Electrocuted in the astral? I think?

[tickleberries]

Hi everyone

This is my second posting. Thank you for welcoming me. I just wanted to mention what happened last night. I try every night to silence my mind, stay awake mentally and concentrate on floating. I can feel the floating but have never left that way. In fact, for some reason, I can never remember how I left, although, I know I've had two good but simple experiences. Well, last night I was somewhere. I was holding something in my hands but I can't remember it. It was some sort of electrical thing and dangerous. I knew there was enough electricity to kill me, normally, but for some reason, as I felt the electricity coursing through me, it was a very strong feeling and yet didn't hurt. I felt it like you might feel something in the physical. It was very strong. Than, I thought, gee, I really ought to put this down. It was sort of disconcerting to hold something in my hands with enough power to kill my physical body. I am assuming, at this point, that I wasn't in my physical body.

I woke up in the night and thought, instantly, that I had had a astral experience. I just wish I could remember. You see, I think I have been having them more often but the only two I know were astral projections were extremely memorable. Do you guys forget your experiences or parts of them?

[blis]

If you stay out too long you only remember fragments.

Saying you'll remember doesnt work. While out of body I've run through the whole experience in my memory to check if I remember. I've kept doing it all the way through the experience and then stayed out for ages. When I get back I can remember saying I'll remember and having regularly checked I wasnt forgetting but other than that I've just got fragments from the start and the end.

I'm hoping it gets better with time but it hasnt really for me so far. I've been projecting for about a year and a half.

[personalreality]

Two things helped me remember my projections more than anything else.

1.  A Daily Dream Journal - every single morning write anything you can remember from your dream.  don't use long sentences, use some kind of short hand that will work for you.  you just want to write down whatever feelings, images, smells, tastes, etc. that you're holding onto when you wake up.  even if you can't seem to remember a dream, lay in bed for a few moments (DO NOT MOVE) and stay in the dream mind-state.  This leads to the second thing.

2.  Daily Review - every night when you go to bed, start at that moment and work your way backwards, remembering what you can from your day until you get to the morning when you woke up.  Doing this every night will help you in dream recall later.  When you wake up and only remember one fleeting image you can work backwards to try and find the next previous image and the next and so on until you remember the whole dream.  So when you can't seem to remember a dream in the morning, stop, don't move, and start a "dream review".  just try to work backwards and see how much of the dream you can recover.

If you make these two things a habit, they will greatly increase your ability to remember your projections.

[blis]

I like the sound of that backwards thing.

[Boom]

Yeah the daily review thing is a new concept to me. It could be worth a try for sure.

Electrocuted is an interesting sensation to have felt?  When ive managed to project, ive felt alsorts of motion of my body being pulled raised, sunk etc and fading in and out, and seen the 3D space with lots of very small fine stars whizzing past. Yet ive never felt these vibrations people speak of. 
So maybe feeling an electrical feeling as well could happen. umm different stuff for different people?

[astralp]

that has happened to me before.  mine was a lot more intense though.  Mine was more of a lucid dream though. 

In my dream I was holding a tv remote control.  For some reason it started electrocuting me.  I couldn't put it down.  It felt like my whole body got zapped by a massive amount of electricity but it didn't hurt.  I instantly went into a black and white checkered room that was waving like I was hallucinating. Definitely one of the crazy astral experiences I have ever had. 

[Greytraveller]

Hi tickleberries
What you felt were the Vibrations that often precede an OBE. Many times the vibrations are only a minor tingling sensation. Sometimes they can be Much stronger.
If you experience vibrations enough times then you can learn how to control them. Control is a purely mental exercise and has nothing to do with the physical body.
Sometimes the vibrations can be So strong as to overpower the mind and body -- almost like being paralyzed. This has happened to me on a few occasions. This is rare fortunately and the next time that you get vibrations it will likely be mild and maybe even pleasant.

Regards 
Grey

[tickleberries]

Hi guys,

I've been keeping a dream journal and often remember my dreams now, probably not all of them. I think I got a bit lax. I was thinking it might have been a vibrational thing with a lucid type dream, but I wasn't sure if it was an AP. Sometimes, I just wake up and can't remember but know that I was doing something important during sleep. Not sure what that always is.

[Contenteo]

Personal,

I like the post, props, I definitely am going to try the backwards thing. That sounds like a good exercise.

tickle,
As soon as you said "like electrocuted" I thought of vibrations. I second Gandalf. That is exactly what strong ones feel like. In fact this morning I had extreme ones that caused paralysis, it was freaky. Not scary, just frustratingly freaky. I wrote a post on it.

Thanks Grey,
I had those overpowering ones you were talking about this morning. They hurt. Like 70% of my body was covered in them and they made me rise up. Maybe outta my body, I couldn't turn my head to check, nor thought to in my overwhelmed state. That's a cool thought. They made me slowly mechanically walk towards the door. Everything appeared to be in the RTZ, from what I remember, weather, etc.  How do I control them? Intent? Any practical strategies?

Cheers,
Contenteo

[Xanth]

1.  A Daily Dream Journal - every single morning write anything you can remember from your dream.  don't use long sentences, use some kind of short hand that will work for you.  you just want to write down whatever feelings, images, smells, tastes, etc. that you're holding onto when you wake up.  even if you can't seem to remember a dream, lay in bed for a few moments (DO NOT MOVE) and stay in the dream mind-state.  This leads to the second thing.

I use single words... they're usually enough to trigger the entire dream in my memory.

[tickleberries]

Contendo:

I think that must have been the vibrations but I wonder why I had dream images with it.

[Contenteo]

The path to my very first astral experience was anything but direct. I was in a lucid dream, when I realized where I was and what I was doing, from there everything got blurry and I entered that super vibrational OBE, from there I had a extremely fuzzy false awakening before entering blackness again and ultimately softly rolling out into the astral. It was nuts.

Vibrations can happen in dreams too for instance, about a week ago, I was dreaming and the moment I realized I was dreaming my body was bathed in vibrations, intense and pleasant. From there I entered another stage of my lucid dream.

When the vibrations hit I was standing in the middle of a children's playground with this guy i met in college but never really talked too. I was atop those cliche metal mesh covered in plastic flooring they use next to the thing you jump on and slide to another portion of the playground. I was anywhere but reality.

Another time, I was dreaming I was sitting in the living room getting ready for aliens to beam me up(idk, dreams are messed sometimes) and as soon as the "beaming" occurred, I was again flushed with electric like vibrations. It was scary and intense, I remember waking up in cold sweat.

What you had was normal, especially to someone in tune with the astral. The more you actively explore this phenomenon, the more these things will happen to you. For instance, my mom never dreams. I told her to start trying some of this stuff. Now she remembers he dreams all the time.

Oh and its Contenteo(a purposeful misspelling of the latin Contentio,to strive)

Best,
Contenteo