Hello everyone,
I recently discovered that my sleep paralyze is not really a medical problem just a gift. Sleep paralyze has been happening to me for about 3 years now. I used to be really scared when I would wake up and could not move and be looking around. It has happened to me so much I just got used to the fact this is happening to me and I have over come the fear and become a master at waking my self up. After discussing my sleeping issue with my dad he told me its not a medical problem just a gift. This shocked me first. This was my father telling me this. I would of never expected him to be into this stuff. Also if I never have had sleep paralyze I would think you guys are all nuts and crazy's. I'm a true believer now guess I can be called crazy. Lately this has been happening to me a lot. My biggest problem is my first instinct is to try to wake my self up. I forget to even try to have OBE. The first time I did have a OBE I got so scared because I couldn't feel my heart beating and felt like I was suffocating. This keep me away from trying this for a about a year and just went back to my old ways of waking my self up. TRust me this really scared Sh**t out of me. Well now I have no fears of dying and don't really pay attention to my heart so I'm ready to explore. Normally when I get into this state I hear very loud White Noise when I ether open my eyes or leave my body which is a very weird feeling it sounds just like a radio station with no signal. Last night I got into that state it seemed like 15 minutes of me trying to wake my self up then I remember I wanted to try to have another OBE well I was successful. I made it out pf my bedroom into living room to my front door then I got scared for some reason and came back. I then did it again this time I remembered reading on the internet about meeting people and talking with them while astral traveling. The way I figured to meet people was that everyone just hangs out up in the clouds so next thing I knew was I was up in the clouds but nobody to be found. I then got scared because I forgot to check to see if the silver cord was hooked to me and didn't want to get lost. Thinking about that ended my astral traveling for that night. This does happen to me a lot. If I try to wake my self up as soon as I try to go back to sleep BAM!! I right back to where I started paralyzed again haha it happens to me 3-4 times in a night. I would like to have fun with this instead of it being a problem.
Welcome to the forum krisko,
I would agree with your Dad that you indeed have a gift. It was very nice of him to tell you this rather than call you nuts. :)
I just learned about OBEs a little over a month ago myself when my friend mentioned it it to me. I think she mentioned it to me 10 years ago but I was somewhat close minded at the time. I started trying to induce after reading a website that provided techniques. I figured it would be foolish of me to just dismiss it and never know for sure when there were clear cut techniques to follow.
I too am now a believer. I have had sleep paralysis episodes growing up as well and the first instinct was to wake up because fear took over. It never dawned on me that what was happening was a good thing. About 2 weeks after I had my first two OBEs I woke up in sleep paralysis, only this time I was ready. I was able to roll out of my body and begin exploring.
Keep us posted of your progress, we are all interested in hearing about what you discover. Humans, collectively realizing that OBEs are normal is a really important part of human evolution.
Thank you for the support and the reply.
I'm very excited about trying OBE again after over coming my bad experience with my first attempt and not being able to tell if I was breathing. Also my recent successful attempts of making it all the way out to my living room. I'm sure it was just not a dream ether as I have the loudest white noise and vibration sounds, so loud like it might really be doing damage to my ear drums, that are all going threw my head when I pull my self out of my human body. It is such a weird transaction.
Now I just need some self control of staying away from my body so I don't get sucked back in and ended up just laying in my bed paralyzed lol... :wink:
Do your projection last as long as dreams? When I'm dreaming my dreams seem to only last minutes then it's morning and time to wake up. Can you accomplish alot while your in a projection?
QuoteDo your projection last as long as dreams? When I'm dreaming my dreams seem to only last minutes then it's morning and time to wake up. Can you accomplish alot while your in a projection?
They don't last very long and unfortunately I have only been projecting for about a month. Fortunately I am determined so it will not be long and I will be able to do all of the above.
The longest OBE lasted for what seemed like 15 minutes. I passed through the back wall of my house and floated out into my backyard, took off and flew over Austin and then argued with some guy and their family about whether they were real or not.
Some people apparently have problems breaking free from there second body and can't move further than about 20 feet away from their physical body. I have not had this problem.
