I have never been able to astral project willingly using common techniques but last night I did by doing this instead

A few years ago I got into reading about AP-ing and have tried it a few times with some techniques and suggested binaural beats but it always took too long and I only ever got to the vibration stage (but not intense vibration) with nothing happening after so I kind of gave up and haven't thought about it since.

Last night, I was laying in bed and at 3 am I still couldn't sleep and I was kind of just thinking about life and all my beliefs and the concept of manifestation and energy work and spirit guides and started to wonder if I'm just delusional believing all of these concepts, so I silently prayed to myself "please Universe show me some type of sign there is more to life than what we see, please if my spirit guides are out there please just give me a sign so I know I'm not alone" (keep in mind I wasn't 100% awake I was in that in-between stage of wake and sleep which I think is probably the key to all of this) and instantly felt an extremely intense vibration in my body that I've never experienced before but read about and I just knew I was about to detach so I sat up and looked down at myself and saw myself sleeping from above the room. As soon as I saw myself though I freaked out I came back to my body and jerked back awake. I wish I could have made it last longer and wish I was more calm about it but I was not anticipating going through that so was kind of unprepared for it.. but I guess I really did end up getting my sign.