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Thanks for the responses everyone! 

Alright, now to respond to a few things you all said:
    I know that nothing can happen in OBE's, and I had never exactly thought that. I will however admit that it was rather frightening at the time. Looking back, though, it was extremely surreal and blissful, in a way.
    Also, I have not had another OBE since this experience, but I also have not been able to try recentely, but I will be trying tonight!

Oh yeah, I also want to say that due to this OBE I have written and recorded an atmospheric, minimalistic acoustic neofolk song, the exact one I heard in the experience!

So it was about 12:30, and i decided to go to sleep, i had one dream, i dont recall it anymore, after that dream i woke up, or i thought i did. I lay in my bad, in complete darkness, half awake, when i here a song, its not any song though, it is a neofolk song i have been working on, but it was an octave up with distortion on, then the screaming and crying began, not by me though, oh no. Just what sounded like a a man weeping and writhing in pain, over my song of course. I began to freak out, i went to open my eyes, i couldn't, I went to move, I couldn't.

I was paralyzed, I began to freak out, it was at this moment i began to feel, a sort of vibration through out my body. Now, I have done energy work before, I recognized these feelings as the vibrations that one experiences when one has when they are beginning to have there consiousness expand beyond there physical body. I have felt them before, but not as I did at that very moment. My heart was beating faster than it ever had, and the vibrations spread throughout my whole body.

I'm sure that everyone has sat on a massage chair, put it on high and felt the sensations once before. I say that because what i was experiencing was similar to that, except for one key factor... The sensations were coming from inside of my body, radiating throughout me, becoming more and more intense as my heart began to beat faster and faster.

I attempted to move and wake up, at the very least open my eyes, but I could not. I began to feel myself going upward, floating... Leaving my physical body! Keep in mind throughout all of this there was screaming, and weeping, like I had never heard, while the song i had written was being played. The next thing i knew there was silence, I looked down, only to see myself, lying in bed, sleeping on my back, with the blanket somewhat off of me. I was absolutely shocked, I could not belive what I was seeing and feeling! 

Then, in an instant, I was back in my body, I opened my eyes, and attempted to move, I could, and I was relieved. I checked the clock; 1:30. My heart was still beating extremely fast, and I felt weak. I lay there, absolutely bonking terrified for a good 15 minutes, wondering what happened. I also noticed that i was sleeping in the exact way i saw, on my back with the blanket have on me. I could not get back to sleep for about and hour.

   The thing is that i have put a llot of time into studying astral projection. I have read Robert Monroes books, and i have used the Gateway Experience. I know i experienced sleep paralysis, but the part where i floated out of my bodey really makes me think that i had an OBE. But it was so strange. Do you think i had an OBE? Or was it just a hallucination associated with the sleep paralysis. If it was a spontaneous OBE, where should i go from here?

So, here we go...

     I was doing the first tape in Wave II of The Gateway Experience "An Intro to Focus 12" for the forth time (i have gotten into focus 12 once on my own as well) and i went into Focus 12, i told my self i only wanted to be guided, and i let the question, is there anyone here, flow out of the center of my consciencness and in every direction, nothing. Then i asked, "what is the most important piece of information i could be given at this time?" now this time, something happened. I started seeing to things glowing, they started coming closer, i was 2 glowing eyes, but not human eyes, very strange evil looking eyes, they started coming closer and closer and i saw a huge mouth open up, full of fangs. The thing was, i only saw the eyes and the mouth, and they were glowing, the thing made me start to panic, it started to come for me, luckily Robert Monroe came in on the tape and brought me back to focus 10.
     
     I evaluated what had just happened, my heart was beating fast, i was very sweaty, and i was hot. Not to mention scared out of my mind. But then i remembered things i had previously read, i decided that it could not hurt me, it was not a threat, and that i would openly accept it if i saw it again.
     
     Back into focus 12, i ask my self the same questions, let them flow out of me in every direction and it appears again, i almost begin to panic, but instead i camly stated in my head, "you can not do anything to me, you are harmless, i am protected, and i am stronger than you, come at me, i openly accept you" and it did, but instead of fear, i started feeling an intense in my body, it was unlike anything i had ever felt, i thought i had felt vibrations before but i obviously had not. It was like a intense almost static vibrating, except in my body, all over my legs, i realized previous feelings i had gotten were kinthsetic and came slightly on the surface of my body, but not these, they were completely inside, i accepted them, and they spread to my arms as well, they did not go to further parts of my body because Robert Monroe started counting down.
     
     After the excersise i was overwhelmed with what happened and it took me a few hours to fall asleep. Speeking of that, i only got five hours of sleep last night but i woke up and felt completely rested nad refreshed. If anyone reads this, could they evaluate this experience for me, did it mean anything, am I just crazy, any similar experiences? any output would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Thank you both for your answers.

I will start of by saying that i know Hemi-Sync is only a tool, and i use it as so. Also, i am reading "Far Journey's" by robert monroe now, and robert bruce is on my list of authors i am going to get. And i guess i will just continue what i am doing, i havent been using the tape much lately, i have just been practicing on my own, i may skip to the nexy wave wich introduces focus 12 soon. But for now, i will just work on getting vibrations, and maybe in a while il get it, who knows though, ive got to be patient i guess!

I have the first wave of the Gateway Experience, and i have come to a point where i am stuck. I am on "Exploration, Sleep" but there is one problem... I cant fall asleep, for some reason even if i am very tired i can never fall asleep. I always just go into a deeper Focus 10.  Also, how do i know i am even in focus 10? Here is how i would describe Focus 10 (if thats what im experiencing), I basically forget about my body, my heartbeat slowes down, i dont even notice my breathing, i only feel awake in my head. Also, what exactly are the images people talk about? I see mostly blackness, but with strange color flashes and if i think of something i can see a picture of it, but very briefly. Also, what are the signs that you are close to achieving and OBE? But more importantly, lets get back to the exercise, i have done it 6 times and i have yet to float out of my body, or even fall asleep. I feel i have come close, i imagined myself floating out of my body, did everything the excersise told me too do and more (i added more imagery), but i fell the cloosest i have got is some vibrations. I will describe my latest experience.

