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brother neil
USA
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 Posted - Sep 15 2008 : 4:34:30 PM
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I had written on here in the past about how when I sleep sometimes I felt as if a vibration would enter the room and paralyze me and when this happens I can wake up multiple times and get confused as to when I was awake and when I was dreaming, the line of reality gets blurred. It was suggested on here that i could say rise up and see if I would go out of body.
SO last night I was dreaming and the vibration was back except things were different. I was thinking "what was it I was supposed to say" reffering to the rise up as suggested on here. The vibration was inside fo me, I was standing up as well. Also, I could not remember the word so I told myself to breath, which I have been doing a lot of in waking life. I was not as scared this time with the vibration, I was more accepting of it. I also looked down and I was standing about 1 foot above the ground, then I woke up and I was in my bed. Not sure what any of this means, not sure that I need to know, but it was kind of cool to be more at peace wiht whatever it was.
I am love, I am peace, I am joy
I am neil
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jillatay
USA
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Posted - Sep 15 2008 : 6:32:53 PM
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Hi Tubeseeker,
I had sleep paralysis often, all my childhood and after. It is a stage of sleep that, for some of us, is exaggerated, transitioning from one to another stage. It would scare me a lot because, of course, you can't move but it feels like you are moving. I would fight to wake up. The only thing that worked was focusing on breathing and I would awake.
When I learned on the Internet that it was something I could use to leave the body, all the fear went away.  Then I looked forward to it happening so I could experiment. I succeeded using the "vibration" to go OOB and travel or explore my surroundings without leaving. The funny thing is since that time I have only had it happen 2 or 3 times.
It is also common to sense another being in the room with you and when frightened this can seem like a threatening presence. Completely natural. That other presence is none other than yourself in the witness state.
What I have learned in the last few years however is that vibration is the membrane or wall that keeps our waking awareness separated from our dream or astral realm. A handy thing if you want to live a normal life. Spiritual practice teaches us to be able to cross that barrier safely and fully aware, consistently. However, that is not the point of spiritual practice just a side effect. I'm not there yet but I can see it off in the future. Now it isn't important to me at all. The best part is being free of fear.
Love to all,
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YogaIsLife
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Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 1:26:55 PM
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Hi 
I juts found this thread now. I am quite interested in this kind of phenomena recently as I have been experiencing them for years now and was always scared to even think about them. My approach had been - "don't think about it and it will go away". Didn't work . Instead I have been experiencing this superficial sleep and there is also a fear at night when going to bed, kind of like I know somethign is happenign but I don't like it somehow...Now I would like to be more conscious of whta is happening, so this posts were helpful.
I also feel the vibrations and Jill's explanation makes some sense. Often, just after going to sleep, I fall unconscious fast (like falling off a cliff) but then can awaken suddenly in what seemed to be a nick of time (few seconds or minutes). Then I am quite alert again (my mind a bit "refreshed") but there is a weird feeling. I know somethign has happened but don't know what. My physical body is then buzzing and vibrating, half-paralysed. Weird. It feels like my conscious mind wants to somehow be completely aware of the process but somehow "knows" that it can't really control it and I feel that for my safety I should not be completely aware of it. The dilemma comes because I can't also just give up control and surrender completely. Any hints?
This is hard to explain, but this is more or less how it fells... |
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