If you want to know how to astral project, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve been having intentional out of body experiences and practicing astral projection since 2013. Ever since I had my first experience by accident, I became obsessed with trying to recreate the experience learn all about it.
I read everything I could get my hands on. I watched countless tutorials and tried all sorts of different techniques and even attended a 5 Day Out of Body Exploration Intensive at the world-renown Monroe Institute. It took me weeks of daily practice to finally have one intentionally. It was amazing, exhilarating, and totally mind-blowing. I didn’t know such a thing was possible!
How to Astral Project Safely for Beginners
TL;DR – If you want the skinny without reading the whole article, try this:
- Set your alarm for 4 hours after you go to bed.
- Busy yourself for 15 minutes, read about astral projection or OBEs
- Go back to bed. Try to stay aware as you drift off to sleep.
- When your body starts buzzing with energy (vibrational state), stay still, let go and relax. Surrender.
- Try an exit technique… Roll to the side, sit up, try to stand, or simply let yourself fall through the bed.
- If it doesn’t work out, don’t worry. Try again the next night. And the next. It takes practice!
Ok that was the basic step-by-step method on how to astral project. But if you want to know more about the nuances and common pitfalls, read on my intrepid voyager.
So What Exactly is Astral Projection?
To put it simply, astral projection is the experience of your sense of self leaving your physical body and exploring dimensions of reality akin to the dream world, aka the astral plane.
Whether it’s called astral projection, out of body experiences (OBEs), or lucid dreaming, it’s one of those things that you don’t really know if it’s true until you experience it for yourself. You may hear someone claim they had an OBE or read about people having an NDE (near death experience). The stories range from “I suddenly found myself floating above my body in bed” to “I flew through the universe, spoke to God, and got all the answers to life’s biggest questions.” Sheesh, that’s quite a range!
It’s all about consciousness. Is there one reality that everyone experiences? Or does each person experience their own reality inside their heads? Where do we go when we dream? Why does it feel real until we wake up? What is reality anyway?
Some people are skeptical if OBEs are real or are a just a “trick of the mind.” You can debate about this all day but the point is to try to experience it for yourself and come up with your own answers. Whether it’s “real” or not doesn’t matter. What matters is that you definitely experience something completely extraordinary. It will leave you questioning everything you thought was possible.
What’s the Point?
I didn’t realize I wanted to have an OBE until after I already had one. Once I experienced it, I knew it was something I wanted to keep exploring. But what’s the point? Why keep exploring? What am I ultimately after? To put it simply, to have direct experience of spiritual and metaphysical concepts. Instead of reading, trusting, or having faith in what you’ve been told by religions, science, or gurus about the nature of reality, you can experience it for yourself. Instead of endlessly seeking answers in books or belief systems, you can use dreams, astral travel, or OBEs as a learning tool or playground of consciousness.
Instead of looking “out there” for answers about spirituality, metaphysics, God, Heaven, angels, demons, aliens, ETs, faeries, spirits, ghosts, psychic powers, telepathy, remote viewing, or any of that stuff, you can experience non-physical reality for yourself. Now, depending on your belief system or current worldview, results may certainly vary! But the potential is infinite.
You may have heard the phrase, “we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.” This is just one way, albeit a very dramatic way, of experiencing this for yourself.
How to Astral Project: My Best Method
I’m going to cut to the chase and tell you the method that works well for me. I call it my “fuck it” method. The reason I call it that is because I tried lots of other techniques and when they didn’t work, I said “fuck it” and rolled over and went to sleep. Then after I stopped caring or trying, I ended up having one. So there you go!
This method was adapted from the popular WBTB method. This was the one that helped me the most!
First, let me say something really important. It’s not necessarily the technique, it’s more about your mindset and effort. To have an astral projection you must first have an open mind. Be open to the possibility of their being more to reality than what you experience with your five senses. The second thing is effort and practice. If you put in time every single day to thinking about, learning about, and practicing, you’ll be more likely to experience something. Many people try haphazardly and give up and say it doesn’t work. Some people try for weeks and months and years off and on and still never had one. I can’t explain why it comes easy to some people and harder to others.
