Energy and Physical wires got crossed

[Jarrod]

I was trying to stay conscious the other night as I went to sleep and eventually I started to feel my energy body trying to jerk away at my chest.  It was kind of like a short build up of energy and then a quick spasming up feeling but sometimes my physical body would get caught up in it too and my physical chest would jerk up also.  I doubt that happens when I fall asleep normally, so was it because I was conscious that my physical body thought it should join in too?

[moker]

This is something that i felt too. A couple weeks ago.

It was after i lay in my bed on my back.

And the only thing that i did was focus my attention on my body.

First i started with my feet then legs then hands then arms then all together.

But everytime you focus on a bodypart after a time you will feel a tingling sensation.

Some people say that it is the energy body.

But if you focus on one body part or multiple body parts at the same time for a hour or so.

Then you will get that feeling in the chest that you described.

[Summerlander]

This can be a symptom of being aware in sleep paralys - especially if you pay attention to your physical body.  For example, if you focus on breathing at that stage, a discordance is very likely to ensue in its function. Why does it do this? Because during sleep paralysis, breathing is supposed to be on "autopilot" (doing it unconsciously).

Conscious breathing is different to the unconscious one. If an individual becomes consciously aware of breathing in sleep paralysis, he or she will tamper with this flow (very hard not to unless one immediately focuses on something else in the mind) and, because the muscles that are usually used in conscious breathing are atonic, they cannot be easily utilised and hence why a mild pressure may be experienced.

The body has another way to breathe during muscle atonia. This natural flow can be interrupted, and, despite the weirdness or discomfort, it is really nothing to worry about. It can happen. You may do breathing exercises to relax yourself when you plan to induce (but you don't have to), and, once you near the hypnagogic state, it is ideal to not focus on your breathing (or the physical body for that matter) . Focus on something else instead.

Then, there is the possibility of perceiving neural activity at that stage (and this too may get your imagination running wild and give birth to strange hallucinations). Adrenaline flow may also give you weird sensations once secreted and this can go against you during the OOBE induction.

I'd also like to add that, in that state, focusing on parts of the body may prompt the brain to send mild signals to those areas and thus, the tingling. I don't know anything about an energy body though...