My first AP

[catstorm3]

I started in December last year trying to AP. Finally after about 6 months I GOT IT.

I used: affirmations method, Lucidology 101, and the timer method. Affirmation "I will astral travel, I will leave my body" on and off for the past 4 months.

Time was somewhere between 9:00PM and 10:30PM. Author of Lucidology 101 says OBE almost not possible except for in the morning, but I proved him wrong!

I went to bed clutching the cans of my bio-feedback meter, and a torch. Baby and wife safely in bed, long day over.  (Nap during the day at 12:00PM for about 1 hour). This was my time. I blacked out for a few minutes it seemed... then all hell broke loose.

I was in the vibrations. I must say it was terrifying and felt VERY strange. Scary and felt very dangerous. I went with the advice, and relaxed into it. I wanted to resist, but I knew it was the wrong thing. Not resisting was like jumping off an airplane. True enough, I went through the vibrations.

The books never mentioned you would feel so strange and so unnatural. Your  every instinct is to resist. That weird feeling felt like I was going to die or something. I had it a few times during the vibrations.

I was surprised the vibrations didn't wake the whole neighborhood, and didn't rattle every bone out of my body. The sound given in Lucidology 101 emulating the vibrations were really close to how it felt.

Then I came through them. I then struggled various ways to get out of my body. I seemed stuck to the thing. I floated down and then I tried to float up. Eventually I got free and I flew the hell away from my body, a far distance out of my room and into the suburb. That worked.

My clarity of vision was about 40% and recall about 40%. I know it must be able to be much better.

I ran around in various settings. Once I rolled around in the grass and felt the grass on my hands. Some kind individual held my hand so that I could feel. The reality of being in another body felt less than in the lucid dreams I've had where I was 100% in another body. This felt more .... blurry?

The best part for me was the music, which I had also heard in a lucid dream. It was simple yet hauntingly beautiful, hearing it as I was with non-physical ears. I like heavy metal music but this was closer to classical. The type of music you might expect to hear in heaven.

Then the Timer Beeps (from 101) irritatingly brought me back. Not sure if I had the volume in my headphones too high, or if that is why it succeeded in the first place.

I lay there for quite a while, still mostly paralyzed, aware once again of breathing. I wanted more than anything to go again, but I was too excited about what had happened. So I got up had a cigarette. To my pleasant surprise it was only 10:40PM (we must get going by 4:30-5:00am).

Should I have laid there longer trying to get out again?

I am so pleased. What really worked was a 100% commitment to getting out, reading up lots and lots, and of course Nick Newport's 101 (and some of 102). I am even more committed now to getting out on a more frequent basis.

Alcohol turned out to be a big liability, and I'm glad I'm over that self-defeating cycle.

[Greytraveller]

catstorm
Let me be the first to congratulate you. Thanx for sharing and posting your OBE here.

That first OBE is something that you will never forget and it appears that yours was better than most first time experiences. That you managed to float inside your room And then fly outside the building over the neighborhood makes your first OBE a rare event.

btw is the Lucidology method to be found anywhere online?? If so could you please provide a link??

Thanx
Grey

[catstorm3]

Hi Grey

Thanks for the feedback!

btw is the Lucidology method to be found anywhere online?? If so could you please provide a link??

Try this thread: http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_obe_discussions/a_very_effective_product_for_projection_obe_ap_oobe-t29674.0.html

[forynav]

Hearty Congrats catstorm!

I just finished reading Will Buhlman's book and that itself was a WONDERFUL experience. If you haven't read it already, do so. You can do so much out there!

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Then the Timer Beeps (from 101) irritatingly brought me back. Not sure if I had the volume in my headphones too high, or if that is why it succeeded in the first place.

Great story, thanks for posting!

Yeh, the timer beebs could have been the event that helped to save a clear memory of the experience.

Robert Bruce covers memory factors in Astral Astral Dynamics and mentions advice to return early to the body for better chances of remembering.

Good to hear of your success with Lucidology 101. I subscribed to the series on YouTube, lots of stuff to cover, still working on it.

Here's one of them, have to search to find part 1.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_frSh_EQU8&feature=related