Luke, everything you described sounds like you hit the nail on the head. Each time I go through the exit process it is very uncomfortable. The tingling, numbess, weightlessness... if you're anything like me and tend to scare easily then this whole process can just be a nightmare (literally sometimes...

IDK if you are still checking the board, Iyasu, but hopefully I can share some stuff I've learned. What you experienced is called hypnagogic imagery. It's basically random images that appear in your periphery, NOT your minds eye, when you are falling asleep. The goal in astral projection is to enter...