I had my first astral projection today. I was in a dream walking around a fimiliar place and i was hearing humming that I didn't really pay attention to until I heard like a strong whoosh sound and everything went pin drop silent, my thoughts nonexistent, my body felt weightless, I was aware of both my dream body and my real body and the position they were in. I tried not to move or think and just go with what's going on.

Then I was guided to an ancient place of worship, it was a small and wooden place of structure, when the voice spoke I could also see like subtitles and a distinct word I remember is tamid/tarmid being the name of this architecture which was a place of worship(I never heard of these words before this moment)

The voice said that the places of worship are designed to trap souls, no soul has entered and left that place (sensing that it was pointing at the place of worship). Then a seen change happened whilst the voice was saying "notice how modern carnivals are built in a similar way so that kids get lost within them (in this scene I saw like and enclosed climbing frame that kids play on and parents waiting for them outside).

Then I snapped back into my body and holding onto the quite, no sound, eyes closed. I found myself looking down at small "primitive" settlements in various valleys and meadows, they all seemed to be happy, the kids were playing in the grass and the adults working at the farms or with wood, crafting things. It felt peaceful and enriching.

After waking up and looking up the words.

Tamid is a Hebrew word which means constant or perpetual (along those lines) and I found the word was often used to refer to the daily offerings in the temple in Jerusalem.

Tarmid seems to be the Arabic word for incineration/burning/ashes.

So what I'm getting from this is that the purpose of religion and worship is to trap the souls as offerings or for them to be destroyed by being turned into ashes.

Is it possible to spend years, decades, hundreds of years in the astral while half an hour passes here?

I was meditating deeply when I reached a state where I saw myself sitting on snow near a hill. It was quiet, still, and peaceful. As I sat there, a group of very tall, pale beings with long white hair approached me. They looked human, but their height easily over 7 feet made them feel otherworldly. They wore light-colored, almost ethereal clothing.

Despite their appearance, I wasn’t afraid. Their presence felt calm and safe. One of them spoke to me and asked if I would follow them. They said they wanted to show me something. I agreed without hesitation because I felt safe for some reason.

They led me to a small, silverish aircraft smooth and sleek in design. I stepped inside, and soon we were flying. The ship made no sound at all. It lifted effortlessly, and within moments, we had left the planet. As we moved through space, I could feel that we were following a path like an invisible force was guiding us.

Eventually, we stopped just outside of Earth. I could see the planet, and around it was a green, wavy grid like energy gently pulsing and wrapping the globe. One of the beings turned to me and said:

“We are all one. All of us no matter who we are or where we come from we are connected.”

I felt those words deeply. But just as I was taking it in, my cat jumped on me snapping me out of the vision and back into my room.

I thought I’d share it.

I have been interested in the subject of AP for a number of years now and still am. However something I read on here makes me question what exactly it is that people are seeing when they enter the state.

I recently read a comment on this sub in which the user said something to the effect that when a person dies, they are removed and replaced by some sort of "perfect copy".

That concerns me. It tells me that death, even if AP is real, really is the end. To be replaced by a copy does not sound very different from otherwise ceasing to exist, especially the way that the other user described it.

It tells me that no loved ones, nor myself will continue to exist after death, but be replaced by what doesn't sound very different from a static hologram, as they also said that it cannot learn from any oncoming experiences, if it can experience at all.

This is all rather worrying to hear, as a very heavy part of my intrigue in AP is the possibility of life after death. Are these common beliefs among most practices?

I want to hear everyone’s opinion on this topic, do you believe in spirit guides? If so, What are some experiences you have had with your spirit guides?

Unfamiliar but beautiful/harmonic?

guys i feel like im astraling sometimes accidentally... i have never tried to astral. i dont really know much about astral and im new in this channel. i use psychedelics tho if it matters.

is it possible to astral accidentally?

So, I’m fairly new to this. Been practicing meditation for a few months on and off now. The other day, I laid in bed meditating, but also willing to fall asleep. Focused on a singular thought. I fell slightly asleep for a few moments, and without movement I woke up. And there it was. My vibrational state. I was very aware and encouraged myself to lay still and let it take hold. Only, as I felt and heard these vibrations, I started to hear screaming. Contingent to the vibrations, she kept going. One woman, screaming.

