Hi all, I had a strange experience the other night and I was wondering if someone could tell me if it was infact an astral projection experience or instead only a lucid dream. ( I admit I am skeptical about separating both these terms)
I awoke during the night and decided to meditate for approximately an hour on my back, I then rolled on my side and let myself fall asleep slowly. ( I can't fall asleep on my back) My mind was silent and I had a somewhat enchanced focus and awareness due to meditating which made it hard to fall asleep.
because of my prior meditation I kept becoming aware of the sensation of falling deeper into sleep, a sort of deep wave crashing over your body and your vision becoming further engulfed in a deeper blackness also accompanied by a feeling of somewhat sinking or dissociation. This sensation would further awaken me because it's onset was instant sometimes even startling me because of its sudden and abrupt shift , it would send a sort of pins and needles throughout my body ( not to be confused with vibrations.) Anyway this occurred maybe 5 times.
eventually I just became accustomed to the suddenn onset of the sensation, and went further into the rabbit hole. I started to feel the "vibrations" I would personsally describe them as a sort of very fast pulsating energy not intense or uncomfortable more gentle and subtle accompanied by a very quiet fluttering of sorts in the ear the pulsating became faster and faster I was Patiently and enthusiastically awaiting for the intensity to grow..
This is it this is the moment I decide in an instant, I roll out of my body I experience what feels like pushing myself through a barrier or force field I feel a sort of detachment as I succeed ( kind of like when you bury your foot in wet sand and as you pull you feel a release of pressure and it makes that slurping sound) I roll out onto the ground and then I kind of just find myself back in my body where the oddest thing is happening my vision is coming out of my F***king stomach, like what the hell? It's coloured and clear I'm looking out my stomach at half my bed and half my room. I feel as if I'm on my hand and knees crouched over where my real body would be only my head and vision are stuck in my stomach.. I'm forcing myself out pulling my neck upwards as if it where like my head was buried in sand.
I finally come out I'm stumbling around feeling unusually lethargic a feeling of no energy my vision is grey and awfully blurry ( kind of like looking through a telescope) my vision is out of my control, I feel like a new born calf stumbling all confused and dazed like "what the F*** is going on man, who's this big cow"
I stumble for maybe ten seconds around my bed then collapse back in my body really unintentionally all weird experiences cease and I'm in a calm mild sleep paralysis which then subsides quickly and I awaken confused, excited and quite frankly a little disappointed.
I'll add that I'm a frequent lucid dreamer, probably have had well over 100 lucid dreams that often vary in control and length and even quite a few that have tried mimicking AP. this however I would consider to be a most unusual experience with a lot of unexpected things such as vision out of my stomach, and a feeling of lethargy and lack of energy which I have never heard about let alone expected or experienced before and 97% of my lucid dreams are spontaneous where I lose consciousness then regain once in a dream which was not the case in this particular situation. Although I still add the possibility that it may have just been an unusual lucid dream mimicking AP with unintentional results, I am yet to conclude and hopefully will in the near future where I take further endeavours into the rabbit hole
Thoughts?
I awoke during the night and decided to meditate for approximately an hour on my back, I then rolled on my side and let myself fall asleep slowly. ( I can't fall asleep on my back) My mind was silent and I had a somewhat enchanced focus and awareness due to meditating which made it hard to fall asleep.
because of my prior meditation I kept becoming aware of the sensation of falling deeper into sleep, a sort of deep wave crashing over your body and your vision becoming further engulfed in a deeper blackness also accompanied by a feeling of somewhat sinking or dissociation. This sensation would further awaken me because it's onset was instant sometimes even startling me because of its sudden and abrupt shift , it would send a sort of pins and needles throughout my body ( not to be confused with vibrations.) Anyway this occurred maybe 5 times.
eventually I just became accustomed to the suddenn onset of the sensation, and went further into the rabbit hole. I started to feel the "vibrations" I would personsally describe them as a sort of very fast pulsating energy not intense or uncomfortable more gentle and subtle accompanied by a very quiet fluttering of sorts in the ear the pulsating became faster and faster I was Patiently and enthusiastically awaiting for the intensity to grow..
This is it this is the moment I decide in an instant, I roll out of my body I experience what feels like pushing myself through a barrier or force field I feel a sort of detachment as I succeed ( kind of like when you bury your foot in wet sand and as you pull you feel a release of pressure and it makes that slurping sound) I roll out onto the ground and then I kind of just find myself back in my body where the oddest thing is happening my vision is coming out of my F***king stomach, like what the hell? It's coloured and clear I'm looking out my stomach at half my bed and half my room. I feel as if I'm on my hand and knees crouched over where my real body would be only my head and vision are stuck in my stomach.. I'm forcing myself out pulling my neck upwards as if it where like my head was buried in sand.
I finally come out I'm stumbling around feeling unusually lethargic a feeling of no energy my vision is grey and awfully blurry ( kind of like looking through a telescope) my vision is out of my control, I feel like a new born calf stumbling all confused and dazed like "what the F*** is going on man, who's this big cow"
I stumble for maybe ten seconds around my bed then collapse back in my body really unintentionally all weird experiences cease and I'm in a calm mild sleep paralysis which then subsides quickly and I awaken confused, excited and quite frankly a little disappointed.I'll add that I'm a frequent lucid dreamer, probably have had well over 100 lucid dreams that often vary in control and length and even quite a few that have tried mimicking AP. this however I would consider to be a most unusual experience with a lot of unexpected things such as vision out of my stomach, and a feeling of lethargy and lack of energy which I have never heard about let alone expected or experienced before and 97% of my lucid dreams are spontaneous where I lose consciousness then regain once in a dream which was not the case in this particular situation. Although I still add the possibility that it may have just been an unusual lucid dream mimicking AP with unintentional results, I am yet to conclude and hopefully will in the near future where I take further endeavours into the rabbit hole
Thoughts?