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lucid dreaming vs. astral projection?
#11293194 - 10/21/09 04:07 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I been doing a lot of research here on the shroomery and other online resources but am still unclear on the difference between the two are. It seems that lucid dreaming deals with the subconscious while astral projection and the astral plane is more of a universal conciseness deal. Could someone please help me clear this up?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: donteatasians]
#11293561 - 10/21/09 05:01 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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lucid dreams happen when one is asleep, either within a dream where lucidity is reached or lucidly entering a dream (via the WILD method)
astral projection / OOBE's on the other hand happen from a waking state, and sometimes spontaneously. as for the validity of an objective astral plane, that's up to debate.
another difference is that with lucid dreams one usually feels like they're 'inside themselves' and have moderate to high control over the experience, whereas with OOBE's one feels like they've entered an external place and usually have limited control over the experience.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: deff]
#11293714 - 10/21/09 05:25 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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thankyou, and WILD stands for will and intent lucid dreaming right?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: donteatasians]
#11293771 - 10/21/09 05:32 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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wake-induced lucid dreaming
its when one stays conscious as they fall asleep and enter into a dream knowingly. usually this is best accomplished after sleeping for 4-6hrs, waking up, then attempting the WILD while going back to bed (as this allows one to enter directly into REM sleep).
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: deff]
#11295002 - 10/21/09 08:10 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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l projection / OOBE's on the other hand happen from a waking state, and sometimes spontaneously.
this isnt necessarily true.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: jivJaN]
#11295028 - 10/21/09 08:13 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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true, I should have put usually
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: deff]
#11295125 - 10/21/09 08:26 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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can you and do you project often ?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: jivJaN]
#11295210 - 10/21/09 08:35 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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nope, never projected... just lucid dreamed
been reading up on it recently though
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: deff]
#11297811 - 10/22/09 06:06 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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hehe
thats the thing... you think you haven't
ever had a 'lucid' dream where you're exactly in the same room as you were while awake ?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: jivJaN]
#11305807 - 10/23/09 12:14 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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jivJaN said: ever had a 'lucid' dream where you're exactly in the same room as you were while awake ?
Or a place you know in waking, but it looks a little different?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: jivJaN]
#11306032 - 10/23/09 12:58 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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There's also the idea of the "mind split" which Robert Bruce talks about in "Astral Dynamics" which his explanation of autonomous functioning of the physical vessel as well as the projected double. He believes that both record information, but only under certain circumstances does your projected double download it's experience directly into your physical body's mind, therefore your projected double can be out and about without "your" knowledge. I don't think he implies that you could be projecting all the time, just that as your going to sleep or deeply resting, basically when you get in the mind awake/body asleep phase, you are susceptible to projection and may have done so without your direct knowledge.
As far as the difference between lucids and projections, nobody really has a definitive answer, but it does seem as if lucids are more isolated and projections a bit more objective. I've heard someone say that a lucid dream is a projection in your private space, the other is a projection in public space. I think the thing that allows for that distinction is that projectors have noticed over time that there is a structure to the astral plane that never changes. You can actually go from one level of the astral to another, where if you tried something like that in a lucid dream nothing would happen or at best you would create what your looking for in the usual way that dreamspace is malleable.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: fazdazzle]
#11307261 - 10/23/09 04:19 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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(from experience)
this is the easiest way I can explain it:
It's like a deliriant trip (if you've ever taken datura or benadryl/dramamine)
Dreams are OBEs on deliriants. in a dream you are out of body already, floating above your physical body. execpt you're in a delirious state where everything is manifest of your subconscious (i.e. hallucination)
when you're able to realize in a dream that everything you're seeing is a hallucination, you'll "snap back into reality", or in this case: "out of body".
from then on, whether it's a lucid dream or astral projection is all dependent on perception.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: fazdazzle]
#11308072 - 10/23/09 06:51 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i like that you mentioned that book..
i seem to have been accessing the real-time zone he mentions for years now.. and the whole time , i as well, thought that i have never projected consciously.. i would do what i use to call jumping into a dream and end up in the same area i was in before it , completely unaware of the fact that i have projected... so i would just keep sitting there , or laying there trying kinda funny.. but nehow.. on a number of occasions i have retrieved information from the real-time zone that was verified when i woke up
cool shit... also.. if you're lucid.. you can project easily from there..
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: jivJaN]
#11308194 - 10/23/09 07:15 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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the two times I astral projected, the first one started as a lucid dream and then I went through the clouds past a black wall and popped into a more "real" space, second time I was having sleep paralysis and just went with it
an easy distinction to make is that in a dream you have a dream body while in astral projection you are just a single point of observation. also the astral world always felt more "sketchy" to me than a dream - dreams for me are usually fluffy and oceanic, they feel safe - in the astral it feels like you could run into some serious shit
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EternalCowabunga said: - in the astral it feels like you could run into some serious shit
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: donteatasians]
#11310812 - 10/24/09 09:41 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lucid dreaming is more of an experience for yourself, a dream in which you're usually able to control your actions or the dream itself.
Astral projection is traveling to one of the astral realms or in your astral body in the physical realm. There's many, many theories and practices concerning both so I could be misinterpreting something, but I think that's a difference between the two.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: Mycomyth]
#11311029 - 10/24/09 10:36 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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EternalCowabunga said: - in the astral it feels like you could run into some serious shit
Being forced to confront your fears is some serious shit.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#11328265 - 10/26/09 10:20 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Why does astral projection sound like meditation to me?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: Cyanicist]
#11328634 - 10/26/09 11:16 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't know but I wouldn't say they are a like unless you have out of body experiences when you meditate
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EternalCowabunga said: I don't know but I wouldn't say they are a like unless you have out of body experiences when you meditate
Well a lot of times when I hear about people describing meditation, it's more like total relaxation than anything. And that, to me, is like the first level of meditation - preparation for it. When I slip into meditation, I'm entirely aware of the energy in my body, my breathing, my focus.... I begin to see a warping mandala-like thing in my vision... most of the time I just watch it and hold the meditative feeling there. Other times, I get so far into it that I no longer have to hold onto anything, but rather just "let go" entirely and sure enough, there's the blinding white light and total bliss.
