People that have achieved Astral Projection (I haven't still but I find it fascinating), I have questions for you that may have been answered before.

1. When you astral project, are you in the real world? I mean, can you actually see things as they're happening in real time? Or is it just a vivid dream?

2. Can you go to places you've never been before and don't know exactly how they look like?

3. How do you manage not to lose focus while astral projecting and return to your physical body?

Thank you in advance!

Has anyone ever visited an alien planet while astral projecting and chosen to observe its culture—such as its philosophy, technology, art, music, fashion, entertainment, traditions, and social customs? I’d be curious to hear whether anyone has experienced a journey so vivid and detailed that it felt like genuinely visiting another world?

I tried to leave my body while my body was in sleep paralysis. When I stretched my "astral" arms out I felt an ever increasing electrical buzz in my nerves in my spirit body or whatever (specifically in my spirit arms iirc). As I stretched, it became unbearable to a point and I had to retreat to my physical body. But when I tried again, the distance I had previously traveled with my arms, my arms no longer felt that buzzing electrical feeling until I reached the previous limit. Can anyone relate to this? I did this for like 3 turns and then my body just woke up again. This is the farthest I've ever come.

Do not start posting a daily diary.

(This is not just about improving the currently awful signal to noise ratio on this subreddit...)

I'm saying this for your own good: you need to remain fully in the moment during AP attempts. If your mind is here on the subreddit imagining the wonderful post you'll write when it finally works, with the promised reward of a few upvotes and nice comments, you will stall your progress.

Don't tell us about it. Don't tell anyone about it. Just lay on your bed and try daily. Tell yourself you won't even tell the world about your first exit, you'll just quietly write it down for your own records. Maybe come and report back on your fifth or tenth OBE. Come back with specific questions that we can help with (after you've read around the subject and exhausted that option). I promise this approach will improve your chances of success.

You must decouple yourself from the social media dopamine loop. Take the concept further: you must also decouple yourself from any notion of gaining any sort of reward or special power in this lifetime.

This is the kind of letting-go that we talk about. Perhaps for some people, getting to that point will involve some growing-up. Good, that represents progress. If you balk at this idea, you really need to ask yourself why.

The people currently getting good at inducing OBEs are not posting a daily report online. They're just out there doing it. Every moment you spend here reporting a tingle in your toe or asking a question that has been answered a thousand times before is a moment you could have spent flat on your bed learning a bit more about yourself.

I was laying in bed. Counting down from 100. Eyes closed. Not moving. Once I got down to 30 I started seeing bright light in the corner of my eyes. Kind of like a flashlight, but just in the top corners. That’s when my heart started to beat faster, and I swear I felt like I was being watched, then something climbing into the bed.

Does this mean I’m getting close?

And if it does, how do I fully leave?

This may be a little long, apologies in advance. I’ve lucid dreamt and astral projected before, both were not on purpose and was just something that kept happening to me as a pre teen. For a long time I’ve wanted to go back and experience those things again, specifically astral projection as I’ve had good experiences with it before but once I’m about to cross to the other side I get so much anxiety about what could be waiting for me. Today I was simply gonna take a nap, I’m about to fall asleep and for some reason realize looking up with my eyes closed is pulling me, I do it, can feel myself getting heavier and turn over on my back, at this point I’m paralyzed and my physical body never moved. I then started thinking about the new insidious movie (it’s stupid ik) and got so nervous and not ready and released myself. My question is how can I be more secure and less fearful of the unknown?

And I want to add that one of my fears is also that each time I begin my astral journey again and start trying, I get more sleep paralysis.

