I am doing this mental exercise. Please respond if you are experienced.

[AstralTravelerWannabe]

Hi everyone. How are you? I am fine. I want to stress that I haven't had one astral projection and I haven't looked down at my physical body yet. I am reading books or e-books about astral projection. I have been doing the mental exercise for about 1 week. That exercise is visualizing on a single image for a period of time, without allowing another thought to enter your mind. For example: I can visualize on one mental image of the celebrity I admire for 8 secs. My goal is to able to visualize on a single image for 3-5 minutes. I am adding one second to my exercise every day! You may ask, "Why do you do mental exercise?" Well, the answer is to boost my astral projection or even an insight. Today, I had a nap and saw random images of people I haven't seen before in my life while I was falling asleep. I have that same experience many times in the past after the meditation or reading books about astral projection. What do those images of people mean? Are they hypnagogic images? or what???

[digital-sapphire]

Those people are are probably visual metaphors depicting different aspects of your personality. Think about each one, individually, and ask yourself what the meaning is behind their appearance.

As far as your visual concentration exercises go; I'd advise focusing on something easier like basic geometry or different shades of light, which will help you reach you 5 minute goal --real fast.

[lillymoon]

Hi everyone. How are you? I am fine. I want to stress that I haven't had one astral projection and I haven't looked down at my physical body yet. I am reading books or e-books about astral projection. I have been doing the mental exercise for about 1 week. That exercise is visualizing on a single image for a period of time, without allowing another thought to enter your mind. For example: I can visualize on one mental image of the celebrity I admire for 8 secs. My goal is to able to visualize on a single image for 3-5 minutes. I am adding one second to my exercise every day! You may ask, "Why do you do mental exercise?" Well, the answer is to boost my astral projection or even an insight. Today, I had a nap and saw random images of people I haven't seen before in my life while I was falling asleep. I have that same experience many times in the past after the meditation or reading books about astral projection. What do those images of people mean? Are they hypnagogic images? or what???

You dont need to visualise when astral projecting.......

[digital-sapphire]

You dont need to visualise when astral projecting.......

This is true, you can have decent energetic experiences whilst submerged in non-thought/non-visual states of reference, but it sounds like OP wants to work on his/her concentration and visualization skills, so I would like to say that visualizing does activate the Vision Center, and can effectively lead into lucid dreaming --which some describe as "out-of-body".

Also, OP said:

I want to stress that I haven't had one astral projection and I haven't looked down at my physical body yet.

This statement indicates the popular confusion in terminology, OP meant to say lucid dream --not astral projection, as an astral projection has to do with the ASTRAL, not the "RTZ" as you guys call it.

[Lionheart]

 ATW, here's a link to a thread made here on the Astral pulse Forums that I think you will find quite helpful.

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_consciousness/astral_projecting_visualizationimagination-t43123.0.html