Oh god you became a ZOMBIE? O_O

Thanks a lot for the post Silver,
There are some similar techniques out there, but this one is really good. We must always increase our visualization in order to practice astral projection at will. Else we have to wait until it comes by itself.
So, this technique is for the people who wanted to astral project at will. Try it :)

Echo
I just saw that a word I used got censored. I was talking about suction..

Also, making sure you're getting enough sleep, interrupting sleep patterns and just constantly thinking about projection, prepares the mind and body for it. Maybe other people can expand on this, but I think knowing how long the sleep cycles take, and waking up before REM cycle can help. Generally, it takes about an hour and a half for the entire cycle to be competed..but you want to interrupt before REM, but I can't remember how long the cycle is minus REM. REM=sleep paralysis. If you deny you're body of REM, (like wake up for an hour or so, then go back to sleep)  you can achieve sleep paralysis before your mind becomes totally unconscious. Remember, everyone goes into SP, every single night..they just aren't conscious for it.

Mind awake, body...(continued)

Echo
I might have posted this in the wrong place

The problem so many people have with Astral projection is letting go and the fear of the whole experience. You need to be able let go of everything that attaches you to your psychical for each little thought you have (Oh my heart is beating fast, my breathing doesn't seem right, my back is starting to hurt, is that my cat I hear coughing up a hair ball) can all hold you to your psychical body.
Relaxation is a big key to achiving astral projection (I'm sure you have heard this 100 times) and yes it is true, but you most learn to relax in a way that keeps your mind of off the psychical body. Instead of focusing on the relaxion of your body focus more on letting go. Take all your thought off of your body and focus it outside (that's where you are trying to go isn't it) I find it best to focus on something you know is outside...(continued)

Hey guy's, i just wanted to post something that happened to me the night before last when i was lying down to go to sleep. It was about 11 30 at night and i had to be up early that next morning to do a run for the Korean Holiday Chuesok...(Sorry if i mispelt that). But before i layed down, something in my mind was telling me that i was going to have an interesting experience while trying to sleep.

So i laid down and my mind was quiet....oddly quiet. You know when some nights your literally fighting thoughts out of your mind? That night was the exact opposite, i easily obtained the mind silence. But in all honesty, i wasn't even trying to Astral Project, like i said, i had to be up that early and really spent too long on my MMO and really needed all the sleep i could get. (FFIV Gungnir server, J'ahto Tia, if anyone...(continued)

Hi Surfent, You are in right section at right place to learn.
You have opened you third eye, Congratulations :)
Hope this experience will make you to learn and try more, Let us know if you need any help :)
Don't forget to read Enraged master's post mentioned in the previous reply :)

I know I am replying too late..
You may encounter if you are entering with negative thoughts or with fear.
but they can't do anything with it, They can do nothing more than just grabbing your energy and sending you back to your body with exhausted feeling. Just enter with good thoughts and without fear. there is nothing to fear in astral plane :)

Hi Lostlight, welcome to the forum :)

A well laid out article about your experiences and its really nice to read :)

I would like to give you some advice before I start answering your points :)
Firstly, Keep in mind that nothing will happen to your while you are in astral plane or whatever you experience while you are in sleep paralysis. Books which you have read is all their own experiences and it may or may not help for others.
People say don't pay attention to your body while you are in sleep paralysis, but I say you have to pay attention on your light body because you only experience your light body while you are in sleep paralysis and not your physical body.

Lets start:
1. The thing you have mentioned is sinking and pulling effect, you must pay attention to it and you must increase the intensity of it. Which will...(continued)

Congrats.. you opened up your third eye partially so that only you could see your room with your physical eyes closed.
Everything that you mentioned is common when you are sleep paralyzed or when you are near to astral projection.
You couldn't open your eyes easily because you may had some fear or you didn't believe that you can see things even with your physical eyes closed. Just believe and you can do everything easily :)

One more thing you should do if you experience the same thing again is use " Astral Projection Exit Methods" and fly out and enjoy your journey :)
Let me know if you need any help :)