I kept focusing on the phosphenes and I started to see 3D faces. But only face and neck. It was a side view and little below my eye level. Also then I heard myself snoring and killed the state.
Can someone say is that the mind awake body asleep state.
I used to focus on phosphenes since the beginning and it gave me good results. But it took some time all the time, like 30-40 minutes. And I very rarely get clicked out. But now I start to get results in like 10-15 minutes but recently noticed that now I’m more prone to get clicked out. Last time I tried to AP, tried really hard to keep the awareness saying my mantra “mind awake body asleep” but all of a sudden woke up 90 minutes later. And it’s always 90 minutes sleeps. What can I do???
Anyone happen to know a way to find out if I’m correctly passively focusing at the hypnagogic images correctly? I mean without tensing the eye muscles.
What differences I’m gonna notice when I’m doing it right vs wrong?
Any exercises to practice passive gazing/focus?
I can say 6 months of constant trying finally giving results. For the last 3 days I was able to induce sleep paralysis.
My technique is I relax my body with the breathing and focus on hypnagogic images for like 45 - 60 minutes. But this doesn't give any results. So I turn the other side and go to sleep. Then after several minutes of sleep, I wake up to a loud noise saying random things and BAM I'm sleep paralyzed. But it lasts only for couple of seconds and it goes away.
Yesterday I started chocking when I got SP. I didn't care about it as I was ready for anything. But I think it came to a point that my body can't bear anymore and snapped back in. Day before yesterday I saw a computer screen and the voice said "You can't control anything" twice and had sleep paralysis. That time also for a couple of seconds.
Why is that and what can I do for that?
And why do I always have to give up and fall asleep every time to get SP? Why can't I get it conscientiously with hypnagogic imagery meditation?
I've been trying to AP for like 6 months and no success so far. But I know how sleep paralysis feels because I've had it naturally like 3 times. When I was trying to project, I once induced sleep paralysis and that was all natural, smooth and most importantly I expected. It did hit me like a truck all of a sudden though. But that was alright compared to what happened today.
Today I tried to AP laying on the bed for like 90 minutes and no success. So thought of going to sleep giving up. It was because I could not pass the vibrational state (mild vibrations you get without hitting sleep paralysis) . I try to AP laying on the bed belly up and today, after thinking about going to sleep I turned the other way (belly down. that's how I usually sleep). But I kept watching hypnogogic images just for no reason until fall asleep. Then out of nowhere I heard someone saying something, now I don't remember everything. But there were like couple of sentences. The last part was "look how SpaceX can manipulate your mind" and finally very very loudly said "drop!". Then I saw lots of flashing lights and they were rapidly changing colors. Now I only remember there were yellow and bright light green. Also there were different random logos in the middle of those flashes. And I think I heard lots of loud sounds as well, I don't exactly remember that. I got really scared I'm not going to lie. I was so confused and I couldn't even think of what to do. It was like a drill sergeant shouting at your face saying do that do this. I got scared to the point I started praying. It did calmed down that a little bit and then I realized I'm sleep paralyzed. Then I slowly moved my toes and got out of it.
Now it's 2am here and there is no sleep near me. lol. Thought of writing this post asking what really happened there before forgetting details. That was neither a dream nor a regular sleep paralysis I had before. Thank you for taking time to read this and I'd be glad if you could leave a word here explaining what was that.
Thanks in Advance!
Happy AP!
I've been trying to AP for like 6 months and no major success so far. I test different methods looking for the method that works for me. Now I'm thinking about trying this following method and let me know if that'll work.
Lay on the bed belly up palms facing upwards. Relax all the muscles as much as you can. Slowly switch into diaphragmatic breathing (breathing into belly). Then relaxing the body and mind with every exhale further from imaginary level 1 to 10. Then let the mind wander a little in a controlled manner to lead the mind to a mild dreamy/meditative state. Then focus on the hypnogogic images behind the eyes and after several minutes, if mind still feels more alert and sharp, again let the mind wander a little bit. Then again to hypnogogic images and keep this on loop.
Thanks in Advance!!
I've been trying to AP for like 6 months and no success so far. But I know how sleep paralysis feels because I've had it naturally like 3 times. When I was trying to project, I once induced sleep paralysis and that was all natural, smooth and most importantly I expected. It did hit me like a truck all of a sudden though. But that was alright compared to what happened today.
Today I tried to AP laying on the bed for like 90 minutes and no success. So thought of going to sleep giving up. It was because I could not pass the vibrational state (mild vibrations you get without hitting sleep paralysis) . I try to AP laying on the bed belly up and today, after thinking about going to sleep I turned the other way (belly down. that's how I usually sleep). But I kept watching hypnogogic images just for no reason until fall asleep. Then out of nowhere I heard someone saying something, now I don't remember everything. But there were like couple of sentences. The last part was "look how SpaceX can manipulate your mind" and finally very very loudly said "drop!". Then I saw lots of flashing lights and they were rapidly changing colors. Now I only remember there were yellow and bright light green. Also there were different random logos in the middle of those flashes. And I think I heard lots of loud sounds as well, I don't exactly remember that. I got really scared I'm not going to lie. I was so confused and I couldn't even think of what to do. It was like a drill sergeant shouting at your face saying do that do this. I got scared to the point I started praying. It did calmed down that a little bit and then I realized I'm sleep paralyzed. Then I slowly moved my toes and got out of it.
