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than anything I had ever experienced before in my waking life, and definitely more palpable and ‘physical’ than any of the hundreds of lucid dreams I had beforehand. I felt the weight of my energetic body lower to my bedroom floor, and I felt the tactual sensation of the carpet under my feet. I looked around my dark lit room, which felt more natural and vivid than I'd ever seen before; it had a luminous and magical quality to it. I was awestruck, especially because this was nothing like the countless lucid dreams I had before this. I was indeed separate from my physical body and brain as I observed it sleeping in my bed; there was truly no doubt of this. My environment clearly had an independent existence of its own; I barely felt the possibility of manipulating the environment, which is so easy and natural in lucid dreams. I examined my room; the moonlight through the window cast shadows on the floor and wall. I moved my hands slowly in and out of the moonlight and touched my bedroom wall. I saw it in blisteringly shocking detail. I had never seen my wall and hands in such a fresh and realistic way before. It was strange to think that all of this felt highly physical, yet I knew it was in the nonphysical. When we successfully astral project, it's like we have a stronger cushion protecting us from thoughts entering and ruining the experience with its labels, and we are left with only pure uninterrupted experience; with a vividness alike to taking a psychedelic drug without actually consuming one, and without any of the 'brain-fog' or 'drunkness' that such substances induce; it is an entirely sober experience with your usual day-to-day awareness in-tact. Consequently, you are left with a hyper-aware state of perception with a foundation in a familiar and calm sense of yourself. Yet, you are 'out of my mind', and 'out of body' - you are consciousness. The authenticity of the experience was so overwhelming