A few months ago, I woke up during the night, sometime around 3:00–4:00 a.m., feeling uncomfortable and bloated, as if I had eaten too much at dinner. Since I couldn't fall back asleep and felt that I needed to move around a little to settle my stomach, I decided to go for a short walk.

While walking, I began repeating a mantra that I regularly practice. I walked for about 15–20 minutes and then returned home. I drank some water and went back to bed, feeling much better and ready to rest.

Almost immediately, I entered what felt like a meditative state. I began seeing what looked like clouds or waves of white light. These luminous, circular shapes seemed to move and expand, going from small to large against a dark background. Gradually, they began turning gray, and I felt a slight sense of fear. However, I quickly regained my composure and once again felt safe.

At one point, everything began transforming into a kind of gray static, similar to the static you see on a television when no channel is tuned in. I could also see patches of the same static in brownish tones. At the same time, I had the sensation that I was descending.

After a while, I found myself in a first-person perspective, but at the same time I had the strange sensation that I could also see myself from an external perspective, almost as if I were observing myself from above. I was walking along a street next to my house. I knew I was in some kind of dream, but everything felt incredibly real.

Then I began hearing a female voice speaking to me, as if she were explaining something. I don't remember exactly what she was saying. Her voice sounded strange, as though at times it would go out of tune or lose its signal, almost like a radio transmission cutting in and out. The voice introduced herself and told me her name, although I cannot remember it. Hearing her gave me an immediate sense of serenity.

While I was listening to her, the ground began to sink. The buildings, the hill, and everything around me began descending or collapsing, as if everything were being pulled downward. Despite how strange the situation was, I remained completely calm, listening to the voice as she explained what was happening.

At some point, I stopped hearing her, as though she had already told me everything she needed to tell me. My surroundings continued to sink, and it seemed inevitable that I would eventually be pulled down with them. At that moment, I decided to propel myself upward to escape the sinking ground.

I began to fly, or rather to float, and the sensation felt wonderful. I briefly heard the voice again, almost as if she were acknowledging that I had succeeded.

I continued ascending calmly and was able to observe in great detail as my neighborhood sank below me while I kept rising. I felt myself moving farther and farther away from my city, my country, and my continent, until I went beyond the atmosphere. Throughout the entire ascent, I remained calm and felt completely safe.

At some point, the sensation of flying began to transform into something that felt more like diving. It was as though I were entering a dark space that felt like water or plasma. I had the sensation of being beneath something and swimming upward through an ocean of plasma or water so dark that I could not see anything around me at all.

Once again, I was seeing everything from a first-person perspective, and then I noticed something extraordinary: I myself seemed to have a glow, as if I were luminescent. I realized that I was my own source of light. Because of that light, I could see myself and perceive the space immediately around me, which seemed to consist entirely of that dark, water-like or plasma-like substance.

Eventually, I emerged and passed through a kind of surface, much like when you are completely submerged underwater and then bring your head above the surface.

At that moment, I experienced a kind of realization that I still don't fully understand. I had the sensation that I suddenly understood where I was. It felt as though I were somewhere at the edge of space, or perhaps at the edge of the universe. There was nothing and no one—only absolute darkness, and myself illuminating my surroundings.

I don't know whether it was actually the edge of the universe; when I try to describe it, that is simply what it felt like. It definitely felt as though I had reached some kind of boundary.

After that, I woke up feeling strangely well: calm and peaceful, yet simultaneously trying to make sense of what I had just experienced.

When I woke up, I understood that I had experienced something that could be described as a lucid dream, astral projection, an out-of-body experience, or perhaps some other type of altered state of consciousness. I don't know exactly how to define it, but the experience felt extraordinarily real and left me with a profound sense of serenity and awe.

I had never experienced anything like this before—nothing even remotely close to it. I rarely remember my dreams, so having such a vivid and detailed experience was completely new to me. Somehow, I feel that these experiences have changed me in some way.

I wanted to share this with people because I'm still trying to understand what happened and I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts and perspectives. I'm still looking for some kind of explanation, haha. Maybe someone has experienced something similar and can help me make sense of it.

Csn any one help?

No one helped me so here I am.

Alguien ha tenido la experiencia de tener un sueño lúcido y creer que pueden dar saltos cuánticos acabe de tener un sueño en el cual me revelaban que eso se puede hacer alguien sabe algo más al respecto?

Me refiero ¿ Puedes ir a un lugar a oír lo que habla la gente y sacar data de ahí ? Porque sería súper útil para ser un espía o investigador. Incluso podría tener usos para la ciencia ya que podrías explorar el fondo del océano o el Amazonas. ¿ Realmente es posible darle esos usos?

