Vibrations are ...

[Inward]

I hear a lot of people talk about hearing vibrations, but I wanted to explain what is meant by vibrations. Just about everyone can hear a whistle in the head if they really listen and they can willfully increase that to a very loud whistle till it sounds like it's going to make them death. That's not obe vibrations. OBE vibrations are something that's felt through out the body. Vibrations are not something you hear. It's not that whistle a person hears. Sometimes the vibrations are only felt in the head, but the difference between that and hearing the whistle is like day and night.

Inward

[MisterJingo]

Most times I get vibrations I get a tremendous roaring in my ears/head too. It sounds like being at the base of an immense waterfall. This is not a whistle, or tintinus and only occurs when the vibrations are powerfully felt  througout my body. I've never heard such an immense buzzing/roaring sound in waking life - its unique to times in the vibrational state.
If this is not the vibrations, then what is it? Also, why does it only occur when I have vibrations?

When I talk of vibrations I mean the electric/roaring/buzzing in every cell of my being vibrations, not the slow waving ones.

[MisterJingo]

Also, the vibrations are not actually felt by the body - so if one can experience something which feels tactile, why can't one experience something as a sound too?
I've actually experienced the vibrations visually a few times too. THey looked like static on a untuned tv channel.

[Selski]

I get a tremendous roaring in my ears/head too.

Whilst I claim to not have the vibrations (apart from once when I requested them), I have had this roaring.  It's all encompassing, but strangely enough it isn't unpleasant.  It's not particularly deafening as such (in volume), but it's massive in its presence (if that makes sense).

I've actually experienced the vibrations visually a few times too. THey looked like static on a untuned tv channel.

Hey, hey, hey!  I've had this too.  I wondered what it was at the time, but wrote it down diligently.  The wavy lines kept changing from being really 'sharp' to smoothing out every so often.  It was fascinating watching it.  

Seems I have felt vibrations in one way or another more often than I at first thought.

Sarah

[MisterJingo]

Whilst I claim to not have the vibrations (apart from once when I requested them), I have had this roaring. It's all encompassing, but strangely enough it isn't unpleasant. It's not particularly deafening as such (in volume), but it's massive in its presence (if that makes sense).
Hey, hey, hey! I've had this too. I wondered what it was at the time, but wrote it down diligently. The wavy lines kept changing from being really 'sharp' to smoothing out every so often. It was fascinating watching it.  

Seems I have felt vibrations in one way or another more often than I at first thought.

From my own experience it seems the vibrations are some form of phenomenon which are interpreted within our sphere of experience. Such as whatever it/they are might share more traits with a physical vibrational feeling – so in the majority of cases, it is felt as such. But when it is experienced through other sences, its interpreted in a similar form too – such as a roaring or a visual vibrational phenomenon etc.

It could be likened to a phenomenon noticed by many, that is in the astral, we interpret experiences in terms of our own experience to date. So if something outside of our experience is found, it will perhaps come across as abstract as we try and fit meaning to it.

[Inward]

Feeling is definitely something not limited to the physical body. I'm sure a lot of projectors here have felt with their astral body. In fact, I know from personal experience that you can actually feel pain from the astral body and that astral body can be damaged.

I was just trying to distinguish the well-known whistle / winning noise people often hear. Doctors say the noise is caused by blood flowing, but that's the only explanation they know of.  I'm not sure that's really it.  I know that if you take a sensitive microphone and place it up against a line that is flowing some liquid such as water that you don't hear a whistle unless there's something disrupting the flow.  You can use a stethoscope to hear just how flowing blood sounds. The whistle noise that I hear in the head is purer and closer to a pure sine wave. Also, people can increase this noise at will, to such a degree that it can become very loud.  Still, this seems to be very different from the vibrations.

Inward

[jub jub]

Whilst I claim to not have the vibrations (apart from once when I requested them), I have had this roaring.  It's all encompassing, but strangely enough it isn't unpleasant.  It's not particularly deafening as such (in volume), but it's massive in its presence (if that makes sense).
Sarah

Since we're on the topic of vibrations, if I may, I'd like to interject some new and strange experiences that have just started occurring.

Up until just recently, I would feel the vibes but never noticed any roaring sounds. Well, now I am beginning to experience the roaring sounds but no vibrations. In fact, when the roaring starts, I seem to slip into a lucid dream state and I will witness jet fighter aircraft circling overhead! This has happened several times back to back and has me wondering if this is a type of evolution for my consciousness.

