What was this

[u/t1ncan69]

Lately I have been very interested in astral travel again and taking it more seriously with meditation and more research. Last night, I was veeery exhausted and laid down in my bed listening to a YouTube video podcast ab AP (I always like to listen to something as I go to bed and this has been it lately). My room was hot and I kept tossing and turning, never falling asleep. I multiple times had felt myself falling into sleep paralysis (I’ve experienced SP many times). Never sleeping (or so I thought?) it felt like hours had passed and suddenly I started to hear ppl in my family downstairs n had the radio on and I thought I’d been awake wayyy too long assuming they were going to work and was debating asking if they could turn the radio down. I peaked outside and the clouds were turning pink and I thought it was like 5 am n felt worried that I’d been awake so long. Suddenly I sit up a little and my dogs in my bed with me (mind u he sleeps in someone else’s room always and I keep my door closed). I was confused but assumed he must’ve slept with me and I didn’t remember. He then proceeded to turn into another larger being and his dog features went away and started pressing down on my chest SO HARD,, I used all the strength I could to fight it off me and remembered that I can project positive light at it to protect myself. I flew out of my bed and kept fighting it, it became a human that looked like another family member and was contorting weirdly. It felt so physical and real and I felt so weak but I used all the strength I could muster to push it away from me. Then I flew up to my ceiling and thought oh shit ok. These two little grey block people? Or something started to float at me and I was using all my might to project gold light onto them and was saying out loud that I was positive light and protecting myself. I saw beings form behind them holding them up. It took so much strength and I was a bit frightened that I somehow forced myself awake in my body. I checked my phone and less than an hour had passed and I was so confused (again I never felt like I fell asleep). It was also odd bc I always have very vivid dreams and I am never in a familiar place (at least in my waking life) but during this experience I was in my exact room - everything looked and was the same as when I’m awake. The video was also still playing. I kept myself awake for a minute and proceeded to dream normally.

I’ve been thinking about it all day since it felt so crazy and wondering wtf happened. Any thoughts?

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