Lately I've been taking a quick 40 minute nap when I get home from work to help unwind and relax. In that time, almost reliably, I'll experience the sensation that I"m moving out of my body into a void. At this point, I typically become lucid and notice that any sort of thought manifests into the void. Sometimes I'll play around with the sensation of falling through space, rotating extremely fast, flying up and around, moving through walls, moving things with my mind....or try and gently concentrate on relaxing/focusing as it's typically scary at first.

My main question is, this whole process of being in the void is typically painful and I wonder why. There are loud sounds and everything seems very charged with a painful electricity. I have read little bits in the forum to know that this is part of the process of separating the astral body from the physical one, right? But for me, it seems like i'm never fully able to let go of the physical body, and thus am stuck in this kinda painful lucid experience until my alarm clock goes off.

Maybe i'm holding onto my phsyical body out of fear, or other reasons unknown even to myself. In general I was just looking for comments/suggestions.

Thanks!
Jraven.