Has anyone experienced anything like this?

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I have projected to what I would consider 'astral' zones several times now. As I have sleep paralysis on occasion (and have had ever since I was a child), I find it relatively easy when I'm lucky enough to get paralysed, to project (though for some reason I find it much harder to project into reality than I do astral -I project blind into reality, so I can feel surfaces and move around but not see things properly).

One night, two years ago I managed a good one. I was paralysed, felt vibrations intensifying in my head, and a white noise sound in my ears, then I 'twannged' out, and continued to concentrate on intensifying the vibrations. It's like I can move around freely in the air, but I'm still feeling the weight of my body paralysed in bed.

I don't know how this is done, it just feels natural to do it. The vibrations seem to be key. In this case, when they grew to a sufficient level, I felt as if something was going to 'pop', and then I found that I could see.

I was in a black, hollow void, and a white dot was in the distance. At this point it feels as if my entire body is charged with electricity, the vibrations are so intense. I am lying horizontally, facing the white dot, and shooting towards it at a high speed.

I then see that the dot is a ring, and it grows into a tunnel, which I shoot down.

Remaining focused at this point is hard, because I'm usually quite scared, no matter how often I tell myself to remain calm.

On this occasion I shot down the tunnel, and heard the buzzing getting louder and louder, until I 'flushed' out the end. I get a very rewarding feeling of 'Yes! I've arrived' when that happens.

This time, there was silence, and I was standing in a dusty, dry arid landscape. There were adobe buildings, squat looking desert cottages, and I was in the middle of a path which stretched down the centre.

This was extremely vivid, literally as vivid as any daytime experience. I should stress, this was nothing, absolutely nothing, like a dream.

I found myself eager to explore, and after doing my instinctive 'pick up some dirt from the ground and rub it in my fingers' to test the reality of the place, I wander down the path.

I notice that each of the squat houses seems to be made of sandy blocks, and each has a rose hedge blocking sight of the back yard. Basically, you can't see the gardens. The hedges were quite low though, so I attempted to look over the hedges, but as I did, I got this sense of thorny roseyness, and a feeling that I should not be doing that, so I stopped immediately.

I continued down the road, and saw a figure in the distance. What was odd was that he seemed to be moving in a staccato, 'skipped frame' way (Robert Bruce has apparently described many entities as looking this way). The figure seemed to be moving fast, and almost limping along, but in a flickering, juddery way. I've noticed that most of the beings I've seen (and that's not many at all) move this way.

As he got nearer, I felt alarmed, and immediately felt a sense of concern about him being a thief. As he got closer, I could see he was swarthy looking and dwarfy, with a hood on and seemed like an arab, which was fitting given the climate of the place.

I thought 'Careful, this guy looks dodgy'. As he got closer I sort of glanced at him. He then lurched forward and swung a hand at my back pocket, where my wallet might be. I sort of recoiled, and he laughed goodnaturedly. I got this mental message from him, a humourous sort of disdain: 'So you think I'm a thief, eh? Silly boy.' It wasn't in those words, but that was the definite vibe of the interaction.

That experience was so intense that I 'snapped' back to consciousness immediately.