downtown ottawa, and there was a pile of the kind of dirty snow that's left over in a parking lot after most of the snow melts. We don't currently have snow in ottawa, so either I was not in "real time zone" or I was creating this pile. It was pretty neat, cause there were little buildings in the snow, with parts that were coloured red. It still looked like it was made out of snow, though. I also saw an old friend of my brother's, who I was surprised to see. Atleast this entity looked like the old friend of my brother's. If this was actually him in astral, he was probably asleep, because he was talking jibberish and making "bong hit" motions to me, saying something about how I used to be a pothead. I tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention and said "Look! We're in the astral!" or something of the like, and I was flying around, doing "tricks" in the air. He didn't seem to notice. Then I decided that I wanted to go into space, so I flew up into the sky and all I could see was pure blue sky, no sun. It was impossible to tell if I was moving upwards because I had no reference point, and it didn't "feel" like I was moving that high anyways. I looked down again and saw that I didn't fly very high. Then I was pulled back to my body, for some reason I don't know of.(perhaps the dissapointment from not being able to fly into space?)
After some darkness, I was back in my body lying down facing the unadorned window, but still perceiving through my astral eyes. The corner of the house that used to be there was replaced by what looked like a slightly rusty water tower, and the clouds in the sky were cartoonish line drawings of cow's faces, all wobbling around shroom-like. Neato! Then darkness again. I felt a presence holding my right hand who I'm now assuming was one of my guides. I was a little resistant, as I've heard of dark entities and I was prepared to dismiss it. My intuition told me it was alright, though, and I felt some nice healing vibrations for a few seconds before waking up.
It was a cool experience. Different from what I expected. I thought I'd just end up exploring the house in astral. I wish I could have passed through a wall and felt what it was like. I think I could have if I had opened my eyes earlier in the experience because on previous attempts I would try to open my astral eyes and end up opening my physical ones, bringing my physical body back to a wakeful state.
Thanks for your time.
May your spirits soar,
Svetty
This morning I had my first astral projection experience after making attempts for 6 or 7 days. I think I just didn't have the right method, cause I didn't feel drawn to any particular until now. I tried the "my mind is awake, my body's asleep" method the night before, but gave up on it as I simply did not have the energy to put enough effort into it. I had a few semi-lucid dreams that I can't quite remember. I call them semi-lucid because I know I'm dreaming, but I don't seem to have all my "common sense" with me... Or does this count as a "lucid dream"? Most of my dreams become lucid halfway through or atleast shortly before I wake up. Anyways, I'm digressing as per usual...
I woke up from my sleep and decided to try the mind-awake-body-asleep method and found that I was feeling the vibes in no time. I felt that I could move my astral arms away from my physical ones, and tried the rope method. I found myself pulling on nothing. I even tried imagining that I was really heavy and it took much effort to pull myself, and that there were big knots in the rope. This didn't work. I was basicly waving my astral arms in the air above me. I did notice that my third eye seemed to "suck" my arms towards it. I get this feeling in my heart chakra when I do reiki on myself and really get into it. Usually when I'm stoned. Luckily for me I've given up all intoxicants to help myself travel astrally.
ANYWAYS...
I gave up on the rope method and decided to see if I could float out of my body through force of will. It worked. I felt myself float out of my physical body, and I opened my astral eyes. I don't think I was in "real time zone" cause I wasn't in the room I was sleeping in, or anywhere near it from what I could tell. I was near a canal, like the one we have in downtown ottawa, and there was a pile of the kind of dirty snow that's left over in a parking lot after most of the snow melts. We don't currently have snow in ottawa, so either I was not in "real time zone" or I was creating this pile. It was pretty neat, cause there were little buildings in the snow, with parts that were coloured red. It still looked like it was made out of snow, though. I also saw an old friend of my brother's, who I was surprised to see. Atleast this entity looked like the old friend of my brother's. If this was actually him in astral, he was probably asleep, because he was talking jibberish and making "bong hit" motions to me, saying something about how I used to be a pothead. I tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention and said "Look! We're in the astral!" or something of the like, and I was flying around, doing "tricks" in the air. He didn't seem to notice. Then I decided that I wanted to go into space, so I flew up into the sky and all I could see was pure blue sky, no sun. It was impossible to tell if I was moving upwards because I had no reference point, and it didn't "feel" like I was moving that high anyways. I looked down again and saw that I didn't fly very high. Then I was pulled back to my body, for some reason I don't know of.(perhaps the dissapointment from not being able to fly into space?)
After some darkness, I was back in my body lying down facing the unadorned window, but still perceiving through my astral eyes. The corner of the house that used to be there was replaced by what looked like a slightly rusty water tower, and the clouds in the sky were cartoonish line drawings of cow's faces, all wobbling around shroom-like. Neato! Then darkness again. I felt a presence holding my right hand who I'm now assuming was one of my guides. I was a little resistant, as I've heard of dark entities and I was prepared to dismiss it. My intuition told me it was alright, though, and I felt some nice healing vibrations for a few seconds before waking up.
It was a cool experience. Different from what I expected. I thought I'd just end up exploring the house in astral. I wish I could have passed through a wall and felt what it was like. I think I could have if I had opened my eyes earlier in the experience because on previous attempts I would try to open my astral eyes and end up opening my physical ones, bringing my physical body back to a wakeful state.
Thanks for your time.
May your spirits soar,
Svetty