I've had issues with sleep paralysis before... it generally takes me a second or two to know what's going on, but once I do the solution is simple - I focus on the image of "pushing" my consciousness back into my body and, generally within a few seconds, I'm able to sit up, shake my head, and go "wtf... ah well I'm hungry"... heh.
*shrugs*
At the same time, to those that have suggested it's some form of Astral Projection... how would you define that? I've had some interesting experiences I can only really attribute to AP, the most confusing of which actually happened on my school bus.
Back in high school, I was the last stop for my bus, resulting in an hour+ bus ride... same route every single day, and I always arrived home within a 10 minute period... so I became very accustomed to falling asleep to my CD player and waking up maybe 5-10 minutes before my stop. Usually I'd have some very... interesting... dreams, I'm assuming spurred on by the conversations around me.
One day, I fell asleep as usual... but my "dream" was very different - I was actually above the bus, watching it... I didn't feel corporeal or anything, just that I could "look down" on the bus and the surroundings.
What made it odd is that it had to take a different route home because of an accident - now, this was my 9th grade year, so I didn't yet drive and didn't know the alternate routes very well... yet I followed the bus perfectly as it turned down streets I've never been on before.
This must have continued for well over 45 minutes before the bus finally pulled up to my stop, facing the opposite way it normally comes. Soon enough, I see myself walk off the bus, across the street, and into my house.
I woke up shortly after that, standing in my living room facing the couch.
I asked my bus driver about the route home the other day, and she said that there was an accident, and that we had to take a different way home...
yeah... kinda creepy... I really don't know what to make of shit like that.
*shrugs*
At the same time, to those that have suggested it's some form of Astral Projection... how would you define that? I've had some interesting experiences I can only really attribute to AP, the most confusing of which actually happened on my school bus.
Back in high school, I was the last stop for my bus, resulting in an hour+ bus ride... same route every single day, and I always arrived home within a 10 minute period... so I became very accustomed to falling asleep to my CD player and waking up maybe 5-10 minutes before my stop. Usually I'd have some very... interesting... dreams, I'm assuming spurred on by the conversations around me.
One day, I fell asleep as usual... but my "dream" was very different - I was actually above the bus, watching it... I didn't feel corporeal or anything, just that I could "look down" on the bus and the surroundings.
What made it odd is that it had to take a different route home because of an accident - now, this was my 9th grade year, so I didn't yet drive and didn't know the alternate routes very well... yet I followed the bus perfectly as it turned down streets I've never been on before.
This must have continued for well over 45 minutes before the bus finally pulled up to my stop, facing the opposite way it normally comes. Soon enough, I see myself walk off the bus, across the street, and into my house.
I woke up shortly after that, standing in my living room facing the couch.
I asked my bus driver about the route home the other day, and she said that there was an accident, and that we had to take a different way home...
yeah... kinda creepy... I really don't know what to make of shit like that.
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