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I tried doing astral projection about a month ago, doing the rope method for about a week, but I didn't have any success. I gave up after that. Today I took a nap, and I was able to do it, which was probably a result of practicing mindfulness more often in daily life, and napping mindfully (I learned about mindfulness from various google links and youtube videos. I'm a fan of Thich Nhat Hanh and Jon Kabat-Zinn).

Anyway here's my experience. Hopefully the experienced guys here can clarify some things.

I lie down on my bed face down at about 6:30PM. Just aware of the fact that I'm lying down, and unintentionally aware of my inhales and exhales. Next thing I know, I can feel my etheric body. I feel myself in the etheric body trying to leave the physical body. I use my hands and just pull and crawl myself out of the physical body. As I'm doing this, the wall is moving away from my bed and an open door, like the Narnian Wardrobe appears on the bottom of the wall. I pull myself out finally, but I can't really use the body effectively. Its very difficult to move. I pull myself toward the door and i just let myself fall and thud on the floor (good thing there was carpeting ).

At this time, I remember Robert Bruce's advice to return back to the body right soon, but I ignore that advice. I go to the door, and I just appear, or maybe fall, outside. Its really dim and hard to see outside. I figured since I was astrally projecting, I would be capable of willing anything to happen, but it didn't work.

I decide to explore, and I do Hulk jumps huge distances. I land on some local street and see some lights on in the houses. Nothing special, but at this time I'm trying to analyze what having this experience means and trying to extract lessons from the experience I'm having. Afterwords I do another hulk jump to the courtyard that was connected to the house I lived in last year, and a very popular party destination for us college kids. There are always people outside, drinking, chatting, and having fun. Sure enough I see people, and I jump to them. As I'm landing, I knew that I didn't jump too well and that my leg would scrape the bush, and it did, and I felt it, though it didn't hurt. The girl I landed next to says hi and I say hi back. In the dimness, it looked like she had some sort of facial disfigurement, but I'm having a hard time describing it. She asks me my name. I answer and ask her hers. She says it, though I can't and couldn't remember at the time. Additionally the only words I remember being capable of speaking were "Wait, what was your name?" which I said about three times. But during this entire 1 minute interaction, my face is moving very close to hers in a very intimate way until our faces are touching (not kissing though). She is in to it, and says stuff, but all I can do is say those words, and on top of that, I can only say them in a quiet, meek, way. That made me wonder why she was attracted to me at that time. After 1 minute her friend asked her what she was doing, probably because she was talking to a complete stranger in that way, so I decided to just go back to my body.

When I return I walk through the door, and see my roommates smoking marijuana with two complete strangers, a girl and guy. I go up to them excitedly to tell them what just happened. I focused all my attention on the strangers, and actually they are the only two people who's looks I can remember. They think it's cool that I astrally projected, and we talk for a little, but then I REALLY decide to go back to my body, and I wake up.


So my questions, skip the story if you want:
First of all, is that experience an example of astral projection?
Whats the deal with it being so dark? I found it really hard to notice the details.
Why did it seem like that girls face wasn't shaped normally? It looked like a cute face that was distorted with a photoshop tool except 3D.
Why couldn't I speak normally?

I may end up editing in some questions, but I would really appreciate whoever takes the time to read that, and any answers to my questions.