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Everyone has the potential for a projection.

It's your given right as "consciousness" to extend that consciousness anywhere outside this reality.
Actually, you do it every single night that you fall asleep and dream. 

A dream is an astral projection of an unconscious nature. 
I call it a "Dream Awareness Experience".

Thanks for the post And others too.

Are there any good links to some meditation techniques I can try? The one that I've always used is laying down, placing my left hand on my upper left thigh and making a circle with the index finger and thumb while stretching the other fingers on this hand outwards. Then I place my right hand just under my stomach and proceed to inhale until it reaches down my spine, then out, then in, all the way down to my spine, then out.

It relaxes me very quickly, but I am curious of other methods. I found myself laying on my back for 2 hours last night. The longer I'd lay there and focus on my crown chakra, the more vibrations I'd feel, though I never reached sleep paralysis. I found that the more I drifted off while conscious, the faster my heart would beat as I was coming up on the paralysis.

I so often try to describe sleep paralysis but I don't think many experience it. I've met others that have, but most my family and friends don't deal with it. If I smoke marijuana after sleeping or get tired from the day, I find that taking a nap is guaranteed to bring on paralysis. In sleep paralysis, and I guess it's lucid dreaming in ways too because I am aware I am sleeping, I am aware of what's going on to a degree, but it is unknown all the same. One time during school I remember hearing my parents making breakfast and my sister getting ready for school. I was asleep though, indifferent to them, aware, but paralyzed. Again, I used my fingers to wake up.

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I have never successfully performed astral projection. At most I've felt awake while asleep but unable to respond to my body or speak. What interests me is how quickly I can create an onset of hypogogia or paralaysis easily. It's a very weird buzzing feeling, like napping for the short term and you wake up feeling all strange. In this state I feel numbness come on and I feel shocked that I cannot move. I have however been too tired in the past to bother fighting this so I experimented with moving my fingers and just enduring the overall feeling. Could this be the start of where I must push my mind? I feel as though there's a persistent feeling to 'let go', but it's as though I turn back, well, as I do by either moving my fingers or forcing myself onto the floor to wake up.

Ever since I was a child I've been scared to fall asleep on my back. I find that every time I do I experience a hypnagogic state of sorts, and as my Mother always explained, it's like someone is sitting on your chest. The Old Hag as myth calls it. More-so, if I nap, like I've read in the details of Astral Projection, I find that in a matter of moments I can reach this state where I'm begging my body to move and I feel as though I'm slowly moving my fingers, until finally, and most of the time, I fall out of my bed so the fall will wake me up from this state.

Last night I lid on my back, held up my forearm, and when it dropped I never acknowledged it, but if this was a nap after sleeping I'm almost positive that I could acknowledge it and enter this state full force.

Ever since I experimented with LSD a few years ago I've been craving to learn the difference between dreaming and reality. I know there's some giant secret out there, and I feel like I've spent my entire life looking for it, having had existential thoughts as just a child, for years and years of my life. I also have ADHD and Bipolar II, so my entire thought process is just different than the average individual, I can assure you that, since my thoughts always clash with others. I feel very alone in the way that I think, forums like this give me hope that others are out there to, and from the looks of it, there are many skilled OB-Experiencers.

I feel as though the hardest part of this will be to stop my racing thoughts, though I've always had no trouble falling into a deep sleep within moments.

Any comments are appreciated