Second, get rid of any judgements, stereotypes, or misconceptions. If you believe you can do it, you are more likely to do it. If you believe you can’t or it’s not real, then you’ll likely have a harder time. Just allow for the possibility to exist in your mind. What have you got to lose? Don’t get attached to any outcome or expectation. And finally, don’t take MY word for it, I’m just sharing what I know. I certainly don’t have all the answers! Try this out for yourself. Put in the time and do your own research.
The Wake Back to Bed (Fuck-It) Method
Step 1: Set your alarm for 4 hours after you go to bed. Yup, you’ll be getting up in the middle of the night to do this. For most of you, this is probably around 3 or 4 AM. The reason for this is to get some REM sleep and dream cycles in. You are more likely to have an OBE or lucid dream after you’ve already been sleeping for a few hours. You will be more relaxed and more “ready” so to speak.
Step 2: Keep yourself occupied for 10-20 minutes. You’re staying awake long enough to not fall immediately back to sleep. What worked for me in the beginning was to read about OBEs or lucid dreams. It also helps if you read or think about this a lot during the day. I also think meditating (or sitting in silence) for 5-10 minutes relax the mind and body and get you in a state of mindfulness. Mindfulness helps you stay aware as you drift off to sleep.
Step 3: Go back to bed, but NOT in your normal bed. Try the couch or a spare bedroom that you don’t normally sleep in. The slight difference in familiarity will keep your mind more “alert” so you don’t fall asleep as easily. Remember, we’re trying to delicately stay aware while our body drifts off to sleep. This is easier said than done, but it IS possible with practice.
Step 4: Lie still for at least 30 minutes. I know, this sounds hard, but this is important. Try lying on your back in a relaxed position. If you want, listen to a guided meditation or OBE instruction. I listened to Robert Monroe’s Hemi-Sync audios. Especially the explorer series because it guided you along. They are expensive, but you might be able to find them for free online to try it out. Look up Hemi-Sync or binaural beat meditations on YouTube. Here’s an example. Another alternative is William Bulhman’s How to Have an Out of Body Experience audio instruction.
He’s talks about a “target technique” where you picture a location that you know well and hold your focus on that location for as long as possible. If successful, as you fall asleep your consciousness will project into that location. I don’t use that technique, but I heard it helps.
Step 5: If nothing happens, just go to sleep. I would lie in bed listening to these guided meditations and binaural beats for sometimes up to an hour, with no luck. I couldn’t get relaxed enough to fall asleep, my mind was too alert. If this happens to you, which is likely, just say fuck it and roll over and go to sleep. Forget about having an OBE tonight, try again the next night. Loosely pay attention to any hypnogogic imagery (imaginations, visuals, colors, etc). Don’t have any attachment or expectation. You already did your practice, so good work.
Step 6: Notice the Vibrational State when it happens. If you notice a shift or change in your body where it’s now vibrating or buzzing with energy, this is the magical state you need to be in! This is a huge milestone, even if you aren’t able to actually project out just yet. For more info on the vibrational state, I wrote about it after these steps.
Step 7: Project out by rolling, standing up, or simply floating down. There are various ways to project out when in the vibrational state. If you read online, you might find info on the rope technique, target technique, etc. These are all just what worked for that particular person and not right or wrong. I found surrendering and letting go to be what worked for me. If I noticed myself in the vibrational state, I would simply stop resisting, stay still, relax and keep letting go. Just relax and relax and notice yourself floating down or up. I will float down through my bed and out of my body that way.
Step 8: Think, demand, or declare “clarity now!” When you have begun to feel the separation, if you aren’t automatically “out” yet, you can use your conscious intention or thoughts to say “clarity now!” or “doorway now!” This is somewhat an intermediate step, though. My first time having an intentional OBE I didn’t know these tricks. I just tried to physically get out and I noticed I was standing outside my body in my living room. I was able to walk around and act as if it were “real” life. I later learned that sometimes the environment gets fuzzy or you start to phase back to physical reality. And if that happens, you can rub your hands together (for immediate tactile sensations) or demand clarity and you’ll notice that your reality gets clearer, more vibrant, and more real!
