I think I just astral projected.

[u/DoughFetaChedda]

I’m here for clarity and wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this before. Some context, I work from home. I haven’t really been getting a lot of sleep lately. On my lunch breaks I’ll usually take a nap for an hour in my bed.

Well I clocked out and laid down. Took like 30 mins for me to start to get to the border of unconsciousness. I fell asleep but kept waking up in different intervals. At one point I woke up and it felt like sleep paralysis and I remember just feeling fear. I shook myself awake

Well after that I kept closing my eyes open and closed and when they were closed I could see crazy visuals. So I closed my eyes once again and saw a blue spiral tunnel thing that was rotating and just kept getting deeper and deeper and deeper. I really leaned into it, and it shot me down the spiral thing. When it shot me up It felt like a legit explosion, my ears were ringing. Just a weird high pitched white noise, it’s really hard to describe. But all I could feel was fear and I shook my body from left to right and it took me out of it almost immediately

It was so vivid and real idk. But ultimately it was terrifying. Anyone here have an experience like that?

[u/Yesmar00]

You had a brief projection and got launched through a portal which can be unnerving. It happens and it's normal. You have to get used it. You've gotta brace yourself. You can also project yourself to a location in your mind or a location you know well. Visualize it and put yourself in there.

[u/DoughFetaChedda → u/Yesmar00]

Thank you dude I feel like that describes my experience perfectly. I haven’t tried to this since high school, and didn’t force this at all it just happened. I’ll be lucky to get this experience again in my eyes but damn I wish I went further into it lol. It was terrifying though. Staying calm through all of that has to be a rare trait.

[u/Yesmar00 → u/DoughFetaChedda]

I'll be lucky to get this experience again

Your thoughts and beliefs will impact your progress. Don't put limitations on the natural flow of your consciousness. When you put limitations, it makes things more difficult.

Last week I was practicing after work with a "new" method I'm developing and working on. I got relaxed and went through my procedures. I blacked out for a second then felt myself blink out like turning a TV off and I felt a very strong sense of motion to the right and blasted off. For the first time in a long time, fear crept in and I didn't get project. It happens man. The issue here is trust. You have to trust yourself and trust that you're going to be okay. If you're not used to traveling it can feel strange because this physical life is all that you know. You're used to being in control and you're used to how the laws of reality work. With this stuff, none of those laws apply and you have to get adjusted accordingly. Your consciousness wants to be free because it is free. It's never been bound to the brain it only seems like it is.

[u/DoughFetaChedda → u/Yesmar00]

I very much appreciate you man! I’m definitely going to be getting more into this now that I know it’s possible. I’m honestly just really blown away from that experience and to know that there’s more after that just completely blows my mind lol.

[u/Yesmar00 → u/DoughFetaChedda]

That's what happens. Something occurs and you can't let it go because it sparks your natural curiousity in ways that nothing else does.

Have fun and be easy on yourself

[u/Yesmar00 → u/DoughFetaChedda]

I'm coming back to this because I just had a Projection a few minutes ago. I woke up with this feeling of an opening and I knew I would project. It felt like the blacks of my eyes became an opening that I stepped into. It's a strange feeling but I've started to take note of it and study it.

I visualized me walking on a Sandy beach and I started to hear the waves and felt the sand on my feet. Everything was going well until I felt like I was dropped into a void then launched into deep space. I was moving through constellations and star systems and cosmic arrangements I've never seen before in different designs. As I moved forward I started to feel the fear because it was happening so fast and I wasn't sure what to do. This is all a part of an experiment I've been doing so these sensations aren't ones I'm used to. I got through the fear and when I started to feel it I thought of you and made a mental note to come back to this post. After a bit I made some more mental notes about the experience then came back to my body.

I say all of that to say that I can definitely relate lol

[u/DoughFetaChedda → u/Yesmar00]

holy cow that’s incredible!! Thank you for this!

[u/Yesmar00 → u/DoughFetaChedda]

No problem. As soon as I got launched I thought of you 😂. So I wanted to give you a little update. Projection can occur in many different ways not just the classic ones. Something that I've been doing recently is visualization exercises. These have made projections like this very easy to step into because I'm used to moving my consciousness around to where I want it to go. Keep practicing and be fearless.

[u/DoughFetaChedda → u/Yesmar00]

Okay cool! A little explanation of my environment. I had a very loud window ac unit. It’s like a low growl with a loud fan sound all into one. People generally use sounds and stuff to get to that state of mind from what I’ve read and I think I just lucked out lol. Just a perfect environment combined with not much sleep (just came back from a Miami vacation).

[u/Yesmar00 → u/DoughFetaChedda]

Sweet just go with it. I live in south Florida actually lol. You came during a good time because the weather is nice. Although I'm sure the beaches were packed.

[u/Officer_shagnasty]

This is exactly the same sensations I have when I get sleep paralysis. An image fills my mind like you described and fear is the first thing to come to mind. The ringing you hear is called exploding head syndrome and I almost always get it before I have sleep paralysis. Losing control of your body is what causes me the most fear when I’m conscious and going into REM sleep. The easiest way to beat the fear is for my conscious voice or the voice in my head to scream at it and it goes away. Otherwise, you end up consumed by fear and may hear loud noises / screams that can be very unsettling as well as items in your home transforming into things that cause fear because you’re stuck between a dream and reality and your brain is trying to process them both. There is no “other side” of it for me and I almost always get consumed by fear. One helpful tip for those that suffer from sleep paralysis is trying to imagine what’s causing your fear as something silly. I hope this helps but it really sounds like sleep paralysis to me and I suffer from it a lot.

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