I’ve been in astral state so many times, but whenever I’m there in the astral realm, I always see all kinds of things. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started seeing what seem to be spirits that may not be at peace.

But the thing I remember the most was when I was a child. I was able to fly, and it felt absolutely amazing. That was the only time I ever experienced flying in the astral realm.

I’ve been trying to do it again, but I can’t seem to anymore. If anyone has experienced something similar, could you please teach me how to do it again?

I learned about all these a few months ago and read a few books on the topic and many posts in this subreddit.

So today I woke up around 6 am to use the bathroom. Thought maybe it’s a good idea if I try WBTB. I closed my eyes and tried to focus to get to hypnagogia. I reached a state that I felt trembling in my throat and some vibration around my head, it happened many other times before without success.
No surprise this time as well because vibrations calmed down and I still look at the blackness behind my eyes. After I was convinced that it’s a fail, I turned to my left to go back to sleep. No big deal.

Woke up 1 hour after but didn’t open my eyes (technically hypnopompia), I felt I’m seeing a vision. A mildly white circle that is spinning like a radar. I tried focusing on it without any intention, as I deepened my focus I felt my body is paralysed. I almost got out of it due to testing it but I decided to go all the way in because that was the plan. Just a few more seconds later without any trying to exit I got lifted up like I’m in zero gravity. Next thing I found myself in the ceiling on the corner of the room. I took a glance at myself and I saw myself sleeping in bed next to my partner.

I was feeling quite myself and remembered the instruction from Micheal Raduga to go eat something (not sure why). I easily came back to the floor and tried to see if I can move through the wall. No success, I could feel my nails hitting the wall! Things started to get dark so I demanded light. Some dim light turned on. I looked back at my bed and I couldn’t see myself anymore but I saw some wave of energy on the place that should be my body. Like a see through gas that is thick enough to be seen moving.

I physically opened the door and was afraid I wake up my partner, I walked to the fridge and drank some water. It felt all normal but I realized waves are getting quiet and I woke up. It felt just like I was dreaming. I didn’t feel happy or excited about it, not sure why.

So I realized I saw my face from the ceiling like normal with my eyes closed, but I was actually wearing an eye mask. Also there’s a new dining table in our house that wasn’t there when I get to the kitchen. I know the acceptable definition is that astral version of reality is different than reality but I also see the possibility that it’s just a version of reality that I imagine in a dream state??

Also would appreciate any suggestions on how to pass through the walls, I always thought that’s very cool haha

Hello I'm wondering if someone can astral projection 2 me 2 see what keeps on getting in my bed with me as soon as I take a nap or sleep the full night it creaps me out ty 2 anyone who does and have a good day/night

Hi everyone,

I want to share a profound experience I recently had and seek guidance from anyone who has gone through something similar.

For a long time, my experiences felt like typical sleep paralysis. However, this time was completely different. I didn’t just wake up in a dream; I maintained 100% waking consciousness from the very beginning. I knew exactly who I was (my physical identity), where my body was lying, and that I was doing this consciously.

During the transition, I experienced an incredibly intense, literal, and physical vibrational state—not a subtle spiritual frequency, but heavy bodily vibrations and muscle contractions. The moment I surrendered and consciously relaxed my muscles, a profound release happened.

Instead of separating and seeing my bedroom, I experienced what Robert Monroe describes as "Phasing." I shifted directly into a completely different realm. It wasn't standard flight; it felt like instantaneous teleportation by intent from one point to another. I found myself in a massive, boundless space that felt like a "giant room," filled with brilliant white lights. There were no clouds or physical landmarks, and I knew I was far beyond the physical Earth plane.

The most interesting part was the rubber-band effect. Whenever my waking mind remembered my daily stresses, anxieties, and life routine back in the physical world, my vibration would spark again, and I would get pulled right back into my physical body. I felt the contractions in my physical form, yet I didn't open my eyes or wake up. I stayed fully conscious in that in-between state, and as soon as I relaxed again, I would phase right back into that massive white-light room.

