r/AstralProjection

So a online friend gave me a copy of the Gateway tapes, and I also downloaded a copy of Astral Projection Meditation Yoga Nidra for OBEs with the Monroe Institute from you tube. On one of my first attempts, using the you tube Nidra for OBEs, I felt buzzing and vibrating in my head and ears. Right then, my dog who was in the room, banged her water bowl, which took me right out of the deep meditation. I then went to sleep and had a Lucid dream. I in the dream made a decision to go downstairs, where my wife in the dream was yelling about something. I also was dreaming that I was out of my body 90% of the way and I was dragging my earthly body around with me. The next morning , my wife informed me that she was yelling because one of the dogs had pooped on the floor. I have tried a few times per week since then with no luck going our of body or Astral projection. No Lucid dreams either. Is there a better recording that can get me to out of body or Lucid dream, I have a lot of the gateway tapes, but my goal is to astral project or lucid dream and i don't have much interest in the subjects of the other recordings. Thank you for any advise.

Hey there,

So I started to really get into meditation the last few months. Currently I am at a meditation retreat centre for 1 month meditating 3x a day, 45mins a day.

Earlier today I decided to meditate as long as I could without falling asleep or getting distracted.

I started to meditate and after about 45mins to 1 hour I began gradually to feel as if my hands were separating apart from each-other. Note, that when I started the meditation session I sat down in a chair with my hands cupped together placed on my lap.

Anyways, what I noticed was that it seemed that my body was at complete rest or in a sleep mode while my mind was completely conscious and alert. It felt so strange. I usually fall asleep.

So my hands began to vibrate slightly and it very much appeared to me that my hands felt like they were wrapped around my torso and shoulders Like it felt that they were in a completely different position to where I placed them originally. I also felt my head tilt back very gradually as if to look straight up at the ceiling. But when I opened my eyes slightly my hands were on my lap and my head looking straight ahead of me.

Overall I meditated for about 1 hour 45 mins in total which was my most impressive session without falling asleep (except for my body).

Is what I’ve described early signs of an OBE / AP?

When ever I've astral projected it's like I'm in my room, but it looks not quite the same. Thing happen in there that just make me feel like it's just a dream, like sometimes I see my family members in my room doing stupid stuff like they do in dreams. With my technique I just wait till my body falls asleep and my mind stays awake. I always get those scary symptoms and then I sit up out of my body. It seems the longer I stay in the astral the weirder things get.

Here are some things that make me think I could be dreaming or things that are messing with my astral

- it could be my attention span or not being focused enough

-Maybe it's the way I get out of my body(I basically just pretend I'm pushing myself up with my physical body, it's actually hard cuz I feel so heavy)

- I've never rlly looked down to see my physical body, I've never thought to look

-ive never been out of my room yet so much happens there

Maybe it's just a dream and my assumption of waking up in my room creates a dream in my room. Please help me guys I just feel like these experiences are so different from what I hear from others. Like people watching the actual world unfold and seeing things that you could only see if you were almost a ghost. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR OPINION

I heard that if you say the Robert Monroe affirmation everyday with all of your heart ,mind and emotions (it can also be a few times a day) that these higher energy creatures will pull your astral body from physical without your help. It can happen when you're going to sleep ,or in the morning. Is it true ? Is it a dangerous method ? I heard that it's not an instant fast method ,but it 's up to a few months not longer. What do you guys think about it ? Has anyone tried this ?

Affirmation (full)

I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than physical matter, I can perceive that which is greater than the physical world.

Therefore, I deeply desire: to expand, to experience, to know, to understand, to control, and to use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those who follow me.

Also, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development and experience are equal to or greater than my own.

I ask for their guidance and protection from any influence or any source that might provide me with less than my stated desires.

My first AP (or what I perceive as AP) happened unintentionally about 10 years ago. It started happening again around 3 years ago, and since then, it has been happening more frequently, still completely unintentionally. I say unintentionally because I never asked for it, and I have a hard time living with these experiences.

Every time I feel the vibrations start—that strange sensation of my soul leaving my body—I panic and immediately try to stop it. Usually, I’m able to stop it for a while, until I become too exhausted to keep fighting it and eventually feel myself being pulled out of my body.

I’m a very spiritual person, very intuitive, and I’ve always had a strong relationship with my dreams. Over the years, I’ve learned to trust and listen to my dreams, and a lot of the time, they have seemed to predict things that later happened. However, my experiences with astral projection have always felt completely different. They have always felt forced, and I’ve never really felt ready for them, which is why my instinct is always to try to stop them.

