Came Close but I think I missed my chance...

[cairnsb]

Sorry for the spelling...still groggy from this experience.

[cairnsb]

Hello -

Been gone from the forums for a long while...been working on getting into a relaxed state and have been reading up on meditation / relaxation and self hypnonis.

I have hade OOBEs before but ALL of them were pure chance / luck - happened to be dreaming and realized it was a dream - snap - I am out...But I have not yet been able to intentionally get out.

Last night I relaxed deeper then I think I ever had before.

Each time I noticed a difference in how relaxed I was, I would give myself a hypnotic suggestion (aka a trigger) that "if I repeat the word Phase (number here) I will imediatly return to this state"

After going through my relaxation routine...

My limbs felt heavy and pulsed with a numb kind of sensation (like when your foot falls alseep).

The sensatation quicky spread to the rest of my body... it felt like a tingly warm heat.

Images and light flashed by and started hearing weird sounds.

Then I heard a LOUD BANG - was as if a gun had been shot next to my ears.

My hearing seemed to "shift" - thats the best way I can describe it - there was a rushing sound...sounded like running water.

I then realized that I could no longer feel my body.

No sensation at all.

As soon as the that realization came over me I tried to move my arm...don't know why but for some reason I was determined to move my arm.

No luck there - I was in total sleep paralisis.

From what I read in Robert Bruces Book - the best thing to do is wait it out... so I observed my situation...I felt as if I was laying on a cloud of air, I had zero sensation from my body but I could still hear things (like the dogs snoring)...my vision was as if I was in a pitch black room...but I could not move my eyes at all.

At one point I even tried to return to a previous stage / phase - no luck at all.

I gave my self a self-hypnotic suggestion that I will open my eyes as soon as this paralisis has passed.

Obviously time was distorted in that state, but it felt like 5 minutes had passed and my eye snapped open and I sat strait up in bed.

I guessed the total time was about 15 minutes.. looked at the clock and two hours had passed.

Honestly I do not know what to think of this...
Maybe I had a very vey weird dream?

Maybe "I" got out but being so focused on my body (relaxation exercise) my mind stayed with the body?