Wooooooooooooooooooooow!!!!......... Maybe i'll edit and have somthing more to say but woooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Edit: got something already. Did you really have absolutely no thought of astral-ing?

**I will begin by saying that this is a very LONG post. However, I think it'll be well worth the read. I think I have astrally traveled in my dreams and gotten evidence of it. I thought I would share it with you all and hopefully get some feedback on astral projection because I have never actually tried to do it.**
It all started with a series of related dreams almost 3 years ago. I've never had recurring dreams before, other than psychological dreams about tornadoes and such. (lol) But as I first entered this dream I was flying in what seemed like Ireland. It was dark and misty all around...you could tell by the lush green and rolling hills everywhere you looked. But this seemed different from my other dreams. I felt like I had conscious thought throughout this dream and things went in a somewhat chronological order...rather than the normal dreams that are jumbled up bits of your subconscious. But anyways, Isee an extremely large and steep hill from far away with a fortress on top of it. This was extremely dramatic...the slope of the hill seemed almost impossible to climb to reach the castle on top! So I was sure that maybe this was just a dream...
Well as dreams went on, I returned to the castle more and more. I remember being particularly drawn to a cemetery that seemed swamped over with moss and rain and the smell of soil and dirt. This was a cemetery quite a few miles from the castle, but within the area. I had this place mapped out in my head because I frequently flew over the town, looking down at it. I sketched a lot of pictures of it and maps and certain objects around the town that struck me as odd.
Anyways, there were so many of these dreams...and I could honestly go on forever in detail about what I did in them, but I'll get to the point:
A few weeks ago I had researched a bit about traveling Ireland because a friend of mine was going there for a trip. Well needless to say, I had stumbled right on this castle! This is a real place. I still have all of my sketches and maps of the area as a kind of reminder to myself that this is all real and I did see this castle in my dreams.
It is called the Rock of Cashel located in County Tipperary, Ireland. This is quite odd because my last name is Cashon, which is also Irish and similar in sound. Could just be coincidence. But I do remember every time I arrived at Cashel in the dream I was smiling and my soul was joyful and I thought "This is home."
I do believe now that I lived in Cashel in a previous life. I think I was visiting my former grave in the cemetery and it was like a 'last goodbye' kind of thing.
Here is the first drawing I did of Cashel and the actual photo of Cashel:
Upclose view of drawing...it is quite bad haha. Just a subconscious sketch...never knew I'd be sharing it one day!
The full sketch. Me holding it for proof lol.(And don't ask what that thing is I drew on the right-hand side...no clue)
Actual picture of the Rock of Cashel.
The end of the castle and cemetery area...I wasn't attached to this cemetery although I went there a few times. I was more attached to the cemetery a few miles down the road, but I cannot find anything about that cemetery's existence online.
This picture captures the dark misty and dreamlike atmosphere that I had in each of my dream visits there.
This is a painting I did from memory not too long ago, before I found the castle online. It is of a stone face I saw in one of my visits...however my memory was quite blurry.
Here we see the actual stone face in Cashel. LOL this really did creep me out when I found it, I'll be honest. In my painting, there are a few mistakes from loss of memory.
When I saw this image it struck me. It is yet another place in the area I visited. It is a Cashel schoolhouse that is now used as a motel. This explains one of the dreams I had! In the dream, I walked inside this building and I was gloomily greeted by a very old woman who seemed very strict and did not want me there. She didn't say anything to me but made it known that she did not like my presence in her area. She was wearing dark clothing. On the inside, I saw white linens, a few beds, and light colored drapes or curtains covering the windows. On one of the beds sat a little boy dressed in brown/tan/mule colored clothing. He had on knee shorts, knee socks/stockings, brown 'old' shoes, a vest and undershirt, and a newsboy cap with a brown hound's tooth pattern. He did not want me in this area. He smiled at me and showed me bugs and maggots crawling around in his mouth. I told him I wasn't scared of him or something similar. This was also very shocking to find this picture! It's like all the pieces are coming together.
This is an entryway to the castle. I actually stood in this exact spot in one of my dreams and I feel like I should be in this picture because it is so exact! It just amazes me.
This is one of the places in the village at the bottom of the castle that I have seen. I remember seeing lots of cottages and small homes and a few businesses...which turned out to be very correct.
**Probably the most AMAZING of these visits is the one pertaining to the cathedral. I decided to go inside the cathedral and was surprised to see that there were a lot of people inside. The people were dark shadowy figures and I could not make out their features but I could hear their voices. They were extremely frightened and some were crying and some were hiding against the walls curled up into balls. I spoke with a man and he told me to stay inside. (I saw a cross and altar and some people holding small crosses...) I told him that it is fine outside...I had just been out and it was clear? No rain, nothing. And he and the others refused to leave. I looked above the altar outside the openings in the wall and I saw fire and red skies...It looked like a scene from Hell was outside. The dream ends.
Well, if you read below, it turns out that the cathedral was actually burned down twice. The people inside sought refuge behind the walls of the castle while it burnt in 1495:
"The largest structure is the remains of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Built in the 13th century, the cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1495. The building was later restored. However, when Cromwell’s forces brutally overwhelmed Ireland Cashel Rock was destroyed once more. Hundreds of townspeople had sought refuge from the British soldiers within the cathedral walls and were burned to death when Cromwell’s men set fire to the building. For the people of Ireland Cashel Rock serves a reminder of foreign brutality, spiritual strength, and Irish courage." --taken from http://www.destination360.com/europe...-of-cashel.php
I believe these people's spirits are still there...I think they are unaware of their deaths and reliving the horror over and over.
I'm finally done! Haha, that's it. There are lots of mini details that I left out but they really had no importance...it would have been too long of a post.
Please tell me your thoughts or give advice on astral projection in dreams.
I have had many other spiritual, prophetic, and lucid dreams to top off these!

