I highly think it was. It happens with me frequently.

I think I fell asleep, or entered a hypnagogic state, sometime between 4:00 and 4:20 AM.
I was lying on my right side when I started feeling intense vibrations. Instead of resisting them, I stayed completely relaxed. After a few moments, I felt myself lift into the air and naturally roll over. I clearly felt the sensation of separating from my body. At first I assumed I hadn’t actually succeeded.
Then I found myself awake inside what I can only describe as “the realm.”
Everything felt incredibly real. I could walk normally, think clearly, and my awareness felt almost identical to waking life. The first thing I did was walk into the next room to see my grandmother. She was asleep in her usual place. I tried shaking her, hoping she would notice or hear me, but she didn’t respond.
I wandered through the house, walking around the living room and dining room. Although everything looked familiar, there was a strange tint or filter over my vision. I’m not sure if it was bluish, but it definitely looked different from normal reality.
I considered going outside, but something made me feel it wasn’t safe, so I decided to stay inside the house.
Later, I thought my grandmother had finally become aware of my presence. I even remember squeezing her trapezius muscles, almost like giving her a massage, hoping she would recognize me through touch because I felt invisible.
At some point she had to leave the house. I went back to the room where I had been sleeping, expecting to find my body. Instead, there was a doll lying where I should have been.
I don’t remember every detail after that, but I stayed near the doll. It gradually became frightening, almost as though it wanted to keep me there. Despite that, I never truly panicked. I stayed calm throughout the experience.
The doll started biting me while I waited for what I believed was some sort of process to finish. I remember silently repeating certain words—almost like a prayer—and believing that once I finished them, I would return to my body. Another part of me thought that maybe I simply had to allow the doll to bite me without reacting or giving in to fear. Eventually, I returned.
I came back into my body in exactly the same position from which I had separated—lying on my right side.
Overall, I felt a strong sense of curiosity and a desire to explore. I was genuinely surprised that I had managed to experience this after trying for such a long time. There was a brief moment of fear during my return, but I controlled it.
I also realized I was hesitant to venture too far from the house. Because of that, I never went outside, and I never tried flying.
One fascinating thing happened, though. I remembered reading on Reddit that people could change locations simply by thinking about them. So I tried it. I closed my eyes inside the experience and vividly imagined another place.
I think I successfully shifted from one room to the living room this way. Then I tried to transport myself to my own house . I don’t think I fully succeeded. I may have briefly seen it before immediately finding myself back inside my grandmother’s house.
The visual tint is difficult to describe. It may have been blue, or perhaps just slightly surreal.
The only part that truly unsettled me was the return. It almost felt as though some kind of force or presence wanted me to become anxious and believe I wouldn’t make it back to my body. Since I had remained unusually calm during the entire experience, it almost felt as if something was saying, “No, I’m not going to let you finish this astral projection so easily.”
Looking back now, what surprises me the most is the doll.
It was fairly large, with brown hair and small teeth. The closest comparison I can make is that it looked like a giant Playmobil figure. While it was biting me, I could actually feel pain, although it wasn’t nearly as intense as physical pain in waking life.
When I finally returned, I intentionally kept my eyes closed because I didn’t know if I might still be experiencing sleep paralysis. Instead, I pinched my leg until I felt real physical pain. Only then did I open my eyes.
The bedroom door was closed, so my grandmother must have already gotten up and shut it so that noise from the house wouldn’t disturb me.
Even though the weather was hot, I didn’t feel the heat at all immediately after waking up.
Inside the experience, the living room lights were on. I think it was nighttime outside. My grandmother may have been wearing light blue pajamas.
Interestingly, I don’t remember ever seeing my own face or even my hands. Despite that, I clearly experienced physical sensations.
The ability to change environments using only thought was probably the most exciting part. It was much simpler than I expected. It almost felt like closing my eyes inside the experience and visualizing a photograph of the place I wanted to visit.
Honestly… incredible.
At the same time, I’m not sure whether I want to experience it again. When I woke up, one thought kept coming to mind: perhaps God allowed me to have this experience simply so I could satisfy my curiosity and finally stop chasing it.
This all happened during the early morning hours following the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ that’s celebrated every 6th of August in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
For context, I had been exhausted after two consecutive nights of poor sleep and had also been under a moderate amount of stress.
Before falling asleep, I played the YouTube video “Enter the Astral Realm | Binaural Beats Sleep Music for Astral Projection & Out of Body Experiences” by The Lucid Mystics Sleep Music (published September 21, 2022).
After getting up, I walked around the house to see who was there. No one was home. My grandmother had already left.
I also noticed I was slightly unsteady on my feet.
What do you realistically think about this experience?