I am jealous of you guys. I have been trying for about 3 weeks now and still no success but i will not give up til i am successful.Used to have it all the time when I was younger and bad experience led me to prayer for it to stopped for I didnt understand what was happening and it never happened since then. Now Im trying to do it again and hope I get it back for I have a full understanding now.
jayzfelon,
I have no doubt in your abilities. You will succeed.
Quote from: jayzfelon on February 02, 2009, 11:39:13
I am jealous of you guys. I have been trying for about 3 weeks now and still no success but i will not give up til i am successful.Used to have it all the time when I was younger and bad experience led me to prayer for it to stopped for I didnt understand what was happening and it never happened since then. Now Im trying to do it again and hope I get it back for I have a full understanding now.
Yeah really, I have been trying for 3 years and no full projection or obe. I gave up because it was very exhausting. I sometimes have spontaneous strange/amazing experiences and "special" dreams, but I am never really conscious in them.
Quote from: krisko on February 01, 2009, 19:56:02
Hello everyone,
I recently discovered that my sleep paralyze is not really a medical problem just a gift. Sleep paralyze has been happening to me for about 3 years now. I used to be really scared when I would wake up and could not move and be looking around. It has happened to me so much I just got used to the fact this is happening to me and I have over come the fear and become a master at waking my self up. After discussing my sleeping issue with my dad he told me its not a medical problem just a gift. This shocked me first. This was my father telling me this. I would of never expected him to be into this stuff. Also if I never have had sleep paralyze I would think you guys are all nuts and crazy's. I'm a true believer now guess I can be called crazy. Lately this has been happening to me a lot. My biggest problem is my first instinct is to try to wake my self up. I forget to even try to have OBE. The first time I did have a OBE I got so scared because I couldn't feel my heart beating and felt like I was suffocating. This keep me away from trying this for a about a year and just went back to my old ways of waking my self up. TRust me this really scared Sh**t out of me. Well now I have no fears of dying and don't really pay attention to my heart so I'm ready to explore. Normally when I get into this state I hear very loud White Noise when I ether open my eyes or leave my body which is a very weird feeling it sounds just like a radio station with no signal. Last night I got into that state it seemed like 15 minutes of me trying to wake my self up then I remember I wanted to try to have another OBE well I was successful. I made it out pf my bedroom into living room to my front door then I got scared for some reason and came back. I then did it again this time I remembered reading on the internet about meeting people and talking with them while astral traveling. The way I figured to meet people was that everyone just hangs out up in the clouds so next thing I knew was I was up in the clouds but nobody to be found. I then got scared because I forgot to check to see if the silver cord was hooked to me and didn't want to get lost. Thinking about that ended my astral traveling for that night. This does happen to me a lot. If I try to wake my self up as soon as I try to go back to sleep BAM!! I right back to where I started paralyzed again haha it happens to me 3-4 times in a night. I would like to have fun with this instead of it being a problem.
Awesome that your Dad accepts this. Your story is very much like mine with the sleep parylasis waking yourself up and vibrations. My projections are very short minute or 2 maybee. That is something Im working on. Keep us posted on your success
Vibra
The Silver Cord is Rarely seen by people during an OBE. So there is no need to be concerned about a silver cord Not being there.
It could be that
1) the silver cord is only attached to some, and not all, people or
2) the silver cord is normally invisible or
3) the "vibration rate" of the silver cord makes it difficult, but not impossible, to see while OOB.
In any event few people see it yet almost everyone who goes out of body feels that they are safe without it.
Grey
I am not sure if the silver cord is real or just a manifestation of our concepts of attachment. It might not really be a 'cord' such as some kind of energetic attachment concept that is too alien for the earth based mind to understand. Anyway, i don't worry about the silver cord and have never seen it on any of my journeys. Don't worry about breathing and ear damage either. When you are slightly out of body, the sensations you feel are not the sensations your body feels. The loud noise is not in your physical ears it's percieved by your astral self. Same goes for the lack of breathing. Astral self does not use air and does not need to breath! So you won't feel breathing once you start to separate. However, if you like, you can ask your astral selt to simulate the feeling of breathing and it can easily do that if it makes you feel better.
