I don't know if this allowed or not but I joined a discord "Astral Traveler Institute" and had a conversation with the mod "bret" (who claimed to be a big authority figure in this reddit) and he didn't like that I said I was hoping to further my knowledge on astral projection to shift permanently so that I may continue my spiritual and personal growth. And despite trying to explain to him I believe based of my personal experiences, interviewing people, collecting date, analyzing testimonials, etc he proceeded to call me names, say I was mentally ill, and basically told me that all of you here hate shifters and think were all just a bunch of mentally ill losers who just want to escape and no other reason.

Now honestly this didn't move me and I found him humorous since he basically running a dead Astral projection discord because he questions everyone who joins and if he doesn't like your answer he calls you a laper and kicks you. But I'm welcomed here right? Like I would really like to further my astral projection journey with the help of this server and majority of yawl are open minded right?

I'm just asking this question because homie claimed to be an authorized figure in this reddit and was trying to basically debunk my shifting and astral experience and research by claiming that this reddit hates people like me. So I'm just asking if I'm welcomed essentially because I would love to talk and discuss my experiences with all of you.

Yo why do I always see grimes in the astrals? literally no other famous person just grimes, I’m not even particularly a fan, it’s been happening for the past 5 years multiple times a year, she’s always up to something, anyone else? I’m convinced it’s a phenomena at this point, seems like something she would be doing tbh someone needs to quiz her about this

Any ways I AP by using the Monroe rope method.

This particular time I tried as Im going fully into sleep paralysis, I start to pull myself up.

Only to find a humanoid entity/apparition pounce on me. I was not afraid but as soon as it made contact with my chest it produced a startle effect. It’s starts violently shaking and now Im freaking out. It raises a fist and slams it into my chest.

The sensation could be described as a vibration in my chest that felt as if my chest was going to explode, very intolerable. It also felt as if I was being tickled.

This was all in the span of 5 seconds and at that point i managed to scream out “okay, okay, I’ll wake up, I’ll wake up”

Upon waking i see an after image of it. Very freaky stuff.

I tried 4 more times only to become more and more aware it was gonna happen again.

Haven’t AP’d in months and im afraid to try again.

Anyone here with similar experiences? Or an idea of what might be going on? Thanks

I'm not talking about NDEs where someone dies on the operating table. I'm talking about someone being put under, say for a colonoscopy or dental procedure, and then going out of body.

I thought i woke up but i was still asleep, i could see and hear and walk around my room but couldnt see my hands.

I am not sure what I do is Astral Projection anymore. At this point I think I need a coach or something because I don’t even know what Is going on. Is this AP? Are these just hypnagogic hallucinations?

When the vibrations get me, I am not sure that I separate from my body. I see things through my mind for sure, and I have a hard time trying to keep my physical eyes shut during those because I keep confusing them with my “other eyes”. I see my room, today I even saw the neighbour’s roof, but I don’t feel like I am “out” with another body. I can control getting in and out of this state when it happens, I usually need a little break because the vibration kind of suffocates me. Are these just hallucinations? After some months in the community, I don’t feel like this is exactly what you AP people are talking about and I feel a bit lonely because I know that these experiences I have are real. Maybe they are just hallucinations, but they for sure feel way more different than a dream. It feels just like another reality.

I have a question. So basically I was trying to astral project in my room. So it’s dark but there’s still light so things are still visible. I was staring at my bunk bed whilst laying down. And like everything started to disappear and distort slowly. My body was tingling. Idk if this is me starting to astral project or something else. I just wanna know what this is! But I got really really scared and I always snap back to reality and everything goes back to normal. I wanna keep looking and seeing what happens after the distortions but I’m too scared

So yesterday I was trying to astral project. I was lying down, still conscious, and was about to try rolling out of my body.

The moment I tried it, I started seeing this bluish-violetish tinge even though my eyes were closed. I knew my eyes were closed and thought, okay, I'm about to project.

But when I tried rolling out again, I saw a silhouette against a dark background. It looked similar to my mother. Then this entity called out in an urgent tone, using my mother's voice, as if something serious had happened and she needed my help.

For a moment, I thought maybe it wasn't real and I should just continue trying to project. But at the same time, I kept thinking, what if my mother actually needs me?

I couldn't take that chance, so I immediately returned to my body and woke up. I went to check on my mother, and she was sleeping soundly.

Now I'm wondering whether these were shape-shifting entities that can take the appearance and voice of someone familiar to make you abandon your projection attempt. That's what it felt like to me, although I'm not sure what actually happened.

