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I think you can quiet sleep paralyses noises - I got woken up this morning by people moving around, & as I hadn't really moved or opened my eyes decided to attempt a projection through SP, anyway it kicked in after a minute, vibrations & noises, but today I noticed how loud the sounds were, which I've gotten used to & don't really pay much attention to any more. So out of curiosity I held the intention for it to quiet down & get more peaceful, & although I hardly heard harps playing, it did really calm down quite a bit as well the vibrations not being so intense, where as usually for me the vibrations are very intense & noises get louder till they both come to a climax & then just vanish when I project. 

I don't know if I actually influenced the sounds & vibrations, but I'm going to give it another shot in morning & see if it has the same effect. I post this because I know, in the beginning at least, S.P can be pretty scary & very loud! & I hadn't seen a post about influencing it before.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4467CI4y0M I love the video, the song as well, but the video is brilliant!

I'm having a bit of a problem phasing, I'm getting mixed results, I keep getting 'shot' back & my eyes open, or at best, on a few attempts now I'll phase & start exploring, but after a few minutes or so something will happen that will startle me & I'll go back to eyes wide open.

For instance, most recently it was two bright balls of light dancing around outside a window, I stepped in closer for a better look, & they carried on dancing for a bit & then quickly flew head on at each other & exploded into a massive flash of light & that startled me to wakefulness.

I started out through the mind awake/body asleep method, going through SP etc, but have never had a problem with anything like this startling me back to wakefulness, only thing that seems to wake me up is really extreme/intense sensations. Lately I'm having a dry spell though & having no success at all, so I've started trying to use the phasing method, using visuals & as I said, getting at best mixed results.

I'm practising at night, every night, when I go to sleep. The only thing I can think of is to use my senses even more & try to get a bit more grounded - any advice? 

I've been finding myself having some really intense dreams lately, they have all the dream logic nonsense going on in them, but at their core they explicitly revolve around things that are going on in my life, or rather have gone on, & are still going on for me, emotionally. I mean I had a pretty confusing one a couple nights ago involving some people I hardly know but I'm not exactly on friendly terms with, & the whole way through the dream I was oscillating between aggression towards them & then wanting to know them, actually be friends with them, even help them, while there stance towards me was a steady passively aggressive one. I've never really had dreams like this before, with constant conflict between feelings, but I've had about 4 now in the last couple of weeks, highlighting conflicted feelings about people who have been in my life, as far back as a permanent falling out between my best friends at age 16. Things I haven't even really thought about for a long time! Felt like sharing something that seemed, new.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEkL8KOBS2g -  amazing.

Has anyone ever been to meditation classes, like group type classes? I'm just curious of peoples experiences, I'm thinking of joining one, maybe learn something & meet more like minded people.

Would attempting to heal the physical body while conscious in the non-physical be more effective than in the physical, or is there no difference?

I've never attempted healing, I know it's supposed to be about intent, but is it intent for healing to happen, or a kind of intent that the injury is already healed and fine, and the last thought is about actually having an injury... I hope you get what I'm trying to say...

How far can this kind of healing go, unlimited?

Mental health? Anyone had experience healing these kind of things, depression & what not?

My issue is an injured leg, can't be treated traditionally, & over 8 years hasn't healed of its own accord, & will likely get worse as I age.

Appreciate any guidance, suggestions on techniques you guys can give me on this, I'm really clueless about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l-YYqjhVi4

An artist I'm a big fan of, very intelligent guy, his music has a whole lot of content, no B.S here, and he is actually in the mainstream! I could enjoy this song just for the beat, I love the sax!  He touches on quite a few topics in this song, & I wanted to share it, thought someone might enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77zUWqawag

If you click on a line it pops up with an explanation, if you don't get what he is referencing to in any particular line.

http://rapgenius.com/Lupe-fiasco-around-my-way-lyrics

I had this dream, a while ago,  I was running up the street, I quickly became very aware, it was as vivid and felt as real as the physical, nothing dreamy about it...

So anyway, I put my intent on seeing my at the time girlfriend, and she started to slowly appear, but she wasn't like everything else, everything else was very physical like, but she was like an apparition, transparent, kind of how you envision a stereotypical 'ghost' to appear. She didn't say anything, just kind of stood there with a little smile on her face about 5 feet in front of me... it ended pretty fast after that, no communication.

How can you tell between your own mental projection of someone, and someone's actual NP self? Other than through information gained in non-physical & validated later in the physical... is the fact my intent was to see her in front of me, rather than me going to her, a sign she was of my own mind, not of 'herself' ... I hope I'm understanding these things properly & actually making sense in what I'm saying... 

I basically had a couple of dreams over a week or so that I wanted to share, that were pretty intense throughout the dream. I'll try and be sparing on details and keep it to the aspects that have led me to post them. Though it has ended up being quite long still!

