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I get stuck just above my bed, what they call the real time zone.

Maybe your former adventures happened in the astral body, who can roam around the RTZ more freely. And these new adventures happened in the etheric body, which essentially cannot move away from the physical body. Both bodies can perceive the RTZ and travel in it, but the degree of freedom varies (this is taken from Kurt Leland's explanations on the topic).

Robert Monroe used to use another exit technique when he found himself in the etheric body - he called it the "second body". He rolled out of the second body quite similar to the first one, IIRC. This then transported his consciousness into a third body, which was probably the astral body proper.

Other such techniques are known. IIRC other people mentioned spinning around the center to reach the astral, and so on. Maybe MAP has something on this, too.

I don't know, but maybe the range of action of the etheric body is defined by the energy invested in energy work. I think the technique of trying to get away from the physical body as quickly as possible might be another "exit technique" from the etheric body into the astral body. That would require mobility of the etheric body, though.

If the problem really is being stuck in the etheric body, maybe you can come up with a visualisation or exit technique of your own?

Energy work can't hurt, anyway.

Oliver