Thoughts on my first (and frightening) experience

[bengneering]

I have been lucid dreaming here and there for about 8 years now, and have been having sleep paralysis for about the past 5 years.  When I found out about astral projection, I tried to get into it, but it never worked.  That was about 3 years ago.  Then I gave up, and about a year ago I ended up having my first AP experience (I think).  It's been a while, but I thought I'd share to get some feedback.

I go to sleep on my stomach (which I find odd that this happened since I've always been on my back during sleep paralysis), and I start to drift off into a dream, but suddenly snap out of it. I realize I'm in my bed, and I find myself paralyzed.  So I think it's perfect opportunity to give AP a whirl.  So I "float" out of my body, and though it is dark in my room I could still sort of see myself in my bed below me.  I also felt the vibration/tingling feeling throughout my body.  But then all the sudden I hear this deep, demonic sounding roar from downstairs.  Then I look over to my door way and these black figures or spirits are flying up the stairway leading to my room and pouring into my room. I'd say there were probably about 7-12 of them I guess. Not really sure, but they were pouring in quite quickly.  This is obviously enough to scare me to death, so I immediately drop back down into my body.  This all happened within about 3-5 seconds I'd say.  It was quite rushed.

One reason why I don't think this was a dream was because after I dropped into my body and sort of wiggled myself out the paralysis, I could still feel some residual tingling/vibrating fading away.  I don't really have any questions about what happened, but I'd definitely love to hear what you guys think. I've sort of been too afraid to try it again. I remember almost doing it again, but before I even attempted to remove myself from my body I could feel something evil standing in my doorway.  Also, ever since my sleep paralysis episodes (usually happening in the morning with visual hallucinations) have been only at night, to where I can't see anything, but I can feel things or entities outside my room, and I swear I can hear them walking around and making noise.  I didn't mean for this post to be so long; sorry about that.  Just curious, though, as to what you guys think.  Thanks!

[Szaxx]

Hi,
Have you ever thought about dark things when you are trying this? It could be during the day while busy. Any thought that you have usually sticks and manifests itself in some way. If you think 'hey was that a shadow or an entity', theres more fear in the entity and this exacerbates the evil or fear factor. A loop is formed and you wake up displeased.
Think all will be well and it will. Think the devils goin to get ya and ...

[floating_hawaiian]

Perhaps before attempting again try to ground yourself and  imagine a white light of positivity emanating from you.  And if you do see them again while APing, try projecting positivity from you.  Remember you cannot be harmed at all while in your second body, the most these entities can do to you is terrify you.  And these entities feed off of fear and negativity, so like what Szaxx said try not to be afraid and think negatively during the day and if you've had a bad day of negative emotions, maybe try to avoid AP altogether until in a better mood.  Best of luck and namaste.

[curtis.fred]

yes i have had the same thing, happen to me no reason to be scarred, because u were half way between rem sleep and sleep parylisis u were haulcination, sleep parlyses is apose to make you hear sounds see figurs that arnt there, next time you try try it while ur not sleeping try it while awake u will get much better results

[curtis.fred]

i never ap while in sleep during sleep or anywere close to sleep, i do this because i am in more controll of what i do and i dont get scary things happen to me cause i am me aware, what u were feeling was one of the systoms of sleep parlaysis, this is from wikipedia guys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

i hope  i solved ur mystery because veryone will experiance sounds, fake imangantion carracters such as demons and voice as u heard, ur fine mate dont be scarred , dont do it anymore while in sleep, ur mind can play good tricks on u in pylassis i hope i helped

Classification

The two major classifications of sleep paralysis are isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) and recurrent isolated sleep paralysis (RISP). Of these two types ISP is much more common than RISP.[2] ISP episodes of sleep paralysis are infrequent and of short duration, approximately one minute. Sleep paralysis may only occur once in an individual's lifetime.[2] As the name suggests, recurrent isolated sleep paralysis is a chronic condition. The individual suffers from frequent episodes throughout their lifetime.[2] One of the major differences between ISP and RISP is duration. Episodes RISP episodes can last for up to an hour or longer, and have a much higher occurrence of out of body experiences—while ISP episodes are generally short (usually no longer than one minute) and are typically associated with the intruder and incubus hallucinations. ISP episodes can, however, persist for up to half an hour.[2] With RISP the individual can also suffer back to back episodes of sleep paralysis in the same night while this is unlikely in individuals who suffer from ISP

The demons or scaries u saw are a common side effect of sleep payalisis and u should dismiss it, go outside on a deck instead of ur house a park etc, if u dont feel safe doing it in ur house, but what ur experiancing was just common side effect i hope i helped