22 Dec 10, 06:54AM
A bit off topic (but sorta on topic), I've had a few experiences with out of body experiences and astral projections, as well as the lovely numbness called sleep paralysis.
One of my clearest, early memories of having SP was on an overcast September morning, around 5:45 AM. I woke up from a completely ordinary dream, and felt a weak tingling sensation throughout my body. My eyes were half-closed, half-opened. I tried to move and roll over, but I could not--there was some sort of weight on top of me.
And then I heard something open my door (I was facing the opposite direction). There were a few footsteps towards my bed, and I literally felt something--or someone, climb on top of my bed, and I heard my bed and mattress move.
I started becoming slightly frightened, and it seemed that the longer it went on, it got worse. Then, I felt something--it's hand--on my shoulders and ribs. I could feel with every minute detail about the hand--bony, long, very long fingers, on my side.
Bear in mind that I could not see him (I was pretty sure that whatever this apparition in my hallucination was, it was male, or had masculine qualities), but I could practically feel what he looked like--he wore a hood and a robe--sort of like a stereotypical Grim Reaper.
I could not move at all, but I noticed that I could wiggle my tongue. I wiggled it some more, and soon I could move my entire jaw, and then I could move my shoulders--and I woke up. I turned around and thought about what just happened, and then I got up and turned on the lights, and I felt the hairs on my head standing up. I was quite scared after the event--no idea why, but I had sensed some evil presence. However, I did know that it was my own imagination and my own brain just doing work during the night.
After that, sleep paralysis seemed to become more common, likely associated with my general lack of sleep. However, I did not have hallucinations like that, and I quickly got out of them by moving my tongue or wiggling my toes. And that strange, ominous sense of fear dissipated too, until a couple of even wilder experiences happened to me--namely things on the verge of being an astral projection and an out of body experience. But that is another story that can be saved for later.
One of my clearest, early memories of having SP was on an overcast September morning, around 5:45 AM. I woke up from a completely ordinary dream, and felt a weak tingling sensation throughout my body. My eyes were half-closed, half-opened. I tried to move and roll over, but I could not--there was some sort of weight on top of me.
And then I heard something open my door (I was facing the opposite direction). There were a few footsteps towards my bed, and I literally felt something--or someone, climb on top of my bed, and I heard my bed and mattress move.
I started becoming slightly frightened, and it seemed that the longer it went on, it got worse. Then, I felt something--it's hand--on my shoulders and ribs. I could feel with every minute detail about the hand--bony, long, very long fingers, on my side.
Bear in mind that I could not see him (I was pretty sure that whatever this apparition in my hallucination was, it was male, or had masculine qualities), but I could practically feel what he looked like--he wore a hood and a robe--sort of like a stereotypical Grim Reaper.
I could not move at all, but I noticed that I could wiggle my tongue. I wiggled it some more, and soon I could move my entire jaw, and then I could move my shoulders--and I woke up. I turned around and thought about what just happened, and then I got up and turned on the lights, and I felt the hairs on my head standing up. I was quite scared after the event--no idea why, but I had sensed some evil presence. However, I did know that it was my own imagination and my own brain just doing work during the night.
After that, sleep paralysis seemed to become more common, likely associated with my general lack of sleep. However, I did not have hallucinations like that, and I quickly got out of them by moving my tongue or wiggling my toes. And that strange, ominous sense of fear dissipated too, until a couple of even wilder experiences happened to me--namely things on the verge of being an astral projection and an out of body experience. But that is another story that can be saved for later.