I feel like if I’m not mentally prepared for the experience, something bad could happen. I also feel like I need to be in a clear state of mind and not be afraid, but that’s extremely difficult when it feels like the experience is being forced on me and I’m only trying to sleep.

Although this has been happening for a while, my experiences have always felt blurry and dream-like. I don’t experience anything like what I read about on here, which makes me question what is actually happening to me. People who have experienced AP seem to have clear, vivid experiences where they remain fully aware of their surroundings and everything that’s happening around them. They’re able to move to other dimensions or even different planets and interact with entities.

Maybe it’s because I don’t really allow myself to enjoy the experience or fully let go. I usually see and feel myself floating out of my body and stopping at the ceiling of my bedroom. Sometimes I feel incredibly light and can actually enjoy floating around my house. Other times, I feel heavy and still somehow attached to my body, almost as if I’m falling out of it without completely separating. It’s difficult to describe.

I used to be able to float without stopping. I would always move in the same direction I had left my body, continuing upward until it felt like I was as high as the clouds in the sky and could see the entire town below me.

The strange thing is that I never seem to see things clearly or exactly as they are in reality. I know I’m in my house. I know I’m looking at my bed. I know I’m looking at my town. Yet none of it actually looks the way it does in real life. The furniture is different, the lighting is different, and the town definitely doesn’t look like my actual town.

So this is where I start questioning myself: am I actually experiencing AP, or am I simply dreaming?

The reason I’m convinced that it’s not just a dream is because I’ve been extremely attentive to my dreams my entire life. I wake up and analyze what I just dreamed about, and I feel like I know the difference between a normal dream and these experiences. I’ve never experienced anything in a dream that felt this intense.

There is this incredible feeling of freedom—of being extremely light, but at the same time feeling powerful. Then there are the intense vibrations throughout my entire body, especially in my hands and feet, right before I leave my body. I experience those same vibrations again as soon as I return. The actual sensation of feeling like my soul is leaving my body is something I’ve never experienced in a normal dream.

My biggest AP experience happened about a year ago.

I was enjoying floating around my house and could see all the objects and furniture around me. Everything looked distorted or strange. Some things looked almost funny, while others looked WAY shinier than they normally do.

When I tried to return to my body, I was able to open my eyes a little bit and there was this huge black face with giant white eyes staring directly at me.

I could feel what seemed like the entity’s arms wrapped around my body, preventing me from moving. It stayed there, staring at me and holding me for what felt like hours. I felt like it was draining my energy.
I was trying to fight it, but I was absolutely terrified, and I’m sure it could sense my fear.
I’m still not sure whether it had been there watching me before I left my body or how it got there in the first place. Even though its presence felt extremely heavy and uncomfortable, it mostly seemed curious rather than aggressive.

After that experience, I became pregnant, and, strangely enough, everything stopped. Even my dreams became very light and meaningless.

Now that I’ve given birth four months ago, the experiences have started again. If anything, they feel more intense. I feel like every out-of-body experience is becoming more aggressive and forced.

Tonight it happened again.

I had been awake for nearly 24 hours and was finally able to put my baby to sleep. I was exhausted and trying to fall asleep when I immediately started dreaming about my husband and me.

I already had a strange feeling in the dream, so I told my husband " Do not to let them pull me out of my body". He was getting ready to push my soul back into my body when I suddenly started feeling the vibrations and snapped back to reality.

I was trying to wake up, but I could barely open my eyes or move. I fought as hard as I could to stop the vibrations and wake myself up, but I was so exhausted that eventually I gave up.

Almost instantly, I felt my soul being pulled out of my body, and I could see myself floating upward.

Again, I could see myself, but not exactly. It was almost like seeing a shadow or an outline of myself in the same position I was lying in bed. The light in the room was on, even though the room was actually completely dark, and once again, the room itself looked slightly different.

I felt extremely heavy as I tried to stop myself from floating and force myself back down. I don’t know how I managed to get back into my body, but when I did, I was shaking extremely hard. I think the shaking may have actually been my body’s way of waking me up. I could still feel the vibrations in my hands and feet afterward.

My husband has been very supportive throughout all of this. In the past, he has had to wake me up because I was screaming in my sleep or shaking the bed during episodes of sleep paralysis or what I perceive as AP. He has done a lot of research himself in an attempt to understand what I’m experiencing and figure out how he can help me.

This morning, he told me that I should educate myself about what is happening and learn how to live with it, since trying to stop it clearly hasn’t made it go away. That’s ultimately why I’m writing this post.

