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Can anyone recommend good books or resources on astral travel? I've never formally pursued it, but it keeps happening by accident so I think I should study it a little.
For as long as I can remember, when I'm just in the right spot between asleep and awake, my spirit (I guess) takes little walks around my apartment. I can feel the tether to my body, and I'm sometimes semi-aware of the feeling of my body back in bed, but I usually walk around my apartment until I realize I'm out of my body and then it's like I get pulled back into my body and I wake up.
Last night though, for some reason I took several small trips to places that were not my apartment. Some of it I don't remember as well, but I do remember vividly feeling myself entering a sort of trance state, my breathing slowed way down, my body got really heavy, and then I just sort of peeled away or rolled over or turned around. This was a very specific feeling, peeling away or rolling away are the only words I can think of to describe the sensation but it was the same every time. One of the times I remember, I saw this large jar. I walked towards it, knowing my body was in bed, and found myself in a sort of middle eastern bazaar. It was in a sort of cave or valley, with rugs on the floor and people. I walked over to the jar and touched it. Everything was much more vivid than a dream, or even the shamanic journeying I sometimes practice. I saw, heard, felt. It was like I was actually there. Then I became aware that my body had to use the bathroom and I felt myself pulled back. I got up, went to the bathroom, and tried to return to travelling afterwards but couldn't hit that spot of trance/almost asleep, and just fell asleep.
It was actually very enjoyable, there was this feeling of freedom, so I'd like to learn how to do it when I want to instead of waiting for it to happen by accident again.
For as long as I can remember, when I'm just in the right spot between asleep and awake, my spirit (I guess) takes little walks around my apartment. I can feel the tether to my body, and I'm sometimes semi-aware of the feeling of my body back in bed, but I usually walk around my apartment until I realize I'm out of my body and then it's like I get pulled back into my body and I wake up.
Last night though, for some reason I took several small trips to places that were not my apartment. Some of it I don't remember as well, but I do remember vividly feeling myself entering a sort of trance state, my breathing slowed way down, my body got really heavy, and then I just sort of peeled away or rolled over or turned around. This was a very specific feeling, peeling away or rolling away are the only words I can think of to describe the sensation but it was the same every time. One of the times I remember, I saw this large jar. I walked towards it, knowing my body was in bed, and found myself in a sort of middle eastern bazaar. It was in a sort of cave or valley, with rugs on the floor and people. I walked over to the jar and touched it. Everything was much more vivid than a dream, or even the shamanic journeying I sometimes practice. I saw, heard, felt. It was like I was actually there. Then I became aware that my body had to use the bathroom and I felt myself pulled back. I got up, went to the bathroom, and tried to return to travelling afterwards but couldn't hit that spot of trance/almost asleep, and just fell asleep.
It was actually very enjoyable, there was this feeling of freedom, so I'd like to learn how to do it when I want to instead of waiting for it to happen by accident again.
