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Hello!  It's been several years since I have posted on this forum.  I went through a period of depression , and I eventually stopped trying to AP, as my experiences are usually pretty negative during those times, and it was affecting my mental health negatively and vice versa.  Now that I am in better shape mentally, I've started working on AP again.  I am able to phase and have the sensation of leaving my body.  I've always done this quite naturally since I was very young. However, the only thing that ever happens is that I feel like I am on a speeding rollercoaster, either falling fast or shooting straight into the air.  I see nothing at all during this time.  If I stay there, that is all that happens, like a never-ending wormhole, and it's not very pleasant lol.  If I'm patient, nothing else happens.  If I try to change it, I am either back in my body, or I have a sensation of a negative being with me, and I "wake" myself as fast as I can.  Any ideas why?  I missed this place. 

Friday night, a friend of my niece (8th graders) and another girl decided together to take their own lives.  My heart is aching, but I am especially asking for healing for my niece and for these girl's families.  Thank you

I have done a lot of self-healing in astral and have had good results, but I am wondering if many have experienced healing another? 

In one of my recent projections, I found myself in this large city.  There were neon lights lit up everywhere, cars parked along the sides of the streets.  However, there were no people/signs of life other than this.  I found myself just flying through it down streets and alleys.  Would this be considered a belief system area?  If so, why would it be abandoned? 

Angie

I have talked in the past about trying to better control my experience, and I see many others talking about the same thing.  I spent months trying to control my experience.  I would try and force myself to go to someplace in my mind, and I would usually end up either going where I had not expected to go, or end up right back in body.  It was very frustrating.  I decided a couple of months ago to just set what my intention was at the beginning of meditation and then not worry about it during the experience and let it take me wherever I needed to be.  It worked!  I have had so many more experiences and much better quality experiences since doing that.  I don't usually end up where I 'expect' to go, but I do get what I need, and the experiences are much more fulfilling.  Just a thought for those like me with control issues

The other day during a projection into a black void area, I felt an energy sensation in the area of the root chakra.  This has happened to me many times before, and I usually just find it incredibly distracting.  This time, I decided to focus on it and to focus on each of the other main chakra areas.  I got each of them spinning but had a difficult time with the solar plexus area and heart.  I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar to this during AP?  I had never tried something like this before, and it was a very interesting sensation to say the least!

This has never happened to me before.   I found myself going up for a very long time.  When I stopped, there was this bright green grid-looking thing above me, like a net with big spaces in between.  Other than that, it was black around me.  Anyone ever encounter something like this? 

Angie

I realize not everyone here believes it is possible to meet other entities in astral.  I believe it is a possibility, as I seem to come into contact with two different things.  If I feel like there is another being with me, I ask it to show itself (they always appear 'human' to me so far).  Sometimes if I look deeper at them, they change and appear warped (like looking at a funhouse mirror), and this signals to me that they are parts of my own subconscious.  Sometimes when I search deeper, they do not change.  I am wondering if there are other ways to tell. 

Angie

This is reference to one of my latest projections here  http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_projection_experiences/back_in_the_game_finallyenergy_sensations_during_ap-t33277.0.html

Basically, I had all of the interesting energy sensations touching different parts of my body, but when I felt it was touching my back, I felt like I was being shoved in the kidney area and felt actual pain.  I was not afraid and was not expecting pain.  Even while it was happening, I just thought 'Huh, that hurts,' and I was able to continue the projection for a little while longer.  Touch was the only sense that was available to me at the time.  Anyone have any thoughts/questions on this?

I'd like any input on my last few experiences.  For the last several months, if I am able to AP at all, I go in 'blind.'  That is, I can't 'see' where I am.  I can still hear and feel.  Touch (feels like vibrational energy) has been my main sense.  I used to try to force myself to see, but if I tried too hard, I would end up back in body, so now I just try to go with the flow...lol.  I don't believe I am only in a 'gray or black' zone, as I feel there is much more going on around me, but I am not sure on this.

After a couple of months of not being able to project much (and usually only for a couple of minutes if that), I have had an active week.  I had been having trouble making that leap from feeling like I am going to separate to actually being able to do it, and so I tried asking for help these last couple times.  At that point, I feel what I call 'guide' energy pull me out.  This has worked for me in the past too.  I feel an immediate sensation of being taken somewhere.  I have trouble deciphering when I am 'seeing' a product of my mind or if I am seeing an actual separate entity, but usually if it is something separate, I feel a kind of energy from them.  This guide energy is like that, only that I usually feel that energy coming from behind me.

These past couple of times, though, I have been feeling very intense energy touching specific parts of my body, most of the time in the abdominal area.  It is actually a very pleasant feeling, and I usually come out of it with a feeling of increased wellbeing.  Today, I laid down to nap this afternoon, as that is usually the best time to project.  I kept leaving and coming back, about 6 times.  The last couple of times, I felt the guide energy with me, and I had these intense sensations of energy being directed in different places like before.  However, there was an area on my back (right where the kidney is) that I felt it the strongest for a while.  This time, I actually felt 'pain'.  It felt as if someone were to make a fist and push hard on your kidney.  I'm guessing the pain sensation was a construct of my mind because of where the energy sensation was directed...I don't know.  I was never afraid during any of this.  I always felt safe and okay. 

Just wondering if anyone has ever had something like this happen. 

I have had about a 3-week dry spell, and I just knew something was going to happen last night.

