ForumforAstral
I'm 18 years old and new to the world of astral projection and lucid dreaming. More specifically I just started my research about a week ago. Some of my friends from a different state were in and they brought it up and we all started telling our "weird dreaming experiences". After telling my story my friends were completely adamant that I've been astral projecting almost my whole life. And to be honest it all had me very freaked out. Here's my story and if anyone can help me make sense of what's happening and if I really am lucid dreaming or astral projecting I would appreciate it so much.
The earliest memory I have of my odd dreaming experiences is when I was around office years old. I was asleep in the bed with my parents and something abruptly woke me up. I could hear whispers all around me, sounded like four or five people talking about it being someone's birthday. I was so freaked out that I couldn't move. Then it's like I sensed something was in the connecting bathroom. The door was completely closed and nobody was in the closet. I felt a pull in my body and I sat up in bed. I saw the door to the bathroom open and close a little. I tried leaning forward to see what had entered the room but my body once again wouldn't move. I saw something, and honestly I can't describe it, move along the bottom of the bed to the opposite side if the room. I tried once again leaning over and my mother told me to go back to sleep. I saw something that looked like a knife, it's blade was the shape of a candle flame, it cut a hole in one of my mothers pairs of sweat pants. I was overcome with such a feeling of terror I threw up without warning. My parents told me I was just having a nightmare. But I've always though it was something more.
Also my whole life I've had dreams where I'll be asleep, and I know I'm asleep, but I'm completely aware of everything happening in the room with me. I can't open my eyes and see it, but I can hear and sense everything.
But the thing that had me most intrigued are the dreams I've always written off as weird. In my dreams I'll go places, not earthly places. I don't know exactly where I am but I know I'm no longer with my body. In these dreams I always have a job to do. I always have to find someone and bring them back with me or tell them something. And every time I do find them and I do my job, but here's the weird part. I know I'm no longer in my body, and that I'm somewhere I've never been before but in my dreams I can't open my eyes enough to see past my eyelashes. It's like I'm guided by something else, even though the entire dream I'll fight to open my eyes. I'm just freaked out by all of it. An I actually lucid dreaming or astral projecting, and do I need to be afraid?
