One Hell Of A Night

I think your powers are starting to develop. Reading your story, I think your mediumship abilities are starting to manifest. Develop and nurture your powers. It is a gift.:)

Sounds like you experienced sleep paralysis and old hag syndrome accompanied with hypnogogic imagery/sounds. Nothing paranormal about these though, look them up on Wikipedia, they are verified (albeit scary) natural and explanable phenomena.

If you can, read the beginner's guide on my other site. This whole endeavor requires a lot of work, unless you have a naturally lose hold over your physical shell. It took me years of practice, research, and work to get to where I had some control over it. And the biggest obstacle? Fear! Wait until those massive vibrations start (feels like an 8.0 earthquake), or you hear critters in the next realm right by your ear. Read as much as you can and this will help prepare you. The good news is that 'the other side' is nothing short of miraculous. That's where I won my first daily lottery. I worked and worked to achieve the out-of-body state and once out, I used my will center chakra and demanded with vehemence to see the numbers and up they popped. We can do this much easier in the astral because our physical shell is a thick filter and all the universal data passes through that and 99% of it is lost to the conscious mind, especially if not in tune or developed. When we leave our body, and if we can stay conscious (much harder to do than it sounds as the subconscious mind is used to having full control over the mental body) then we can do pretty much anything we desire, whether it's to transcend time or space, heal the physical body, communicate to the mind of someone else, activate chakras outside the body, leave this planet & plane, etc.

I don't check back too often on posts so if you have more specific questions, e-mail me at eclecticraven - at - yahoo.com. And best of luck to you!
Anne

I believe the flash of light was your pineal gland starting to work, I have see this flash of light many times before.
When a person is experience a nde they claim
To see a bright light.
When some is dyeing the pineal gland fills up with d.m.t.
What happening to you isn't that paranormal

Is there any way to kick-start it for tonight? Sounds like an interesting idea, and I want to experiment with it, if I can get in that state again

That is the catatonic state. It's a pre astral projection state (the etheric) where you can hear voices of spirits, radio waves, can't move because you're physical and etheric/astral bodies aren't quite hooked up and with work, you can turn this into a lucid astral projection. My sister site to this one talks about that:

Http://www.astralvoyage.com/projection/Catatonic.html

When we come out of it, we can still perceive into the next realm for a short period after.

Anne