Astral Projecting?

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I think I wanna hear that boom also, it sounds like the portal to greater things.

So I looked it up and now I remember that I've read about it a long time ago, trying to find out what it was. But this is the first time I've read about someone else that have it. They say it is related to out of body experiences and temporal lobe epilepsy. Autistics often have temporal lobe epilepsy. f**k I'm starting to suspect the temporal lobe might be responsible for lots of unaccounted for phenomenon like this, because we have a radically altered temporal lobe and our frontal lobe resembles an gigantic temporal lobe.. If I were to believe this.. Is this starting to sound like X-men to anyone else?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome (they say it might be a form of seizure, so I believe it might actually be a MASSIVE discharge of electricity. Thunder in the brain, but not like other seizures as it's audible)
There you have it.

And that feeling of being pulled out of your body we have is also related to temporal lobe epilepsy.
Not saying it isn't something else too.
But saying it can't be a weird phenomenon because it doesn't work like some say it should be like - and what is that concept of what it should feel like based on exactly as no one can do that..? Doesn't mean it's not something weird happening. We can all agree on that anyway.

It's extremely common for humans to feel a muscle jolt just before falling asleep.

I remember my grandfather visiting me in my dreams the night before I heard he had died. Of course I had known he wasn't doing so well a few days before and was afraid he was about to die so that could have entirely been my subconscious.

I used to read a lot of books on astral projection and remember them talking about those infamous vibrations that accompany leaving your body. Maybe it's also my subconscious.

I've also had several experiences "seeing" the room I'm sleeping in in (or a very close replica) a lucid dream but don't recall seeing my body asleep in bed.

Having tried to induce astral projections for many years, I continue to have a couple spontaneous lucid dreams every month on average.

Recently, I was reading the book Think and Grow Rich and the author, in his last chapter , talks about visiting the souls of famous people like Lincoln to learn the secrets of success from them.

The phenomena that you and others seem to be describing is medically referred to as "REM intrusion".

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is the sleep stage during which dreaming occurs. REM sleep also involves paralysis of major muscles, accelerated respiration, and, as the name suggests, increased eye movement.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky in Lexington found that people who report having a near-death experience are more prone to have also experienced blurring of their awake and sleep states -- a condition known medically as REM intrusion.

Clinical neuropsychologist Kevin Nelson, MD, and colleagues interviewed 55 people with a history of near-death experiences and twice as many people matched for age and sex with no such history.

Sixty percent of those who reported having had near-death experiences also reported at least one occurrence of their REM sleep state intruding into their awakened state, compared with only 24% of those without near-death experiences.

The findings are reported in the April 11 2006 issue of the journal Neurology.

Common characteristics of REM intrusion include a sense of temporary paralysis upon awakening and visual or auditory hallucinations during the transition from sleep to being awake or the reverse.

"The brain switch that links REM sleep and wakefulness seems to be different in people who have had a near-death experience," Nelson tells WebMD. "Instead of passing directly between REM sleep and wakefulness, the brain switch in those people seems to be more likely to blend the two."

Nelson says many commonly reported features of near-death experiences are also associated with the REM state, including the feelings of being surrounded by light, being outside one's body, and of being conscious but unable to move.

Source: Near-Death Experience: Link to Sleep?

I came across some more recent research on the subject today and thought I would share:

Mystical near-death experiences where people report a range of spiritual and physical symptoms, including out-of-body sensations, seeing or hearing hallucinations, racing thoughts, and time distortion, affect around 10% of people, according to a new study that analyzed participants from 35 countries.

The new findings were presented at the 5th European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress by researchers from the Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, the Center for Stroke Research, Berlin, and the Norwegian University of Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Experiences most frequently reported by participants in their study included: abnormal time perception (87%), exceptional speed of thought (65%), exceptionally vivid senses (63%) and feeling separated from, or out of their body (53%).

The study group who reported near-death experiences variously described feeling at total peace, having their “soul sucked out,” hearing angels singing, being aware they were outside their body, seeing their life flashing before them, and being in a dark tunnel before reaching a bright light. Others spoke of being aware of another’s presence before they went to sleep, or of a demon sitting on their chest while they lay paralyzed unable to move.

The team recruited 1,034 lay people from 35 countries via a crowdsourcing platform online (to eliminate selection bias) and asked them if they’d ever had a near-death experience. If they answered “yes,” they were asked for more details, using a questionnaire assessment tool called the Greyson Near-Death Experience Scale, which asks about 16 specific symptoms.

A total of 289 people reported a near-death experience, and 106 of those reached a threshold of 7 on the Greyson NDE Scale, (which confirms a true near-death experience). 55% perceived the experience as truly life-threatening and 45% as not truly life-threatening.

Far from being a pleasant experience associated with feelings of peacefulness and wellbeing, as some previous studies have reported, the new study found a much higher rate of people reporting their near-death experience as unpleasant. 73% said it was unpleasant and 27% said it was pleasant. But in those with a score of 7 or above on the Greyson NDE Scale (a confirmed near-death experience), this changed to 53% reporting a pleasant experience and 14% an unpleasant one.

Based on insight gained from previous studies, the researchers found an association between near-death experiences and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep intrusion into wakefulness. REM sleep is a phase of the sleep cycle where the eyes move rapidly, the brain is as active as when someone is awake, dreaming is more vivid, and most people experience a state of temporary paralysis, as the brain send a signal to the spinal cord to stop the arms and legs moving. When REM sleep intrudes into wakefulness, some people report visual and auditory hallucinations and other symptoms such as sleep paralysis, where they feel conscious but cannot move.

REM sleep intrusion on wakefulness was found to be more common in people with scores of 7 or above on the Greyson NDE Scale (47%) than in people with scores of 6 or below (26%), or in those below the threshold with no such experiences (14%).

Source: Near-death Experiences Linked to REM Sleep Intrusion on Wakefulness