6 Months of Experimenting With Astral Projection
Mastering the art of intentional out-of-body experiences.
Have you ever laid in your bed, left your body, flew outside and saw your girlfriend driving a car down your street?
I have.
On January 1st, 2020, I made my resolutions as usual. However, 2020 would be dedicated to becoming more spiritual.
That meant regular meditations, and learning about different spiritualities.
Little did I know that in 2020, we would all be forced to be locked down in our houses with ourselves. Some might say this was a blessing in disguise.
I took this opportunity to practice different meditations for hours a day and spent a lot of my time reading, talking to experts and watching Youtube videos. Eventually, I stumbled across astral projecting.
That’s where things got interesting.
Astral Projection: A term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of a subtle body, known as the astral body or body of light, through which consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout the astral plane.
How do you successfully astral project?
I should give a warning first… it’s not particularly enjoyable to try. You will fail multiple times. When you fail, you often ruin your sleep in the process.
To astral project, you have to wake yourself up during REM sleep, and then start meditating.
As you meditate, you will start to feel your consciousness separate from your body. At one point, you may even feel your body start to shake slightly. That’s where things get hard because you may wake up completely.
That’s where you have to just keep breathing though.
You will become more aware of your consciousness (or your “astral” body) and eventually, you will be able to pull yourself out of your body.
One way to do this is to grab onto an invisible rope and pull it until you pop out of your body.
Again, this may wake you up completely, that’s why you have to keep breathing steadily.
Once you pop out of your body, your time may be limited, but each time you practice this, you’ll be able to stay here longer.
You are now astral projecting.
What it feels like to astral project.
It will feel almost like you are dreaming but have full control. While you are astral projecting, you can walk or fly/float around.
Now, some people will want to separate astral projecting from remote viewing, and I understand why. However, not everyone will believe in “the astral realm” and through what I have seen, I believe this realm is really still just your consciousness separating from your body.
The astral realm is not separate from our regular world, but instead just a different way of exploring it.
When you astral project, you are able to walk (or fly) around our world.
This sounds ridiculous at first, but the more you do it, the more control you’ll have, and the more you’ll realize that not only is this very real, but it’s very useful.
A tool to find lost items.
One of the most useful ways to use astral projection is to use it to find lost items. Yes, I know, this sounds pretty anti-climactic, but it’s practical.
Time and time again, while astral projecting, I’ve wandered around my house and found items I didn’t know were there. When I was fully awake, I would go check to see if those items were there, and guess what… they were.
Every. Single. Time.
I have found coins that were hidden under the couch, my computer mouse that was lost for months, an iPhone cable, keys, TV remotes, dog toys, utensils, an ID, and many more things.
One time I even noticed exactly how dusty it was under my couch and then went and cleaned it shortly after.
Needless to say, the months of messing around with astral projection resulted in my house becoming much cleaner.
Flying never hurt anybody, right?
The better I got with astral projecting, the more I kept pushing it. Eventually, I was able to start leaving my house.
I would be wandering around my house and then fly directly out the window, through my ceiling, or through my walls. From there I would see people walking their dogs, and birds flying by me.
The issue I had was that once I left my house, it was hard to stay out of my body for more than 30 seconds.
Out of the many crazy experiences I had, the craziest was when I saw my girlfriend (at the time) driving home. I was astral projecting flying around outside and saw her driving towards my house.
I followed the car all the way until she got to my house. The moment she was about to walk in, I woke up, sat up in bed and greeted her. She was shocked.
That was the experience that really let me know that this was real.
You can make your consciousness leave your body, and you can witness things in real time.
And let’s be honest… flying is pretty awesome.
How it all ends.
It’s actually a really weird feeling when you finish astral projecting. Most of the time it feels like your is being pulled backwards into your body and then your back.
The rest of the time you just wake up and it feels like you were dreaming.
A problem you might have is that because you initiate it by being half asleep, oftentimes you just fall back asleep and fail to astral project altogether.
Another problem is that because to start you need to wake yourself up, you might not fall back asleep ruining your sleep after only 4-5 hours. In the long run, that’s not good for you.
Ultimately I stopped experimenting because it started to ruin my sleep.
Waking up halfway through your REM sleep, and then failing to astral project, will make you tired during the day.
It was fun while it lasted, but I rather be well-rested.
Conclusion
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’ve either experimented with astral projection or are thinking about it.
I’m a believer that many experiences in life should at least be felt once. This is one of those experiences.
My main suggestion would be that when you experiment with it, make sure you are doing it during a time when you can risk sacrificing valuable sleep. You will fail a few times even when you get good at it, and when you do, it’ll affect your waking hours.
Aside from that, have fun, and keep breathing.
Thanks for reading.
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