Paralyzed In Fear Options

Ok well this is how it started i have only been practicing astral projection for a short time now. So last night i went to go practice i meditate first to get my mind clear. Then i layed down and started trying to project i layed there for some time. Then all of a sudden i started hearing noises all around me my body felt numb like i couldnt move i tried to reman focused on projecting but i couldnt help myself but to hear these things. I had everything unplugged in my room and my family were all sleeping upstairs my room has no windows. The things i heard sounded like something was running around my room hitting things. Then it sounded like it was coming to me it was the scarediest i have ever been. I tried to move and could'nt i felt like waves of fright hit me and my heart rate jumped. I started to hear more things like outside my room sounded like someone was in my house knocking everything off my walls. Then finally i was able to move i quickly got up and turned my light on i felt dizzy and disorented. Does anyone have any theories on what this could have been? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/help.gif)

This post has been edited by grim789: Nov 12 2009, 10:26 AM

Robert bruce has a good theory on cases of paralysis... its you. Stuck between your body and your projection, gone enough for you to be inert but aware of a presence, your astral self nearby. the last time it happened to me my own thoughts made it out as though there was a demon around and so of course I visualized one and became afraid of that .lol.

Reccomend his book, astral dynamics. Probably in an amazon link below.

i wrote this for something else, but its still valid - think it out and analyze it, and think about what this story has to do with your problem - and yes the astral plane can be noisy with all sorts of stuff flying around, but you are usually the source

Janet goes to the Joshua Tree Conference
by Esoterica ©2009
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Free to redistribute with the author's name attached.

It was out there, moving, slipping back and forth like a shuttle on a loom.
Janet could see no weave or weft or even loom, but she felt that something was being created!
She tried looking at it sideways, using her peripheral vision.
Some sailor gal had taught her that ages ago, how on the night watch they would not look at things directly in order to see them better.
When she looked askew at them, what she saw was odd, yet beautiful, even hauntingly so!
It was the white-silver of the moon, and as it ran back and forth, it loped and surged.
Now there was another, and then another, all galloping along in a troop!
She jumped!
What, what was that!?!?
There was another one behind her!
It was heading straight for her!!
She couldn't get out of the way!!!!
-
Laney walked through the Conference crowd, looking for her friend in the bonfire-light reflected from their faces.
It was not like Janet to disappear like this, and Laney was getting worried!
Thus place could hold many secrets, from the outspaced buildings that spread way out across the desert, to the odd designs by Frank Lloyd Wright's kid.
Did she fall through one of the many supposed vortexes that the residents looking for healing had lined with crystals, rags and rocks?
Had she drowned in one of the many shallow pools that dotted the property?
She checked the lunchroom, no one was there!
Where could her friend have vanished to?!?!
Was she trapped in the tents of the Caravansary, Lloyd Wright Jr's answer to Motel6 here at the old Dingle Mental Physics School?
No, but the hairs on the back of her neck were raising, a sure sign that there was magic afoot somewhere near!
Seeing as Mr Dingle had become Ding Le Mei when he went to study in Tibet, perhaps she should ask the local Jetsun?
She heard voices and shuffling of feet, and a whispered cough, and went to investigate, but it was just some cigarette fiends sneaking a smoke behind one of the buildings.
She wandered on, seeking what wasn't visible...
-
Janet clutched the Conference ID badge in her sweating hand, the edges cutting into her flesh, the pain giving her some grasp on reality.
She was, where?
She didn't know, but it was like a glowing white city!
It wasn't huge like a big city, but it was larger than some one-traffic-light town somewhere in the backwoods.
She saw it now, it was a village!
There was a market square with stuff for sale and those silvery blobs milling about must be people!?!?!
Was it her eyes, or was it them, that were wrong?
Her body looked normal, but she knew instinctively that she dare not move against the fear that they might notice her!
Locked in paralysis, she could only stare and watch as now short stocky blobs moved among the bigger blobs.
A wave of repulsion flooded her body as she realized that what she was seeing was real, that she was so far beyond her everyday experience as to be lost forever in the chaos of this fear-blanket she huddled in!!
Then, there was a girl, a normal human girl, who walked out from between the white buildings with her normal looking regular parents, a mom and a dad, wearing regular street clothes, and the normal girl ran up to one of the blobs and looked like she was talking to it!
Could they be in disguise as regular people, what, to spy or to invade, or could it be some other insidious desire that mingled them here?
Janet's breath caught in her throat, the girl was looking at her!!!
She was coming right at her, what could she do?!?!?
They had her paralysed, these awful white-blob-people!!
The girl was coming this way!!!
She had the most evil, disgusting, horrible look on her mask of a face, and Janet screamed!!!
The girl walked right up to Janet, smiling her quiet smile of innocence and wonder, and she said 'Hello'.

The End

This post has been edited by esoterica: Nov 22 2009, 07:43 AM

never ran into this myself, but then my method of astral projection is pretty sudden, so I don't have any prolonged transitional period. its a variation on the 'stepping out' method which might be called 'lunging out' heh.

fear is just something people have to make them spiritual cripples, try not to pay it any mind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Thank you guys for the post i been working on getting over the fear.

You probably were experiencing a hypnopompic trance/lucid dream state that then turned into a sleep paralysis episode. I am quite familiar with these episodes in much the same scenario as the one you described. I used to think it was a supernatural event related to astral projection, but then in my adult life, I became a medical writer specializing in neurology and discovered that there were other explanations for these kinds of experiences. It takes a bit of trust and practice, but you can figure out how to get into astral projection or lucid dream states in which you can avoid these darker kinds of mind-trips.

You probably were experiencing a hypnopompic trance/lucid dream state that then turned into a sleep paralysis episode. I am quite familiar with these episodes in much the same scenario as the one you described. I used to think it was a supernatural event related to astral projection, but then in my adult life, I became a medical writer specializing in neurology and discovered that there were other explanations for these kinds of experiences. It takes a bit of trust and practice, but you can figure out how to get into astral projection or lucid dream states in which you can avoid these darker kinds of mind-trips.

This is very interesting thank you for the post it was a very wild experience. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)