Thread: Can you have OBEs because you are good at LDing?

Everyone is different.

I usually reach OBE through sleep paralysis. Just before going into lucid dream I man up enough to leave my body. Once you are in a LD state you are pretty much locked in your own head.

I guess you could go from LD to OBE but the question is why would you want to as LD is much more fun - it's a place where you make up your own rules opposed to OBE where you're actually in a world very similar to our own.

Here's an OBE technique that happened to me spontaneously, afterwards I was able to induce it intentionally; when you find yourself LDing give yourself the command to - and I know this sounds weird - back out of the dream.

If it works you will know right away. I won't tell you what might happen but it's pretty cool.

If anyone tries this and succeeds, please post your experience in this thread.

according to the astral projection website I visited, if you are in a lucid dream - you can ask to re-enter your body and project back out

the dream is supposedly a private little room in the astral, so you have to leave it first before you join up in the general public astral realm

I followed the simple instructions, and I got instant results on my first time. upon demanding my own dream "take me to the astral" I felt a zooming sensation of falling down, deeper - as if falling into my bed. then typical WILD sensations of zooming back out, spiralling upwards in a tunnel. afterwards - everything went black. I opened my eyes and the new lucid dream was twice as vivid. vivid enough that myself, I felt, I had a solid body

though I remain a little skeptical if it really worked, it still felt like a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by juroara

according to the astral projection website I visited, if you are in a lucid dream - you can ask to re-enter your body and project back out

the dream is supposedly a private little room in the astral, so you have to leave it first before you join up in the general public astral realm

I followed the simple instructions, and I got instant results on my first time. upon demanding my own dream "take me to the astral" I felt a zooming sensation of falling down, deeper - as if falling into my bed. then typical WILD sensations of zooming back out, spiralling upwards in a tunnel. afterwards - everything went black. I opened my eyes and the new lucid dream was twice as vivid. vivid enough that myself, I felt, I had a solid body

though I remain a little skeptical if it really worked, it still felt like a lucid dream.

This sounds really deep, but the thing even if you did achieve AP it would be hard to tell if it's really that or just another LD.

As for a "Public Astral Realm"; doesn't that sound like joining spirits and ghosts wandering in our world?

Originally Posted by Sir Loin Tenderloin-Steak

This sounds really deep, but the thing even if you did achieve AP it would be hard to tell if it's really that or just another LD.

As for a "Public Astral Realm"; doesn't that sound like joining spirits and ghosts wandering in our world?

XD

well, I really just meant you are interacting with others, not just your own head.

it is hard to tell! I asked the astral gurus "how do I tell the difference!?" but they just told me they believe that technically you astral project every night via a dream. which only confused me some more

I mean, supposidly the astral is a real 'place' in that it doesn't disappear when you wake up. so you can revisit places, again and again and again. as well as visit real time earth in spirit *which I've been told is probably not going to happen if you are projecting from a dream*

I guess that's the only way to really convince yourself. if you can visit the same place again. speak with the same people. have some continuity. of course there is also meeting up with other lucid dreamers in the astral - now that would be something

but yeah, try it for yourself the next time you have a lucid dream! even if it doesn't work, you should still get some interesting results.