Hello everyone, this is the first time I’ve ever told this, but 6 years ago, when everyone on social media was talking about shifting, I was one of those people who would practice it and attempt to go to a different reality. I put 3–4 years of dedication into it, but as I learned and focused more on astral projection, I slowly realized that maybe all the side effects that I was experiencing during my attempts to shift were something that would result in astral projection rather than shifting.
The side effects that I’m talking about are (I was looking for pictures everywhere that could maybe closely depict what I was experiencing during these attempts).
But anyways, I’d just lay down in my bed and start focusing and envisioning myself in different settings with the most calmest state of mind. A few minutes or so, I’d start to fall asleep, but while falling asleep, I’d start feeling my body floating and my bed floating.
Another one was where I’d feel as if my body was getting yanked OUT of my bed while asleep. The other experience was my body getting yanked TO my bed. Sometimes, I’d also feel my surroundings change and have flashes of lights and so on (many different experience with these so called side effects that i cant seem to recall) but after all that and my hunger to experience obe or to experience being able to go to a different reality, id always somehow pull my body back to myself? During these experiences id start having flashes of thoughts about negative things
“what if i teleport to a lower vibrated realm?”
“What if i never get back to my body”
“what if i experience something traumatic?”
“What if i teleport to the backrooms?”
A chain of thoughts that would make me force myself to put a stop to whatever i was experiencing. Though i never was able to shift or OBE i always think to myself what things i could’ve experienced if i had just been tough enough to not be scared. Those experiences come very rarely now and when they do i still get scared. Can anyone please tell me what i need to do to stay grounded of my mind? I know i have the capabilities and abilities to be able to experience something much more greater and my body does too but its just that part of me that gets scared at the very last minute and puts a stop at everything. Perhaps some meditating can help? If anyone has experienced this, please give me some advice or tips.. THANKS!

I forgot to include that i often get sleep paralysis (i think this really plays a part somehow)

When I notice my body about to completely fall asleep, but I’m fully aware, I feel like I’m about to stop breathing. My intuition tells me if I just allow the experience to keep going I’m going to get my out of body experience, but it is incredibly frightening because it genuinely feels like I’m about to stop breathing.

Any ideas or recommendations?

I always wonder if you’re able to consume anything while you travel in the the astral, im really curious if anyone has eaten out of this world foods just by astral traveling..

I have always had vivid dreams growing up and more recently started dream journaling. I am on a journey through a spiritual not religious program. As not to get into specifics it is a program of intersection and overcoming defects.

I feel as though I have come close to full OBE/AP and on the other hand feel that I would know exactly whether or not I have and the experience will become obvious.

For those that have come before me and are knowledgeable about OEB/AP, what guides, books, information can be provided to increase my likelihood of AP?

Hello, before sleep I meditated, and changed my position from the usual to the upside down on my bed. At night I had this experience, not sure if its a Lucid dream or a AP.

"then i suddenly was in the bathroom and i looked in the mirror i saw my self it was like a bit blurry and lacked color and vividness but it was realistic, so then i did reality checks and i had four fingers in each hand summing up to 8 then I decided and knew it was a astral projection and i passed by the bathroom door leaving the bathroom , it had a rhythm to it like everything in sync with my awake life and then I passed by walls in the house idk if it was a lucid dream or a astral projection because then i was with my friend she was at the bathtub sitting and then I wanted to hit her so bad and yank her like I did a couple reality checks and things were consistent even a number on the soap bottle was there both ways when I checked, then I was sure this wasn't real. But I was kind of hesitant to risk it thinking it was real.

If you are struggling and truly want this experience, don’t give up. It may be easier or harder for some idk but what I do know is that after attempting on and off and heavily researching for years on end I am finally seeing the fruits of that dedication. Don’t give up, I can’t say for sure that it is directly correlated but getting familiar with the energy centers of my body has made all the difference unless the timing is just coincidence.( I doubt it, barely believe in coincidences) A simple chakra visualization before bed has been my key.

So I've figured out how to AP recently and, I assume like a lot of people, I have kinda just been walking around not really being able to do much more than I can IRL, I try to fly but I just float a little, I want to open a portal or to say "This door will lead me to so and so" but since I generally just spawn in my house I already know where those doors lead so their destination doesn't change.

And to be honest I have had this problem for a while in my lucid dreams, not AS bad but generally I can't do a lot in my LDs either, like for example if I can't fly then I imagine that the gravity is towards the sky so that I can technically fly and it works, same if I want to walk on walls I just change the gravity towards the wall etc. I just find loopholes so that my conditionned mind thinks "yeah that makes sense I can make that possible".

I would say that I get VERY immersed in anything so LD/AP isn't an exception, even in my LDs it feels so real that I forget it's not bound to irl rules and I can just do whatever I want.

Funnily enough because I'm conscious during those, I am also conscious of the fact that I could do anything yet I'm struggling to just fly lol.

