Adrian Frawley :
When I was very young, I bought a book on self-hypnosis. While the hypnosis itself didn't seem to work, it did teach me how to meditate. At the back of that book, I noticed an advertisement for another title called Out of Body Projections. I bought it, read through its techniques on calming the mind and meditation, and tried them out. Once again, nothing seemed to happen, so after six or seven months, I put the book aside and largely forgot about it.
Eventually, strange things began to occur.
It started with a high-pitched buzzing in my ears, followed by episodes of what I now know was sleep paralysis. Because I didn’t understand what was happening at the time, it terrified me. The episodes began infrequently—once every couple of months—before escalating to once a month, then weekly, and eventually three to four times a week.
As the pattern developed, the sleep paralysis began to give way to a deep, powerful internal vibration throughout my body. Remembering what I had read in the projection book, I realized the process was actually beginning to work. For a long time, the experience stayed right at that threshold: paralysis followed by intense internal vibrations. Over time, my body began skipping the paralysis phase entirely; I would simply hear the buzzing and transition straight into the vibrations.
Actually separating from my body proved difficult. Whenever the vibrations started, I would get too eager and try to force the exit, which inevitably caused me to snap out of it and wake up.
The breakthrough came when I changed my approach. Instead of forcing it, I learned to calm my mind during the vibration stage and just go with the flow. Suddenly, I popped right out of my body. It happened during the day; I found myself floating above the bed, looking around. The bedroom was completely unchanged from when I had first laid down.
That experience marked the beginning of my journey with astral projection, which went on to become a frequent part of my life during those years.
2026-08-16 16:21:17