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Hey guys, I'm happy to report I've had some moderate success recently (read: this morning). I experienced and episode of SP when I awoke this morning and, due to my daily reinforcement exercises, I actually had the mental where-with-all to use the opportunity to attempt to get OOB. So I felt the vibrations and shortly afterwards, I began to have the sensation of sitting upright, though knowing I wasn't moving physically and everything was still black. I got excited and tried to open my eyes only to find myself back laying down in bed, I had opened my physical eyes!

So I was a bit disappointed but it was early enough so I tried to go back to sleep in hopes of lucid dreaming. Then I awoke and again had SP. I closed my eyes and did the same thing but took my time. Everything was still black and I began to 'move', but strangely enough I knew exactly where I was in the physical space of my room as I began to rise. I got to the point where I put my feet on the floor and actually felt the hard wood, so I thought 'this is it, I've done it' though I was having difficulty standing. So I tried to open my eyes again and boom! Back in my body. Damn.

Also, this may sound bizarre but the second time I awoke I had the sensation that I had been 'slapped'! I actually thought my little brother had come into my room and was messing with me but nope. It took me a few seconds to realize the slapping sensation didn't hurt and was non-physical in a way, very very hard to describe. Any idea what that could have been?

Any advice or experiences shared are very welcome!

Arithmetic

I recently posted here for the first time announcing that I had had a couple of involuntary experiences and I would be actually begin attempting AP.

The two nights following my original post were great, I had amazing lucid dreams and on the second night I somehow achieved an incredible feeling of comfort and contentment. Then, the night before last I tried to do it again using my same method as before. I kept on having semi-lucid dreams but then kept snapping out of them and waking up. This happened all night and I didn't sleep very well at all!

Last night was decidedly uneventful. Though my dream recall seems to be improving I didn't have any lucid experiences. It just seems strange that it was so easy for me at first. I honestly thought I could do this at will almost and it would be no time until I was APing with the best of 'em.

Does everyone experience these ups and downs? Any tips on how to remain consistent? I think my routine is fairly solid as it worked the first two nights, but I wonder what has changed.

Arithmetic

Hi everyone, first time poster here.  I've recently had experiences of a certain nature that I don't feel I can discuss with family and friends.  They are all staunchly Atheist and would almost certainly be dismissive and likely lose respect for me should I mention it.

I have had experiences in life, though I'm not sure I've ever had a full-blown OBE. I have experienced Sleep Paralysis many times, sometimes with the presence of a (negative) entity, though I've never actually seen anything, just felt a presence that seemed malign.

Also, I have always had what I thought was just a recurring dream where I'm lying in bed and I try to get up, put I'm 'pulled' back down, several times. I was always amazed that during these 'episodes' I was able to 'see' my room how it actually was at the time (over many years this happened in many different rooms). Basically it just didn't feel like a dream, more like I was trying to move out of my own body but could never quite make it before 'snapping back.' During these episodes I am fully aware of what's going on, to the point that I often become frustrated that I can't 'get out.' It feels very different from a dream as I feel much more 'present' than I do while dreaming, even lucid dreaming. The transition from this to waking is often seamless, with me actually being in the position I 'dreamt' I was in.

Recently though, I've had a few experiences lately which brought about a resurgence in my research of AP and lucid dreaming.The first was about a week ago:

I awoke with the sensation of 'coming back' into my body. The best way I can describe it is that it was like the feeling of bouncing back up as if I had jumped into bed, the only thing is that I wasn't physically moving (and certainly not jumping!). As always, these experiences are difficult to describe, but I feel almost certain that this was something out of the ordinary. It just felt very different.

Then, two nights ago, I had another experience in which I realized I was dreaming and became lucid. At that point I attempted to detach from my body. Everything went black and I felt the vibrations commonly associated with AP. That's as far as it got, but I think I may have been close!

What do you guys think? Does it sound like the things I'm experiencing involuntarily are AP related? Or perhaps they could just be combinations of vivid dreams and SP?

Thanks for taking the time to read this and I look forward to any and all responses.

Best wishes,

Arithmetic