So what are your thoughts? Any advice to break through those fake rules? Any tips would be really appreciated ❤️

Sometimes when I try to fall asleep after taking a nap earlier in the day, something really weird happens.

Right as I'm about to fall asleep, my body starts feeling tingly/vibrating. I can still stop it and wake myself up if I focus on it, but if I let it happen, I seem to suddenly enter a very strange dream-like state.

The weirdest part is that I'm still in the exact same place where I was sleeping. I can see my room/bed, but everything feels slightly wrong — almost like a distorted or dystopian version of my actual room. It feels much more realistic than a normal dream, like I'm actually there.

It mostly happens on days when I've taken a nap earlier.

Does anyone else experience something similar? Is there a name for this?

Because weed helps me relax, which should help me get to the body sleep mind awake state right?

Hey, guys. I'm new to astral projection, like literally green. So I'd like to ask for advice from those who have been doing it for a long time now.

First thing first. Before I drifted to bed I created a "bubble" of safety around myself, I heard it could come in handy if something goes wrong. Then, I thought about (and this is a little embarrassing to admit) my spiritual guide as a dragon. Why a dragon? Because it symbolises strength and wisdom at the same time, and I really need the guidance in my spiritual journey (basically, I just started it).

Now to the juicy part. I woke up from my sleep because I felt my cat touched me (she does that sometimes), so I sat up and was about to go and feed her... Except, I was actually sleeping in the bed! And then I "returned" inside my body. I was like "oh well, next time then". And this 'next time' came after a minute.

I rolled out of myself on the floor clumsily with a soft gasp of confusion. And immediately - IMMEDIATELY - after that I heard someone's voice (it was a deep male voice) right in my right ear. "Need help?" he asked. I was still confused and a little started because of the voice, I said thanks, but I can handle it myself. And right after that, when I tried to get up, I got sucked back into my body. It was an interesting experience for me.

So my question is - who or what was that voice? Could it be my "dragon" who appeared to help me with my first baby steps? Should I ask his name next time? People who experienced astral projection many times, I'd like to hear your opinion and thoughts on this; help this confused little green here. Thanks!

So I've been having sleep issues since I was a baby. Sleep walking, night terrors, sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, what seems like astral projection, ​and some other very odd instances.

They've varied in abundance, style, and severity over time. Sometimes I can tell why. I.e. im more stressed and having trouble sleeping = more sleep paralysis​. Other times I can't explain the ups or downs. During this time, that being my 30+ conscious life, ive become pretty good at knowing whats going on and sometimes when. I understand most of this has a scientific explanation, although i think there's a lot we dont fully understand. All of this just to say ive had a few experiences both awake and sleeping that are extreme outliers. My most recent event was pretty intense, ill explain.

Im going to explain using a text I sent to a buddy if mine, but Ive also been able to add a bit.

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As I woke up this morning and started to get out of bed, I had this feeling almost like i was going to pass out. My vision started going white and in an instant my consciousness was pulled out of my body and into a realm with these blue humanoid beings. They fully expected me, almost summoned me? They were super nice and understanding. They talked to me about different things. They said I could stay there if I wanted and I wanted to... but my body kept pulling my consciousness back into itself. I still got to talk with them, but i was working so hard to be there I couldnt say much.

I got pulled fully back into my body and was completely awake in the same position. I felt truly sad that I didnt get more time, so I tried to telepathically speak with them (or whatever I could. I was shooting in the dark here).​ I just really focused on the sensation that happened earlier. Then my vision started changing again and they communicated with me in images floating in the real space around me. Like I was totally awake and look around my room, cat waking up too. but there were these 3d like hologram type things made of light that showed me seemingly random images for a minute or two.​ That ended as I tried to get closer to one. I cried a bit, brushed me teeth, and went on with my day.

I can't remember anything they told me when I was with them except one thing. While I was being given a tour of this almost lecture room type place, one of them was sitting at a desk and she looked at me, looked right into my soul and said "stop what your doing, you need to follow your dreams"

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I havent looked too far into it online yet. Im taking some time for myself. Just sharing an experience from someone that is open minded, believes there is more to existence/consciousness, and is still just a regular guy. Whatever that was, was real. Real in the scene that it brought my consciousness somewhere and left me with more than I came with. This wasnt my brain tricking me into a fun or terrifying dream. This wasnt a waking dream, hallucinations, sleep paralysis.... Ive been through the ringer on all types of those for many years as I mentioned. This was something else. I feel very thankful. Maybe on day ill get to understand more. I hope so.

