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Thanks for the link personalreality. I agree with you about Freud.  I used to read a lot of Freud's work and some Jung as well when I was a teenager just out of personal interest. However I am now 43 and in my second year of school. Our textbook covered a small section on Freud but focused more on the sexual stages. Only a brief paragraph mentioned Jung in reference to archetypes and the collective "unconscious". The author blatently stated in the back of the text that psychic abilities simply do not exist. My professor agrees with Maslow and believes all people have an innate desire to achieve self actualization which really isn't saying much but they would never admit to exploring ahstral projection abs a means to achieving that potential. Such a shame. And yes there's a reason we are taught a lot of BS in school...the government doesn't want anyone to know the truth or to discover our true power.

Sounds like a beautiful experience Venus.

Yes personalreality I agree about the different levels of awareness of the experience itself. It makes perfect sense. I'm still new to all of this and at times have difficulty in distinguishing between projection; OBE; lucid dream; etc. As far as the subconscious mind theory I do not have enough experience to make that judgment myself. However I am beginning to see how incredibly powerful the subconscious mind really is.  Last semester in one of my psych classes I was amazed to find out that there are a few psychological theories that do not even acknowledge the existence of a subconscious mind.

BTW I just clicked on your SOC link; read for a bit and subscribed to your blog. However when I click on "Nonphysical Journal" I get an error message telling me the content is not there.

Hello Dan and welcome.  I'm still basically a newcomer myself but I can tell you I've received nothing but good information, explanations, advice, and lots of love and support.  This is a wonderful forum to share our experiences and to learn from others.

Hey personalreality, that's a very interesting concept you described - the part about being in a realm that only exists for the projector and the people in it being projections of your own subconscious.  I have not been able to project consciously as of yet, I only project in my sleep but I "wake up" in the process like as soon as my body begins to be sucked up a tunnel and I'm travelling really fast, I wake up and just go along for the ride.  The thing I notice though is that sometimes I am only semi-conscious.  It's like I know that I'm projecting and I'm totally aware of what's going on but at the same time don't feel like I have any control.  What's strange is that I'm with a lot of other people and will find myself being totally arrogant like a real smartass giving someone a hard time (which is totally opposite of the person I really am) and someone else is there acting the same way as me.  Then all of a sudden I say something nice and this other person starts being nice back.  It's happened on several occasions where it seems someone else is mimicking me.  It never dawned on me that these "other people" are created out of my own subconscious mind.  Fortunately some of the time when I project and wake up I am totally conscious of everything and those are the times when I am nice and polite and just being my usual self.  Those are the times when I have more control of the projection.  But those other times are very unusual and when I wake up I always question why I would be acting that way and doing things that I would never dream of doing while awake/conscious in the physical.

Very interesting perspective Made O pHI.  Reminds me of some of the material I read in The Flower of Life - awesome book by the way.  I've read volume 1 and half way thru volume 2.  Thank you so much for the links to these.  Especially the part about the duality of consciousness and all of us playing a role in this "Luciferian Experiment".  I can relate a lot of what you said to what's going on in my life now as well as in my experiences in the astral.  Good post.

Congratulations Xanth.  Best wishes to you both.

Thank you for your posts.  Szaxx, I will indeed look it up as well as read "Astral Dynamics". I believe I saw another post on this forum mentioning the book and it caught my eye but didn't check into it yet.  Believe me I'll get on it right away.  I trust all of your advice.  The feeling at the top of my head I wouldn't describe as you did.  I've felt it differently on different occasions.  The first time was about 6 months ago when I was practicing astral projection and had used affirmations all day long to convince myself I'd have an out of body experience that night.  Sure enough when I started to drift off I felt tingling and heard a noise like a loud heart beat getting closer and closer then felt my body being sucked away so fast that (of course) it scared me and I became alert and it stopped.  Then while lying there awake I felt that intense pressure like someone had put both of their hands and with their fingertips pushed down as hard as they could on the top of my head.  After that while doing chakra meditations I would feel slight pressure (like someone pushing down) and tingling.  Then it started to happen like in the middle of the day while at work totally absorbed into whatever I was doing and all of a sudden felt an intense flash of heat in my head and face then it felt like someone had pulled down a very, very tight cap over my head down to the top of my forehead.  Then I'd also get the tingling all over my head.  But nothing that felt like it was rotating.

