I've finally made it out of my body it was a wierd thing I think I was traveling the Schuylkill Expressway because I saw a predawned sky it's 5:45AM here now some water and gardrails I live in center city Philadelphia althou the few moments I was out it was wierd when I got back reeled in
my body felt eletra-fied and I heard this humming noise in my ear it was kinda low piched
when it wore off after about 30 seconds my mother was calling me this just happened 15 minutes ago I lie to you not but, that feeling of being weighed down and those vibrations I can't stand them I didn't know what was going on I was half sleep and half awake untill it clicked in my head that I finally made it out. and I was laying on my stomach I do have to say the feeling is less intense laying on my stomach than on my back I was so scared thou
but the more I try the feeling gets less intense.

My mother doesn't believe me my friend doesn't believe me nor the rest of my family they call it being "delusional" but my father he's so-so sometimes he gets the symtoms I have but I get them more often.

I can't wait untill I master this whenI do I'll ask for them to pose messages or leave a certian book open and I'll read it back to them word for word that'll make them believe.

But Astral Travel is fun I only went about 10-12 blocks away from my body I'll try to explore somemore later on this week.

What we're you doing in the lead up to the experience?
If it's 5.45am at the end, were you asleep before the experience began?
What sort of symptoms have you and your father noticed?

I think we've all had dreams where we fly and then wake up elated by their vividness. Do you experience many sleep dreams like that? Have you been actively visualising astral travel to encourage an actual experience?

In the dreams I've had of flight, which are the closest experience I've had to what you describe, no matter how high I fly I always seem to be coming across power lines and the fear of massive injury a collision would cause.

I dream Of flight I don't be too high thou about 10-15 ft my father still wakes up with the weighed down feeling (Astral Catalepsy) he can't get past that stage but he says to me he dream that he can fly and run and jump from building to building gliding but when he wakes up it's like something or someone is holding him down.

Now with me I wasn't asleep nor awake 1/2 I wen't to the restroom around 5:10 wash my hands as usal and laid back down at first I was fighting to keep my eyes open but they closed next came this weighed down feeling and a rush of energy with this humming noise ringing in my ears
(the humming nose when your raido isn't completly tuned into a station)
then I was out for a few moments but my mother was calling me and I got reeled back in I experienced the samething that rush of energy Astral Catalepsy and I could move again.
It wa weird thou I hate the symtoms thou.

My mothers disabled so I take care of her durring the over night hours and my father takes care of her durring the day.

"She say's I need to stop watching Sylvia it's getting to my weak brain"
This is real I felt eletrafied and it's like this gravatational push on my back because I was laying on my stomach and I was facing down.
When I face up I get the same symtoms but they're twice as worst and I can't breave for a while when I'm facing up durring astral catalepsy when I'm facing down durring that state I can breave.

I thing of a beautiful place a care-free, worry-free, stress-free place perfect temperature clear blue sunny skies a soft flowing stream with a little water fall and after a while those sysmtoms take place I think my body Astral Projects to find that beautyful place.

But that feeling of going out and comming back is aurgh you can't yell nor scream you can only let out a little screech.

When I became fully conscious I wasn't aware that I had split and that was returning
but my fears are demminishing hopefully next time this happens I'll be 100 % aware of it and won't try to fight the forces.
Nothing will hurt you your spirit guid is with you God and the White Light Of The holy Spirit is watching over you.
But once you get out it's amazing, I live 4 blocks from I-76 in Philadelphia Pa AKA Schyulkill Expressway I was traveling along there just to explore then came back I didn't even know that my soul had left the beautyful place I was thinking about probly way the park that's near the expressway about 3-4 miles nort-west from where I live.

There's a related experience I had a few times in my teens but haven't thought about in years but about which your description of a force holding you down has reminded me. In a restful state, lying on one side, possibly having slept for a short time, I would become aware that my mind felt perfectly awake and conscious of sounds and sights around me, but in which my body would be incapable of movement. On one occasion I could hear my mother and one of my sisters talking in the kitchen. I wanted to call out to them but literally couldn't. I simply couldn't move my jaw or make a definitive sound. On that occasion my sister pushed open the door to my room to tell me dinner was ready, but I couldn't respond no matter how awake my mind felt. I was in a waking paralysis.

On each occasion this happened I would feel that I was traveling downwards in a spiral motion, wondering where this would lead if I relaxed and accepted it. But I couldn't accept it and eventually I would shake my body free, or wake up enough to do so and be relieved that I could move again. It hasn't recurred in... twenty years. Too many stimulants?

A doctor explained it to me as a form of sleep or a waking from sleep imbalance where mental alertness is achieved before the body becomes mobile. He said it was neither common nor rare but I was truly dismayed to hear him say that I'd be a good candidate for hypnosis. Maybe that put an end to it. I didn't like the thought of being hypnotised with ease.

There is natural paralysis in sleep, apparently to stop us acting out our dreams, so maybe sleepwalking is a chemical lack of such protective paralysis? Unfortunately I've never left my body on the few occasions this odd experience occurred, but I take solace in the memory that I still occasionally dream of flight. Actually I prefer dream sex but that's another thread!

You should keep a diary of your experiences and try to visualise control of it. Good luck.

One more thing, do you ever have the experience of being sound asleep and then suddenly woken by the feeling of falling from a height onto your bed thinking, WTF was that, only to realise it was yourself in some state of...? alien abduction....ooh!...and rejection...aah!

I've had that feeling before, maybe I float in my sleep although I'm sure my wife would of mentioned it by now

On the topic, When I was younger and spent the whole day surfing, I would often feel the same motion of the waves lying in my bed, then after a while feel like I was a few inches higher than my body.

Yeah I hate that too those falling dreams like your falling from a really high place and then just before you hit bottom you awake with this sudden twitch or something this happens to me sometimes also.

Rayman may I ask what teachnique you use?

Sure but you need a high level of concentration I've used Sylvia's technique she says pick a room in your house and walk around about 7 or 8 times looking and observing and feel and touch the texture of the walls and everythings that's in the room then go into your room lay in a real comfortable position and try not to move now relax your self each muscle from your toes up counting down to you self 3-2-1-0 after a while you should feel this tangling sensation to start to come over you now close your eyes but try not to go to sleep now mentally walk your self around the same room that you had just came from
if you feel heavyns and that your being weighed down don't try and resist itthat's your body and your astral body getting ready to make the split next you may feel a rush of energy accompanied with a buzzing or humming sound then a pop then you'll be out.

This doesn't work right a way it'll take some practice it takes on average 3 days to about 1 month depending on how determined you are to do this and be in a place where you won't be disurbed.

The symtoms I discribed above are very frightening I resisted quite a few times if you fight it you can't move but you'll regain movement in about 15-30 seconds then you have to start all over at another night it's best to say a little prayer and surround your self with the white light of the holy spirit and ask that your spirit guide to be with you, nothing can enter your phycal body but you and your astral body and the physical body is attached by a long silver cord and when ever danger is near or someone is calling your name in the physical world you'll get relled back in very quickly because I made it out for 10-15 minutes untill my mother called me when I open my eyes in my physical body I felt the rush of energy and paralised that's you astral bosy and your physcal body re-joining and you woke up caught in the middle you're neither in nor out that's where the term Astral Catalepsy comes from but this wears off in a few seconds.

I have the mp3 file of her speach I'd be more than happy to share it with who ever wants it.

LOL oh ok I know that technique. But thanks for telling me, now I can be sure it does work