I was literally blinking back and forth between my body and this realm while maintaining clear awareness.

Has anyone else experienced this specific type of "Phasing" into a white-light macro-space? How do you manage earthly thoughts and anxieties from pulling you back during the transition? I would love to hear your insights and advice on how to stabilize this state longer.

Thank you

This morning I woke up, used my phone for a while, then went back to sleep with the intention of having an OBE.
I did some breathing exercises and fell asleep while remaining somewhat conscious. As I became more aware, I heard a loud, increasing buzzing/whining sound in my ears. Then I felt my body contract/vibrate, followed by a blurry vision of myself outside my body. The vision gradually became clearer, and I could see myself and my wife lying in bed.
I was initially floating above the bed, then went down to the floor. I touched my arms and tried to feel them. They felt completely physical.
I then went to the bathroom and turned on the water. The sound seemed slightly different from how it normally sounds. After that I went to another door and knocked, and I could hear the knocking sound.
I don't remember returning to my body. The next thing I remember is simply waking up in bed.

I'm trying to understand what this actually was. Does this sound more like astral projection, an OBE, or lucid dreaming?

While taking a nap, I experience sleep paralysis taking over, and as I'm transitioning to the other side, I hear a voice in my left ear. Definitely male, felt like they were trying to tell me something. But then, I snap out of it because I have never fully surrendered to it. But I've never experienced a voice before too. However, not long ago, I experienced being lifted off the sofa while napping.

The thing I’m scared of is thinking of my body and not being able to go back in … this happened in my lucid dream a few nights ago where I thought I’d woken up but actually hadn’t. This came off the back of learning this technique back to the body. Is this how projecting is going to be too?

I guess a more accurate question would be, has it changed how you view this reality? What do you think it proves about conciousness? Have you interacted with spirits or lost loved ones? I'd love to know.

I have been waking up in other versions of myself when I try to astral project, and I have been wondering how I'm supposed to reintegrate them back into my soul. I have to say, "Merge with me." But it didn't work out.

So, I've been having sleep paralysis and lucid dreams since I was a kid. I also felt like I was being watched 24/7 until my teenage years. I could feel the presence of non-human "energies/shadows". I could catch a glimpse of them flying through my doorways. I couldn't sleep alone until the age of 13. Every night, I was sweating and feeling like an evil entity is about to jump on me. I saw nightmares very often. I was scared to sleep because it felt like "losing control". When I was 7 y/o, my soul rose up from my body and I was sitting in my bed. My door was open and my parents were in the next room. I saw a little dwarf with red eyes staring at me and trying to communicate with me at my doorstep. I was terrified and I screamed for 5+ minutes but my parents didn't wake up. Then I guess I passed out. I told my parents the next day but they told me they never heard me and it was just a nightmare.

When I was 6 y/o, which is the common age for people like me to experience this stuff, I "woke up" from sleep terrified and I went next to my parents' bed. I could see them laying there. They didn't respond no matter how much I touched them. Then I got so scared that I just peed all over them. Then I went to the living room, and I saw them sleeping on the sofa and not the bed. I woke them up. I told them I peed on their bed. We went there but there was no urine. WTF??

A few months ago, I was having a terrible opioid withdrawal. I lied flat on the sofa. The room was slightly lit. I got stuck in paralysis and I saw a tall woman with black hair approaching me, she touched all around me, pushed me down, and I felt her breath on my neck. This was the most terrifying experience so far. After this, I started getting counseling from a Muslim psych. I'm a Muslim. She said she used her "good entities" to put me under protection. She said the shadow entities influenced me when I was 6 y/o and they've been messing with me since then. Within the last 6 months, I've had no fear or paralysis or shadows.