Made O pHI, you are absolutely right about the fear.  It's something I've been struggling with for quite a while now.  I didn't realize how bad it was at first.  But I definitely see it now as a huge stumbling block that I am constantly being confronted with.  You're right, it keeps occurring so I know I'm not over it yet.  Having this forum as a source of info. and encouragement has helped tremendously but I'm still not there yet.  And yes when those wonderful things happen to me I do feel incredible and on top of the world.  Then something else happens like in a projection and I'm scared all over again.  It's like being on a rollercoaster - balance - yes, something I definitely need.  The book you recommend I will also read and thank you for the links...I'm on my way there now.

BTW:  when I first posted on here a while ago about those faces I saw when I closed my eyes, someone on this forum (a newbie also) immediately sent me a personal message.  I won't give their screen name to protect their anonymity.  The beginning of the message said, "If you're going crazy then I am too because I see that eyeball staring at me and those scary faces..."  We PM'd each other a few times but I haven't heard from them.  This person also had another frightening experience but didn't want to post publicly. I encouraged them to do so but I haven't seen their post.  I myself hesitated at times before posting about what I was experiencing but in the end I decided that if I put myself at risk for being labeled "crazy" then so be it.  This is where my help comes from.  I believe we all have our own unique experiences and by posting here it just might help someone else who may be hesitant to share their experience for fear of being ridiculed.  Personally, I have received nothing but information, advice, support, concern, and love from all of you fine people here at Astral Pulse.

Thanks Taz, I will most definitely remember that and try it the next time it happens. 

I suffer from depression and I take an antidepressant called Mirtazipine.  I've been on it for 3 years now.  I'm in school and I study psychology, abnormal psych., etc.  I'm well versed in signs and symptoms of major depression, dysthmia, all of the anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, etc.  Believe me when this first started happening I questioned myself.  I thought I was going crazy too.  I can tell you I'm in my right mind and not hallucinating.  What kicked this off (seeing the faces with eyes closed) was that I started listening to youtube videos of chakra meditations.  I started getting the funny feeling in my forehead and felt pressure at the top of my head.  I was told this was the chakras opening up.  Then I found a youtube meditation for opening the third eye.  After I did it at first when I closed my eyes I saw an eyeball along with a lot of swirling clouds of purple.  That was it for a couple of weeks.  Shortly after that I began seeing the faces. That's been going on for a couple of months but only when I close my eyes.  Seeing this stuff on the wall just started.  When I close my eyes, whatever I see then appears on the wall when I open my eyes.  These things do not have any kind of solid form.  When they move across the room it's completely transparent but you can see the colors and the shape.  I've been able to see energy for quite a while now like when I look up at the ceiling or the walls I can see something moving/flowing.  It's colorless like in the summer when the blacktop gets very hot and you can see what I call vapors coming off the street.  Well that's what this looks like.  First on the wall then in the middle of the room in the air I can see these transparent green swirling stuff that then takes the shape of huge faces.  Now I call it a monster because that's what it looked like, somehow all connected.  But perhaps it's just a conglomeration of faces.  Just like the swirling clouds of purple I always see when I close my eyes since I started chakra meditations - now with eyes open out of the corners of my eyes I can see the swirling purple but not as solid and vivid as when I close my eyes.  It's transparent.  It's like whatever I see with eyes closed appears when I open my eyes but like a transparent reflection. 

So much weird stuff starting happening to me that I figured this was all part of the game.  It hasn't all been bad either.  There were the "messages" I received from total strangers.  Happened three times.  First time I was at school studying math outside and a guy I didn't know came over sat down and started talking to me.  I was frustrated with learning precalculus and he told me all the information I needed was within me.  Told me I already knew it but had forgotten it.  I was smoking and said, "yeah I know bad habit, I'm trying to quit." He looked at me and said, "(my name) you've been trying for a long time, it's in your best interest to give it up." Don't know how he knew my name, I chalked it up as weird.  Next time I'm at school and a guy comes over and sits on the bench and said "you need to leave your friend. I know you don't want to but you deserve it." Now I was in a bad relationship but I keep my personal business to myself.  Never told anyone at school any of that information and didn't even know this guy.  I tried to question him further but he said he had to get to class.  Weird again.  This last one really got me.  I was on the bus on my way home from school and I had just bought Adrian's book, Our Ultimate Reality.  I had just read the part where he was talking about focusing our consciousness and he used the analogy of tuning into a t.v. station.  This old man with dirty clothes who looked homeless got on the bus and came all the way to the back and sat next to me.  The rest of the bus was empty in the front and I wondered why he sat next to me.  Immediately he starts talking about consciousness and other realities, things that sounded strange.  The last thing he said was, "it's like tuning into a t.v. station, you only get one station at a time.  I know it's difficult to comprehend but fits you like a lock and key".  Then he got up and got off the bus.  This left me completely in shock.  I couldn't move or hardly breathe for a few seconds.  I felt this overwhelming feeling come over my whole body as I sat there and tried to figure out what had just happened.  The book was open in my lap and there's no way he could see the front cover or had time to read anything on the page.  All of these things happened within a two week period right after I first discovered that I was naturally projecting in my sleep but didn't know anything at the time about astral projection. 

