Pets

[Blazewind]

I am wondering your experiences with your pets and your astral projections or attempts to do so.  I would think this is mostly relevant to cats and dogs, because they are generally loose in the house, but of course anything could apply here.  If you are someone that happens to have an animal sleeping in your room with you, has it ever been a problem for your practice or travels?  Haha, do they actually ever notice non-physical bodies?  I'd be curious to hear about anything involving animals and OBEs, mostly because it might be a cool topic in here.  

For myself personally I have one pet cat, who likes to sleep curled up most of the night on the end of my bed.  (fluffy little foot warmer it seems, lol.)  She'll jump up there if I nap too.  So far I've never had any real trouble practicing with her on my bed.  But once in a while she likes to randomly sit or lay on top of me, and I'm a bit worried about getting jumped on.          

[raditus]

lately, I have been letting Callie, one of our indoor cats sleep with me in bed all night.

I stopped AP'ing for a bit. Last night, I read about Dr. Bruce Goldberg and some article on how to teleport. I viewed this as nothing more than one more path to AP. I decided experiment with blending in some elements for this and the way I usually do it.

I got to the body-void-feeling and soon drifted from this to a light sleep. I became half awake and felt the presence of something in the room with me. Not evil or anything, but was just there and had sort of a slightly cheerful air about it. But kind of like cheerfully manic slightly. Hard to describe. Then Callie starts acting lovely and pressed against my legs and decided now would be a great time to knead my side and the side of my legs. I have to shift around in bed repeatedly to get her to get off my case. By then, the presence is gone. My concentration is ruined for AP. Needless to say, Callie is going out the room-door whenever I AP.

Now, I assume I was headed into SP and Callie must have noticed something not right and did what she knew of to make me so uncomfortable that I snap out of it.