Step 9: Leave the house, fly, or do something! Once you get out of body and things seem stable, do something! I typically leave the house through my front door (by habit). I know that I could walk through the walls or even think myself to a new location, but I’m not that advanced yet. While I’m out, I just notice how things look. Often they are slightly different than the “real world” I just came from. Sometimes I talk to people that I see (are they other astral travelers, dream characters, dead people, or what?). I sometimes look at my hands or what I’m wearing. I look in the bathroom mirror for weird results! This is up to you. There’s an infinite amount of things you can do in this state, and once you get here, your only limit is your imagination!
Step 10: Practice Daily! It’s important to regularly attempt astral projection. Seriously. The more you try, the more success you will have. Even if you’re not actually having full blown OBEs, you’ll still be cultivating mindfulness and sensitivities to your body’s energy. These habits will go along way in your own spiritual development.
Key Point: The Vibrational State
There is a certain moment when you know you’ll be able to go out of body. This is what is commonly called the “vibrational state.” In other words, it’s the moment between sleeping and waking where your body falls asleep, but your conscious mind is still awake. This is also called sleep paralysis.
What is Sleep Paralysis?
You may have felt this in the past and often associate it with fear or scary hallucinations. In fact, I used to have night terrors as a kid and have learned that night terrors are indeed related to OBEs, astral projection, and lucid dreams. It’s all related to the subtle phase between sleeping and waking.
Many people refuse to attempt to enter sleep paralysis consciously because they have had scary experiences during it. But it was actually my night terrors that opened the door for positive out of body exploration. I simply became aware of my night terror about to happen and when I didn’t resist and stayed mindful, that’s when the fear went away immediately and I floated out of my body. That was my first OBE and it changed everything!
Entering Sleep Consciously
Most of the time when you lie down to go to sleep at night, your mind is thinking a lot. It’s cycling through what happened earlier that day, what needs done tomorrow, etc. There’s lots of self-talk and daydreaming happening here. What happens for most people is they begin to fall asleep and they aren’t aware or mindful enough to notice it happening. They enter their first sleep stage unconsciously. The trick is to enter sleep consciously.
Mindfulness Matters
We keep hearing about mindfulness these days. It’s about awareness. Expanding your awareness and learning how to focus it. What are you paying attention to? Are you walking around sleepwalking through life or centered, present, and aware? The more mindful you are, the more equipped you will be to have an out of body experience. Practice meditation daily and use lucid dream reality checks throughout the day. Constantly ask yourself “am I awake?” or “am I dreaming right now?” My favorite reality check is to try to push my finger through my other hand. If it comes out the other side, I’m dreaming/OBE. Cool!
How Do you Know When You’re in the Vibrational State?
Your body will fall asleep (sleep paralysis) and you’ll feel a variety of sensations during this process. The sensations range from a full body “buzzing” feeling, to feeling “tingly” all over, to intense energy resonating throughout your body. This is often accompanied by sounds such as buzzing in the ears or what sounds like radio static or even voices! It can be scary if it’s your first time experiencing this. Try to be mindful and open rather than fearful or resistant. It can be weird at first, but eventually you get comfortable!
Experiment, Don’t Try too Hard
It’s a paradox I know. You have to put in effort, but you can’t try too hard otherwise you won’t be able to relax. Imagine meditating “really hard” so you can have a mind-blowing out of body experience. It’s not gonna happen (I tried!). The trick is to keep letting go and relaxing. This is why getting up in the middle of the night is so helpful, it’s easier to relax.
If you find a technique that works for you, keep going with it. Don’t hold on to any particular method. Don’t try to be perfect or get all upset if you can’t do it. It takes time, patience, practice, and dedication. But also openness, allowing, detachment, and letting go.
Good luck with your practice! Below you’ll find some of my favorite resources for astral projection, lucid dreaming, and out of body experiences. Feel free to share your own tips or experiences in the comments! Dive in!