Other things like voices I've heard.  I know what you're thinking, it's a sign of schizophrenia  but this is different.  It happens when I'm in meditation or when I'm drifting off to sleep, like drowsy but not quite asleep yet.  First time it was after something I had read that night when the realization of my true spiritual self began to be revealed to me.  I was overwhelmed with a deep gratitude for life and I began crying.  Shortly after that while I layed in bed and became drowsy I heard a woman's voice clear as day say, "aww, that was so cute when you cried."  It startled me so bad I bolted up immediately.  Took me a while to go to sleep that night after that.  Since then I've heard voices three or four other times but always while in deep meditation and always pertains to whatever I'm going through at the time.  I have an app on my cell phone & kindle that gives a daily positive affirmation.  When I first started feeling that intense energy running through my body and didn't know what it was, the next morning the affirmation said, "I channel energy from the infinite.".  When I was sick and tried Adrian's method for healing, the next morning the affirmation said, "I have the power within to heal myself and others."  The list goes on and on.  It's like some higher power, God, angels, spirit guides or whatever you want to call it, is very present in my life on a daily basis.  I've always had very strong intuition since I was a child and if I'm getting ready to do something wrong an overwhelming feeling comes over me, my stomach flips, chills all over my body, etc.  Same thing happens but slightly different when it's something good.  Somehow I just instinctiely know the difference.  There are many other things that have been happening recently like mysterious checks showing up in my mailbox (that's desperately needed) from unknown sources and things like that.  I prayed over the relationship issue I was having and 2 days later was presented with the opportunity of a live in position in a gorgeous house working in the human services field which is the field I'm in anyway.  So many of these wonderful blessings have been poured on me recently I am becoming overwhelmed.  I've prayed on and off most of my life but never got this kind of quick response.  I guess that's why I just assumed what I'm experiencing now with these faces is all part of my development.  Also when these strange and wonderful things occur I usually feel pressure at the top of my head (crown chakra?) and an intense flash of heat all over my head and face.  Felt it also those three times those strangers talked to me.

As far as taking a break...I was doing chakra meditation and others on a daily basis but I was away for a couple of weeks and then moved so I haven't done any meditation for at least three weeks.  As far as projecting, there was a time I was trying to project only because I wanted to project consciously to have more control over it.  But I gave that up a while ago as well.  I project in my sleep (without my permission) the only difference is that I "wake up" and become conscious of what's happening and am able to remember all of it.  So basically, right now there's nothing to take a break from.  This stuff is happening to me whether I like it or not and whether anyone believes me or not I certainly can't control that either.  I just know that while I'm experiencing it I need a place to come for advice/support and that's why I'm here.  If I am hallucinating/imagining this stuff that means I've imagined all the other wonderful/crazy/beautiful miracles too.  And I'm sorry but no one can convince me that these things did not really happen to me.