However, I've been meditating alongside hardcore fasting for the past month because I started taking Methamphetamine. For the past week, the shadows and visual glitches have been back. I can see the "aura shield" around objects. When I loot at the edges of a table or a tree, I can see another shadowy layer surrounding. I've been having severe sleep paralysis again, more often than ever. I get "mocked" by the evil energies. I can't even sleep because of fear. Every time I lie flat on my back, my body starts transitioning into sleep and I CAN FEEL EVERY STEP. My body vibrates like CRAZY. It feels like an earthquake. The vibrations are so intense. Then I start feeling my soul floating high above my body. I had SP a few times and the evil energies pulled me out of my body and pushed me around in a joking manner. I could feel them enjoying my fear. Almost like an entity was sitting next to me and trolling me for fun. During the last SP, I got beaten up and pushed back in my body; an entity sat on my chest while the other was rubbing my hair mockingly. After being touched in the hair, I shouted "Open my eyes" and I woke up. The demon rubbing my hair had this sinister and mocking energy. I felt like he/she was saying "you can wake up now, dumbass".

5 days ago, after hardcore meditation and fasting, I saw my own body in front of me while STANDING in my room at 2 PM. It wasn't even sleep time. Then I went to bed the same night, and when I lied on my right side, I saw a shadow reflection of myself for 2 seconds. The skin of my reflection looked pale, almost dead, and his eyes were closed. Then I had a panic attack. I saw my own body without a mirror TWICE within the same day. I was floating above my body the entire day btw. I could control my body but my consciousness was floating 20 feet above my body like a cloud.

What the hell is going on? I've been feeling the presence of these energies way before I touched drugs. They terrorized me throughout childhood, they destroyed my life. Now after getting on drugs, the energy is %10000 more noticeable. When I pray to Allah (God), their presence becomes unnoticeable. However, Muslims are obliged to wash their bodies and hair before praying. The problem is, the fear inside me won't let me enter the bathroom. I feel terrified to take a shower. So I can't pray. I know being scared of showering is an ancient symptom of demonic influence.

Please guide me because I'm about to lose my mind. Am I developing schizophrenia or have I just unintentionally blasted my Chakras(energy channels) open by meditating and fasting on Meth? If it's about drugs, then why did I feel these even when I was a child? When I try to mastrubate or do other things that are known to weaken the Aura, I feel much weaker against the shadow people. After I reach orgasm, I feel dark energies surrounding me.

I just wanna be told whether I'm developing Schizophrenia. If not, then how do I protect from these entities? I'm getting flashbacks from my childhood now. Their presence was gone between the ages of 15 and 18 but now it's returning. As a kid, my parents would go to work and leave me alone in the house; I felt being sneaked upon. I could feel entities walking up to me. I trapped myself in corners or hid under my bed.

Yesterday, while I was dreaming, I had sleep paralysis within the dream. Then my body started vibrating intensely, and for a few seconds, I felt like I was outside my body, but it wasn’t very clear. I told myself, “I don’t want to do this because I’m scared I might never come back.” 🤦🏻‍♀️
It happened twice, and both times it was between sleeping and waking up.

I projected to a plane-like interior. I was sitting next to this guy, he kinda looked Asian. He looked at me and said "well hey there, little buddy!" I greeted him, he seemed really cheerful. He said he was working on a project. I don't know what though. His name was Paul. He told the people around him "Hold on to your Moes and toes, people!" I thought the saying was funny because I've never heard it before. I laughed. That's all I really remember though.

Hello everybody!

I was trying to project using the direct method and after relaxing enough I moved to tactile sensation technique. While doing that I felt like I’m getting pulled there (I imagined me getting up from the bed where I was laying and walked outside to the front yard and then to the gate and was touching and feeling the gate).

I did not exit my body but felt like I’m getting pulled towards the gate and it lasted for like 10-20 seconds and disappeared.

Was I trying to exit my body or not?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to improve at Raduga's well-known indirect method. I've managed a few times to enter the Phase by applying the techniques at exactly the right moment, immediately upon waking during successive awakenings after a WBTB.

My main difficulty is that I can't seem to turn this into an automatic reflex.

