Hi there Sarah !!
The "astral screen" effect is normally associated with phasing into the astral realms.....Typically during practise a small area of brightness may enlarge into a tv-sized or cinema-screen sized area. You can basically step through this screen into an astral world.
You mentioned the french windows (of your bedroom?) and floating out of your body...both of which I would associate with a standard Real-time OBE. I've had an experience nearly identical to yours, the only difference being I rolled a couple of feet out of my body instead of floating. I could see nothing, but I knew I was "out". Then the french windows of my bedroom slowly came into view from left to right & I could see the garden fence...I couldn't move, I got excited and woke up !! hee hee.
The "astral screen" (in my experience) differs in that you have no sensation whatsoever of your physical body & the scene that you view is not familiar.
regards,
Mark
Thanks Mark - that's very helpful [:)]
Sarah
Has anyone experienced astral paralysis? I don't know whether it was sleep paralysis disguised, because I don't believe I've ever experienced sleep paralysis before. This paralysis was in my astral body. I was totally astral - because I was hovering near the ceiling when it happened!!
Here's the experience.
I became aware. Before I moved, I imagined myself up above my body and I believe I was. While I was enjoying this sensation, I realised I was back in the physical and I was astrally 'straining' upwards. I knew I needed to astrally relax, so I did this and the more I relaxed, the more I felt I was above my physical body.
I got to the stage where I felt I was about 6 or 7 ft above. I had no vision. I wanted to move to the left to get out and away, but I couldn't do this. I seemed to have astral paralysis. The only way I could move was to float upwards and I knew that even while I was floating, I couldn't move any part of my astral body.
I hovered in my sleeping position near the ceiling and wondered what on earth to do. I felt very conscious. I decided to turn my vision on. I was already expecting to see the lounge in where I was napping. As I thought this, my vision slowly came into focus. It was the lounge. I could see the French windows, with the garden beyond, and the TV set. However, the picture I had was slowly moving from left to right in front of my eyes. And it was slowly getting clearer and clearer. It lasted 2 or 3 seconds until I suddenly thought 'this is an astral screen, yippee, I'm experiencing an astral screen!' and promptly woke up!
I don't know whether that was an astral screen or not, but I seemed to think it was at the time! It was brilliant, whatever it was, because I have had all sorts of problems with my vision (or lack of it) throughout my OBE life.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
Sarah