Ok...so I did what you guys told me.  As soon as I sat down in the living room I looked at the wall and saw that greenish vapor start to materialize.  Soon the entire length of the wall was covered in that green monster thing with the faces.  So I tried what you told me to do and I concentrated as hard as I could to imagine different things (a beautiful fairy, a princess, etc.) but nothing happened.  It's not like in the astral.  In the astral I can create and change almost anything I want but not here.  So I spoke to it.  Told it over and over again I'm not afraid of you anymore.  I asked what it wanted from me.  I asked it's name.  No response.  Sure enough the black shadows appeared.  First on the wall then started to move toward me.  The green thing came off the wall also and these things kept moving toward me.  I sat very still and just watched.  They got all the way up to my face then vanished.  I stuck my arm out on one of them and my arm just passed through it.  I didn't feel anything, didn't sense anything.  But for the next hour and fifteen minutes it kept happening.  Appearing on the wall, moving toward me, getting in my face then vanishing.  Then more came...on and on it went.  I held my ground and didn't show any fear.  Today I came home same thing.  I was calm and spoke kindly to them.  I feel the fear dissipating but I won't lie, a part of me is imagining someone sitting there with an evil little grin saying, "wait till she sees what we have next for her".  But for the time being, I'm holdin' on.

such sweet words Szaxx, thank you.  Thank you as well Lionheart.  I will keep you posted as new developments unfold.

thank you for the replies/advice.  I agree with what both of you are telling me.  Sorry I jumped offline last night but I had to get out of my room, go downstairs (used the stairs not the window) and regroup.  Lionheart I agree about the pattern.  I finally started to become comfortable with the strange and sometimes scary things in the astral but I saw this clairvoyance thing as a totally separate issue and I got scared all over again.  It seems I am going to have to get a grip and face my demons.  I realize running away won't help since at first I only seen them with eyes closed.  So I conveniently avoided closing my eyes.  Now it's out in the open and telling me I can't avoid it any longer.  I just accepted a live-in position as a coordinator for a women's shelter house and since I moved in last week there hasn't been anyone else in the house and this is a huge, old house with a myriad of rooms and late night noises and such.  I assume that is contributing to my fear. 

Szaxx I will take your advice as well.  Since I started seeing these things it hasn't felt like I had any control over it.  I tried once but honestly didn't put enough effort into it.  I can't imagine how you dealt with all of this (and more) at such a young age.  I felt like progress was being made in the astral as far as my fear, but now I see it starting all over again over these visions.  So I will listen to you both and confront it.

One more thing that I believe confirms what you both said (the pattern, the fear, a test).  Last night I had a dream (perhaps a projection but I wasn't aware of it as I usually am, I didn't even know I was dreaming, thought it was really happening).  Without going into all the details here's the end of it:  I was with my ex-boyfriend who died several years ago.  For some reason I felt like he was going to hurt me so I yelled (or maybe said in my mind) "Help, Spirit guides!" (I have never actually met my guides but for some reason everytime I'm in a scary situation I say this).  Immediately a large serpent looking creature appeared to be swimming towards him and when it jumped out of the water it changed into the strangest thing I ever saw.  It looked like a man lying down on the ground but contained in his body was another man/creature standing up.  The whole thing was covered in a beautiful zigzag pattern of three different shades of green.  I believe it was meant to scare me but Iwas so mesmerized by the beauty of the colors and the pattern that all I said was "aww, he's pretty".  I turned for a split second and when I looked back the thing was gone and in it's place was a naked man standing there and on his face and stomach were traces of paint of the same pretty green colors.  He looked human except for the tail that shot out across the room and tickled me on the nose as he said, "Next time I won't be so pretty."  It was very strange but I believe this was another test.

Again, thank you for your quick replies, insight and advice.  I have much gratitude for the Astral Pulse and all of you wonderful people here.

Ever since my 3rd eye has opened I have been seeing faces when I close my eyes.  Most are not human and do not look friendly.  Szaxx just told me yesterday to have no fear.  But something just happened...I found the picture of Astral Pulse Island and copied it so I can print it out and hang it in my room.  I stared at it on my compter monitor for a long time then looked over at the wall in my room (which is white).  I first saw the square image but then it changed.  I began to see yellow all over my wall then green then suddenly I was staring at those faces, the ones I only see with my eyes closed.  It just looks like a movie playing on my wall but that thing...some kind of green alien/monster type thing with a whole lot of twisted up faces all over it just staring at me.  This is tripping me out.  I'm on the third floor so I guess there's no hope for me because honestly, this is too much.  If that thing suddenly becomes three dimensional and is in my room, I'm jumping out the window. 

Lionheart and Szaxx: thank you for the feedback/advice.  I will certainly put it to good use.  I know in a projection I am able to change/create things with my thoughts, but when I'm alert/awake and close my eyes and see those faces, that's another story.  In fact I was trying to practice some visualization exercises a few months back and had to put that on hold because as soon as I close my eyes those faces are there staring at me.  So it's pretty much impossible for me to visualize anything else.  Believe me, I've tried everything to make those things go away.  I've pretty much just accepted it.  A year ago these things would have shocked me but since my "awakening" and with all these wonderful, exciting, freaky, crazy things that I've been experiencing I'm not shocked over anything anymore. 

