I've never really had a paranormal experience before. It's not that I don't think ghosts and other unexplainable stuff like that exists, it just has never happened to me.

I've used an Ouija board before and nothing happened.

I've had friends sleep in my room and claim to have seen shadow people. Of course, there have been times when I've been creeped out or spooked, but nothing has ever really happened to me. Until October 19, 2017.

As far as I can remember, it was a pretty normal day. I was living in an apartment at the time with two other people who I barely knew. Around 6 or 7 p.m. I decided to take a nap.

The next thing I knew, I was getting out of my bed. It was so dark that I couldn't see anything. I walked over to the light switch and kept hitting it, but the lights wouldn't turn on. I then realized that the reason I couldn't see wasn't that the lights weren't on, it was because my eyes were closed.

That's when I knew I was asleep.

I walked into the hallway, feeling along the wall so I knew where I was. I started jumping in the air, trying to confirm that I was actually asleep, but it just felt like floating.

At some point, I was hit with this feeling of panic. For what seemed like no reason, I was absolutely terrified. I walked back to my bed and got on top of where I believed my body was (my eyes have been pretty much closed the entire time, I can see a tiny bit at some points) and I was trying to wake myself up.

At first, I just laid down on top of myself, but that didn't work. So I started jumping up and down and hitting myself which surprisingly worked. I woke up with a jolt and I was in a pool of sweat. Hours after I woke up I was still scared. I was scared to go back to sleep that night.

However, nothing like that has happened since then.

I think it's strange that normally people who experience astral projection are people who regularly have lucid dreams or sleep paralysis and that has never happened to me.

I'm honestly only guessing I was experiencing astral projection, I only know from what I've read online and there are a lot of conflicting definitions. All I know is that I will never purposefully do that again. I know just from reading it or hearing about it, it doesn't sound scary at all.

There aren't any clowns or demons or anything like that, it is just a feeling.

I know a lot of people try really hard to astral project and all I have to say is make sure you're mentally and emotionally prepared for it because, for me, it was one of the scariest things that have ever happened to me.