Lucid to Astral

[Jaylon]

I've tried meditation, I've looked at so many videos, read on so many ways to Astral Project but I only get so far then... nothing, I don't project.
I can at-least dream every-night and I can become lucid if I really want to. I've read a few ways to go from Lucid Dreaming to the Astrals but it's a little confusing for me. Could someone explain in a semi-simple way to go from LD to AP? I know once I am lucid in my dreams I will have the very next intent to AP but "how" is the problem. I also hate to post this topic because I know it's been asked before but, I'd really love it if you all could help in anyway you can . Thank you so much for all the tips and methods!

[Xanth]

I've tried meditation, I've looked at so many videos, read on so many ways to Astral Project but I only get so far then... nothing, I don't project.
I can at-least dream every-night and I can become lucid if I really want to. I've read a few ways to go from Lucid Dreaming to the Astrals but it's a little confusing for me. Could someone explain in a semi-simple way to go from LD to AP? I know once I am lucid in my dreams I will have the very next intent to AP but "how" is the problem. I also hate to post this topic because I know it's been asked before but, I'd really love it if you all could help in anyway you can . Thank you so much for all the tips and methods!

You already can project.  You just said it yourself, but you're too caught up in labels to realize it. 

"I can become lucid if I really want to"  <-- THAT is all an "astral projection" is.  So, as you can see, you're already better and more experienced at it than you even know.

Give this article I wrote a read:  http://www.unlimitedboundaries.ca/2012/07/22/labeling-experiences-of-the-non-physical/
Then give my book a read:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39504726/Phasing_Primer.pdf

Let me know if you have any questions. 

[IsayWhaat]

I wanted to do the same thing. I had LD's, but tried so hard to go AP. Not only that I had, simply said, wasted my LD's and my time in non-physical, I also stopped having LD's for few months.

You are projecting this very moment, here in physical reality. Everytime you dream, you are projecting in non-physical. Don't try and change your experiences. Live them, try and experience them fully, regardless of what you think. Observe and feel each and one of them, because they are happening. You have to throw away your expectations of what do LD's look like and how does AP look like. The difference is not what you imagine it like. I know, because I also thought the same thing and tried the same thing literally 5 months ago.

I guess, as you go, you grow, same way you grow here in physical, you grow there in non-physical. When you made some bad decisions and got burned here in physical, you grew wiser (at least I hope you did ). Same thing with non-physical. Everytime I tried to do something that includes methods, it would end up in failure. Just go along with the experiences and they will lead you. I actually stopped having LD's and stopped dreaming for a while after all the "attempts" to reach this so-called Astral projection. (Because I created this belief, this expectation of what it should look like). After a month or so, I stopped thinking about it, or wishing for it. Kinda stopped trying. At that moment when I did so, I started having these amazing and scary experiences. My guess would be, that at the moment I stopped caring I actually disposed of all of the expectations and beliefs. Now, I understand what it means. You will too. Just go along. Don't force anything. Like Xanth said, you are already having astral projections, you are just not seeing it.

[ThaomasOfGrey]

I've tried meditation, I've looked at so many videos, read on so many ways to Astral Project but I only get so far then... nothing, I don't project.
I can at-least dream every-night and I can become lucid if I really want to. I've read a few ways to go from Lucid Dreaming to the Astrals but it's a little confusing for me. Could someone explain in a semi-simple way to go from LD to AP? I know once I am lucid in my dreams I will have the very next intent to AP but "how" is the problem. I also hate to post this topic because I know it's been asked before but, I'd really love it if you all could help in anyway you can . Thank you so much for all the tips and methods!

If I am correct you are talking about raising your awareness within lucid dreams to the point of having high enough awareness to call it an astral experience. I am working on the same thing right now and here is what has helped me. Consistently log at least a couple of bullet points about your dreams; do it as soon as you wake after scrubbing your memory for dreams. This will increase your lucidity and increase the chance that you become fully aware.

If you do become aware enough to form free thoughts you have to remain calm, solidify the experience by touching the ground and then you are in control. I have only had the awareness to take control of my dreams a few times; even when I realize I am dreaming I still don't have enough awareness to leave the situation most of the time.

I am currently trialing the use of reality checks as a method to automate this awareness process. I just downloaded a lucid dreaming app with a built in reality check reminder to get in the habit. I have been doing this for about a week now and haven't had any hits in lucid dreams every night, but if it does start to work it will go from useless to the best thing ever pretty quickly.