My Second Attempt at OBE/AP

[InnerDesire]

Two nights ago, I tried my first attempt and I feel as if I was closer to getting out than what I tried last night, even though I knew of more techniques. I have to say, I still have distractions and I guess I need to work on being in more of a trance to ignore them, but my eyelids start seeing colors and I have to watch them and sometimes I lose track of my breathing x_X

But I'll start from the beginning.

I lay on my back, same as the other night and put in the binaural beat song- though I wonder if I should listen to a different one, because this one is more intended for lucid dreaming and made me sleepy near the end.

I began to try and pattern my breathing and then relax my muscle groups and for some odd reason I imagined taking a paint brush and painting relaxing strokes from my toes to my head...I think I did that for around 5-7 minutes tops, but I had no sinking feeling like last time.
My body felt sort of tingly, but not as much as last time either so that kind of dissapointed me, and I tried that rope pulling technique but then for some reason my breathing got kinda weird...like on every exhale it would be choppy. I went back to relaxing my breathing then I started to see the colors.
These colors and shapes were more intense than last time, and it seemed as if they were swimming in and out of my vision whick kind of fascinated me, as if there were two shapes that were dolphins green and another color swimming back and forth up and down, then I'd see this purple sphere in the middle that would vanish in and out sometimes.

After that, for NO reason, I felt as if I was SPINNING. At first I was freaked out, because I would say the sensation was like the room spinning, except my eyes were closed. I tried to grab onto the feeling, I don't know, to see if I could spin out of my body somehow, even though I'm pretty sure I had no vibrations. I stopped spinning, then I had a song pop into my head and there is no way to get a song out of your head once it's stuck, so I guess you could say I failed at that part right there lol. However, I blinked open my eyes and at first everything was like almost miniscule double vision, but I blinked again more times and it went back to normal.

x_x Think I need to listen to a better binaural beat song, or not listen to one at all? I feel I need more improvement in the beginning relaxing stages...I'm not quite sure how to visualize relaxing muscles or how to do it at all haha.
EDIT: I also tried asking for help to get out of my body, but I'm not sure if I did it right...I tried to request nonverbally for someone kind to help me out, so I'm not sure if that was why I got a spinning sensation, or just something else entirely.      

[doditomancak]

Hi-  I just read your post.  I know what you are talking about, except I call it journeying.  But it's basically the same thing.  It doesn't work sometimes for some people b/c of maybe for the things they are asking, or that they are trying to FORCE what they want to know.  In astral projection, we will only be told what God wants us to know.  It is a vision of the surroundings in your life that you cannot see with the natural eye.  I don't drum.  I go into meditation, and then I ask for a power animal, and then the power animal guides me from there.  You also have to put any of your ego aside to connect.  If it isn't happening, I wouldn't worry about it.  You may try saying a prayer to God as well, and ask him to send you signs.  That is where it comes from.  It is a gift from God.
Good Luck
If you aren't connecting yet, don't worry.  IT will happen when it's meant to be.