This Morning...

[blade5x]

Recently I've taken up an interested on this subject. It's been a while since I have been into any of this. Recently after a few failures, I finally had some kind of experience this morning. My experience began with me realizing that my body had fallen asleep (no vibrations). I began to move around in darkness, ready to begin my adventure. What for a brief seconds started out in my present room shifted very quickly to my old house. Because all of my previous experiences happened there, I convinced myself I was possibly having an ethereal projection. But I wanted to get to the astral - a place I feel I have not yet reached consciously, despite having numerous ethereal projections years ago. At first I tried summoning portals, but I was unable to. My environment seemed as if it didn't want to respond to my commands. Shortly after I found a dream character, and asked it how I could reach the astral, and after some brief instructions I did just that. I won't go in detail because the process sounds absurd, but maybe it symbolized something... I felt my dream fading, and knew I had to hurry it up. By the end of the process I was almost out of the dream, but once I finished, the environment felt much more stable.

Anyway... once I created my portal I placed it on the ground, took a few steps back, ran back up to it, and jumped in. As soon as I jumped in, I noticed I was in a red tunnel, with objects that actually flew by (parts of my drumset - I actually opened one eye slightly and physical was merging with dream). I experienced a sensation of intense free fall. I fell through the tunnel into a black void... but at the same time, I noticed I was viewing my physical room. One of eyes was still slightly open! Everything in my room had a wavy look to it. If you have ever seen heat outside on a hot day where it kind of causes a rippling in the air, that's what I seeing everywhere in my room. I was also being bombarded by heavy vibrations. They got so intense I couldn't take them, and forced myself out of it (which was actually very difficult suggesting I was in a state of deep sleep paralysis).

So I don't really know what to make of this. The first part was quite dream-like (I feel like it was a dream now recalling it), but at the end it seemed like I was on the border of a real projection (not astral, but an ethereal one). I saw my physical as it was, blending in with the non-physical.

Well... still trying to get there!

[Greytraveller]

Hi Blade
Yeah, that sounds OBE-ish to me. Some sort of crossover, like part projection and part dream. In fact you probably actually were out of body but did not have full astral consciousness. You nearly got there but the dream imagery kept interfering , blocking true and accurate perceptions.
Keep trying 'cause it appears that you might be on the edge of a big breakthrough.

Regards 
Grey