How To Do Astral Projection Or Lucid Dreaming?

[SimpleGuy]

Hello. If you have any experience with astral projection or lucid dreaming, feel free to share it! Specifically I want to learn how to astral project and/or lucid dream.

[Princess Arabia]

Why don't you just go on YT for tutorials on the subject. Plenty of videos I assume are on there for this.

[SimpleGuy]

32 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

Why don't you just go on YT for tutorials on the subject. Plenty of videos I assume are on there for this.

I want to hear personal experience and tips from real person, which are not often present in yt vids

[Princess Arabia]

3 minutes ago, SimpleGuy said:

I want to hear personal experience and tips from real person, which are not often present in yt vids

Ok, suit yourself.

[Hojo]

Whenever I lucid dream I dont actually change anything, I just am aware that I am dreaming so I am not scared/worried. Moresoe my state of mind/emotions become lucid. When this happens the dream can change but I dont conciously move around. Like I have a dream about a demon and it was freezing me in fear and I went hey im dreaming I dont have to be scared here and then I chased the demon out. I didnt physically make the decision to chase it but I automatically did when I realized I didnt have to be scared.

Edited Wednesday at 04:37 PM by Hojo

[Malkom]

The very first thing you absolutely must do is start writing down your dreams, without skipping a single one. Write down as many as you remember, either in a notebook or on a voice recorder. It's best to write in as much detail as possible. The second point is to focus primarily on feelings, not images. You may have a poor memory of the images, but feelings are remembered, and feelings are more important than images. You'll understand why as you go along.

Few people on YouTube can advise you on how to get started. They mostly give easy advice, claiming you'll learn it in a day. It's all hype, clickbait, a ploy.

Have patience, and the path will be mastered by the one who walks it.

[Malkom]

And I almost forgot. You'll experience many disappointments along the way. That's normal; everyone goes through those. Keep that in mind. The main thing is the goal.
And if you have two or three lucid dreams a week, that's a huge success; they don't happen every day. Don't overemphasize why I don't have them every day.

Edited Wednesday at 07:56 PM by Malkom

[Malkom]

This is how I did it, but this is my personal experience, it might not work for you, but there is a general pattern. First, I do meditation, just a regular one, because it helps me concentrate; your psyche teaches you to concentrate. And then I go to bed. At night, I just sleep, and in the morning, after waking up, I first write down the dream, and then go back to sleep. And sometimes it doesn't work out - it's not my day, or it's night, ahaha. And so on. The thing is, for many, morning is the best time for lucid dreaming. For some, yes, at night and even every day, there are such gifted people, but don't emulate them, even if you are gifted.  but it's better to take it easy. From there, follow your intuition.

And be sure to write down your dreams; it trains your memory. Take this seriously. Moreover, when you reread your notes, try to recall more—this is also an important point, and shouldn't be ignored.

Edited Wednesday at 08:14 PM by Malkom

[Yimpa]

This is a dream right now, just become conscious of it.

I should write a whole book about it now 😂 

[SimpleGuy]

@Hojo Thanks for the tip!

@Malkom So you just practice writing your dreams and that`s all? Lucid dreaming happens by itself without no rituals?

[Malkom]

1 hour ago, SimpleGuy said:

So you just practice writing your dreams and that`s all? Lucid dreaming happens by itself without no rituals?

Rituals are essential. But this is my personal experience, which I've gleaned through experimentation. You can listen to me, but you'll find your own through your own experiments; everyone has their own psyche.
Yes, I keep a journal. Journaling dreams, while seemingly useless at first glance, is one of the important factors in achieving them.
One of my rituals is meditation, the most ordinary meditation: I relax my body and my mind. And then I fall asleep. Unfortunately, I can't achieve lucid dreaming through meditation (in fact, it's the most difficult method; few people can do it, but some can). Then, after I've slept at night, early in the morning, while everyone else is still asleep, I wake up, walk around, and then go back to bed. And at that moment, how can I say this correctly, I seize the moment.

This is just my personal experience. Although at the moment, I just need to mentally prepare myself for the experience, and it happens. It doesn't happen all the time, which is normal, but I just increase the chances this way.

And the most important thing, which few people talk about: If you want to get a good night's sleep, don't practice lucid dreaming that night. You need to approach this in moderation; everything has its time.