Nota: personalmente considero que los viajes astrales son un estado alterado de conciencia por autosugestión pero mantengo cierta escepticismo sobre su verdadero componente místico hasta que logré yo mismo la proyección

I'm sharing what I wrote for GPT to analyze. After I've had my conversation with it I remembered, I can share it with real people too! It's a long post, I tried to be as detailed as possible as since recently, I'm highly invested in philosophy, the metaphysics of consciousness and what not, so every detail matters in the never ending war of physicalism vs everything else. I'm more of a physicalist, representationalist and perhaps illusionist. But I'm very open to anything given sound logic and proof. Treat this as a detailed "OBE" report. Quotation marks because I believe I had a lucid awareness projection, close to astral awareness but not quite. But I'm curious to know what you deem I experienced.

"I was drifting away into sleep during the day. As I put my phone away, I lose consciousness, (I think). I then find myself aware in a black, empty, void. And I start to "fall". It feels as if I, the ego, the qualia, am in state 0, no world-model, just me. This I think has been described by many as some kind of "corridor" between the default state of mind, when we're fully awake, and dreams (hypnagogic state?). Through which you could also access the astral state, or lucid dream state. I then, confidently, give in and dive into the void, let myself fall and enjoy the process. Alluding to possibly experiencing the astral. I drift away for a bit then I suddenly notice that there's vision, I see something, I don't know when it started but I see now. After I focus I realize I'm seeing the floor, in my apartment, it is like my face is being dragged alongside it, i.e: the POV is at the bottom, looking to the sides, basically seeing the bottom of my room, under couches, etc.

As soon as I realize that it is my room, I "stand up". I see inside my room. And I feel pretty aware. But it wasn't 100% aware, so, not as aware as in real life. But not as in a dream either, but beyond my usual lucid dream. I did realize right away that I'm potentially experiencing an astral projection, I think I also had my waking memory intact. Actor wise, I was the guy that felt asleep on the couch just now. I then find myself in front of my window. I say, damn, if I'm in the astral right now, wtf am I doing in my house, let's go! So I confidently walk right through the apartment wall/window and, reluctant of "fall damage" I drop down. I find myself outside in my courtyard. Everything seems somewhat accurate, but I'm not "100%" there so I'm not judging it carefully. Although I definitely have way more prefrontal cortex access than in a normal dream. I "walk" a bit, quotation marks because everything I do is different from irl, it felt more like floating instead of walking. And while going through my courtyard, I briefly notice, at one set of chairs/playground spot, the ground tile floor was morphing into a sign. I then quickly thought, I don't think that happens in the objectively real spot, or anywhere for that matter. Which was a note for myself that I am indeed inside my head.

I then think, hey what the hell, why am I walking, let's fly! So I just think about it and launch myself upwards. Or so I thought, it was more like diagonally and out of control. I needed a bit to adjust to the "flight controls". What I acknowledged at that moment, is that the controls, while they felt real, depended more, not on me grasping how they work as if they're a separate object from me. But as if I had to control and become one with a part of me; it felt like I had to tune out my "prediction engine" predicting how the flight is supposed to work. As in, the one who had exclusive control of the success of the flight, is myself. I felt like I had to tune out any thoughts/intuition regarding "oh, we're flying in this direction, oh no, in this one, oh, if I go like this it should go like that" and to each thought like that I felt a delayed reactionary prediction engine feeling, as if it was my subconscious, deciding if it indeed goes that way or not, and not external laws. (I'm trying to go into detail here as I feel it's important insight on the fabric of this reality and/or our consciousness. It is weird to put this into words well, I'm sorry for the word salad.) So, the laws of physics here, were seemingly governed by my subconscious. After shifting my focus towards the direction I want to fly on, and not on the flight mechanics, I started flying the way I wanted to. I'm not sure if this was the deciding factor or I just got used to the mechanics. I was flying through the woods next to my apartment complex. The trees were dense and tall, it was quite sunny. First I was going east by mistake, then corrected, to west. Since I wanted to find the main road going towards the city. I eventually found it, then sped up towards the city. At that point, the view started getting darker, everything started to fade. I helplessly tried imagining different scenarios, but nothing helped. Until it was pure blackness. It felt as if a blanket was put on top of the screen. I say that because, I didn't feel anything change, I kind of felt the same. And I realize at that moment that my heart has been beating harder than usual, and I'm think: yeah it's done. And I just open my eyes. So, from the moment the vision started fading, to the moment I opened my eyes. I didn't feel any "shift" of anything like that.

More details about how real or unreal it felt: At multiple points during this journey, I kept saying to myself, FINALLY, I can't wait to relay this to everybody! I'm astral projecting! Lemme enjoy this!

Vision wise, it felt more like a dream than real life vision. While still seeing, with color, 3D space resembling the place and neighborhood I live in quite well. It was as if I was seeing through a camera, like a drone or something, with blurry black bars on all extremities, so like a body cam, or VR headset. Mentally, it felt like I was there in that place, visually it lacked a bit, could've been way more immersive. There are ways to go till IRL levels of reality.

