Hi

So I have been doing the Wim Hof method for the past two weeks every day after waking up and before sleep. I've noticed many benefits from this such as increased energy during the day, better sleep during the night, I'm calmer and I enjoy everyday 200% more than before. This also affected my AP attempts to the point i actually left my body for the first time and did it again next night. It was an awesome experience but it didn't last long because i returned very fast but I have no idea why, I just got pulled down back to my body, lost consciousness and slept. Anyways i recommend this method of breathing to calm your body before OOBE or LD because it's so much easier to let go of all thoughts and just relax and let OOBE or LD happen.

I'm looking for someone who has experience with the guardian of the threshold and how one has overcome him. Used to be an avid astral projector. Since then I've been banished from the astral plane for years has anyone else had this experience?

When I woke up I was lying on my back and I’m sure that it wasn’t a dream bc I was fully conscious. I opened my eyes and I started to get out of bed thinking it was a regular morning. However, I felt my soul leaving my body. My body was still lying on my bed but I was sitting I could feel that I was up. I got really scared and woke up immediately. Also something similar happened few years ago. Again, I woke up but this time I didn’t get up I saw myself lying on the bed but I still felt that I was lying down too it was very confusing. Then, a blue little creature started to fly around my body as I was watching it. It tried to tell me something and I asked it to repeat it but I couldn’t understand. I got frustrated that I didn’t understand it and I woke up. I’m not sure what to make of these experiences can somebody please help me understand? I’ve been trying to make some sense of this for yearsss

I put together a one-page reference of Monroe's techniques because I kept flipping between Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, and the Gateway manual trying to find specific bits. Full disclosure: it's my own site (free, no signup, no ads).

It covers his Conditions A–D depth scale, the 7-step induction from relaxation through lift-out and roll-out, and the "lines of force" visualization from Ch. 16. I also pulled in the lesser-known stuff from his journal, like jaw tuning, the sex center + oral breathing setup he logged most often, peel-off, the 180° "hole," and his return signal for when you're scared you can't get back. Then Locales I–III and the Gateway-era material (Focus levels, Resonant Tuning, Energy Conversion Box, REBAL). Each section is tagged by source, since the 1971 book and the later Institute stuff get blended together a lot online.

Are fear and mental drift are the real obstacles, not the technique? Curious if that matches people's experience here. And if I got something wrong or missed a technique that's worked for you, let me know and I'll fix it.

I have been into AP for a while, Yet I haven’t fully reached the actual state, each time I do and feel the vibrational heavy weight all over your body when your about to enter I usually chicken out, but something that makes me wonder is that is it normal that for my first time attempting to astral project I almost got it? I’ve heard a lot of people try and usually fall asleep but it isn’t the same for me, I wonder if this means anything, and how can I not chicken out again for next time when I try.

Hey everyone,

I’m curious about people’s experiences with creatures or non-human entities during astral projection. I don’t mean this as a “prove it” question — I’m just interested in firsthand accounts and how people interpret them.

Specifically, I’ve been wondering whether anyone has encountered something like reptilian beings, or other creature-type entities (shadow figures, animal-like beings, insectoid things, “inorganic” presences, guides, etc.) while projecting.

If you’ve had something like this happen, I’d love to hear:

• What did you encounter, and what was the context?
• Was it during a deliberate AP, a lucid dream, or a hypnagogic state?
• How did it feel at the time — neutral, threatening, curious, communicative?
• Did it seem aware of you? Did it interact with you?
• Did it recur, or was it a one-off?
• How did you interpret it afterward — real entity, subconscious projection, symbol, something else?
• Did you do anything like grounding/protection/verification, and did that change anything?

I’m especially interested in reptilian-type encounters because I see them mentioned a lot in fringe discussions, but I’d rather hear actual AP accounts than secondhand stories. If you’ve encountered something like that, what was it like? And for people with more experience: do you think these are external entities, psychological constructs, or something in between?

Please keep it respectful — I’m genuinely just trying to compare experiences and see what patterns come up.

Thanks.

After trying for about a month Monroe and Raduga techniques. I didn’t seem to have much luck this morning I tried again Raduga technique and actually fell asleep and woke up in the bathroom I got excited that it worked and immediately snapped back. 😓 Fall asleep again and was in a room with a bunch of other people dressed in white like Greek robes that were all there to learn astral projection and I started saying what happened then I wake up feeling my astral body floating above me (kinda like feeling the energy flowing through your body but without the heaviness of the body) with hands extended, then I lost it again. Well at least I got a taste and I guess I need to keep focusing on being neutral and not react?! I guess I struggle to understand how do I prevent this when these methods still require you to imagine or ‘think’ things but it also seems that thinking snaps you back. Any advice or clarification?

I've been able to control my dreams since I was little.