What I really want to understand is why my experiences seem so different from what other people describe. Why does everything feel so blurry or look different from reality? Is this something other people experience as well? If so, why does it happen, and how do you learn to deal with it?
And how do you deal with these experiences when you just want to sleep? I feel like I’m constantly fighting against something I never asked for and don’t fully understand.
I know this is probably a messy and unclear post, but I’m honestly starting to feel like I’m losing my mind..
I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experienced something similar, especially people with a lot of experience with AP, who might be able to help me understand what these experiences could be and how to deal with them.

I’m hunting for information or similar experiences. I’m desperate to understand or make some sort of sense of this experience.

TLDR: I had what is best described as an OBE where I was confronted by a terrifying presence that I believe pulled me out of my body in order to save my husband.

While I am aware of what an OBE is, I have never sought much information out about them nor have I ever tried to intentionally have one myself. I’ve had a long term fascination with UFOlogy/Aliens and the subject of OBE’s is often discussed on the same podcasts. That is the extent of my knowledge on the subject.

Please bear with me. This is going to be long. I had a really hard time putting this experience into words. I’ve done my best but much of how I am able to describe things falls short. Many of the aspects do not seem to have a way to properly or thoroughly explain them.

The following is an experience I had in the very early morning hours of July 3rd of this year (2026):

Shortly after midnight I decided it was time for sleep. I turned the show I was watching off, turned to my side in my usual ‘fall asleep’ pose, closed my eyes and then immediately (?) was standing next to my bed.

Confused, I scanned the room in an attempt to understand what I was doing standing. As I looked around, the room was exactly as it was irl, but in blue scale. There was nothing to indicate to me that I was not in my normal waking state.

My door was ajar. My cat had slipped in before I’d gone to sleep but I’d decided it wasn’t worth getting up to latch it. Standing now in my blue scale room I had the thought that I may as well go shut the door since I was already up. I’d planned to find the source of the odd blue hue as well.

I turned to head to the door and as I did I saw my body still lying in the bed with my husband there next to me. Seeing myself didn’t frighten me as I would have expected it to. Instead I felt a sense of wonder. I was certainly confused, but very curious. I did not have any thought that I may have died. I simply accepted the state.

I’d just started to ponder the experience when my vision began vibrating, slowly at first but growing exponentially, making it incredibly difficult to bring my vision into proper focus.

The visual disturbance peaked and then stopped suddenly. When it did I became aware of an incredibly intense and powerful presence. I cannot overstate how intense this presence was. There are no words or experiences I know of to compare this intensity to.

The presence was not something I could see, though not because it was invisible, simply that the area I *think* it was at was blank (for lack of a better term). It was somewhat similar to when I experience migraine aura, where portions of my vision are missing and replaced with an impossibly bright metallic sheen, but even still not quite.

The presence alone was extremely overwhelming. I would not have expected to be able to be more afraid than I was in that moment, but then it began to speak to me.

The language the presence spoke was not like anything else I’ve ever heard. It was a sort of formidable rumbling growling thunder sound with clearly formed “words”.

I was able to feel that the presence’s intent was to give me instructions but I was consumed by terror and unable to make sense of its message.

The presence repeated its same statement the first few times almost patiently.

I desperately wanted to get away.

In complete yet growing panic I tried to get back to my body by sort of diving onto it. However just as I nearly landed on my body I was forcibly stopped just short of it. Think of a seatbelt locking up upon a sudden stop.

I was stopped just over my body and was frozen just outside of it with a view of what would have been behind me as I lay down on my left side, but blocked partially by our bedding.

Stuck in that suspended state the presence, growing obviously frustrated, forced my attention to it. Speaking the same language it changed from its previous repeated set of words and began repeating a new statement.

This is a part that is particularly difficult to explain. Somehow understanding started to trickle in. It was sort of like hearing someone speaking a foreign language but as they repeat the statement you’re able to recognize one word here and there that you do understand. The next time the words repeated I understood another part of the statement. Eventually I pieced together some form of understanding. But it wasn’t that I was understanding. It was that the concept of each word was being put into me.

The presence was telling me (more or less) “Calm yourself so that you can hear.”

When I finally understood, the presence knew, and immediately returned to repeating the first set of ‘words’. Once again it was foreign to me. Just thundering grumbling roaring growling ‘words’. The concepts attached to this statement made no sense to me. It was like trying to decipher a cultural statement that doesn’t translate properly.

