Gear88 said:
Ghost in the Machine said:
I always had these questions and since you mentioned it with lucid dreaming and astral projection.
1. Can you AP/or/LD as vividly as waking life and be as conscious and normal as waking life?
Potentially yes, but this means incorporating a good logical perception without connecting to the physical body resulting in waking up/returning to your body. Also having a strong third-eye and very good astral sight helps immensely.
We are not used to directly perceiving the astral, this is why lucid dreams and such are very hazy and often feel like nothing more than a fleeting memory despite them actually happening and us directly experiencing it.
2. Can you LD or AD and remain inside however long you feel like without waking up or somehow avoid waking up?
No and you shouldn't. Time moves ever onward whether astral or physical and the physical body cannot be a static object unaffected by time. You need to eat, move, exercise, etc.
Spiritual advancement and power cannot be gained without existing on both planes, you need the physical body to be as strong and healthy as the spiritual body, it does no good for either side to atrophy.
3. Going back to Astral projection how normal are false projections or dream projections?
My first and second projection/lucid dream was accidental where I experienced precisely what you're talking about. These are not 'false' projections. Like I said dreams are on the astral whether they are lucid or not, they are
all projections onto the astral, they are just not full-soul projections.
If you're perceiving the astral in any way shape or form, you are
projecting onto it and there's practically zero difference of being on the plane this way than it would with a full-soul projection, it's the same concept and essentially the same thing, just not as powerful. So if you're 'dreaming' of actually looking at your physical body sleeping in bed for example, you're
actually looking at your physical body sleeping on the physical realm.
Granted the subconscious and mind can conjure up random things at any given moment, so you need to learn what's actually happening on the physical vs what you're mind is making you 'think'/'see' is happening.
4. I've NEVER astral projected in any, way, shape, or form consciously awake. But can astral projection be done fully conscious both the projection of leaving with the vehicle(body) and also being conscious in the astral/etheric realms?
First of all what you're describing below this question was 100% projecting onto the astral, that is precisely what you're describing and that is precisely what you did and experienced. They can happen in the strangest and most sudden/bizarre of ways, but you
are on the astral as you are aware and perceiving outside and beyond your physical body. The astral is the
thought plane, your physical brain
cannot conjure these kinds of visuals and images, it's
all on the astral.
As for your question, yes you can fully astral project while conscious. This takes training and practice to fully disassociate and disconnect your soul from your physical body. Additionally you can also practice and train to induce a lucid dream on the spot. I've never done a full-soul astral projection while awake, though I've gotten close, but I
have once willed myself directly into a lucid dream.
It takes a lot of focus, a lot of vivid sensual perception and the most important part is entering into a deep,
deep trance to completely disassociate from your physical body in order to switch your conscious perception from physical to primarily/strictly astral.
5. Is there a difference between ASTRAL and ETHERIC? I've read of people saying etheric projection and astral projection differences.
I've never heard of this "Etheric" before, it sounds like a bunch of nonsense. I'm also not sure what you're talking about or mean by physical realm buffer zones. You're going to have to clarify this question further before I can come up with any kind of answer.
6. Since you mentioned physical science. Is there a specific reason why sleeping on my back causes me so much pain and is very annoying. Despite falling asleep on my back throughout time or wake up on my back. I notice when sleeping on my back dreams are sometimes uncommonly stronger and sometimes astral dreams.
Is there a specific reason why sleeping on your back or being on your back induces these effects?
I mention physical things in correlation to the astral, I'm more knowledgeable and specialized in astral science strictly and how energies and the realm works, so I can't really come up with a solid answer for this physical thing without making assumptions.
Perhaps the position of your body may be amplifying certain energy circulations in your soul. The last pose in hatha yoga is the corpse pose, this is done at the end of a session where you lie flat on your back and allow the energies to circulate through your body. Potentially you could be allowing more energy flow to your upper chakras.
The upper chakras rule over our astral perception, more power and health to them can make dreams far more vivid.
7. Talking about back is there a specific reason why I suffer so much from sleeping on my back it FEELS very boring and I get bored real badly almost struggling to try and fall asleep and even feel great discomfort from being on my back.
Then stop sleeping on your back. Unless there's some sort of specific reason you sleep in this position?
