r/AstralProjection

Hello all! This post will be a TW for some! It will discuss sexual assault in the astral.

I’ve been astral projecting for a year or two at this point. About 8 months ago, I thought I was interacting with my husband and attempted to have sex. I quickly realized this was not my husband and was in fact a dark entity. I aborted the projection.

Since this incident I’ve had more encounters with these beings and at times cannot fight them off. I take sleeping medicine and I notice on nights I take the medicine it is more difficult for me to return to my body.

For a few months, every time I projected those beings were there immediately and I stopped projecting for a few months because I didn’t want to deal with it.

Side note: I’ve never been a person who can rise out my body and just be in my home. I initially had 2 or 3 experiences like this, but I usually just gain consciousness on the astral plane somewhere.

Recently, I started projecting again and have been able to immediately think of positive, enlightening thoughts to avoid these beings. I still struggle with fearful thoughts during projection like, “what if they return?” And they show up with those thoughts. The beings have a specific odor that is repulsive and there are times through my awake days that I’ll have olfactory memories and the smell triggers me….. I have been SA’d in real life but these experiences are different…. I know they’re entities and not real people and that makes it different for me mentally.

My question is, what are some things that I can do to protect myself in the astral right from the beginning that will work? I’ve heard different things, but I’m wondering if anybody else has had these experiences and can offer their feedback? People who have not experienced this are welcome to comment, but I’m looking for those with actual experience with this.

I cross posted this to an FB projection group

In the West, Astral Projection is often debated as a neurological glitch or a modern esoteric phenomenon. However, thousands of years before laboratory sleep studies,

ancient Indian Yogic and Tantric traditions mapped this exact experience as a precise inner science.In our texts, the astral form is recognized as the Linga Sharira (the subtle or double body). It is not an ungrounded hallucination;

it is a bio-energetic duplicate of the physical frame, woven through thousands of Nadis (energy channels).True astral travel is completely detached from religious dogma. It is governed by two clean mechanics:

the conscious relaxation of the motor system and the deliberate redirection of primal life force (Prana) into the central channel (Sushumna). When the lower survival centers are quieted,

consciousness naturally detaches from the heavy biological container.As a practitioner of these hidden lineages, I find that modern seekers fail because they try to "force" the exit through mental anxiety. You cannot exit a locked room

by running into the wall; you must find the energetic key. Mastery over the vital energy is that key.Astral projection is simply human evolution happening outside the physical neuro-circuitry.

It is the ultimate tool for a rational mind to experience immortality without belief systems.Have you noticed how your daily energy levels and spinal focus directly impact your vibrational stage prior to an exit? Let's deconstruct the energetics behind the experience.

I know this is an AP sub but I'm curious on those who've had encounters with extraterrestrials and seen how they actually look like. Do they look like some of the images that have been widely spread or like the typical gray that you see on TV? And if so how was the encounter?

Ok YES these may be stupid questions... but I just have to ask…

1. Is it possible for someone to be RV’ing you at ANY time- while you’re just going about your life? Specifically I’m wondering about private moments- like while you’re showering, taking a 💩… lol … sexual moments… you know, just private times.

2. Im assuming this one is a ’no’ but just curious… when you leave your body but you can look back and see it laying there- so in otherwords you’re in a (seemingly?) ”physical“ “current“ location- if there were a floor to ceiling mirror in your room, would you be able to look over and see yourself in it- in astral form? Or is it just like you’re completely invisible? Idk .. this totally boggles my mind to think about..

3. I hear RV’ers say that they always ask the higher soul’s permission before RV’ing that person… Does everyone do this? Do you just set your intention on that person then you’re met with their higher soul… or how would you initiate that? Do they look/ act like the same person you know IRL?

4. Can you make yourself appear in whatever way you want to others? …. If your thoughts manifest instantly, it seems this would be possible?

5. Ok this one…well first off.. I’m not asking this with any weird, pervy intentions lol… but is it possible to set your intention to have a sexual encounter with someone you know IRL- while in astral form? If so, Im assuming they wouldn’t know?

I ask this because of a super intense dream I accidentally had of a Podcaster, whom I had NEVER even considered in this way, prior to this. It was SO real and vivid… like he was fully in control/ leading it and I even remember all of my thoughts as I realized what was happening and who it was. When I woke up I felt like there’s just no possible way he wasn’t actually there.. or in the very least had the same dream … it was as real as real life. (Or could it have been someone/ thing else showing up as him?? …. That didn’t even cross my mind til just now)

I’ve had dreams that are super vivid- where you keep getting the “feeling” of it washing over you in the days following, but I’d never had a dream even remotely close to this one… just made me wonder.…

(to be clear, obviously I don’t think he set his intention specifically on me… but the whole thing led me to this question)

Itzhak Bentov invented the steerable cardiac catheter. While designing cardiac devices he mapped what happens physiologically during deep altered states.

