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Sleep paralysis and astral projection

bigben202

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Sorry if this us the wrong forum, I see this as being new age, so spiritual was my guess.

I've had sleep paralysis since around age fifteen, waking up unable to move or feel breathing. It freaked me right out until later when I found out what it was and getting around age 21 it became a more rare occurence. The past six months I've tried to lucid dream and astral project, reading up on techniques and ways if doing it.

Well last night I napped after work from 5pm to around 9ish, was still pretty tired, so got some food and a beer to help go back to sleep. Around 12 I went back to bed for the night. Lying there and drifting off, I heard what sounded like the neighbors baby crying, only getting increasing louder. I then started to have a body high, like all hairs standing on end all over my body. I realized the neighbors don't have a baby, alarmed, I sat up. The crying stopped and figured I must have been close to nodding off. I lied back down and when I closed my eyes the body high, similar to that of ecstasy (fuzz all over the body) came back, along with tinnitus and the crying baby, which now sounded like screaming. I examined this in my mind, and the body high grew to where it felt like my while body was shaking and vibrating violently, only this wasn't physical. I could tell I wasn't shaking, because my cat was asleep on my chest.

I remember reading that this is exactly what happens before an astral projection, although I was not trying for one, this just started happening, so I then tried to apply the techniques I read. The crying stopped but the ringing started to grow really loud , and the body vibrations, still not psychical, grew immensely. I then jumped, still fully conscious, into a hard sleep paralysis.

This has never happened, I've always woke up into sleep paralysis, even if I just briefly fell asleep. The experience was an unsettling one, with the phantom crying, and out of the blue, never experienced before body high, which also felt something like meditation I should add. Instead of coming out of the sleep paralysis, like I have every time before, I simply woke up and it was morning. And no, I'm 100% none of this was a dream.

Any ideas? Sorry for typos, doing this from phone
 
If you can keep your mind awake enough, but not too much, as well as let your body fall asleep, you will be able to go straight into sleep paralysis and then into a lucid dream. I've done this many times, it's called wake-induced lucid dream. All you have to know is when your mind wants to know if it is too awake to go to sleep it will send a signal to your body. Most of the time this signal is what tells you to roll over, it can tell you to roll over so strongly that it seems impossible to resist. If you roll over then you won't be able to go to sleep paralysis for awhile longer, but if you do resist you should enter sleep paralysis VERY shortly. Don't get too excited over this as well or it will wake your mind up too much to enter it. All you have to realize is get over the excitement or the fear of the paralyzing sensations and then you'll be able to lucid dream very easy this way, I do it all the time & it's great.
 
If you can keep your mind awake enough, but not too much, as well as let your body fall asleep, you will be able to go straight into sleep paralysis and then into a lucid dream

This is weird, because I had never gone into a sleep paralysis while still conscious. I actually had no idea that lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis were ever connected. When I started to have body energy that vibrated I imagined there was a rope above me, hanging from the ceiling and slightly into my body. I then imagined i was reaching out, grabbing the rope and climbing up. At what point do you mentally 'roll over' to push your being out of your body for astral projection? I usually, when trying, watch the back of my eyelids and focus on my breathing, watching my body fall asleep.
I've had sleep paralysis for many years, and like i said it doesn't happen that often anymore, but how is this incorporated into lucid dreams? I don't follow...
 
Once I get the paralysis and can no longer feel the weight/flexible/tightness of my muscles I try to use only my mind to roll my body out of my bed, not my body at all. In a lucid dream the feel of my muscles inside my body is one of the only strong differences.
 
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