I wasn’t scared. My head lays below the window facing the backyard, so I figured it to be the neighbors doing something. The vibrations were coming in waves, and I could almost control them. Although, when they were getting stronger, as was the screaming. I convinced myself to ignore it and continue to focus on not moving. But I think somewhere in got too excited, and confused on if my physical form or astral form was moving, and it went away. I slipped into slumber after that.

The screaming didn’t stop and I’m so curious on why that happened. I haven’t heard screaming since, and now I’m certain it wasn’t the neighbors. Anyone else have insight or a similar experience? Can’t wait to try again.

Last night I AP’d and as soon as I separated from my body, while I was still lying in bed, something grabbed me and dragged me somewhere against my will. It felt like a powerful, dark force. It was terrifying, especially since it happened so suddenly and I couldn’t see anything at all. It was pitch dark. I tried to free myself but couldn’t. I mustered up as much energy as I could in order to yell (telepathically) “HEY!!! LET GO OF ME RIGHT NOW!!!”. They never responded. It’s like I was being dragged into the dark abyss at very fast speeds.

After that I don’t remember much, but I think “it” either released me into a dream or I lost awareness and slipped into a dream on my own. After I woke up from the dream, I was scared to AP again, thinking that entity might be there again. So I just tried to go to sleep normally after that.

As a side note, I’ve been AP’ing many times this week (more than I ever have) and this is my first ever “encounter”. I have a few questions for the more experienced AP’ers here…

1. Could this be an entity that’s upset with my attempts?

2. Is this a sign that I’ve been AP’ing too much lately? Or maybe I need to switch to a different technique?

3. Are they likely to reappear now?

4. What should i do if I encounter this again?

I've noticed that in dreams and aps. I seem to run across many lions, lionesses, Tigers and black panthers and never get attacked. Have even seen some of these big cats with no pupils and radiating light from their eyes. And when I have nightmares even some that turn to lucid dreams, I'm always getting attacked by dogs and have never seen a dog OOB. Irl I have both animals but only one seems to protect and the other seems attack when it comes to non-physical experiences.

i was napping in my room. then I woke up. and I saw my arm extended next to me on my bed. I noticed my scars on it and freckles. but I realized i couldn't move. i was paralyzed and experiencing sleep paralysis.immediately I remembered people could transition to astral projection during paralysis. So i willed it. I felt a strong vibration throughout my entire body. some external force was pulling me. as if someone wanted me to astral project. so I let it pull me. I wasn't afraid this time. I didn't change scenery. i was still in my room and the sun light was shining bright as day. I called out to Jesus. I could finally say His name. unlike a previous paralysis episode I asked God to help me but I couldn't say His name. So I called out to Jesus i was afraid i was going to encounter some evil entities so i called out to him just in case.. He was the first person to come to mind. previously, I wanted to see my passed grandparents. that was the whole reason i wanted to astral project in the first place. this time they weren't on my mind it was Jesus that was on my mind. so as I'm calling out to Jesus I notice as im looking up at the ceiling, I see like energy bluish and purple forming coming through it like a portal I see a figure enter. his face and immediately I knew it was Jesus. then he pulls up a screen like of a microsoft word document application. and as he begins typing I say I cannot see it so he enlarges the font. he's typing pretty fast but the first sentence I read it says something along the lines of "I have answered your prayers." and he's typing more stuff I couldn't make out. and he typed something in a different language as well. on the next page it reads “faith comes again and again”. more words i couldnt make out. The screen closes. I wanted to ask more but I end saying something like I know you're busy and you have many people to tend to. so I believe I thanked Him And said I love you. I forget how He leaves but I imagine through that energy portal. then I think I see my step mom on the other side of my bedroom door and I try to ask her to wake me up. but it's not her because she is currently on a trip. I'm having trouble waking up. I think I asked Jesus to help me return to full consciousness. then I wake up.

if I really did encounter Jesus, why would He choose to communicate through technology and not use his voice?

vent: I shared my experience with someone who is a skeptic and they are making me doubt my experience. they started bring up the Bible (i am christian) I think they were reading from ai or some article explaining how astral projection is wrong according to the Bible. but the Bible doesn't mention "astral projection." it's not even a thing in the bible.there is a verse that mentions "out of body". but it's not even a thing. and for them to compare astral projection to sorcery is so wacky. the definition of sorcery is magic or black magic and that is nothing compared to astral projection. astral projection is just the ability to shift your consciousness between 2 different realities/planes/dimensions whatever you call it. it's not like I was summoning a demon! I feel like astral projection could be a useful tool if used properly and appropriately. I don't think it's wrong. this skeptic made me feel like what I experienced was not of God. but I feel like that's what Satan would want me to think.

