Thoughts on Lucid dreaming, Obes, Sleep Paralysis and Meditation

Not sure if there is much difference between lucid dreaming and obe's ( astral projection). What i can do in a lucid dream differs each time depending on my depth of imagination and the rules that i believe are in place. If im lucid dreaming and i think im astral projecting, I believe im restrained by a different set of rules and therefore have an experience different to lucid dreaming.
I don’t have a set opinion for obe’s at death as I havent experienced one lol ( touch wood).

Sleep paralysis is another thing im unsure about. Is it possible that some people are not half awake and dreaming but are just experiencing a nightmare that a majority of people experience? Surely just hearing a story about sleep paralysis is enough to increase you chances of having it, even if you feared the story or not the memory of it has just been locked away in your subconsious mind. Feeling secure in your bed is something every one needs when falling asleep, most people have there bed set up with there head futherest from the door. ( it would seem weird to sleep any other way than this, except when I top and tailed as a kid)

Even if you don’t have a fear for your safety when sleeping now, it doesn’t mean you were as rational as a kid. Dreams are somewhat random and call up memories from past and present with no rhyme or reason, so people might be having nightmares due to past fears. In the nightmare the first thing you experience is not being able to move, making you feel vunerable and then your next conscious/sub conscious thought is I hope nothing bad will happen in this vunerable state.

Some one who is afflicted with sleep paralysis doesn’t have to look online long to read that from it you can astral project. When learning to lucid dream, some people teach you to start a dream diary so that you can recognize your dream signs, there fore when some one says that sleep paralysis means you can astral project, sleep paralysis might of become a dream sign. Your told that you can leave your physical body when in sleep paralysis and as you have this belief, your freed from the shackles of the past rules of your mind.  

I think that meditation is very good for relaxation and healthy for the nervous system and body  but im not sure if any futher experiences in a hypnagogic state differ from lucid dreaming. When reading or hearing about other peoples spiritual experiences your building up beliefs about what should happen to you in the spiritual state, that you want to achieve. There fore when you achieve your hypnagogic state in which anything can happen, your equipped with your own beliefs of what you expect to happen and the teachings of of others.there fore you experience your own definition of a spiritual experience while having enough in common with others, due to reading the same spiritual teachings of experiences that you can relate to each other.

Im of two opinions for meditation and moving chi through out the body. My first is that as your nerves carry messages to your brain as their primary purpose, and they can be given a secondry purpose by concentrating on certain parts of the body or by moving your chi energy through out your body from place to place. My second is that when you lose a limb, some people experience phantom limb, but I think your brain can also allow you to gain a limb if you convince your self enough that you have one. Although in this case you give your whole body an extra purpose so that it can feel chi moving through out it.

I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on my blog, if any offence has been caused it was not intended. I don’t know if my ideas have truth to them or not, Im just thinking of possible truths of my current understandings.

P.S Please be kind lol, its my first ever blog