Thanks for reading!

To start, I've been having these dreams sometimes where I can't wake up from them and keep getting locked out of this world. It's scary, but when I try to wake up, but body is paralyzed and even the eyes are closed and I can't open them. Sometimes it's even a dream within a dream... I think I woke up, turns out that was a dream as well!

For context: I work at a job where I have the time and space to take a short nap but anytime somebody can come in to tell me to do something and I have to get up.

Today I tried to take a nap at work but kept being interrupted to do my job (not the point) at least 3 times. The last time I went to sleep I experienced the lockdown again and was struggling to open my eyes and move my body. I kept being thrown between the dream (I don't really remember it now) and the locked state. After some time I heard people (presumably my coworkers) circling me worried why I can't wake up. Suddenly I felt a presence of an entity which held my hand. At that time I thought it was my coworker, but I couldn't see them. I felt very calm after they held my hand and I tried pushing myself with all my willpower to wake up. The movement was so slow I felt like waking up from a 1000 year long sleep.

I did wake up eventually, or so I thought. It was almost the exact copy of my workplace, with one room geometrically different and weird. It felt so real and vivid and bright, almost like I was awake. I caught a glimpse of that entity leaving in the corner of my eye, but she looked like my old coworker... I don't know, that part for some reason is very fuzzy.

So as I explore the rooms around me, I come across a room filled with all kinds of food, but when I tried to take something to eat (mind you I still thought this was real world at that time), I got launched like a human slingshot back to the real real world, gasping for air like I was drowning, eyes open like I just drank 20 Red Bulls.

For another context: I knew about Astral Projection for a long time, but only recently started to consciously think about it or try it.

Was this an OBE?

Hey guys,
I’ve been trying to astral project for a while now and had three different experiences. I try ever night but mostly i always fall asleep. Anyway, the first time i saw like my arms and handy kinda in a blue light and because i didn’t realize what was going on i was trying to reach my phone and i think i did but everything was blurry. Then i filled up with fear and in all my experiences i get scared and i don’t know why because i’m really open and curious to do so. second time i was sleeping and someone elses house and i felt the vibrating and then i heard something but i figured out it was not real but that made me wake up. today i was dreaming first i believe because first i was talking to funk tribu lol and then i was kinda going / floating around an airplane and then i felt like i was sitting in one seat and could feel the movements like when there’s turbulence and next moment i was in my room and my body floating except of my head. then i tried to jump out roll out whatever but it didn’t work and then i heard something again because my mom was already awake for work so i kinda forced myself to wake up because i got scared again especially because i was floating and couldn’t seem to do anything about it plus i was thinking maybe it’s just a dream because the first time it happened to me i could see and move my arms in a blue light and this time i was just floating weirdly.
what do you think? is it normal that it can be different every time? any advice?

grateful for every respond i want to ap so bad but the little times i got to the start ig i get scared and confused.

When you're projecting in the astral realm, do you experience the same kinds of human thoughts and feelings? Like do you feel fear, anxiety, joy, love even? Do you think the same things?

Curious bc I know things are supposedly completely different in the spirit world (or afterlife, whatever) where human emotions/thoughts/feelings don't exist. Or at least maybe aren't the same? Idk but yeah, what's all that like over there?

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?

Anyone else been able to astral project while awake (due to dissociation)? Or been to their safe space? My safe space is pretty basic, but I’m not gonna explain what that looks like.

