Anyone ever tried a simple experiment...

[Milkdrops]

Anyone ever tried the following experiment:

Tell a friend what your about to do. Just before starting to meditate or to sleep or whatever make sure you tell your friend to come into the room when you are well into meditation/sleep. Ask your friend to do a specific set of actions and/or arrange things a certain way. This is all while your physical body is deemed "out of action" and your astral body is watching him and recording what he or she does. After returning you can report on what he did while you were not in your physical body. This could be pretty interesting if done right.

Its important of course to allow a fair amount of time to ensure you have entered the astral realm before the person enters the room and performs his or her actions and it might also be worth the person checking your physical body to confirm you are indeed in a deep trance or meditative state.

Anyone ever tried this? if not and your able to astral project - why not I mean its a pretty easy experiment to do with no cost or complications.

[keyangen]

How can they be sure you didn't just open your eyes and look around to see what has changed? Maybe it's a good idea to do the rearrangement thing in another room?

[catmeow]

Actually, I did a similar experiment as a teenager.  I taught myself hypnosis and used the technique to hypnotize my mother, amongst other people.  But my mother was the most psychic.  When hypnotized I asked her to describe what I was doing in the room.  She had her eyes closed and head turned to one side.  She was definitely not cheating.  Anyway, she described precisely my movements around the room, where I stopped, which objects i picked up etc.  In particular she described me picking out a couple of flowers from a vase.  Then, spookily, the tone of her voice changed and became sad... "oh they've all broken..." she said.  A second after that, the flowers just disintegrated as if they had blown up - all the petals just dropped off!  Now i know she could have picked up clues by simply hearing my footsteps around the room, and perhaps she could even hear which objects i was picking up, but it was still a very powerful validation.  My mother also exhibited "travelling clairvoyance" when hypnotized. I could ask her to travel in her mind to a place and describe it.  The few times I did this she was always accurate.

[Milkdrops]

Yes I suppose your right it would work better if the person is in another room alltogether. It would totally eliminate any chances at cheating.

And interesting account Catmeow.