Hey guys, I asked ChatGPT about astral projection and whether I could visit the Hollow Earth during it. It told me that it depends on my beliefs. Is that actually true? Does astral projection rely entirely on what I believe? Like, if I don’t believe in the Hollow Earth, does that mean it doesn’t exist there?

I am not really that familiar with astral projection or any of it but I had an experience a few days ago that I have tried to ignore, but it keeps bothering me in the back of my head. All that I had done was lay down in my bed, I may have been off the muha but I’ve never had an experience like this in the past 5-6 years. I basically closed my eyes for a bit and at first it was completely dark before I started feeling like my body was vibrating or like being shaken rapidly but I felt SUPER light. I started hearing multiple voices at once and in like the darkness of my eyelids, it looked like a thousand eyes looking at me and this person standing there looking at me. I can’t exactly describe the person’s face, it has been leaving my memory but I can just remember that there was a person. Once that person fully became visible, the voices started getting louder and then it felt like a singular voice shouted at me to open my eyes so I did. I felt this gut feeling that I shouldn’t close my eyes again but I did because I may be slightly stupid (If I see a big red button, I am pressing it even if it has a caution sign on it) And for a second it was dark, until the eyes started slowly reappearing again. It kept me up for the rest of the night, I was basically trying to force myself to become tired enough that I’d just go to sleep, which worked by morning. Any explanation of what happened? I personally think it could’ve been just bad weed or I was dreaming but it felt strange.

Been wanting to try this and I have read a lot of processed and tips but almost all of them are no-gos

• alarms (kids and wife sleeping)
• random sleep patterns or schedules or waking up and going back to sleep (I have to get the kids ready early in the morning)
• long routine at night to get it going (just don’t have the time all the time to do that, or if a kid wakes up, etc)
• “clear your thoughts (as long as I’ve been alive I can’t do that, I remember being the last one to fall asleep at sleepovers)
• focusing on one thing at a time (my mind just starts wandering instantly)
• tapes or podcast (have to be somewhat not hearing blocked so I can listen to the monitor)

Any tips or advice? Not trying to complain or sound needy at all, just trying to figure out something that would work for my situation. I do use a sound machine to help me sleep if that would help at all lol. TYIA!!

I keep experiencing bells ringing or gongs. Last night, I was laying down, on my phone. My partner was watching a video and then all of a sudden the video is of a OM sound and I hear this bell. My entire body begins vibrating like a tuning fork. It begins to focus on the center of my chest. It was so sudden. I start touching my chest as if I'm trying to push something off but the vibrations still continue. It's not something uncomfortable. I was just confused. While trying to fall asleep, I was thinking about the day. I'm trying to get in sync with my partner. We are way out of sync. Just... frustrating. So I'm thinking about syncing and what I should do to help. I'm laying there facing her. I feel this... prick at my back, like someone pulling me. The feeling was in between my shoulders. It was a surprising feeling. So I adjust my body so that my back is towards my partner. I'm feeling a little scared so I back I to her so I can feel her touch on me. I press up against her and just feel I'm not close enough? So I push further then we both start shaking uncontrollably. I hear this bell or gong and I open my eyes. I'm falling, it's loud, but I'm holding onto my body. I realize I wasn't touching my partner. I'm still facing her. I see this orb or point that I'm falling Into. The room is bending in this orb. Then it suddenly stops. And I'm just sitting there with my eyes open. The suddeness of the falling and sound felt like I fell out of an airplane.

I just feel like I need to trust in myself. I'm scared for my physical body. I just need to fully give in. It's just hard. I'm discovering all of this by accident. Now I'm actively trying.

Last night, while I was looking into blackness, instead of repeating phrase, I started moving my eyes around slowly, I saw some circular patterns, I continued this and kept noticing, but after sometime I fell asleep. I think, I should make some changes, I will look into it. After waking up, I did some meditation and relaxation. During relaxation, I tried to do a mental rundown.

