What really happens during astral projection? If you have come across any astral projection stories, you will realize that each out-of-body experience is unique to each person. No two individuals have the same astral projection experience. 

However, these experiences may have a unifying factor in them. Here are five common occurrences in these astral projection stories:

1. Seeing one's self from a different point of view.  A common experience that we gather from these astral projection stories is that the person who has an out-of-body experience finds himself looking at his physical body as though he were in someone else's shoes. A pianist who shared his astral projection experience tells of how he realized he was watching himself perform in a church concert, and for a few seconds, he actually wondered what his physical body would do next. 

Another astral traveler who had undergone a leg operation at six-years old, (he was 32 when he finally realized that he had an out-of-body experience at such a young age) recalls that he found himself waking up in the middle of the surgery and watching the doctors performing the operation. Such experiences are typical of astral projection, because this is when the physical and the astral mind separate from each other.

2. The experience of flying. People who have shared their astral projection stories recall the feeling of weightlessness, and how, because of this lightness, they often find themselves flying or hovering above their physical bodies. In one such story, the person found himself so “light and vaporous” that he attempted to roll his astral body out of his physical body and later found himself floating in the area and watching his physical self in deep sleep. 

3. You meet people who are long dead. The desire to see loved ones who are long dead is one of the reasons that people are curious to try astral projection. In many astral projection stories we have come across, we've heard of people who have met relatives or family members who have long passed. Keep in mind, however, that the “person” you are meeting, shaking hands with, or hugging during astral projection, is also the astral self of your now deceased loved one.