Side Note:
I designed some patches for my fellow astral travelers. You can get them on Etsy or my other site Starseed Supply Co. Notice the “reality check” on the Lucid Dreamer patch:
Additional Resources:
Below you’ll find a list of some of my favorite teachers on the subject of astral projection and out of body experiences. Everything from books, to videos, to reddit communities. If I’ve left out a resource that you think would be a valuable addition, please leave a comment or send me a message.
Robert Monroe!
I have to recommend Robert’s trilogy of books. The first book is called Journeys Out of the Body. It’s old, but it’s a must read. He documents his discoveries after having a totally random OBE one night. He thought he was crazy, but what unfolded after was extraordinary! He went on to found the Monroe Institute which has been huge in research and education of consciousness. He’s no longer alive today, but his teachings live on!
William Buhlman
William Bulhman is an incredible writer and speaker about OBEs. He explains clearly that out of body travel (or astral travel) is key to obtaining your own answers to life’s biggest questions. You know, who are we, why are we here, what’s our purpose? He is a proponent of direct experience in spiritual or esoteric subject matter. Move past intellectualizing about non-physical reality and experience it for yourself as a path to personal growth. His books Adventures Beyond the Body, Adventures in the Afterlife, Secret of the Soul were all fantastic. I also recommend his audiobook How to Have an Out of Body Experience. He’s done some some really great interviews on YouTube if you look him up. Here’s one below I really think you’ll like:
The Path 11 Podcast and Documentaries
The Path Documentaries are brilliant. They are well produced documentaries interviewing many of the luminaries in the out of body exploration arena. They have so far released two films in their trilogy: Afterlife and Beyond the Physical. The makers of these films have created a new podcast too which is worth listening to.
Stephen LaBerge
Stephen LaBerge is probably one of the most well known writers and educators in the lucid dreaming field. He’s got to be credited with making lucid dreaming mainstream. His knowledge, teachings, and techniques are helpful to anyone looking to explore consciousness. His book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming is widely considered a must-read. I admit, I only got halfway through because to be honest his book was kind of boring to me.
Charlie Morley
Charlie Morley is another wonderful writer and teacher from the lucid dreaming school of thought. His book Dreams of Awakening blends mindfulness and Buddhist teachings with lucid dreams. He doesn’t get into out of body or astral travel much, but I think it’s a brilliant perspective to keep in mind. He’s also a breakdancer like myself, so he’s a man after my own heart.
Rebecca Turner
World of Lucid Dreaming – I can’t leave out the work of Rebecca Turner. I haven’t explored much of her work, but she seems to put out great content all the time on the subjects. She’s a great writer and teacher and shares so much. I think she’s great.
Robert Waggoner
Robert Waggoner wrote one of my favorite books simply titled Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. It was hugely relevant for me as someone who enjoys personal growth and discovery. He covered all sorts of topics related to consciousness and the metaphysical and provided some explanations and examples. It inspired me to look at my out of body experiences as opportunities to explore my deeper self.
Multidimensional Man
Multidimensional Man – I remember watching videos of this guy and feeling inspired. I admit I haven’t explored his entire body of work, but he seems to have produced a ton of great content about consciousness, awareness, metaphysics, out of body and astral travel and all that. Good stuff!
Teal Swan
Teal Swan has been a big inspiration for me. She talks about a TON of interesting topics related to spirituality, consciousness, and the human experience. She’s done videos about astral travel and out of body experiences that I think are worth checking out.
Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce – A kind Redditor /u/Atmic pointed out I was missing material from Robert Bruce. According to Atmic: “He’s my favorite AP researcher/author — very pragmatic, non dogmatic approach based on empirical evidence. I’ve even paid to work with him during a weekend seminar. He has a lot of great work, but the seminal piece in my opinion is Astral Dynamics. That’s a link to the 10-year revised/updated version, but the original is just fine if you run across it. You can get a taste of his style.
More Helpful Links
- Dream Views forum
- Reddit Communities: Lucid Dreaming, AP, Psychonaut, Meditation
- Movies like Waking Life, Inception, What Dreams May Come, Interstellar
- How to Astral Project from Shift.is
If you want 1 on 1 help with astral projection, I am available for coaching sessions. If you have any other resources for out of body experiences, astral projection, or lucid dreaming please comment below:
Mr. Finley, please I need your help. I have been traveling but not on purpose. It seems to happen when someone I am close to needs me. Once I was able to touch my best friends cheek and she could feel it. This only happens when I am awake and I can’t control it. There is so much more to the story. Is there anyway that we could talk?
