Mind awake, body asleep

[Blazewind]

Just thought I'd post this in here.  Today I had a bit of a neat experience, and of course yet again it happened when I was at at all trying.  I've been dead tired all day, probably because I haven't been able to sleep well at nights lately, while still getting up early for work in the mornings.  Today though when I got home I ended up waiting for the landlord to pop by to collect rent, so the last thing I wanted to do is go lay down in my bed and doze off completely.  (I'd have only then ended up needing to track the landlord down tomorrow had I missed the door)  I decided to take a quick nap instead on the futon in the living room.  I don't sleep on there very often at all, and of course not very well because upright it's a bit narrow.  I didn't really intend to sleep, just kind of lay down for a short while and chill, but before i realized it I was dozing fright off to sleep anyway.  Strangely I was fully aware of falling asleep, and I thought of paying attention to it then just because the opportunity was presenting itself.  Suddenly and without a thought about it, I found myself in a state that I would call almost a state of hyper awareness, and noticing the feeling of existing almost independent of anything but my own consciousness.  I realized then shockingly enough that my body had fallen asleep.  My mind was aware of being awake in the living room, listening for the door, and thinking of how odd it was to have done this.  I've come quite close to this state before, but in that second I knew that was the first time I had ever really done it. 

For what must have only been seconds, but seemed in no way hurried at all, I just stayed where I was, existing as almost a simple point of consciousness within that I knew to be a sleeping body.  I was aware of everything yet of nothing at the same time.  I was aware of not sensing my own body, but at the same time I wasn't wasn't concerned.  I thought about it for a second and it seemed logical that I could have probably moved had I wanted to.  I just simply didn't want too or know how to. in the next second I thought that maybe I could try moving my non-physical body.  I have done this to a small extent before, but only ever by accident.  Normally I tend to assume at first I am physically moving, and I get confused.  I began to notice that I could move to some small extent without physically moving.  I think I was thinking too much though because in the next second it occurred to me that I had no idea exactly what to do next,and in the second after that I was actually aware of waking up again. 

Upon thinking this over not too long later, I think I must have set myself up for just such a thing without really putting much thought into it.  I took a quick nap in the daytime, which i course is very much off schedule and at a time when I was of course not as tired as at night.  i was laying down calmly in a place I would not normally have associated with falling asleep.  I as also thinking of actually not dozing off at all or a t least of not sleeping too soundly because I was of course waiting for a knock on the apartment door within an hour.  Haha, likely not too interesting of an account here, but of course I was quite excited about it anyway.               

[Szaxx]

You allowed it to happen by not trying anything. Its that easy, and it can be used to exit at will.
It reminded me of the 80's, I did this nearly every day at lunchtime. Amazing success rate too.
Remember how you did it and see how successful things get.