Sleep paralysis?

[Wolf-San]

i've been lurking around here a bit, looking at topics and reading a bunch of useful info on astral projection and OBEing and trying a few techniques i've found here but i've only registered now as i've finally had some real stuff happening... or at least think so but i needed to ask about it to be sure so here goes...

i have been preparing for this by sleeping a lot (about 18 hours) to get rid of me falling asleep as this has happened a lot while practicing and at 1am i went and sat down in one of the more comfortable chairs in the living room and relaxed, that time i didn't get anything as there were still too many cars zooming past outside (there's a road with a pretty high speedlimit just outside my window) so it was disturbing me too much and i went to do some other stuff for a while although after that i had a bit of weird sensations for half a minute or so afterward (this might just be my imagination screwing with me though) when i looked at the time it was 35 minutes passed since i started

then later around 3 am i went again since the cars had pretty much stopped driving past the window and this time used our 3space couch wich was enough to lay straight without having to bend my legs, that time i managed to get pretty far and then at some point i lost track of things.. either i fell asleep or just lost my awareness of being awake for a while. then when awareness returned to me i didn't open my eyes like i normally would when i wake up and i don't think i would have been able to anyway as my whole body felt sorta numb like when you sit with your legs in some position and the one leg starts feeling numb and when you try to stand up you trip cause the leg is kinda "offline" or paralyzed, that feeling or something similar is what i felt in my whole body and i was wondering is this sleep paralysis or does that feel differently? i don't remember having felt like this in my whole body before at least not while going to sleep or waking up and if this is sleep paralysis then that is a sign off good progress right?

[Quo Animo]

yo b... i found a way to reach it in 15 minutes forgot where i typed it at but it's not at this site.. i'll find it for you...

[Wolf-San]

alright i'm looking forward to it

and thanks MT that reading was quite useful i think, i just hope i'll be able to do it again tonight.. i've been wondering though if it would be possible to just make a keyword when i've reached it in order to get there in like 5-10 minutes just using the keyword and then waiting until it comes :/

[Wolf-San]

these last 2 nights i haven't been able to reproduce the state i wonder what i'm missing out that i managed the first time :/... i do find it fairly easy to get those sounds with the astral hearing but i can't keep focus on them so well, any tips?

btw Quo Animo did you manage to find that thing to reach it in 15 minutes?

[Quo Animo]

lay down and try to keep your mind awake and let your body fall asleep..keep counting and focusing on your breathing..if you start skipping numbers all of a sudden than it is working...focus on the black in front of ypur eyes..... another way you know it's working is when you see imagery ...i can reach this state within 15 minutes...EASY!!.. don't make any movements though.. that way your body can fall asleep while you are counting


or

you can just change up your sleep patterns....

[Wolf-San]

sounds easy enough thank you Quo i'll try that tonight then.. so just counting my breaths like IN-1 OUT-2 or is it IN-OUT-1 okay that looks weird .. umm what i'm trying to say is wether you count both inhale and exhale as one number or do you count inhale as one number and exhale as the next?

[Quo Animo]

anytime you inhale count 1 once

[Wolf-San]

ok then i've been doing it right ... but yet i'm not sure i should be trying this i mean i do skip numbers a bit but for me this seems to be the same as counting sheep.. a forced sleep trigger for both mind and body and i know it's not really doing anything helpful towards increasing my astral ability because it gives me a normal sleep where i sleep for many hours and can't bother to get up when i wake up cause wherever i'm laying is too comfy

but when i produce results i will only sleep for maybe 2 hours at most if i do fall asleep by accident and when i wake up i'll be able to stand up without being so comfy i wanna lay forever but perhaps i should try to use my usual method and then when i'm pretty well on with that then try the counting :/

[Quo Animo]

if you don't skip numbers purposely it is working... keep counting and if you noticed you already counted something, our skipping, counting backwards, or repeating  than it is working... your mind is drifting...

[Wolf-San]

yes i know i already have notice that but i still fall asleep completely like i said --' in a normal sleep that makes me go argh that was a worthless sleep when i wake up