I was already crying and now begun pleading with the presence.
I begged to be let go.
I insisted I would not be able to calm myself. I said that I was confused.
I tried explaining human fear.

I kept tripping over the explanation when I would come up against facts about physical things like the hormones involved, recognizing that wouldn’t happen without the body. The confusion of trying to understand for myself how I could be experiencing such terror led me to further despair.

In response to each of my pleadings the presence repeated the second statement. “Calm yourself so that you can hear.”

The more I begged the stronger I could feel the presence’s own anger and frustration. Not in the change of tone (there was no change in tone, just the same terrifying thundering growl) but in the very real sense of feeling. I knew that the feelings belonged to the presence, they were separate from my own, but I could feel them.

Feeling the intensely negative response my pleading was creating in the presence I became desperate to soothe it. For some reason I instinctually began humming. It was a crying whimpering hum, but the presence stopped repeating itself.

I continued the cry humming for some time. I thought that if the terrifying words stopped during my humming I would continue humming until I could not.

If there had been any improvement in my own fear it was unintelligible to myself, but suddenly I felt the presence’s anger shift to ‘relief’ (not a perfect explanation for the feeling, but the closest I can find). At the moment of the shift the presence restated its first set of ‘words’ just once more.

I was able to understand the full statement. Not in the concept way, it was as if I understood the language itself.

“You must wake (my husband’s name) up. Immediately. He is frozen.” That is the exact translation of the ‘word’ the presence used; Frozen.

Once again the presence knew instantly that I had understood the message, and I was released.

Still in complete panic, and desperate to appease the presence, I scrambled over myself trying desperately to ‘get into my body’. Time and time again I came up, still misaligned and out of body.

With a painfully terrifying thunder, the loudest of all, the voice spoke one final foreign word and I understood.

“GO!”

Before the command finished echoing out I was slammed back into my body. I was entirely alert, aware of my mission, but frozen with sleep paralysis.

The room was silent. I was lying on my left side/somewhat on my stomach, with arms under me, exactly as my body had been while I watched from that blue scale space.

I struggled against the paralysis trying with everything to will myself into action. I did not feel the presence any longer, but the terror had not diminished. I was sure that it must still be watching. I continued the internal dialogue to them, explaining that I was absolutely following their instructions. I was determined to obey. I was giving a play by play. “Ok, I think I am starting to be able to open my eyes… ok they’re definitely open. I think I can feel some progress. I’m doing my best, don’t worry, I’m going to get there…” etc…

At no point did my fear lessen. Nor did it turn to concern for my husband. The message had not absorbed into an understanding that I may have something to worry about. My sole concern was not further angering this terrifying presence.

After what felt like a tortuous amount of time and with agonizing struggle I was slowly able to break through. My internal explanations to the presence turned to internal screaming of my husband’s name which slowly became increasingly audible. Little by little I was able to roll over to shake him.

He awoke with a dramatic inhale and choked violently on the pool of saliva that had gathered at the back of his throat while he was on his back and apneic.

All of the extreme fear left my body IMMEDIATELY. Like a light switch. I’d been in this unimaginably terrified state for what felt like hours. Waking in my own body had done nothing to calm the fear. But the instant my husband took that breath every bit of fear was gone. In its place was an ambivalent fatigue.

Understandably my husband was startled and confused. Assuming I had woken him up to protect ME, he had jumped into action, working to calm his choking/coughing while swinging around looking for the threat.

Finding no obvious reason for the rude awakening he asked me what was going on, why had I woken him in such a panic? I explained to him that “someone had told me you were frozen and I needed to wake you.”

He responded “What? Someone told you to wake me up???”

I struggled to get any further explanation out. I simply said “yeah” and then I gave in to the pull of fatigue I had battled against and fell asleep. If I had any dreams I do not recall them.

The next morning my husband asked for an explanation. I did my best to relate the whole experience and then immediately wrote it all out to make sure I wouldn’t lose any of the details.

I’ve thought back to it nearly every day since.

I do not know what this experience was.
I do not know what the presence was.

I DO know that I was absolutely NOT dreaming. Standing there over myself was as real as it is when I stand in the same spot now. Even the blue scale seemed natural. It was as though some sort of dim blue light with an obscure source lit the room.

Does anyone have any insight into this experience? Anyone experience anything similar? Are there resources that I can turn to for more information? Are there other communities I should seek help from?

Thank you for any help you can provide ❤️

1. I started going back to church last year around December I grew up in church I was also a drummer but during Covid I stopped going to church cause mine was moving around a lot.

