Hey,
A couple nights ago, I found myself with sleep paralysis, and attempted an astral projection. I remembered having the projection (In short, I rolled over, and thought that I physically rolled over, so I "opened" my eyes and found that I was touching the floor on the wrong side of the bed. Finally, after getting all the way out, I started to lose focus, almost as if my physical body had some need for calling back.).
After a "brief" period of blacking out, I felt myself "click" into the body (it's hard to describe - I mean, one minute I'm feeling nothing in the astral, and then I'm "back" inside my physical body). When this happened, I went to check my watch to see how long I was out, and instead of hitting my bookshelf, I only found empty air.
This is the weird part, for which I have very few explanations: I found myself to be in my physical body, but not in the same room - I still felt like it was "my" body (I mean, I've lived in it for 20.5 years, so I know how it feels), and I could feel moving the sheets so I could get out of that bed (has anyone felt a physical sensation out of body?). Also, I was as lucid then as I am in waking conscious - It had no feel of being either a lucid dream, projection or experience.
Seeing as I was aware of my surroundings, I did a couple of tests which I found worked in previous dreams/OBEs. The first I tried was to hover around the room. I jumped off the bed, and made a rather loud crash when I landed on the floor (it could be that I was thinking about gravity, which caused me to experience it in this experience). When that didn't work - I tried spinning around, which proceeded to make me dizzy (just like it would in the "real" world). As a final test, I tried to make my hands melt by focusing on them, which also did nothing.
To finalize this experience, I met my family members (still looking like they do in real life), who refused to believe "I" wasn't myself. When they left, I picked up a few documents off the floor (again, I could feel the texture of the paper - most of them were the kind of paper that award certificates are printed on), and started to get worried (I mean, I was in the "wrong" room, and none of the tests to indicate it was a projection or dream). Finally, I attempted to astral project twice from inside this (dream? OBE?) - the first time failed because it seemed like I was too "awake" (as if I just woke up from sleeping 8 hours), and on the second it worked: I got the vibrations, and was able to project. After blacking out a second time, I found myself in "my" body, and in the right room.
The only mention of anything relating to this was one of Monroe's experiences (I think it was covered in Ultimate Journey, but it's been a while since I read that book), where he seemed to "take over" another entitie's life for brief periods. Anyway, as you can probably tell, this experience rattled me because I've never, never experiences something of the sort, and so, I'm asking for what you guys think?
Also, I know how unusual this sounds - Normally I'm a skeptic when encountering these kind of posts/experiences. I figure that this is better off on this forum than anywhere else, so in a nutshell: What do you think happened to me, based on what I said?
Thanks,
-fossilera
PS: Sorry for the longish read; I was trying to put 5 pages worth of notes into a "forum-based" format.
Hiya Foss, it sounds to me like you had a 'false awaking' but I never had one of those.
Maybe do a search and read about them to see if you recognise that.
Anyways you are on the right track!
cheers, djed :-)
Quote from: djed on April 05, 2011, 03:48:14
Hiya Foss, it sounds to me like you had a 'false awaking' but I never had one of those.
Maybe do a search and read about them to see if you recognise that.
Anyways you are on the right track!
cheers, djed :-)
I'll take a look around, because I haven't had a false awakening yet either (unless this was one). If it was, then my next step is to duplicate what I did to get to that point. Thanks!
-fossilera
It does sound like a false awakening to me as well. You may have initially had an OBE, but then when you reintegrated/re-focused into your physical body, you may have slipped into a lucid dream (false awakened). People often report "reality fluctuations" in the RTZ (real time zone), the area we initially can project into, but I've never heard of a reality fluctuation in terms of the feeling of the body you are in - but I wouldn't rule anything out as impossible. Interesting experience.
Next time you find yourself out of body like you did initially, try focusing on your hands and the tactile sensation of touching something (i.e, rubbing your hands together). This has helped me ground myself in the experience, solidifying and prolonging it. Try and get away from your perceived physical body.