Woke up on the ceiling! Plus, being pulled out of the body.

It's been awhile since my last post. I do have periods of time when I don't get out of my body as much but rest assured I will continue to share. If you see that I have not posted in some time, well, that is why.

Actually I did have one other astral experience between my last post and this one... but it's so far out there that I feel hesitant about posting it, for now... What I will tell you is that I did not come out of my body normally. I was pulled out by what I perceived to be a green light and I was taken to another world or realm, that was beautiful and green with exotic plant life. Overall it was a very peaceful experience. Being pulled out of my body felt fast and a bit forceful. It was a little shocking but at the same time, I wanted to go. The command I thought aloud was "I am being abducted and I am going to remember this time." I don't know why I said "this time" but for some reason I felt that this has happened before. I have no previous memories of this but based on my pure astral thought, I suspect this has happened before.

My most recent out of body experience happened a couple days ago. A lot of times while we are sleeping and unaware, the astral body separates from the physical body. Sometimes the mind is not alert and clear during the separation, but asleep. This was the case when I woke up on the ceiling, twice on this particular morning.

I recently pulled a muscle in my back and I woke up around 5 AM and went into the shower to let hot water run on my back to sooth the ache. I was still extremely sleepy the whole time but I couldn't find a comfortable way to lay in bed so I was in a sort of half sleep in the shower, then after some time returning to bed around 6 AM.

Then, Suddenly my mind wakes up! I was separated from my body already. I was sitting or laying, crouching on the ceiling, across the room. The first thing I did was look at my hands. They were purple which confirmed to me that this was my astral body. (sometimes I have a purple body and sometimes I am a ball of light) I looked down at my bed and saw the sheet I was covered in and the lump under it, which was my body, completely covered up in a blue fitted sheet that I use as a blanket sometimes. I like to use the fitted sheet because it feels like a cocoon.

As I realized I was out of my body, I thought about what I wanted to do now. I wanted to go outside. On this particular occasion I was having problems (mentally) flying through the wall. So, instead I passed through the window. It was easier to wrap my mind around. Although passing through walls is possible and I have done it, sometimes I take one step back before taking two forward. I think this is normal.

Once I flew through my window, passing the thickness of the glass (which I seem to be able to feel) I went outside and started to lose my lucidity or awareness. I remember thinking, commanding (every thought is like a spoken word in the astral) "be clear" "want clarity" and things like that. Then I was able to come back momentarily before losing my astral awareness.

Then, I once again, became aware and astral, on the ceiling again. I don't know why my astral body decided to hang out on the ceiling. This time, I tried to remain completely calm, speaking/thinking what I wanted. "Floating down" I lowered myself to the floor. I still didn't know exactly what I wanted out of this experience. It's been awhile since I have been out of body so I had no planning of who I wanted to see or where I wanted to go. So I decided I wanted to go back outside and fly around. I flew back out the window. It was an overcast day (it was also upon waking) and I floated about outside my window, looking at the trees the sky, then I started to fly straight verticle. There was a flash of white light and I was snapped back into my body. I knew I was there, but not fully reattached yet as I had paralysis. A few moments later I woke out of my bed, feeling refreshed and wonderful. It was about 8AM or so.

Lucid Dream to Astral

I know I have not updated in awhile. Unfortunately, I have allowed myself to become busy with the ongoings of daily physical life.

I have had several lucid dreams since my last post but not so many astral projections. I found the lucid dreams I was in to be pleasurable and just have not had the desire to leave the body. However, today in my lucid dream I very much wanted to separate and I did.


In my lucid dream I was walking around in a shopping center of some kind. While the specific details often slip my mind, I do recall what triggered me to realize I was dreaming. I was walking to an entrance when suddenly instead of approaching the entrance I was back again where I started. I looked around in my dream, saw the same people and things I had seen moments earlier as if experiencing deja vu inside a dream. Then it had occurred to me that I was in fact, dreaming. It was like a broken DVD and realizing that life images do not cycle in this way, triggered my awareness. In my dream I was walking with a man and woman and as soon as I had the awareness and lucidity I looked to them, told them I was dreaming and I wanted to project now. I said "see ya later" raised my arms and flew up. Somehow this action has become pattern for me to "end the dream".