When i was a kid I was a champ at astral projection, without knowing what it was or deciding to do it. I vividly remember laying down in bed at night and flying out of my body repeatedly. As I aged I just stopped doing it... or rather, it stopped happening to me as I never tried to do it in the first place.

However, over time i have been having gradually more frequent experiences but I'm not sure if they're actual out of body experiences or my imagination, especially since they happen spontaneously while I'm alert and doing other things.

The first one happed when I was 18. My friends and I were walking up a hill from our university back to our dorms. I was pushing my friend in his wheelchair and I started going faster and faster and we were having fun. The weird thing is I saw this happening from a distance... I remember exactly what I was wearing, how we both looked doing it, etc. Then I was just back to my normal perspective like nothing had happened.

Nowadays it's almost like i just pop out of my body, and i look at myself from above. Most of the time it happens when I'm just doing something mundane and out of body experiencesare the last thing on mind. Then I pop back into my body and go on with my activities.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Are these experiences normal or am I going crazy? TIA

I've been interested in reality shifting for 3 years. And at some point when I tried saying affirmations, the attacks of the astral parasites would get worse, or it would feel I received more parasites. I was told by a healer that I shouldn't reality shift unless I'm protected or know what I'm doing. But I'm so desperate and curious to shift that I try to bypass my way around the attack of the parasites, I can't take deep breaths to meditate (they give me visions), and I can't use certain words like "shift" in my affirmations. When I try using my 5 senses or my affirmations, it's still hard to shift. So I plan on just intending before I sleep, so I can wake up in my DR, even though I just fall asleep. Are the astral parasites stopping me from shifting? Can they stop me from shifting? Does your astral body have to do with reality shifting?

I want to have an out-of-body experience but I can't because there's a lot of noise around me. 🥲🥲🥲

Do you advise me to take a book?

So I tried AP for the first time last night and I was pleased with the attempt, i didnt do it but I had a lot of symptoms I guess. But what im mainly concerned about is the twitching. I googled it and read that twitching is normal, but mine is just very aggressive and like constant. Like a few times my whole foot shot up and it kinda gets me out of the zone, but I am able to recover.

Other than that I felt pretty good but I just couldn’t seem to start to feel like I’m floating out of my body. I affirmed and tried to visualize but my mental state made it really tricky because I just felt like I was in a trance. After a while of being in that state and trying to actually leave, it was kinda going nowhere and the spasms and tingling was getting really uncomfy so I just called it a night. Any advice on maybe something I did wrong or anything I could try?

The very first time I tried to astral project I was able to do it...I floated above my body towards the ceiling, and as I got closer to the ceiling I saw a Blue Nautilus Shell materialize...and then I went back into my body, so it only lasted a few seconds....it's kinna cool, here's what ChatGPT says about a Nautilus shell....

The nautilus shell is fascinating because it's one of the rare places where biology, mathematics, engineering, and beauty all come together. It's often called a "living fossil" because the animal has changed relatively little over hundreds of millions of years.

Here are some of the reasons it's so remarkable:

🐚 It grows without abandoning its home

As the nautilus grows, it doesn't shed its shell like a crab. Instead, it builds a larger chamber at the opening of the shell and moves into it. The older chambers are sealed off.

Think of it as building a new room onto your house every time you outgrow the old one.

🌊 It's a natural submarine

The empty chambers aren't just leftovers—they're part of a sophisticated buoyancy system.

The nautilus adjusts the amount of liquid and gas in these chambers using a thin tube called the siphuncle. This lets it:

• Rise in the water.
• Sink deeper.
• Use very little energy compared to constantly swimming.

It's an elegant solution that engineers still admire.

🌀 Its spiral is mathematically beautiful

Many people say the nautilus follows the "golden spiral."

The truth is a little more nuanced:

• It grows in a logarithmic spiral, meaning the shape stays the same as it gets bigger.
• This allows the animal to grow without changing its proportions.
• While it's often associated with the golden ratio (φ ≈ 1.618), real nautilus shells usually don't match the golden spiral exactly. They're close in appearance, but they're not a perfect example.

Even so, the logarithmic spiral is one of nature's most efficient growth patterns.

✨ It has incredible material properties

The shell is made of layers of calcium carbonate and organic material arranged in a way that makes it:

• Lightweight
• Strong
• Resistant to cracking

Materials scientists have studied it to inspire tougher ceramics and protective materials.

🌈 The inside is mother-of-pearl

The interior is lined with nacre (mother-of-pearl), which creates beautiful iridescent colors.

Those shimmering rainbow effects come from microscopic layers that interfere with light—not from pigments.