Most of us do have to deal somewhat with issues of fear and uncertainly in our astral travels. The unknown is naturally scary to us! Also, I think the astral seems to amplify emotions. SOunds like you are doing pretty good, but it can be helpful to try to worry less about things! All these things you feel are actually perfectly natural. YOu are just becoming aware of things that you weren't previously.
-Eva
My blog of unexplained journeys:
http://www.realmcrawler.blogspot.com
Quote from: krisko on February 01, 2009, 19:56:02
Hello everyone,
I recently discovered that my sleep paralyze is not really a medical problem just a gift. Sleep paralyze has been happening to me for about 3 years now. I used to be really scared when I would wake up and could not move and be looking around. It has happened to me so much I just got used to the fact this is happening to me and I have over come the fear and become a master at waking my self up. After discussing my sleeping issue with my dad he told me its not a medical problem just a gift. This shocked me first. This was my father telling me this. I would of never expected him to be into this stuff. Also if I never have had sleep paralyze I would think you guys are all nuts and crazy's. I'm a true believer now guess I can be called crazy. Lately this has been happening to me a lot. My biggest problem is my first instinct is to try to wake my self up. I forget to even try to have OBE. The first time I did have a OBE I got so scared because I couldn't feel my heart beating and felt like I was suffocating. This keep me away from trying this for a about a year and just went back to my old ways of waking my self up. TRust me this really scared Sh**t out of me. Well now I have no fears of dying and don't really pay attention to my heart so I'm ready to explore. Normally when I get into this state I hear very loud White Noise when I ether open my eyes or leave my body which is a very weird feeling it sounds just like a radio station with no signal. Last night I got into that state it seemed like 15 minutes of me trying to wake my self up then I remember I wanted to try to have another OBE well I was successful. I made it out pf my bedroom into living room to my front door then I got scared for some reason and came back. I then did it again this time I remembered reading on the internet about meeting people and talking with them while astral traveling. The way I figured to meet people was that everyone just hangs out up in the clouds so next thing I knew was I was up in the clouds but nobody to be found. I then got scared because I forgot to check to see if the silver cord was hooked to me and didn't want to get lost. Thinking about that ended my astral traveling for that night. This does happen to me a lot. If I try to wake my self up as soon as I try to go back to sleep BAM!! I right back to where I started paralyzed again haha it happens to me 3-4 times in a night. I would like to have fun with this instead of it being a problem.
Even when you accept that this is a gift, it does not mean that it is always easy to over-ride the almost automatic FEAR of the UNKNOWN reaction. In my case I took a very long time to accept that this happened to me, and there was little if anything I could do to change that. The SP went away for short times, but always came back. There was not an internet to research back then- only a couple of books that did not ring true for what I was going through. I had no one to talk to about this for fear of being labeled a "crazy" or worse, have a doctor try to medicate me out of it. What you say here and below are exactly what I experienced. The fear, the thought that my ear would be damaged- The frustration thinking the if this was so loud for me, why was I the only on hearing it?
Play with the vibrations. Move them around, try to alter the frequency higher- smoother. The longer you can maintain that sort of control, the easier it should get for you. And, I have found that the further I try to get away from my physical location initially, the easier it is to stay away. What also works for me is to think of a person as a goal instead of the place you think they will be or a place in general. You may be wrong for one thing, and I have found that it is easier to get out thinking of a person you have a strong tie to.
Honestly, everything is a gift from God. Everyone can project! I do must say if the sleep paralsys comes to you w/o effort than you are on the road to success, but just because you get the vibes doesn't mean there is a long road ahead.
The people that have difficulty in projecting really need to examine "why" I can't project. I posted a sticky on "Why can't I Project". Please read this and it might help!
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_obe_discussions/why_cant_i_project_invisiblelight_book_reference_for_beginner_to_advance-t28923.0.html
Good Luck and keep up the good work!
Tvos
Since we are being honest, I think reaching success, OBE related or not, all depends on your attitude. You can't lie to yourself either, if you think you will succeed you will, if you don't think you will succeed you won't. It's that simple.
Go to bed knowing with 100% certainty that you will have an OBE and you will. It's that slightest doubt to holds you back, and I am guilty as charged.