Despite it being something that we all do every day, sleep has always mystified and fascinated us. It’s essential for our physical, mental, and emotional health, and it’s how we recharge and get ready for a new day.
However, many people believe sleep holds deeper secrets and is a gateway through which we can access higher states of consciousness. For the intrepid sleep explorer, astral projection and lucid dreaming are the keys to unlocking the true power of the sleeping mind. Let’s find out more.
What is Astral Projection?
Astral projection is defined as an out-of-body experience. This can simply be being able to look down at your own body or entering a new body entirely and experiencing life through a brand-new perspective. According to first-hand accounts, astral projection can be achieved through sleeping or through focused meditation.
Is astral projection real? This is a question that has plagued scientists for centuries. In principle, astral projection relies on the existence of both a physical body and a non-physical body, a spiritual body, if you will. The existence of these two separate entities is difficult for science to confirm or deny, which is why astral projection has yet to be disproven.
What is Lucid Dreaming?
Our dreams can be scary, funny, sad or outright bizarre. What they all have in common is that we are not in control. We simply have to deal with whatever our imagination throws at us. However, what if we told you there was a way to control your dreams and shape them as you see fit?
We’re talking about lucid dreaming. Rather than being a passive bystander, you are instead the director of your dreams, able to control everything within your dream world. This sounds like something from a science-fiction film, but it’s very real. Some people have lucid dreams randomly, while others have trained themselves to have them at will. It’s more common than you might think, with studies revealing that 55% of people have had a lucid dream.
How to Lucid Dream and Astral Project
If you want to start lucid dreaming, the first thing you’re going to need to do is to keep a dream diary. Write down your dreams as soon as you wake up. Doing this will help you start to recognize patterns, and you’ll soon be able to tell when you’re dreaming. Once you recognize that you’re dreaming, you’ll be able to take control of the dream world.
Astral projection is trickier to get right. Rather than sleeping, it can be better to meditate and enter a state of total relaxation and calm. From there, you can focus on visualizing the room and yourself in it, which should help you achieve a state of astral projection.
Conclusion
Lucid dreaming, in addition to astral projection, has both been deeply studied and pondered over for centuries. We still understand very little about them, and they have long fascinated us and are a true testament to how many mysteries the act of sleeping still holds.