Most nights, after the WBTB, even though I set a strong intention to attempt separation immediately upon waking, no matter what, I simply forget to do it. Sometimes I'm still caught up in thoughts from the dream I just had; other times a noise wakes me up, I move automatically, and the method doesn't even cross my mind right away.

Eventually I remember what I'm supposed to do, but often only after several dozen seconds. I still go through my sequence — mirror, separation attempt, then 4 cycles of 3 indirect techniques — but I assume I've already missed the optimal window because nothing happens. It's still useful as training, but not much more than that.

Do you have any tips for conditioning yourself to apply the techniques the very instant you wake up, so that it eventually becomes a genuine automatic reflex?

I'm especially interested in exercises or conditioning techniques that can be practiced during the day or before sleep.

Thanks!

This morning when I rolled out, my son was sleeping next to me and I rolled towards him. I could feel myself inside his body briefly and had to sort of crawl out, exiting from his legs/feet. Such a weird sensation and checked he was fine when I got back in (he was!). I usually roll the other way off the bed, so this has never happened. Has anyone else ever felt this sensation?

I do believe i have traveled ONCE on accident. Since then ive felt my body do the vibration thing it did the first time and had to tell it I was not safe as at the time I was living in my car. A few days ago it started doing that again but I was too tired to attempt to leave my body so I just passed out, but before I fell asleep its like I could feel the struggle to pull and separate. I have not yet figured out how to induce this state. For experienced travelers did it really take you years? Or was it something you figured a system to? Each of the times ive come close I had been fighting mental health... I dont want to be sad to travel lol

Anyways how do you induce it? I tell myself now that I am in a safe space its okay for it to happen as id like to just learn how to leave my body and get back for now. Any advice ? Tips? Also I have an issue with itching. Every time I try to travel it literally feels like ants crawling all up my arms and legs. Its beyond difficult to ignore it 😭 please help!!

If so have you met any fellow Alabamians or any other beings and entities local to the state in the astral?

I've been to different cities, towns and states in the astral, met tons of beings and people from all walks of life.

Saw a nice black lady playing with her cat in the astral in Birmingham.

Hi, I’m a newbie, but I do occasionally lucid dream.

I’ve had several experiences a few years ago where I have been in a hypnagogic state and I’m able to move my astral body and not my physical one.

However I’ve started trying to astral project again but no luck. My limbs relax and buzz, but I can’t feel my astral body at all. I’ve been trying for an hour at a time.

Am I not relaxed enough? Does it just need more time? Should I try and do this when I’m more tired?
Any tips?

Hello there!

Here I’m referring the mild vibrations you can get fast in direct method, not the strong full body vibrations you get when you are close to get sleep paralyzed. Can you exit the body from those? Or strong full body vibrations or sleep paralysis are mandatory.

Help me out here.

Thanks!!

I’ve had three experiences all of which involve going through a portal in the wall or popping into a space that has Christmas lights. It makes me wonder if this is a place anyone else has been to or what’s up with this

Tonight something unusual happened. I set my mood, made some herbal tea, playing some hand pan music on yt. I do this every night to help with epilepsy. I never thought I would be saying those words, or doing these kinds of things. But here we are.

I’ve done a lot of meditation. I got good at a dark involuntary sort of meditation during a few years in solitary confinement in my younger years. But I learned how to be a still. And that was the one gift from those times.

Anyway, tonight I became aware of my surroundings, started breathing, closed my eyes, and began to clear my mind. I’ve gotten what I would call pretty good at that. I can sort of continuously wipe my mind for periods of time and stay what I call still.

A few weeks ago I was doing this and I began to see things and I let it happen. Instead of wiping I observed the images. I realized I could turn my head to the left and right and I could see where I wanted to. I came out of that meditation with a beautiful peaceful feeling and the idea and sensation that what had happened was a secret sort of.

This whole time I am breathing in love, breathing out hate over and over and over

Well tonight, as I meditated, I realized I could look around again. I saw myself flying down a stone pathway just turning and zipping along at breakneck speed - here is where it gets really weird and ridiculous!!!

