My Experience Last Night

[Mykel]

something similar to that has happened to me. I think when you are in a really deep trace its difficult to move. What i did was move my fingers first then arms and by that time i was out of the trance and able to move around like normal.

[LJ57]

I've been trying OBE every night recently and until last night I have had no success with it. I laid down sometime around 10:30 and started progressive relaxation and then did a few techniques (chakra meditation, ROPE, and visualization) After about 10 minutes I quit and started repeating affirmations, I must have repeated them in my head at least 100 times. Next thing I know I found myself in a deep trance state and I started trying to project. I was never able to do what I planned, to float over my body. Instead I found myself flying through space, then flying over an ocean that quickly turned into a bright neon colored water with large waves rising. It almost looked like the color of volcanic ash with a bit more purple color to it. I started waking up but I felt so tired that I couldn't even hold my head up(or either this was part of a dream if this was one) I consciously experienced myself in the process of falling asleep which I never have before. I went right back into a trance and next thing I remember I started hearing a beeping noise. I thought it might be my alarm so I reached over to turn it off. I struggled to move my arm across the table as if fighting the sleep paralysis. I turned it off and then on again realizing that that was not the noise(when I later woke up I realized that I had never even touched the alarm). I started struggling to wake up more and I then felt like the left half of my face was paralyzed. Finally after what seemed like a difficult struggle I was able to wake up. And I still heard the beeping noise. I went to the kitchen and my mother's new cell phone was beeping because she had somehow turned on the alarm on it. Sorry, I know this post is really inarticulate and may not make a lot of sense, but I'm trying to piece everything together and make it as coherent as possible. I'm really confused as to whether this was a real OBE or if I was lucid dreaming. As real as it seemed, it was so surreal that it makes me think it might have been a consciously controlled dream on my part. Can anyone shed any light on this experience? Thanks.