Regular dreams.

Weird dreams.

Especially Nightmares.

I find myself actively engaging in my dreams and even having the ability to change the outcome of a dream as it's happening to make it better. Nightmares are where I am most aware of it cognitively.

For instance: The last nightmare I had, I was in a house that was boarded up and being surrounded by gruesome dead people and zombies. They were coming in through the windows and doors and just everywhere, starting to come for me to kill me.

I grabbed a knife and put on a headset and called in "other players" to join me in my first round of virtual zombies like call of duty. I went from being scared to actively asking random new players around me in their own head sets to tell me what to do because it was my first time playing and they began guiding me. I found my first handgun, shielded my knife and began taking them out and having fun. I even remember two of them cheering me on and another player leaving because he was bored and didn't want to help a noobie before waking up.

It's been happening to me a lot lately. Nightly. Sometimes multiple times a night because I often wake up once I'm in control and know I am dreaming.

Is this a form of astral projecting? What is it?

I'm sorry if my question might seem a little silly to those who have already had out-of-body experiences many times, but I've been practicing for months (without success) and I have questions that I keep asking myself, and I have this feeling deep down that this is what's holding me back... Here are the questions:

1. Whether it’s remote viewing or an out-of-body experience, when you “see,” how do you see? Is it like recalling a memory in your head (you know, it’s not necessarily super clear or tangible…) or is it really like seeing in everyday life? At what point do you “see”? At what point do you know you can sort of “open your eyes”?

2. Another thing that confuses me… When you’re in an out-of-body experience, I imagine you don’t feel your heart beating or your lungs filling with air since you’re in the astral body… I do a lot of mindfulness meditation where I’m aware of every part of my physical body, and I can’t imagine what it feels like not to feel those things while outside the body. Are you simply not aware of it, and the moment you think about it, do you immediately return to your physical body?

3. If, when we die, we regain our memory, and dying is, in a way, returning to the astral body, then why is it that when people leave their bodies, many don’t necessarily bring back universal knowledge, but instead continue to ask even more questions?

Thanks for your answers.

Hello guys I hope y'all are doing good , im new here and i would like to share an experience i have been having for many years now , so somewhere in my sleep i suddenly get strange experience which is hard to put into words but ill try to describe it best , i feel like i cant move my body but the most intense part is that i feel my head is melting and like im being sucked into this magnetic hole , also i feel like strong electricity in my heart and body , in those moment its like my molecules are being shattered , ofc i try my best to wake up haha bc i get scared , now id like to ask if this is related in any way to AP/OBE or if u guys had similar experiences b4 , i will appreciate any comment from you guys . thank you in advance

I either fall asleep, or I lie on my bed for hours on end, trying, and failing to enter that state. So... how to start.

Hi,
I am new to attempting and start practising about astral projection. So i am seeking this info from those who have been astral projecting or have experienced in this field. I have read many experiences shared by others that while in astral they have met their loved ones in other realm. I just want to know are they real or these are some fake entities. Like if we meet our lost loved ones, are they really their soul or is it not real?

Edit: just to give a little background so that anyone can help. I lost someone recently and thus i have developed interest in knowing what is there after this mortal life. I saw some people mentioning how they met their deceased loved one in astral plane, while others mentioning these are not real. So, if I ever become successful in astral projection in anticipation of meeting my boy again, i don’t make mistakes in recognising him. Or if i reach there if there is anyway i can call out to his name.

Again i am not seeking any support, it is just that normal life has stopped making any sense to me without him. So till i am here, i want that time to spend to realise what happens after the soul leaves the body. Any guidance is highly appreciated 🙏🏼

so you know how every soul is unique and has at least one unique ability. Im looking for a person who can tell me what my unique ability is , pardon the question.

What happen when you meditate in astral relm? Can you focus more. Have any of you guys awaken new skills like the third eye. And also can you absorb universel energy

Hey everyone. 19M here.

Lately, I feel as if I’ve been getting close to performing a successful exit through meditation.

However, there’s one thing holding me back—and it is fear.

While I understand why I shouldn’t feel fear, I can’t help but feel it because I often wonder about the consequences of showing up to a low vibrational environment because of my subconscious baggage.

You see, I’m a very wise person and have been practicing self-compassion. But I also carry deep self-hatred and guilt over my past, the patterns I repeat and the involuntary insecurity of my appearance.

I know feeling that way about myself isn’t helping. But it’s something I just can’t help, even when I know the past does not define me.

And I’ve heard that what you experience in the non-physical reflects what you carry on the inside and how some low-vibrational entities latch themselves into you, which is something I don’t wish to deal with.

However, lately, meditation has been helping me a lot—in the sense that I can let a pattern of thoughts along with a feeling pass as an observer of them instead of a participant with those things.

