Feeling?

[nightcrawler]

Hey
I was wondering what it feels like the first time one leaves one's body. I read that some people just stand up. I was meditating/half asleep just a while ago and then decided it was enough for today, so I tried to get up. And I found that I couldn't, that all my limbs were stuck. I was laying on my belly and so I pushed my back upwards using my legs and suddenly I jsut started getting up, just legs and back moving, but it felt like I was pushing out of extremely thick something, and then I had to very slowly force my legs over the side of the bed and I felt the carpet, distinctly, under my feet and then moved my arms out. And I couldn't open my eyes because if I did, it was like the instant comeback into my body or something, it felt like that. So I went out of my room, eyes closed yet seeing what was around me and went down the stairs, it was really strange. Then I opened my eyes and was back, and I was so darn tired and I slept from like, 5 to 7pm when my sister called me and here I am.
Was I just dreaming?

[JediKaren]

I don't think so. It sounds like you aped.

[nightcrawler]

omg really? That's so cool! If I really did, then it was my very first psi adventure...
Any counsels on how I might do it again, but at will, and not be surprised by suddenly just going away when I actually want to stand up?

[sssilky]

simple just do the normal astral projection techniques. Calming yourself down,breathing,visualization,will power and a trick i use and im sure will work for you is to lie down in a position you hate sleeping in and say and keep in your mind that you want to astral project. Its like meditating but lieing down. Im sure you will get into the paralysis again and boom you leave.

[nightcrawler]

*Nodnod* I'll try that then, thanks!

[PsiNoob]

This is sort of within the topic of a feeling. Well I was trying to ap last night I had been trying repetedly before that with no success but this time was odd I actually managed to get my astral arms out of my body to start to pull the rest of me out and I was just getting my head out when there was a brilliant flash of white light but only in one eye and it felt like a tissue had been run across my eye then next thing I was aware of I was back completely in my body with full mobility. Anyone know what that was?

[thoth]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that does not sound like APing(refering to first post)-you might have, but I doubt it. That is what I do, my speciality. Unless you started feeling large amounts of energy running through your body it's probably not a full blown AP. There are mini out of body expierences, and it might be one of those. It's something between a projection and moving energy.
Keep working on it and you'll defenitly AP.
I had the same sort of expierence a week before I had my first full blown concious AP. So you shouldn't be far off.

[nightcrawler]

I see. It just felt incredibly strange, and when I was out and moving I saw myself as some dark transparent material mist. Weird. And I was really hot and all that, though when I was still in my body I was just normal heat. Anyway. Glad to know that at least I wasn't dreaming! I'll keep up training then.