A bit of biographical information to get started.
My interest in Astral Projection began around the age of 18; one day, after my college classes, I was taking a nap in my bedroom and happily dreaming. All of the sudden, a loud sound awoke me, however I was not actually awake, but was sent into what is referred to as a “lucid dream.” For those who don’t know, this basically means that you are able to control your thoughts and actions within the dream, but can’t necessarily control your environment or what happens to you. At the time, this had never happened to me before that I can ever remember.
In the dream, I was either near or inside of a house - it’s been several years now and I honestly can’t remember all of the details. Once I became lucid within the dream, I was quite frightened since I wasn’t sure what was happening to me at the time. I began to panic a bit, trying my best to wake up, but it just wouldn’t seem to happen. I remember thinking that perhaps I was in a coma, but kept trying to wake up anyway. After what felt like several minutes, I felt myself slam back into my bed - quite literally, when I actually awoke, it felt like the wind had been knocked out of me. I got up and looked out the window and saw that what had awakened me was the UPS man bringing a package to the door. He was pulling out of my driveway by this time, so I gather that what had felt like a decent length of time was actually only several minutes.
I had already heard of Astral Projection and lucid dreaming, but was always extremely skeptical of it. Once this happened, I started to think maybe, just maybe, all these people posting their experiences online and elsewhere may not be crazy after all. It was at this point that I first started reading about, and attempting to Astral Project. I bought ear plugs and a sleep mask to help my attempts, but what I wasn’t prepared to do was put in the practice necessary for many people to achieve such a thing. After a couple weeks, I began to lose interest…
Fast forward to around 2 years later, I was still in college and had recently moved out with my girlfriend. One day I remembered my experience with lucid dreaming and told her about it. She seemed somewhat curious, so I proceeded to explain to her what Astral Projection was and luckily, she didn’t think I was completely crazy, and actually agreed to give it a try as well. This resulted in my first book purchase - Robert Bruce’s “Mastering Astral Projection.” We both gave it a try, but only for about a week before classes and work took our attention away from it.
It has now been another year since my last experience with attempting Astral Projection. My girlfriend and I have moved again but only a small distance from our previous apartment. My interest has now been renewed because I am attempting to write a fiction novel that puts the idea of Astral Projection to use. I got back on a few of the old websites I used to go to in order to do some research on the subject for the book. Soon enough, I recalled my lucid dream from several years prior and decided that if I was going to write about this subject, even fictionally, it should be something I put forth a serious effort towards in order to achieve. I have now been researching different methods of Astral Projection and have come upon one particular Astral enthusiast whose writings touched me in a way I never thought possible by an unknown man on an internet forum - Frank Kepple. The forum is www.astralpulse.com and Frank was once an extremely active member there, though he disappeared around 2005 to the dismay of many. After reading through much of his work, I feel that I now have the drive, tools, and support (via the forums) to give Astral Projection the time and practice it requires.