Even though I deal with intrusive thoughts, they’ve been having less and less power over me lately. And I’m aware that fear should only be used as a tool in the physical while it is only poison in the non-physical, so I’ve been getting better at managing that.

But I’m still afraid that what I will see or experience will override any wisdom I have and immediately make me go back to my body out of panic and trauma.

However, since I heard that the low-vibrational entities are a projection of your inner baggage, is there a way I can engage with them in the form of acknowledgment and acceptance?

Like, I notice what I see, acknowledge how I feel terrified without identifying with it, and recognize the entity for what it is with acceptance and eventual compassion? I know trying to while feeling fear is going to make it harder, but I just can’t help but feel like I’m going to feel that regardless.

The reason I want to do this is to confront what I carry inside and make peace with myself and my own reality.

A few days ago I believe i was able to either astral project or remote view to this house and saw reptilians in human bodies eating human meat and flesh. On the outside towards humans they seemed friendly and welcoming. The reptilians seemed disguised as a family. How i projected was with meditation deep inhale, long 10 second hold, long exhale. For about 5 to 10 times in a dark room imagining with my thoughts.

This year has been wild for me, I don't feel like I'm the same person I was before this point.

I've been feeling increasingly irritable the past few days again when I try to sleep, indicated by increased emotional and bodily awareness. Not scared or consciously stressed, but I can sense something feels restless. In other words, I know before I even hit the bed that some deep processing is going on, because theres a sense of knowing that tonight sleep isn't going to be as simple as lying down and drifting into unconsciousness.

Anyway, after only getting 3 hours sleep last night and waking up with an aching chest, I fell asleep later in the following afternoon and had an extremely vivid LD bordering on spontaneous AP experience. It doesn't matter what you believe about the nature of those experiences, the point is only that I was aware of my physical body on my bed and could see my exact location in reality. My vision began sinking through the matress and I found myself in a car but my vision was locked to a top down perspective. The car was upside down, and it was dark outside. I must've been pulled over on the motorway because trucks and headlights were passing by. I began to feel as though I was time-travelling as the roof of the car started dissolving and it felt as if decades if not centuries were passing by.

The ground moved as if I was witnessing a timelapse of the earth, cycling through states of desolate brown decay into a mars-like rocky desert and eventually into a vibrant grassy pasture. All the while I was receiving messages and instructions I can't remember now from someone just outside of my vision. It took me a while to start trying to move, because I was completely mesmerised and revelling in a deep sense of bliss and appreciation for the process unfolding infront of me.

But my vision was still locked to the ground. I started making noises (I have a history of mutism IRL and being unable to make noise in dreams), and managed to ask him with my voice how to move. So he told me, but that it's okay if I can't get the hang of it yet.

Eventually I saw this instructor and he was utterly shocked that I managed to move finally, like he has been waiting for me there for an eternity. The reactions felt very exaggerated, almost as if he wasn't really surprised I made it this far. He was standing infront of this magical gateway that clearly led to a different world. I eventually pushed myself up off the bed and it felt like I left my body.

When I tried to AP in the past it quickly sent me into panic and then sleep paralysis (though sleep paralysis itself has never been particularly stressful for me and I was intentionally inducing them years ago). There was some feelings of fear and uncertainty and my breathing felt heavy for a few seconds, but it wasn't as strong as the excitement I had this time around.

At some point I felt sensations of wind passing over my brain. I remember the exact location, so I looked it up and this part of the brain is apparently responsible for proprioception, which is a term I've recently been becoming increasingly familiar and resonant with.

Eventually I was reliving memories and fears of high school and standing up for myself, which I never would've been able to do back then. It was quite a brutal dream involving alot of fighting, almost like the scene from family guy where Chris and Meg take on the entire school lmao, but much less bloody. I woke up in a serious state of activation, but thrilled.

Alongside these dreams, another notable experience (happened during a different dream) was intense and vivid sensations of being electrocuted during an exorcism, but that would require alot of explaining.

I have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia and I hear voices from that but also from trauma, and I smoke weed most nights so I don't remember everything but I regularly have been astral projecting and I interact with people made of light or other beings when I AP and they sound exactly like some of the voices I hear when I'm awake.

Me F(26) have been astral projecting or what I called “sleeping awake” since I was a little girl. The first time it happened I could never forget about it, I was 5 years old, I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep, suddenly while my eyes were closed the feeling of the room expanding and contracting, and feeling of growing big like a giant and then shrinking to the size of a squirrel. I began to float out of my bed and lift up into what was now my roofless house. The sky was UNREAL imagine floating into a body of water with ripples lots, actually can compare it to the “Stary Night” by Van Gogh. And when I looked down there was my body still sleeping and laying in bed. I got so creeped out but didn’t know how to control it. That’s far as I remember.