Now it's 2am here and there is no sleep near me. lol. Thought of writing this post asking what really happened there before forgetting details. That was neither a dream nor a regular sleep paralysis I had before. Thank you for taking time to read this and I'd be glad if you could leave a word here explaining what was that.
Thanks in Advance!
Happy AP!
Hey Everyone!
I’ve been trying to astral project for like 6 months and no success so far. I’d be grateful if you could help me here.
Here’s my story,
I found out about this randomly through a YouTube video and the instructions given there were really simple; just lay on the bed in a posture that you can stay still for like 30 minutes straight. And I simply did that. I have never meditated before or have done such spiritual thing.
So I laid on the bed belly up, closed eyes, no any kind of motions at all and that was it. Then after sometimes, (I have no idea after how long because I felt like I was there on the bed doing this session for like 15 minutes. But when I checked the time, I was there for nearly 2 hours). First I saw like a flash light is turning on and off in front of me and then saw triangular patterns moving. First those were not that visible but after couple of minutes they became more vivid and visible. Then a slight vibration started in right shoulder and it moved into chest and then left shoulder. (Here I’m not talking about the vibrations you get after you get into sleep paralysis state. I wasn’t sleep paralyzed). After that had a feeling of falling forward continuously. It’s like when you are standing on the ground and leaning forward and falling forward. This kept happening quite sometime and then felt a peeling off sensation in my back. Its like when you apply some honey or something like that on your palms and separating the palms. Exactly like that. Then where I was felt changed into much denser medium. Its like when you are fully immersed in water. You feel the density, you feel like little squeezed and such. I think that’s the best way I got to describe that. Then I got snapped back suddenly. That was the first day of trying and I have never had that experience after that. Also can’t even believe I had my best results on my first day!
Then for like several weeks I only had those vibrations I mentioned above and I was able to move them around the body. The vibrations appear in random places. But mostly from legs. How I moved them in my body was, I thought of a hollow silver colored cylinder and imagined gold mixed silver colored liquid inside it; not fully filled but like one fourths of it. The cylinder represented my body and the liquid is the vibrations. Think of that cylinder is the size of a person and laying on him from head to toe. When the vibrations are on my legs, I imagine the liquid is on the far side near the toes. And to move them to my head, I imagine the far side of the cylinder is tilting upwards while the side near the head stays still and the liquid is moving along with it. It works every time. Also I use this to move vibrations to the hands too.
Then after those weeks had the same vibrations but this time with higher frequency. Not with higher intensity/power, but with higher rate of frequency.
Then I tried listening to some frequencies on YouTube. I can’t remember what was that frequency exactly but the video said it helps to set the mind’s state to astral project. Then for the first time, I felt like my arms are getting numb, starting from my fingers. Also a little bit of toes and calf muscles too. But it could be because I was there for some time without moving. I really have no idea. Then all of a sudden I felt like I fell down from a height of half a foot from where I was laying. But only my chest. Not the rest of my body. I was expecting anything so never got panicked. Then I felt a huge weight on my chest. I don’t know if I got into the sleep paralysis state, but that time I thought I got sleep paralyzed. And then I thought of a inflating balloon. (I got to know about it from a YouTube video). Imagined that balloon is inflating non stop. First it was the size of a regular balloon, and then a human head size, then size of a tv, refrigerator, a small room, a living room, a house and so on. And every time I felt like I was getting inflated too. Then I felt like I was sitting on the bed where I was laying. (I was laying on the bed. That’s how I try this). It felt so real to a point that I gave up on every thing and thought about it. With closed eyes, without moving my body, I was like “What? I remember I started this laying on the bed. But did I clicked out and sat on the bed unconsciously or what?”. And I got snapped me back in. That was the biggest leap I had after the first day.
Then those same vibrations kept happening and the last week I heard a sound of a helicopter slightly along with a hum/buzz inside my head. It was slight but noticeable. It kept happening for couple of minutes and faded away. That’s new and never had that before.
Those are the experiences I had so far and never had a chance to detach from the body. I thought of including all the experiences I had, so I guess you can have a clear understanding of my progress. It’ll be great if I could know, how do I take the final step or any other techniques I can try. Also I want to know what those sensations (feeling like falling forward, peeling off sensation on my back, immersing in water, low frequency vibrations, high frequency vibrations, sound of the helicopter, buzz/hum in my head) mean.
THANKS IN ADVANCED!
GOD BLESS!!
PS: I have changed my techniques from time to time when they are not working or stopped working for me. What worked for me the best and what I’m currently practicing is, I lay on the bed and think of my whole body; like what muscles are stressed. Then I consciously release them along with exhales. Then I imagine number 10 is my highest level of relaxation and count from 1 to 10. Not just from 1 to 10, but every time I get into a number I relax my body. If I didn’t feel any relaxation I do that number again. Then finally I focus on the hypnogogic images behind my eye lids.