From ages 15 to 18, I used to astral project on average 3-4 times per week. I was a total master of the ability. It was second nature to me. As I grew older, I set aside my astral traveling as I got more focused on college, then marriage, family, and career. After projecting an estimated one thousand times in my youth, it was no longer a priority and it didn’t command my attention anymore. I’d still project upon occasion, but not more than a half dozen times a year.

Nowadays I spend my nights lucid dreaming instead of projecting. And I spend my days doing intuitive readings for people all over the world, including often connecting with people’s deceased relatives during readings.

And now you have the background to understand the experience that happened to me last Sunday. It was Mother’s Day, and my son got up early because he wanted to make me breakfast in bed. After I ate, I decided to go back to sleep, something I can never do during my busy work week raising two kids by myself. But it was Mother’s Day and no one needed me for anything, so I decided to treat myself.

I laid down and fell asleep within just a few minutes. Ah, the peace, the luxury, the gift!

But peace was not to be mine. I’m not sure how long I was asleep before I woke up in the state of sleep paralysis, which is a precursor to astral projection. Awesome! I thought to myself. I’m going to take this opportunity to astral project and go have some fun.

I initiated the separation which includes an intense tingling sensation within my body. Once I had my astral body “activated” I was ready to move out and go enjoy a nice trip. But as soon as I separated I came face to face with a group of maybe a dozen beings that were standing by my bed.

They were not negative low vibration beings. They were people. Dead people. Their spirits were literally lined up around me. I’d never experienced this before. In the past when I encountered other beings, they were either negative entities or they were high vibrational guides. These were humans who had once lived.

Before I knew what was happening, one of them made contact with me. I was catapulted into his story. He showed me that he had taken his young daughter hunting with him. She looked about 7 or 8 years old. It was her first trip. Long story short, she accidentally shot him and he died. The girl was devastated and grew up with tremendous shame, guilt, and sadness. His message to his daughter was one of profound forgiveness, and he was desperate for me to find her in life and tell her that he does not hold anything against her, and that he is sorry he couldn’t be there for her growing up. I was touched by his love for his daughter, and the urgency with which he was wanting me to find her.

During readings, I have contact just like this during readings. Dead people with urgent messages will come forward and relay messages through me to their loved ones. But I’d never experienced this direct contact before. On their turf. In their realm. As an energetic spirit like them.

I pulled away from the spirit, and another one jumped in with his story. He was in a situation where his wife thought he’d ran off on her and the kids, when in actuality he drowned and his body was never found. He was desperate for her to know he hadn’t left her, but had died accidentally. It was heartbreaking.

As I pulled away from this guy, I put some space between me and the other spirits lined up to “speak” with me. I knew that if I stayed there, they would all want their turn to tell me their story. It’s not that I didn’t want to hear their stories, it was just that I was overwhelmed with their energy and I needed to regroup and get some distance.

I put myself back in my body and got up out of bed. I wondered whether there are always spirits around me trying to get messages to their families, or if they were attracted by me going astral and swarmed me like moths to a flame.

It has occurred to me that perhaps I could tune in to them even when I’m not officially reading for someone, just to get their stories and see if I can find their loved ones. It’s probably more time and effort than it’s worth, but if the opportunity arises again, I might just take it.

And the next time I project, I’ll be ready for the line up.

1. Is astral projecting dangerous?
I would have to say yes, it can be. You can encounter beings that will drain your energy or cause you psychological harm. However, if you know how to protect yourself, if you can keep your vibration high, if you are skilled at psychic self defense, and you can keep your fear in check, then you can have a safe astral experience.

It’s like asking me if it’s safe to fly in an airplane. If you’re inside the plane, with your seat belt on, with your tray table in the upright position, and you’re familiar with safety procedures in case of a crash, then air travel is safe. If you’re going to try to stand up on the wing of the plane with super glue on your shoes, arms outstretched, yelling, “I’m the king of the world” then good luck.

2. How can I initiate an out of body experience?
There are many procedures and techniques. My personal technique and advice is to master lucid dreaming first, because it will teach you how to keep your mind conscious while your body is asleep. This will then allow you to wake your mind when you are sleeping, which will likely put you in a sleep paralysis situation, which will then make it easy peasy to leave your body. It’s not the only method, but it’s the one I used to become proficient at astral projection so it’s the one I teach.

