Astral travel – the traveling of the soul without the body. This is something that we are all capable of doing and something you might not know, is that you do it almost every night already.
When we go to sleep, our soul gets to work. Very often does it leave the body, traveling through the universe to other planets, other dimensions or sometimes stays on Earth but goes to key locations. This can either be for healing, upgrading of your energy body or for your higher self to attend certain gathering on a Galactic level.
What you must understand is that there is an entire other reality running concurrent to the one you are in now. We are not bound by this Earth experience. For many of us, we have large Galactic roles which does not stop when we incarnate. Instead those extensions of our soul are busy with their given task. At times however, the energy needs to be raised and we must connect with these aspects of ourselves. Generally at night or at times, you will find that you just need to take a nap.
Waking up, you can feel that it was an incredibly deep and intense sleep even though it was only for a short period of time. Those especially are times when you traveled out.
The feeling that you sometimes have, just upon falling asleep and then suddenly waking up – generally with a falling sensation. That was your soul staring to leave your body but your body, realizing something was not right – started to wake up, jerking your soul back into it. For me personally, the bed shakes when that happens and I am left with the dream fragment of generally walking somewhere, slipping and falling down.
There is nothing wrong about this experience, just that our bodies are not used to it. Even myself, travelling out about every single night I still have that jerking experience from time.