question about hypnagogic state: hallucination or projection?

[Venus_Goddess_of_Love]

I am really confused - hope you can help clarify. 

I seem to find myself in the hypnagogic state a lot these days, when my intention is to project after having done energy work. For the third time today, I experienced sleep paralysis and saw and communicated with spirits in my bedroom.  Not very nice spirits, always wanting to steal my energy just like parasites.  They seem greedy, immature and lost.  This morning I even communicated with one of three who were sucking up my energy.  She seemed to say that they were recently deceased young friends without a care in the world.  As they were about to go to their next victim, I said to her that she and her friends should find help in evolved colonies on the spheres of the planet (been reading about this!)and prepare for rebirth.  Now I'm not sure if this is hallucination or real.  I don't want it to be real because I feel invaded in my own home.  Is it possible for spirits to take advantage of us like that? 

I'd be grateful for your thoughts.

[Venus_Goddess_of_Love]

hello, anyone, please help. I'm worried.

Thanks.

[Adun]

I'd say it's all just hallucinations, normal in the hypnagogic state/sp so don't worry about it.

If it'll make you feel better, try to make the hallucinations evolve towards something more comfortable to you. (example: imagine a warm sensation and then think to yourself that's a spirit healer that's taking care of the others) Just work with your imagination and expectations.

[Venus_Goddess_of_Love]

Thank you Adun.

[AmbientSound]

Since this is about dreams, I would say that your experiences are not necessarily hallucinations. The spirits and entities of which you speak may be parts of your own psyche that present themselves to your conscious mind in this way. The unconscious mind's way of communicating with the conscious mind is not always easily understood. It could be your subconscious mind telling you what aspects of yourself need attention or what about you could be improved. Maybe it is addressing your method of dealing with your fears. The spirits may be a metaphor of some small part of your being. All of us can make improvements to ourselves, so this is normal. One thing you can do before you go OBE is perform a protection spell or say a prayer to your deity for protection. There are energy shielding exercises that you can perform that could make it so you're in a protective "bubble" while you are "out there." I have done this many times before entering into combat with hostile astral entities (I was once an astral warrior).

Our minds (as a whole) are connected and I know it. I had a dream once that this girl asked me to the prom in high school. And the next day she did, EXACTLY like it happened in the dream. This is a personal first-hand experience. She ended up being my first love, and the only LOVE I have had to date. We eventually broke up, since she had moved half-way across the country with her parents. But it was good while it lasted.

I am aware that hypnagogic and dream-states are different from each other, but they are basically different stages of the same process.

I would not throw your experiences away as illusion/hallucination or rely solely on the opinions of others to figure this out. You must ask yourself what feels right and true to YOU. Something in your gut will tell you. Pay attention to it. Seldom is intuition wrong.

[Venus_Goddess_of_Love]

Ambientsound - thanks for the well-thought reply.