https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction The "astral" plane tends to be used to refer to what may better be called "spirit plane" or "other dimensions". Astral plane however seems to refer to the plane of stars, which in a modern view is simply "space". But the naming would come from an earlier cosmology where the stars were seen as objects glued on a dome, meaning the astral plane is the same as the ether plane, the air at the very top of the atmosphere. This left aside, what people experience in the common "alien abduction" tends to be something like being out at night, their car suddenly shuts down, then they see flashing lights and seem to have memory loss. They either find an hour of time missing, or they appear in a different location, not knowing how they ended up there. Later, some people will have flashes of memories appear, or nightmares about being in a metallic room with bright lights, being examined by the common ant-like grey aliens. With all this in mind, and feeling a bit annoyed at the fact that continuous astral travel seems very difficult to achieve, I decided to try something some months ago. My experience when successfully going into other planes with what I call "full dive", is that I have difficulty recalling what I did after coming back again. Time also seems to have sped up when out there, so that the experience is compressed into a spot in time. This resembles dreaming when asleep, where a 20 min dream can take place during a 5 min nap. Dreams are often hard to recall also, making it seem related in function. I wanted to see if it would be possible to test this by asking to be picked up by aliens, where I'm not actively in control, in the manner of an abduction, to see what I'd recall after. As I'm on good terms with greys in general, I went outside one night when it was very dark, and tried getting in contact with any greys up there. There are a lot more aliens around at any given time than most people probably want to be aware of, so this was pretty easy. It was a small saucer type vessel with two researchers onboard. I explained what I wanted to do, and asked if they could just pick me up and drive around the lake for 10 min, then put me back down again. They said they could do that, so I went to a high spot and waited. I saw a light high up in the sky, similar to a satellite or airplane (except it didn't blink, planes are supposed to have a white and red light blinking, most lights in the sky don't have that nowadays) and then I had a "blink", "mental skip" experience, after which I just had the inner vision of the saucer flying off again. I saw a dark shape briefly speed off in a split second vision which may or may not have been physical vision. After this, I first thought nothing happened, but I stopped my mind, traced back mentally, and the images were present. The inside of the ship, the two greys, the trip over the lake and back, as well as them communicating that they'd put me back down again. But there was no continuous awareness of this happening, it felt as if it hadn't happened. This felt frustrating, but still does match, sort of, what people normally say abductions are like. I want this thread to be about this kind of issue. How do you normally work with astral travel or visits to other planes when doing "full dives"? Share any experiences with this.