No, I've never tried APing before. It seems really interesting, but I've always been scared of not being 'in control'. It seems like when I am asleep I just unlock that ability though...I'd like to be able to control it. Maybe I should buy a book?
What is irritating is that I have had these amazing dreams but they only come when they wish... It's like they show up randomly and might even take years to come back.
I've also had many dreams of the Victorian Era as a child which told me things I didn't know. So when I was the age of 9 I knew about things like Post Mortem Photography and plague doctors and corsets because of the dreams...
It really is fascinating.
In my waking life my psychic abilities are nonexistent though lol.
Thanks for taking the time to read btw! I know it was loonnggg...![]()
At first I was fairly skeptical, as honestly there are about a million similar castles with roughtly similar layouts and "feels" to them, but all together it's fairly interesting and persuading stuff there. Obviously a lot of it is stuff locked in your head, so I can't really judge it for myself. I'll take your word on it all.
Also that painting is really good. I'm jealous of those brush skills
I'd definitely look into developing the skill somehow.

Thank you!
And yes, I came in knowing that it would probably be a brushed off topic. I, myself, would probably analyze the situation til no end, haha.
I guess I feel like I've become a slave to this thing because in my head things are more 'real' than 'real life'. It just drives me crazy, especially when I get proof (at least for myself) that this is real.
It just makes me a little lonely and I feel like an outsider and I wish I had someone to talk to about it instead of someone to prove myself to.
But hopefully I will have more in the future.
interesting, but not persuading
you can not ever give evidence without a doubt concerning astral projection
what has really made me suspicious is the doodle and the artwork, looks like it is done by two different hands

