Questions for others who project-from a newbie

[denverguy72]

Hello all, I am new to this forum and was hoping to get some questions I have answered as well as introduce myself.  I am pretty sure I have had many ethereal experiences throughout my life going back to my childhood and have recently had somewhat of a spiritual awakening.  While I don't really know why I have had an awakening the peace and tranquility of it really moved me as well as the curiosity of many aspects of it.  So I have been working on trying to become a more lucid dreamer as well as working on bringing clarity to my experiences so that I may harness it and embrace it to grow as a spiritual being.  I have been working on getting out of my body recently and wanted to share the experience as well as ask some questions of those of you who veteran travelers are so I can gain some insight to it.  I am pretty good at being able to take myself down deep in a meditative state but I am not sure if what I am experiencing is actually the process of slipping out of my physical into my room.  So I will try to explain the experience I had last night and see what you all think.  I was laying on my back and bringing myself pretty deep and was focusing on relaxing and gathering myself together and clearing my mind.  I began to feel a slight sensation of a buzzing throughout my body-it's kind of hard to explain really.  It's almost like my entire body went numb and I could not feel my limbs or any other part of my body-what I felt was almost a feeling of lifting or floating accompanied by a very distinct buzzing sensation throughout my entire body.  I also had a feeling in my ears like they were popping-similar to what you would feel in an airplane after take off or when you go deep in a pool-it was almost pressure with crackling and some slight popping sounds.  As I was going along I had a feeling of fear or adrenaline that came up at some point and I had to tell myself that it was ok and that this would not hurt me.  It was kind of like the feeling one gets when you feel like you are losing your balance and falling backward-sort of a rush of adrenaline if that makes any sense.  So as I was letting myself get accustomed to this feeling I continued to try to focus on lifting out-it felt like I was so close and I think I was able to move my right hand out of the physical but not by much.  The thing that I was having some issues with was the fact that I could not see anything.  I kept trying to focus on visualizing my room thinking that if I could just get a glimpse of it it would give me the confidence to continue forward and roll out or float out so that I could take about 10 steps away from my physical self and take a look around.  As I was focusing my thoughts and energy on getting myself to the center of my room it felt as though I could feel the air currents in my room across my face.  Not so much like a breeze but more like I could feel the air just kind of moving naturally but it felt like 10 times as sensitive on my face-almost like I could feel the molecules or something (again-hard to put into words).  So, as I was focusing all the sudden I could head my cat getting all exited in my room and he jumped up on my bed and ran across my pillow-it's almost like he could sense something going on and wanted to investigate my activity around my head area.  So that ended my focus and brought me out of my experience.  I felt rather energized after and had a few questions I wanted to ask.  First, does my experience sound like I was getting close to an exit?  If so what should I be doing to be able to see-I felt like I was so close and it seemed like I was starting to see images but they were not clear.  Should I be trying to visualize what my room looks like from a different vantage pointe or should my ethereal vision just start to appear to me as I lay there with my eyes closed?  Also, can my cat see my energy or sense that I am about to project-he seemed very exited about what I was doing and I was totally still and not making any sounds other than breathing-I sensed he knew something was going on with me which makes me laugh a little.  Lastly (and this is sort of embarrassing) I had a very strange sensation during this experience and I have had this happen before.  I get a warm energizing feeling in my groin area, it almost feels like I am getting aroused but not in the physical, it is almost like a tingling or a warm vibration in that region that I am obviously aware of as it and am wondering what this might be or if it is a normal sensation when someone is about to exit their physical self.  With that said, any insight to my experience or my questions would be great!  I am looking forward to continuing my growth and would love to get some clarity on my experience and see what you all think.  Thanks!