Nearly astral projected! Need a little help please

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Hi everyone, I have been trying to astral travel for a while now on & off. These last couple of weeks I have tried every night & had all kinds of sensations. The spinning & feeling like I am flowing but nothing more.

Last night was amazing to me. I kept saying to myself while relaxed, I am going to astral travel & remember & then I must of fall a sleep. I woke up with a sharp jolt to my back & like I was being pushed. I used to have this a lot as a child & all the way through my adult life & used to be very scared by it. Now I understand what it is.  I was pleased & then I repeated the same words & fall asleep again.
Then I was woken with a weird feeling, my body was numb apart from a burning sensation on my lower leg. It was really burning & I felt like that part of my leg was out of my body, I could still feel the pain on my leg but felt like a flowing above the leg at the same time!. I had this electric buzzing kinda noise in my ears & it was loud in my head & then I woke fully.
Again I said the same thing over & fell asleep to be woke again with my body shaking inside. It felt like my top half of my body were my shoulders are, was another body trying to get out. It felt like something was knocking onto one shoulder & then swinging to the next shoulder!  This happened for a about a minute & my body again was numb apart from the knocking feeling.
Again I repeated the same words & fell a sleep & again I woke with the feeling of floating. It felt like I was about 6 inches of the bed & my head was spinning. I didn't feel like I had left my body but more like it was my body flowing. That slowly passed & I was fully awake again.

Is this my imagination & trying to hard to astral project, or was I having some sort of astral projection?

All my childhood & adult life I have suffered with nightmares & feelings of flowing & spinning in my head so fast, & waking to see all different kinds of people in my bedroom. Some was scary & other were OK. I landed up at the doctors with this years ago & all I got told was, "night terrors" I would even wet the bed with fear as a child because of the things I would see when I woke up in the early hours. Now I think it is more to do with astral projection. I want to learn as much as I can & any help at all would be great.
Thank you for reading & I hope someone can help me.

[Astral316]

It sounds like you were in a pre-projection state but not quite there... I had similar natural projections as a child that went away as I grew older. Meditation reawakened that ability in me, so it could very well work for you.

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Thank you for replying Astral, I have only just started to meditate. I stopped meditating a few years ago, but wished I had carried on. I will start again & hopefully it will help me.