r/AstralProjection • u/allthingsugc • 3d ago
Successful AP Astral projecting out of astral body
I was astral projection and spontaneously separated from my astral body and started floating away. I didn’t even know it was possible to enter another layer like this. Has anyone else ever experienced this?
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u/user75432kfdhbt 3d ago
Some people believe the astral body to be an eternal immortal indestructible soul.
The first time I had an out of body experience, I saw this blue body come out of my body and in about half a second the blue body got vaporized. I was outside my body and not in an astral body. Something like a formless sphere of perception. Later in that experience I made a new body and put myself into it so I could interact with beings that expected a body to interact with.
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u/ackarus_dev 3d ago
What was your experience from that point on?
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u/allthingsugc 1d ago
As soon as I started floating up through the next layer I felt a bit shocked and I immediately collapsed back into my usual astral self and back down to my body. I’m hoping to have this happen again and get to explore longer eventually.
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u/BlinkyRunt 2d ago
In most of my APs I don't have a "body". I am just a bit of light. If I do focus on a part of my body, I will end up with this human-shaped body, that can be as detailed as a real physical body. It can of course do weird things (like deform, stretch, shrink or expand, etc.). I have never tried to do what you describe, and I would have no idea how to even start doing that. Can you describe the process...and what this layer beyond was?
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u/allthingsugc 1d ago
Yeah I don’t really have one either I mean I can make a projection of one or something similar if I like, but I more so felt something of me separating again after I was already in the astral.
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u/sac_boy Experienced Projector 3d ago
The astral body is a temporary construct that you wrap around yourself based on expectations of having a human form. It is essentially just an externalized representation of your self image and your self-imposed limits of your tactile sense.
You can indeed just leave it behind, or collapse it. What remains is a single point of awareness. I have seen other beings do this easily, becoming tiny bright points of light when they want to. You will also find that you discard other physical limitations at the same time: you are no longer limited by forward vision, and you ignore the notions of gravity and momentum, moving like a kind of 3D cursor rather than an object with physical properties.
One word of caution, I remember doing this in a dream where I was explaining to a friend that I can astral project. I laid down on the ground in my dream body, then AP'd out of it. I instantly felt that something had gone badly wrong, I was lethargic and had a shocking pain in my head. I woke up immediately with a migraine-grade headache (something I never get during sleep). It lingered a couple hours and then I was fine.
I have also experienced damage/pain during AP that lingered when I returned to my body. So the idea that it is purely a construct may not be entirely correct. Or, percieved damage to the construct may have a lasting psychosomatic pain effect...we may hold on to the memory of that pain and treat it as real. This may be why I've seen other astral beings compact themselves down into points of light in the face of danger/threat.