As the weather changed this fall I found myself with frequent headaches that prevented me from astral projecting to my fullest ability. The pressure headaches just kind of stood in my way. I also get migraines. They started out as migraine aura, with no pain. It looked similar to what you can see in the photo above. Usually a "C" shape made of luminescent triangles and angular design would grow and grow until a large section of vision was lost. At first it was only bothersome if I was driving and it would only last an hour at the most. Over the years it has gotten worse. I get aura followed by migraine pain that can last anywhere from an hour to half a day and in rare circumstances longer.
Last night around midnight, the aura began... I lay in bed for about 2 hours with a slight headache. Lucky for me it was night time. No lights or loud sounds to bother me. Eventually I even manage to sleep. Then I become aware in my sleep, a lucid dream. I was in a city flying over the top like a bird. I looked down and saw what looked like a city hall or official building then I woke up again. The pain in my head had gotten much worse and it was hard to get in any comfortable position. I started willing myself to leave the body and I could feel my astral legs reaching out or floating out of the body. It felt like I was tilting then suddenly out of my body while fully aware and pain free. It was like I had astral projected in order to escape my body and the pain that was there. It was easier to leave my body while the body was in pain like that.
I met 2 people on the astral also. A man and a woman. None of us knew the other one from the physical world. The man seemed very advanced and was able to change his form and he was happy to show us as he became taller or shorter, he could change his hair or what appeared to be clothing. The woman seemed like she was newer to all of this but she understood that we were together on the astral plane and that she was projecting. The three of us decided we should go somewhere together and somehow we decided we wanted to go to a coral reef under the ocean. We all went together, the man leading the way and we flew - whizzed by what seemed like a large distance, in just a few moments. The woman had slight problem getting through a net. I passed through it just fine and so did the man but the woman with us seemed to have a problem with mentally getting through it and I was able to help her. She was still new to astral projection and didn't think she could pass through things and I was able to help her pass through the netting that was in our path. She seemed to be very excited to pass through things!
As we started to go under the water to see the coral reef, I started to talk to the man with us about my migraine and told him that I was able to leave the body so easily because my body was in so much pain at the moment. He seemed to know exactly what I meant! He told me he wanted to stay in the astral plane forever and he didn't want to talk about his body or else he would be pulled back. Just then I was pulled back into mine and I woke up with the migraine and also I had to use the bathroom so I did that and returned to bed and left my body again in the same way. Tilting, a little vibrations.. I willed myself to return to the corals, traveling in the same way, whizzing by... and the woman was gone but the man was still there at the corals and he seemed to be meditating. I assume the woman returned to her body.
So, I went around under the water for awhile with the friend I had made. We never told each other our names and I guess next time I should ask people their names!
I saw brilliant colored corals and fish swimming around. It was so neat to be under the water without concern for breathing. The water was shallow maybe just a few feet deep and less in some areas. I stayed out of my body for several hours just chatting with my new friend. We went together into a nearby house where the occupants were sleeping and just looked around, being nosy I guess. I was aware of the time during all of this and I knew it was time for me to go back so said good-bye. He said he was going to stay out longer but I had to return to my body in order to wake up and get ready to work. I returned to my body and it was exactly the time I knew it was and I got out of bed with just a little headache left but the migraine had mostly passed. I also felt well rested and no morning grogginess but clear minded.
