How to leave dream when lucid?

[gil-galad]

I have experienced several lucid dreams. However, I have never managed to erase the dream imagery around me (to exit from my dream into the astral plane).

Does anyone have any suggestions how can I do it?

Should I just try to imagine a well-known phisicall location (a peculiar building in my hometown,...) and intend to go there? 

[NotMarkk]

I say "I want to leave my body (or something), close my eyes, then fall backwards. Sometmes it wakes me up though. Sometmes i black out during the leaving part, then find myself in the astral.

[catsquotl]

I am sorry to crash this thread.....
I have started to meet my guide and travel consciously with the help of Tayesin`s book only last week.
Appart from my guide I met a helper who didn`t name himself..
For a few days I called him notMark until we settled on Cirril to get a phonetic word resembling Cylindrical...

Today I joined this forum,
You can imagine my surprise seeing you nickname

With Love,
Eelco

[kurtykurt42]

Why would you call someone notMark?

[catsquotl]

I really don`t know,
In the AP It was what I was thinking..
"Mark?
Not Mark was the reply I didn`t investigate further, but when writing out the experience I wrote notmark to identify who I meant at the time...

strange coincidence or synchronisity...

Eelco

[Novice]

Should I just try to imagine a well-known phisicall location (a peculiar building in my hometown,...) and intend to go there?

Are you trying to visit something in the etheric plane (also referred to as the real time zone)? That area of consciousness is different than what I think of in terms of the astral plane. It's actually fairly easy to do if you are lucid enough. And your level of lucidity is key in everything you do non-physically.

If you get lucid in a dream and want to shift somewhere else, simply focus on where you want to go. This is why your level of lucidity is critical. Not only do you need to maintain focus on where you want to go, but you have to be very clear about it as well. It could be something specific, like visit a friend. In that case, picture your friend in your mind. Think only of them. When this happens, what I perceive to happen is that the dream scape drops slightly below me and begins whizzing past. After what feels like a few moments, the scene slows down and I gently lower into it. Looking around, I'll see the person on whom I was focusing nearby. This process will work the same for places too.

However, I've never tried to phase to the etheric from a dream. The only time I am in the etheric is when I leave via a traditional OBE. I roll out into the etheric, but I never stay there. I simply phase from there to the astral. So I know that this method works from the etheric to the astral, so it should work in reverse as well. I just never tried.

Oh, one last thing, when phasing from a dream, you MUST remain focused on your goal (who/where you want to go). If you lose your train of thought, even for a second, you will end up wherever your focus went. Sometimes, if I'm not real lucid, I'll catch something in the dream scape zipping past and all it will take is that one second of me going "hey, what was that?" Movement stops and I'm dropped right where I was looking. Good luck!

[ancient_one]

I have experienced several lucid dreams. However, I have never managed to erase the dream imagery around me (to exit from my dream into the astral plane).

Does anyone have any suggestions how can I do it?

Should I just try to imagine a well-known phisicall location (a peculiar building in my hometown,...) and intend to go there? 

My favorite way is to just do some action in the dream that is physically impossible, or something that you would never do in real life. Usually, when I do that, the dream fades away.

[gil-galad]

Thanks for the info.

Just one more question( TO NOVICE).

Could you tell What kind of "traditional OBE" tecnique are you using? What are you doing before applying the exit tecnique(rolling out)?

Thanks

[Novice]

I don't have a technique I use. I never have. I'm really not the best person to ask about this topic (one of the reason's I don't post much in the OBE section). Unlike a vast majority of people who experience OBEs, I never experience any of the typical symptoms: no vibrations, no noises, no creepy sensations, nothing. For me, I am simply conscious at the time I feel my energy body loosen. I know it's happening because I feel light and floaty and somewhat detached. Then there's what I call 'the release'. It literally feels like a lever was switched and I am now seperate from my physical body. There is nothing jarring or startling. It's like a small string was holding my to my body and it simply slips free. It's a very smooth, peaceful process. Once I feel seperate, I simply roll over and out of bed/body and go through my bedroom wall. Then I phase to where I want to go.

