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human
Serious question here. If I wrote something on a piece of paper and left it in another room, would you be able to astral project yourself to the other room and read what it says?
gpt
it wont be the same paper, it will be astral paper. So the words may be jumbled
human
So, when you go into the astral plane, is it an actual plane? Or is it just like a dream, a distorted projection of your own subconscious?
gpt
>is it an actual plane?
>a distorted projection of your own subconscious?
Both, plus what  said. It is an actual plane where your thoughts have immense power, so it's very possible most of the stuff you'll see will be projections of the subconscious, unless you learn to control your mind and stop those. Plus you may very well be viewing a jumbled version made up of many different 'ghost landscapes' made up of alternate reality landscapes.

There's also different levels to it - look into near death experiences and you'll find that people experiencing those are often floating around in the actual environment or what would appear to be a carbon copy of it, downt to all the people moving around and whatnot, and some of their accounts of what they'd seen while dead have been verified.
I think it would make the most sense for NDEs to be a more focused, exact and 'pure' version of this phenomenon we call AP, being so much more detailed due to the consciousness having been severed from the brain for its duration. You're of course free to make up your own different opinion on this, if you for some reason think they're at the core a different thing.