The first, my house is overrun with people I don't know partying, it's very loud, their presence made me feel very over whelmed.
One person was intent on hurting someone I care about. I approach, and as I make my way towards him and his group I start to feel an energy build up inside me, increasing as I got closer. All the noise in the house became background noise to the sound of this energy and the feeling of it building up inside me, like hearing with your head under water. The energy felt immense, like I could explode at any moment, yet it felt under my control. I approached the group in question still with this energy building up, I didn't attack or shout, but just quietly and peacefully said something along the lines of - 'You really don't want to do that' They all stopped and started to back away and everyone quickly left the house.

I woke up from this dream, got out of bed nearly fell over onto my face, feeling very dizzy, and then threw up. I rarely get ill, I had no temperature, I hadn't eaten anything off or bad and no one else in my house was ill recently. I didn't actually feel sick, just very dizzy which lasted through out the day so I had stay in bed, as the dizziness made the world wobble some what when walking making me feel nauseous, and after sleeping that night I was back to my usual self the next day. Can a dream have this effect on your body? Or is the more mundane answer that I was just ill in some way, for one day, the more likely cause.

This is the second time I had this feeling of energy building up recently - The previous one went on a slightly different path though, I'll keep it brief, was an aware controlled AP/OBE i think, could of been a lucid dream though, I got off my bed, left my room and went to the kitchen, saw a big man in the kitchen, words were exchanged between him and someone I couldn't see about what was about to happen. I approach him, enquiring whether or not he was a ghost got no reply, I get exactly the same building up of energy as in the above dream, I approach, though this time, no control over it, felt like I was going a million miles an hour but not moving, like I was bursting at the seems, started ranting at him incoherently thoughts racing, and ran past him into the kitchen disorientated and falling around out of control of my body, I look at him and he's shaking his head, and just says to himself "I knew it was too soon" What ever the hell that was about, I have not a clue.

So the connection between the dream, and AP/OBE (I think) is that intense feeling of the energy building up, accept the first experience, I lose control, but the second in the dream, I keep control over it and seem to use it to handle an apparent threat.

There is a 3rd dream with connection to the 1st dream that I had 2 days later, the connection regarding the aspect of protecting someone else, this time a girl who to me felt like the embodiment of innocence. I wont go into details cause this post is pretty long already but it was intense and very emotional, I protected her for a while, though very fearful, from the danger but gave up, and let her be taken. And felt intense guilt over this for 3 or 4 days and still do a bit a week on. I'm not an overly emotional person, so it is most strange to feel such intense emotion over a dream event after I have woken.

What effect has it all had on the way you live, compared to before all of this was a part of your lives?

I have read in places, the further down this path of growing 'spiritually' the more aware you become in your waking life, and the vial between this 'reality' and others becomes thinner; e.g seeing other entities and what not. I don't know how true this is, but is this a naturally progression of 'spiritual' evolution... If you have experienced this how has it changed your life? the way you live?

I'm genuinely very interested to hear your stories if you don't mind sharing them...   

peace x

So a few dreams recently that I have had I have found a bit comical and felt like sharing, the dreams are not very interesting in themselves but anyway, the first I was with a couple of people I don't think I knew, in some place that was a combination of 3 places I actually know that I guess have or had a somewhat emotional attachment to, the street I lived on as a kid, the street I spent most my time with childhood friends on, and a restaurant I really liked to go to with an Ex - and basically I became completely aware and lucid, and then began to question my dream companions, starting with "You know this is a dream right?" he replies "shut up, of course it's not" I say "Okay do you know me?" he says "YES!!" I say "Whats my name then?" which was replied with a silent confused face.  Lol

Another was at my childhood house again, I was having a very heated argument with my best friend, an argument that had actually happened and is the reason we haven't kept in touch over the past 8 years - So I'm not lucid this time, and we are arguing and I stop him in the middle of a screaming fit, and say "Is this the first time we have had this argument?" "is this real?" and he just stares at e confused lol and I've had probably 3 or 4 more recently like this were I'm semi aware & stop the action to tell my co-stars it's a dream, they never believe me though. 

I find this quite funny when I wake up, out of the infinite possibilities of things I could be doing when I become aware in my dreams, I choose to try to convince dream characters that they are just that! I used to find much more fun ways to spend my lucidity! Anyway, just something quirky I thought I'd share lol 

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Hi! I'm quite excited to give this a go!! A little about me; I don't tend to believe what I read or hear, I like to experience things for myself and then make my mind up, though I am sure there is something to this, based on people I have spoken to & trust & my own odd experiences. I also study psychology, though even with that I don't take it all in as fact... which probably makes me a bad student... LOL I'm very open minded and tend to interpret things in my way rather then how they are presented to me.