I imagine myslef floating out of my body, i start to fell strange feelings, first in my feet, then in my hands, almost like and electric sensation, almost tingling sensation, but coming from inside me. I feel my body getting heavier and i feel my arms moving up even though they cleary weren't. In addition my heart started beating rapidly and the sensations moved throughout my whole body except my head, and despite my one efforts, with and without the exercise, that is the farthest i get. I feel like i am starting to float up, but i cant. also i can not fall asleep like the tape tells me too, and i cannot figure out why, maybe im not comfy? i honestly have no idea.

So, basically, my questions are: Why cant i fall asleep? shouldnt i just drift into sleep?
                                            Am i on the right track? Am i getting close?
                                            Any tips, pointers or insightful ideas?

what you said made sense, but the thing is, the first time i got into focus 10, i felt some of the vibrations and tingling, but after a few more tries of this tape i no longer really experienced them as i got deeper into focus 10. I started to experience these strange feelings, well after i was in F10, up to that point i experienced no sensations in my body, i could not even feel my body, but then i imagined my self entering the "astral portal" and i started to experience these things. I went into focus 10 again today, but i did not imagine going into the astral portal part of my F10 "hut" and i did not experience these feelings.

Also, his voice only bothered me that one time, when i was straying away from the directions a little.

   I am knew to this subject, but i will say what i know. I know of Focus 3, 10, 12, 15, 21, and 27. (i personally have only gone to 10) I have also read Frank's phasing research about his version of this, Focus 1, 2, 3, and 4. The thing is, i have never read, or heard about a Focus 49! Monroe talked about Focus 35, but this seems new. If you go on to the website for The Monroe Institute, there is a course called "Starlines II" and the description is "This program is a blend of physics and metaphysics, continuing to strengthen the energetic pathway between Earth Core and the Galactic Core, through Focus 49, with opportunities to explore various forms of dimensional shifting along the way and beyond. We will strengthen our energy bodies and reclaim aspects of Self, reminding us that we are not only more than our physical bodies, or the physical universe, but even more than the infinite number of parallel universes which our scientists hypothesize.".

Has anyone ever heard of a Focus 49 before? Has anyone experienced it?

Also, has anyone ever attended The Monroe Institute? And if so, what course did you take, and how was it?

whoa, the technique explained in that link is exactly like what i imagined in my session last night!  I feel the tapes are working very well, on my first try with the second tape i entered focus 10, and i am fairly certain it was deep. I have done the exercise 4 times with the tape, 1 of those times i used my imagination, and i attempted to go into focus 10 by my self. And i did, it took a few minutes longer, but i entered focus 10, and fairly deep i might add.

Also, while in the focus 10 "hut" i attempted to go through the gateway to the astral, the night sky with stars and planets. I started getting intense feelings, random twitching, strange electric tingling all over my body, my head felt larger than normal, te inside of my head, or m mind specifically, i couldn't make a distinction between the bed and my body, i couldn't really tell what position i was in, and i felt like i was lifting out of my body, i felt like i was floating up, but i knew my physical self wasn't actually floating. I didn't really feel like i was completely in my body, per say. I tried to rollout, climb out, and continue floating out, but Monroe's voice interrupted me, and i lost my focus. 

Was this the beginning of a projection? if not, what exactly was it? 

my name is mark, im 14, but turning 15 in a week, so ill say im 15! I stumbled upon information on astral projection while i was looking up things on meditation. I have always been fascinated with the thought that everything isnt really as plain as it seems. I always felt that we were more than most people thought, and regarding the universe, i always believed it to be more than we thought, and that there are definitely other forms of life somewhere. So when i stumbled on to information about metaphysics, and AP, and OOBE's, and remote viewing, alternate states of consciousnesses, and stuff of that matter i was amazed. I stuck to meditation for a year, and i recently re sparked my interest in this i started using the gateway experience. I experienced focus 10 (a very deep focus 10 at that!) today, only 3 days after i started prating, hell, even my first try i achieved it, i don't even need the tape to get into it anymore!

   I am fairly new to everything that has to do with AP, and alternate states of consciousness, ect. Although i have a lot of experience with meditation to relieve stress, and i have read things on astral projection on the internet, i am fairly confused... I acquired The Gateway Experience tapes recently, and i have been doing them for a few days now. I realize these are just a tool, but i am confused, i have listen to "orientation" and "intro to focus 10" 3 times each, and i can reach focus 10 easily even without the tapes.
   My main goal with these tapes is not to astral project, but to be able to achieve all of the different states of consciousness, become more mature, and to all around try and achieve more out of my life, to be able to expand. I am very interested in the subject of astral projection, the altered states of consciousness, metaphysics and the works, so i know for a fact that i truly want to go deeper into these subjects.
    My question, is whether or not these tapes will truly help me. Has anyone used them? Are they effective at doing what they claim to do? And most importantly, i am aware that these are tools to help me go off in the right direction and expand myself, but how? I know these tapes will not cause an OOBE, but if i am correct, they will help me in learning how to achieve this. Am i right? Does anyone have any other advice that would help a beginner such as myself?
   Also, i know there have been other topics like this, and i have read the tips on doing "intro to focus 10", but even that left me confused. I have looked through all of the threads similar to this, but none of them have contained what i am looking for, and i am having trouble putting together all the pieces. This is all new to me, but i deeply want to further explore these subjects. Any help would be appreciated.