Projection Attempts Through Lucid Dreaming

[Providence]

Hey, newcomer here!

So I've been trying to project for over a year now. I've had minor success, but no full projections through meditation. Though I have had three particular experiences through lucid dreaming that may constitute as a projection. I don't have lucid dreams very often, but I've read of how it's easier for many people to project from a lucid dream. So every time I've found myself dreaming, I've immediately attempted projection.

I'll now describe each experience seperately:

1. My first time, I rolled out next to my bed. I didn't look at my physical body, because I was afraid of seeing myself. I simply jumped through my wall to outside. I then went to the park directly across the street from my house, and started trying to fly. At first I couldn't seem to do it, but then I began to levitate. I was in the air, but I couldn't get any momentum or inertia to move anywhere easily. This is all I remember.

2. This episode is the haziest in my mind. I recall being in my room, but finding it somewhat hard to move. Once again I avoided looking at myself, and walked through one of my walls. This is all I seem to recall.

3. This was very recently. I was up all night, and went to bed around 5:00 AM. When I projected through my lucid dream, I was literally thrusted out of my body, as if from a catapult. I ended up at the foot of my bed. It was incredibly hard to move. Harder than the other two times. It was as if I had some motor disability. My arms were stuck in a position against my chest, and my knees were bent. My head was also bent downwards, so I was looking at the floor. I felt disabled. I managed to look up somewhat, and I saw my legs sprawled out above the sheets on my bed. This scared me, and I believe caused me to go back to my body.


I'm posting these experiences for a couple of reasons. There are some questions I have regarding this, and I'd appreciate any feedback. First, during these experiences, I still didn't feel as if I was fully "there". You know how in dreams your consciousness is a little hazy, as if you're just letting everything happen, like watching a television show? It still had that hazy feel to it during these "projections". Do all projections feel that way, or was I not actually projecting? Also, does anyone have an explanation as to what occurred during my last projection, when I found it so difficult to move? Was it some sort of premature projection?

Any input, whether related to my questions or not, is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any help!

[Re]

Welcome!

Regarding the second question, I've had experiences like that when I was a child. It didn't feel like a dream at all. I would stumble around a room I could not see, with my limbs pointing in bizarre directions and my legs responding in strange ways. Everything was blurry and I remember thinking I was awake, but something was wrong with my eyes. I couldn't open them fully, and my eyeballs were all over the place. On top of that one moment I would be in one part of the room, and the other I would find myself back where I started, or somewhere else. It was very disturbing. As I wasn't dreaming, I didn't know how to wake up. It was very disturbing. Looking in retrospect I think I was experiencing sleep paralysis and uncontrollably popping in and out of my body. Does that sound like what happened to you?

[Xanth]

Hi Providence,

Welcome to the Astral Pulse. 

Hey, newcomer here!

So I've been trying to project for over a year now. I've had minor success, but no full projections through meditation. Though I have had three particular experiences through lucid dreaming that may constitute as a projection. I don't have lucid dreams very often, but I've read of how it's easier for many people to project from a lucid dream. So every time I've found myself dreaming, I've immediately attempted projection.

http://unlimitedboundaries.ca/2010/08/31/dreams-lucid-dreams-and-astral-projections%E2%80%A6-what%E2%80%99s-the-difference/
http://unlimitedboundaries.ca/2010/09/01/how-i-convert-a-lucid-dream-into-an-astral-projection/
http://unlimitedboundaries.ca/2010/09/11/how-to-have-lucid-dreams-by-summerlander/
Those are three entries on my website. 
You might find them interesting. 

1. My first time, I rolled out next to my bed. I didn't look at my physical body, because I was afraid of seeing myself. I simply jumped through my wall to outside. I then went to the park directly across the street from my house, and started trying to fly. At first I couldn't seem to do it, but then I began to levitate. I was in the air, but I couldn't get any momentum or inertia to move anywhere easily. This is all I remember.

2. This episode is the haziest in my mind. I recall being in my room, but finding it somewhat hard to move. Once again I avoided looking at myself, and walked through one of my walls. This is all I seem to recall.

3. This was very recently. I was up all night, and went to bed around 5:00 AM. When I projected through my lucid dream, I was literally thrusted out of my body, as if from a catapult. I ended up at the foot of my bed. It was incredibly hard to move. Harder than the other two times. It was as if I had some motor disability. My arms were stuck in a position against my chest, and my knees were bent. My head was also bent downwards, so I was looking at the floor. I felt disabled. I managed to look up somewhat, and I saw my legs sprawled out above the sheets on my bed. This scared me, and I believe caused me to go back to my body.

These are OBEs.  No doubt about it.  You were seemingly wide awake and making direct choices yourself.

I'm posting these experiences for a couple of reasons. There are some questions I have regarding this, and I'd appreciate any feedback. First, during these experiences, I still didn't feel as if I was fully "there". You know how in dreams your consciousness is a little hazy, as if you're just letting everything happen, like watching a television show? It still had that hazy feel to it during these "projections". Do all projections feel that way, or was I not actually projecting? Also, does anyone have an explanation as to what occurred during my last projection, when I found it so difficult to move? Was it some sort of premature projection?

The first link I gave you above might provide some insight to these questions... especially referring to how consciously aware you are at the time of the experiences. 

[OutOfThePrison]

I experienced an interesting thing about the "legs" in one of my few WILDs few months ago. I tried to look my legs after I fully seperated from my body(Once I read from somewhere that trying to looking to the legs will finish the OBE and send us back to the body)  I "succesfuly" found my legs in my physical body and my experience was finished I woke up in my body ..It was an idiotic experience I could not do that and enjoy the experience longer instead of making a test like that : D..My advise do not try to search your legs where are they when you're outof body or maby this rule is valid in the first times of OBE I don't know. My another interesting WILD experience was sticking to my room's wall and I fully feel the wall in my back as I was solid too. 

[Pauli2]

Providence: Request with voice or thought as determined as possible: "Energy now" I request energy now! I request clarity now, clarity now! I request mobility now!"

I don't know if this works, but the author Buhlman suggested to make requests or demands and make them verbally or by thought. Your subconscious will pick up what you say and try to enforce it, even if your awareness can't do it directly. If it doesn't work the first time, repeat the request: "Freedom now! I request freedom now! I want freedom now!"

[Providence]

Thanks everyone, this will help me a lot!