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Astral projection and lucid dreaming

I recently completed an online course focused on astral projection facilitated by Robert Bruce and Bob & Marina Felix. While I didn’t succeed in a fully conscious out-of-body experience, I did have some amazing lucid dreams.

For example, in one, I was having a lucid dream about being out of body, flying around, seeing another flying person, etc. On the way back to my body, I hit my head on the light above my bed and chuckled, as it was warned this could happen. I found myself back in my body and wanted to get back out, so I did the rolling out technique, but instead of rolling out energetically, I rolled out physically and landed on the floor next to my bed. This woke up my husband and we laughed about it, he wanted to know about my dream experience, but I wanted to write it down before I forgot everything. So when I finished writing, I had a conversation with him about my out-of-body dream. Much to my surprise, I then woke up AGAIN and realized that falling out of bed, recording the dream and subsequent conversation never took place.

After reporting this occurrence on the online student forum, I was instructed to remember while dreaming to stay focused on what was happening in the dream instead of thinking, “wow, I’m dreaming so my physical body must be back in bed.” In my case, I was put right back in bed and my subconscious invented a waking experience. So clearly I have more work to do in attaining a sustained, conscious astral projection, but the class provided an excellent foundation for doing just that with continued practice.

While taking the course, I was reminded of a book written by Bruce called Energy Work: The Secret of Healing and Spiritual Development, which includes a good number of personal exercises also taught in the online class. It is an excellent companion to many types of energy work and remains a frequent reference as I am exposed to other modalities.