His finding: deep relaxation produces a 7Hz standing wave in the cardiovascular system that synchronizes with the Earth's Schumann resonance. The brain at this frequency operates at maximum sensitivity. The boundary between self and environment becomes permeable.

The CIA classified this as applied physics, not mysticism, and used it operationally for remote viewing under Project Stargate.

Now DARPA is engineering hardware to artificially induce and exploit this state from outside. Injectable nanotransducers smaller than 50nm that cross the blood-brain barrier and provide bidirectional read-write access to neural tissue without surgery.

The prompt that maps the full physics:

"Map vibration as the unifying mechanism connecting the CIA Gateway Process 7Hz oscillator, Schumann resonance, Fröhlich biological coherence, and DARPA N3 BrainSTORMS nanotransducers. Primary sources only."

I want to do this but it's so hard to get myself to be able to do this. I feel like I am stuck and can't fall asleep at all no matter what I do. Is this something that I am unable to do? Please help.

I’m making this post because I have no one else to explain this to. I’m not trying to sound crazy but I need someone to take me seriously so I thought here would be a great place to start.

I’ve been trying the mediation method for about a week now and noticed last night my body having a tingling sensation from head to toe. This starts about 15 minutes into it.

Then my body starts feeling light and eventually goes numb. By this point I usually wake up and panic but last night I decided to keep going.

After my body went numb, my eyes still closed…but it almost was like someone turned on a light. I couldn’t make anything definite out. Then I started seeing a a purple hazy rotation and the colors became more intense and I caught a glimpse of a face. It did not look human at all. It had a grey face and large dark eyes with no whites in them. I got scared and woke myself up.

I don’t know if I was close or what exactly happened but I know this was more than anything I’ve ever experienced before.

I also want to make a note that every time my body goes into this state, my dog becomes alert and sits by my side. It only happens when I’m trying to AP. Most of the time she loves her sleep and doesn’t get disturbed easily. It’s almost like she knows what I’m doing. Has anyone else had this experience?

Since last December I started performing OBE regularly but after the beginning of April I did not do it again, neither with techniques despite trying many times nor spontaneously that it had also happened to me like this the first few times.

What happened yesterday is that I returned to Robert Monroe's Hemysinc audios, The Gateway Experience, specifically the free flow tape in focus 12. I listened to it before going to sleep, in fact I didn't finish it because I was already very relaxed and wanted to sleep, so I listened to it a little more than halfway through and then I went to sleep very relaxed.

Coincidentally, I hadn't listened to hemisync for almost two months and when I did listen to it almost daily it was the most prolific months in OBE, but I didn't think they would help me like that.

In the middle of the night, taking advantage of a microawakening, I became aware of trying to go out and felt strong vibrations, I began to push the second body against the physical one (it is a known sensation). It was difficult for me to get out, I had to press several times and I felt leather-like creaks and electric clicks. I pushed harder until I sat down and left. Out of bed I saw my body and felt like it was a worthless disguise. Then I walked and flew around the house seeing my wife and children. When I saw my wife I felt sexual desire and I returned to my body instantly (this happened a lot to Robert Monroe).

Consider hemisync not as a direct means for OBE but for preparation. I had had a headache and general malaise for days and with the tape it went away! I believe that the key is in the synchronization of the hemispheres and that this eliminates distortions and blockages that prevent OBE.

Hi all, I have something I'm struggling to understand... And would appreciate if anyone could share similar experiences.

There are some people I know in this physical reality, but I have also met them on the astral plane.

I have had some frightening experiences with them on the astral plane.

For example, feeling extreme anger from them... Trying to force intimacy... Trying to hurt me emotionally.

Someone told me I could be meeting their "lower selves"... I honestly don't know what to think.

I’ve had several experiences lately that don’t feel like regular lucid dreams, but also not exactly like classic OBEs.

They often start from a lucid dream, then something changes and I end up in an extremely realistic environment — usually an apartment or house that feels completely physical and stable.

What’s strange is that these experiences have very specific characteristics:

• Everything feels solid, coherent and normal
• No bizarre dream logic
• Time feels slower and heavier than in regular lucid dreams
• Returning to waking consciousness also feels slow and gradual
• I often cannot fly or use “dream powers”
• Movement feels heavy, almost physical
• The environment feels independent from my imagination
• People seem autonomous and believable
• The realism is sometimes so strong that I become cautious (for example being afraid to jump from a balcony because it genuinely feels dangerous)

Most of the time, I reach this state while attempting an OBE from inside a lucid dream.

My usual method is to deliberately throw myself backward during the lucid dream, almost like letting go of the dream body.

When this happens:

• the environment often turns completely white and luminous,
• there is a transition phase,
• and then I suddenly find myself inside a fully physical-feeling body in another environment.

One time, I even had the strong impression of being inside someone else’s body while still retaining my own waking identity and memories.

