Astral deafness???

[Astral-Trea]

Hi all,

I posted this experience a while back mixed in with another post but never really got any response to it, so I want to post it again and build on it with what has happened since then.

Last year, basically I was reading about AP and had tried a little to do it before bed one night recently.. I had dream that seemed pretty normal and wasn't ghost or AP related. It was something to do with repairing house.  All of a sudden in this dream, I was in a truck and the truck started moving back and forth on the ground sideways.. Like sliding.  I remember a few family members outside of the truck and I yelled that it wasn't me doing this. The dream turned sort of scary at that point and there seemed to be a ghost or something in the house that I assumed was doing this.  I suddenly got pulled out of the truck through the window and high into the air. Maybe 50 feet or so.. I looked down and saw the ppl I mentioned earlier looking up and what I now think was my body laying on the road on its side.  Once I reached about 50 feet quickly.. I sort of went weightless.

I have a fan next to my bed that blows hard and make alot of noise. I know from lucid dreaming that I can hear thhings like that in my dreams and also the TV etc.  The funny thing is I guess you don't notice it until it stops... While in the air everything suddenly went silent and was sort of startling... Like I had went deaf.. And I suddenly and quickly fell to the road.  The weirdest I remember hitting the ground but seeing myself and specifically my face, laying on the road on it's side.  When I hit the ground I woke up with a very loud snore and I heard the fan again..my hearing had returned.  My dreams normally fade away from my memory within minutes after waking..l but this one is one I will remember for a very long time with no effort which i also think is weird.  I find myself wondering if this was an AP within a dream and if some of the dream imagery was mixed in or something..

The biggest thing that is weird about this to me, is the sudden deafness... this was the most real thing about it to me and then later, I had it happen again.

The 2nd time which happened a few months later, I was in an elevator with some people I worked with at the time, the elevator fell from very high up and it was a glass elevator so I could see that it was falling. I went weightless again and everything went silent as before.. I remember looking around and thinking, this is it I am going to die... I was afraid and then suddenly woke up.

I feel like this was a projection that sort of happened but my fear and not understanding that at the time, snapped me back in and I woke up. I am waiting for another thing like this to happen so I can try to just let it happen and see where it goes..

Has anyone else experienced a sudden deafness during an exit or afterwards?

-Trea

[Bedeekin]

Cool descriptions.

I and other people go partially deaf every time we enter the Sleep Paralysis state. This is because of the little bones in the ear. They are there to help dampen loud noises... you may be able to tense them making them rumble. When you yawn is a good example of these muscles at work.

When we are in SP or REM... our ear muscles dampen external sound and vibrate... Sleep experts don't know why. Some think it is to create an environment for dreaming.. .leaving the dreamer able to still hear noise to alert them yet not enough to influence the dream. Why? Who knows.

Whether this is connected I don't know. Maybe.

[todd421757]

I always get deafness when I am out of body. I use a fan sound to judge if I am in or out of body. If I can't hear the fan sound in the background, then I am out of body. It is a simple way for me to know.

[Astral-Trea]

I always get deafness when I am out of body. I use a fan sound to judge if I am in or out of body. If I can't hear the fan sound in the background, then I am out of body. It is a simple way for me to know.

Wow thats amazing to know! I had always heard that senses were multiplied out of body so I thought maybe you would hear more. Thanks for telling me this.. I wonder how many others are the same.

[Astral-Trea]

Cool descriptions.

I and other people go partially deaf every time we enter the Sleep Paralysis state. This is because of the little bones in the ear. They are there to help dampen loud noises... you may be able to tense them making them rumble. When you yawn is a good example of these muscles at work.

When we are in SP or REM... our ear muscles dampen external sound and vibrate... Sleep experts don't know why. Some think it is to create an environment for dreaming.. .leaving the dreamer able to still hear noise to alert them yet not enough to influence the dream. Why? Who knows.

Whether this is connected I don't know. Maybe.

I have always noticed while dreaming that I can hear still what is in the real world but yes it is dampened alot.. but this is like going from hearing the ambient noise of the fan, to suddenly hearing NOTHING and being totally deaf. You don't realize you are hearing the ambient noise until its done... it is a very eerie feeling to me which is what really caught me off guard. Alot of times when I was a kid, I would know the power went out when asleep cause of a fan stopping.

[Bedeekin]

Yeah... you can recreate the dampening rumble by either yawning... scrunching your eyes together. You are literally hearing the strobing electrical impulses of your nerves. Even if you scrunch your fist to your ear you can hear a rumble of energy... physical nerve electrical energy.

Go into a quiet room and clap... there will be a tiny delayed rumble alongside it. This is the bodies tiniest striated (bone connected) muscle called the Tensor tympani lifting the bodies tiniest bones The Incus, Stapes and the Malleus from the tympanic membrane and Cochlea. It's actually called the Tympanic reflex. 



The interesting thing is that during Sleep Paralysis... the actual paralysis is called REM atonia which is a deactivation of all bone connected muscles. the Tensor tympani muscle is bone connected.