My First Few Days

[Arkwind]

Firstly - Hi Everyone - I'm Arkwind, im 18 and from the UK and studying at uni in Birmingham.

I have recently developed an interest in astral projection, i used to read a lot of spiritual books pertaining to spirit guides and other planes along time ago but in recent months i have been practicing meditation on and off. I stumbled upon the whole AP scene when i started to hear noises and voices whilst deep in meditation and the whole AP topic came in to view, so i've read alot about the topic from what i can gather on the internet and it seems there are 101 ways to Astral Project or experience an OOBE. Most of the methods i have read contain a stage in meditation where there are vibrations and other symptoms such as the odd sounds i had been hearing.

Recently i have started meditating with the intention of APing and separating from my physical body, about 15 minutes ago i had my first strange experience which is why i join this forum instead of just lurking.

I had downloaded a brain wave generator and was using it to meditate and get into a relaxed state lying on my bed, after about 20 mins my left hand because what i can only described a paralyzed, it was laying flat on the bed yet i couldn't feel the covers at all, shortly after my left hand became like this also for a few seconds, my right hand stayed like this for about 3 minutes before i focused to much on it and then regained feeling. Does anybody have a clue what this means or is it just nothing, because this has never happened to me before ?

Thanks for your time,
Arkwind

[Xanth]

Hi there, welcome to the forums!

Quite simply, you were beginning to lose awareness of certain parts of your physical body.
This is the first step to projecting.

Grats

~Ryan

[Inico]

Out of curiosity, what was the brainwave generator? 
Hemi-Sync has also given me some weird sensations.

[Arkwind]

Out of curiosity, what was the brainwave generator? 
Hemi-Sync has also given me some weird sensations.

It was mentioned somewhere in this forum - i got it at http://www.bwgen.com/ and was just using the preset brain wave tracks .

[Inico]

That you managed to lose sensation in your hand so quickly must be a good sign.
Today I learned that my sister has been experiencing all sorts of connections to astral projection such as vibrations and disassociation with her body before sleep all her life - and she doesn't even know what astral projection is! Yet again, she's younger, so I should probably help her preserve her advantage before age claims it.

My point being, perhaps your brain is wired favourably for this.

[Arkwind]

When i started reading up about AP one thing struck me instantly,

about 7/8 years ago when i was a kid i woke up in the middle of the night completely paralyzed and at the bottom of my bed was a humanoid figure shaped like a man but probably 8ft tall and made of a pure black mass, its the blackest thing i have ever seen, so black that it stands out in a pitch black room. It terrified me as a child and i still can remember every second of it. So it seems i may have demonstrated signs of sleep paralysis and astral travel like experiences when i was younger too. Maybe kids are more susceptible.

[soli]

don't worry.. you should just get used to bodily feelings like that and only observe them but don't react to them, earlier today a nerve in my brain felt like it was going to expand to the point it was going to pop and explode inside my brain, but i just ignored it.. though thinking of it actually doing so was somewhat amusing