Once the dream ended I retained the same awareness but I knew for a fact that I was laying in my bed, feeling so awake. Then I could see the room because I had partially separated from my body. I focused in on my arms and lifted my astral arms away from the arms of my body. My astral arms were blue, very much like Krishna and the tips of my fingers, the nails, are purple. I am already aware of my blue and violet coloring while in the astral but I don't always retain human form while projecting. Anyway, back to the projection experience. The body is sleeping in the bed and I am - my awareness and astral self is sitting up in bed partially sharing the same space with the body. My husband is sleeping beside me and I began to touch him with my blue hands. I also recall looking at myself sleep. My pink or white skin seemed so foreign at the time, so far away from who I really am. I did not leave my room in this projection. There was a small energy being in my room with me. I do not know its origin. It appeared to be a white ball with a tail. (kind of like a tadpole) and it was about the size of a mouse. I think it is an astral creature of some kind although I do not know what it is exactly. I just remember observing it as it traveled into my room, passed by and left, through the wall. At some point my memory abruptly ends. I do not recall re-entering my body or going anywhere else. It just ended.

Escape the Body

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.

Happened

Earlier, I wrote about these headaches I have been having. I am not sure if it is the weather changing. Probably. It makes me feel kind of down and low energy. So I was a little surprised to astral project. I have been wanting to. I find it pleasurable and spiritually fulfilling to leave my body. But, I haven't been quite able to get there during this particular period. However, last night was one of those nights. I stayed up too late and my body was very tired. My mind was very much awake and rational and this seems to be a good recipe for astral projection. I fell asleep and had some dreams then a couple hours later I had to wake up to use the bathroom.

As I go back to bed and close my eyes my mind remains awake while my body falls asleep. I am aware that I am in my bed but I am not sure whether I am awake or "asleep". So I figure I will try to roll off the bed and if my body clunks down then I guess I am awake :)

So, my body was sleeping and my astral body had undergone the natural separation and I rolled out of my body and down to the floor. As I rolled out, my astral vision opened and I was able to see the room around me. Down on the floor I could see my bath towel I left on the floor and I rose up and looked back at my bed (trigger habit. I look back every time I get out of bed) and I could see what looked like a pile of blankets and then I could see that my body was under them. I didn't go very far or do anything spectacular. I felt as though I didn't have the energy to go very far, like I wasn't "charged up" or something. The time moving around my bedroom seemed to last only a couple of minutes before I snapped back into my body.

On a side note I just wanted to mention that I had some alcohol in my system this night. I have always thought that it was not good for OBEs or that it would not help with it. But my reason for having alcohol had nothing to do with my desire to astral project. But this is not the first time that I have projected while having alcohol in my system and I am starting to come to the opinion that small amounts of alcohol do not affect the ability to project. I never get completely smashed so I can't speak from experience on that! But I don't think that a drink or two will prevent one who astral projects from astral projecting.

Summer into Fall, Herbal Book Recommendation

As the weather changes dramatically, it is affecting me in my dream state. I get headaches when the weather changes quickly like this so I have not been having as much control over my lucid dreams and astral projections. While I don't think its the weather, I think its the headaches from the weather. If anyone knows good herbal remedies for headaches and Migraines (with aura), which I have been diagnosed with this year but have had for many years please post your remedies here.
Here are my herbal headache remedies, taken from one of my favorite books, "Back to Eden" by Jethro Kloss.



1. Hot footbath with a tablespoon of mustard mixed in or plain water as hot as you can tolerate. Cold washcloth on the forehead and also on the back of the neck.

2. Peppermint, Spearmint, Valerian, black cohosh, or skullcap tea

3. raw foods diet, enemas, exercise (for frequent headache caused by indigestion or disordered liver, over eating)

4. rest

5. peppermint, catnip, red sage, spearmint tea

6. Hot hops tea at night



Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss


The book goes into more detail about which remedy is right for you based on your headache type! I have also heard that massaging the webbing between the thumb and index finger activates a pressure point.




I got a used paperback copy from Amazon.com at a great price. If the world ever does come to an end and we are left without technology, this is a book you are going to need to have around...




So, you may be wondering what all of this has to do with astral projection in the first place? Sure, headaches can cause less control over your dream state but why not just take a few Tylenol? In My Humble Opinion, drugs are the last option. Based on my own research and its too much to get into right now, I believe it is bad for the Liver and the Pineal Gland among many organs and systems... Well the point is that in the modern drugs, chemicals have been so isolated that we are not getting the effect nature intended. We need our entire bodies to be healthy and in harmony to experience full control of our astral bodies.