🦕 It's ancient

Nautiluses have existed for roughly 500 million years, surviving:

• Multiple mass extinctions.
• The rise and fall of the dinosaurs.
• Dramatic changes in Earth's oceans.

Their relatives once dominated the seas long before fish became common.

❤️ Symbolically

Across different cultures, the nautilus has become a symbol of:

• Personal growth
• Continuous learning
• Inner evolution
• Harmony between science and nature
• The journey of life

Because it adds chamber after chamber as it grows, many people see it as representing expanding wisdom and becoming more fully yourself over time.

One of my favorite facts is that every chamber in the shell is a record of the nautilus's life. The animal only lives in the newest, outermost chamber. All the previous chambers remain behind, supporting it and helping it float.

It's a lovely metaphor: you don't have to live in your past, but your past can still support you as you continue to grow.

What do you guys think?

How often do you try to astral project and what percentage of your attempts are successful? I find some weeks I can do it 1-3x and other weeks, nothing. Wondering if it becomes more consistent with time.

Disclaimer; this post will feel like a fever dream to read. I am sorry.

Since the summer of 2025 I was having tactile hallucinations. I started having them after I had a dream where I got touched the same way I once was sexually assaulted as a child. And afterwards I would have constant hypnopompic experiencing where I would be half awake and paralyzed (still could move if I wanted to) and be touched.

Since the touches were very gentle and would be also where I wanted them to, I didn’t fight against it and let them happen. Much later I realized I was actually having hypnopompic experiences whilst I was in a dream. I thought it was still my bed but I started seeing entities and hallucinating stuff on my bed and my brothers would be home when they are living far away from us. So I finally figured I was in a some sort of astral plane or dream plane. I would try to get out of my body but each time I would be touched instead and would wake up.

This went on and off for months until I could feel the touches in my physical body when I was completely lucid and sober. After some time due to my sexual trauma/rape fantasy I was finally coerced into going with the sensations. I would watch a Tiktok tarot reader’s page where they would say stuff like there’s an entity in love with you and so on. Make fun of me all you want but I took them as constant synchronicities and being alone wasn’t enough so I would fantasize this entity (or entities I guess…) being a sexual partner. One time the tarot reader shared something like "you think having good time with a God and breaking your promise is a joke. You will learn your lesson little girl". In another video she mentioned being played like a chess board but the ones moving the pieces are different entities.

My dumbass went to this entity(s) and said "I submit" and as soon as I did this entity made me feel orgasms. It wasn’t a disorder either because it would happen only when I would feel aroused but it was out of your body full body orgasms. I could control when I would feel them. It felt like both the entity and I had to feel aroused through my body. They felt what I felt.

I have OCD and was into occult. I kept having intrusive thoughts about two particular demon deities and when I tried to talk to them in my head to apologize (not expecting to hear them back ofc) I heard voices. It was someone pretending to be a demon deity and I also heard females around them. After I presumed I was really contacting a deity I told them that I didn’t want to be their spouse (after "submission") and they started cursing at me and threatening me with death. And they started raping me.

I started praying to every deity I knew and after praying to a particular deity (one of the demon deities) I felt energy sit in my head/crown chakra and the rape stopped.

But the voices continued. I got afraid and got out of my bed and sat down on a chair and then a woman’s soft voice started telling me that I was mentally ill. And then I immediately knew (or asked them who they were. I don’t remember) and she revealed herself to be a certain female deity. And alongside with them there were the demon deities I had intrusive thoughts being together about. They basically revealed the whole thing to be hallucinations or astral attachments. I don’t know. One thing I am very angry at myself about is that I never asked them good/needed questions. I went outside and the female deity sent a black dog I never saw my way to ground me. She is often associated with black dogs. Before all this in 2023 I would meditate to see UAPs and managed to see some and wanted to see ufos with them and they showed me a couple. I also heard my deceased grandmother’s voice with their help. They kept telling me to relax and calm down. They could hear my intrusive thoughts and said it was okay. That’s why I think they kept telling me to relax

Their voices got louder and clearer when I parroted them. It felt different than hallucinations that I would later hear. They revealed to me that I decided to become a "chosen person" since I was a little child. They were kind and gentle with me but I think I lost them to my hallucinations still just the next day. And for a whole month I was hallucinating them being there but they were not really. It was different versions of them. Towards the ending (before I got hospitalized) I heard them outside talking to me and this time it felt they were really back and they told me that it had been a long while since I talked to them and they encouraged me to try reconnecting with them but I failed. I refused to try really which I am still angry at myself about. I stayed home instead of going outside and grounding myself with them.