To summarize, write down your dreams and practice meditation; they help a lot with lucid dreaming, although not directly.

Edited Friday at 08:24 PM by Malkom

[Michal__]

Read The Phase book. Its the best resource out there.

[SimpleGuy]

On 28.11.2025 at 11:01 PM, Malkom said:

Rituals are essential. But this is my personal experience, which I've gleaned through experimentation. You can listen to me, but you'll find your own through your own experiments; everyone has their own psyche.
Yes, I keep a journal. Journaling dreams, while seemingly useless at first glance, is one of the important factors in achieving them.
One of my rituals is meditation, the most ordinary meditation: I relax my body and my mind. And then I fall asleep. Unfortunately, I can't achieve lucid dreaming through meditation (in fact, it's the most difficult method; few people can do it, but some can). Then, after I've slept at night, early in the morning, while everyone else is still asleep, I wake up, walk around, and then go back to bed. And at that moment, how can I say this correctly, I seize the moment.

This is just my personal experience. Although at the moment, I just need to mentally prepare myself for the experience, and it happens. It doesn't happen all the time, which is normal, but I just increase the chances this way.

And the most important thing, which few people talk about: If you want to get a good night's sleep, don't practice lucid dreaming that night. You need to approach this in moderation; everything has its time.

To summarize, write down your dreams and practice meditation; they help a lot with lucid dreaming, although not directly.

 

Just now, Michal__ said:

Read The Phase book. Its the best resource out there.

Thanks guys! 

[kavaris]

Theres another thing thats neither astral projection or lucid dreaming, which is just, imagining youve woken up, thereby dreaming that you are exiting the bed, leaving the room, et caetera, at which point that fake-awake state starts to vibrate / collapse, since its gonna increase in a feeling like it feels like its a dream, since the only difference between that and being awake is in the way you feel about it. Like, for all intents and purpose, we're all astral projecting/lucid dreaming now, and the only difference is that, since youve woken up last, youve told yourselves that its like a wakeful state, and the dream you came from was the dreaming state. Like the only thing separating states is the way you subsuquently feel about that state, in contrast to the last, and so memory exists temporarily between states, and had it been dream memory, the sequence of those conclusions on which state was a dream~and which was awake~would be different, granted its not that simple still, cause the dreams are also encountering their own habitual sequences each night based on that final sink of thoughts, before having flushed the toilet all the way down.

Like the habitual sequence of random thoughts at night have the most impact — in the same way dreaming is impacting how you feel in the rest of waking day, but on a different level—one that is being disregarded like its part garbage dna or something, but its actually more fundamental in some sense, as it functions to contrast this very conclusive one. It always depends too on what you are trying to do, like to strive towards lucid dreaming or astral projection is like saying i want to be king of candyland, however it doesnt explain what candyland is, and who else is there and what it looks like, et caetera.

[Adrian colby]

I’ve been practicing for decades but seriously for 15 years. Only two years ago did I have a successful experience I was willing to accept as self verification. 
 

I wasn’t willing to accept it as a thing until I had stayed completely lucid and aware from the second I lay down on the bed, had the experience, to the moment I sat up and got out of bed again. 
 

I’ve had plenty of becoming lucid within a dream and a few occasions of lifting out of the body and wandering around the room.

 

but the fully aware experience I would not have described as either astral projection of lucid dreaming. 
 

it was more like meditating into a state of no self and when the world and body dissolved, the mind created a completely new one. 
The worlds, body and narrative… I ‘phased’ in and out of about three of them. I was somewhat aware I still had a body and life back in this reality as a grounded belief but each reality was indistinguishable from this one but fantastical in appearance and more colourful/vivid. 
the last phase I tried to shift reality again but I felt a pair of hands holding mine and got the impression of one of my grandparents saying “that’s enough now, go back”.

i had a bit of sleep paralysis when I focused back into this body but I stayed aware of everything the whole way through from start to finish. 
 

after that, it gave me more clarity and understanding about what consciousness is than any psychedelic. 
 

when the mind does it off its own efforts, there is better direct understanding. 
 

my advice for any astral, dream or sleep type practice is ‘absolute serenity’. 
it’s easy to lucid dreaming from within a dream when the body is already totally relaxed but to do it from the beginning with intention, you need to be completely at ease, relaxed and serene. Any excitement or fear will knock you out of the practice.