First conscious OBE

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I'm pretty sure you can teleport more or less anywhere you have awareness of once you've projected, as long as your higher self or things more powerful than you are OK with it.

If you think about the atmosphere of the place you want to be and imagine yourself there you should teleport to it.

Can you tell us more about your projection technique? How long have you been trying it and what have you tried that didn't work?

[Rastus]

Congratulations []

Yes, it's possible to go to the RTZ (Real Time Zone of the Astral plane, that is 'now' in Astral) from a LD (Lucid Dream).

Sounds like you started to OOB, but slipped into an AP?  Being blind for a bit may have cause you to slip into the pools of Astral reality.  The first big success makes the following attempts much easier (You KNOW you can do it, and what it feels like).  Working on Astral vision will help, and that should follow natually with regualar OOB practice.

[Perndog]

I just got into the topic less than three weeks ago and started devouring all of the Internet sources I could relating to relaxation, concentration, lucid dreaming, and OBE. I practiced about every other night, and I've tried a half dozen different prescribed techniques but I was never fully successful projecting with any (I did manage to achieve about five lucid dreams, however).

The ROPE technique described here on Astral Pulse has become my new pet method, because when I get my mental hand firmly pulling and imagine myself actually lifting up with the force, I can reproduce a pulling sensation in my upper torso and a bit of flash inside my eyelids every time. I just relax so I'm a little less aware of my physical surroundings and start pulling as hard as I can on the imaginary rope. It's exceedingly hard to stay focused on it, as my mind tends to wander off a lot, which is why I'm working on concentration exercises. I'm not sure how much bearing the rope had on my projection, because I was falling in an out of sleep and not actually concentrating on anything when it happened.

As for things more powerful... []

[Perndog]

To continue on my initial line of questioning, is keeping myself more or less in tune with the physical world (while outside my body) just a matter of extreme willpower and concentration, or are there necessary special considerations (such recreating a specific sensation or having a physical anchor to bring myself to initially)? Given the frequency of my lucid dreams lately and my progress with willpower exercises, it would be promising to learn that I could just mentally force myself from the dream into a real time astral state.

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I'm not really sure what all the shortcuts are, but in one of my projections I found I could access a control panel mentally. By selecting different parts on the control panel map I could teleport to various places.

I haven't recreated the control panel yet to experiment with it, so I'm not sure what its potential is. However a friend of mine discovered his control panel at age six and used it to activate his third eye, so these things are probably pretty powerful.

[Perndog]

I've been practicing various relaxation and visualization exercises for the last two weeks, trying to escape my physical body for the first time. Half an hour ago, I was successful.

I had been working on a concentration technique (staring at a really boring spot on the wall for five minutes) and decided to relax a little afterward. I tried the rope-climbing visualization and found myself slipping in and out of sleep in ten-minute intervals. After 40 minutes, I woke once again to find myself rocking back and forth on the bed (as if trying to rise to a sitting position) with extreme vibrations all over my body, and then I began spinning around on all axes in a gray mist with a roaring in my ears (I had a strong awareness of gravity as I turned upside down and back). I returned to my physical body and attempted rocking again, and the whole experience repeated. After I was back *again*, I tried a third time but now attempted to roll off the bed to my left.

I found myself sitting on the floor by the bed with my eyes closed - I concentrated on seeing, and my vision slowly cleared (though it remained somewhat fuzzy). I looked out my window, noting that the blinds had somehow disappeared, and headed for the door of my apartment, also noting a magazine lying on the floor (the magazine isn't there now). I walked through the door (interesting experience that was), and noted the hallway was different - doors in wrong places with no room numbers, and a big picture window (the hallway is interior). I flew out the picture window and over a river (there is no river here). When I approached the river to try and clear my vision (I thought it would be a good idea to make myself see ripples in the water to prove that I could see crystal clear), I was pulled back to my body.

The fact that I wasn't seeing physical reality with my astral body (outside of the direct proximity of my bed) suggests that astral travel and dreaming are closely related. I'm wondering, is it possible to will oneself into the physical world *from* a lucid dream?