2. When I got back to church I was asking God is he was real and for him to show himself to me and he did I’m not gonna go into detail of how he did it but he did.

3. Now fast forward march and April I was talking to my pastor during a youth Bible study and he had mention about people waking up randomly during the night time
   And that its the lord that was trying to get your attention it’s called The Four Roman Watches (Mentioned in Mark 13:35)

 

4. Now I then asked him what do I do when I randomly wake up how do I hear God then he sent me to 1 Samuel3 “The LORD came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

5. So I kept waking up during these times and it would always happened around 5am then after he told what to say which is speak lord for your servant is listening

6. Three days I woke up at that time I said the phrase for three days on the third day after I said it I immediately was transported out of my body now at the time I did not yet know what was happening but after I was transported out of my body I was trying to unlock my phone which was next to my head so I could show people what the he’ll was happening I couldn’t my phone wasn’t working I then face my ceiling and Immediately Hurd angelic humming it felt like I was in my room but in a different space also saw lights and like there was a crack above my selling then I Hurd this loud voice couldn’t really understand what he was saying kinda like vibration then after that I got transported to this place and someone was praying with me and in the prayer he was saying repeat after me and in the middle of the prayer he said “not just for my family and friends but for myself too in Jesus name Amen” prayer ended was walking around saw a couple people from my church and then got back to my senses Woke up with tears in my eyes.

7. Folks I’ve dreamt before I know what dreams this was not a dream . ever since April I’ve had this experience it happened about two more times after that one of them happened I Hurd like sound like rushing waters and wind and ringing in my right ear.

Final.

That’s my experience n my experience sound pretty similar to you guys but how I got to mind is different from yall if you guys have advice or can related plz let me know

i'm not really sure where i should post this, so please forgive me if i got it wrong and please help me find the right sub to post this to.

a month or so ago, i spent the night at my friend's house, on her sofa.

i have a history of sleep paralysis as i have been getting it as early as 7 years old, therefore i can sometimes predict whether or not it is going to manifest, by just looking around a room. i obviously was in her living room which has a weird layout with hollow door frames and many ''open spaces''.

my friend never closes any door in the house because of her cat likes to roam around the house during the night, which i couldn't say that bothers me in general but this particular time, it did.

as i was trying to fall asleep, the cat kept coming over to my head and licking it, and so it happened with my hands and legs. i just thought it was cute but since then i have learned that cats groom themselves and others around them when they are stressed. i felt like i had to mention all of this for context.

the thing that happened was:

it was around 4-5am when the cat finally went to sleep next to a chair, facing my head and because of it, i was able to finally "fall asleep". the quotes are present because of the way i didn't go into sleep mode or not even REM sleep.

it felt like i was just laying there unconscious, but still hearing everything around me.

but it was so much more different than sleep paralysis.

i began sensing these vibrations flowing around me, almost going into circles, buzzing and ringing in my ears. it stopped for a moment and i regained a little consciousness.

at least to try and process everything that just happened but i couldn't.

because that's when this deep dark feeling of doom and despair hit me and as with that, the previous sounds came back pulsing

and almost giving me time once again to prepare for what was to come.

and what was to come was just me screaming ''please god, i don't want to die, not now'' through the muffled distorted vibrations and the feelings i have previously mentioned.

this obviously happened extremely fast but what i am trying to say is that it did not feel like sleep paralysis at all , at least in the beginning.

now the reason of the title is that, at the very end of everything happening,

while the sound pulling me away from my body as i was screaming,

i hear my friend's cat jumping out of the chair it was sleeping on,

and because my friend's sofa is lower to the ground,

i saw the cat running towards me and with it jumping onto my chest, i woke up right in the middle of screaming '' i don't wanna die''.

i wake up shaking and i look over to the chair next to me and there was my friend's cat,

looking at me.

i obviously start shaking and crying and then end up not sleeping because i was so scared that would happen again.

again, i am so sorry if i posted this in the wrong sub, please tell me where i should post this if i got it wrong.

but if i didn't then please tell me:

was this AP?

was it almost AP?

have i encountered some kind of entity that my friend's cat tried to save me from?

was i actually going to die/ get posessed by something?

is there any explanation for why i still feel so connected to this, even tho it happened a month or more than a month ago?

it didn't feel like sleep paralysis until the very very end, like the 5 seconds i was screaming for help but before that, when the sounds kept going back and forth, i could totally move and was somewhat conscious.

please, let me know what was up with this cause it has kept me up for a month now.