chi_solas wrote:Astral travel hmmm, could it be that the peripherial
ghost images seen/felt is an astral visitor?
Oh, that makes sense! I think that the peripheral images can be any of a number of things but someone travelling out of body might represent that way. I know I've come across an explanation of why these things are seen most often in the periphery. Something about training our vision so that we don't see them -- but they can still be seen 'round the edges?
When my grandson was four, he said to me "We can't see ghosts, right?" I said I thought we could see them sometimes. (He always liked to talk about ghosts.) He said "Yeah. But we're not
supposed to, right?"
A friend of mine one time heard two little girls at a funeral discussing how difficult it was to differentiate the ghosts from the living.
Arabella, I never associated "sleep paralysis" with
astral travel, interesting; it does make sense when
I think about the body disconnecting with the mind.
It happened to me a lot when I was young. I was scared. I could see everything around me. If someone came into the room knew what they were wearing, everything they did, even though my eyes were closed and quite likely I was face down in the pillow.
I used to try to stop it from happening -- I'd feel like my body was turning to waves and I'd try to wake myself up then.
I think it's just when we're setting out or returning, though.
One of my sisters had an interesting experience around the death of a coworker. She "dreamed" she was going down the stairs in her house and this guy was at the foot of her staircase. He swooped her up into his arms and flew around with her.
She found out later that day that he'd died through the night.
Funny you should mention that. I'm watchign a lecture by Richard Miller
today. He's a physicist that worked for US Army intelligence, on
classified experiments. Kinda along the lines of the latest topic i've
done here in ways.
He says that an astronaut (can't remember
his name), told mission control, 'there's something outside my
capsule', and what, or rather who it was, was an aborigine. that this
was in fact, an aborigine astral travelling. Pretty weird huh?
Amazing! In outer space. I know that the US government is working with distant viewing.
I think travelling out of body is an integral part of many aboriginal cultures. (We're just too "advanced" to believe it's possible.)
There's the Inuit "shaking tent" where the shaman would go to find the herds and negotiate with them. Oh gosh, where's Andy? He must know something about this!