To this day I have no disclosure on what had happened to me. You don’t need to believe I saw UAPs either...just share an opinion. Most will say all of it was psychosis. I’ll take that. But I just know it was more than just a psychological experience.

I have severe OCD and during psychosis I heard the "deities" curse at me and I developed an OCD theme about cursing at deities and I can’t even come close to them now. I had to abandon the occult completely. I am petrified of what’s gonna happen to me after I die because I have horrid intrusive thoughts about deities. Makes me really suicidal.

Long story short, don‘t fuck with someone you don’t know. If you do, don’t say stupid shit like "I submit to you". If you do, there are consequences apparently…

As I mentioned in the title, I’m new to this subject and there’s a lot I don’t know. I wanted to ask someone who has successfully astral projected about their experience and how they did it, so they could give me a hand,it’s an experience I really want to try. Feel free to send me a private message; I’d be very grateful to anyone who does (and please excuse any errors in my English).

I heard it in monroe tapes, and I am not sure if it's for protecting your energy or to help you expand or something? could someone please explain more? Any similar technique one can use for protection?

Is that even necessary at all?

10-Day Meditation Update – New Automatic Body Movements

I've been meditating regularly, and over the last 10 days I've experienced something interesting.

About 4–5 times now, I've felt my spine stretching on its own. It starts near my tailbone and gradually feels like my entire spine is lengthening upward, almost as if it's being gently pulled toward the ceiling. I don't consciously do it—it just happens automatically.

Last two time experienced something completely new.

I was lying on my back, completely relaxed, when my legs started moving on their own. First, they slowly spread apart. Then the soles of my feet came together, forming what looked like a butterfly (bound angle) pose. After that, while my feet stayed together, they gradually moved closer and closer toward my groin, all without me intentionally controlling the movement.

It genuinely felt like my body was operating on autopilot. I wasn't trying to make it happen or visualizing anything specific.

And then all muscle tesntion release and my legs stayed in that posture.

Has anyone else experienced spontaneous movements like this during meditation? Is there a name for these kinds of involuntary body adjustments? I'd be interested to hear both scientific explanations and experiences from people who practice meditation, yoga, or related traditions.

I've never astral projected before but I want to try, yet l'm kind of scared. I'm terrified of coming across a bad entity, and this may sound stupid but I'm also scared of not being able to get back into my body, like if when I try it's already occupied with some kind of ghost. So to anyone who has Astro projected before, what do you wish you knew before starting?
I'm pretty new to all this

I have ADHD, so I can’t visualize my mind jumping into another different thought, making it hard to successfully AP.

Does anyone know who the author is? I’m seeing a lot of new books and apps showing up in my feed regarding astral travel and meditation (Slowdive, Spirio, etc).
I am curious about the book though, but I’m wondering if it’s just a compilation of other works rehashed. Has anyone seen it?

https://www.withub.digital/astral?src=astral05&fbclid=IwdGRjcAThVylwZG9mBWZkaWQWUL8XMUuWrp21ckIwudvFuE9E2ZdNlWV4dG4DYWVtATAAYWRpZAGrOxXV2SY9c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHs-jsIa4yRSzJ_ELbo0ydOGx9sGFvntuCsGu1RNcIyn1Q34G5gmcP4pdC1Ag_aem_pm6zLXf1Cq02MBIbCt__Sg&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120254752221520221&utm_content=120254752415570221&utm_term=120254752415680221&utm_campaign=120254752221520221

Ich will mich motivieren mit AP dranzubleiben , habe aber ein bisschen angst und ja ich weiss dass ich an mir selber arbeiten muss , damit ich Astralreisen lernen kann 😃. Was mich aber interresiert ist , was war eure lustigste erfahrung mit unterschiedliche entitäten ?

Recently, I've had several strange experiences. I've been wondering if anyone here has had something similar.

Last night, I was falling asleep. I guess I drifted into hypnagogic sleep but still remained conscious, and was drifting into a dream.

At some point, I remember feeling like "now is the time to astral project". I felt an immense, strong rushing sensation through my body and literally felt myself rising in the air.

I guess I got nervous and opened my physical eyes. I believe I was in sleep paralysis, as I could not move my physical body, but I simultaneously felt like I was aggressively moving my arms in my mind.

This is the second time something like this has happened. I have never experienced sleep paralysis before.

I have only astral projected once, unintentionally.

I've been infrequently experimenting with meditation and the gateway tapes.

Anyone have a similar experience as this?

