Sounds like yuo were in the projection process- some sort of astral sight was opened, and you were clearing the pathways for 'takeoff'
Welcome aboard Hugh.
I think Ralhpm is right. It sounds like you almost projected. Next time you get that feeling just go with it.
The feeling is normal and gets less noticeable themore you get it so no worries there. But listen who's talking here , I still haven't done a conscious projection and can't remember most of my spontaneous ones.
As far as meditaiton, enery work etc., do what works. If you have a method that works for you and feel comfortable go with that. It's not the method but the result that matters.
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jouni
i believe it's quite obvious that you were on lsd. living in philadelphia probably makes it very easy to obtain any type of drug. i've heard that their crime rate is horrible. i wouldnt be surprised if you were a drug dealer yourself. also there have been many great musicians who were on lsd and various other hallucinigenic substances in the past. some of these easily could have been your idol. jimi hendrix was a great man. i could see how you would want to be just like him.
about your experience though, you mentioned that the feeling you felt wasn't the normal twenty one year old genitals feeling. i'm very curious to know how you could be so sure it wasnt the normal feeling of a twenty one year old male's gentitals. how many other male genitalia have you felt that were of that age? how could you be so sure that those people were normal?
that light you mentioned may have been a flying saucer. i hear they are pretty common in philly. you are very lucky you didnt get abducted. if you did get abducted, you are very lucky that you didnt remember anything but the bright light coming through your window.
the pinning effect was clearly you misthinking that you couldn't move, when in fact, your extremely expensive down comforter was holding you down. also the sheet that may have been tucked in from mommy the night before may still have been extra specially tight for her little 'sugar bacon'.
i don't know everything but i'm pretty sure that no matter how much experience that you have on this forum that you are never going to be able to turn into a 'poster' on this forum. i've looked around a good bit and don't recall seeing any posters at all here. maybe once you are able to project consciously constantly you could turn into one there. i would recomment the poster of pink floyd where there are five girls all painted to match the five albums that those gods made. that would be a nice poster to be. :)
this entire post was bs. it was typed all in good fun. i in no way meant to mock any of your experiences and can appreciate all of them. it may not be funny now that you've read that i was kidding but i'm sure on the way downhere you laughed your sugar bacon #@! off. :) if i did offend i'm sorry and i will delete this post immediately. i read your post in response to my other topic and figured you had a good sense of humor.
i agree w/ ralphm and jilola about your experience. to go into any more detail about what i thought it was would just take away from how you remember it. there are things better left w/out an attempt to describe them. most awesome, life changing experiences are ineffable and any attempt to describe them takes away from the experience and what's worse, takes away from the memory of the experience. happy flying.
were you tripping? :)
fred
Hello everyone,
I'd like to give a little background on myself, as this is my first post and it seems like everyone knows each other on this forum. I'm 21 years old, Philadelphia, PA, musician, and I don't know nearly as much about astral projection as the people on this forum. It seems fascinating, and I have read "Astral Dynamics" up until the point where you begin the practicing of the NEW technique, but my life sort of got distracted and I've never given a whole-hearted attempt.
After what I experienced this morning, I knew I needed to register and ask if anybody knows what's up. I haven't been trained in any regemented meditation techniques, but have sort of developed a personal meditation I have been lightly using for over a year now.
While meditating, or almost on demand, I can make a subtle feeling occur in my body. I've always associated it with raising energy, but I don't think it could be the same thing. It seems to eminate from the middle of my body, not up through my legs or through my fingers. It is a flushing, pulsing, heavy, quickly vibrating feeling. It is actually EXTREMELY difficult to describe, and that's about the best I can do. This feeling happens subtley when I concentrate to make it happen, slightly stronger when I feel "deep" into a meditation (which don't get DEEP deep), but almost unbarable during waking paralysis, which has only occured about 4-5 times, all fairly recently.
Until this morning, the heaviest I ever felt this sensation was in a dream (not while lucid). It felt extremely transcending, and I woke up extremely suprised, recalling the feeling exactly. Whenever this feeling gets to a huge peak, I always fear that it is the feeling of my dying, and try to stop it.
THIS MORNING....
I woke up after sleeping for eight hours, and tried to recall my dreams. I couldn't remember any of them at all. I thought that I would try to stay awake for a short time, and then nap, hoping to attain lucidity. I noticed the sensation in my gut, a tingling in my genitals (not the usual 21-year-old in the morning kind). I figured I might as well try and meditate. The feeling consumed me immediatley. It is so hard to explain it. It felt like I wasn't in my bed, but swimming deep through my mind, or everything that wasn't my mind, or both. I felt like I was not in my body anymore, but knew I was and certainly I was not projecting out. I noticed a light coming through the open part of my window. It was extremely bright, brighter than I had ever recalled. It got brighter and brighter, eventually it was blinding. I have never recalled seeing anything so bright in my life. I thought I was surely going to go blind. The feeling went on for what seemed like an eternity, until it was so intense, I once again thought I was dying. I opened my eyes and grabbed my chest to see if I was having a heart attack. Normal pulse. Only I now noticed my window was covered and not letting the light that I saw in. In fact, my eyes were closed the whole time I was seeing it.
I tried to move, but the vibrations had me pinned to my bed and I felt like I weighed 900 pounds. I broke this the same way I would waking paralysis, by wiggling my toe first. I laid in a stupor for a few minutes, in which I recalled a dream fragment it felt like I just had. So I thought perhaps I had originally fallen back asleep for a short time, dreaming for a moment and then being thrown directly into paraylsis. Although it seems possible, it didn't look like nearly enough time had passed for that to happen. I got up, went to the bathroom, and when I came back I could not duplicate the feeling at all.
I don't know if this sort of thing is explained later in AD, but if anybody has any idea what the hell this is, I'd love to hear about it. It's a really enjoyable thing until I think that I'm going to die. I need to stress that it is not the "evil presence" feeling, but just a feeling that is "too intense" for me not to be dying. Does anyone have an explanation for the poorly-described sensation I get in my body?
Thank you vey much, and I hope that I gain enough experiences to be a regular poster on this forum!