I got into my designated spot to practice my AP (couch), so I meditate and do my mantra, after an hour I start to feel the vibrations, strongest I have felt yet and I continue to breath and recite my mantra and accept the vibrations as a good sign.
Now, once the vibrations start to wane, I start thinking of my front door and bam, I'm there! I turn around to see my front door I'm on the outside I see it propped open, it wasn't in the physical just in the non-physical. The first thing I remember to do was to fly, I forgot to do my other reality checks, but flying seemed good enough at the time. Bam I'm flying and I'm controlling most of the flight, hard to fly the direction I want to sometimes. Then I think I want to see my friends house who lives two states away, I fly directly and instantly to their house.
Everything went as I wanted, different locations as I wanted, awareness now when I needed it. Now, I don't know if it was an OBE/AP or a really strong lucid dream! At first I thought AP because of the strong vibrations, but I have heard of people who LD also experience to some extend the vibration state. LD and AP are essentially the same just on different plains of existence from what I understand and now I don't know what I had.
I suppose it doesn't matter since working on one improves the other and the two are my immediate goals, but again from my point of view it would be helpful to know which I had as a reference.
Tanks for any insight you might have on my issue!
I'll try to keep this brief.
Quote from: Machine1k on November 24, 2013, 07:57:37
I got into my designated spot to practice my AP (couch), so I meditate and do my mantra, after an hour I start to feel the vibrations, strongest I have felt yet and I continue to breath and recite my mantra and accept the vibrations as a good sign.
Sounds like a great start.
QuoteNow, once the vibrations start to wane, I start thinking of my front door and bam, I'm there! I turn around to see my front door I'm on the outside I see it propped open, it wasn't in the physical just in the non-physical. The first thing I remember to do was to fly, I forgot to do my other reality checks, but flying seemed good enough at the time. Bam I'm flying and I'm controlling most of the flight, hard to fly the direction I want to sometimes. Then I think I want to see my friends house who lives two states away, I fly directly and instantly to their house.
Projection.
QuoteEverything went as I wanted, different locations as I wanted, awareness now when I needed it.
Perfect!
QuoteNow, I don't know if it was an OBE/AP or a really strong lucid dream! At first I thought AP because of the strong vibrations, but I have heard of people who LD also experience to some extend the vibration state.
Drop the labels... they're useless, meaningless and only serve to confuse yourself and others new to this path.
It was a projection. That's what it was.
QuoteLD and AP are essentially the same just on different plains of existence from what I understand and now I don't know what I had.
As I said, "lucid dream" and "astral projection" are really useless labels. They aren't just "essentially" the same thing... they are the same thing. Entirely and exactly.
It's all a matter of perspective and belief.
QuoteI suppose it doesn't matter since working on one improves the other and the two are my immediate goals, but again from my point of view it would be helpful to know which I had as a reference.
You had a projection. You were aware you were non-physical. THAT is the only thing that matters... were you aware you were non-physical or were you not aware you were non-physical. Anything else is really meaningless.
QuoteTanks for any insight you might have on my issue!
Welcome to the forum. :)
Tanks Xanth! This is most welcomed news indeed!
How to handle using labels is going to be something I'm going to work on, I understand they are a handy cap but so hard to describe these events without them. That is just the inexperience on my part, I've only been into this subject for about a month now when I had a spontaneous OBE back in October. I've been trying to get back ever since and seems like I hit my first goal!
This forum is a wealth of information! I've got to wonder though how is this subject not more popular with the entirety of the whole world? This is like a birth right as humans that we have collectively decided to abandon.
Tanks again for the info Xanth! I'm going to keep working on this for the rest of my life heh..!
I just wanted to say what you did was brilliant. Well done. Xanth had great suggestions.