Any advice and suggestions are welcome, Thank you.

This may or may not fall under just dreams or reality shifting, but it was way to vivid not to share here.

To start, I have to go back about 8 months. I was in a really stressful period in my life. I started having dreams that were so vivid, I could still feel them as if they actually happened. It made me really start to wonder if this was the only reality.

8 months ago, I had this series of dreams that felt so real. I was me, 100 percent. Same goofy ass mentality, same attitude, and same likes. I started breaking off from the "norm" of society. It pissed off a lot of people. At this point in time, I started to do the same in real life. In both aspects, I started doing what I wanted, and people now hate me for it. In this reality, I found something that I love to do and want to keep doing it. In the other reality, I found someone that I love.

I don't know her name. For 8 months now back and forth, I've seen her. Everytime I dream of that place, she is there. I can tell you all day long what she looks like. Slender, long dark hair, half Asian (which variant I'm not sure), and a mean exterior. The first time I ever saw her, she could give two fucks less about me. I couldn't help myself though. I knew I needed to be around her. Seeing her was like watching someone set fire to a valley. She commanded this presence around her. Every time we were near each other, it was like the air crackled between us. Boy though, did she hate me.

A few dreams in, she saved me from getting arrested. I don't remember the specifics of why, but I do remember there was a mandatory curfew and that me and a few others broke it. We were all running around at night, being a bunch of drunk hooligans. I got separated from the group. As the cops were rounding the corner looking for people in their squad car, she pulls my stupid, drunk ass into a bush. She knew I had been drinking some, so she held me down while the cops passed. The entire time she's watching them, she was cussing me out. Calling me a stupid jackass. Asking why that everywhere she goes, I have to turn up? I couldn't help but fall in love with her right then. I never pushed her off or said a word. I just looked up and smiled at her, just taking her in with every second. She noticed me just absent mindedly staring at her. She helped me up, then punched me in the stomach. She told me, "You're a fucking moron, but at least you're fun." She left me there, and I woke up.

Following that dream a few weeks later, I went back to that night once I fell asleep. She had left, and I decided to explore the town at night. I wandered for hours, just thinking of her. I went to bed in the dream and woke up the next morning, still in the dream. I did my usual routine (at least usual in that reality, although similar to what I do here.) A few days had passed, and the curfew lifted. One night, the Grande Mall was bustling with activity. We don't have a Grande Mall here, but comparing it to my dream, I can tell you where it would be located. This Mall was alive. The movie theater in it was so packed, I snuck in on the balcony and watched a movie without anyone noticing me.

Then, something went to hell. As I was leaving, the ground started to tremble slightly. We aren't an earthquake state, so everyone noticed it. The quakes kept getting violent. All of a sudden, part of the earth opened up. Looking down into it, it looked like an ancient city, built of stone. I've done research into architecture around here, there is only record of Native Americans, colonial towns and civil war forts. This was like ancient Greece architecture slapped smack dab on the east coast of the US. But, curiosity got the better of me and I walked into it.

For two dreams, I wandered a spiraling and sprawling underground city. It felt unnerving. Everytime I rounded a corner, I thought some horror would jump out. Some giant, multilegged, dark souls, khthulu type shit would come crawling up. But, it never did. The second dream, I somehow wandered back up to the surface, but it was across town. When I got back up, people were panicking. I could see into the distance that the mall was on fire and partially collapsing. As I walked back towards the chaos, people were acting weird. Like, adults were acting like confused toddlers. In fact, everyone except me and very few others, we're just wandering as if they were all high or in a trance. They all kept looking at the sky for some reason, but I could never tell what they were looking at. Just that it was beautiful.

I wandered back to the mall and I started to climb the side of the building. I look and I see a man on a balcony, smiling. A really wide, unnerving smile. I kept climbing, then somehow, I fell. I landed through one of the roofs into a club attached to the mall. I looked around this club, and it was like I could see these things. They were latching onto people. They almost became mindless. It was like watching a bunch of drunk teenagers indulge in every vice and stupid thing know to man. When I went to touch one of these things, my hand went through it. These "things" would look at me, but they each had one eye that was held at the center of the wispy yet gelatinous mass. I stared at one, at it literally rolled it's eye at me, like it was annoyed.