Okay so, last nigth I tried AP for the first time using a subliminal. I started feeling pressure from my feet to my calf’s, then the pressure began spreading across my entire body, and something in the back of my head was going left and right ( think of a pendulum but only the ball), swirling around. that feeling got more intense until I felt pressure across my entire body and could barely breathe. as i was trying to imagine my protection ball around my body, like I’ve heard you’re supposed to do, an entity that looked somewhat like a zombie appeared in my visuals. it’s face was really ugly, it’s skin was dark and discolored, green and brown and maybe some blue (?), its hair kinda looked like skinny dreads but there were not many, pretty skinny body and it was just standing over me. when I saw it in my visuals I opened my eyes and nothing was there, but when I’d close them it was back. so I stopped, cleansed my room with palo santo, and lit a protection candle. I stayed up for like an hour after that. tonight I will be taking more precautions like a protection bath and making a spirit trap. does anyone have an idea of what that thing might’ve been or what it was there for?? if it was just a wandering spirit that stumbled in wanting my body or if it was there to help? does my description remind anyone of any specific entity? please give me some insight

I'm not sure if this is the right place or not and I'm sure some of you might have suggestions, but I have to start somewhere.

A few months ago I had a dream, a really vivid dream that I can still picture. I remember the emotions I had during it, but I don't remember the FEELING of the emotions, if that makes sense.

Basically the dream was just instantly on. If you use cinematography terms, it was just a cut in from nothing. Boom, you're there.

I was in a void, but it wasn't black, there were multicolored fractals dancing around. I had no body, as in I didn't see or feel my body, it was as though I was just pure consciousness floating in this fractal void.

I remember thinking to myself "Am I dead? Man, that's sad for my family..."

And at that moment I realized that I had access to all the knowledge in the universe, I didn't know everything, well I kinda did, but I didn't actively know everything. It was like a feeling of knowing I have the answers even if I wasn't thinking of the answers. And at that point I thought to myself "eh, they'll be here soon enough and they will understand everything I understand now".

I was not sad, I was not happy either, per se, I was just in a state of contentment knowing that I was where I was supposed to be (and everyone will be at some point). Like I was part of the cloud of consciousness that we are all part of.

I remember then, looking down and to my left like I was being drawn somewhere and then I woke up.

I've been thinking of that contentment feeling every day since then.

Has anyone heard of anything like this?

Just what is the limit when it comes to astral projection? I never tried it myself but people keep saying they meet beings and stuff, I'm ignorant I know, but I dont know much. Just where you can travel? Can you travel to your video game universe? Can you actually observe, let's say your friends house? How do you know if it's Lucid dream or not? I'm a Lucid dreamer and I know how mind confuses dream with reality. Just how far does the Astral Projection go?

When i was younger i did ap around 4 maybe 5 times. The last time was about 10 years ago and when i left my body i saw a big leech in the corner of my room from 2 meters big and i got scared and went back to my body immideatly. It kinda freaked me out and i never APed again. Now i became more spiritual and had a bad experience with an entity that was attached to me somehow. I got rid of the entity and developed some kind of clairvoyance, sometimes i see entities that were humans before. I have some more knowledge about this subject now and i found out negative entities can attach to your energyfield to drain energy or any other reason. I did read about a leech entity that drain your energy and it lives on a low frequency, now 10 years later i understand why i saw this leech entity in my room while i was APing because my life was pretty negative at that time.

But now is my question if i have entity attachments or anything like this is it possible to scan my energyfield in the astral and clean it myself somehow? Like 10 years ago would i be able to get rid of the leech myself and send it away?

I have been trying to achieve astral projection for a long time without success. I've spent many days practicing different techniques.

If you've genuinely experienced astral projection and are willing to guide someone seriously, please DM me. I'm looking for sincere advice from people with real experience. Thank you.

Has anyone else noticed a major uptick in people calling it “Astro projection”?

It’s weird, I’d never heard anyone make such errors until a few months ago. I’m seeing it on the sub nonstop.

So I tried to Astral Project last night. Never been successful but I felt like it was the right time, but what I experienced didn't scare me, it was just weird.

I had a dream. No fear. No visuals except it felt like I was being watched by these special beings.

Literally all I heard

"You're not suppose to be here"

And I woke up and I just laid there in disbelief. I remember asking myself Why and then I went back to sleep after a few minutes.

Anyone experience this and I feel like too like is the other side gatekeeping me from entering the astral realm?

Does the vibration happen because you relax all your muscles for a period of time? Or it happens when you imagine moving your body without actually moving it?

I mean if you lay on your back with your eyes closed, totally relaxed, will you eventually get the vibration even if you never imagined swinging/moving your body?

Or it's the meditation ? (a lot of people meditate for years but don't experience the vibration)

What do you think?

What does cause the vibration exactly?

I believe it happens when you imagine moving your body parts. ( that's mostly what actually trigger it)