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[Mattoid]

Hi people, I haven't really been here since 2004, due to basically abandoning my fruitless attempts. I experienced one definite Projection in 2004 and never experienced another that i can consciously recall UNTIL LAST NIGHT! 

It's fair to say that life hasn't been going too well for me as of late, so i've been struggling with sleep and ripping up my insomnia ridden nights, so i purchased a Paul McKenna sleep hypnosis CD to hopefully restore some sane sleeping schedule. I dozed off during listening to it and awoke at the end of it placing my iTouch on the dresser table, I placed my head on the pillow and layed there waiting for entry into the land of nod.

I remember again dozing in and out of consciousness and then being slightly alarmed by a sense of neurological vibrating that seemed to stretch and effect every inch of my body. As if i was coated in tin foil with a gentle current passing through it, I realized that i was experiencing the pre-projection vibration that i'd experienced the first time i projected in 2004 alarmed but excited, i continued to relax and went with it.

I sunk a little deeper and tried to move what i imagine my astral body to be to no avail (at least at first) I was aware that i was in a state of paralysis. I tried to get up or out as it happens and suddenly i felt a sense of extreme vertigo followed by a sense of falling. I was convinced i'd just fallen out of bed but felt no pain just a minor vibrating bounce sensation. I couldn't see at first and had to basically visualize the opening of my eyes.

I eventually figured out how to see, it was if i was peering out with something other than my eyes and i glanced at the silhouette of my body and the body of my wife. I moved towards aware of no body but a sense of having limbs and then i snapped back.

Upon realizing what i'd experienced i tried to speak to tell my wife but i couldn't speak a word. I began to try and shout but i couldn't i eventually awoke a little bit and was able to mumble "jess, i think i've just had a projection" excited i layed there on my back and began to drift off. I felt the vibrating sensation again and was aware it was happening again. I moved my arms and then tried to FLAIL them encountering no bed quilting! It's a little hazy but i remember after that event being near the wall and wondering if i could walk through it, but i couldn't it was as if my mind couldn't accept such irrationality. I tried but couldn't even actually touch the wall, i got a few CM away from it but couldn't do it which i couldn't understand at the time.

I awoke again trying to speak, again the paralysis..

After that i fell into a deep sleep and had a disturbing dream about some of the things i'm currently experiencing.

I just wanted to share my experience with you people, and get a little feedback.

Oh and is the sense of vocal paralysis normal?

[badgerbug89]

The whole vocal paralysis thing is not so fun, to me. I remeber the first time i experienced it after projecting and i was so scared i just kept trying to scream but i couldnt make any noise or move. after a while you get used to it though.

[Mattoid]

Yeah, i briefly recall the panic. It's as if you have no vocal chords.. a feeling like your mouth's open yet there's nothing audible sounding out, it felt as if i was shouting yet just opening my mouth, but i don't think i even opened my mouth physically. I remember after a second or two making sense of the current state i was in and then trying to communicate using my mind, telepathically not that i know how to do that or anything. I just wanted to share the experience so badly with my wife laying next to me, I think i consciously snapped back in-order to tell her of course she was in a deep sleep of her own and didn't really respond with anything other than a few mumbles and groans. It's strange to me how quickly i projected after that too though bareing in my the struggle i've had to project throughout all the years i've been trying since the first one i remember.

I wasn't even trying, I didn't even have projecting on my mind, that doesn't make sense to me.

I'm pretty sure i have a good idea how to stay awake beyond my physical body entering a sleep state now. I hope i can experience this again.

[Petal]

I think the voice paralysis is quite normal and something that I have had myself.  It can be ultra freaky teamed up with the flailing about and not really feeling like you are in control.

But hey, the first experience after a long time is so exciting!!  And I wish you the best of luck with your efforts x