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ORIGINAL: YouName

You have done it?

I'm just suspcious of these things that's all. I was going to try and teach myself to do it but I never got going. Enough people have had supposed success for it to be easily dismissed.

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ORIGINAL: YouName

I'd very much like to trust that your experiences are real but if you'd allow me to play the sceptic, have you ever attempted and succeeded in proving it to someone who was curious, like a friend or family member?

If you haven't tried, why not? Why do you think it's not been proven to work yet?

I know some scientific work is being done in these and connected areas (such as the connection twins supposedly have, supposedly having some basis in quantum mechanics and particle memory) but I would assume astral projection to be such an easy thing to test, no?

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ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2

I would think developments in quantum physics in the future might reveal more about the concept. It has never occurred to me to attempt to prove what I do to someone else. I have rarely talked about it with anyone; the notion of it is far outside my culture's accepted worldview and I generally keep it to myself except to offer my experience if someone asks or brings it up. When it first started (around age 4) I was very scared but came to find it exciting, and over the years I looked into it and read a lot. I'm almost 56 so it has been a part of my life for 5 decades (a treasured part) and outside skepticism doesn't affect me.

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ORIGINAL: RockaRolla

Shortly after my brother got engaged, I had a couple of dreams that he and I were in a relationship. It disturbed the hell out of me, because that was definitely NOT what I wanted. So after pondering that for a while, I came to a conclusion that might explain things: I was single at the time, and envious of what he had (though certainly didn't want to be in her place.) Those dreams stopped afterward, so either I was able to work through what I was feeling or managed to disturb myself enough that my brain decided not to subject myself to them any more.

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ORIGINAL: SweetForDaddy

This kind of came from the sleeping with the TV on thread and I thought it might be interesting to hear what other people have nightmares about, or dream about in general.

As a kid I had a recurrent nightmare that happened pretty much every single night for a long time, I was scared to go to bed as every time I went to sleep I was very close to being beheaded with a machete by some psycho under a bridge.

I've never dreamed of dying but I have dreamed of being dead. I've watched people coming to view my body in a morgue.

My latest delight is sleep paralysis. I'm asleep and I dream that I wake up and theres a strange man in a saw mask (Saw the film) straddling me in bed. He's pressing down on my chest with both his hands and stops me breathing. I do then actually wake up but I'm completely paralysed, I can't move a muscle. I want to shout for help but no sound will come out. It probably only lasts a minute but its bloody scary (also quite interesting, once I'm over the panic).

I have changed dreams sometimes, when I was a kid I could change a bad ending into a good one (how I stopped the recurring dream). I have no idea how I did this.

I can also wake myself up laughing sometimes if I'm having a good dream, or if I have an alarm set, the sound will turn into something else in my dream, like a fire engine or something and it won't wake me up.

I would love to dream about flying but that one has passed me by so far.

Nightmares and dreams people, lets hear them!