Can't Sleep
I don’t often have a problem getting to sleep, but tonight and few other nights like it keep me awake for hours before finally drifting off to sleep. I beleive it is cause by the many unfinished toughts in my head that must be completed before finally falling asleep. For instance, tonight, at that stage before sleep, but not quite completly concious, I had a feeling of floating away from my body. I have heard others say that this is the feeling you get when you begin Astro-Projection, otherwise known as your spirit leaving your body to explore other places.
In my mind I debated this topic, if it were true can I control as others claim to be able to, or must I just let it happen itself. I waited to see if it would continue to progress, not much happened. Then I decided to see if I could use my mind to control the experience to no avail.
This made me think about the whole incident in a more logical fashion. Maybe this feeling of leaving the body is just simply caused by the positioning of my head on the pillow, causing the shortage of bloodflow to a particular part of the brain. After all, this feeling did start with a tingling sensation in one spot on the outside of my head.
Another idea is that the idea of Astro-Projection came into my head and this “feeling” was generated by my mind to self re-inforce my thoughts on the subject. I do believe the mind is quite powerful, and thoughts can lead to physical manifestations, beliefs, etc. For example, people who think they are sick when they really are not begin to manifest symptoms of sickness in spite of doctor’s examinations.
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Posted: November 24th, 2003.