Astral projection

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Anyone know how to astral project

If you want to cut through 99% of the BS you'll read about it: its primarily about learning to let your body go to sleep, whilst keeping your mind out of the dream trap. There are several ways to do this. Cainite mentioned getting up early, and going back to sleep lying on your back. This increases the chance of sleep paralysis occurring dramatically, but doesn't guarantee it. When you succeed, you will usually find yourself in sleep paralysis, though its not always a given. That only happens if you are relatively close to the physical world. You'll likely experience the infamous vibrations if you do this consciously, or you might experience the shift in other ways like rushing wind, or maybe you'll hear something akin to a raging waterfall or jet engine (your subconscious mind will interpret the phase shift in whatever way is most comprehensible to it). One method for keeping your mind out of the dream trap is to create a ritual where you mentally observe objects around your home, and vividly visualize walking around to each object and examining it, and then proceed to the next object, examine it, and then proceed to the next object, and just keep repeating this until your body falls asleep. If you have a lot of will power you could just visualize an object, and then hold your consciousness on that until your body goes to sleep. It takes a LOT of focus, though, and you'll likely fall asleep many times before you succeed.

Getting out of the body while in sleep paralysis can be a headache too, because your consciousness is close enough to the physical to perceive the inability to move your body, and this actually amplifies the resistance to moving beyond it. You have to move your awareness toward being free, which is hard to explain. This can also occur in nearly a simultaneous fashion if you are trying to move through a wall and discover almost a force-field like resistance. It is a psychological barrier in that you expect the resistance so much you create it. You have to find a way of seeing whatever the barrier is, whether the body or a wall as being ephemeral in nature. I have no words to describe it. It is a nuance of perception that has to be learned.

The other (lazier) technique is to program yourself via affirmations to become conscious while you're dreaming, and then gently turn your attention to wherever you want to go -- physical or otherwise. This still requires a substantial amount of practice before you don't immediately wake up when you become conscious.

You can also learn to do a sort of quasi projection where you are half in and half out of the body. I would lean towards calling it remote viewing. You simply shift your attention out of your body and pretend its 'really happening'. Get really absorbed in it, like you are reading a really good book. You'll reach a point where you start getting real information. It will get more and more accurate the more you practice, but there will inevitably be distortions as time/space impressions are easily distortable and fluid and require an absolute stillness/objectivity of mind.