My first astral journey

At the age of 15, I became allergic to a tree called the birch. Inevitably, at a time when I was disgusted with work, my family rightly laughed at me.

It's all very well to make fun of me, except that I'm struggling to breathe and they don't immediately understand what's happening to me. It will take almost six years to diagnose these allergies.

With these allergies comes something unlikely and quite incredible. When I'm dreaming, I realize that I'm breathing normally in my dreams. I begin to realize that I'm dreaming without waking up, and I start to play with my dreams.

At first, I start by making people or situations appear that I'd like to experience. Then I try things like making particular objects appear, swords of all shapes, vehicles. I also make the landscape change, and what if I tried to fly?

Incredibly, I can actually do what I want. However, as soon as my emotions get a little too strong, a little too enthusiastic, or a little too scared, the dream stops.

When I was 19, I lived in Canada, and at a fireside party in Toronto, we shared experiences that were a little out of the ordinary. There's talk of ghosts, of apparitions in houses, supposedly because of African masks. Then we start talking about dreams, and I share my experiences. One of my companions explains that what I was doing had a name: lucid dreaming. He tells me that he's had plenty of them, and we share our respective experiences. Finally, he tells me he's taken the concept a step further.

He shares something very strange with me, explaining that he can consciously leave his body and travel wherever he wants. I ask him how it all began. And here's his story:

Many times, when he wakes up, he realizes that he's not completely in his body. And he sees himself above his body, so he has to re-enter his body before waking up. This happens to him several times, and he ends up researching the phenomenon. He discovers a forum with other people reporting exactly what he's experiencing.

He then became interested in other people's stories, and discovered the concept of astral travel. Astral travel is the concept of going out with a kind of ghost body and wandering around in the dream world, where in addition to doing incredible things, you can also feel things like the wind on your skin, the sun on your body and so many other things.

But it seems to go even further. In it, he discovers a story he told me almost 15 years ago, a story that potentially I'll never forget because it changed my life so much.

On this forum, I once discovered a post, which I never read, but which resembles the following (the details are not exact):

"Last night, on an astral journey, I went opposite Big Ben, and sat on a bench on the bridge opposite. Next to me, I met a person with whom we had a long chat. He told me all about his life, his love story and his passions.

We talked about the places we'd visited on our astral journey, and the different experiences we'd had.

We were discussing a philosophical subject, and we talked about a friend of his who had been to Mars and discovered something incredible.

If that person is ever on this forum, and finds this message.

I'd like him to tell me this friend's first name, and what he discovered on Mars.

Several weeks go by, and nothing... Until that day, when another person shows up on the forum and replies to him with exactly that person's first name, the thing he discovered on Mars, and lots of other details about the things they've exchanged."

I inevitably have 1001 questions, but what I'm really trying to understand is how to do this experiment, which sounds incredible.

He explains to me the protocol he uses in the evening to be able to do this. It mainly consists of writing the wish to astral travel several times in a notebook.

Our evening around the fire is drawing to a close, but this discussion has fascinated me and all I want to do is give it a try.

I went home, living in Montreal at the time, and tried out his protocol. I write down several times in a notebook "I want to do an astral projection", then I fall asleep with "astral projection" in my head, repeating it over and over. And this goes on for LOOOONNNGTEEEMMPPSS, until someone/something throws my teddy bear at my face. I then grab it with my hands, only to discover that my hands don't really look like my hands, as if they weren't in focus, but more importantly, I can feel my physical hands resting on the bed. Yet I have my teddy bear in my hands, which I can feel perfectly.

When I realize that something incredible has just happened, I get the fright of my life, and wake up with a start, collapsing in tears. What's happened? What kind of delirium is this?

And I'm looking to re-experience what just happened, I'd started meditation a few years earlier, because it was what helped me most with my insomnia.

But from that night on, all my meditations had only one aim: to re-experience what had happened. Unfortunately, it wouldn't happen again soon. I continued to dream normally, but it was impossible to relive what had happened that night.

But I never gave up on the idea of reliving the experience, and for years I continued to try every night to relive it. I had studied at length how to make this experience, tested all the meditations on Youtube, all the binaural beats, and so many other things, all the ways to make this astral journey. Impossible! Until one day, almost five years later, I'm in Germany and I step out of my body for the first time. But I'm not going to tell you about it with my memories of today. Instead, the me of 2015 will tell it to you as I wrote it to my friend who first told me about it:

Hi XX, I'm writing to you because I've just come out of my first astral projection and it was a sick experience.

