It has been several months since I have had a succesful projection experience. Partly because i have been busy but also because of lazyness. The past month i have been trying to get back into it but the most i could accomplish was relaxing and falling asleep. Well last night i decided to try this binural beat app i got on my phone. I let it play for about an hour and then took them off cause i was just going go to sleep. Shortly after i felt the familiar vibrations and i almost got too excited and snapped out of it but i knew better. I calmed myself down and embraced the vibrations until i rolled myself out of my body. I wasnt able to do much. I could phase through windows and float around but not quite fly and i was confined to the area around my apartment building. Im guessing part of this is because i was tired and on the verge of just slipping into a dream and that i am out of practise. Either way, it was a consious exit from my body that im proud of. I found it surprising how well the binural beats worked but i dont want to get too used to it because i dont want to become reliant on them.
All in all i feel good about this recent experience and i feel im on the verge of strenthening my abilities. Reading about everyones experiences on here helps to motivate me as well so thanks all. Also sorry for any grammer/spelling errors. Im typing all this on my phone.
Awesome man, do you feel those experiences where you get out of your body while awake are any different than a lucid dream? Can you manipulate and change things like in a dream?
Yes, I do find a difference. I actually don't lucid dream very often but when I do, I am already established in my dream and most of the time I just wake up when I realize I'm dreaming. Sometimes I am able to stay in the dream a little longer and manipulate things to a small degree. When I consciously leave my body I am aware of what's going on right from the start. I haven't been able to do too much while projecting because I think that I try so hard to try so many things that my focus isn't where it should be, but I feel that that my focus is improving. What I am going to start doing is every time I attempt a projection I am going to only try to focus on one thing (floating around and controlling the direction, phasing through walls, going into space) When I leave my body I get so excited and want to try all of it and I think it inhibits me from having the level of control that I am seeking, haha
Although I've yet to a.p. I am having the same troubles in my lucid dreams when
I rarely get one. Overcoming the excitement is a big thing for me as well lol : )
Lots to learn : )
So after you stopped the binaural beats and were laying there, do you get
comfy and lay on your side or stomach or what? What do you try to focus your thoughts on? Or just try to get your body into sleep mode but stay focused on not falling asleep?
In this particular case I was just tired and wanted to go to bed. I was, however, very relaxed...possibly due to the binaural beats. I was laying on my back when it all went down. I have had experiences where I was on my side and I was able to briefly leave my body but I find laying flat on my back has the best results.
As far as what my thoughts are focused on, I usually try and not think of anything except for maybe repeating something in my head to keep my mind from drifting off to sleep. I know the most popular thing to repeat is "mind awake, body asleep" which seems to help me. I usually do that or just focus on the emptiness and imagine myself going deeper into the emptiness. I suppose it's a little different for everyone because I have tried things that work great for other people but not me and the other way around.
Cool man thx for the replies, guess I just need to figure out what works best for me now
Yeah no problem. Good luck. I hope to hear about your first experience soon!
Quote from: philj14 on December 31, 2012, 18:24:09
Yeah no problem. Good luck. I hope to hear about your first experience soon!
Thank you! Will definitily be posting when I do