You can also try waking yourself up around 4am, staying up and in your bed for about 20 – 30 minutes, then going back to sleep which will often trigger a lucid dream, which will trigger sleep paralysis (if you do it right) which will then allow you to separate from your body.

And overall, it takes practice, intent, and patience.

3. If I dream that I’m flying, is that astral projection?
No, you’re just dreaming that you’re flying. If you wake up in your bed, then astral project, then go flying, then you are astral projecting. But if you’re in some random dream and you take to the skies, you are not astral. You are simply having a flying dream. But if you can master flying dreams, it’s easier to become proficient at flying while out of body, so go ahead and practice having those flying dreams.

4. Once I feel the tingling sensation and/or hear the high pitched whine in my head then what do I do?
Once you feel that, you are separated but still inside your body. It’s time to stretch yourself up and out. You can either follow your arms out, or some people like to roll out like you’re rolling onto the floor, and other people seem to go out feet first. It takes a lot of inner will to stretch up out of your body. The first few times you may only get an arm out. It will feel like you’re walking through mud. Just keep going.

The other thing I used to do with great success is teleport out at that point. So first you achieve separation, then you simply put yourself somewhere else, like on the roof of your house, or the nearby corner of your street. Time and space function completely differently on the astral plane. You do not have to stretch out of your body. You can simply separate and teleport. Yep, it’s nifty.

5. What or who are the entities waiting for me when I separate out of my body? Can they hurt me?
More often than not, when you separate, you’re going to feel fear. And the entities you see and hear while this is happening are not the nicest welcoming committee on the block. I’ve seen and heard some creatures that would make you pee your pants. You have to raise your vibration to get past them. Think of it like changing the channel. Go to the “love” and “gratitude” station. Call for your angels to come help you. Or call for your guides. Don’t tolerate astral bullies. Turn your back on them and tell them where they can stick themselves. If you don’t, they will begin feeding on your energy like you’re a banana cream pie.

6. Can I spy on living people while I’m astral?
You naughty person! But yes, you will see living people while you are astral. Most likely they won’t know you’re there, unless they’re super intuitive. Respect people’s privacy. It’s also a lot more difficult than you’d imagine to go spy on someone you don’t know. As soon as you’re astral, you’re different. Your priorities are different. It will take a great deal of concentration and will to go visit someone unless you have a strong close bond with them. But yes, you can make your rounds. Be good and responsible. Don’t be creepy astral guy!

7. Can I talk to my spirit guides on the astral plane?
People ask me this a lot. Going to the astral plane to talk to your guides is like sitting down in the middle of the freeway in the lotus position to meditate. You can technically do it, but it’s not the safest place to be opening up like that. As soon as you open up you’re going to get run over by everything in the vicinity. While you’re astral you need to stay sharp and on the lookout for astral piranha. If you want to talk to your guides, meditate while you’re awake or invite them to a lucid dream where you control the environment. Astral projection is like walking into a rough bar at night. Protect yourself.

8. Can someone take over your body while you’re astral?
No. Your astral cord is like a bookmark, it holds your place. Nothing and no one can take your body while you’re out. That isn’t to say that something can’t be standing right next to it and when you want to go back to your body it tries to tell you that you don’t. Don’t listen to those blokes. They are not nice. You are allowed to go back to your body anytime you want. Simply will yourself back, or step back into your body when you’re ready to come back.

9. Can I die on the astral plane?
Well this is an interesting question. If anyone HAS died while astral projecting they’ve never been able to report it. So I think technically I’d have to say “I don’t know.” I have never died on the astral plane, and I’ve been attacked by some humdingers. This is why I’m saying only project if you really feel you have to, and stay safe while projecting.

10. What can you do on the astral plane?
When you’re out of your body there is more than one plane you can visit. If you stay on the prime material plane, you’ll just fly around your house, look in on your loved ones, freak out the cat, and maybe fly down the street.

You can also move yourself to a higher plane, where spirits and angels dwell. Go have a lovely chat with them. Get the tour, it’s great.

You can move through time, but only as an observer. If you think you’re going to go back in time and kill Hitler, don’t bother. It won’t work.

