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24th January 2021

I have wanted to write a regular blog about my creative journey for a while but the ‘over thinking things’ caused great delays in me putting this together as well as the lack of confidence in my writing skills.

However, as the months have passed I have begun another journey but of a different kind. One that has blown me away completely and I feel that it needs to be shared so that others can also try it themselves and have an experience of it. I have also come to realise that it doesn’t matter that my writing skills are not up to scratch…what is more important is the content of my blogs and what it can offer others. My hope is that it offers inspiration and also plants a seed that there is more to this game of life than we were made to believe. So this is a perfect place for me to talk about this new and fascinating topic which is astral projection.

I would have never imagined that my first blog would be about Astral Projection/Out of Body Experience

Three weeks ago I was in bed and became aware during the night that I was unable to move. I was not fully awake and yet I was not asleep. I have had this experience before and it’s known as sleep paralysis, which we all have every night but we are unaware of it because we are in a deep sleep. Along with this paralysis I felt a very strong pulsing sensation flowing up and down my body. From the top of my head to my feet. I felt that these combined sensations were building up to a peak of some sort. After a couple of moments I became completely conscious and I immediately felt panic and eventually pulled myself out of this ‘state’. I went online the next day to do some research because that energy was something I had never consciously felt before and I wanted to know whether anyone else had experienced the same thing before. It was completely new to me and the energy that was travelling through my body was quite intense and startling. I wanted to know what it all meant. As I was doing some digging I came across links to Astral Projection (AP)/Out of Body Experiences (OBE). Apparently these sensations are felt in the hypnagogic stage of sleep, which is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep or the hypnopompic stage, which is the transition state from sleep to wakefulness. Apparently the wave like energy and sleep paralysis are precursors to an AP/OBE. I was very intrigued by this so I decided to take a nap that same day to see if I could muster up the same sensations. It came again and so did the automatic fear which caused it to stop once again.

AP was something I was unfamiliar with BUT I am an open minded person and so I began to do some more research into it; podcasts, books, articles and after finding a particularly in-depth technique online with a supposedly high success rate, I followed these instructions to the T…. and then I experienced my first Astral Projection.

After using a particular technique it was around 6.30AM and I was beginning to wake up. I had been sleeping on my back and I felt that I wanted to roll on my side to get more comfortable. Part of the technique to have an AP/OBE was to roll over as soon as soon as I woke up but I had forgotten everything about wanting to this in those first few seconds…I was rolling over purely to get more comfortable. So in those first few seconds as I turned my head into the pillow to roll over, with my eyes still closed, I saw a bright light ping on behind my eyelids and a slight buzzing noise in my ears. I froze as I wondered what was going on…still with my eyes closed but by this time I was now fully conscious and no longer in-between wakefulness and sleep. My head was the only part of me that was ‘out’ as I hadn’t even rolled the rest of my body over. As I became aware of these sensations and remembering what i was trying to achieve before I had gone to bed and during the night too, it dawned on me that I had been successful in what I was trying to achieve. I felt like I was peering through a veil at that moment. It is very hard to describe what it felt like but I instantly knew that this was it and I could leave my body. It was an instant knowing. I stayed still for a couple of seconds once my consciousness had caught-up and when it did I sensed that the glowing from behind my eyes was coming from me. In this brief pause I tried to calm my nerves and then began to roll the rest of my body over. I was fully conscious at this point. As I was doing this it was like pulling myself out of water and therefore there was a drag. It was a bit of an effort to pull myself ‘out’ so I felt for the side of my bed to get some leverage and all that time I was thinking ‘I cannot believe I have done it’ and totally gobsmacked that this was actually happening. I was also mentally preparing myself for the unknown.

In a split second I am standing at the bottom of my bed in my dimly lit bedroom. How did I get from from one moment lying on my bed to another moment of standing up over here? I then tried to focus on what I had written down for the tasks I wanted to do if I ever managed to have this experience, whilst trying to stay calm. I need to emphasise that I am not asleep I am fully awake with my normal thought processes and I know I am somewhere other than normal reality even though it appears similar to what my bedroom looks like, but I couldn’t analyse it too much at that time because it was dimly lit. Over excitement or fear can ping you back into your body which I had read many times so I was trying my best to stay calm. The first task was to look in the mirror. As soon as I have this thought I instantaneously see my reflection in my bedroom door and I can see my physical self staring back at me. I really wanted to bring more light to the room and make my vision clearer so I shout ‘Clarity now!’. I cannot feel these words vibrate through me as I ‘speak’ them, nothing was felt in my voice box, but they still appeared in my consciousness and I could also see my reflection in the door mouthing these words. I then try another technique to bring clarity and light to my vision and that is to rub my hands together in front of my face but I found this difficult to do as my arms felt numb. I try shouting ‘clarity now’ with so much force that i’m intentionally using my body as i force the words out. I see the reflection of me react the way I am intending but from where I am standing I don’t feel anything still and as I looked down I realise that I cannot see any part of my body…just the floor. It appears I am simply a point of consciousness. Before I could decide on my next move, as this threw me completely, I then began to sink through my floor boards. I do not feel anything as I float downwards and I see the room rising up and my bed rising up. I really wanted to do some exploring in this new environment as I know that these opportunities do not come frequently to most but I felt quite scared to leave my body behind. Why was I heading downwards? That wasn’t caused by me as I didn’t intend for that to happen. I felt that I didn’t have much control of what was happening and therefore my confidence took a little dip. I had read many times that the second you want to return to your physical body all you would need to do is to look at it or think of it and you’ll go straight back. Hence why I kept my focus away from the bed all this time so as to prolong the experience. I decided quickly that I wanted to get back and as soon as I thought that the experience ended and I became aware that I was back in my bed lying on my back and my whole physical body had this strong tingling energy all over me.

This amazing, frightening, beautiful and unbelievable experience blew my mind as it confirmed for me that we are not just our physical bodies. The words I am using do not do the experience justice at all. I had witnessed a part of me that I never consciously experienced before and it is something I am determined to explore more of.
Even though I never left my bedroom, I didn’t meet any Beings or even fly through our universe seeing amazing sights… this experience changed my outlook on life completely and has awakened a powerful desire to connect to something greater and to look more closely at my inner world. Before this experience I thought I knew the way our reality works but I now know that there is so much we do not know.
Next time I will work on controlling any fear as I know there is a whole lot more to investigate and more profound aspects of the ‘other side/s’. After having conversations with others on an AP Facebook group and reading books such as ‘Adventures Beyond The Body’ by William Buhlman and ‘Hacking The Out Of Body Experience’ by Robert Peterson it’s common to feel fear but the key is to control it. The knowledge I am receiving from all these avenues are encouraging and inspires me to work hard on honing my skills on achieving another OBE as often as I can. I have tried since then to do it once more but without luck. However the technique I used requires you to wake up naturally and it’s not possible to do this on the days I have to work so the weekends will be my time to practice. I keep a journal of my experiences and I will post when I have another OBE.

I believe this ability is available to all of us. It will take practice but if you’re serious about it and you can keep an open mind to it then I see no reason why you cannot achieve it too.