Hey Jeff!
Ive had vibrations for forty years and have also explored meditation, astral travel and consciousness for much of that time. Yet it is just recently that i have discovered that these vibrations can lead to a consciously controled astral experience. Ive read Monroe and Buhlman and anything else i can get my hands on and im kicking myself for not realising what these vibrations were for the last four decades. Ive had many obe’s that i assumed were some weird lucid dream that started with the vibes and even have had what most would call alien abduction. But it turns out these all have been me unconsciously projecting. To the point: Now that im aware that i can consciously control the vibrations im having a difficult time of seperation. I see thru closed eyelids but during the vibrations its difficult to ascertain between my real body and astral body. Last night i tried the “now i float up” method without success. I then switched to the rope method in which i believe i was using my astral arms to climb the rope but it feels like my arms are in wet cement ie they are difficult to move. Any suggestions on seperation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
My suggestion when you feel the vibrations is to just let go and relax into them. Like you are floating in water. Let your self fall or float or whatever happens.
Don’t forget Robert Moss, an amazing author when it comes to lucid dreaming
My first OBE was in 1970 while in the Navy. While laying in my rack (bed), I felt and heard what would be described as static. It started at my feet and climbed thru my body. When it reached my head I was out of my body. I started keeping a journal of my experiences in case I could not get back into my body. I found that I could go wherever I wanted as fast as I thought about where I wanted to go. I met several other people in my OBE that were doing the same as I. It isn’t necessary to speak to them as our thoughts were a means of communication. In 1972 I was sent to Florida to attend a school in the Navy. I had an experience where I could not get back into my body. At that point I stopped all OBE’s. I have had the static come back but I fight it. It takes a lot of energy to fight it off. I have decided to resume my OBE’s. There was a quote in which Biblical reference was mentioned (Wikipedia definition of Astra Projection) in The New Testament. There is another reference with almost the same words in The Book of Mormon. Its worth reading as it describes a prophet’s vision.
To Mandy above,
This has happened to me so many times. You feel like its happening, you’re almost too scared to open your eyes to find you havent projected but still do and its always the same.
You must let go of any expectations and even resolve yourself to the fact you may never project awake, don’t assume that you will even if you follow all the advice, sometimes you’re experience will be subtle and different, so go with your instincts and try to follow your own path. It happened out of sleep for me and I am too impatient to wait and have tried many times but have never had a voluntary OBE, although I havent given up, I’m a little too wired when I go to sleep anyhow.
Another good read and one that is not an instruction book per se but is instructional in reading it.
Silvan Muldoon’s book called “The Projection of the Astral Body” is a diary of sorts about his life from an early age as a rather sickly child who ended up having involuntary and eventually voluntary profections for most of his life. There is a forward by Dr Herward Carrington who also takes part in the documentation of much of the books content.
It is most interesting to read of Mr Muldoons own experiments to try and rationalise his OBE’s but his accounts and explanations into the how and why of astral projection has given me many insights into daily life and certain anomalies that happen without reason.
For myself, I have had just one OBE, I was catatonic, asleep, but “awoke” and outside the house floating above the road, I couldnt move and was aware of my paralysis but not scared.
Was I dreaming ? many people have asked (or even stated bluntly that I was dreaming and it was all in my head) but I say to them “answer me these two questions….A/ how is it possible to see 360 degrees in all directions, only having to shift my perception to look elsewhere….B/ please explain how to go through a wall (there was a massive deep vibration on contact and powerful humming sound) and the sensation in doing so ?
They can’t answer these two simple questions because they havent experienced such things, so I say to them, how could I possibly dream something I havent experienced either ? at least something as alien as an OBE.
What I dont desribe to them is the blue tinge that everything had, I mean everything, cars, trees, walls, lamposts etc, almost if you were able to draw a thin line around everything and make it glow with a faint, blueish hue.
