I will start by saying that for me and many other astral travelers, astral realms are fun, energizing, and completely safe. Swimming is also fun and energizing but it comes with risks of drowning or encountering sharks.
Astral projection can be compared to swimming in several ways.
1. Your vision and hearing are distorted.
When you’re underwater, whether you’re swimming in a tropical reef, swimming in clear blue water, or just with your ears or eyes below the surface of a bathtub, the sounds you hear and see have an extraordinary quality. Light is refracted differently and sound waves are not the same as those in air. Imagine if you had never dipped your head under water before. Do you feel like your first water experience is an illusion? The eyes and ears that your body has are not with you in astral projection. You only have the original senses of your soul with you. Your astral hearing and vision are quite keen but different from the physical ears and eyes you have during your waking consciousness.
2. While under water and in astral projection, you are weightless.
In actual scientific fact, you are not truly weightless in water. It’s like simply because you’re much fresher in the water than you are in the air. In the astral realms, you are weightless like a soul. You can move up, down or even at the speed of light powered by the power of your mind. Actually in that respect I suppose astral projection would be better compared to the weightlessness you would expect to find in the vacuum of outer space.
3. You may be hindered by concerns other than actual swimming or astral travel.
When you refrain from entering a body of water, the retreat may be caused by fear of sharks or unknown currents. You may also feel that you don’t look good in a swimsuit. And in terms of astral projection, well, I suppose you might be wondering what people would think of you if you did that.
4. The water and star world are both nothing short of amazing.
Whether you’re swimming, diving, surfing, or just enjoying yourself in a hot tub, being in the water is an experience on land that shouldn’t be missed. Well, there is also no transcendent bliss of slipping away from the confines of your physical body to explore or just to experience the thrills that exist on the etheric plane.