astral projection

A select number of these robbers haunted him through his dreams, and he came to know them quite well. […] [H]e believed in omens and thought-transference, and he deemed these dream-robbers to be the astral projection of real personages who happened at those particular moments, no matter where they were in the flesh, to be harboring designs, in the spirit, upon his wealth.

[I]f you remain close to your physical body in the first few astral projections by observing the details in your own room, you will have much stronger and clearer consciousness.