It was amagical moment that has stayed with me for over 30 years and is as fresh in my memory as the day it happened.
I can remember many years ago the fighting of “beings” while in a paralyzed state. I remember well the first time I made the separation. It was a scary experience. The next time it was like simply stepping into another room. No struggling or fears. Years have passed and now I find myself levitating in my dreams and moving around. At first I have good altitude but quickly are pulled back to levitate just above the height of people. I did not think much of it but I do recall just about every time it’s happened. Someone told me they think I am doing a type of astral projection in my sleep. I wonder now because I suspect that I stop breathing in my sleep sometimes. Is that a trigger for astral projection when the body stops breathing while sleeping? I’m not aware of any vibrations even from my first experience many years ago.
I am new to the concept of astral projection, and I have done much research on it. I have been trying to astral project myself for a few days, and I haven’t succeeded yet, but that doesn’t bother me because I’ve heard that it can take a while. I want to ask someone who knows a lot about astral projection a question.
Now we’re getting to the actual question. Although I haven’t successfully astral projected yet, something weird happened last night. (Well, it was technically very early morning, but I typically refer to my sleeping time as the night and my waking time as the day.) I was lying in bed with my eyes closed and began to feel intense vibrations all over me for the first time. Since I know the vibrational state happens right before astral projecting, I was excited. I thought I was going to do it! Despite my excitement, I tried to stay calm because I knew I wouldn’t succeed if I was too enthusiastic. I tried the rope technique. I focused on pulling myself up the rope without moving my physical body. I SWEAR I felt my awareness sitting up. I kept pulling myself upward until I felt like I was in a sitting position. Then I opened my eyes! I was lying in bed in the exact same position as I was before. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I know you can’t know with 100% certainty, but what do you think happened?
I’ve come up with a few possibilities:
1) This was a dream. When I opened my eyes, I just woke up. If this is true, this opens up another question, though. How much of that experience was a dream?
2) I was in the process of astral projecting, but when I opened my eyes to see, I teleported back into my physical body for some reason. Maybe I accidentally opened my physical eyes. The only problem here is that I don’t know how to open my astral eyes.
3) Instead of lifting my astral body, I simply moved my physical body, but I lied down super quickly before opening my eyes. I think this is the least likely answer since I’m PRETTY SURE I would have been aware of sitting up and lying back down.
Dreams are really astral projections, it’s just about how much conscious awareness you are bringing to it. You were conscious and aware and sat up, but then you “woke up” and opened your eyes in the sleeping position. Does that mean what you just experienced didn’t actually happen? In my opinion, you were astral projecting, having an OBE, etc. And then it ended and you got back into your body.
Hello Fellow Traveler – Many a time I have posted this awesome page in our Sleep Paralysis and astral travel Group.
This time Jeff, it caught the attention of friend William Buhlman and others in our group. William was quite impressed with your overview. As I and many others.
My group was growing very fast and rapidly as my Golden Rule was and still is (No Ridicule – No Debates) as my group was a one of a kind group that merged Sleep paralysis and Astral travel for the first time on Facebook. And due to it’s success it gained the attention of some rather nasty and negative jealous people. Who then decied to hack the group and rename it to something I wish rather no to repeat here. As it is disgusting. The members ( thousands ) naturally fled as fast as they could from the group thinking I was responsible as it was done with my facebook account and Facebook is puzzled as to how these hackers got in and hacked my account without alerting me as other times as I am an IT professional but no hacker. And Both facebook and I and many others are still puzzled as to how they achieved such a thing.
They basically destroyed and shredded all my hard work and research and thousands of posts with testimonies from people in this closed group who felt comfortable sharing and happy to learn techniques on how to transition from SP to an OBE or lucid Dream.
the Incredible people from the IAC ( International academy of Consciousness ) such as the amazing Nanci Trivellato who has just recently released her book ( The Vibrational State and Energy resonance ) and is unlike anything I an others have ever read.
Anyway, we wish to invite you to our group as William Buhlman is a member as well as people from the IAC and I-ACT – Bob Peterson and other Doctors and Scientists who are also what i like to call ( Frequent Flyers ) It was only less than 24 hours ago that William Buhlman saw this page from the group and liked it very much. As did a Doctor and Scientist who is an admin.