Last night for example:

1. I became lucid inside a dream and ended up in a completely realistic apartment. I tried to fly but couldn’t. I even hesitated to jump from the balcony because the place felt 100% real.
2. Later, after re-entering the state, I found myself in a very dark environment. I repeatedly asked for “clarity” and vision. Slowly the scene appeared: another apartment, ground floor, daytime outside. I saw several young girls outside the window. They didn’t seem to see me directly, but reacted as if they noticed movement from the curtains. I tapped on the glass and even made a heart shape in the condensation so they wouldn’t get scared.

What makes these experiences different from normal lucid dreams for me:

• Much more stable
• Less fantasy-like
• Less control over the environment
• Strong sense of “being somewhere” rather than generating a dream
• Very realistic physics and perception
• Emotional tone feels calmer and more grounded

Some authors like Robert Monroe, Buhlman or Raduga seem to describe similar states, sometimes called “Locale III”, “real-time zone”, or “The Phase”.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of “Level 2” hyper-realistic state?

Especially:

• inability to fly,
• realistic physics,
• autonomous characters,
• gradual scene formation from darkness,
• and the feeling that it’s more real than a normal lucid dream?

"What happens when we leave our bodies?

"In episode 9, Out-of-Body Experiences of Beyond the Brain, we explore the accounts of those who have felt themselves floating above their bodies, observing their own reality from the outside. Although neuroscience has already identified the brain regions and circumstances in which these phenomena occur, is a physical explanation enough to fully unravel the mystery?

"Chris French, Director of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London, offers us a critical and fascinating insight into how science deals with these phenomena. If science is pushing its boundaries to understand what once seemed inexplicable, the question remains: has everything really been clarified?"

Hi. For the past 10 years I've been struggling with OOBE. I've tried every technique I could find online. I can have lucid dreams on demand, I even experienced a few seconds of samadhi once, but I can't get anywhere close to an OOBE. The furthest I've ever gotten is the vibration stage, and that's it.

If you can have OOBEs and you're confident you could help me get out, even just once for a few moments, feel free to DM me. I'll need you to tell me a specific date in advance so I know you actually succeeded. I'd be happy to pay a symbolic thank-you $ for your support as a genuine token of appreciation. I'm completely serious about this.

So I'm someone with a very active mind. Meditation is genuinely hard for me even though I conceptually understand things like ego, consciousness, and altered states pretty well. I got curious about astral projection just to experience what it actually is firsthand.

I tried a few times using random AP frequency videos on YouTube — standard stuff, trying to relax, nothing worked. My mind would race with a thousand thoughts and I'd just give up.

**Then something weird started happening.**

One day I was using a Monroe Gateway tape (not claiming this is AP, I genuinely don't know what it is). I never fell asleep — I'm certain of that. But somehow, without any clear transition, I found myself inside what I can only describe as a vivid, running storyline just like a dream but like I said I never fell asleep and it was middle of the day. Random people from my past or present, completely normal narrative, no warning signs.

Then, within a few minutes, the story would shift in a very specific way — and I'd get hit with one of the most intense fear responses I've ever felt. Different fears each time, but always escalating to something that felt like my absolute worst. Then I'd snap back, fully awake.

This has happened 4 times now. Always the exact same pattern:

1. Random, normal storyline with familiar people
2. No hint of anything unusual for a few minutes
3. Situation escalates in a way that triggers my deepest fears
4. Snap back wide awake

What's unsettling is how *precise* it feels. Like whatever process is happening knows exactly what will trigger me and how. It doesn't feel random at all.

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track, completely off track, or if something else entirely is happening here. I'd really appreciate if anyone with experience could shed some light — what is this? Is this part of the process? Is something going wrong?

(Used AI to help format this — the experience and words are fully mine)

i’ve been trying to astral project but i also smoke a lot, I’ve noticed when i do before bed my dreams are less vivid and i don’t feel as in the moment. would y’all say that smoking direct affects or stunts AP progress?

If you've been trying for a while and still haven't succeeded, please leave a comment and let me know too.

I napped today and travelled again. Seems to be a regular occurrence in my life now with 3 successful attempts in 10 days and only 4 naps!

I’m sure this has been discussed previously but has anyone attempted to film their experience? I mean to see changes in the body.. movements etc? I feel like I’m moving a lot when traveling and want to see if my physical body is impacted at all.

I imagine the realm may not allow this?

I know this is a very dumb question to ask in a subreddit entirely dedicated to it but is it truly real? Or just you having a dream?

I've always wanted to know that the soul truly exists and that Im not just a bag of flesh and bones and have been thinking of trying it for some time but pretty unsure with hearing how your silver connection could be broken leaving you stranded or that you could face monsters and demons in the spiritual realm and even be possessed. I don't know if any of that is true but I would like some clarifications.

EDIT: thanks guys, will definitely try it out using the guides mentioned

does sleep paralysis have anything to do with ap?

Im a beginner, still havent experienced it and i get scared easily. i kinda dont believe in them tbh. but if i do see one i will be scared, and my soul will literally leave my body.

can u avoid them sort? are they even real?