This morning I used the WBTB method to induce a lucid dream together with a affirmation "I am aware in my dreams" before drifting off to sleep again.
I then had a lucid dream where I was walking from one end of the house down the hallway into the living room and in the middle of the living room I began floating instead of walking and went into a wall, but didn't end up in the room behind the wall but instead in the room where I was sleeping, and after some time unable to move I woke up.
The point here is that my wife is late in a complicated pregnancy and is therefore sleeping in another room close to the living room. She was awake when I had this experience and told me afterwards, that she heard footsteps in the living room at the same time of my experience. She said she thought that I was coming to light up the fireplace, which I do in the morning.
She heard the footsteps in the same pace as i remember me walking and also stopping well into the room (like I remembered starting flying).
And this is not the first time she heard footsteps. There was also another morning where I had a lucid dream in the living room, where she heard footsteps.
Could this be a validation that you're out of body or like a "ghost" in the physical?
Anyone has experiences like this or can explain why footsteps can be heard?
BTW: I can really recommend WBTB for beginners, who are not feeling they make progress. It can give you some quick experiences that will keep you motivated.
You can have any kind of (tele/psycho/electro)-kinetic effects when projecting.
Sylvan Muldoon produced knocking and raps on the wall. Another user in this forum did so on a regular basis too (he is no longer active here).
In one story in literature, an APer went to the house of his father and was seen by him "like a ghost".
Monroe wrote in his book that he 'pinched' another person who noticed it.
While it might happen in waking state, I think is still possible that the person who experiences it is in a trance-like or hypnagogic state and then there are senses and channels open (astral sight/hearing etc.) to experience the astral. Maybe you can ask your wife if she was really 'fully awake' or at least in half-sleep, drowsy etc. Another possibilty (not excluding the first but adding to it) is that people who are relatives or near and emotionally related in some way share a telepathic connection. This might have helped too.
Hi Volgerle,
Thanks for the answer. As you suggested she was just about to fall asleep, when she was disturbed by the footsteps. So does that mean that we had a sort of shared experience in the astral?
This is really interesting and it could also mean that "Ghosts" encounters in many cases could be other people dreaming/APing.
Your wife's pregnancy might also have helped her notice your presence. Often women find they are more perceptive and many have heightened psychic abilities when they are pregnant.