I had too much trouble flying the first time and I crashed, it was fun.

I became aware of the thing in a dream, and like I challenged a monster, and when it didn't appear when it should have I knew I was dreaming, then there was a storm, and I told myself I had to go back into my body. Once in my body, I did a real astral exit and saw what it was like to feel paralyzed. I knew I could get out, but as I felt that I was going back and forth without completely succeeding, I asked for help.

And so I went to talk to a black man who was a god, and he granted me a wish and from there I asked him to be able to astral project me. And then, bim, my body really began to float above me as I slept.

and I tried to fly but crashed into the sofa next to it

when I managed to fly a little I picked up my little sister who was just upstairs. (even though she's in France)

When we went out of my house through the wall it was so funny and then I went back into the houses ahah

Then I took her to a tower and we went for a walk. I asked her if she realized what was happening, if she saw the shiny blue rope that followed us, and I explained to her that that's how she could get her body back.

And she told me she realized she was sleeping

Looking for somewhere to go, I lost it.

And I woke up because it disturbed me

Sorry for the story

But it was such a sick trick, and no one can understand it except you, and I had to share it after all those unsuccessful attempts.

Anyway, I'm going back to bed

Kisses

I also propose his answer:

It's your thoughts that help steer you, if you think you're flying, you're flying, if you think you're crashing, you're crashing.

Things like this are happening to me more and more often.

I also studied the subject of channelling, to enter into communication with non-physical entities. It worked, but I thought the thing had a strange voice, so I asked it to leave.

And several times I had feelings of Paradise, a sort of heavenly version of my home.

I'm in my "paradise" house, I feel great, my body is light, the sun is actually god. To be under this sun is to take a bath in positive energy. Anyway, when I'm there, I just have time to tell "the people" that I wish I could stay with them longer. I've done it 2 or 3 times recently.

Where you end up depends on your own vibration, which varies during your sleep, and which you can vary yourself. For example, you can train yourself to feel certain beautiful vibrations before going to sleep, like trying to feel love, peace, joy, etc... This helps to raise your own vibration, and to find yourself mechanically in better places! Similarly, by avoiding dwelling on bad emotions, you improve your vibration, and encounter fewer of them, in dreams/projections as in life. -- I think I have a better understanding of what emotions/feelings are. I try to explain: You are angry, what you feel is not pleasant. You're jealous, what you feel is not pleasant. You're in love, what you feel is pleasant. Why is this? It's a spiritual guidance system. If it's unpleasant, it's precisely so that you don't do it! An unpleasant emotion or feeling is your higher self, which means you're not a robot, sending you a message. "Are you feeling hate? You're going to attract more hate, stop it". Similarly, positive emotions are signs that you're on the right track. Your higher self (which may be the same thing as God) loves Peace, Love, Joy, etc., which is why feeling them feels good. -- The astral is the most WTF place, things don't really make sense. Over time I get to more stable places, with people who seem to have logical conversations. A few months ago, I realized I was in a city I didn't recognize. Then a lady in her forties and her two daughters see me, and they all hug me, telling me how much they've missed me, how long it's been since I left. So I play along, pretending to remember them because I don't want to offend them! Then I explain to them that I'm still on Earth, that I'm not dead, and that I'll be going back at any moment, that I've got another 60 years or so to go ^^ I've been trying several times to explain to people I meet that I'm not dead, that I've got a body on Earth too, but I don't get the impression that they understand me.

I'm not ignoring you, I'm meditating on what you've written.

It's really amazing

Wouldn't you like to do some research?

What do you mean by research?

A doctorate in metaphysics?

The discussion ends here. And so does this blog. I'll leave you to ponder. See you in the next one!

If this blog has inspired you to experiment with astral travel, I'm going to ask you to restrain your thoughts until you've read about the risks involved, ways to protect yourself, and solutions should anything happen to you during this experience. I'll be writing a blog on the subject a little later, where you'll find a link directly here. But if you're in between writing this blog and the one on best practices, I wholeheartedly urge you to read up on the subject first.

Thank you for taking the time to read me, I look forward to seeing you in the next blog.