people trying to AP, DON'T GIVE UP!

[loppoppy]

I have astral projected many times, sometimes when i am concious and awake, sometimes when i am asleep. I first stumbled upon astral projection whilst looking up the other planes of existence. Astral projection caught my interest because it sounded like an experience a friend of mine had been through. After talking to my friend about it we decided to start learning how to astral project. At the beginning i always had a little doubt in my mind that it wasn't possible or that the astral did not exist. A few months had passed and my friend told me excitedly that he had done it! i told him my doubts and he reassured me and urged me to continue trying. I doubled my efforts and about a month after the following occured:

After i had failed an attempt to project conciously i went to bed and fell asleep. Next thing i knew i was outside my body and my friend was standing in front of me grinning. He said:
"you've been floating there for ages like you were in a trance or something..."
I replied: "is this a dream?"
he said "does it feel like one to you? it sure doesn't for me!" (trust me when u AP whilst asleep, you know when it's not a dream! u just feel it (=)
My friend then flew up through the roof and in my shock and amazement i returned to my body and woke up. It felt like something had pulled me back. After researching into this i concluded that i was still sensitive to the astral plane and my sudden reaction caused the cord to pull my astral body back into my physical body as an automatic defence which would usually happen if the experience became frightening and risked becoming traumatic to a person who was not ready to project.

The next morning i met up with my friend but did not ask him about what had happened, just in case it was a dream. I wanted him to mention it so that i knew it was real! and he did! the first thing he said to me when i saw him was:
"where did u go last night i thought u would have followed me outside!?"
yet again i was shocked! i explained to him why i returned to my body and he told me it didnt matter anyway he didn't last much longer things started getting blurry and then he didn't remember anything after. We concluded that this was also because he wasn't used to the astral plane and he couldn't maintain the projection for very long in the early stages.

I've read a lot about people struggling for their first proper projection and i thought i would tell this story because it proved to me a lot of amazing things about the astral plane.
1. IT EXISTS! WOW
2. IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET THERE! WOOO
3. YOU CAN MEET OTHERS THERE! =0

when you get there you will understand, and you'll want to keep going back =) it's a whole new world opening up for you and also helps in the ability to lucid dream, and to take control of your dreams making anything possible =).
so if you haven't done it yet, don't give up! it's worth the time and effort! and if anyone wants tips or has any questions or problems i'll do my best to help out!! =)

[Endless Dave]

Thank you for your encouraging post! It ties in nicely with my recent "Verifiable proof of OBE's" topic...

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_obe_discussions/verifiable_proof_of_obes-t27952.0.html

It's great that you have had that experience with your friend that has shown you the reality of projection. I am hoping for something similar when I manage to achieve it.

Also, it is great to find so many "normal" people giving "normal" accounts of their experiences.....as opposed to airy fairy new agey language which most people aren't supposed to understand. Apologies if that causes offence to anyone, my point is merely that it is very exciting to realise that OBE's can happen to anyone, it makes me much more inclined to take my attempts at exploration seriously. On that subject, this "normality" is what lead me to purchase Preston Dennett's book, after having listened to this interview...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ZVQ69bm2s&feature=related

I love the way he comes across as a regular guy who has just stumbled across these amazing experiences that have completely changed his life.

[Greytraveller]

This is one of the best cases of a shared (and verified) OBE(s) that I have read.
It seems somehow ironic that it happened to a first time OBEer.

btw loppoppy - have you had any more shared OBEs with your friend. Such OBEs are relatively rare.

Grey

[loppoppy]

haha yeah, i sure had one hell of an experience to inspire me onwards! =)

ah yes i believe they are so rare because it is difficult to maintain realtime projection due to stray thoughts and feelings...so for two people to maintain it and meet would be difficult.
As me and my friend do much meditation to keep our minds as quiet as possible when we need them to be and as we have experienced the astral enough times so that it no longer overwhelms us so easily we have managed to meet up on quite a number of occasions. My longest experience with him was about 10 minutes long i estimate..
I guess it is a rare case for two people living near eachother to have the ability to maintain a projection long enough to meet up, but yes we've managed it =).