can you get lost?

[dRealM]

hey.. this site is really interesting.  I'm finding it very useful.  

Can you get lost while projecting?  like you project.. or maybe unwillingly project and things become so confusing that you don't know where you projected from or even not realize that you've projected and remain stuck somewhere and can't return to the physical.  It seems odd but I've been reading about exit and entry techniques.. and the need for them.  I'm just a bit confused by this..

has there ever been a case where someone projects on a daily basis say and their friends know about it.. but one day they find that person in a coma or something at a hospital and they say they don't know what is wrong with them.. they just found them like this in their home?

[jalef]

you cant get lost! if there were cases where someone got lost than we wouldnt know about it because theres no one to tell

but im quite sure the it is impossible because of this:
sometimes while out of body you can feel your physical and your astral body at the same time. that is like being at two locations at once. it is a very weird feeling but it implies that the only thing that maybe leaves the body is a copy of your consciousnes. that means that you are absolutely save while out of body

[Jeff_Mash]

I have projected so many times, I have lost count, and I have never had that "lost" feeling.  No matter where you are, there is always an exhilirating mixture of curiousity and excitement that accompanies you.

The only time I have ever felt anything other than those two emotions was in the first year or two when projecting, and I would find myself hurtling through blackness at unbelievably fast speeds.  I was scared that I would smack into something really hard and get hurt, but that never happened either!

[Astralopithicus]

The only time I have ever felt anything other than those two emotions was in the first year or two when projecting, and I would find myself hurtling through blackness at unbelievably fast speeds.  I was scared that I would smack into something really hard and get hurt, but that never happened either!

Robert Monroe did just that in his first book - smacked into a huge impenetrable barrier at high speed. It's one of the scariest parts in all his accounts, although he wasn't hurt as such, he was there for a long time (an hour maybe ?) and could not penetrate or go around it, nor return to his body. He prayed, screamed for help and cried his heart out - nothing worked and he was completely alone up against this steel wall - until he realised he had to backtrack and move away in the direction he came, only then did he return to his body. What if that hadn't worked either ? Got to admit that shook me up a bit when I read it. I suppose he was very much a frontiersman and really pushed things to the limit, so that situation might not befall novices like most here ? And he did get back in the end