You can visit other planes that aren’t as compatible with your frequency or energy. When you do this, you will lose your sight, your hearing will likely be enhanced, and you’ll be really putting yourself at risk of getting attacked and drained. Only go to other planes with a strong guide.

You can visit with other astral friends if they can go astral at the same time. Pick a spot to meet on the prime material plane and arrange a time to meet. Then wait. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

And you can engage in astral sex, which I’m sure doesn’t interest you in the slightest. Oh? It does? Read my article on astral ecstasy then (if you’re over 18).

Be safe out there! I don’t want to hear that any of you have crossed over while out of body. Now go get ‘em tigers!

Answer: Dream sharing is a phenomenon where two people are having the same dream, at the same time, and both are aware of the presence of another dreamer in the dream.

It’s extremely rare to be able to enter someone else’s dream. When someone is dreaming, they are in a construct that is very internal to their own brain. In order for someone else to cut in on that, they would have to be able to get inside the original dreamer’s mind. I’d say that for the most part it’s nearly impossible to share a dream.

However, I’ve had three instances I can recall where I witnessed a dream that one of my friends was having, but I could not interact or affect the dream, and my friend was unaware of my presence. However, the next day I was able to tell him in exact detail what he dreamed. Was I in his dream or was I picking up on his thoughts psychically, or was I somehow able to tap into his dream remotely and see what was happening? I’m not sure. I think this is one for the scientists. All I know is that I saw the dream as it was happening and I was accurate in my report.

Now… there is another phenomenon that occurs which may be more likely what you’re experiencing. I’ve had a lot of experiences where friends and I shared a dream. Or so I thought. These were experiences where they were aware of me, I was aware of them, and we could interact with each other consciously during the experience, and share full recall the next morning. At first I thought we were dream sharing, but then I realized that every single time I experienced this phenomenon the content of the “dream” was paranormal in nature. In other words, we were being attacked by a low vibrational entity from the astral plane. We were not in a dream construct, we were more in an energetic construct that had form.

For example, in one experience I can recall, I was being chased by a horde of demonic creatures, let’s call them hell hounds just as a point of reference. I remember hiding under a staircase in an old castle. I heard footsteps coming down the stairs and my boyfriend at the time appeared before me and said, “I chased them off. Let’s get out of here.” As we ran, we had a conversation. The next morning he told me he had a “dream” that he found me cowering under the stairs after chasing off a horde of nasties. He and I both remember the conversation we had during the experience. Was it a dream or something else? I’m going with something else. Probably something astral.

So I believe you can witness someone else’s dream, and I believe you can consciously meet on the astral plane, but I don’t think you can enter someone else’s dream and affect it. It’s too much a part of their brain. You can remote view it, but I don’t think you can affect it.

So I would say if you believe you are in your friend’s dream, take a moment to analyze whether it’s a dream or an astral experience, especially if running from nasties is involved.

Instead, to help your friend, I suggest you counsel him on overcoming his past issues and help him remove his blocks. I don’t think you need to be in his dreams to do it.

Answer:
I started astral projecting when I was 15 years old after trying for almost 3 years. Once I got the hang of it, I was projecting 3-4 times per week – sometimes because I wanted to and sometimes because something was pulling me.

I continued to have frequent projection experiences until I was in college. At that time, I really tried to shut down my paranormal abilities, including astral projection, because I was tired of defending myself and being attacked, and because I was more engaged with the “real world” and trying to study and get my psychology degree.

I’m now in my 40′s and I’d say I consciously astral project maybe 6 times a year, and 1-2 times per year I’ll have a nasty encounter with an astral entity who thinks it’s fun to yank me out of my body by my ankles.

I have found that it’s more difficult for me to consciously project now. If I had to do it on command, I may only have a 20-30% chance of success. Compare that to when I was 15 when I had a 90-100% chance of being able to astral project.

I do think the older you are, the less likely you are to project. But I don’t know if that has something to do with age, or if it’s because adults have less free space in their minds than teenagers do. In other words, I go to bed thinking about my business, my kids, my finances, my health, etc. When I was a teenager, I didn’t have as many responsibilities cluttering my mind.

If you are just starting out and you are not a teenager, I do think it’s going to be more difficult to get started. I am not sure why, but from the emails I get, that does seem to be the case. Teenagers seem to be able to learn astral projection and have more control over it than people who are older.