So, I was lying in bed and relaxing and focusing.  I asked a guide of mine to draw near, and he did, and I chatted with him for a while (I did most of the chatting lol).  I felt that energy with me for quite some time.  Then, I was in a state where I felt that I could be able to AP when the energy changed.  It was suddenly at the back of my neck and felt like it was pushing very hard, plus felt a kind of burning sensation.  I asked for that to stop, and the energy returned to feeling like this guide for a moment and then went right back to my neck.  I felt myself as if leaving my body, but I must have lost my focus, because I was immediately in a dream where I kept trying to stretch out my neck and felt like I was stuck, and then I woke.

The rest of my night was spent in and out of lucid dreams.  There was a weird one where I was with a woman who I 'knew' in the dream, and I felt she was trying to keep me prisoner in her house.  I took her backpack and sat on a chair that could fly (lol) and took off, trying to get away from her.  When I was flying around in the chair, I became lucid and let the chair go (I still had the backpack) and flew around for a while until I lost the lucidity and went back into the dream where this woman was looking for me.  I, again, found a chair and decided that I would take off for a friend's house.  I took out my gps (because I didn't know where he lived) and discovered it didn't work up in the air.  I became lucid at that point and dumped the chair and decided I hadn't seen this friend in a long time anyway and if I 'think' my way there, that is better than a gps...lol.  However, the phone woke me up before I got there.   

Anyway, the deal with the neck thing has been bugging me.

Angie

During one of my projections recently, I floated through this vast white room filled with gigantic clear glass/crystal geometric shapes.  I was intrigued, but, try as I might I couldn't stay.  I just kept floating right by it all...lol.  Anyway, it was very interesting, as I've never seen anything like it on my journeys.

This was a really brief AP of mine from the other morning.  I'm not sure why I find it so funny.  I felt as if I was being 'pulled' out of my body by someone (I get this often but don't know why).  I felt as if there was a being with me, so I asked who she was, and she said "Lana."  I asked her to take me where there were other people.  We went to an area that kind of reminds me of a fun house...things looked distorted, like those weird mirrors they have in at carnivals.  I was conversing with "Lana," and we were floating over this man who looked up at me and yelled "G@# Dam$%#, you're being to loud!" And that was it...lol

Angie

Just a bit of background...many years ago, an older man took advantage of my intoxicated state, and this is something I have carried with me all of these years.  About a year after that happened, I started having these experiences where I would lie down to take a nap.  I would feel myself being '
lifted up', and then I would feel like I was being raped.  This happened many times, and it was a horrible, horrible experience.  I didn't know what was happening back then, and I shut everything down.

About a year or so ago, my guide, Ben, made himself known to me.  I sense Ben's energy and know it well even during my waking hours, but I will also feel him when I AP.  I have been working on the 'fear' I have from projecting, and have come a long way.  I have also been doing some work on letting that man/incident from the past be put to rest.  Last night, before I went to sleep, I thought to myself "I wonder what would happen if I had that experience (the feeling of being raped) but 'interpreted' it differently." 

This morning, I had the opportunity to sleep in.  I got up and let the dog out and went back to bed.  As I laid down and relaxed, I felt Ben's energy with me.  I felt I was in a different state of consciousness.  I realized I could make my exit at that point.  I went to a dark peaceful area for a moment.  Then I felt as if I gone into a different area.  I felt Ben's energy with me.  Then, I felt as if someone was touching me (physically).  It felt good, but I became a little worried.  I asked Ben if he was of the 'light' (something I started doing a while back), and I felt this big energy surge.  I asked him a second time and got an even bigger energy surge and felt very reassuring.  BUT, I had to ask a third time (lol), and I got this overwhelming energy that could knock your socks off, and I felt very secure and loved.  Then I had what I can only interpret as a sexual experience.  I felt it physically, but there was something more to it, like a merging.  I don't know.

I feel like I have healed because of this experience in some profound way.  I don't think that my guide would go with me to astral to take advantage of me, LOL, but I am wondering what just happened?  I can't wrap my brain around this yet, but I do really feel my guide was with me.  Did the physical feelings come from me?  I would ask more questions, but I don't even know what to ask

This is new over the last month or so.  It used to be that when I AP'd, I would see everything in the realm I was in very clearly.  Lately, though, I've had to try/force 'seeing.'  I will see either gray or black, and when I try to 'see' something, I might get a quick glimpse, but it will be very hard to stay focused, and I will return to gray/black.  If I try too hard, I just wake up out of it, as I think I am probably physically trying to open my physical eyes.  It is sometimes very frustrating.  Any ideas?  Hope that made some sense

Angie

I am used to astral projection.  When I project, I don't see my own body. 

Today, though, I tried to take a nap and felt myself rise up.  I opened my 'eyes' and thought "oh, I'm just still back in my bed."  But then I started rising, and it looked like my body was coming with me.  I was lying on my back and could see my legs and feet stretched out before me.  I then started going around the house (I usually don't stick around the house for very long).  It was almost impossible to move my body, and I felt like if I did it would end the experience.  I had to fight to keep my "eyes" open.  It took all my concentration.  Is this different that astral projecting?  It just seemed so different.

Angie

Hello!  Last night, as I was resting, I felt myself begin to project.  I then felt a guide-like energy with me, but it was not one I felt before.  She felt very loving, and I spent a short while with her.  Then, she turned to me and stated very emphatically "I want you to do what YOU want to do."  Then, she bit my arm!  It was painful, and she held on after I asked her to please stop.  I called to one of my other guides to send her away, but she was still there.  I then called to the angels, and I felt her energy fade a bit before I came back.

Can anyone make anything out of this experience? 

I just wanted to stop in and say hi!  I have had astral experiences my whole life but just recently began to understand them better and started traveling 'on purpose' in the last several months.  My experiences have now become even too 'out there' for some of my more open-minded friends...lol.