I converted a lucid dream into an AP...

[Aerotus]

9/8/05

6:35am

Finally converted a lucid dream into a projection by passing through a mirror.

I am experiencing slightly cold sensations as I write this. My brain is hurting as if it is dehydrated, similar to a hang over feeling. I also had this feeling before the experience so it may be a precursor to these experiences. I had this sensation the last time I successfully projected too. Having this dehydrated brain feeling is becoming strongly associated with successful astral experiences. I can remember the experience clearly without the need to lie in my bed downloading the information and working backwards from end to start.

I was living a year of life back in university in Bath, it was freshers day. I was strongly semi lucid and knew I had the power to relive that same day and continue to live the same year if I wanted to all over again, just like in the film Groundhog day. I dreamed out the whole day again and did different things like act very confidently even in a cocky manner because I knew exactly what would happen and when. I leave out the details of this lucid dream but it seemed to last for hours, I relived almost 2 days of a lucid dreamworld, it was incredible! It is the longest lucid dream I have ever had and a good example of how time is distorted and lengthened in the lucid world. At the time, I kind of realized it was a lucid dream but I also thought it was real and that I had the power to time travel. I knew I could wake up at anytime but the dream just carried on and on to my surprise!

Then I became 100% lucid while I was looking at myself in a mirror in my own room. It kept steaming up and becoming unclear, I kept rubbing the mirror to clean it. I could see my face in extreme detail, most of the time it looked exactly like me, I found I could change my features very subtlety, I was trying to make myself very handsome and it was working. My features became more defined and beautified, it was amazing considering all this is the result of my own mind power. When I looked closely, my ear was distorted and even hurt a bit. My face began distorting into a ugly face and the mirror still kept steaming up. I had to keep focusing to see myself clearly. I did this for almost a whole minute.

Then I remembered the things I have learnt about reflective surfaces being portals to the astral world. So I kept focusing on moving into it and then suddenly I switched into out of body mode instantly and I was floating up near the top of a different room looking at a different much larger mirror but like still within a 100% lucid environment (It could also have been an astral realm I am not sure). I floated there for about 30 seconds trying to take everything in. I just hung there, usually in lucid dreams, the concept of gravity makes me fall down slowly and takes mental effort to stay airborne. Everything was SOOO vivid. I could not see my body, I was like a floating point. But it wasn't real time as such, the room and surroundings were kind of old style, I cannot recall any specifics but there were other items in the room. There was lots of random astral noise, like I was picking up different radio signals, very clear voices talking about random stuff. I heard a name, something gaynor, but too random stuff to remember anything.

I decided to take the plunge and went into the mirror, it took me a few attempts as I had to float into the mirror and I kind of crossed through the barrier a few times, experiencing a strong dimensional change as I passed my head through, very strange sensations in my head. Then I was through completely. I was floating as though in real time zone in my sister's room. I could hear my parents coming back home from something and making noise downstairs, I really wanted to float out of the room into the hallway to see them and verify things. I was floating a bit aimlessly but kind of managed to control myself by waving my hand forwards as if I was swimming underwater (this was probably a mental technique with the arm), as I edged myself towards the door, I knew I had to pass through it, I wasn't scared so I tried it, but as I tried passing through the door, I lost the projection. This projection lasted about 20 seconds. On waking, I realized that it wasn't "real time" as my parents were sleeping in bed. It was as though I had travelled back in time to last night when they came back home

There was no false awakenings and no memory download, this must be due to the different mechanics as most of it was a lucid conversion. This is a breakthrough for me and I am becoming more accustomed to the floating point perspective which I now relate to projections as opposed to lucid dreams.

[Aerotus]

Interesting follow up to this experience...

13/08/05 7am

I made a conscious effort to AP as I fell back asleep this morning. I tried really imagining I was back at that mirror location floating there in the astral realm. Just by recalling and trying to recreate the sensation of what it felt like the first time round. Suddenly I feel sensations of my conscience moving and for 1 second, I was there at the same place again! However I felt I was not able to maintain it because I wasn't sleeping in the correct relaxed state.  

I believe this is a new technique I used was similar to phasing. I felt no energetic sensations, vibrations etc. Just a quick whoosh exit and I was there in the astral. I did not even go through a lucid dream.

I afterwards experienced further movements of my astral body swaying etc but no AP.

I had the feeling that mirrors do help with AP in some energy way. And that focusing on mirrors can help induce AP. Will have to try again.

This time it did involve some memory download. Perhaps having APs via lucid dreams are much easier to remember?