The 'doodles' that I showed were just spur of the moment sketches I did after I woke up. Sometimes after I have a dream, a few hours later I forget details. Since the view of the castle was still kind of fresh on my mind I just sketched it down. Obviously I wasn't trying to impress anybody. This explains why I have more detail in my painting which took days to complete.
The doodles are the same picture. I just zoomed in and cropped for a closer
view.
I will show you pictures of me holding them both if you like, if that gives me more credibility...but you seem to be content on not believing me...which is alright. I understand. It does hurt me a little though to not be taken seriously, I won't lie. But it is okay. I should probably just keep things like this to myself from now on.
You're welcome.
I've heard stories about other people over the years that have a similar problem with "excessive realness", and not even in OBEs but in LDs. It's an odd problem to have. I guess the brain's resolution is a bit higher than that of the senses, if you get what I'm saying. Believing as you do in the reality of this, it begs the question of what "senses" are really being used in the OBE then. It's obviously not any of your physical senses. So what's stopping you from seeing light in a different spectrum or something of that nature? Is it a lack of effort and just being used to the regular senses, or is it somehow hard-wired into the brain and hard to even think of?
I suppose that's not high on your list of things to do. I can appreciate being more interested in the people/spirits you meet and places you're visiting, and feelings as well. There's a mystery to be solved there, it seems. Perhaps one day it'll be worth visiting in person as well.
I might not be personally convinced (no offense, but I have a very high standard, generally involving scientific experiments and the whole nine yards), but I'll still discuss it as if I were.
I'm sure you'll have more in time, and there are a few on this forum that could probably help you improve the frequency if you were interested. Well, I assume there are; this isn't the first OBE thread I've seen. Certainly there are people that know what you're going through better than I do, if not here then on one of the other dream/OBE forums out there.
After reading your responses, I feel this link is appropriate
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=41887
Anyway, welcome to the forums.
P.S. Did you have any other conversations with spirits? When I was younger and believed in ghosts (not the same thing, but I don't have anything else to relate to it) I made peace with them by talking to them and trying to help them. I always figured if I could actually talk to ghosts, I'd do the same.
Don't keep things for yourself, this is the beyond dreaming forum, people love to read about stuff like this, at least I do. And of course it is hard to believe, because you first need to have experienced it yourself before you can truly believe it. But the real question people should ask themselves is not is it true, or is it not true, but can I do it myself too? You know.. if you're into lucid dreaming, you can as well try out some astral traveling. Don't let your believes limit your dreams! I'm sure determined to find out.
"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible." -Kamina

Wow, thank you for the informative reply.
As for your first topic...I haven't thought about it much. I don't have enough knowledge of the brain to understand, although that might be something to look into in the future. I hear we only use a small portion of our brains, so maybe 'unused' portions get 'unlocked' when we are lucid, etc? But I'm sure the scientific world might have found that one out already.
I've always wanted to visit Ireland so this dream just set it in stone for me. I am going and visiting this castle for SURE. I think not going would kill me from the curiosity...and I think it would be interesting to explore the whole area without a map and show someone that I have 'been here' before. Atleast that would be pretty significant for myself. and fun.
It's okay if not everyone is convinced. I really don't have any physical way of letting people know, so of course its going to be left up in the air as a possibility...so I don't feel any guilt over not being able to prove myself anymore. I feel blessed to even have these dreams to begin with.
And thanks for the link, haha. I do feel like a hug would be nice sometimes.
But anyways, I have had other dreams that seemed more significant than others. I can't go into detail because they were so long. I think I might put them into a dream blog.
But yeah, I have had some spirit contact throughout my life. As a child I played with a lot of dolls. The dolls seemed to possess a conscious. I talked to them as if they were real because I didn't know any better. I would go into my room and see the dolls rearranged themselves. I'd look at my baby dolls and they would have bruises on their skin and I could see blue blood veins pulsing in their skin. This never bothered me until I got a porcelain doll from my grandma. I was asleep in my bed (either age 5 or 6) and my doll was in her own little bed next to mine. I wake up to giggling and see the doll standing up next to my bed staring at me. She was blinking her eyes and smiling, showing her teeth. This was impossible because her eyes were just inlaid marbles and her mouth was a painted on smile with no teeth showing. This scared me a lot, so I ran to my parent's room and clawed at their door to let me in until some of my fingernails had come off. I don't like dolls anymore, and I actually didn't get any sleep last night because my 7 year old sister got an antique one from my grandma.
I've seen the ghost of a confederate soldier in a cemetery.
At my grandparents' house, I used to hear people running up and down the steps at night and people throwing things around upstairs. I also felt someone physically crawl into bed with me a few times. My parents and other family members have all seen or felt a presence at one time or another in that house.
And as for actually communicating with spirits, I have done this in dreams numerous times and sometimes I research a bit and find that the spirits were/are real people. But I don't have any abilities in my waking life...that I know of.
There is more but this is getting long.Thanks again for the reply.
Thank you DreamLily for putting the last of my doubts of AP to rest. You've gotten me to believe in AP, and I believe in your claims 100%. Your story of traveling is brilliant. However I did not need to know about the run in with the rogue doll... O.O that's creepy considering I've always found dolls, clowns, and paintings of people to be nightmarish in themselves.
Good stories all, nontheless!
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And when we pretended we were going to murder you- that was great...

Hm interesting really interesting, should be 100% proof for you I guess. I wonder if you could actually look at the name of the grave <.<
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I remember being irritated in the dream because I couldn't read any of the gravestones. Lol! I am definitely going to check that out though when I visit. Hopefully I can find the actual cemetery in Cashel, not just the castle's cemetery...because that is where it is located, i believe. And yeah, it is 100% proof for ME but there is just no way of proving it to everyone else. How do you get evidence for something that isn't physical but is an experience?

