Astral Projection Attemp #1

Yesterday I was doing lots of studying on Astral Projection, Lucid Dreaming, Out of body experiences and came across Ryan's Book/PDF and thought I would read through a little bit of it. I read some of it and Jumped down to the Exercises part of the PDF, I came Across the Exercise "Noticing" and read through it as careful as possible. Even though Ryan explained it as easy it was not when it came to experimenting with it. My experience lead from getting no where from being somewhere though!
So, as I began the exercise it kind of confused me of how to see in the darkness, I would look in the darkness and my mind would create random images, but I'm not looking to use my mind am I, I am here to just notice any changes within the blackness. It felt like that was not "working" for me so I stopped and opened my eyes and just lied there for like quite a bit ( not sure how long ). I turn and lie on my back, I close my eyes and just breathe, Suddenly, I felt some kind of vibrations kick in. These where not so intense but I could feel them strongly enough. I kept going and going and open my eyes again. I swapped position and decided to face the wall with my hand under my cheek bone as a rest. My eyes are staring at the wall and because the room was dark the wall started to produce shapes and shapes. (I remember reading somewhere that Ryan likes to use a Spiral or a vortex within the blackness) so I let all the shapes form into a vortex and My eyes sank deeper and deeper until it got darker and darker until I felt the need to close my eyes. So I did close my eyes and I was just relaxing, It began to feel like I was in the middle of a room with nothing around me. So, I put my hand out and touched me wall, and I was still in my bed. I layed there again with my eyes closed and now I started to feel intense vibrations my eye feels like it's twitching and I start to see the colour white. I then stopped again but this time when I close my eyes it's different, I let the sensations take over, I see a white light coming down from my Third Eye creating a line just below my chest. I carry on with the sensations, I feel Numb, My hearts racing, I'm breathing too fast and heavy, I still let the sensations take over, I then notice the blackness in my eyes it feels like I was in the middle off it, It felt like I was about to loose consciousness, So, I took the chance to actually get out my body, I didn't realise until after what I experienced that I was not suppose to just "get up" I just got up like I was still in my physical body, but I was suppose to Visualise my astral self getting up wasn't i? Then after my body moved it ended and I couldn't get to sleep for a while then.

These symptoms are not all in order because I can not remember what came first. Would love some opinions on this please.

A question?
When I am about the project am I suppose to visualise myself getting up? Or move my physical body?

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Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

A question?
When I am about the project am I suppose to visualise myself getting up? Or move my physical body?

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Sounds like you had the opportunity to leave your body.

You do not want to move your physical body. This will break the altered state. You want to visualize yourself separating from your body, but not just by using mental images. You want to create the actual feeling of movement. You can float up, fall down, roll to the side, do a swimming motion, pull an imaginary rope, etc. You want to feel these movements by moving your awareness in the same way you would move your physical body.

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Originally Posted by VinceField

Sounds like you had the opportunity to leave your body.

You do not want to move your physical body. This will break the altered state. You want to visualize yourself separating from your body, but not just by using mental images. You want to create the actual feeling of movement. You can float up, fall down, roll to the side, do a swimming motion, pull an imaginary rope, etc. You want to feel these movements by moving your awareness in the same way you would move your physical body.

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Ah! I missed my chance, Stupid me. What do you do to get out of your body?

No need to be hard on yourself, you'll have plenty of more opportunities. :)

My projections have evolved over time to where I easily and naturally phase from my body without needing a particular method to separate. It usually feels like I am falling inside of myself. I no longer experience the strong vibrations that are commonplace in the early stages of one's practice and development. I believe this is due to the development of the energy body and it's ability to attain higher vibratory states over time.

When I first started, I would either float up or roll to the side using intention and willpower. During the pre-separation vibrational stage, there would come a point where I would know that I was free to leave my body, almost like a peak in the experience, and at that point I would employ the separation technique.