Tolvor-
I have had a few similar experiences since I experience sleeping paralysis and so does my brother and sister, although I am the only one who has ever done any energy work or anything "weird."
In my case, I just left my physical body for a while and suddenly got pulled back to my physical body so it can wake up (usaully because I'm hungry. It's irritating because I can't sleep until I eat a little, happens every night.)
Sometimes I remember what happened, sometimes I don't.
The only times I experience paralysis is if I do energy work right before sleeping and leave my body unconsciously.
One time I woke up inside my mattress, looking at my box spring. When I realized where I was, I snapped back into my paralyzed body and some general feeling of "fear" drove me out of my trance.
I think the fear is just the body's reaction to feeling "pinned down" against the bed, the way paralysis feels. It's very heavy and immobilizing.
By the way, the only successful OOBE attempts I've had were involuntary, so if you figure things out a little better, let me know.
Last night I was lying in bed working on relaxing and (energy collection?). I had a very nice steady tingle going, not a light tingle but more of a current. I was staying rather focused with the breath count and it was the only thing running thru the mind, not any worries or thoughts. Everything suddenly changed as I may have experienced some kind of sleep paralysis.
I've done self-hypnosis many years, and one of the simple tests is to freeze a finger (or arm). Simple. The muscles become so rigid and tense that the finger can't bend. THIS was different. My entire body felt, muffled. My fingers were extremely relaxed and frozen. I tried to shift my wrist slightly and couldn't. I didn't want to try to force the wrist to move as it would've disturbed my concentration. I didn't worry about it. I simply continued the counting, unconcerned.
Here's where it gets interesting. About five minutes into this state a big tingle wave passes over me, and I've got the sensation of extreme disassociation. I've got a strong feeling of floating and drifting. There is a persistent feeling as if my body is tilting somewhat to the right side, and is always sliding. It was like going down a water slide sideways, slowly.
I stay calm and focused. I try some exiting techniques. I try to lift my left arm 'out'. I feel the darndest sensation as if it does. I have more perception of where the mental arm is than where the arm actually lies on the bed. Right arm, ditto, no problem. Both mental arms feel bigger than the arms actually are. However I can't see them, no sight (book says that I should). Try the cord technique, lifting produces strong tingle, nothing. I move the mental pull-out cord to be parellel with body. Nothing. I try the ski method (I don't like RB water boat, I prefer a 3000m ski jump). It produced a strong sailing sensation but no exit, and no sight. Still paralyzed.
I decided that I needed to relax more, build up the wave, and shortly thereafter fell asleep.
What did I do wrong? I'm confident that I was 100% relaxed. I just can't figure out where I should proceed to if I reach this point again.
Any advice would by appreciated.