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Don't know why someone downvoted you without taking the time to question you further.

What is astral projecting?

I have heard anecdotes of self-healing before, it reconciles with my internal model that induced muscular relaxation + increased bloodflow via neuro-stimulation can facilitate healing and also reset any "knots" lingering around. Similar to how massaging, accupuncture and cupping can help recovery.

Although many find this unbelievable perhaps because it is hard to measure/study and the knowledge to body control is locked behind unscientific martial arts and requires years of training. Seems like we are starting to tease out reproducible findings via things like Wim Hof and mass interest in yoga. I'm excited to see what we may discover about our own potential - just like how [1] debunked scientists' assumptions about pupil dilation

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28377916

> What is astral projecting?

The illusion that your mind escapes your body and/or visits other planes of existence etc. It has been replicated successfully in lab conditions many times over and is proven to be just an illusion.

Illusion has a negative meaning.

If anything call it https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnagogic-h... but not "illusion".

Does “hallucination” not have a negative meaning?

When it's a vision, it depends what you get to see. Often enough, what you see is not literally different, but its perceived meaning is different. Sometimes revelatorily different.

"Hallucination" is a judgmental term; it may be appropriate when it is involuntary, or what you see is harmful. People with schizophrenia have hallucinations, and (in all cases I have known personally) suffer for it. Thus, "hallucinogen" is a judgmental term about a chemical, where people taking one for the beneficial effects call it an entheogen.

Depending on the context, not as much as "illusion". Read the link.

The link literally does not contain the word “illusion”. It has no discussion about why the word “hallucination” might be preferable.

I’m not clear why you linked it, honestly. I fail to understand the jump from “astral projection” to “hypnagogic hallucinations”.

Was your intent to just say that sometimes the medical profession uses the word “hallucination”? That doesn’t give the word positive connotations, especially with laypersons.

100% agree.

I think that self healing is lit. "mind over matter" and the mind can induce both healing or harm to self based on your thoughts.

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