I've been interested in psychic stuff and the supernatural for a while, and I remember a few months ago hearing the phrase "Astral Projection", but I didn't know what it meant. Eventually I looked it up and thought it was very interesting. Then, for some reason, unbeknownst to me I stopped thinking about it. Lately, I've been noticing a lot of things reminding me of Astral Projection. Then my interest was renewed. I said all that to say this: How does one do it? I've done some research on the internet, but I can only find very general information.
For me, I had to gain a sense of heightened awareness, I became aware of my spiritual self, at first it felt like I had 2 different perspectives, one of them was from a 3rd person point of view. One night I was meditating, thinking, getting to know me better. I suddenly was jerked from my body - however I still maintained consciousness, I was still aware of the situation and my surroundings - able to interact BUT I could feel apart of me traveling close to the speed of thought if not just as fast. My experience was different from most others, my soul was able to be in many places at once, the only analogy I can think of would be having multiple t.v. screens/monitors and watching them all at once. The first couple of times this happened to me, it literally scared me shitless, what scared me even more was that it was very easy for me to do it. I didn't know how to handle it, it's very intense at first. I'm still learning how to be able to properly experience it. I know I've traveled whilst asleep - for me anyways, there's a BIG difference between a dream or lucid dream, and astral projection in sleep, you'll know it when it happens. My only advice to you is to meditate, alot, find out who you are, get in touch with your spiritual self and develop your capabilities from there. If your into reading, I'd suggest Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, a very highly developed soul who described being able to astral travel was as easy as walking to him (aswell as many other things - telepathic communication being one). You just need to find your connection, everyone has the ability. I'd say start out with his first book - titled Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, however he has a book entitled The Third Eye which deals alot with astral projection and other intersting ideas. I'm not sure if you'd be able to find any copies anymore, my dad passed all his books down to me, I am lucky lol. Good Luck! p.s. A tip I always used was telling myself "I know", your spiritual self is what knows what your doing, if you can tap into that, you're off to a good start.