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I attempt projection fairly regularly, but I seem that have a major problem calming my mind
I can push thoughts away for a few seconds but usually they end up coming back and distracting me.
My biggest problem is the fact that I always hear music. A random song, that just refuses to stop playing.
I do my best to do the concentration exercises, and maybe I'm improving it's hard to tell.

Don't push.

The secret to one-pointed concentration is letting the distractions drop away, not trying to force your mind, not trying to push your thoughts away, not being in control. Put the lid on a kettle of boiling water. What does the steam? Build pressure!

Have an attitude of equanimity towards your monkey mind. Allow it to be, but don't get engrossed in it. Repeat a mantra, or focus on your breath. Whenever the mind wanders, bring it gently(!) back to what you concentrate on. Don't push. Don't chastise yourself. Don't dwell of any kind of "failure". Be patient, accepting and persistent.

Fighting the mind turns any mental exercise into a battle. Is fighting really calm?

Then I seem to get these little eye rushes very quickly, it feels like my whole eyes is twitching involuntarily, but it happens very quickly and usually during my sensation induction. This couldn't be REM motion could it?

Could be. Does it feel relaxed or tense?

Then today something unusual happened.
I began to feel very lethargic, and I figured maybe I should let myself drift a little while trying to keep the falling motion going.
Then all of a sudden it was like I hit something I felt a short but intense rush, and I saw a burst of color/pattern, I believe its called hypnogogic imagery, it almost felt like I was falling.
Then I began to think that for the first time I was in a noticeable trance.

I'd rather say: *deeper* trance...

So I tried to continue the falling motion and clear my mind, but my mind seemed different. It didnt want to obey, my thinking felt more clear but at the same time more distant. I could still hear music, which I tried to tune out.

At this stage of your development you're not in control of your mind, and no brute force will grant you "control" either. "Obeying" and "clearing the mind" seem not like appropriate approaches.

When you feel your mind already as being distant, why not take your awareness elsewhere, *away* from the mind or better: anywhere! Focussing on the mind fuels it with awareness energy, right when you eased the connection between awareness and thinking for the time. instead of worrying about the song playing and that you "still" can hear the thoughts somewhere results might have been better if you went for an exit technique right away.

So then I let my eyes roll around loosely under my eye lids and this quick jolt falling sensation happened a few more times.
Then I tried to start a ROPE exit technique.
Every time I have done the ROPE nothing seems to have happened.

Use another technique. Wiggling out or swaying might help. There are lots.

Take good care,
Oliver