If something similar happens again, what should I do? Is there a way to avoid being distracted or frightened by these experiences and continue attempting to project?

When I was around 10 my grandfather passed and my father often spoke about him telling him that he was watching himself from above and that the roof had too much moss up there!

I have experienced NDE as a teenager whilst choking on my vomit after a bought of pneumonia. I don’t remember looking at myself, but I remember a strong sense of acceptance and peace.

When I was around 17 I had a crush on a girl in my year. We used to talk to each other on MSN and the usual. One day we both randomly messaged each other and said we’d had dreams of each other.. I asked her what she dreamt, and I said you go first. She said that she dreamt I was trying to find a toothbrush in the back of her car. The scariest thing of all was my dream I had I was trying to find a toothbrush in her car! Seriously, weird but that’s what happened. She was quite a level headed intelligent girl too. I still can’t explain that one to this day.

In 2021 I lost my grandmother and me and my partner held her hand as she passed. She began saying “she’s done it, she’s finally done it… Libby, she’s killed herself”… she was 99. She then started reaching out and rattling. About a week or so later I was in bed on my phone about midnight and my partner was snoring. I had the lamp on, the room was well lit wheh suddenly this black mass floated into the room almost motionless and pressed down ontop of the bed.

Last year I became involved with a local lady who was into the same historical studies as me and soon I learned she was into more in depth topics. After me telling her that we needed to cut contact with each other, my intense night terrors started. One night / morning I woke up and she was stood next to my bed grinning and waving. I’ll never forget the haunted looking face. Later that day she actually turned up at my house uninvited for this very reason. She visited me 3 times and my partner twice over the course of 6 months or so. I still can’t explain what happened and part of me wants to know: it wasn’t dreaming. I explained the situation to a friend and they said that she was astral projecting. At one point in a strange dream we had a full on lucid conversation. I have not yet confronted her on this and have no desire yoi as quite frankly it’s the most scared I’ve been in my life.

I want to ask you guys who have done Astra projection how it feels when you do it on your first time ,I have heard many times that people have seen many dimensions so can anyone tell in briefly what are the many dimensions that people are talking about.

When you are thinking it's time to go to the real world what you think in your mind about who to go back to ? Or just go near your body.

What type of entity can we meet in Astral world 🌍 how are doing this first time.

I am asking this because I am also practicing doing AP .

I hope I can find help from you guys

Llevaba un tiempo sin tener ningun tipo de amago de Viaje astral. Esta noche ha sido totalmente una locura. Voy detras de la razon que causan los viajes astrales. He tenido un falso despertar pero no en mi cama, si no en mi trabajo, me he despertado en el trabajo y me asuste porque ya era de noche, acto seguido me encontraba en mi cama con muchas vibraciones, y esta vez no me he asustado y despertado de verdad. He intentado mantener la calma, respirando para no perder el estado. Noto algo que me jala hacia arriba y noto ya que estoy fuera de mi cuerpo, sensacion de flotar pero veo todo en una penumbra que no me deja ver, intento observar las palmas de mis manos y veo una especie de fosfenos . Vuelvo a las vibraciones, vuelvo a superarlas sin despertarme y acto seguido me meto en un acuario por la parte inferior y vislumbro durante 2 segundos lo maravilloso que es. Ya me despierto del todo y me quedo bastante abrumado con la experiencia. Vuelvo a intentar de nuevo y en 2 segundos vuelvo a notar las vibraciones y acto seguido puedo mover los brazos astrales. He estado entrando y saliendo durante 6 o 7 veces seguidas. Lo que realmente me ha gustado es que he perdido el miedo a la sensacion de zumbido y vibracion y puedo soportarla, para mi es como un cohete despegando con una potencia abismal. Lanzo la hipotesis que cuanto mas aguantemos ese zumbido mas consciencia podremos mantener en el plano astral.

Me pregunto si alguien puede viajar astralmente a voluntad, siempre que el desee. Si alguien que le pasa, que me escriba un dm o me conteste por aqui.

Hi, my name is Lucy. I’m a 28f
I’ve always been a bad sleeper. I’m very familiar with sleep paralysis. I’ve experienced it for most of my adult life. Realistically I’d would say I can expect to experience it maybe 2-4 times a month. Might skip a few months sometimes, but not enough to where I fully forget about it.