I wouldn’t give up though. If you want to have an out of body experience, your best bet is through sleep paralysis or lucid dreaming. I’ve got a bunch of articles on astral projection, sleep, and dreams that you can browse through here:

Astral Projection, Sleep, and Dreams

Good luck!

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I was fifteen years old when I had my first astral projection experience. It wasn’t pleasant. In fact, it was terrifying. All kinds of astral entities swarmed me over the first few weeks. It got to be so bad that I seriously considered sleeping with the light on. Plus I thought I was going crazy. A whole other world was opening up to me and I didn’t know much about it, but it sure seemed to know a lot about me. Every time I attempted to leave my body I was invariably confronted by an entity that seemed to want to kill me, suck my energy dry, or just scare me to death.

Luckily for me, I had a friend who had a great deal of experience with astral projection and he taught me how to raise my vibration so the lower vibrational entities couldn’t reach me. Think of it like a radio. When you first project, you might be on the “fear” station. If you can raise your vibration to something more like courage, love, compassion, or joy, then it’s like switching channels on the radio and you no longer hear the fear broadcast.

Once I raised my vibration, I was off and running, exploring wonderful new dimensions and planes of existence. I met high vibrational beings, traveled to places you can’t get to while in a body, and had experiences that seemed impossible. But occasionally, something would confront me. Like a moth to a flame, the lower entities would be attracted to my light. I had to do something to keep them from stinging me.

That’s when I created my astral sword. Simply, my astral sword was a projection of my own love energy. When lower vibrational beings got too close, I stabbed them with my light sword, and they would vanish. I’d continue on my merry way, and have a lovely night of astral travel. But occasionally, something big and nasty would show up and confront me. That’s when I had to do battle. For the sake of those who are exploring the astral plane, I want to share some tips and advice for fighting the big bads you will invariably encounter.

Avoid
Like any good mother, I’m going to suggest that you avoid a fight whenever possible. Fighting a battle on the astral plane can be very draining energetically, like having an astral hangover. The nights I did battle, I was a wreck at school the next day. It would take a day or two for my energy to restore itself. If you can avoid a battle, do so.

Avoiding means that when you see or sense something waiting for you, don’t project. Go back to your body, get up for a bit, turn on a light, and wait until the being goes away. They don’t generally stick around for too long; instead they will go find other people to drain. There is no valor in being something’s tasty snack. Avoidance is your first line of defense against a big bad. Save your energy for something fun.

Evade
Sometimes, through no fault of your own, you attract a lower vibrational being who picks up your scent and just won’t leave you alone. It follows you around, trying to nibble on your energy so it can thrive. It’s like the time I was at the Renaissance Faire and this bee followed me around the faire for an hour. I couldn’t shake him. He was like a dog with a bone. To evade him, I had to go inside my vehicle. He buzzed around for a bit and finally flew away. I then got out of my car and went back to enjoy the faire.

On the astral plane, evading an entity means moving to a different plane or level. You do this by raising your vibration to something higher than where you are, or you literally move to a different plane. There are many planes to choose from. If an entity is bothering you, go somewhere else. I’ve also played tag with a few beings, moving through planes like running through a bunch of doors, in an attempt to shake them off. I don’t attack them, I just get out of their way. This uses far less energy than attacking them. If you can’t avoid an entity, evade it and keep exploring.

Confront
Sometimes a confrontation is your only choice. I’ve had nights where something literally jerked me out of my body because it wanted a piece of me. Imagine something grabbing your leg and pulling you out of bed. It’s not easy to avoid or evade in those cases. You’ve got to be ready to confront and attack or you will go down. Here’s what to do when confronted by a tenacious and powerful entity.

First, whip out your astral sword. You literally create this from your own energy. It’s an extension of who you are. You fill this sword with your light, your love, your power, and your courage. The moment you show fear in front of the big bad, it starts eating. So practice creating your light sword (or other weapon) before you are confronted so you can draw your weapon easily.

Second, create a shield of light around your body, so that if it does attack you, its energy bounces off your shield. You create a shield using your will, just like you created your sword.