I asked William if he would recommend you to be part of our group and he replied with a YES. Many people love this page Jeff as I do.
My Name is Gilbert Warda and I am a Sleep Paralysis Researcher and also have experienced spontaneous OBE’s since I was of 7 years of age. As well as SP at the same age. I have had 37 years of OBE’s and Lucid Dreams – Precognitive dreams and have turned Sleep paralysis into something much much more and help others to also.
We really are interested and excited to have you as a member, given you are on facebook as i have not time to search.
This is not a joke. You can see for yourself. Come and and join us as I have had to rebuild the group and secure my account on facebook like no other. I had to learn how to hack to prevent hackers from doing it again and they are trying and failing miserably.
We are at : http://www.facebook.com/groups/SleepParalysis91/ – We truly welcome you and await your response. This page is pinned to the top of the group page and will remain there. You have done an incredible job here and it has been noticed. I’m sure Mr William Buhlman would like to meet you and become friends with you. As I and others as well. You are a beautiful soul and you deserve a place in our group. : )
Hi Gilbert, thanks for the invitation. I met William at the Monroe Institute in 2015 when I took his 5 day OBE workshop. Great guy. I joined the FB group and look forward to learning more about it.
I’m wondering if when you astral project you also have a spirit guide? Iv’e been astral projecting by accident and I don’t understand it, especially since not one website I have seen has described the experiences Iv’e had although I know it is astral projection because I get that same sucked out feeling that you are describing, where you just kind of go blank. But first time it was weird I saw all these lines, like infinite strings that I believe were people’s consciousness, I kept going, flying and then I came across this door but the door gave me really bad vibes. But I was curious, but then this man stopped me he said if I opened the door then I would be susceptible, and it would open my mind, to the things behind the door. He then led me back to my line, my consciousness, and told me I had to fall into it to get back. The man had heterochromia, which I wouldn’t have thought important but my brother who likes to read about these kinds of things (and also tells a lot of bs), was saying he could be a sage, and I have no idea what that means. Anyway how Iv’e been astral projecting in dreams is, i become aware and then I become bored and somehow from there I find myself at those lines of consciousness, and then i go back to my dreams because I’m scared of going further. Although I always have the feeling that the spirit guide is watching me. To be honest I thought this was some really elaborate dream, until yesterday, i found myself at the lines and was pulled out by someone else, a group of people we were in a building of some sorts, it was almost like I was on trial. They were telling me I had to join their group, that I was a danger to myself and I wasn’t worthy, I didn’t want to join any group I had no idea what they were so I left, the best way I could describe it is portal ling out, but whilst doing that I also disbanded them, somehow. But then I was lost, in other peoples dreams. I kept going in between other people’s dreams trying to find mine but I couldn’t find mine, so I don’t really know what happened but I somehow got out but I was in a place I’d never seen before, best way I could describe it is space, but I was swimming, but then my spirit guide man, finds me and he takes me back to my line, and I fall into it and wake up. They are the only instances I can remember. Although I do see the spirit guide man, and two others often, I think they are related to me, they made this place that I can go to and do go to often, probably because their trying to keep me away from the lines of consciousness, although I don’t know why. I have also experienced sleep paralysis a few times in my life, it honestly feels like if you don’t wake up you will die. I used to get them every week when i was 8, it then stopped but i had another when I was 12 and again at 14 and so far Iv’e never had it again. Iv’e also had future dreams but they’ve just been really mundane things, such as a conversation with a friend, or say a day a year from now, a moment i might see where i’m at a place doing something pretty mundane. I don’t have a desire to improve my Astral projecting I just want to know if anyone has experienced those similar things and if I’m doing anything really dangerous or stupid. Also want to know about this spirit guide person if this has happened to anyone else, and if anyone else has come across some sort of a group, whilst astral projecting.
