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Originally Posted by dreamercan
Every night I set out an intention to astral travel at night.But I always fail to do so.I have no fear in astral travel,So I am wondering what is holding me back.
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It's important to get into the frame of mind that you can. Have you tried different times? Early evening? Mid morning? When you first wake up? (Many lucid dreamers seem to "get into it" just after they wake up if they do so on a non-lucid dream.)
But I get the impression that dreaming is as good as astral travel but the you of your inner worlds is driving not your wakeful consciousness which is what you're trying to get onto the astral. Do you ever daydream intensely? If yes and if you dream you can do it.
I also get the impression that people/teachers make too big a deal of the techniques for lifting off. Among friends who've tried this there's a growing opinion that the techniques themselves make people self-conscious and actually hold some travellers back.
So forget going to bed with
the intention. Just go to bed, practice very deep relaxation as if you want to get into a trance. Next time you wake up with a dream where you were particularly active note a couple of details down...anything so you can remember some act you were up to. [It's good to have a little notebook by your bed - you might discover something on the astral that needs noting down.) So when you're practicing relaxation try to recall this bit of that dream. Your hands and feet were independent of your physical limbs while you dreamed... so you can lift yourself back into that scene to get the feel of your limbs being independent again.
That's how I first started... In a dream I was trying to climb over a fence.... While relaxing I visualised my hands entirely free of my physical ones.
Too much is made of what you should do and feel, the moment you get onto the astral. Just act as you feel fit.
Expect some trouble when you first get going. You can "shock" yourself out of lift-off. That just has to be borne until you learn not to. But anyway, frustration is the worst enemy of getting onto the astral. Some people are gifted enough to get into it easily. Others take maybe years...
Good luck.
As an aside, I made a particular "study" of the transition from wakefulness to sleep, being an insomniac and it's pretty interesting what you can do and learn in those moments,
One particular thing was I'd suddenly find myself falling off something impossibly high. It would bring me back to full wakefulness on the instant. So before closing my eyes of a night I started telling myself "This is stupid! I can
fly off..." And I learned to. Sort of quasi-lucid...
Anyway, that's a different story....
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