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Last week, I experienced what I believe was my first wild by accident. I was napping on the couch at around 4pm, and as usual I would awake and return to sleep a few times in the course of the nap. At one point, just after awakening, I realized that I was very close to sleep and could enter sleep paralysis just be staying still and allowing it to come.
When I entered sleep paralysis it was like everyone has always described, heavy vibrations especially in the throat area. When it started to happen, I was frightened at first, since it was such a new and different experience. Fortunately, I was able to calm myself and reassure myself that this was the way to enter a lucid dream. The vibration gradually subsided, and I found myself in a couple of third person dreams. I attempted to put myself into them so I could actually interact, with no luck. One was just a dream of a computer screen and nothing else.
With patience, I finally entered a dream in which I "woke up" a few feet from where I was sleeping at a desk that didn't exist. I stood up, and spun around, feeling the sensation of centrifugal force quite realistically. The dream was stable enough that I decided I would walk down the hall, which was quite different from in real life, and extremely realistic. It was so vivid that I thought to myself "I don't know what to do, it's never been like this in a dream before" (well, it had a few times, but I hadn't done anything particularly interesting those times). I found myself on a nearby road where I started to feel a heavy, almost sleepy or confused sensation in my body, and I spun around again, which completely purged that sensation and made my body feel much more awake. That gave me some idea as to the specific way dream spinning helps, in that the motion sensation simulates something that would keep you awake in real life, getting rid of any tendency for your dream body to begin "falling asleep" (i.e. waking up). And as you may know, ridding my dream body of this heavy sleepy sensation made the dream more stable and vivid as well, which fits in with my previously stated ideas. What do the rest of you think?
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congrats on staying cool during SP! no small feat until one gets used to it...
your thoughts on spinning seem reasonable.
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John,
That was an Astral Projection.
You were at that level of the Astral Plane that corresponds most closely to the actual Physical Plane, but where certain pychic and subjective components exist side by side with representations of actual physical things.
I remember once when I had Astrally Projected in the Far East and came across a Statue in the Town Square that was not 'actually' there. Asking around the next day I found out that a Statue used to be there, but the Japanese had torn it down all the way back on 1905.
The Astral Realms are some amazing places.
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That's interesting, what about it specifically makes you think it's an astral projection as opposed to just a WILD? Surely, if it's possible that it was an astral projection, then isn't it equally likely that it was simply a dream? I don't recall any sensations like leaving my body, and I did feel that the realm I was in functioned similar to the way a dream would, where portions of my house and familiar locations would simply appear in a distorted form and transform spontaneously. It was indeed quite vivid, but varied in the vividness and was only relatively high in this respect, not the most vivid lucid dream I've had in my entire life. I'm interested to see what about my experience would make it classified as an astral projection
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wow I really really really really really really WISH I could WILD lol... but I cant even get the falling sensation anymore... I just lay there and nothing happens wither I thin or not... and sometome my body movies without me telling it to :(