Every time it happens I panic, every time I’m fighting to move, every time I find myself focusing on my breathing because if I don’t, I feel this overwhelming sensation on my chest. Some feel like they last for 2 mins the longest. Some I get out of quickly, but every time I am terrified.

I read an article about how you can turn sleep paralysis into something positive. By learning to astral project during it. I’m completely foreign to this. So I’m writing here to maybe learn from someone who’s already accomplished this.

Here’s what I know so far. Which isn’t much but pease correct me if I’m wrong on anything.
Sleep paralysis is the perfect state to begin astral projecting.
There’s certain steps to it. The vibration during a transitional phase. The separation phase of leaving your physical body visually, through the rope method or possibly focusing on floating upwards. And the astral realm, moving away from your physical body.
What are your opinions personally on the benefits to this? What would you advise me to do or not do? How do you personally start the transitional or separation phase? What more can you tell me?
I’m so curious to hear directly from someone’s experience. Are there good book recommendations on this?
You don’t need to answer every question but that’s just my staring curiosities, Regardless I’ll try to learn more on my own but would genuinely appreciate all input. Thank you.

As someone that has never experienced astral projection, I have questions for those who are;

- Can you also visit in the physical world and know what they are doing or only on the astral plane?

- Can you pick up on thoughts, emotions, actions, intentions etc. of people?

- Can you remote view past actions of people?

- Is astral travel also possible in the physical world without a body?

Thank You 🙏

This was the first time I couldn’t tell if this was an OBE or astral travel. Last night at 5am I saw a purple/maroon geometric pattern while I was sleeping, I focused on the pattern and then saw what looked like tree frog legs, one north/east and west in the peripheral of my eyes that then turned into 3 grey aliens hovering over my body. There was still this beautiful iridescent geometric lining behind them but I was terrified. This isn’t my first experience with aliens but this was confusing to me because I couldn’t tell if I was dreaming.

I experience life with aphantasia, meaning I can't visualize in my mind. It affects about four to five percent of everyone. So, for example, I don't see images in my mind when I read a fiction novel, and don't have a movie in my mind when reading fiction unfortunately. So I mostly read non-fiction.

It's not a defect per say; a survey of Pixar employees came back with something like 50% claiming that they had aphantasia, although I do wish I had a visual imagination. I'm creative in music and also visually in terms of design, and have somehow developed a lot of visual designs over the years for websites or other types of graphics. It's like I have a graphics card with no monitor.

A lot of techniques to instigate Astral Projection use visualization, but I don't have that as an option, and is frustrating. It's an important goal for me to have out of body experiences. What are some successful techniques that don't involve visualization?

Edit: I posted this to r/aphantasia as well and it got deleted by the modes for being 'pseudoscience'. A reminder that many people don't know that this is a way to experience reality on deeper levels.

last night when i was going asleep i could see through my eyelids. it was dim compared to actual vision, but clear enough. im confused because i could move around so i’m unsure if it could be sleep paralysis, I could sit up and turn onto my side, move my arms and blink. i was seeing shadow figures that were not clear but dark compared to the outline of the walls and the bed. i really freaked out because one came over me and when i turned from my back to my side one came up from the side of the bed. i only got to sleep by putting my head in the pillow so im sure i was moving. im house sitting this huge old house and im terrified of paranormal.

i’m not sure where is the right place to post this. pls lmk if this should be posted somewhere else.

It was a dark starry night and there were multiple trees with purple luminous hanging fruits. They almost looked like plums/apricots and there were also enlarged grapes. Most of the fruits were radiating and still hanging on the trees, ready to be plucked. The scenery felt holographic/almost like kaleidoscope colors. I reached this location after hiking through multiple trails after I left a casino. It felt peaceful and like I should eat the unknown fruits. I reached for fruits that were already on the floor before I could take a bite I woke up. Anyone else been here?

Has anyone seen this pit before it glows a radiant amethyst purple color. You can see the crystal formations as you peer down and a holographic grid as you peer down
You want to jump in because it feels like something you need to do to travel to another dimension but you are slightly intimidated.
I’ve been trying to find it again because I was to scared to jump in.

Have you guys been to the lab before? It’s inside of the hotel nuzzled inside the hospital after walking through active surgery’s, unkempt hospital beds
You have to go through a few sterile white hallways with double sided doors to reach the lab. I recently had a dream where I entered the lab and looked at a computer screen with some strange hieroglyphs esque coding.

This room had a large white cylindrical device that looked like it was part of a space craft it was 12 foot tall with maybe some sort of fan component
I felt a sense of doom looking at the thing.

