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I wanted to share my little experiences with astral projection. Nine years ago I started to experience sleep paralysis often, there was nearly a whole week where I would get it every night. I would always try to fight it and move a part of my body so the sleep paralysis would end as it was a terrifying experience as I was sensing dark entities in the room, but In the end I just gave up and would let my body wake up on its own accord. I stopped being fearful of sleep paralysis after a few nights I realised the dark things I could feel were not going to hurt me. One night I felt the sleep paralysis come, but this time it felt different. While the sleep paralysis was happening, I felt compelled to try and sit up. And I did successfully, although I could feel my body still laying in my bed. I could see my bedroom around me in the dark but very clear. I was frightened by the feeling as I felt separated from my body and laid myself back down, I then woke up. The next night the same thing happened, sleep paralysis came but this time I was able to fully separate and I remember the feeling of floating out onto my landing and looking down the stairs to my front door. Again I got frightened and immediately returned to my body. I did a little online reading at the time but never pursued it any further and while I never forgot the experiences I put it to the back of my mind. I have however had many lucid dreams. I can't remember exact details as I've had them often, I don't try and control them, but I'm often aware in dreams that I am dreaming and just go with them.
Fast forward to now and my curiosity around astral projection has come forward and I'm wanting to explore it more. I've recently started meditating something I've never done before and last night I had my first astral projection, I think, since the one 9 years ago. Or at least it felt like it. I was lying in bed and decided to try meditating before I went to sleep, I usually Meditate in the morning, but I laid in bed relaxed my body and focused on my breath. As I was focussing I started envisioning a man putting a protective shield around me, this then moved to me seeing images what kind of looked like they were projected onto a screen directly in front of my eyes, one image was of children in a classroom or youth club setting, it looked quite informal, then this turned into lots of trees right in front of me at this time I was still conscious and could feel a pressure on my forehead and a slight breeze across my face. From this i went into sleep paralysis and I'm struggling to know whether the images I was seeing was actually a dream and I thought I was conscious which put me in the sleep paralysis? I could see my bedroom around me and I could feel a surge of vibrations all over my body. I was able to quite easily lift myself out of my body and I stood on my bed looking at the window. I wanted to open the window and get out, but looked back at my partner sleeping next to me and thought I don't want to wake him. With that I closed my eyes and passed through the window. I couldn't tell where I was when I went through the window as my eyes were blurry and I couldn't focus them, but I felt warm and serene. I wanted to go and visit someone I knew who was having a difficult time and tried to project myself there in that moment a block came and I was told I couldn't go and visit that person, there was a blonde woman sitting next to me who must've said it. I then passed to her an energy, a transparent green ball of light and asked her to visit the person for me and heal them with it and she agreed. With that I felt myself going back to my sleeping self and woke up. It was so vivid I couldn't sleep for a while and sat up in bed.
I'm hoping it wasn't just an extremely lucid dream and that i was experiencing astral projection. It felt very much the same as how it felt 9 years ago.
