Hi MATT

Your response here is well though out and brilliant as a matter of fact!!!

This happened to me too. (25 years ago) Repetitively. Totally freaked me out.  I looked for answers for a long time.  Due to religious upbringing I first believed it was ... entities doing this to me.  Prayer stopped it.  For a while.

I was not a bad person I didn't deserve to be haunted by evil spirits, But, I wasn't really able to accept the sleep paralysis thing either and I kept searching for another reason this would happen.  Although it doesn't happen so much anymore... I am less freaked by it and have found I can control, at least the fear factor and it stops.

I too believe that we astral travel during our sleep, but this occurs BEFORE falling asleep ... I assume (maybe wrongly) that memories of such would present itself to us via dreams? I am positive this is not a dream. I have had two OBE's in my life, as a child and a teenager... but how could this be the cause?

It is good to know I am not only one to experience this, although I wouldn't wish it on anybody!  Nothing has terrified me more.

P E A C E
Evie

People have told me that it is OOBE, but, I am afraid of calling it that.  Has anyone felt as though they were floating up and away from their body - but, if they concentrated too hard on their breathing...that it stopped and they were'in' their body again?  I don't see the room or anything - I am jsut floating up and feel light/swaying back and forth...

People have told me that it is OOBE, but, I am afraid of calling it that.  Has anyone felt as though they were floating up and away from their body - but, if they concentrated too hard on their breathing...that it stopped and they were'in' their body again?  I don't see the room or anything - I am jsut floating up and feel light/swaying back and forth...