As a side note...I just read Adrian Cooper's newsletter and he was talking about the significance of 11:11 and how many people have been noticing it lately.  Strange thing is I had a dream a couple of nights ago and it was a fuzzy dream that I don't remember any details of except that not once, but twice in that dream I saw 11:11 in huge numbers like someone was holding up a sign that I couldn't miss.   I thank Adrian for his newsletters and I thank everyone on the Astral Pulse because I don't know what I'd do if I had to experience all this stuff by myself with no information and no advice. 

Thanks everyone for your comments.  Contenteo yes I agree the quality was not that good compared to a lot of other ones I've experienced.  However when I refer to it as a good projection I meant the atmosphere and the people.  Unfortunately I've been having bad experiences for months now and some are probably my own fear manifestations and others I believe are the "fear tests" Thomas Campbell spoke of in his video.  I believe it was Lionheart who posted that link to the video.  The last one I had that I believe was a fear test I was chased down by several men who took me in a room and told me they wanted to show me what my body looked like from the inside.  Then put me on a table and began cutting my body up with a table saw.  Things similar to that had been happening so much for so long that when this happened I laughed and said, "it just feels like vibrations".  As soon as I laugh and don't show any fear the scene usually changes. 

Lionheart, Contenteo and Greytravler, all of you have answered questions for me since I first found this site several months ago.  Perhaps you can help me with this last unresolved fear.  So far nothing has happened to me, I'm still here just like you all said so I take your advice to heart.  This last nagging fear is the fear of possession.  I bought Adrian Cooper's book "Our Ultimate Reality" and in it he talks of mediumship and says if you don't know what you're doing, it can be dangerous, possibly fatal.  Recently, my third eye opened up and I see faces everytime I close my eyes.  Most of them look scary as hell, most are not human but some are.  They get so close to my face that I lose focus and now I see a lot of black shadows that look like they are walking toward me.  I sit with my eyes closed for long periods of time just looking at them wondering who they are.  I believe seeing visions is called clairvoyance and not mediumship, but I need to know I'm not in danger.  If I knew I wasn't in danger from those evil looking things I see when I close my eyes, all of my fears would be gone and I feel I would be able to progress better in the astral.  Any comments/answers would be most appreciated.  Thank you.

Contenteo are u implying that since my projection occurred during sleep rather than a conscious exit that somehow diminishes the quality or clarity? Because I seem to experience that disorientation a lot. Any clue why I was bursting with energy when I woke up? Never felt that before.

After months of bad experiences (more than likely my own unresolved fears and their manifestations) I finally had a good projection. Mine always occur during sleep but I become conscious of what's going on. I remember the feeling of my body being sucked up like a vacuum and travelling very fast. I ended up with a group of people and immediately I picked up on good vibes from them. One guy took me by the arm and said "I got you". He helped me walk throughout the projection because for some reason I was very disoriented. My vision kept going from crystal clear to blurry and half blind. When I had clear vision there was no mistaking that vividness of the astral as I have experienced it before. It was one long adventure and when I woke up at 4:30am I felt like I had just come off a long vacation. I felt like I had not slept all night but at the same time my body felt like an electric current was running thru me. I have never felt so much energy before and I had to do some grounding meditation to settle all that energy. I remember thruout my little adventure when I would get real disoriented I remember hearing "here give this to her" but couldn't see so I don't know what they gave me or did to me. I remember wanting to speak but then realized I was supposed to communicate telepathically and that process took some getting used to. At one point I asked a guy how long I could stay and he told me not very long but seemed like I was there forever.  One time I heard laughing and a guy said "look shes bouncing" don't know what that was about but I know we were all walking not flying as in previous projections.

Questions...why was I so disoriented and kept losing my vision? Also I don't have a clue where I was or how I ended up there don't know anyones name but I was so excited and it felt so indescribably good being with them how can I get there again? Is it even possible to return? What could it have been they were giving me to make me feel so good? Where did all that energy come from?

BTW...the only thing I did differently before bed was the "Star Excersize" from the book "The Science of Being in Seven Lessons" compliments of Adrian Cooper.

