Are they a place where everything that happens is recorded? Everything that happens here is recorded; it's like a stored record that you can access. However, if you do go into the astral plane, you can't expect it to be exactly as you want it to be because there are other sets of rules. You have to watch out for dreams from the subconscious that can convince you that you are seeing records from the past, but which are actually just projections from your own subconscious. That's why you should be as aware as you can be when having an out-of-body experience, so that you see what's there. If you try to will it too much, you can easily project a fantasy from the mind, which becomes as though something real. You may be fortunate enough that your astral experience takes you to the Akashic records where every single event that has ever happened is recorded. When you actually go into the Akashic records, what happens is that you appear in the place and time of the record. So let's say you take out an Akashic file from a Roman period, you would then find yourself not looking at it like some kind of movie of those files, but you would be back in the time and place of an ancient land. In one of my earliest out-of-body experiences, I projected out of my body and went straight back in time to the early 1960s to my bedroom, which was