Quote Originally Posted by citizennumber3 View Post
1. But the thing that bothered me was, as much as I looked, I couldn't find any stories of people returning to their bodies. I've read about people rising out of their bodies with the same feelings and noises, but never about them returning.

2. Correct me if I misunderstood what you were saying--the Astral Plane isn't a location in "reality" (as we know it) but a dimension our concious mind creates? So, it's not as if I left my body and started floating around my home...it was my couciousness in another sort of...well, I guess "another dimension" is the correct way to put it.

3. I know what two minutes feels like--if you have to cut things from a show, or clean up any blocking, usually you only need to cut several minutes. And when those minutes are cut, it can feel like you've taken an enormous chunk out of the play. Minutes are very long, especially when you're in a state of panic...

4. Well, thank you very much for sharing your experience, sir. I cannot tell you how thankful I am to read your input; it helped to make more sense out of my own experience.
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Dear Laura,

It is absolutely my pleasure! I have never talked to anyone who has experienced sleep paralysis either! So it was great for me too. You had a few questions and statements in your reply that I numbered and will go to now. =)

1. You ALWAYS return to your body, on this you can be sure. In fact, it is only about one million times easier to return to your body than it is to 'exit' it. Just by thinking about or looking at your body (or bed/room) will more often than not snap you back (apparently it can be quite abrupt, like a falling dream- but they're cool anyway). Almost all of the literature I have read on the topic (quite a lot) insists that you keep your emotions in check when in your second/astral body (which isn't to say that you are ever out of it, but I'll get to that) because any highly emotional response (and "highly" can just be excitement) is more than likely to send you flying back into your physical body.

So, no fear is a huge key to success... to assure you that there is no need for fear let me ask you a question: are you afraid right now? No? Of course not. Did you know that your "astral body" is on the Astral Plane right now, where you sit? That's right. You have several finer layers to your body of which the Astral is one. "You" exist as all of these layers simultaneously, you can not not. So when we "astrally project" it is more of a 'tuning in' like a radio to the frequency of that already existing body, the body unbound by time, matter and space. We do this EVERY night in our sleep.

2. The Astral realm is not so much a reality or dimension we create with our minds, rather (according to what I have read and believe) the Dream is a reality or dimension we (our subconscious&#39 create WITHIN the Astral Plane. So yes, if you were to successfully "astrally project" you would indeed be "floating around your room"! Exciting, huh? If you were to then think of a friend and clearly intended to visit them then you would be transported (in a variety of ways- often instantly) to their location in the matrix we call space... in real time. This means that if you were to ring your friend when you woke up you could describe what you saw them doing, where they were and it could very well be absolutely true (possibly inaccurate due to numerous factors, but that’s another story)! See how it differs from a dream?

So to clarify, all space where you are (behind you, where your computer sits, &c.) is also 'Astral space'. If I were projecting to where you are right now you would not be able to see me because of the high frequency that our Astral bodies consist of. It is the slow 'vibration' of what constitutes "matter" that allows our physical eyes to see it. An example of this is to take a piece of glass, (quite a high vibratory pattern) and a rock (a much lower vibratory pattern) and throw the rock through the glass. You can easily imagine what would happen. Now, shine a torch through the glass... it remains intact and the light has indeed "gone through". This is because light has a much higher vibration that glass. So, our Astral bodies to the physical 'level' of existance is similar to what light is to glass (not a perfect analogy, but it points generally to what I mean).

The reason you don't seem to be in your room (or anywhere else in particular) in a dream is because your thoughts create reality on the Astral and remember how I said that a dream is the (strange) subconcsious creating that reality? So every night we Astrally Project... Lucid Dreaming is a step closer to that reality and is how I had my first of only a few brief Astral Projections (I just laid in my (dream) bed and willed myself up and out of my body- it is much easier from a dream because you are already essentially there).

3. I am glad that the non-exaggerated "two minutes" did not go un-noticed. =) 'Tis a long time indeed! Have you ever done any film before?

4. As I said, it is my absolute pleasure. I love it here. These are the only things I am really interested in, and I have never had anyone to really talk to about them. Hopefully I'll see you in the chatroom some time.

Dae,

Rob.