Third, go on the offensive. The best defense is a good offense. You’re in its world and it’s often stronger than you. So if you’re going to do battle, make it short and sweet. Slash at the entity with your sword. Cast love at it (they hate that). Be fierce. Have a battle cry ready. Whatever you do, don’t show fear. Do not go back to your body until you have dispelled or banished the entity, otherwise it will just pull you out again. That’s happened to me many times. You’ve got to make sure it’s gone. You’ll know it’s gone when you no longer see it, you no longer feel its energy around you, and it’s not tugging at your astral body like you’re a chew toy.

Beseech
Sometimes you’ll encounter a being that’s either too strong or instills too much fear in you, and it gets ahold of you and starts chomping at your energy like you’re a turkey leg at the Renaissance Faire. You can’t change your vibration, you can’t get back to your body, you can’t get away from it, and you are too afraid or unable to make your light sword. That’s when you’ve got to call for reinforcements. Call on Archangel Michael to help you. You can also call on Source, any ascended master, or any other high vibrational being or angel in the vicinity. Angels have the ability to remove and dispel any being you can encounter on the astral plane. They will come. Every time. Think of them like a referee in a boxing ring. They’ll stand back and let you do battle if you want, but if you’re up against the ropes or the entity has knocked you down, they can drag them off of you and send them on their way. Sometimes all you need is a breather so that you can get back to your body.

Don’t call on your spirit guides. Sometimes they can help but it’s not really their function or bailiwick. It’s like calling your mom for help when a bear is attacking you. Yeah, she’s going to try to help you, but she’s not really equipped to kill a bear. Let the angels help you, as it’s their job to patrol the astral plane and keep these entities from getting into our world.

Stay Frosty
The astral plane is an interesting place to visit and explore. If you can keep your vibration high and avoid encounters with big bads, you can have the most amazing and wonderful experiences. If you go around stabbing beehives, the bees are going to sting you. So stay away from them, don’t poke them, and stay frosty.

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This week’s question comes from Alice. She asks:

“Can negative entities masquerade as spirit guides?”

Transcript of the Video:
Hello and welcome to another episode of “Ask Erin Pavlina.” Today’s question comes from Alice. “How can we tell if entities we’re encountering on the astral plane are positive or if they’re negative beings pretending to be positive. I’ve heard that some negative entities will masquerade as guides to deceive and trick us.”

Well, Alice, that is true. As soon as you enter the astral plane, it’s every man for himself. There are definitely things out there that are of a lower vibrational quality than the things that you’re probably wanting to encounter and it is wise to be aware that these beings exist, so that you can avoid them. I like to think of negative entities as bees. So, when you’re at, like, a picnic and you’re enjoying yourself and the bees come or the ants come, it’s very annoying and you don’t want to agitate or disturb them, or they might sting you. So, the same is true of negative beings or lower vibrational entities.

So, there are four things I would recommend you doing before you go astral traveling so that this doesn’t happen to you.

The first thing is: Know your guides. If you know who your guides are, it will be easy for you to tell whether what you’re encountering is your real spirit guide or if it’s something masquerading as a guide. So, how do you get to know your spirit guides? There are a lot of different ways, but I highly recommend meditation and tuning in that way. There are a lot of articles on my website that will help you distinguish and identify your spirit guides and learn how to tune into them. So, if you know who your guides are, and something else presents itself, you’re going to be able to tell the difference. Trust me, you will know. They will not be able to masquerade as guides if you already know who your guides are.

The second thing I would tell you is that negative entities feed off of fear. And because they feed off of fear, when you astral project, if you’re in a state of fear, they’re going to be attracted to you. But if you encounter a negative being, or even if you’re encountering a being whose frequency you’re not familiar with, cast love at them. If they are a negative or lower vibrational being, they are going to flee from your love energy. Poof. Gone. So remember to love, love, love and they will not be able to withstand that energy.

The other thing I would say is before you project at all, or before you go to sleep and are open to projecting, ask your guides and your angels to protect you – to help keep the negative entities away. They can do that. Angels especially can protect your energy from the negative beings. So, if you’re going into a situation where you’re already being protected by angels, let them clean house and let them keep the negative entities away.

The last thing I would say is keep your vibration high so you don’t attract negative entities. Negative entities are only there because you are a tasty treat with your energy. If you are coming into an astral situation and you’re feeling fear, then they’re going to be attracted to you like a moth to a flame. So, don’t be attractive to the lower vibrational entities. Raise your vibration and be in a state of love, joy, and compassion, and gratitude, and you will not attract the lower vibrational beings. In fact, you will attract the higher vibrational beings and that is a much, much better place to be.