8. I've also noticed that when I put my body in an odd position I induce stronger dreams, lucid dreams, and even dream projections. For example I'm so obsessed with AP I would wake up in my dream climb out of bed in a hurried almost drugged like state and open the door of my room, walk out, go to the door of my front door house go outside and try and do something like fly or go to the moon or visit a neighbors house or do whatever it is. It's a dream and I call it a dream projection.
Again this
is astral projection, just probably not a full-soul projection where your soul leaves your body. On the astral/dream it would make no sense for you to see your body lying in bed for the most part because you perceive yourself as 'using' it.
The astral being the thought plane reflects our thoughts and expectations even if they are so far in the back of our mind, so if you look back at your bed expecting to not a find your body there because you're 'in it', then you're not going to see your body there.
I do have more questions but not sure how to formulate them. If you can post anything it would be great. I've been obsessed with Lucid dreaming and Astral projection since I got the internet and searched this stuff probably 1999-2000-2001 time period.
I feel like I'm missing out on all the fun people are having and interacting with entities and whatnot. I've read of incredible stories and whatnot. And I can't help but feel depressed and almost in a state of "Well if it never happened to me" then WTF is it real or fake.
You're going to find all of my answers quite funny then in that you've been entirely unaware that being on the astral is precisely what you've been doing this entire time.
As for your desire to interact with the gods and demons, the first step to being able to be open to such is to have an astral temple.
I never encounter or interact with demons when I'm projecting onto the astral unless I'm in my astral temple. This is where they come to see me or bring me to them. They only seem to come to me and such to just provide me general company and friendship, etc. Makes sense since I'm not yet very practiced and able to interpret any verbal guidance and such but they do still try to tell me their names. One wrote his name on my temple walls in a neat blazing fire display.
Try building an astral temple and creating a place where the gods can come and interact with you, this is a safe haven and you can create it to look and be however you like it. You can have a garden, an altar, a gallery, a (cough)combat room(cough), a pool, a watchtower, go wild. It can be a massive expansive castle, a palace, an underground utopia, a city in the sky, whatever you like. Just make sure that whatever it's built from is a strong material, my castle is stone on the outside for example but inside the bricks is pure diamond, one of the most hardest materials on Earth.
And don't be afraid to change or do 'renovations' on it, I had basically done an entire overhaul of my whole original temple a few weeks ago. I personally have a written document that describes it's layout, etc. This helps me to logically tweak things about it and such when I'm not projecting, perhaps you'd like to try this out if it appeals to you.
The more time you spend in the temple the more 'solidified' it's presence on the astral plane will be and the more stronger and accurate you'll be able to perceive it's rooms, details, etc. This temple will be a
very real place on the astral as you strengthen it's presence by visiting it and exploring it more and more, and as a very real place on the astral the gods can visit you here.
I believe it's generally just better to have a specific location like this for the gods to go to to interact with you as opposed to just butting in on your random astral experiences of which you're probably enjoying. This is likely why you're 'missing out on the encounters' as they're likely just letting you do your own thing, there's also the risk of you misinterpreting the encounter.
Our astral temples though are an open house and directly tie in with us being satanists as it's purposes correlate with this, what with being able to have satanic altars here, etc. It is our satanic 'home' where they can 'knock on the door' to come visit us persay, thus the gods and demons of Satan should be entirely welcomed in at any given moment if they're seeking to interact with you for whatever reason. I would never knowingly deny or cast out one of the gods or demons from entering my temple.
I advise building a defense system for your temple that will attack and thwart off enemy intruders. As an example I have massive marble phoenix statues that I've programmed as servitors to react and come to life in violent blue flames if they detect the presence of an enemy in or around my temple, to which they will then attack without mercy. This is just an example though, you can do whatever you want. Could be turrets, guardsmen, an alarm system, whatever.
And again on the subject of encounters and interactions, don't expect the gods to suddenly come flooding into your temple to say "hi", they seem to visit for good reasons, not just because you want to have a 'cool interaction with an all-mighty god'. My encounters with them are usually sudden and unexpected and I never ask or hope for them. Every time a demon comes to see me they appear somewhere behind me or out of sight and I'll actually 'physically' feel them tap on my back or shoulders to get my attention, to which I'll turn around and see them in all their full (and handsome) glory. This is just how they do it for me though.
I hope this post answers most of your questions.