Testing it in a labarotary before you even know what your testing. Tough just proving it for yourself is enough. Otherwise you would have to invest some billions on it... Oh and you should try asking someone from ireland that lives close to the castle.
Check out my journal, Tales of the Inheritor.
My LD count is since January 14, 2009
Finally made a thread on my Gravity RC, anyone interested just drop me a PM.
Yes, everything must be googled, after all it's top secret.
That's amazing.
I wish I could do that, I believe I use to astral travel when I was younger because I would go to these places I've never been to and see vivid details. I'd be speaking languages and hearing lanagues I don't know but in my dream I understood them. I can't do it anymore though.Or maybe I just haven't been that interested in astral travel before.
Last edited by Liberty; 07-29-2008 at 10:41 PM.
Yes, I think the view has changed from 10%. I think that was based on older imaging technology or some flaw in the testing or even haphazard evidence from a previous century. I don't remember the exact cause, though. It may have just been one errant conclusion that got pumped up in the media. Popular science is like that.
They say you should get 7 hugs a day. They also say you only use 10% of your brain, so take that for what it's worth.And thanks for the link, haha. I do feel like a hug would be nice sometimes.
My own experience has shown me that it's best to write down and record what's important in your life, since in ten years' time you will probably otherwise forget it. No matter how significant something seems today, so many times it just doesn't get remembered. I wish I took better care of my past, and present.But anyways, I have had other dreams that seemed more significant than others. I can't go into detail because they were so long. I think I might put them into a dream blog.
For the best, I assume? I guess talking to the dead would be a bit of a burden. They probably are a bit morbid. I wouldn't really know. Are there any really cheery dead spirits? Just happy to still be spiriting around.
The doll thing was... creepy to say the least. Did you consider that you might have been the one controlling them? You acted and talked to them like they were conscious and alive. Perhaps you, in some sense, made them so.

I've never thought of that before. I did have a Mother Goose doll which was a big white goose whose mouth opened and closed to tell a story (you put a cassette tape in the bottom of the doll to play). But one day she was talking in a low demonic voice. I don't remember what she was saying because it was so long ago. I remembered that my Dad told me they get like that when their batteries are dying. So I checked the batteries and to my surprise there weren't any batteries in her at all. So I yelled for Dad, and apparently she talked to him too and he did NOT like this. I remember him, in the middle of winter, in his underwear with the doll running to the garage and throwing it outside very quickly! LOL
When I was young I do remember finding some bones in a big black garbage bag behind our fence but I still think they were just animal bones...but that is still quite sad.
I'm not so sure that I'd be capable of that kind of thing, especially so young? But who knows.

Quick update here--
As of tonight I have ordered a book on Astral Travel and some crystals to work with. I should get them in a week or so. I'm going to try these out and see if I can find any valuable tricks to help project at will instead of randomly.
Thanks guys for all of the replies!
Hopefully I will have something much better to share with you in my future.![]()

Wow. Just..... wow. This is amazing. I totally beleive you. I feel sorry for the cathedral people....If you ever go there again, consider this.
1. There were flames outside the altar, but did you check the way you came?
2. While STILL OUTSIDE open the door and tell everyone to come out WITHOUT you going inside. That way everything is still fine outside. Ya gotta think outside the box.
P.S. Where the F*** did you get that mother goose thing?!?
What if I told you that I am dreaming right now?
That your whole life is a lie?
That the laws of physics as you know them are incorrect?
Furthermore, what would you do if I told you I'm going to wake up as soon as you finish reading my signature?
amazing its werid how you can see it its like a gene from ure anchestors activates in ure mind u see there memories or something or ure spirit leaves ure body and travells to irelend or soemthing its very strange ive had this before kinda like da ja vu where i remember this pattern on trees and bushes hard to explain when i went on holiday stopped at traffic lights and saw the same trees and bushes very strange...
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If all is to be believed... you were seeing Ireland in the past.
The art you painted looks like that stone you have a picture of when it was in its full glory.
You have some sort of connection to Ireland in your family lineage?
Previous life?
What if your family line descends from that region... and your sprit is attracted to it because family is there, and not your previous life. If that happened to me that is how I would feel.
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