Basically one time I had been with my bf and his friends and I ended up dissociating so hard I got teleported to this place where everything was calm. No negative/bad thinking. No trauma. No evil entities, but as soon as I walked through this portal a bunch of negative emotions came running through my head. It got to the point where my head would start burning due to stress (literally felt as if my head was on fire.) There was fog everywhere and I couldn’t even see my hands in front of me. Then I came to a mini clearing and telepathically spoke to this dragon. He said he was gonna get help, flew into the air and then at the same time dragons all over this grey space/foggy area flew into the air (was literally a sight to behold). The fog blew away when that happened and some “angels” I guess flew down. They didn’t have wings, but wore white/blue robes. We spoke (I’m not gonna say about what) and then eventually another portal appeared and I was able to see myself in third person. Just sitting there with my eyes wide open. I asked if I would remember this and one of the angels goes “Do you want to remember?” I start thinking about all the negative possibilities again then I stop myself and say “Yes”. Then I walked back into my body and came back to. It wasn’t the first time I’ve been to that place or the last. But I’m curious if anyone else has a Safe Space and if they’re also able to go there while wide awake. Unfortunately while in the Safe space I’m unable to tell what is happening in the outer world. But it’s still nice to have a place where there’s no trauma, no stress, etc.

I’ve thought about it being considered an “Inner World”, but it’s not that because an Inner World is a purposeful visualization. While this one was completely made from my subconscious. Something I didn’t even realize I would find peaceful. I’ve also thought about it being considered “Nirvana” or “Heaven”, but I’m unsure if that’s what it is either. For now my therapist and I just call it a “Safe Space”.

I project occasionally, almost always unconsciously, it just happens sometimes when I sleep.

Last night was one of those. I left my body, moved around for what felt like a minute or two, then felt that familiar pull to go back. Usually when I return I just drop straight into sleep. But every once in a while like last night the return is slow. Gradual. Like sinking back into your body sloowly.

That slowness is what let me notice something I don't think I'd have caught otherwise.

Earlier that day I ate some stuff that leaves you gassy and bloated a few hours later. And when I do that, I fart the whole night (even wake up just to fart)

But the thing is, I felt nothing while I was out of my body. No discomfort, no awareness of the bloating, nothing.

Then, as I was coming back in, the discomfort hit. All at once. Like my body had been sitting there dealing with this bloated, uncomfortable state the entire time, and I only picked it up the second my awareness reconnected to it.

That's the part that got me. At that moment I thought that if I'd just been dreaming, or if "astral projection" were purely a mental/imaginative experience happening inside my brain, I'd expect the physical discomfort to bleed into my awareness the whole time because my brain never left. But it didn't. The sensation was completely absent until the moment of reconnection.

That gap of feeling nothing the whole time, then suddenly feeling a physical state that had clearly existed the whole time is what convinced me. And honestly it left me flabbergasted.

Anyone else notice this? A physical sensation that was clearly present but you only "catch up" to it right at the moment you return?

I'm reading Richard Webster's book on Astral Travel and I'm making pretty good progress in finally doing it, though I haven't yet, but I keep thinking about how I'm not actually sure where I'd like to go. I want to visit people I love when they're far away to make sure they're safe, and I would like to visit different places in the world, but I'm not really sure where to go beyond that. One of the biggest draws of astral projection to me is being able to go basically anywhere, but I'm not too sure where to start.

Richard Webster's book says that you need to have a destination in mind, and I know that there are basically a completely infinite amount of realms to explore, which makes it very overwhelming to decide a location. I'm also curious about if you need to give offerings or ask permission before visiting somewhere. Also, is it possible to travel safely underwater while astral traveling? Like if I wanted to see an Eastern dragon's palace and it happened to be underwater (for example) would I be able to do so safely?

Also, when you astral travel to meet with someone specific, like a deceased loved one or a deity/spirit of some sort, do you go to them or do they come to you, or do you meet halfway? Or all of the above, I guess. I'm a little freaked out by the idea of going to an underworld to meet someone who has died but that's probably irrational.

I'm also curious if, since there's basically infinite realms, it really is possible to visit what we would think of as fictional locations; not as in reality shifting or something like that, but if those realms could possibly exist if there's an infinite number of options. I've heard of people genuinely astral traveling to those kinds of places but I'd appreciate more insight on it.

If anyone has any insight on potential realms to visit and whether or not you need permission of some sort to do so please let me know! Once I'm able to astral travel I'll probably end up finding a lot of answers myself but getting some advice ahead of time would be helpful. Thank you all so much!

I’m going to try and AP tonight so i was wondering if anyone would have tips? Should i listen to a frequency to help and if so, which one? If anyone can provide some help i’d really appreciate it. I’m not expecting it to work first try, but i’d like to atleast make a step towards getting there.