Thank you
Yeah you can have spirit guides or soul family that feel familiar. They can be helpful and friendly and usually want to support you instead of trying to persuade you or control you. You have to be smart and use discernment like you do in your waking life. It’s hard for me to tell you that you are doing something dangerous because it is so personal and you are the authority on what feels safe to you. Follow your gut.
Hi Jeff, thank you, what a fantastic read ! I am very much wanting to try and have an OBE or many with any luck and determination.
I have in the past experienced extremely scary sleep paralysis where i felt i was being pinned down by some entity on my chest and being strangled. I was petrified and couldn’t resist it as in move or call out for help. That i never want to experience again. Lets put them awful experiences aside for now.
The next thing Jeff i want to mention is i have had what i believe to be a NDE. I feel after reading your experience Jeff and other peoples, that a NDE has to be very similar to an OBE. Am i correct in saying this? With my NDE i noticed that my soul had left my body cos i was looking down at myself in a hospital bed from the ceiling. I did not notice (or have no memory) when my soul left my body though. Next thing i experienced was traveling through a brightly lit tunnel in the sky. There’s more to my story but i will skip to me being again at the hospital ceiling looking down at myself being worked on by doctors. I then someone went back into my body and lived to tell my story. (Not that i tell it to many in case i get judged as crazy or ridiculed.)
Ps This was the most beautiful experience i have ever had !
Another story but i will make it quick. I had an operation a few months back and when i was coming out of a general anaesthetic i had an alarming but meaningful experience. I believe i was shown one of the lower spiritual realms and experienced for a short time what it would feel for my soul to reside there. As yet i do not fully understand why i was shown this but i do feel it was for learning purposes for my soul and for me to tell my story to teach others possibly. I do however feel that this was some type of OBE also. What do you think Jeff?
I have never tried to purposely have an OBE but i have been curious for a few years but never knew how to actually have one. After reading your great stories and advice, I am going to try. I am quite sure i will succeed, maybe not the first time but should get there as i can easily meditate. The only factor that could get in my way of succeeding could be fear. I will definitely do some white light protection for myself before starting so that i know i will be safe. Again, thanks for your blog, articles as it is much appreciated.
Hi again Jeff. Sorry but i made a typing error above!
Where i wrote ” then someone went back into my body and lived to tell my story.” it was meant to say SOMEHOW i went back into my body.
NDEs are indeed OBEs! Often they are just much more intense as the physical body has receieved some massive trauma and your astral body has popped out or dissociated. You realize you are still conscious, still aware, even though your physical body may be “dead.” Crazy huh? Sounds like you had some really interesting experiences that are very meaningful!
Thank you very much Jeff for replying ! Thanks also for affirming to me that my NDE was also a form of an OBE. I believe what you say to be the truth as you speak from your own personal experiences and i feel that you are always trying to achieve and learn more with your OBE’s.
I will go on to say that an important ‘factor’ in my NDE (OBE) was my feelings of bliss and unconditional love. I am not sure if i have used the best words to describe my experience but it was powerful and it will forever remain in my memory. On my journey i was met by a male energy and he asked me telepathically if i wanted to continue on or whether i wanted to return to earth to my body. Even with all the love that had swept over me i decided to go back to continue on leading my human life cos i remembered then that i had a young child and i felt it was best for him that i raise raise him, the mother.
I now feel that i have been shown through spiritual experiences two different planes of existence in the spirit world. The latter one was not a nice experience as it was filled with being in a continuous state of ‘remorse’. (remorse for wrongdoings i had done on earth to people.)
Winding up now. At this point in my life i am trying to make amends with everyone who may feel i have done them wrong at some stage and i am also practising forgiveness to others and not forgetting forgiveness to myself.. That latter experience showed me that this i needed to do for my souls growth as i then knew that my soul had lots of unresolved emotional pain. My hope is to visit these different planes in the spirit world again, especially the lower planes where i believe souls feel they are trapped and help them to understand that it’s only themselves or their way of thinking that has them trapped in a not so nice place. I plan to one day in the near future have many OBE’s and try to assist these lost souls or damaged souls so they too can experience a nicer existence. Have you ever gone to these other planes of existence Jeff? If yes, what were your experiences can you please tell me?
Thanks again Jeff, Sharon.