finally, someone who might understand, but I wasn't seeking this out!
Normally I find a post with one or two issues and help them sort it... But here I think you might understand me and I hope I don't sound crazy.
(Now that I look back, this is more of my own reflection for me and understanding. Read if you like, it my help, but I was looking inwards when writing this. A lot of stuff surfaced. Don't read this at night or you might have bad dreams
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also, a lot of energy is weaved into these because of the memories. You may have these memories pop into your mind. Just remember that all they are
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I now understand why my aura vision won't turn on, and the moment you mentioned it I understood why I haven't been able to astral project.
If I projected my vision would turn on. Thus, the best projection I can make is shifting my consciousness around and mental projecting. I've always done a dual consciousness and tended to stay in my body.
Just thinking about the black dog makes the visions from childhood of creatures reaching around and grabbing my foot come back. The little girl that would stand at my door and stand there silently. The grays that would pin me down for my checkups. The dragons that were murdered in front of me when they were trying to protect me, even from when I was a baby. The projection of my parents walking back and forth in front of my room while I called out to them and they never answered or even looked. (One of my strongest memories from childhood)
I once asked for my vision to be turned on, just around a year ago. A man stood over me with a flame thrower and started blasting me with it. I hid under my blankets crying and screaming and the vision disappeared.
The sun God and the faces that would appear at night, and my sister's encounters that would leave me shaken up from just hearing about them. The camp power going out after seeing the girl with red eyes. The ghosts standing over me right now with their laughs and looks like if my guardian wasn't sitting next to me they'd be on top of me.
I was scared dead out of my abilities to see. And if I projected, I would see them again. So my body locks itself up when I'm conscious. I know how to protect myself, even spirits have lost their power to hurt me (literally, they swing an axe at me and I don't even put up a shield anymore, it just sails through me harmlessly) but when I see them for some reason I panic and hide and cry and run. I hug everybody and sprinkle them in light if I can only sense them them or see them with my third eye. It's weird. I can project myself and see spirits and do all of those things. Maybe I need to remember I can do all that stuff in the physical too...
If you need any help, anyhow, just shout!
Wow. I apologize for using this as a board to write on but I needed to understand that.
I am trying to develop my abilities and be able to project. I thought my sudden disinterest whenever Tori wanted me to learn to see auras and spirits was just out of laziness, and I thought I was doing something wrong when I would try to project my full consciousness outwards and it wouldn't leave at all. Partial was always fine, as I said, and with focus I can maintain it for quite some time.
Now I understand it runs far deeper than this. Thank you for inspiring this insight.