[MisterJingo]

Whilst I claim to not have the vibrations (apart from once when I requested them), I have had this roaring.  It's all encompassing, but strangely enough it isn't unpleasant.  It's not particularly deafening as such (in volume), but it's massive in its presence (if that makes sense).
Sarah

Since we're on the topic of vibrations, if I may, I'd like to interject some new and strange experiences that have just started occurring.

Up until just recently, I would feel the vibes but never noticed any roaring sounds. Well, now I am beginning to experience the roaring sounds but no vibrations. In fact, when the roaring starts, I seem to slip into a lucid dream state and I will witness jet fighter aircraft circling overhead! This has happened several times back to back and has me wondering if this is a type of evolution for my consciousness.

Out of curiosity, when you hear the roaring sound, do you feel anything else? I ask as when this happens to me, I feel a 'heaviness' which seems centred on/in my head. And then I feel like I sink into myself. I usually seem to sink into an hypnogogic scenario (which is like a lucid dream).

[jub jub]

Out of curiosity, when you hear the roaring sound, do you feel anything else? I ask as when this happens to me, I feel a 'heaviness' which seems centred on/in my head. And then I feel like I sink into myself. I usually seem to sink into an hypnogogic scenario (which is like a lucid dream).

I haven't noticed any type of feelings while the roaring is occurring. Basically, the roaring and LD happen almost simultaneously. There was one occasion that the roaring was so loud that it startled me and I woke up.

Now that I'm aware of what's happening, I'll be sure to pay closer attention next time.

[Selski]

Out of curiosity, when you hear the roaring sound, do you feel anything else? I ask as when this happens to me, I feel a 'heaviness' which seems centred on/in my head. And then I feel like I sink into myself. I usually seem to sink into an hypnogogic scenario (which is like a lucid dream).

I hardly remember anything else once that roaring starts.  I know I am rational and logical enough to think, "wow, that's loud, I wonder what's going on."  

I do detect a shifting away from the physical at this point.  It's as if the physical is on one end of a see-saw and the astral on the other.  The roaring occurs at the centre of the see-saw and I mentally slide down the astral side.  Any astral voices or other noises seem to come in behind or around the roaring.  And I'm aware that at any moment (a bit further down the see-saw) I'll be able to pop out and go off exploring.

:seesaw:

Sarah

[blade5x]

Can someone explain to me why I stopped getting vibrations? It seems like now when I fall into Sleep-Paralysis, the vibrations, and roaring noise... it's just not there anymore :confused:

[MisterJingo]

As long as you still have OBE experiences, the vibrations don't particularly matter. I think Selski says she's never felt the full vibrations, and it has never stopped any of her experiences .
It just seems to be one of a range of possible symptoms of the OBE state. I've had experiences where I pass into the AP without feeling vibrations at all. It's simply a transition form my bedroom to a visualisation I am holding. The visualisation becomes more solid while external sensory perception becomes reduced until it vanishes.

[MisterJingo]

I haven't noticed any type of feelings while the roaring is occurring. Basically, the roaring and LD happen almost simultaneously. There was one occasion that the roaring was so loud that it startled me and I woke up.

Now that I'm aware of what's happening, I'll be sure to pay closer attention next time.

I hardly remember anything else once that roaring starts. I know I am rational and logical enough to think, "wow, that's loud, I wonder what's going on."

I do detect a shifting away from the physical at this point. It's as if the physical is on one end of a see-saw and the astral on the other. The roaring occurs at the centre of the see-saw and I mentally slide down the astral side. Any astral voices or other noises seem to come in behind or around the roaring. And I'm aware that at any moment (a bit further down the see-saw) I'll be able to pop out and go off exploring.

Times when I only hear the roaring is usually in the mornings when I've awoken but am on the border of sleep. Usually I find hypnogogics are a lot more 'solid' and then sometimes the roaring starts and I feel the sinking, the hypnogogic increases in realism until I am there. It's a different kind of 'entry' to that I experience with the full vibrations. So was curious if this was similar to what you two experienced too .

Edit: The sinking feels very similar to the onset of sleep paralysis from a waking state. But it seems rather than be stuck in sleep paralysis, I become involved in a hypnogogic experience/AP.

[mjolnir_knight]

The first time that I ever experienced vibrations was on my first projection attempt (which was a success!!!  )  and to me it felt, for lack of a better description, like waves in the ocean, except accelerated very fast.  Like every part of my body was moving in a different direction at once.