I have always wanted to do astral projection and so I would keep inducing sleep paralysis on myself, hoping for some results. Though I would never have success in projecting. I would get paralysis and that’s it.
One night, I really wanted to try it again. I was on my bed, had the intent of sleep paralysis. I slept off, woke up in a lucid dream. I was in this dark room and lying on a bed. I was disappointed. I saw some shadow women walking near me. I woke up.
I told myself to try again. I slept off, again I woke up in that same room, this time the shadow women were closer, walking towards me. Another failed attempt at sleep paralysis. I was really frustrated and annoyed almost kicked one of the shadow beings while I was in that dark room on the bed.
I woke up and wanted to try again. But this time it backfired. I didn’t want to give up. I slept off. AGAIN I woke up in the same lucid dream, same dark room but this time I was not in bed, I was standing. Three shadow women were standing around me very close. All three of them hugged me/squeezed me very tight to the point where I was in pain. While hugging me, they said, “Yeah you feel that? You feel pain? Don’t force it! Magick will come to you! Don’t force it!”
When I woke up I felt real pain around my waist. What I get from this is that they were warning me or telling me to stop forcing it, or forcefully inducing sleep paralysis to achieve astral projection or just magick in general.
I think you are taking the right approach - try and try again. There are unfriendly entities out there, and there’s ways to develop your skills to transport out of that, or tell them to leave.
There are many who are assigned to keep humans asleep and not-lucid, and I would personally not credit any entity I didn’t consciously invite into my space as friendly or truthful. These are interlopers, obviously boundary-crossing and disrespectful, and do not rate having you put their opinions above your own. Nobody asked them.
This state of sleep paralysis, also called the “hypnogogic state” or what the lucid dreaming researcher and author Michael Raduga calls “The Phase” is the exact state to get out of body, to lucid dream. Michael says, keep trying, with determination, and get out “no matter what” and you will.
You might be interested in the Q&A part of Raduga’s seminar on youtube, as some of the students ask exactly this kind of question, so you can hear his answer in his own words - he has met many unfriendly entities trying to stop him too and has figured out how to avoid them.
I like his work, it’s what I used to get OOB, and I posted links to the youtube videos here:
The difference between OOB aka astral/soul travel and lucid dreaming is in the first, you are awake and leaving the body from a more conscious state, and in the 2nd, you leave the body from sleep and realize you’re dreaming.
I also used to have a lot of shadow entities in the past coming to me while lucid dreaming or in sleep paralysis and these things aren’t friendly at all and my experiences with them were shit of nightmares but now that I do banishings and cleansing from time to time I rarely encounter them again so you might need to banish these parasitic shadows out from your space
Hmmm this is interesting. I’ve dealt with sleep paralysis a lot in my life. I’ve never really considered it a similar state for astral projection, but more like the opposite. I’ve never had any other experience than trapped in the twilight between awake and dreaming and have never gone beyond being a somewhat woken mind trapped in my sleeping body or at least heavily tethered to it (it wouldn’t be a form of paralysis otherwise, I guess).
I’ll have to look into this. Not for lack of trying, but I’ve never noticed anything beneficial about it. Other than an excersize in brute forcing my mind to align with my body again.