posted February 06, 2009 12:57 AM            

Typically, dreams are reflections of our sub/unconscious minds, our inner selves, and how we relate ourselves to the outside world. I do believe though, that we often take "astral trips" in the sense that you are talking about. Many would say that we travel astrally every night, and this may be so if you think of the mind as itself existing on astral levels.

Does that make sense?

posted February 06, 2009 02:02 AM              

The first time I was about 11 years old..I woke up on a Saturday morning, came downstairs to lay on the couch to veg some more..fell asleep at some point. I remember my "astral body" or whatever it is sit straight up out of my physical body. I turned around, looked at myself sleeping, turned back around to see my dad enter the room with the vacuum cleaner and my little brother wearing an orange shirt, sitting in the chair. I then slammed back into my body. This all happened within about 10 seconds.

I woke up later to find that my brother was wearing the same clothes I "saw" when I was sleeping.

The second time I came home from school playing hooky. I went to lay on my bed and next thing I knew, I was asleep but my astral body was twisting and contorting itself out of my physical body. I tried to just go with it and I tried to put my astral head through the wall next to my bed. I kept trying to fully get out of my body but failed.

posted February 27, 2009 01:18 PM            

Well I'm fine, i'm too kind of busy with my work. Hey you have a cool webpage, i like it, did you create it?
so anything new going?

@Ra

Helloooooooooooooooooooooo there.

posted July 20, 2009 05:12 PM            

Anyway, I heard it again that day while asleep and though to myself, "maybe this is an OBE?" Then I was in bed, awake, but paralyzed! That was so scary, then I felt these vibrations and got even more scared but just prayed and focused on God. I felt this intense pain, like acid through my whole body, and saw a flash of white light.

I was still just laying in bed. I turned my head to the side, and knew that I only turned my astral head, and my physical one was in the same place. This didn't freak me out though for some reason. I sat up, and somehow just lifted out towards the ceiling. I looked around my bedroom, but didn't look down on the bed! I had a hard time moving, I just 'swam' around, like I do when I have dreams where I'm flying. After a little while I got freaked out and said "OK, I want to be back in my body now!" Instantly I was back, but again I was paralyzed! I could only look at one point on the wall. Eventually I said to myself "This is stupid! I'm getting up now!" And I jolted back into my body, staring at that same point on the wall. It really felt like a higher force was guiding me to and through this.

Then maybe a month later I had an OBE, but I was half-asleep. I remember being in my room , it was dark, I flipped out of my body and out the window, came back and there was some negative spirits there and I just put my head down and focused on God and withstood them. I was not quite conscious like I was in the first OBE.

One day around the same time, during a meditation session, my body started swaying, which it often does during mediation or when I'm doing energy work. But then the swaying became stronger, like something else was moving me. Then I felt the vibrations of lifting off, but I got scared and stopped it.

Then a week or 2 ago I had an almost OBE again while half-asleep. I was in bed at night, and I could feel that acid-pain like the first time right before I would lift out. The pain lasted a long time, and I was talking to a voice, like a spirit guide or actually more like my higher self, who was trying to convince me not to fight that pain and to go with it. I don't know what happened, but I didn't lift out. Again I was only semi-conscious.

I guess for me these usually happen when I'm asleep or half asleep because I'm too scared to go there when I'm awake. I think it would be great to do it at will though.