Here is an example of how a plant goes to drug and it all goes wrong. Feel free to research this yourself! The Chinese Herb Ma Huang has been refined into ephedra, a diet pill which was all the rave but is not illegal in most places all over the world after causing heart attacks and other symptoms. In its natural form, a very useful plant used to treat colds, hay fever and other conditions. However, us humans decided to refine and isolate the ephedra and suddenly we are seeing negative effects. Take it one step further and you have street chemists (drug dealers) who are refining ephedra into meth-amphetamines. And, I don't even need to list all the harmful side effects of THAT!

The point is nature first! Modern Medicine certainly has its place but remember you can't expect to have a flourishing spiritual life if your body is not in harmony. A good diet, not too much, not too little. Natural remedies first. Homegrown or organic when possible. These are all basic changes that will help you "wake up"

The Eye

Last night... or this morning, probably around 5am I had 2 astral projections.

The first one, I just sort of popped out of my body and immediately was floating outside of my bedroom window. I could see the familiar surroundings around myself and all the colors seemed more vivid than in waking life. However, I notice to have been peering through an eye shape like the picture, without the symbols. Then I would connect with it and see fully again and disconnect and reconnect. This seemed to shed some light on my previous astral blindness. Maybe I need to be connected somehow? As, I seemed to be going in and out of full vision (not the first time either) At some point of just lingering around in the same area I felt as thought I was losing my lucidity or awareness or whatever you call it. Like my mind was sleepy but I really wanted to remain aware and active so I returned to my body to regroup.

Then, I left my body again. Once again I left in the same way and popped out and stood outside my bedroom window, outside. I knew it was cold outside but I couldn't feel the cold. That felt liberating. I sat there not really knowing where to go. I thought of a couple options and decided I wanted to go to Australia. Then I flew straight up! The world whizzed by me like light and suddenly I was in another place. I do not know if I was in Australia or not. I found it confusing because it seemed like I was seeing deciduous trees and shrubs that I did not recognize but based on the colors of the plants I would have guessed it to be fall and I knew that it should be Spring in Australia right now. So, where ever I was, besides it being beautiful and colorful, I was in the middle of nowhere (no civilization). I guess I should specify what city I want to go to next time or perhaps I should make a list of specific places I intend to visit so that I can be more direct and decisive next time I find myself out of my body with nothing to do! :) I wandered around. Its always fun and curious to look at all the details while in the astral. It almost side-tracks me from discovering more things. Every little thing is a discovery.

Astral from Lucid Dream... finally

I have more lucid dreams than I do astral projections. So, I have been working on a way to astral project from the lucid dream state, taking advantage of the awareness of the dream to leave the body. Well, I finally did it. Ever since I started astral projection again as an adult I have made many observations about the "in between dream" state of lucid dreams compared with the "paralysis" state of astral projections. In every way it became more and more obvious that they were the same thing. The only catch is that until now I have not been successful in projection from the in between state that occurred as a result of a lucid dream. So, enough... you get it. Here's the dream!

In the dream I was a passenger in a vehicle and traveling on a highway in Turnersville, NJ (a place I have not been in for 5 or 6 years but I used to work there so I know the roads) Due to some mechanical problem in the car we could not make sharp turns, or the car would catch fire. So, the driver and one other passenger and I were trying to carefully plan out how to turn in circles and rounabouts and ramps so as not to turn sharply. While driving, I looked over and saw an amusement park called the "Mona Lisa" with a gaudy light up of a more contemporary version of the Mona Lisa. There were roller coasters and ferris wheels and all. This triggered me into awareness. I thought to myself, I better look this up because I don't remember this place being here, unless I am dreaming. Then I started to consider the rest of the crazy circumstance and said "if I am dreaming, then I want to astral project." Just then the dream faded out and I was aware in my mind but knew I was back in my bed, body asleep. This was the in between dream state. So, I started to try to move around, rolling around. Only, this is also paralysis, so while this is happening, only the energy body can move. I rolled right out of bed and down onto the floor. I was out of my body. The only problem was that I was blind. It startled me so I returned to my body and then had a double wake up dreaming experience. I thought I woke up but then really woke up.

In the future, if I project and experience blindness, I am going to give it more time or say something like "I want to see" It just caught me off guard. I don't know why I was blind. But the feeling of astral projection is unmistakable. The energy body is a real body that we all have.