[Daleman1984]

If you don't care how I got to the exit symptoms, please skip to the bold part.

Okay, so I wake up, and am like, "nnghh, I'll try a projection." So I'm like, okay, and throwq off my extra pillow, undercover sheet and body pillow and start to relax.

Seemingly out of nowhere I remember an excercise that I was taught by my drama teacher in 2-3 grade. I start doing it. I am lying on a beach in a warm place, and my toes are sinking into the sand, very warm, feeling each grain, and then getting to that cold, mucky stuff and becoming immobile.

I continue the excercise until my entire body is vibrating slightly, but not THE vibrations, just what happens when you're relaxed. I try a few breaths. In 8 hearbeats, hold four, out eight. I only did this three times since it was breaking my gnotic state though. So then, I set maybe one-fifth of my consciousness to remain awake, and the other to meld with my sub and kind of daydream.

I'm in a computer store and my dad is going to get me a computer. I see a cool laptop and remember how my best friend is getting one. He likes it, but won't get me the compu--

My partial consciousness decided this wasn't god enough and I returned to the state. ut now, my whole body felt like in was encased in something hard, but smooth. My third eye saw it as glass. I started to daydream again.

Now I was with some guy and his girlfriend. Forget the guys name, but oh well. The girlfriend and the guy were in this suv with me careening down the highway. Then cars started trying to smash us off the road or somehting, but we survived somehow. But the girlfriend wasn't there.

Anyways, we were looking for some kind of shop, like a quick-e-mart kind of shop (excuse the reference) and he didn't know how to find it. Fortunately, the car was awesome and had one of those GPS thingies. I typed in ROAN to the keyboard (an online friend of mine, but I thought it was a shop in the dream) but it wanted to know what we were looking for. The guy looked up at me questioningly. He was in his twenties and had kind of dirty blond hair, a jutting jaw, and some stubble. "Batteries" I typed. It gave directions and we drove there.

So we get to the shop, and it's...different. There's blue painted metal all over the place. I go to the desk and get someone who looks like George from Seinfeld, but tougher. I ask where the batteries are and he says downstairs.

I turn the corner and go down the stairs. I then see three or four steps up, with a railing and a sign on the wall. It says do not pull the rail or mass security alert. Oh-kay, I make a note to myself not to pull the railings. I go up the four stairs and I hear the boyfriend's voice calling to me. "SAM?" I ignore it. I go up a muc larger, sqare-spiral staircase. But the steps are very hard to get up. Reality is bending, and the stairs are getting longer and longer, till they are almost 4 feet tal. I start using my hands. There is a huge window above the first spiral of stairs, and I'm almost there.

My consciousness pulls more of itself into the dream. I knew it wasn't real, but now I had enough of me to react. I contemplated the symbolic meaning of a large, shining window to which I was slowly ascending. I knew that laws didn't apply here, so I jumped maybe seven feet up (AWESOME FEELING) and would have shatted the window, but instead I guess it was shining because it was some kind of portal to my body.

Instance, world shaking vibrations. I can feel my physical body. I try reduplicatin gthe window thing, and the vibrations increase. I visualize the window leading to others and then through a stargate that transports me to as much of an "astral" environment as I can picture, and they increase.

I feel my left forearm and hand actually separating. I see it in my minds eye as a bluish transparency lifting off of my physical body, which from my necormantic training I can see coursing with life force, which wasx kinda cool.

I try to will my hand to exit. It keeps doing so, so then I'm feeling both this hand and my physical hand at the same time. I take control of the astral one, but I guess I snagged a bit of the physical. I see the astral one leap out, but I also see the shimmering physical one twitch, and it's all over.

Great. So now for my questions.

1. How can you be sure that you are controlling ONLY your astral body?
2. Do you think this consciousness splitting was a good tactic?
3. What would you have done differently if you experienced this?

And lastly, something a little irrelevant...

I know that NEW trains your spiritual bodies, awakens latent psychic abilities, etc. Energy work in the astral does this moreso. But does just remaining in the vibrational state do anything?

Thanks, sorry fot the length.