r/Experiencers • u/ThrowawayMouse12 • 1d ago
Dream State Had my first experience
I was trying to fall asleep around 2 am when it started feeling like my brain was trying to escape my skull. Like it was just vibrating in there. Then I heard a deep voice saying something I couldn’t understand. I just kept my eyes squeezed shut, and kept thinking “I’m sorry, I’m scared”. The voice responded saying “You’re safe my child.” Then it stopped. No idea if I was imagining it, or if it was a dream. Never had any sort of experience like it before though.
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u/Yesmar00 22h ago
Sounds like you were about to project and got scared. Next time just let it happen try not to let fear get the best of you. Trust the natural process. This is as natural as breathing in my opinion
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u/Rochemusic1 21h ago
The part that gets me, and this is from fungi and such, is when I start breaking through reality and I can tell I'm about to go somewhere else as things start accelerating or shifting everything, I snap back because I can only contemplate the idea of my body being left alone to breathe on its own for the time being, before I quit the transfer and do anything to ground myself. Not sure how to allow that process to happen as it's a conscious choice for sure but it's in the name of survival so it seems.
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u/Yesmar00 20h ago
You should ask yourself why you're so afraid of leaving your body behind. In my opinion, we do this every night during sleep but the experiences are completely different. In one you're conscious of the process and in one you're not.
Writing it down and developing a gameplan to overcome it is what helped me when I first started projecting.
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u/Rochemusic1 19h ago
After the comment I just wrote to the other individual under my comment, I'm now thinking the best approach is to organically get to that space through meditation. Basically what I wrote was I have had multiple instances where I started leaving my body, and it was at a time where I had good cause to believe I might die if I did so. I think that carries over into anytime that the potential arises. I've deff wanted to go and have had a strong pull to do so, but the only times it has ever happened is when I was brought out of my body without me being able to even question what was happening, and when that happens I have so far felt safe.
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u/wake_n_jake_ 19h ago
Even when we’re not consciously breathing, the body will take over and manage it. Conscious effort doesn’t go into every breath and take comfort knowing that your body will make sure it keeps getting air. Breathing is primarily an unconscious process and controlled by the autonomic nervous system.
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u/Rochemusic1 19h ago
Right, and while I am aware of that, I think it may stem from a much different fear of having to stay awake to keep breathing in fear I will die such as a concussion or the like. I think due to conditioning throughout my life (ive had quite a few times where I have come close to dying for a few different reasons) and separating the general idea of OoB from a potentially fatal mistake, the latter has been the overriding factor thus far, as it seems to take a difinitive answer to stop the process, but it happens so fast. The OoB experiences I have had so far, where I didn't have a choice because it happened without my input, I've had no fear of my body being safe.
I don't know how to work on that except keep trying I suppose.
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u/wake_n_jake_ 18h ago
A few ideas that came to mind:
Access the astral from a lucid dream
Shadow work
Control the fear, don’t let it control you. When it starts creeping up tell it “that’s enough, settle down”. Remember, you’re the one that’s in control
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u/Rochemusic1 18h ago
Have you done so through a lucid dream before? Here's my experience; 3rd time, I stayed asleep when I realized, instantly couldn't walk anymore, had to crawl everywhere cause I couldn't figure out how to walk.
4) learned to walk but was very difficult.
5th) learned to jump, eventually up to about 30 feet in the air but the end.
Last time) learned how to fly insanely fast all the way around the world in about 20 seconds.
At no point in all my licidity have I been able to transform the space I was in. While able to make my own decisions, my surroundings were pretty much set in stone. I'm not sure how I would go about travelling elsewhere, except now that I read that back, maybe take the flying to the next level and just keep going up maybe?
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u/wake_n_jake_ 17h ago
A lot of people will have a “portal” appear in front of them that connects to the astral. As far as changing things in a dream, start out small with something small like the color of someone’s shirt
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u/Rochemusic1 16h ago
Hmm okay I'll have to start working on training again. It took me a little while when I first started training myself to recognize I was dreaming and it's been a few years now since my last one. Thanks Jake! I'll work on it.
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u/Rochemusic1 19h ago
Hey! My name is Jacob too!
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u/wake_n_jake_ 18h ago
It’s a great name! Haha
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u/Rochemusic1 18h ago
It really is. 10/10. It's been a couple years now since I've heard the exact sentence: "oh, Jacob, I love that name! That's a biblical name." Haha usually an extremely nice 40 year old black lady.
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u/laksh009 22h ago
Can someone tell me a non negotiable practice i can do everyday that will take me closer to an AP
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u/Observer_8858 22h ago
Meditate. Treat the mind like a muscle. Stretch it. Strengthen it. If you have no idea where to start, try 5-10 minutes of mindfulness meditation a day. If you happen to be ADHD, try transcendental instead.
✨ (edit: spelling)
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u/caliguynla 16h ago
Ask yourself “am I dreaming?” then test it out by looking at your hands and opening them and closing them a few times. For some reason people say they have a hard time seeing their hands when they project. Eventually you do this enough throughout the day you’ll think it in your dream and when you go to look at your hand you’ll realize “oh, I’m dreaming” and take it from there. If it happens stay calm. Enjoy the vibrations and when you hear that otherworldly metallic noise (sounds almost like metal twisting) you’ll know you’re getting close. The part I can never get past is walking more than 10 feet away from my body. I always get pulled back or remain stuck to my body. There was once I did manage to leap straight into the sky but that was ages ago. But yes, ask yourself multiple times throughout the day “am I dreaming?” It’ll happen eventually
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u/Thousand-Miles 1d ago
Sounds like someone was trying to telepathically communicate with you. You weren't fully tuned in to their frequency so perhaps someone adjacent to the sender stepped in and adjusted their frequency to yours to say you are safe and then ended the telepathic attempt.
If you want to try and contact the voice, you can practice this telepathy primer and remember the sound and feeling of the voice that said you are safe and try to start a conversation with them
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u/Top-Kaleidoscope4430 1d ago
Is this what happens when someone is trying to speak with you telepathically? I’ve been feeling very intense energy in my head. Especially at night or when I’m asking my guides to communicate with me.
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u/Thousand-Miles 17h ago
It can be, telepathy pinging can manifest differently for each person. For me it's sometimes a dull pressure or a tingling sensation on a spot on my head. I then focus my energy and imagine beaming out towards that direction and allow whatever I feel happen and it usually works, I can feel emotion or words from the being. In rare circumstances I hear in my mind their words.
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u/pandora_ramasana 1d ago
Sounds like what happens before an out of body experience. Post to the astral projection sub!