Strange Meditation Experience

[Hargarts]

Last night I decided to try some simple meditation by focusing on my breathing. After about 5 mins trying this sitting up, I decided to lay down and try. After about 5 mins or so, I suddenly felt as if I was floating about 1-2 feet above my bed. I could still feel the pressure of the bed on my back/legs, but something felt different…. I no longer felt as if I was on my bed.. but somewhere above it. Also, this feeling started instantly with no warning… all of a sudden it just started. This lasted for about 30 secs. (I think I eventually fell asleep) Has anyone else had this happen to them?

[Leo Volont]

Last night I decided to try some simple meditation by focusing on my breathing. After about 5 mins trying this sitting up, I decided to lay down and try. After about 5 mins or so, I suddenly felt as if I was floating about 1-2 feet above my bed. I could still feel the pressure of the bed on my back/legs, but something felt different…. I no longer felt as if I was on my bed.. but somewhere above it. Also, this feeling started instantly with no warning… all of a sudden it just started. This lasted for about 30 secs. (I think I eventually fell asleep) Has anyone else had this happen to them? [/b] Yes. This feeling is the Astral Body decoupling from the physical body. It more or less happens to everybody, but most people fall asleep and are unconscious when it happens. If you are the type of person who can retain consciousness of the 'floating' then you are something of a natural Astral Projector. Why does the Astral Body discouple and float? Well, you see, it is a holdover from more primitive days when the Astral Body would float above the physical body in order to better 'guard' the body in its sleep -- watch for lions, tigers, snakes and so forth. Similarly, nowadays, there are some people who will naturally wake up when there are fires and burglaries and so forth, and other people who will sleep through that kind of business. Those who wake up for these dangers are typically the better Astral Projectors.

[Hargarts]

Very interesting.. Actually I remember hearing a sound outside at the same time the feeling started. Maybe I had lost consciousness and the sound woke me up.

[Leo Volont]

Very interesting.. Actually I remember hearing a sound outside at the same time the feeling started. Maybe I had lost consciousness and the sound woke me up. [/b] Yes, in many cases people do not realize they had been "floating" until they are startled into feeling that 'dropping' feeling. Oh, everyone is familiar with that odd feeling when one is descending a staircase while not paying attention, when one gets to the bottom before one had expected it and hits the floor unexpectedly, or inversely if one arrives to the top and puts a foot down upon 'nothing' while having expected a step to be under one's foot. At that moment the 'body' goes out of coincidence with the 'astral body', just for a split second. This feeling is similar to the feeling of 'dropping' one gets when one is startled while floating above the body.

[wombing]

this sensation is common for me before a WILD (or close attempt). i also am often "awakened" while half-asleep by the falling sensation (more of a jerking drop) that leo mentioned. there seems to be no reason to assume these phantom limbs exist external to one's mind. even upon dozens of full disengagements (most of which find me in an altered replica of my bedroom), there seems to be no evidence to suggest that astral projection truly exists. i have a card face down on my closet shelf, to test whether one's dreambody can perceive waking reality. twice i have WILDed, and sought out the card. once the closet did not even exist. the other, it was not there. -------- sounds like you were almost WILDing...next time perhaps try imagining this body disengaging completely. the most common method for myself is for it to "pop out" like a cork. happy journeys!

[Leo Volont]

I still don't understand the logic of Waking Induced Lucid Dreams. It is much easier, more natural, and a better overall experience to Astrally Project when first going to sleep. One ought to save Lucid Dreams for when one is Dreaming. If one is conscious then why not go directly into Astral Projection. If anything, one's access to the Astral and Higher Spiritual Planes is cleaner and more direct than essentially all but the absolute cleanest and most vivid instances of Lucid Dreaming. For all the praise and acclaim of Lucid Dreaming, it needs to be confessed that Lucid Dreams exist along a scale of 1 to 10, and that 10's are extremely rare, while for the sake of bragging rights on this Page most everybody counts '2's and '3's as though they are equal to the '10's, while Astral Projections are nearly always 10, 10, 10, 10. So why such effort to bend a Natural Astral Projection Technique into delivering a Lucid Dream of iffy quality?