Great question! Be safe out there.

This week’s question comes from Erin. The question is:
“Is it true that we astral project just a little every time we sleep? I’ve heard that we hover a few inches over our body after we fall asleep.”

And the answer is…

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Welcome to another episode of “Ask Erin Pavlina.” Today’s question comes from a person named Erin. Her question is: “Is it true that we astral project just a little every time we sleep? I’ve heard that we hover a few inches over our body after we fall asleep.”

Well, yes and no. So, let’s talk about this. When you astral project, your astral self is leaving your physical, corporeal body and roaming around on the astral plane. If that’s happening to you, you are extremely aware that it’s happening. It’s not something that happens unconsciously. So, a true astral projection is when you leave your body and you maintain your awareness in your astral body while your physical body stays prone and asleep. So, that being said, however, what happens at night is your astral body becomes aware, it sort of wakes up, but it doesn’t necessarily leave your body. In that way, I could see why you’re asking “Does the astral body hover over the body while sleeping?” I can tell you that during the times that I have astral projected and gone to visit friends I can see their astral bodies moving out of phase with their physical bodies. So, usually I see a person’s head coming out of their physical head. So, I kind of see their incorporeal head here – their astral head – and their physical head just underneath them. And they usually look pretty shocked. I don’t know if that’s because they’re sensing my presence or that’s how it looks normally. I would have no way to tell, but I can tell you that the astral self does move out of phase a little bit from the physical body while we sleep. At least from what I have seen. This would make sense to me, because when we sleep our bodies are going into sort of a hibernation that allows our astral self – our astral body – to separate and explore if it wants to. If we want to. Always remember that you are attached to your corporeal body with your astral cord, which is what helps you get back into your body after you’ve been out for a while. You don’t want that to get severed . That’s the end of the show if that happens.

So, yes, I would say it’s true that every time you sleep your astral body becomes aware, that it is free to move around, but a true astral separation you would be very, very aware of. It would not be something that you’d forget. So I would say that yes, there is some astral activity every night when you sleep, but probably not a full separation. Good question.

Answer: Ah the joys of astral travel with a buddy. Once you’ve learned how to successfully astral project, isn’t it natural that you’d want to share the joy with a friend? But if your friend doesn’t know how to astral project, how will you get him out?

If you can get out of your own body, by all means, fly to your friend’s house and try to get their attention. If your friend is fully awake, they won’t be able to see you and may not even know you’re there. So wait until they are asleep when you stand a greater chance of being seen by their astral self.

You won’t be able to tap them on the shoulder or scream their name, so you want to gently push some energy towards them so it comes into contact with their astral field. Many people sense danger when you do this, though, so don’t be surprised if doing this actually wakes them up or just firmly ensconces them in their bodies to avoid the assault they interpret as you.

If your friend knows you’re coming, that’s always better, as they may not block or shield themselves from you. So once you get their attention, they may open their energy to you. If your friend knows how to astral project, it will be easy for them to separate at this point. If they don’t, you can merge some of your energy with theirs and telepathically encourage them to leave the warm, safe confines of their body to travel with you. This is unlikely to occur if the person has never astral traveled before. The physical body holds tight to its astral body and doesn’t let it go easily. Be loving and encouraging, never forceful. A body in fear does not release its astral self.

If you see your friend slip out of his body, you can go fly around together and both of you should remember the experience. But it’s just not as easy as it seems like it should be. It’s easy to be distracted on the astral plane by other creatures that roam there. It’s also easy to slip into different frequencies so that you’re on one plane and he’s on another. And most astral experiences last only a few seconds to a few minutes before someone gets overly excited and is pulled back to their body. But keep trying and keep practicing.

You can also try asking your friend to meet you somewhere prearranged at a certain time. This has the benefit of you not having to go play tug of war with your friend’s body, but the odds of both of you getting there at the same time are pretty small. There is no sense of time on the astral plane, and I don’t know too many people who know what time it is while they are sleeping. If you’re very accomplished travelers, though, you can certainly set an alarm to wake you at a certain time and then go astral immediately and meet at the rendezvous point. Otherwise, plan to spend a long time waiting at that lightpost on the corner for your friend to arrive.