My third eye has been open for couple of months. I always see the clouds of swirling purple but for the last several weeks I see evil faces staring at me. They get bigger and so close to my face I go crosseyed focusing on them. They are some otherworldly beings definitely not human but some have human looking facial features. Its been going on so long I stopped being afraid and now everytime I close my eyes I'm just used to seeing them staringat me with those evil eyes. Then 5 minutes ago I read on the Internet that "involuntary clairvoyance" where you have no control over the info being received can be dangerous because there is a risk of possession by dis-carnate beings. I went from being scared of them to being angry at them to becoming intrigued by them. Now I read this and I'm wondering am I in any danger? Or am I just seeing negative spirits of some kind of other species?

Hello brucedarwill and welcome. Ive experienced many unpleasant encounters but I am still new so I still have unresolved fears. Sometimes I am grabbed or pinched or held down but usually cant see what's got me. I believe these to be manifestations of my fear. However on one occasion I heard very loud boot heels getting glossed and suddenly was choked by a pitch black silhouette of a tall man with a top hat. I immediately said I'm back in my body and I woke up in my bed. Cant say what that was. The only thing I can say was a real entity was an incubus creature who messed with me for weeks. He would respond intelligently and could change forms. I fought him several times. He was very frightening at first but finally left me alone. (Thankfully)

Consciousness is an organisms awareness of itself and its surroundings. We exist as pure consciousness with the ability to produce thoughts and emotions which manifest into "things" (the observed and the observer). We are in everything and everything is in us. Therefore we have the ability to "be" anywhere we choose and experience anything we choose simply by "tuning in" or shifting awareness.

That's a good point desert-rat. Twice I had projections in which I had a glimpse of a past life (at least that's what I believe). Once sitting in a room on the bed I looked into a mirror and saw my face but quite younger and I had some sort of a hat on but nothind ive ever seen in our modern world. Sort of like I dream of jeannie. The other I ended up in a house and was clearly upset and screamed "why do I keep ending up here?" Without the scene unfolding yet the realization dawned on me that this was the house of a serial killer who had murdered me. There was a lady in the upstairs room who clearly did not belong there (a character from a Tv show) and she kept asking what my body was made up of. Next I m downstairs on the floor and the man was forcing pills down my throat. Suddenly I became consciously aware and started taking control. I grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed him in the neck which did nothing as he looked at me and said "I already moved the scissors..it felt like the killing (of me) scene was about to play out but the horror was too much for me to bear so as I became aware I changed the outcome of the story. It was very real and now I wish I would have just let the scene unfold and experienced what really happened.

Stookie I checked out the link. It makes some sense as it pertains to my life now. However in the past when I had the same dream I honestly cant remember what was going on. But thanks for the link.

At different times in my life I have had dreams about broken glass, like me stepping in it and sometimes my whole body being cut and sometimes me trying to pull shards of glass from my body. About aweek ago I had a similar projection this time tons of glass sticking out of my feet and arms.  Although I did not look at it I was aware of a huge piece of glass stuck in my left arm that someone removed.  There were a lot of people in the room and I felt blood gushing from my arm and someone leaned over me and said 'wow, that;s nasty'.  Last thing I remember I was being escorted to the hospital afraid to look at my arm.  Strange thing is last night I was breaking up a dog fight and one of the dogs latched onto my arm and bit me up pretty bad. This was on the left arm.

My question is could that dream/projection have been a premonition?  Also is anyone aware of any meanings to the broken glass I often dream about?

Yes those little sparks...had to read your post again Anonymouse and also in Nikolai's post. That's different from the star thing I see in the sky. But Ive seen those too however I wasn't looking up but looking at the trees. They are very small and I would call them silver but hard to focus on since they move around so fast. It never dawned on me they were sparks of energy. I have a wild imagination and after reading Adrian's book I thought they were tiny faeries or sylphs!! Lol! Boy do I feel stupid!  Nikolai I am interested and will send u a pm

Yes Anonymouse I have looked up into the sky at night and stared at a really bright star and all of a sudden it starts jumping up and down like it is dancing. Had the same thing happen when I was a child. I thought it was some sort of optical illusion but it happened again recently and it was no mistaking it this time. It only happens with certain stars usually the brightest ones. Always gives me a good feeling like it is letting me know I'm not alone