Hey, newbie here to this thread
I've read a few pages and I'm just so glad that there are more people that are feeling somewhat similar to what I
am feeling. I have a very long post, so bear with me (if you decide to read through it haha).
The past few months of my life have been very, very, strange, and the past few weeks were spent looking for answers on what I was experiencing. I have
experienced sleep paralysis since early childhood, to the point of having it almost every night. I thought it was a common thing for everyone, and was
surprised to find out later in life that most of my friends had only experienced it once, and it was a big deal to them.
Although the sleep paralysis never really bothered me much (I just had to turn over to get out of it), it has blown up into something really strange
in the past few months. This past year in general has been very amazing in fact. I've had a shift a shift in personality- with a more spiritual
rather than material focus. I've found very good friends (one who lost a sister in a car crash recently), and all we ever talk about is life in all
it's strangeness.
So it was during this changing period that my strange dreams and frozen wakeups became something more. A few months back, me and this good friend of
mine noticed lots of strange coincidences in life. Of course, for the most part they were indeed what I just called them- coincidences, we still liked
to believe that they were something more. We would talk about strange things in real life, dreams, and just our general search for purpose. Motivated
by all these talks, I stayed up late one night reading about near death experiences. Most of the things I read followed me to my dreams as I proceeded
to have the strangest night time adventure I had ever felt. I fell asleep at approximately 3 a.m. in the morning, and proceeded to fall in and out of
dreams every two minutes. My dreams would be strange scenarios being fixed by the guidance of my friends. I would wake up in between each dream and
start thinking very strange things, or even saying things aloud. I would fall back into sleep to see what I thought were "hints about life". This
kept happening for about half an hour. Finally, I said outloud "now it is time to find out more about life". I was delusional, it was the middle of
the night, and the dreams were getting to me, and I have no idea why, but I swear, that I said that out loud and can recall it perfectly. After saying
that, I fell back into sleep. Suddenly, I felt a huge buzzing in the head. I felt vibrations in my head as well. I heard the dead moaning of a
thousand people in my head. Then, it felt like it was travelling through my whole body. I could hear myself screaming in my head, saying "NO! NO!".
I thought I was dying and going to hell. I tried to break free but it felt so real. It started going higher and higher and louder and stronger, like a
climax, until finally, I saw myself looking up. It felt like I was on the side of the mountain, suspended in midair, looking up at the sky. What I saw
in the sky was a fan (one near my bed when I fell asleep) at the top of the sky facing down on me. The picture I saw was black and white. I continued
to scream until I woke up. As I woke up, I saw the whole picture morph, with the fan that I saw in the sky turn over and go back to it's original
spot. As soon as I got up, I wrote down the whole dream (8 pages in all) and showed it to my good friend the same day.
I tried to brush off the experience after it happened. I was confused- if this was some premonition of me having to change my ways, it puzzled me as I
was a way kinder person at this point in time than I was before. Why was it such a negative thing?
Life continued after that experience, with the same life talks with my best friend, and just more of the regular hanging out with friends and summer
parties, much like before. The same material life with a few glimpses (or dreams) of something more. Then a month after that dream, I had a dream that
was almost the opposite. On a random weekend morning, I had a very positive dream. It was just a very profound dream where the general message was "I
am _____ and I matter". I woke up, and then decided to take a nap about twenty minutes later when I realized that I was still tired. The dream I saw
was me and my cousins (the people who I hold the biggest bond with- I've known them since I was born) huddled in a circle talking. I'm not quite
sure what we were talking about, but after a certain amount of time, the picture I saw started zooming out. I saw myself in the circle talking, but
the picture I saw continued to get further and further away from it. Then I heard a voice ask me if I was ready to go. I said yes. Then I felt a very
strong feeling of being pulled up (still in a dream) while I saw flashes of things that, while I can't explain what they were, I was sure that they
were positive. The only word I could describe this as was 'ascension'. Although I was aware that it was a dream, I decided to go with the flow.
After a certain amount of time though, it felt very very real. I felt like I was actually about to go somewhere else. At the last second I thought to
myself: 'I am not ready to go'. At that point, I woke up without a hitch. I didn't yawn or have any sort of wake up confusion. I woke up,
completely aware of everything. I have never woken up like that before. This was all experienced in a dream, but much like the first strange
experience, it had a profound effect on me.
Another few months passed until just three days ago. I was visiting those same cousins that I dreamt about. We stayed up very very late, talking about
a lot of different things (we had spent the night going out and celebrating new years day, as well as playing a lot of video games
). We were all
very very hyper from the night time rush you get. I decided to bring up the topic of dreams, eager to share the two dreams I had. After everyone
shared, I told them the first dream/experience of 1000 voices in my head and the vibrations. As soon as I mentioned that, one of my cousins told me
that I was having an out of body experience. I told her that I didn't think so. She then told me that the feeling of being pulled up/rising out is
the first step of the out of body experience. I was still skeptical, and eventually the topic changed.
Flashforward to yesterday. I started looking up the "symptoms" of near death experiences. This was after unsuccessful attempts of finding anything
related to 'ascension dreams' which was the only way to describe what my second dream felt like. After a while, I found an article describing
different ways to have an out of body experience. I was shocked when I read the similarities. It talked about different stages leading to an ideal out
of body experience. About reaching a point where you feel vibrations, hear auditory hallucinations that eventually die out, and are paralyzed.
Everything written was exactly how I felt. So just last night, I tried it again. After a while, I felt a vibration in my head, and eventually in my
whole body. I started hearing sounds that I cannot remember for the life of me. I remember realizing that this was the ideal point to try to break
out, but I was scared to death. I started picturing really scary pictures in my head that I could see vividly. The sight of a door swinging open,
scary lifeless dolls, and an assortment of other random things. I really wanted to break out and I was almost sure that I could, but I just thought
that it was too damn creepy. Through the whole thing, however, I was almost positive that most of the scary things popping up were my own thoughts,
trying to scare me out of it. I woke up, and decided that I just wanted to sleep. However, I had a lot of trouble, as every time I tried sleeping
would just lead to sleep paralysis, and similar vibration feelings (which I would try to snap out of as quickly as possible).
Life has just been giving me very strange feelings as of late. Feelings of something bigger, feelings like I've known people from maybe a previous
life or something? Strange "something is coming" feelings, but I'm just so blessed for the great friends I have who actually love talking and
thinking about it. The scenario of life just gives me hope that there is something. We can question our existance but never know the answer. Being
selfless and kind doensn't mean that you'll be always rewarded or happy, and yet we choose to do so anyways. I don't know that the answer is, but I
hope it's something positive. And I have honestly felt SOMETHING coming as of late.