Just a brief background on myself first. Last year I started having spontaneous vibrations at night. I figured out what they were since I've had a history of sleep paralysis over the years. Never had any interest in OBE. I have been taking small baby steps with this because of the fear and uncertainty of it all. I've learned mostly from following different forums over the months and the only book I've read is Astral Dynamics (cuz the older one is free online LOL). I usually avoid dealing with this most nights by sleeping on my stomach but then there are times when I wake up and really can't fall back asleep and then it seems unavoidable. Mainly I've had visions and a couple instances of being out of my body but not really because I want to. I still don't really have a desire to get out and walk around my house at night. I don't even like to do that when I'm awake! I have had a few lucid dreams too and feel more comfortable with those.
Anyway, last night I woke up, couldn't fall asleep, vibrations come and I decide to try to slip into a lucid dream and it worked. The scene I ended up in seemed pretty boring so I mustered up the courage and said " I want to speak to a teacher" because I want to learn more about all this. I phased out of that scene, got vibrations again, went through a dark earthy looking tunnel type thing, then kinda swirled around in a dream like cartoonish state for a second or two (reminded me of Disney's Fantasia) and ended in a room with a skeleton-ish thing sitting in a bed. I just thought it was weird not scary (I'm remembering to stay calm and send love to everything :-D). It seemed pretty unusual and it was talking but I couldn't hear it very well and I said "volume louder" (LOL) and it didn't work. I decided to leave and decided I'd try to go to Hawaii. Phased out, felt vibrations, next thing I arrive underwater looking at fish and thought it was so cool that I didn't have to breathe. Then I actually was chatting with a few people on the beach for a minute or so. I found myself very attracted to this person and decided I'd better leave before I do something stupid since I don't really know what's going on. Phased out, vibrations, etc. a couple more times in a couple more scenes till my husband woke me up.
I felt almost ecstatic like i had done a LOT at all once and I was also amazed that I felt rested when I woke up because my body had actually been sleeping. Cool!!
So what was all of that? Is WILD same as astral projection? Is that what I was doing? And can anyone explain why I get vibrations each time in between? There are many more questions swirling but I'll leave it at that.
I do have to add (since I'm taking the time to post anyway) that the last time I had a lucid dream I chose to go to my favorite beach chairs in Hawaii and when the scene started focusing in I saw a green figure (ET) in the chair next to mine so I left right away and woke up. ET- related things have popped up in my visions once or twice and I'm a bit disturbed by all of that.
Anyway I appreciate any input. This forum is great!
It's all a projection of conciousness, the awareness governs the terms used to label the experience.
Dream, has no real awareness, you go with the flow.
Lucid Dream, you have some self awareness and can interact.
Astral projection, you are the same you as in the physical, you also have full control of the experience, most often with a full waking memory.
There's a good chance you've already been in the last state and not realised it. Going to Hawaii by will is an RTZ projection by all accounts.
Keep reading the stickies, these will also help.
I don't get the vibes luckily.
I dont agree with Szaxx where he says going to Hawaii is an RTZ projection. It's actually very difficult to validate an RTZ projection unless you see somethng you were previously unaware of, and then wake up and confirm it.
I've never been to Hawaii before, but I think beeches when I think about it. So if I wanted to goto Hawaii whilst in a lucid dream. I'm sure i'll see beaches, or what I think Hawaii would look like. To confirm if I was really there or not, I'd have to see something and then confirm that it actually exists. RTZ can also have overlays, where some things are accurate and some things arent.
Personally, I find the whole concept of RTZ so unreliable, that its better to not even try. Just blast off to the higher focus levels and take your experiences there.
By the way it sounds like you're doing great with all this! Though its interesting how you don't want to be going OBE. I love going OBE and I cant understand why anyone wouldnt. Its like taking a heavy space suit off. Its so comfortable. No gravity, no weight, freedom to swoosh and swirl around without feeling dizzy. Its awesome. If I could go OBE at will I think it'd become a serious addiction. But I guess everyone is different :)
You're right on with the addiction. I enjoyed many an experience during lunchtime. All concious and done at will. This was back in the 80's.
The RTZ can be mixed up, that it's problem. In the 60's I had many an adventure in the RTZ with no reality fluctuations. The verification also came when I watched a storm while out rip a branch partly off at the top of a tree. In the morning it was exactly as seen.
The early days experiences were all RTZ ones. This also fits with most beginners too. The fun started at the end of the 60's when the astral proper opened up. It's never stopped, it gets better all the time.
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Hi Kalana. I'm new to this forum as well and reading your description, it sounds as if you're at the same stage I am. I had been experiencing sleep paralysis since I was a child. The usual waking up unable to move or talk, sometimes feeling a presence in the room (although on most occasions I could tell that this being was just my mind panicking), something holding my throat or 'sitting' on my chest, etc. Because of my age I thought this was a common thing that people felt through the night and never questioned was happening. The sleep paralysis episodes came to a stand still in my late teens/ early twenties. I did'nt think too much about it until one day, by chance, I started reading a book on astral projection and found the similarities between a.p. and s.p. too much to ignore. These past few years I have been trying to consciously project and only managed it a couple of times. It would be cool if you could keep in touch and share what techniques are working for you. 8-)
Hi Kalana and 21g and Welcome to the Astral Pulse! :-)
This Forum is loaded with great techniques. A great place to start is the Stickies. They are the threads in BOLD BLUE LETTERS.
Good Luck and Safe Travels! :-)
As per the discussion on the RTZ. I consider everything in this physical plane of existence. Hawaii (a place that I have lived), would be part of that as well.
My definition of this is the same one found here on Wikipedia. "In esoteric cosmology, a plane other than the physical plane is conceived as a subtle state of consciousness that transcends the known physical universe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(esotericism)
Thanks for the welcome Lionheart. There's so much information in this forum.
Thanks for the welcome and all the information in your replies. As for the RTZ experiences, I don't know what to think of them. I chose to "go to Hawaii" to see what would happen. Honestly there was nothing in my experience that gave me any indication I was there, other than the fact that I was at a beach, so who knows.
I suppose I'll eventually get used to having these experiences. I'm intrigued but yet I'm really not an explorer at heart by any means and thanks to my Catholic school upbringing I have "issues" to contemplate about the meaning of all this.
21g, I don't really have a technique. It just tends to happen and when I choose not to fight it and just go with it, I just wait for whatever visuals are going on in my head to take shape into something and I just get kind of pulled in sometimes. Happy to chat. Message me anytime.