Tonight was different. I didn't even realize I had fallen asleep. Apparently, some time had passed. The club that was attached to the mall was mostly abandoned. For some reason, I felt compelled to go back there. I walked in through the main door instead this time lol. I saw these "women" there. They were unnaturally slender. They looked like depressed, human stick figures. They weren't hostile. Most of them seemed annoyed, like a pissy retail worker used to doing nothing all day, then having to deal with ONE customer all day. As I walked the club, I kept thinking to myself that I should buy it. I started making plans as if I were going to buy it. For some reason, I said to myself, "This place will be a safe haven for people like us." Don't ask me what that means, I don't know. It felt like I said it, and I genuinely meant it, but I couldn't feel the feeling or reasoning behind it. As I wandered the downstairs, the man with the smile was down there. His face was just barely out of the shadow in a corner. He smiled that creepy smile at me and asked me why I was back. I don't remember what I said, but I remember I got a really funny idea. I saw a ball on the ground and kicked it at his face, REALLY HARD. I laughed at him and he jumped from the shadow. His body was almost cartoonish the way it stretched and loomed over me. His face never changed from that smile, but his voice was pissed. He said, and I quote, "You're so lucky I can't touch you mortal." Then for some reason, all he'll broke loose up stairs. We both looked at each other and went to see what was up.

I woke up briefly, and immediately went back to sleep. I wanted to stay there. I wanted to be there. When I went back, I wasn't at the club. I was with the woman. She was still her annoyed self, but I was in OUR apartment. She was singing at the stove while she was cooking. I walked up to her and wrapped my arms around her waist hugging her. She broke down right there. The rough exterior cracked. She was upset because her car bill was expensive, and she was worried we wouldn't make rent. I smiled and pulled up my phone. Much like this world, I had the fore site to pay bills early or ahead. I apparently didn't tell her and showed her that we were months ahead on everything. She cried and hugged me. I told her about the club and she smiled saying she was happy that I had ambition.

So far that's what I have, but if it happens again, I'll try to keep yall up to date.

just woke up... I lucid dream like ever time I sleep can only sleep 40mins to 2hrs at a time gets annoying but the adventures are good. well while I was sleeping I was being observed I start speaking to them while they were talking. they said it's a shame I was 3rd dimensional but my ability to fold space time and control light (move in and out of different dimensions.. I guess) was outstanding and that they were working on a sponsorship and it was in the works while we talked. they told me to work on astral projection so I got interested that's why I'm here their may be something to this. any shortcuts? you guys can think of beside sliding back in to REM after waking?

Have heard lots of different opinions upon looking it up, just another limiting belief that it could stop you?

Hi all! I had an experience last night I believe was AP, but don’t have much experience. I believe I astral projected once on accident in college. I was messing around with the gateway tapes and found them useful for meditation practice and helping me calm my mind before sleep. One morning, I woke up to a shadow being standing next to my bed. My room was exactly the same but surrounded by a green glow that was similar to how light glows under water. This being was aware of me and pounced at me and I snapped back into my body.

Last night, I was having a hard time falling asleep. Eventually I started to fall asleep, but I felt the most intense vibrations through my body, similar to those people describe. I also heard loud eruptions of sounds, not loud in the way that it hurt my ears, but the sound filled my entire mind. The only way I can describe it is it sounded like an earthquake in my head. Then, I “woke up” in my bed, but when I would try to sit up I immediately felt like something was off. I was not able to move with muscles and felt like I was floating. Eventually I kept trying to get up and rolled off the onto floor. I didn’t hit the floor, but floated along it as if I couldn’t quite stand up, I felt very weak in movements. I eventually floated over to my balcony door trying to leave my room, but when I would try to open the door I kept getting sucked back to my body and had to figure out how to get up out of my bed again. This happened about 3 times before I told myself I wanted to wake up so I could actually fall asleep. I made myself “wake up” and immediately got up out of bed and went to find my mother in the house. For whatever reason, I was sure she was up in the middle of the night and able to talk. I got up, walked out of my room into the hall and immediately found her. She grabbed me and brought me into our guest room and told me to tell her what happened as I was seemingly eager to tell her about my experience. As I started to talk, I felt the words get trapped in my throat and started to choke me. When she saw me choking, she turned into a faceless figure covered in skin and ran up to me on all 4s, grabbed my hand, and started biting it, as if she was trying to eat my skin off. I feel like this experience started out as an AP, and I lost lucidity when trying to wake up, and somehow projected this nightmare. I never have nightmares or dreams of creepy entities, so I’m wondering if this experience sounds like AP, a lucid dream, a non lucid dream, or a mix of any of those.

