Thread: Things starting to get real with SP, never been more aware - or afraid.

There I was, lying in my bed, ready to fall a sleep, with no intention of lucid dreaming or having it in my mind at all. And then, like its been happening lately, a split second decision lies in front of me, wake up or fall into sleep paralysis. I choose to dive in, and once again try and stay calm and relaxed, or rather just observe the weirdness of the experience.

The moment I decided to let it happen, it did, I cannot move anymore, and I don't want to open my eyes (to avoid witnessing the weird paranormal (read:terrifying) shit I saw a few nights before).

The audio hallucinations are there, as usual, very loud, and I cannot get a hold of the sense of time. Since I didn't want to open my eyes, I waited to see what'll happen next. To my surprise, something happened which made my cry for help and pray to wake up. My hand moved itself from on the bed and into the air, it started moving slowly, and I clearly felt the touch of the bed on the hand while it was slowly leaving its position on the bed and moving upwards.

I used 110% of my intention to wake up from SP and escape from the terrifying feeling.., and I did, a few seconds later.

As I got up from my bed and started walking around the room, I thought to myself, did something just move my hand? Then I thought, oh wait! Maybe that was my astral body leaving my physical one, yes, that must be it! But, then I remembered that I felt the bed under my hand, therefore, it is clear that the astral explanation goes down the drain.., or does it?

I'd like someone to help me understand what happened, do you think my physical arm literally moved on its own, if yes, in what world? If this has been a lucid dream, I cannot describe how exciting this is! If this is really IT, the possibilities are endless, the level awareness is amazing, and I can't resist but to feel like I'm one step closer to being a part of the crew on U.S.S Enterprise...

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Some history on my spiritual experiences and knowledge:

I've been occasionally reading up on things like yoga, meditation, astral projection and lucid dreaming for the last 5 years or so. Any of the above has always greatly brought both interest and excitement within me. I've been known to meditate once in a while, but not much, maybe just a couple of a dozen times in the past few years.

The interest in the above subjects came to me after I had my first SP, and I didn't have a clue what's happening back then. So I started reading about all that stuff online and learned many things. I've tried to astral project many times, but have never fully succeeded, I tend to lose motivation after a few days of trying, and then don't even try for a few months, and then go back to it.

Recently, the sleep paralysis started to happen more often - 3 times in just the past 7 days. Usually it happened once or twice in one or more months.