Most significant experience in 2yrs

[newmethod]

Hi There,

I'll set the preceeding events because i believe they contributed significantly to me having this experience..

On Friday afternoon i was fairly tired at work and my Children and Mrs were out at the kids Nana's house.. I got home about 6pm, showered and thought i might again use this as a chance to project.

I lied down to ready for projection and started with muscle relaxation. Once i found my body relaxed i thought to meditate for a bit but it wasn't long before i was asleep.

An alarm i had set woke me at 8:05pm but the kids and mrs weren't home (not unusual on Nana visits and I wasn't concerned at all).. i thought i'd skip dinner and go back to bed..

The Mrs work me up a bit after 11pm on coming home.. we stayed up together for about 1 hr after which i couldn't go back to sleep cause i'd nearly had 5hrs sleep already.. I watched some of a tv series i had on the computer and went to bed about 1:30am knowing that sleeping 5hrs and having been awake for 2.5 hrs would give me a good chance to project in the morning..

I had quite some trouble relaxing and being able to go back to sleep. At one stage I nearly got back out of bed again until i was more sleepy though while still in bed i felt a shift of relaxation in my energy and stayed in bed..

Experience starts

I become consciously aware but all i can see is blackness.. I remember that i may be in a projection experience but am having difficulties with my astral vision.. I work on this by attempting to open my astral eyes to see.. Difficulties persist.. I have the feeling that i am in a dream within a dream..

Although I can't see, i can feel walls and objects and as i feel my way around in the dark i notice some light appearing.. I continue into the light and it opened up in a scene...

Here i have a scene where i'm at my parents farm in the daytime.. That scene goes for a while and then i'm feeling the darkness decending again.. again i feel my way out of the darkness to another scene or work on my astral eyesight by attempting to open my eyelids.. This was the most significant astral type experience i've had in more than 2yrs.. Through this experience i was in a scene.. left the scene.. felt myself return to my body or close to my body at times and worked my way into another scene again about 5-7 times.. In one of the later ones i went to my Dad and he was laying on a bed quite unwell. He has heart problems and i was asking him if he was going to die soon.. While with him i was very aware of what was happening and thought about shifting to Late Dec 2012 or January 2013 as that is a goal i remind myself of should i get to have enough awareness of the astral process.. Though i stop this idea as i believe it is more important to stay with my father and go along with what is currently happening... It didn't feel like he was going to die real soon but it did feel like he is currently suffering in his body..

At one time i feel into the astral landscape around me (current house scene) and wonder about my physical body and where it is located.. I feel the whole scene shift and becomes more closely aligned with Real Time Physical Reality.. I wonder if i am now closer to the RTZ?

In another later scene i find myself at a kids park in a nighttime scene.. it's a fairly happy scene.. It is here i still have vivid memories of all the experiences and places i have visited thus far and begin to feel like prolonging this astral experience of going in and out of scenes is likely to come to an end..

I remember Robert Bruce's advice to keep experiences short in order to improve recall.. I shorten this scene and it comes to an end..

End of Experience

Unfortunately instead of getting up to write down the experiences in full detail i decide i feel too tired and go back to sleep.

If i had of gotten up and wrote it down i'm sure i would have had a more vivid recall of the experience. As it stands though i still had a fair memory of the experience but in less detail and can still (in waking life) feel the memory of what it was like finding my way in the darkness and returning to or close to my physical body and re-projecting..

I'd like to ensure in the future i would get up and record these experiences upon waking instead of returning to sleep to improve recall..

Thx,

Dean

[Lionheart]

 Wow, congratulations! That sounded like a great experience. It's a shame we have to sometimes cut off such a pleasant vision, just so we can get back to the physical and log it. But that's our only technique to be able to recall anything that happens there. You normally get 30-60 seconds after the initial projection, just the same as with dream recall in the mornings, so you have to be quick to log your results.

[scout]

Nice! Have you ever tried looking at your hands in order to bring about your astral vision? This is working great for me lately.

[Dreamshards]

I am fairly new to projecting as well and i also experience blackness when i first enter. It is definitely something i want to improve in my experiences. It sounds like your experience was very pleasant one, congratulations.

[newmethod]

This was the most significant experience i'd had in years as my awareness through the experience was great (by my standards at least)..
I think the blackness i was finding myself in was actually when i was in my body and getting out.. Me feeling along walls etc in the darkness may have just been a mental interpretation of the exit experience.. Just my thought given the experience..

@scout: i looked at my hands when dreaming once about 10yrs ago when lucid.. they did melt
Could be a good idea to try it out in a projection.. may work for me also.. Thx for the reminder..