A strange and funny kind of night

[Blazewind]

I just wanted to share this on the forums because if nothing else it was certainly somewhat silly when looking back this morning, lol.  I went to be last night extremely tired, but still I randomly woke up without much clear reason in the middle of the night.  I was still tired, but I assumed at first for some reason that it was already morning.  I assumed I must have woken up not long before my alarm.  I was annoyed at having to get up already, lol.  I looked at the clock to find it was two in the morning, but was dismayed at not being able to get back to sleep easily now that I was awake. 

Realizing that it was actually an ideal time to attempt a projection and of course reasoning that I would just as likely fall asleep trying, which was just as ideal of a thing to do, I decided to practice a technique for a while.  From here it just got weird and somewhat funny.  Wanting to get to a mind awake - body asleep state, I decided to visualize sitting on a swing and simply swinging back and forth for a while.  My feet actually kept dragging across the sand and gravel on my visualized ground, lol.  Of course I should have been able to just see the swing as higher from the ground so my feet wouldn't drag like that, but I just couldn't do it.  My mind seemed to want to drag it's feet.  (Yes, I realize only now as I type this, that subconsciously I was likely trying to tell myself something by dragging my feet like that and trying to 'put the brakes on')  In any case, after working with this for a while and finding that clearly it was just not working I decided to switch to a different visualization.  I've always had neat experiences visualizing flying through the air and trying to see things from high above, so I chose to use that one again.  I simply couldn't get off the ground or hold the images at all. My visualization ability was just plain off for whatever reason.  I just gave up and let my mind do what it wanted to do.  I got to thinking about the plan for my radio show today, (I'm an internet radio host,) and just start to doze off to sleep.

Suddenly I was more awake again, but existing mostly in my mind with little or no thought of where I was physically.  It's an odd state I've never been able to fully explain though I've been in it several times before.  The first thing that I become really aware of though of that I could see  a lot of colors and patterns in front of my eyes.  I felt a very slight weight over top of me.   It felt like something soft and that I was right underneath it.  It came to mind that I was burried under a huge sheet of very colorful and heavy fabric.  The thing that came to mind at the time though in hindsight it's ridiculous of course, is that the drapes from some high window had fallen down on top of me and I was all caught up in it, trying unsuccessfully to get untangled from the fabric.  I realized at some point that it was only a near dream image oddly enough but still I couldn't get myself out of it.  I mentally lay then without trying to move again, still covered by this colorful curtain fabric.  It didn't scare me or anything.  Mostly I was just curious about it.  I felt like there was someone else nearby but they were in no way threatening or disturbing.  They were just kind of there doing nothing really.

I'd be very interested in any insights anyone might have on any of this.         

[Xanth]

I've had a similar experience while visualizing that I was sitting in a rowboat, yet the boat was beginning to rock uncontrollably.  I couldn't stop it until I got out and got back onto the beach.  Really strange sensation.

As for the huge sheet thing you experienced... that sounds like you directly and consciously experiencing the act of your physical body falling asleep.  In essence you were doing just fine in your projection attempt.  Had you continued with it you had a good chance of projecting. 

[Mirlo]

To me sounds like an average sleep paralisis, is something totaly natural that happends in the body (disconnection to the voluntary muscular sistem) so you don't start running or jumping while you're dreaming. So happens every time we sleep, but body and mind, has different sleep "paterns", so you can be with body sleeping (paralized) and mind awake, whe that happens while you're dreaming is lucid dreaming, but if not then you can go from that state of body paralisis to oobe or lucid dream using your imagination, and is quite cool.


sometimes sleep paralisis feels like a heavy blanket, I used to meditate laying in bed some years ago, if you stay still the body start to send you signals for you to move, like a "roll over signal" or your body gets very itchi, if you do not move at all and just feel the breathing for example then you feel like some or something put in you a heavy blanket and sometimes you can actually see the celling of the bedroom but you know that you have your eyes closed, sometimes you can't, to me, and is just my idea, when you are in that paralisis, the "blanket" is the feeling of the bodyfield. I work as a healer and in the sesions people experiment something similar and the healings is done in the bodyfield.


Or can also be something I know nothing about 

anyways sounds like it was a good experience

[Contenteo]

Yes, I have been there. Many times early in my projection days and now again every so often in these latest days.

Upon much much retrospective analysis, I have concluded that that is a very crisp F12. it has all the requisite parts minus the impatient brain chatter.

From that point it is actually relatively easy to the ever elusive F18, mind body energy stage. Its where you are sitting there but surrounded by PUL. Quite a fun state. Try focusing on sinking into the bed when you get there again next time.

Cheers,
Contenteo

[Pauli2]

...sometimes sleep paralisis feels like a heavy blanket, I used to
meditate laying in bed some years ago, if you stay still the body
start to send you signals for you to move, like a "roll over signal"
or your body gets very itchi, if you do not move at all and just feel...

I have not heard of anyone being able to move while in paralysis.

My impression is that the original thread starter entered F 10:

Suddenly I was more awake again, but existing mostly in my mind with little or no thought of where I was physically.

To me, in order for me to say that I am experiencing sleep paralysis (SP),
I am only able to move:

1. My eyes.
2. My eyelids.

No other body parts can be moved by me regardless of how much "strength"
or will power I put into it. Once I get out of SP, every body part breaks free
at once.

[8bit]

That's what I do when I try to have an OBE. I lay down and out of know where my bed starts swaying back and forth. I'm getting really good at it. I can almost flip it over. I find that technique works best for me.  After my OBE this morning I tried to have another one. I started to see flashes of a beautiful landscape. I tried to project there but it didn't work.

[Mirlo]

I have not heard of anyone being able to move while in paralysis.

Yep, I was talking about the moments prior to the paralysis and how to make it happend, how to induce sleep paralysis so to speak.

The roll-over signal is a way in that the body ask "are you awake or sleep? roll over if you're awake", and if you DON'T roll over, a.k.a if you stay still, the body says "so you're sleep, ok I'm gonna paralize now, good night" (is isn't exactly like this, is just a way to explain it), and you end up in sleep paralysis, and if feels like if someone has just put a heavy blanket above you.

In the past, when I used o practice that I was always inside my blankets because of the cold, and it always felt like if suddenly the blankets were bigger or something.

In sleep paralysis the only voluntary movement that you have is breathing, or at least is what I know, and if you voluntarily start to breath slowly and deep, the body feels thata change (Cause is very different from the more subtle sleep breathing) and the paralisis breaks

[LightBeam]

I lay down and out of know where my bed starts swaying back and forth.

That's exactly my technique, only I induce the swaying mentally. It works best when I briefly wake up during the night. I give a command before bed that in those instances of changing positions, drinking water, etc, I will remember to start induce swaying before I drift back to sleep, and it gives me instant vibrations.