I’m aware of how our brain works during sleep and upon waking and falling asleep etc. the different states of sleep. When I wake up, I lay in bed eyes closed and a screen forms kind of like a tv screen turned on. In the view I can see things like a person outside relaxing under a tree, or a street of people walking by, it feels like imagine sitting at a window near a busy street. You see people walking by. Sometimes the vision is of a random room I’ve never seen before. I try looking around the room to see where I am. The moment I get excited that I’m having this “hallucination” the screen slowly zooms out and then there’s nothing. I open my eyes and then close them again to try and get it back, after relaxing for a bit, it sometimes comes back and I get the vision again and of course it doesn’t last forever. My excitement causes it to disappear. This doesn’t happen often it’s random. Is it a hallucination because of how our brain works upon waking up? Or is this something spiritual?

An Amazing Story of Healing

For as long as I can remember, whether in dreams or in OBEs, I have been told that I have to empty the trash — basically, take out the garbage.

It took me a very long time to understand what they meant. I didn’t even know how to take out the garbage, because how do you take out garbage, right?

A year and a half ago, I went through a traumatic breakup, and I was so broken that I had no other choice but to lie down and meditate. I had reached the middle of my life, and I was completely heartbroken that every relationship and everything I felt I had tried so hard to achieve had just failed. I couldn’t understand why, and the self-blame was huge.

Honestly, I didn’t know how to fix myself, if there was such a thing, or how to even begin.

So, after the breakup, I basically just broke down and started meditating, studying, and attempting out-of-body experiences. I did have a few, but my body was in such pain due to years of illness and a car accident I had been in 25 years earlier.

By now, I was basically begging for help. Or you could say I was begging the other side for help.

And what showed up was a book called No Bad Parts about IFS therapy.

There was nobody in the area who could help me with this form of therapy, so I learned it myself. I started applying it in my meditations.

I soon found out that I could use it for emotional pain as well as physical pain. When I used IFS and accidentally fell asleep during a session, I would always end up dreaming of past lives that contained the sort of pain, trauma, injury, or whatever was bleeding through to my current body.

Alternatively, I would dream of the current past in a way that pinpointed exactly what the issue was.

After every session, I started the tedious work of releasing this trauma, breathing through it, talking to it, and it never seemed to end.

I also understood that every relationship and every situation I encountered out in the world was there to teach me something. Every time I got triggered, I eventually came to understand that this was not punishment. This was something trying to tell me something.

So eventually, I got pretty good at this, but it was very hard.

On top of this, I was accompanied by many very clear dreams that felt like out-of-body experiences, but with a reduced level of awareness compared to what you have when you’re astral projecting.

They would always contain information about what was coming, what I had to do, and where I had to look.

In the sequence I’m going to tell you about now, I first had a dream where I was told that I was going to get a new jacket. I was taken backstage this world and told that I was going to get a new jacket.

To be honest, I had no idea how that was going to work out when I woke up. So I continued the shadow work.

At one point, I met a person I fell in love with, and I was more occupied with being in love than with taking care of whatever I needed to do internally.

So I had a dream telling me, “Please come sort this out.”

And again, I’m like, what more can I sort out? The only thing I know how to do is IFS therapy and shadow work. So I’m basically going to go back to that.

The pain in my body from the car accident was increasing, and I started getting really agonized. My hands and feet were swollen and burning, and I was at my wit’s end.

By now, I had spent at least a year and a half doing IFS therapy and shadow work, and I was basically losing hope.

Last night, I lay down in my bed and completely surrendered. I said, “You know what? It’s okay. Whatever is going to happen will happen in its own good time, or timing.”

And I fell asleep.

But before this next sequence, I had another dream. As I was waking up, there was a voice saying in my ear, “I will see you soon.”

In what seemed like another experience somewhere between a lucid dream and an out-of-body experience, I met this priest — or someone who appeared to me like a priest.

Without any words, he basically ripped out a large quantity of tangled hair, black dust, and different items from my lungs and my back. I wouldn’t say it was a handful; it was much more than that. What he pulled out occupied the larger part of my lower lungs and the middle back.

Then there was this man standing at the other end. When the priest finished, the man started singing for me.

And then I woke up.

Today I'm free of pain. My hands and feet don't burn anymore and I can sing again. I've been dancing all day and the deep grief I held in my abdomen is gone. I don't even have back pain anymore.

I am, literally speechless.