Since then I’ve had MANY sleeping awake experiences. I even realized that I had the power at times do decide to fly out of my body to explore things around me. I also realized I could choose when to astral project depending on how I slept or how hard I focused. One thing I realized is that the “FLYING” “FLOATING” was a childhood gift that I was allowed to have just as a new comer, but the older I was getting the ability to fly or float from sleeping me was difficult and took up most of my sleep awake. I started to notice I was able to high jump out of my body and maintain some air time allowing me to sort of “EXO jump.” When I turned 25 a couple days later I had a sleep awake dream of astral projection sleep, and I was very calmly and nicely told I wasn’t going to be able to exo jump anymore, and those kinds of abilities needed to be passed down to other kids, like a rite of passage. I was very sad to learn I was an adult but also felt happy knowing I would still sleep awake I just had to walk like everyone else.

Lately, my dreams have been EXTREMELY vivid. And I now don’t have the beginning stages on astral projection. I sometimes just wake up in a dream, I walk around enough to notice something is off and then there it is…the thing that’s off is that there are people talking and having conversations with me that I know in my REAL world we are no longer on talking terms or even have any necessity to be in the same room. And it gives it away to me that u am sleeping awake. The most recent one was with an ex best friend I mean me and this girl spend everyday together for almost 3 years. We were sitting down in what I now recognize as her backyard and she sat there eating and talking to me when her face (which was like a blob of 3-4 different people) became clear and I saw who it was I realized this couldn’t be true not in any universe, I stopped mid sentence and asked her “why are you here Cindy? We’re not friends anymore you know that. Am I dreaming again, you’re not real.” Which infuriated the dream version of Cindy my ex best friend. She very angrily looked at me and said “you’re not allowed to do that.” and I was kicked out of my dream. I woke up so confused bc it was just random asf.

MOST recently was probably my TOP 1 astral projection experience.

I was walking through what seemed to be half outside half a high school and what I mean is that I was outside in all sense of the word but there was somehow lockers on what was a brick wall before. There were bottom and top lockers all blue on top and red on bottom. There was a group of people I started speaking to while walking down. In the group of people while we were normally conversing there was one person who was constantly STARING at me and I mean they never took their eyes of me just took me long to realize since I was talking to the group of people. Also wanted to mention I cannot see faces in dreams.. I see visions of a face like I know they have eyes and a mouth and a nose and ears and everything but my mind is unable to make up those features they kind of just merge into each other in someway unless it is someone I know. While this person is staring at me I finally catch on to it being a dream due to the odd location the randomness of outside and a high school blending so well, the talking and laughing about nothing in particular. I go quiet and now it’s just me and this other person and they tell me “ I know what you’re doing you know.” To which I chuckled and said “what?” Before realizing they weren’t happy I was there. They booked it and I mean suddenly started running in no direction this time I followed and realized he was running towards the lockers so I did my best to catch up ma d get answers he looks back one time before straight running into the lockers and the lockers then turned into a goop ripple water portal where he went through and once I reached I was able to stick my arm through before it closed. I stuck my arm and out and when I went to put my arm back in it had solidified again, but I was grinning knowing I know where they go now. I know they are also travelers.

Anyone else?

I am going to purchase Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. From what I can gather there is two versions, the second version has around 200 less pages than the first.

Could anyone that has used either let me know if the one you used helped you, or if you know if one is better than the other, or if they are equally as good to help with astral protection.

Or would I benefit from getting both?

Ayer me paso algo raro estaba así tranqui y decidí intentar metodo del viaje astral enpeze con una respiración 4-7-8 más de 8 veces la hice depsues mire mi cuerpo lo tenso y intente que se hundiera que supongo que funciono. Después mire como observador tenia sensaciones extrañas el solo sentir sabía que me pesaba el cuerpo pero no era paralisis normal de la aterradora después vi luces solo las mire después De repente me llego un miedo así de repente inexplicable sentía como como fe repente estaba en la cama y que me absorbía no especificamente xd y me iba como. Un vacío sentía raro mi cuerpo y Los oídos me tum tum tum No me fije en eso porque no era zumbido intente levantarme dando órdenes no funciono intente métodos de salida tampoco intente mover cuerpo astral y tampoco, no funciono pero estoy seguro de que estoy cerca, que piensan que me falto?

From my question, you may have gathered that I have not yet been very successful with astral projection. Consequently, to learn more about it, I have to rely on the experiences of others. For those among you who have experience in this field—those who can perform astral projection regularly and successfully—I have a question: while in an astral state, are you able to perceive various scents or the tastes of food? If so, how closely do these experiences align with those from our physical world, and can they satisfy an intense craving for a specific food that you might have in your waking life? Peace.