My OBE problem

[Pasco]

For about a year and a half now, I've spontanously had experiences that have put me in OBE. It starts with me either waking up in sleep paralysis or gaining full consciousness while dreaming and from there going to sleep paralysis. When this happens I feel a great pressure in my forehead/eye chakra, and hear a high-pitched noice. These are seperate from each other but are still correlated. When I'm in this state I can enhance both of these, make them stronger, but I've had most success when enhancing the pressure in my forehead. Occasionally this has resulted in vibrations, but usually I just feel like my arms and legs are floating up when I reach the climax, and when this happens I just get up and it will be my astral body getting up.

Now, like I said, I've had this sleep paralysis/pressure in forehead thing going on randomly for about a year and a half, though it was only recently I intentionally started OBE:ing with it, a few weeks ago, when it started happening like almost every second day or so. I've only explored my closest area, but I was just ready to go to the astral, and now it went away!

It's silly of me to think I have "lost it", it's been happening for a long time and it's only been gone for like a week, but I'm curious as to what factors might be involved? I know waking up early and going back to sleep has helped in the past, but there has to be more factors than that?

[loppoppy]

Now that you have the intention of astral projection, maybe that intention is causing you to subconciously or conciously force the process into action which is consequently stopping the process you have been spontaneously experiencing in the past. Try to focus and just let it happen as it did before, you will soon see you haven't lost the ability. In cases like this you have to be patient for the experience to happen naturally, only once it has begun you can focus on astral projecting.

[Pasco]

Haha, that's what my girlfriend's been telling me, and I guess I kinda recognize it as true, but it's hard telling yourself you don't wanna AP when you really, really want to 

[CFTraveler]

Sometimes intentions can bite you... This morning I woke up at 6:00 and told myself- 'I think I want to lucid dream, maybe obe from it if I LD'- so I told myself "This morning I'll keep conscious".  And then I lay there for the next 2 hours completely awake- never went back to sleep.
My subconscious has quite the sense of humor.