Ninelives!  Oh my gosh!  Our experiences are very similar.  I have the space feeling also, but in a slightly different way.  But would get the same space type of feeling of things being totally infinite.  Man, am I glad I found this forum.  :D

"Ive started to lose control of my Astral Projection. Everything goes as it always has except now as I am ascending I get stuck in a dark place full of shadow people, mists, and all sorts of unknown undescribable "figures"

They are all rather un-pleasant. They beckon at me and try to "overcome" me"

Same thing!  Oh my goodness am I glad I joined this forum,  This exactly where my experiences ended.  I'd have no control.  Not even in going into it.  I would always be floating in a paralyzed state with an entity sitting on my chest trying to go down into me.  They started with me floating paralyzed and feeling like someone was in the room with me and each time this entity would get a little closer until it would be sitting on my chest staring at me.  Then it...(continued)

thanks ill let you know what happens really appreciate the support

I just woke up with strange similar thing. Its 3:20 AM here.

At 12 Midnight, I got the vibrations automatically. I haven't tried any techniques today, coz I was so exhausted and wanted to sleep a lot. But I had a lucid dream and got into vibrations. I thought, I can exit like just I wake up usually. But I couldn't wake up like that. Someone was trying to keep me intact with my physical body. I suddenly woke and I saw my brother's hand was on me. So I took his hand from me. I just closed my eyes and I got into vibration suddenly. I tried the same thing again for the exit. But even after taking my brother's hand, he was pulling me back into my body. I tried to struggle out, but he shouted 'DON'T GOOOOO, STAY'. So I thought something should be there and ended up my Trance.

So there started, because of my brother's...(continued)

Your grandmother is privileged to have had this experience, Charles.

Yup. That's right. When you ask you will get some answer :)

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Hi Disciple,

I apologize for the negligence happened, I read your experience. You are really near(Very near). Everyone fails at this part(exit part) and forget Astral Projection and some other will break their trance by moving physically instead of moving astral body, You have mentioned that you tried AP from Lucid Dream. If you are in lucid dream, don't ever get back to your body and try to project. Its pretty difficult one. So when you are in Lucid dream you can right away get into the places you want. Just close your eyes and think of the real places. You won't get back to the body and you will be directly get into the astral world from lucid dreaming. here you don't need to struggle separating your astral body from physical body(the difficult part).

So by mastering the Lucid dream will help you a lot. Lucid dream is a tool used to...(continued)

Hi Aries,
    I'm afraid that telling your email address in the astral realm is sometimes works and sometime doesn't, But the success rate is very very low.
If you are in twitter, just send him a personal message. That will work sometimes. I know when it comes to love, everything gets complicated. even the simple thing gets complicated due to tension ;)

Hope this helps :)

Cats are excellent astral projectors! No doubt your cat was aware of what was happening to you and itself jumped astrally off your bed. I use the term "astral" in its broadest sense, as what happened sounds more like an OBE within the RTZ (Real Time Zone).

The astral body can be changed at will, so perhaps your cat had some reason to change its colour; what that reason might have been, it's difficult to say. You will have to ask your cat that telepathically!

When you returned rapidly to the physical, the cat did the same. Hence its colour was as it always has been in the physical: black!

Hope that the above helps.