Welcome from a newbie
I think one the things that a lot of books and stuff leave out is the amount of "failed" or "near miss" attempts that occur. I think they gloss over these because they are not as interesting as the actual "successful" ones and also get left out because they are not tracked by the person as readily. I read somewhere, I think it was here, about someone's success statistics and it was an average of 1 or 2 successes per week. So if you tried every day and got 1 per week.. that's still not even 20% sucess rate...
The purpose of highlighting this is to say, "Hey! It's not going to happen overnight and even when you do 'get it', it may not happen again every day thereafter.".. It's certainly clear that regular OBE'ers say it becomes easier.. but it's equally clear that it isn't something that the majority of them can pull off in the blink of an eye on EVERY occasion they try.
One author I was reading says that he wakes up, relieves himself (so there is no full bladder distractions.. hehe), drinks a cup of coffee and basically "wakes" for about 30mins, then goes back to bed and makes his first attempt. He tries for about 15 to 20mins and if it doesn't work, he lets himself fall asleep.. then when he wakes a little bit later, tries again for 15 to 20mins and if nothing, tries again after a short nap for a 3rd time. If the 3rd attempt fails, he gives up for that day. He says that he is usually successful on the 2nd or 3rd attempt and hardly ever on the first attempt. There are many reasons for this and a lot of discussion could be spent on the subject but the point I am making here is that even this regular OBE'er admits that he sometimes can not succeed even with "perfect", "tried and true" methods. It's just a matter of keep trying.. again and again
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