This morning I had a very weird sleep paralysis

in #spirituality7 years ago

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Today I woke up at around 10:00 AM and I couldn't fall asleep because it was too fucking hot. It's 24 °C in my house and I don't know how much outside, most likely something like 28 °C or even more.

At these rates I can barely do anything and I find it hard to focus on writing anything at all. I'm just laying there in my bed practically all day long and watching anime. Unless I go out with friends or something.

It's funny... You're waiting for summer for more than half a year and once it comes... I want it to go away because this heat is killing me ! I really like the cold weather much more. I wait for summer to come because it brings awesome things along.

There's more activities, you can play basketball, you can go swimming, you want to go outside into the nature and so on. But once the heat hits you in the face, you feel like melting away.

But enough of this talk about heat. Let's go back to the beginning. I woke up at 10 AM and I couldn't fall asleep because I was dying how hot it was. I live in a house with 2 floors and I sleep at the second floor. It's always hotter at the second floor by around 4-6 °C.

So after laying in bed for about 20 minutes failing to fall asleep, I decided to go to the first floor. I had difficulty falling asleep there as well but I was relieved when I entered the room and it wasn't hot anymore.

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Anyway, somehow I managed to fall asleep. And then it began. I woke up but I didn't move, because I wanted to fall asleep again, I felt really tired.

Then I noticed that I can't feel one of my hands I tried to move my body and I couldn't. Sometimes it did feel like I moved it and thought that everything is back to normal but then later I realized that I'm in the same spot, hadn't moved at all.

I knew this was sleep paralysis so I didn't even try to open my eyes. Your brain is still half asleep and dreaming while paralyzed, so If you open your eyes you tend to see some weird shit that could potentially shock you.

I kept trying to move my body, felt like I was successful but I kept noticing that I'm still in the same spot. That's when I experienced the weirdest thing that happened in my life, something that I felt hard to explain once it was all over.

I thought to myself, what if I'm feeling my astral body moving and that's why my physical body is not responding ? I immediately started hearing some sort of weird noises, something like jet engines. It's really hard to explain the sound but it's probably closest to jet engines.

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And then I felt being dragged out of my body really fast and everything started spinning, and the spinning felt like nothing else I've ever experienced before. I thought this could be me leaving my body and I wasn't ready for astral travel yet... I was afraid of what I could see there.

So I decided to open my eyes in hope to stop this process. When I opened my eyes it kept spinning and I saw some weird entities standing near my legs. My heart started beating really fast and hard, I thought it's going to jump out of my chest if it continues.

I closed my eyes just as I opened them. I was in huge shock because I never felt this before, never saw anything like this before and I was really afraid at that moment. My heart kept on beating hard and fast.

But seemed like the process of leaving my body has stopped. Thinking that my paralysis is over, I tried to move my body. Success ! It moved and it's finally over... So I thought.

It was the same again. Soon I just noticed that my body is in the same spot and I actually haven't moved. Seconds later after noticing that, the sound came back. I started hearing it again and after few more seconds my body felt like being dragged out and it was spinning.

It happened for about 3-4 times in total. Every time I thought my heart is seriously going to stop because it has never worked so fast and so hard. Somehow, I managed to calm myself down and finally fall asleep.

When I woke up, I was afraid if it won't happen again. I tried to move my hands and this time I was certain that I really moved them. It just felt different. I was finally awake and not paralyzed.

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Why do I think it was possibly an astral projection process ? Because I've read a lot about it and I do remember reading about hearing weird sounds as you start leaving your body. Some describe it as jet engines as well.

Also, I've found descriptions that it can feel really intense when you're entering the astral world. The descriptions fit to my experience and it might mean that I was shifting to the astral world, unprepared. I scared the fuck out of me but for some reason I would like to experience it again...

Without the scary parts of course. Why do I want to experience it again ? Because it was something new, something I never felt before and mainly, I was scared because I didn't know what was going on.

I wonder, maybe it would be different if it happened again. Maybe I wouldn't get so super scared and shocked. Who knows...

I'm starting to get the chills as the sun is going down. It won't be easy to meditate today in the darkness because I feel like being watched now after I saw some sort of entity standing next to my legs.

I loved every day of my spiritual journey and I still love it even after this happened to me today. It might just have been the first step towards even greater spiritual experiences.

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I've had similar body sensations at meditation retreat and as a kid, scare the crap out of me as a kid....next time relax and focus on your breath 😉

Yeah I've had sleep paralysis a few times before and It wasn't as scary because I just focused on my breath and I would regain control of my body. This time I didn't know what was going on and when the sounds came in along with the dragging and spinning I couldn't even think of calming down.

Once I sat for 3 hours at retreat and couldn't move, another time I kept falling into a black tunnel almost passing out with that weird roaring sound you talked about, my teacher told me to stay aware and relax...enjoy the rid is my thought.

I guess you entered some sort of trance state. These experiences are quite interesting.

Yeah the trance states are called samadhi...I was taught how to deal with them correctly, you know, don't get scared or lost in them.

First time hearing this name "samadhi". I'm curious about these kinds of things so I will search for information about it :)

We are in samadhi all the time, like when you focus on something intently and forgetting everything else. Cats samadhi on hunting mice...lolol there is right samadhi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

Ahh I'll dig into this. Lol perfect example with the cats.

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That sounds pretty crazy and intense! I've had a few similar experiences where I also encountered "entities".. Once when I was really young and once just recently like half a year ago or so.. They were some of the craziest experiences of my life. And i still vividly remember them even more more powerful than many of my waking memories. They really left an imprint on me and I wonder what they mean in the greater scheme, if there was anything special to it or if it was just my imagination and brain misfiring or whatever scientists or skeptics or whatever might wanna try to say.

Dunno.. Super interesting though. Thanks for sharing your story.

Yes, I as well remember my experience very very vividly and I don't think this memory is ever going to go away. I think the memories are so vivid because it's extremely shocking to see something literally out of this world.
It's really hard to explain what it really was but I agree, it's super interesting stuff !

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I used to experience sleep paralysis a lot when I was a teen. The first few times were scary as shit. Once I saw entities and a giant hound coming towards me, and it felt as though the hound was holding me down. This used to happen when I was in my Christian days (when I considered myself a devout born again Christian), so I was taught to consider them as satanic /spiritual attacks.

It used to happen quite regularly, sometimes daily, sometimes weekly. But eventually I began to get used to them, and then stopped fearing them and giving them attention. So near the end, when I knew I was experiencing an episode, I would literally just go back to sleep, and then they stopped happening altogether. That was an interesting phase in my life!

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