Hello everyone!!

[Apollon]

Hello,
I'm Apollon and i was introduced to this OBE etc matters fairly recently, due to some "symptoms" i was having and didn't know what they were (often sleep paralysis, buzzing sounds in my head during half asleep, spinning like wirldpool sensation).
At first i didn't pay much attention until once i felt like i was light as a feather and had the impression i was levitating somehow.
That cought my attention and after reading on the internet about sleep paralysis initially, i was amazed to find out that the same symptoms i was having were described as the initial ones of an OBE.

At first i was very excited and determined to master OBE and astral projection but to be honest, some things i've read about seeing lower astral entities, scared the crap out of me. Specially when i read that lower entities are attracted to sad feeling people (i had depression from time to time), this discouraged me a bit and although i know i can make it (since i found out what my symptoms were, i gain lucidity within sleep paralysis almost every second day the past week) i'm very scared of facing something that would terrify me. I live alone and only the thought of "seeing" something in my room petrifies me.

Anyway, i'm glad to be here and i'm sure i'll find some answers by more experienced people on these matters like you.

[Stookie]

Welcome to the Astral Pulse Apollon!

I think that everyone has a fear in the beginning. Lord knows I did. As soon as I would start getting OBE symptoms I would freak out and try to make them stop. It was definitely a slow process.

The fact that your entering sleep paralysis means that you're almost OBEing anyways. You just need an exit technique. So really, there's nothing to fear because you're there. Once you get that first moment of exhilaration your fear will start to vanish. OBE can be a great way to conquer fears.

[Apollon]

I am a light sleeper so i can control myself and keep me in a "ready to begin dreaming" state. Suddenly i find myself consious and completely paralysed.
When i begun reading about OBE and astral projection and had it in mind constantly when falling asleep, i was amazed of how more often i could induce paralysis.
I remember the first time i got paralysis after reading that it is a very good point to get out of the body. While i was paralysed i thought "lets try it" and i begun imagining myself getting out slowly. To my surprise i felt like getting out almost instantly, i didn't know what to do (and still don't exactly), if i should open my eyes or not and how will i start seeing.
Should i be able to see if my room is almost pitch black or not... i remember of seeing once (but not quite) although i'm sure i had my eyes closed.
Another time i became lucid because of the loud buzz in my head and i remember that each time i fantasized pulling the rope to get out, with each pull the buzzing was getting louder.
Somehow i can't maintain it and i "wake up", the paralysis goes away and i end up in bed with a numb body.

It seem that inducing lucidity in paralysis is easier for me than going on from within a lucid dream or from a totally awake state.
I have so many questions that i didn't find answers by reading..... i still don't understand if the astral plane is the place you find yourself into immediately after you leave the body OR you go there by will after that.

What frightens me the most is the reports of some people feeling the presence of "things" in the room while they're paralysed or seeing them while out of the body in their room.
I've also read that some people came back from projection having severe psychological problems who knows why....
thats what scares me the most, i mean i have depression from time to time, i don't want to end up in a nut house

Sorry for the long post and forgive any mistakes i made, English is not my native language.