I have never tried any technique to induce OBEs except for maintaining awareness, but I don't think that's a technique. Basically by just being aware of what I'm doing, when I'm doing it during the day, my awareness is strengthened and lengthened to the point that I remain as such when my physical body falls asleep. It also increases the quantity and quality of lucid dreams such that I can then phase from within them.

Hope that helps! If you need more info on techniques and such for OBEs, you may want to browse the OBE board or the FAQ section for some good techniques.

[trader342]

one technique that I use which has worked every time is, I ask out loud "can somebody take me to the astral" and then I am always taken by a guide,

[no_leaf_clover]

Trying going into a meditation and retreating even further into your mind and see if that does anything for you.

[NotMarkk]

I am sorry to crash this thread.....
I have started to meet my guide and travel consciously with the help of Tayesin`s book only last week.
Appart from my guide I met a helper who didn`t name himself..
For a few days I called him notMark until we settled on Cirril to get a phonetic word resembling Cylindrical...

Today I joined this forum,
You can imagine my surprise seeing you nickname

With Love,
Eelco

Awsome
Synchronisity is an awsome thing and I see it happening mroe and more.

[vladjackguy]

My favorite way is to just do some action in the dream that is physically impossible, or something that you would never do in real life. Usually, when I do that, the dream fades away.

For me it doesn't fade away.Example: I'm becoming extremly lucid in the dream.I look up and wish i could of fly.Puff I fly  .

I'm just using my will just ending the dream and then a black screen appears and sometimes I enter the trance.After I exit as usually 

[GunsNRachel]

I usually just go "Oh, this is a dream so I can project." and then I go right into it. I've never had to do anything weird to get there.

[WASD]

You could try to go through some kind of gateway like i did in a normal dream that i described here: http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_obe_discussions/obe_or_dream-t30667.0.html

Exiting the dream is simple. Just say "I wanna wake up", and there is a chance you will wake up with OBE-vibrations. I've tried it just a few times with maybe 50% success rate. I don't really recommend it since it can be waste of a lucid dream.

[CFTraveler]

I have experienced several lucid dreams. However, I have never managed to erase the dream imagery around me (to exit from my dream into the astral plane).

Does anyone have any suggestions how can I do it?

Should I just try to imagine a well-known phisicall location (a peculiar building in my hometown,...) and intend to go there? 

You know, I've looked at this thread many times and failed to read the OP word for word, and this just struck me weird:  "I have never managed to erase the dream imagery around me".  When I exit a dream to go astral, I just fly away, and cross the boundaries from the personal to the collective astral.  So the idea of 'erasing dream imagery' sounds a lot like 'removing subconscious information', something that is probably impossible- no matter how collective the environment, how you see it will always be influenced by your subconscious- that's why some of us see Hogwart's, others see college, others see high school, and still other see teaching temples when we go to the same place (probably part of the Akashic records).
So besides 'leaving' techniques (which there are abundantly available) it should be noted that interpreting symbols is also helpful.

Just nitpicking as I'm prone to do, sometimes.

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[wizkitten]

I have experienced several lucid dreams. However, I have never managed to erase the dream imagery around me (to exit from my dream into the astral plane).

Does anyone have any suggestions how can I do it?

Should I just try to imagine a well-known phisicall location (a peculiar building in my hometown,...) and intend to go there? 

I've only been able to project through lucid dreams so far (been able to feel vibrations through meditation, but I never get further). I get out by doing the same thing as I do when awake,
I lie down in my dream, relax.. and say "I want to leave my body". This instantly got me to a state of vibrations (all over my body, which i've never felt before), and then I keep thinking about leaving my body then all od a sudden I'm sitting upright in my bed while my body remains asleep.

[wizkitten]

I say "I want to leave my body (or something), close my eyes, then fall backwards. Sometmes it wakes me up though. Sometmes i black out during the leaving part, then find myself in the astral.

I do something similar to this.. Except I lie down in my dream, and just say "I want to leave my body".
The next thing that happens, I'm in bed feeling vibrations all over my body and then I kept thinking "I want to leave my body", and then I was sitting up in a partial OBE.
I had trouble fully separating though, but I'm going to try to roll out next time.