While you astral travel, you will experience a feeling much like flying through the air, while you are asleep. This flying sensation is the means by which the astral body moves along the astral plane. It is simple to do. Before going to sleep, you should think about where you want to go and what you want to do, while your body is asleep. Your subconscious and astral body work to fulfill that which you desire.

Astral travel is commonly confused with dreaming. However, it is the case that most dreams are just our subconscious mind processing the events of our day. While we sleep, our minds are at work trying to puzzle out some things which it could not resolve while you were awake. This is a natural and helpful process. Most of these dreams we don?t remember at all ? if we do so, it is usually just in small fragments, half remembered for a short time after waking.

Your experiences of astral travel are actually the dreams you can remember. It is a worthwhile investment to keep a dream journal to record your dreams. You can do this when you wake in the middle of the night as well as when you first wake up in the morning. Be sure to write down as much as you can remember of these dreams. Even if they do not make much sense to you, write them down anyway. Before long, they will make sense to you.

Just like those dream which you don?t remember so well, astral travel is beneficial to you. This is why it?s important to keep track of everything you can remember about these dreams. Since no two people have the same astral travel experiences, the benefits you?ll see will vary from person to person.

Your deep inner world and the world you live in are richly enhanced when you do take the time to record anything you can remember concerning your experiences of astral travel. When you keep a regular dream journal, you experience an increase of personal spirituality and inner serenity. You will also experience a more refined sense of creativity and heightened memory. Astral projection activates brain activity that is not activated while you are awake and conscious.

The increase of your psychic abilities occurs as a benefit of astral travel. There are many reports of individuals who do practice astral travel, who have an increase of sensing spirits, precognition and telepathy.

When you astral travel, you use untapped psychic energies and cause your psychic abilities to bloom.

Even people who are thoroughly skeptical about the practice of astral travel and other psychic and spiritual abilities have found that after astral travel, they can actually read people?s auras!

And it shouldn?t be forgotten that astral travel is a thrilling experience ? it?s very empowering to know that while astral traveling that you can go anywhere and do anything that you like.

Perhaps you wonder why more people do not enjoy the practice of astral travel since it provides some really great benefits to everyone. The answer is simple as it can be found in the fact that many individuals wrongly assume that only those who are gifted can astral travel. On the contrary, astral travel in a natural born ability, anyone can do it.

More than likely you have astral traveled yourself without even realizing you were doing it. At the start of this article you were reminded of the last time, you had a dream or felt the sensation of flying. That was an astral travel experience.

To unlock all of the benefits of astral travel, the secret is to learn to do so consciously. If you know that you are astral traveling, you will then have full control over where your astral body goes and what it does.

There plenty of resources out there, including books and videos developed by people who astral travel regularly. You already have this ability ? it?s up to you to use it and reap the rewards.