I’ve had a few experiences where I successfully astral traveled with a friend, but we were both very experienced and were waging war against a demonic entity at the time, so the stakes were high and we were both very committed to the experience.

I’ve also had several experiences where I encountered family members sleeping in the house with me and I would see their astral bodies inside their sleeping bodies and attempt to make contact or provide reassurance. Sometimes my family or friends would “call” my astral self to them if they were being attacked by a lower vibrational astral entity. That was alright with me as I became very comfortable interacting with and dispelling lower vibrational beings when necessary and was happy to do it for them.

If you can’t astral travel with your friends, you may be able to find other humans on the astral plane to interact with. Again, you have to be on the same plane and frequency and learn how to communicate without words, but what a fun way to make a new friend.

Remember, kids, you must always astral travel safely. You don’t want to bring something back with you. You don’t want to encourage entities to hover around you while you’re awake, leeching and sucking off your considerable energy. And you don’t want to become so enamored with astral projection that you forget to sleep and let your body and mind restore itself. But for occasional use, it’s just fine.

Happy and safe traveling!

Answer: There’s a huge irony here. I get tons of emails from people who want to project and can’t, and emails from people who don’t want to but keep finding themselves accidentally doing it. If only the twain could meet.

To prevent astral projection you pretty much need to do the opposite of what you’d have to do to bring one on.

Don’t sleep on your back
The most common position where a spontaneous astral projection takes place is while on your back. Take great pains to sleep on your side, or your stomach (even better!). You can train yourself not to sleep on your back with practice, just as you can train yourself to sleep on your back or sleep upright if you wanted or needed to. Of course it is possible to astral project when you sleep on your side, but it’s more rare so you stand a better chance if you can stay on your side.

Don’t take a nap
I certainly don’t understand the science behind this one, but it’s easier to astral project during short naps than long nights of sleep. So if you want to avoid a spontaneous and unwanted projection, don’t take a midday nap.

Sleep through the night
Likewise, people trying to learn astral projection are often taught to wake themselves up at 4am, stay up for 30 minutes, then go back to sleep. This can lead to lucid dreaming and/or astral experiences. So if you’re trying to avoid an astral experience, don’t go back to sleep an hour after you wake up.

Don’t meditate before bed
Another way to increase your chances of astral projection is to meditate, raise your vibration, and ask your guides for help. So to avoid this, don’t meditate right before bed. If you love meditation, switch to the morning or the daytime. When you meditate before bed, you will raise your vibration and make it that much easier to project.

Ask your angels for help
When you want to project, you can ask your angels to help protect you when you go out. Likewise, if you want to stay in for the evening, ask your angels to keep the door closed and to stand guard. Sometimes the spontaneous astral projections happen because there is indeed an energy waiting to interact with you, so it sort of throws open the door and invites you in.

Be ready to pull back
If you are unable to prevent the astral projection from starting, at least be ready to slam the door closed when it happens. If you wake up on your back, tingling, high-pitched whine going, and something “untoward” breathing down your neck you must act fast. Normally, to project from this state you would raise your vibration (to move out of phase with the baddie), and then stretch out or pop out of your body.

If you’re trying to prevent an astral experience though, you have to pull your energy in tight. You don’t want to lower your vibration because that will just make you an easier energy snack for the low vibrational being. Ask your guides to protect you, and ask your angels to escort the baddie off the premises. Pull your chakra energy in tight instead of opening it up. Try to move your physical body. You’ll probably be paralyzed, but keep trying. Try to use your vocal cords to scream. It may come out as a whimper, but that’s enough. If you have a partner in bed with you, they might hear the whimper and wake you up.

You’ve got to stay confident and strong and bring your will to bear on the situation so you can stay in your body and not get pulled. Do not succumb to fear or you can find yourself being pulled out of your body unwillingly. Sleep paralysis can be frightening, but it usually only lasts seconds to a couple of minutes. You will break free. When you do, immediately sit up, turn on the light, and raise your vibration.

If you find yourself repeatedly having these unwanted astral experiences you might want to get on top of them and learn how to astral project safely, then go out and have some fun experiences. There might be a reason you’re having these experiences. Perhaps your guides want to show you something.