What just happened? Weirdest "dream" ever!

[Shoshanna]

This just happened and I'm a little freaked out right now.

I have been trying to do the astral projection a lot of times okay let me rewind a little bit and say I work nights so I sleep in the daytime. On my nights off I will usually take a nap in the night time, sometimes not but I usually do.

I have only been trying to do the astral projection when I sleep during the day, not when I take my little night naps on my days off.

I have been a bit sleep deprived recently because I haven't been going to sleep until late in the afternoon and I have to wake up by 6:30pm or I'll end up being late for work probably.

I know that when I get sleep deprived I experience sleep paralysis and when I experience sleep paralysis now I have had it happen so many times that I am aware of what it is and it doesn't scare me. When it first started happening it scared me.

What happened tonight though was something else entirely.

I sleep with my kitchen light on and my bedroom door cracked so I can see the light coming in from the kitchen.

I laid down to take my nap and fell asleep pretty quickly. When I "woke up" I could see that the kitchen light was off. I live alone except my cat so the best word to describe my thoughts was "startled" to see the light off. I did not think the bulb burnt out. I thought someone turned the light off but I wasn't scared of an intruder, just startled that the light was off.

IMMEDIATELY when I have this thought of "someone turned the light off" I have a secondary thought "is this a dream? Am I awake or asleep?"

I lay back on my back and close my eyes and open them, then turn to see if the light is on, it is.

So I think, okay that was a dream. I was dreaming that the light was off and now I'm awake and the light is on.

I get up because I just had a feeling I should get up and make sure that I was awake and I go to the light switch in the kitchen and it is IN THE OFF POSITION! The light switch is "off" BUT the light is ON! So I flip the light switch up because I'm thinking WTF is happening here?! And THE LIGHT TURNS OFF!

I immediately flip it down and the light turns back on and at this point I am a little freaked out already so I just lay back down in bed thinking "I AM STILL DREAMING! HOW AM I STILL DREAMING?!?!?!" Because guys this was SO realistic. I mean. I knew when the light was off that I might be dreaming and then "waking up" and seeing the light on and thinking yes, I was dreaming that the light was off. I was having actual thoughts and recognizing that I was in a dream.

When I laid back down, I immediately felt the sleep paralysis feeling. With an exception. I could breathe fairly normally. Usually when the sleep paralysis happens to me, it feels like I can't breathe and that's why it was scary at first before I knew what it was.

But I feel this rigidity in my entire body and I'm trying to open my eyes. I'm trying so hard to open my eyes and they just won't open.

Then this is where it gets so weird guys OK so I don't even know how to describe what happened. My mind is blown. I can FEEL my completely rigid physical body sit up. I still cannot open my eyes. At the same as I feel my body sit upright in bed not only does it feel like my limbs are paralyzed, it seems like they weigh a million pounds. But I can ALSO feel that I don't know what to call it or describe it as, NOT MY PHYSICAL BODY but the spirit, the aura or energy or "ghost" of my body was still laying in the bed while my physical body was sitting up and getting out of bed.

I still cannot open my eyes and I'm trying so hard. I start yelling at myself and I can FEEL my mouth opening and yelling at myself "WAKE UP, WAKE UP SHOSHANNA" but I don't wake up and my body is just getting out of bed on its own.

I still can't open my eyes and my body actually has gotten out of bed at this point and i am aware of my TV across from my bed and not walking into my TV with my eyes still closed so I stick my arms out in front of me and I can feel my TV and avoid it.

I walk into the kitchen and finally am able to pry my eyelids open and I have been in bed the whole time.

It was all a dream I guess but it was the weirdest dream I have ever had in my life.

I have not been able to astral project despite trying nearly every day when I go to bed.

I was not trying to astral project last night at all and I had this weird dream in a dream in a dream that seemed SO real. 

[RickyD]

I once had a long very detailed dream, which is something rare for me as cannabis seems to repress remembering dreams for me. I died in a world ending event with my whole family. Next thing I knew we were all on another planet without bodies. Somehow in this dream I was able to explain to everyone...not only what had happened...but the why and how of where we found ourselves sans bodies. In the dream after this explanation/Q&A I saw a spaceship but I guess we would say UFO. I remember thinking how cool it was cause I had never seen anything like that...in the moment of seeing it and having the thought that I was intrigued...I wanted to get a closer look. Bam...instantly as I had the thought of a closer look I was feet from it.

Between that dream and many psychedelic experiences I have had and well legit logic and math...I firmly believe that the energy that makes us alive and the quantum nature of literally everything in existance...that religion is all true trying to say the same thing broken up by cultures. The same truth is told by math...energy can not be destroyed...only transformed. No ones consciousness ever goes away...and what we are outside a body is our true form/abilities...nothing is out of reach. I could go on but I think maybe you have an idea of what I mean.