I have posted before, but noticed the introduction section & figured I would introduce myself. So I've known a little about this topic for a few years from some reading of sites like this, but never had the intention to go down this path till now. I had an experience a year or so ago, which is what I posted about originally & thanks to a couple of very helpful members I now know what I had experienced was the state focus 21 aka the 3D blackness, which was the entirety of my experience, due to my lack of intent. (lack of intent is the story of my life) So I held on to that for a year or so pondering on it once in a while, then a couple days ago thought to myself there are plenty of people out there who could help me get an understanding of this, and now it is really something I want to explore and am very excited about doing so! 

So I have done a bit of reading from this site, about basic stuff and I have seen that fear is a bit of a factor in the beginning, as from what I have read my fears will probably manifest themselves in some way at some point and scare the hell out of me! & I'm pretty sure I know exactly what form these fears will take. A man, that even now as a 22 year old guy, still freezes me in my tracks, like a deer in head lights when I see his face in pictures... Though I have no reason to fear him, he's actually a fictional character as it goes... The irony of being a student of psychology & this terribly irrational fear is not lost on me! 

Anyway, I'm really glad I have ended up here, & I'm sure I will be talking to a lot of very wonderful people in my time here, I look forward to it! So this is my 1st post for the beginning of my journey... And my first step is facing this 'fear' in a location I feel completely comfortable in with the lights on & a sofa I can hide behind! with a massive smile on my face! 

I'm new here, so HI!! I'll start by explaining my username... There was a mini stapler on my desk, now that's out the way!! Just gonna chuck an experience out there that I've had and a question I have that I've not been able to find either answered or asked or anything actually to do with it anywhere, maybe I didn't look hard enough! Now, I'm open minded but I don't believe what I read/hear until I've experienced it myself or there is overwhelming evidence from many different sources, then I make my own judgment, so I'm still in the research phase, so I'm unsure what I really think about AP's, what they are?? whats actually happening?? Only way i can answer these questions is to experience them myself and compare notes with you lovely people, hence why I'm here I realise it's quite long, and I'm sorry about that, I just wrote it as the words entered my head! I also noticed I may switch between english & american english, I spell checked a few words

3 or 4 times in one week I had the sleep paralysis kick in with no previous intentions of having an experience in the slightest, 1st time I noticed the paralysis, then some very intense vibrations which freaked me the hell out along side loud ringing and buzzing sounds, and I struggled my way out of it trying to move and woke myself. I had read about this topic before, so I knew what I had experienced was seemingly the beginning of a AP. so I'm laying in bed the 2nd night, get the sleep paralysis again unintentionally, then the vibrations which just kept on getting more & more intense, the vibrations alone were quite a bloody experience, I kept myself calm & just went with it and then it just stopped, and it was like I was no where & completely conscious??

All I really remember of it was the color of my surroundings, dark purple spiraling in darkness I guess and I felt like I was just floating in the middle of a void of nothingness! I felt completely calm during this experience, nothing negative about it at all. I find it difficult to put into words that accurately describe what it was like!

Anyway, so nothing at all happened, next thing I know I've woken up and it's morning, what i described is all I could remember when I woke, I get up & I feel great, I mean like... I'd just had a led jacket removed, psychically, emotionally & mentally, I had so much energy, I could literally feel it coursing through my body, I was ridiculously happy, happier than I had ever felt in my life, not even an exaggeration (I'm not a naturally happy person, feel quite neutral most of the time, so this was very weird to me) & my mind just felt sharper than ever & more aware & awake.

I felt like I could take on anything, & I had no idea why!! I had no profound experience, from what I could remember nothing happened, I only saw my environment which was not made up of 'things' & objects... just the spirally purpleness energy like stuff swirling around (that's the technical term for it)! So did some research and all I could find on how people had felt after was saying they were happy they finally did it or excited about the next one, kind of stuff... nothing like the drastic changes I had from my standard day to day feelings, which we will call 5/10 for the sake of measuring, to the pumped up 13/10 after the experience (or what ever the hell it was)!

This feeling lasted probably the best part of a week, and wore off gradually as the days past. I had 2 or 3 more that got to the point of vibrations before I struggled my way out of it, though now I kind of wish I had just done as previous and went with it again as I think my confidence about it was fairly high at that point, fear of the unknown probably kicked in!

From what I have read though, during Ap's things tend to happen, you go places, people talk to you that kind of stuff. So it makes me think it was a dream & I was just conscious for it, but I've had a lot of lucid dreams & I've always been in a worldly environment, always had a noticeable body and things have always been going on around me, nothing at all like what I had experienced. & I've never woken up feeling like superman!! so to speak lol If it wasn't for the changes that came around after the event, I probably would instantly dismiss it as a weird lucid dream...

I'd just love to hear anything anyone has to say about this, opinions, thoughts, similar experience... Could it be a dream? An AP? The start of an AP? Or nothing really at all?? Why would I feel such a big change for the week after, is it a standard part of process, do most people feel like this after?? Was this seemingly non-profound experience, actually a really profound experience but I just didn't understand why?? To sum it up... What the hell??!! I look forward to reading any thoughts on what I've said. p.s Sorry If you feel I've wasted your time with this massive post!