Pulled from my body

[Kezd]

Hello I new to here but have been practising astral projection and lucid dreaming for about 1-2 years.

I have managed to realise I'm dreaming and thought about astral projection , then the dream turns to what I want and I seem to control it for a while, I have manged to go to my old primary school and float above a tree which was scary in the dark but surreal at the same time.

I have only ever been able to astral project from my bed thinking about it and slid to the floor I was so excited I fell straight into a dream.

Until last night I was over tired my young son had climbed into bed with me and my partner went into my sons bed. I kept waking up and couldn't get into a deep sleep I was thinking of astral projecting when I felt an Almighty tug on my right ankle and I was so so scared I was facing  my big mirror in my room floating!! I manage to get a glimpse of what had pulled me and it looked like an animal like a dog? Which ran through the wall. By now my heart is pumping and I'm scared out my wits I think of my son nextel me and wake up??? Still scared stiff. Does anyone know what it means to be pulled out of your body like this? I also didn't have a good night sleep after that I kept having nightmares?? Which I think where brought on by how anxious I was??


Do anyone have any advise? Thank you

[Lionheart]

 It seems like you were being "summoned" to being Consciously Aware in the Astral at that moment. Next time this occurs, just observe this, knowing that no harm is coming to you. Confront you fear and go with the flow. You will then find the reason why you have been "dragged" in. Many times I have awoken startled that something is "messing" with my feet and legs. I was always scared when this happened, until I found this website here and started to see that it was "normal" or at least that other people had it happening as well. That showed me that they were right, all I needed to do was confront it and passively observe it, then it would never be an issue again. It still startles me when it occurs though. Anything that awakens you from your sleep, whether it's your better half stirring or a strange noise is enough to startle you. But, once you become aware of the situation that fear goes away.
Good Luck and Safe Travels! 

[Kezd]

Thank you lionheart. It's makes a lot of sense as I have been trying to astral project from a sleeping state rather then dream state. It was just so unexpected. I used to get the sleep paralysis and have for years which use to scare the hell out of me, I use to see a black shaded person at the bottom of my bed but I faced that fear a while ago and i just stopped being scared as it happened so much i got used to it and I haven't had sleep parysisis since. After reading some of the topics I'm can see people have also felt like they have been pulled out. Was just strange and scary seeing what looked like an animal running through my wall? And thinking did that animal just pull me out of my body.

I will try to relax and let it go with the flow hopefully.

[Volgerle]

The grip around the ankle or both ankles is familiar for me. I had this too and it was the way I got to know my guides. It was one helper (appearing as a female) trying to help me out. I had lots of sessions with her and others. Sometimes them dragging me out and we flying together over a city or a forest. Then often when I had exit blindness, they just held my hands or arms (on each side one, but sometimes it is one alone) and waited until I got vision (which did not always work), they also gave me some hints as it seems which sometimes worked.

I once also had experience with an animal. Something was kind of rubbing at my neck. Then I saw the image of a cat. Maybe it was a 'real' cat because they do a lot of astral projecting so I heard. Do you have a dog? Maybe it was yours even if it looked different. Another possibilty is of course that 'animals' in the astral are indeed a visual represenatation of 'elemantals' or 'astral wildlife' which is usually pretty harmless and nothing to worry about. They can even be 'animalistic' aspects of your self.

I also advise you to start working with it. Ask your guide(s) to help you out and willingly stretch out your astral hand(s) next time in the vibration state. They are always willing to help you. I've met quite a few nice people, I can tell you, I even know the name of a few. 

[bproulx12]

I have gotten jerks, that are more than a muscle twitch, just last night my right arm "jerked about 1 1/2 feet up from the bed, but I was not pulled out.....weird.

[thebigm]

kezd - I am all too familiar withe the pulling sensation and it frightened the hell out of me the first time it happened too.

Actually, it frightened the hell out of me the first 10 or so times it happened then I spoke to people about it and found out what it was, then progressively it got less scary and now, 5 years later I'm not frightened at all.

If I was you, try and go with it, but if you get too scared, just stop, tell it to stop or fight it and it will stop.  Until you are ready.  Hopefully it doesn't take you as long as me to overcome the fear but because you were already practicing for AP when it happened it shouldn't.

It's normal, lots of us have experienced it and are all still alive and well

I've only just recently started to be able to go with it and dip into AP.

Good luck.

[Kezd]

Thank you everybody for your kind responses I will let you know how it goes on my next experience and will try to just go with it x