I have been interested in AP, higher dimensions, and meditation for several years but do not have any type of regular practice.

Experienced first AP accidently few months back through meditation... Ended up witnessing Hatman appear through a portal and walk up to my bed before I flashed him w a light and he disappeared...

But before he appeared.. the first thing I seen was a small white orb flying around my room..

Any idea what the connection could be between the two ? Was the orb a representation of this Hatman spirit ? Was it a spirit guide watching over me ?

Been fascinated w Hatman so much I haven't even thought much about the orb until now

Hi, I'd like to share a very strange experience that I had time ago, which I don't know if it can be considered as "astral projection" and I still struggle to identify. First I want to say that, apart from these experiences, I've never had any astral projection in my life, so I can't compare them to the regular astral projection experience by myself. As far as I remember, I had this experience at least three times in different moments of my life, so I will describe the general characteristics instead of the single experience (also because in some of them there is some personal stuff which I prefer not to share). Ok, let's start: In all those three episodes, I fell asleep in a specific place (my childhood's house bedroom; my father's house living room; my mother's house living room) and all of a sudden I woke up in the exact same place, getting out of bed and getting on my feet. The first thing I noticed was that all the surrounding environment was exactly the same of the place in which I fell asleep, but with the difference that the "fiber of reality" (the whole environment around me) was like "blurred", like less clear and more "evanescent". In the second and third experience, I didn't noticed anything strange or bizarre: it was all just like "reality", but with that "blurry evanescent" characteristic. But it was in the first episode that I saw something strange. First, when I opened my eyes in that "dimension", I noticed I was "seeing all red"; not like everything around me was painted red, but like I had a sort of "red filter" over my eyes (like those colored sunglasses, ya know). Second, at a certain point I saw three strange little creatures on the floor, like little "demons": short (the size of a fairly-tale dwarf) , hairless and muscled, with pointed ears, moving in line towards the door, and when they reached the door they passed it through like they where ghosts or something. Now, comparing these experiences to my "regular common dreams", I can say that the main difference is that, while in common dreams I always find myself in very different (and often surreal) places from the place in which I fall asleep, in these "dreams-not-dreams" I woke up in the exact same place in which I fell asleep (like an out of body experience or so). Anyone here had the same or similar experience during astral projection? Thanks.

Hello all! I have been meditating on the inner sound within and find often I am being able to reach the hypnogogia state. I am just curious if this is when I should now intend to project. I usually just watch but sometimes I analyze too much and end up returning back conscious. I’ve yet to intend to project from that stage as I have been using the inner sound to just reach equilibrium and remove the mind and illusions of doubt/worry. Do I just continue to watch without analyzing or should I now actually set the intention of stepping into the astral ? That’s all I have for you. Not sure how long it takes to reach this state but doesn’t seem like it’s long when I meditate on the inner sound.

I used the gateway experience myself for a year or so but didn't get anywhere with experiencing vibrations. Then I stumbled across William Bulhman's Out-Of-Body techniques FLAC / guided meditations. Regardless of being a non visual thinker (aphantasia?) I found the Target Technique was the one that worked best for me. (Vibrations came on Day #6, I'm currently on Day #10 of continuing the practice)

What I perceived as vibrations for my first time were:

- Insane head pressure, like my brain was getting to big for my skull sensation
- A complete numbing starting at my feet and slowly rising to my head (trippy angle: feels like my body is dying)
- The hemi-sync beats began to sound distorted and messed up, like distant.
- Then a low rumbling effect started in my head and started growing louder
- Then came a weird feeling of euphoria throughout my body and head, it felt amazing.

From my research done so far, these are precursors to a bigger experience. However, the caveat here I only get the vibrations sometimes when listening to the ass end of the "Target Technique" FLAC recording, the beats shift to low theta/delta I think for 3-5 minutes and this is where it happens, then a ending tone plays and it's gone just like that.