olly, that was an extremely weird exp. i can relate. i made a post about my exp. it's similar to yours. "long post, extrmely wierd and vivid exp. need expl" is the name of the post. im not sure how to post it on here so u can click on it. frank gave me his thoughts on it. i havent had anything like that happen since then. i'm still not sure about what it was. ck out what frank said.
fred
I hallucinate pretty strongly when I'm paralysed (which happens roughly once or twice a week). I recognise the hallucinations as just that, their slightly ghostly texture making it obvious that they aint the real thing.
It really isnt worth me even attempting to list the things I've seen during the paralysis stage [i'm sure they are just that: hallucinations -more a mental phenomenon than astral, prob my visual cortex in dream mode going nuts],
but just this week I saw, for the first time ever, ME.
It was a solid, perfectly rendered image of me, with arms lying limp, and my facial profile just visible at the edge of my vision. The ME was lying beside me on my bed.
This had happened after what I perceived as a failed projection attempt, and was unlike other hallucinations in that the ME was perfectly solid and gently moving as it breathed. I was paralysed, and unfortunately, as the realisation dawned that it was ME, I could not get up and go 'aarrgh'.
Weirdly, after a minute or so, it did not alarm me at all. It was as if I had woken up beside another human being, just like that.
Having said that, given the choice, I would still have gotten up out of bed and made a high-pitched noise.
After a minute of lying paralysed, gazing at the ME (which had its eyes closed), I snapped out of paralysis and the ME disappeared.
I was pretty freaked out about this, until it occured to me that maybe the projection didnt fail after all and that I'd just seen my astral body.
But it was just too solid-looking and physical for that. And why was it beside me, not above me or across the room? Then I realised that the likelihood was that i had actually projected a few feet from my body, bobbed down and had just looked down at myself. Eugh.
Anyone else had the unsavoury experience of waking up in the middle of the night to see their ugly looking cranium lying happily beside them on the bed?