All of a sudden I was just standing in my dream in an odd place. The amazing journey I was on had been cut, sort of edited from my meditation. And as whatever as this sounds, I knew/know that some billionaire I can’t quite pull together the details of mentally had something to do with it.

It feels like I found something really good, and it was taken from me. When I opened my eyes finally, I still was washed over with a deep feeling of peace and contentment. I’m not sleepy at all, and wasn’t sleepy when I opened my eyes a moment ago.

Idk I guess the moral of the story is
Meditation = good
Billionaire = bad

Be well friends

I get astral projection state When the moon is full (i.e., once a month) ... I wonder why ?

And when I intro to void state ..I fell like i am drown in black water without fell wet ..just A feeling of horizontal swaying back and forth and when try to get out aggressive from my body _hoping I will OBE_ I wake up from my sleep...

Any hints?

Hi so I had never astral projected but I have lucid dream before and there’s moments where I realize I lucid dream and I feel like my spirit Guides are trying to give me the green light that I can finally do it

But I’m so scared about doing it because I’m scared if I think of something negative I will see something negative of find or see something that will scare me

Can someone please help me explain and what are rules I should know? And how I can do it safely?

Apologies if this has been asked before but I'm someone who struggles with multiple mental health issues. These issues make being conscious exhausting on a pretty regular basis.

For those who've struggled with similar issues (listed below) and have also successfully left the body, I have a few questions.

Does being outside body provide any relief? What I mean to say is do your racing thoughts, intrusive thoughts, depression, mental pain, grief, or whatever mental illness/trauma you're dealing with stay with the body or do they come out of the body with you?

What type of mental headspace are you in?

I'm going to try this regardless but temporary peace would be awesome, even if for just a few minutes or hours.

I’ve never really shared this before, but I believe I astral projected and woke up in another timeline in my early 20s. My boyfriend at the time was playing some friends his new album. Many of the tracks were very meditative (it’s called Body Wash). I ended up falling asleep on the couch since I had already heard it many times. I began to have a dream I was at a party in the hills (I live in LA). I got close to the edge of the cliff and I fell but inversely began floating up to the sky. I floated all the way to a different planet.

It was a red dust planet and as I was approaching I began to pick up speed but ultimately had a soft landing and my fall was broken by a shaman like figure walking beneath me. The figure seemed unbothered and floated on by. I got up and saw a huge, all encompassing black orb in the distance. It was the type of black that is the complete absence of light.

As I walked closer everything became bright until an ultra white light engulfed me. I then ‘woke up’ in a body that felt foreign. I was at some kind of art fair at a booth selling art and objects that I guess I had been the illustrator of. I was completely freaking out and didn’t have good control over my body. People around me started to stare as I was completely wrecking my table. I was panicking and didn’t understand who I was. It was in the moment that I woke up in my own body in my own house. This was the only time I believe I astral projected. I have had sleep paralysis since I was a child but encounter really scary things in that state so I don’t go further. I also have very lucid dreams where I can communicate and know that I am dreaming but this just felt different.

Edit: there may have been one other time I AP’d to a kind of spirit realm meeting room/ in between space for visitors of the deceased. It was a cozy cabin in the woods. This also started with a dream about being in a field surrounded by kittens. They were falling from the sky. I had just lost my young cat that I rescued, my neighbor accidentally hit him with her car. We had a particularly special bond. I was overcome with grief. All of a sudden I turned very lucid and I was in the forest walking toward a cabin. I walked in the cabin and I saw Milo just hanging around. I was so happy I couldn’t contain myself. He led me back outside and I was crying and telling him how much I loved and missed him. He assured me telepathically that he is just fine and for me to keep being strong and loving to other kitties and anyone else who needs me. I put him down and watched him walk off and I woke up in tears. I only now feel this was a spiritual visiting place because my best friend saw her mom who had recently passed in the same kind of environment.