But through most of this, I become less and less aware of my body... And sometimes, I lose the feeling of it altogether. Also, before any of the "white light" it feels as though I'm in some other realm, and that there are many more of these realms. I guess I can further the conversation by asking: How does one Astral Project exactly?
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: Cyanicist]
#11328821 - 10/26/09 11:52 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Our meditation experiences differ.. I've never gotten a white light before or a warping mandala thing. I can relate to the bliss and relaxation.
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How does one Astral Project exactly?
I described two ways of astral projecting a few posts up, although these aren't the methods that are normally used. Robert Monroe invented a technique that is probably the most common way of astral projecting. Here is a video which outlines this technique:
The way I did it was through breaking through a seemingly electromagnetic field in a lucid dream, a big black field that I fell into after going as high as I could into the sky. The field had some interesting patterns in it, like two dragons facing each other.
The other way was through sleep paralysis.. if you've ever had this, you know the feeling of being paralyzed and feeling electric waves coursing through your body (the electric waves is not as common of an experience as the paralyzing itself). You sort of just "go" with the electric feeling and a buzzing in your head gets louder and louder and you imagine yourself lifting out of your body and then it just happens like *snap* you're floating in your room.
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EternalCowabunga said: Our meditation experiences differ.. I've never gotten a white light before or a warping mandala thing. I can relate to the bliss and relaxation.
Well when I was a kid, I used to put my hands over my eyes and just look at what seemed like little dots of light and shapes/patterns, all coming towards me and coming from a central point. That point, what I assume is the third eye, is where this (what I've recently decided is a "mandala") changes/warps from. Like my entire field of vision is a mandala, with my third eye being the central point. I can usually see it almost immediately after closing my eyes, I just have to focus a bit.
I was familiar with the descriptions in that vid all the way up until Condition D. Almost everything described before that point fits in my experience with meditation. It said how, in one of the points, you're like on the borderline of sleep or something. This is where it kinda changes for me. When I start to slip further into meditation, I become more consciously aware instead of in some almost-asleep trance. Then I slip more and more and more until (if I get lucky) the blinding white light. Maybe this is the crown chakra?
Whatever it is, it seems the road to get to both of these experiences are similar up until a certain point.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: Cyanicist]
#11329245 - 10/27/09 01:08 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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re: difference between lucid dream and astral projection
you should consider it all as layers SPACE which we have access to through awareness
the lowest level of this space is a non-lucid dream
the next level is lucid dreams
the next level, which connects to the greater network, is astral projection
Then there are also out of body experiences, which is a lucid non-dream.. you go out of body in the window of time when your body is transitioning from waking to sleeping
The way I get to the astral plan is, whenever I am having out of body experience or a lucid dream, I just ask out loud if somebody can take me to the astral, and then I am taken there instantly. Course we don't need anyone to escort us, but for me it is a crutch I hold onto because I like the idea of being protected/ 'hand held' by guides.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: percy]
#11329531 - 10/27/09 02:24 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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percy said: Course we don't need anyone to escort us, but for me it is a crutch I hold onto because I like the idea of being protected/ 'hand held' by guides.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: Cyanicist]
#11335234 - 10/27/09 10:11 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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In my experience the difference between lucid dreaming and astral projection or out of body experiences is that when i dream i am in a completely made up habitat. Things are quirky the sky is purple or some stupid shit like that. But with astral projection its almost as if you get pulled out of your body and you are in the exact same room you're physical body is resting. I've gotten into deep levels of meditation and i understand your mandala thing, i believe its just how we choose to acknowledge that energy from that chakra, and everyone has unique little things like that. But while meditating i've had pretty much the exact same experiences you have had. I've heard beautiful music ,obviously coming from me, but i was not consciously thinking of it. But eventually i got to a point where my spine started tingling. Almost how it feels when your arm falls asleep but on my spine. And this went on for a few minutes until it got to the point in which it was uncomfortable. It started getting pretty intense and then i got pulled out of my body. It literally felt like someone had grabbed my shoulders and pulled me off my bed.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: mycould]
#11335813 - 10/27/09 11:45 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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mycould said: In my experience the difference between lucid dreaming and astral projection or out of body experiences is that when i dream i am in a completely made up habitat. Things are quirky the sky is purple or some stupid shit like that. But with astral projection its almost as if you get pulled out of your body and you are in the exact same room you're physical body is resting. I've gotten into deep levels of meditation and i understand your mandala thing, i believe its just how we choose to acknowledge that energy from that chakra, and everyone has unique little things like that. But while meditating i've had pretty much the exact same experiences you have had. I've heard beautiful music ,obviously coming from me, but i was not consciously thinking of it. But eventually i got to a point where my spine started tingling. Almost how it feels when your arm falls asleep but on my spine. And this went on for a few minutes until it got to the point in which it was uncomfortable. It started getting pretty intense and then i got pulled out of my body. It literally felt like someone had grabbed my shoulders and pulled me off my bed.
Wow. I really gotta try the astral projection thing. It just seems like it'd be hard to get the feel for if you've never done it before.
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Re: lucid dreaming vs. astral projection? [Re: Cyanicist]
#11343295 - 10/29/09 01:49 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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yeah theres not much of a how to. you seem to have the meditation part down its more of a matter of letting yourself do it. its weird for sure.
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