I need help with something folks. I have become extremely adept at lucid dreaming. I can wake up every morning earlier than I need to, and within seconds transfer from awake to dreaming, and watch it happen. I'm lucid the whole time. I have conquered strange fears using lucid dreaming. I have tried strange excrement, I'm sure you know, and can could outfly superman if I had wished... but I can't for the life of me figure out how to phase from a lucid dream into a real time OOBE. I have learned to go from dreaming to lucid, but I don't understand what kind of mentality or dream actions are necessary to go form lucidity to consciousness without completely waking up. Does anyone have any suggestions. I have "astral consciousness", so I'll check that out, but I know the experience is the best teacher, so anyone have any methods that haven't been discussed in great detail in the popular books?
Dreaming, lucid dreaming, OBE, AP are all different types of consciousness or areas of focused consciousness. So basically everything is mental. If you can get lucid, you can phase. I've never tried going from a lucid dream to an OBE, though. When I get lucid, I simply phase to where I want to go.
To do this, you need to have your awareness fairly high. If you dream lucid quite a bit, then you are aware that there are varying degrees of lucidity. Somewhat like grades of temperature on a thermometer. Just as there is no one number seperating hot from cold, there is no off/on switch from lucid to not lucid. If I'm not fully aware -- or highly lucid, then I call this flirting with lucidity. If my awareness isn't high enough, I just hang around the dream and 'play' -- you know float, fly, walk through walls, create things, make peoples heads disappear (nice test to try and keep yourself lucid) etc. But if I'm pretty aware, then I simply focus my intent on a person or place and off I go. That's all there is to it, at least for me. Simply focus on where or who you want to visit and then hold that thought in your mind to the exclusion of all else. After a few moments of this, the dream scene will seem to disappear or flash past you and then after a few moments you'll arrive at where you thinking of.
If you haven't done so yet, you may also want to check out the sections: Permanent Astral Topics and Astral FAQ. They are loaded with tips and techniques for both phasing and OBE.