Astral Projection?

**dreamguy1515** · 11-25-2011 04:14 PM

I am very skeptical on it, but I have a question from my child hood. For about 2weeks I had dreams where I would leave my bed and see my body then go places I have been. Like the mall. But something kept trapping me and eventually let me go. But I t was impossible to wake up until I got to my body. Was this an AP? Or just a nightmare. I think I eventually killed the thing that was scarring me but I haven't had a dream like that since. Also it was when I was 6 or so. What do you think?

**Hukif** · 11-25-2011 04:41 PM

I think nightmare, then again I am also an skeptic so yeah <.<

**dreamguy1515** · 11-25-2011 04:59 PM

But its weird how I could not wake my self up(I was able to because I lucid dreamed unknowingly during my .child hood). Also weird how I had to go back to my body.

**Hukif** · 11-25-2011 05:16 PM

So you never had those nightmares where you try to wake up but it doesn't works? It happens to a lot of people, nightmares where you can't wake up yourself and often the dream involves trying to contact someone from the outside to wake you up, yours would be a variant from that.

**dreamguy1515** · 11-25-2011 05:32 PM

Yeah, I get that, but all my other nightmares I had I was able to wake my self up. Which is weird. Maybe I an opinion from someone who believes in AP?

**Hukif** · 11-25-2011 05:36 PM

Well, just because its not a normal nightmare (For you) you shouldn't label it as something unexplainable like AP, that basically means you want to believe in AP and use this chance to give yourself a reason to believe in it.

But yeah, you may want the opinion from someone who believes in it.

**dreamguy1515** · 11-25-2011 05:53 PM

Hehe I do want to believe it. So you may be right :p. But I sometimes have to prove things to believe them. But I believe in god, therefore souls and an after life. But AP just seems to out of this world to believe but it would be coolbif it was

**Horne** · 12-02-2011 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by dreamguy1515

But I believe in god, therefore souls and an after life. But AP just seems to out of this world to believe but it would be coolbif it was

"Removed by admins at HORNE'S request because 3 years later, Horne came to the conclusion that his comment was really, really, cringe worthy. 16 year old HORNE was really narrow-minded and dumb.

**Darkmatters** · 12-02-2011 11:40 PM

Moved to Beyond Dreaming

**dreamguy1515** · 12-03-2011 12:29 AM

I am interested, please tell me

**DreamBliss** · 12-03-2011 05:06 AM

It is very hard to distinguish between a nightmare and an Out of Body Experience. When I was a child I was taken, inside an old cardboard tomato box, through my closet. All I remember of the place was darkness and flames. I always thought it was a nightmare, but the symptoms are too similar to an OBE, of which many children are particularly susceptible. What you are describing to me sounds like some version of sleep paralysis, a sure sign of a possible AP. It would help if you would go back over the experience and note any strange sights, sounds, or lights you saw. That will give you the final clue.

In my opinion, limited in knowledge as I am, everything you say sounds like an AP, and I am a believer in it. I have read far too many books by different authors in different time periods of differing faiths all describing the same thing to think its fake. To me that would be like saying there is no life after death. I firmly believe in a spiritual realm, and at this point in my life I am seeking the truth. I think its apt that the landscape of my 7th chakra, when I meditated on them and went through each one, turned out to be a lighthouse, at night, shining a bright beam on all the other landscapes of my chakras.

My advice? Start keeping a thorough dream journal and read books by Robert Monroe, William Buhlman, Albert Taylor, Dianne Morrissey and others, all describing their and others experiences of AP. You can compare the descriptions of others to your own, and determine if you are having an OBE or have had one.
- DreamBliss