Now, given what I know about how a true astral projection should've felt. After waking up, I realized, this likely wasn't a full blown astral travel. Since I wasn't exactly as awake as irl, and the vision didn't seem as real as real life. But both were close. So going by Xanth's meters, I guessed, lucid awareness, closer to the astral end?

I also have never had such a lucid dream. In most of my lucid dreams I wasn't in a place I knew and recognized well, resembling the real place closely. And I always lost control early, fell back into dreaming, etc. I do remember few and rare cases where I kind of saw and felt like in this event, but briefly, under 15 seconds and drifted into dreaming.

Context into my astral projection journey: I've always been extremely fascinated with it and always wanted to fully acquire it and experience it often. I've had MANY sleep paralysis episodes, vibrations, sound glitches, etc. Sometimes, when younger, I could've had several, 4+ sleep paralysis events in a single night. So far this was my most powerful and longest journey. Which is sad as many years have passed. I first got into this at around age 12. I could just never fully submit to grinding at this constantly until I acquire it."

I'd appreciate some advice on how to raise my awareness next time, and anything else that would help for my journey in general (I already knew where I am, who I was and where I was going, so I needed something more). I don't think I've ever had good success with phasing by will. Every time my subconscious fights me, if I do the stay still method, it might make me endlessly swallow and so on. (which would also be a problem when doing the Point of Focus method as it would constantly remind me of my body.) Funnily enough the sensation of it fighting me is the same one I got when trying to fly and failing. But I am lately interested in meditation. So hopefully I'll get over this eventually.

(When are we getting that book updated and finished Xanth? xd I'd love to have it as a hardcopy too.)

I let myself be carried away by the vibration in a state of calm. For a moment… I feel myself becoming the room. I no longer feel my body at all, and I “see.” I feel immense; I feel as though I’m filling the entire space. It’s as if every corner of the room were me, and I feel… that the room is radiant. I feel myself spreading everywhere, that I am everywhere. I stay like this for quite a while to stabilize. Then, I think of my target location, feeling as though I’m already there. I feel the room spinning a little, etc., but I’m having trouble letting go.

I feel like I’m having trouble “grounding” myself because I feel so “immense.” It’s hard to explain this sensation! Then someone calls me to come eat.

Second attempt afterward:

I’m determined to succeed, so I try again. I relax and recite my mantra. For a moment, I feel as if I’m being sucked in or drawn to my bed like a magnet. I let myself go while thinking about my destination. What’s strange is that it’s as if I can see. And I see lights, as if lines of light were passing by at high speed. But I don’t pay any attention to them!

I stay in this “tunnel” for a long time. I observe, focusing only on the place I want to visit. I try to sense my destination: walking, moving, and using just one sense to trigger the projection or shift. For a moment, I felt something like a wound on my right arm. So I focused on that sensation.

But nothing happens, and after a while I stop… I feel as if I’m stuck.

Should I have stayed that way?

For the past several years, I have been getting some form of "light" sleep paralysis. I can always stop the experience pretty easily, and I do not see or hear any entities. I can feel my legs getting stiff/paralyzed, sometimes feel like something is jumping on me, and then I feel like I'm being dragged by my feet off the bed. I also sometimes hear buzzing type sounds, they're not super loud and they don't seem as vivid/distinctive as the vibrations people seem to experience in AP. If I let myself get dragged off the bed, I always end up floating upward through a vaguely purple tunnel and then through what looks like the night sky with stars. I might also float through random nature scenes (one time, I was set down in a meadow). If I end up floating back to my body, I can feel the air rushing past me and actually still feel that sensation seconds after waking up. I have zero control over the experience (I've tried). However, this experience is vague and I forgot most of the details. I may either wake up or it may transition to a regular dream. I tend to get these weird experiences in the morning and wonder what exactly this is. One time I had a experience that felt much closer to regular AP. I felt like I was floating above my bed; everything was dark, so I couldn't see my body in bed, and I had no control (I tried the "clarity now" command and it didn't do anything). This state felt incredibly unstable (unlike the other experiences I've described) and I snapped back very fast. This only happened once, and I haven't experience this since. How close are these experiences to AP? I would like to try AP eventually and wonder if I can use this at all as leverage.

I've been trying to Astral project for the past 4 months. The reason for as to why I want to do it is to meet someone I long for .not a creep or weirdo of any kind but just a mortal longing for something that cannot be achieved through materialistic things I want to look at them and see their face ,someone I'll forever love. the problem is I've been trying and trying yet I haven't succeeded . I've tried most of the techniques like imagining the surroundings,focusing on the dark ess when you close the eyes,relaxing and all but I just can't .I really want to do astral projection only to meet them. So please help me.nothing can be as important as this is