New here but not new to OBE's

[scaredsleeper]

Hi all.
My name is Karen. I'm 34 and a wife, a mother to two (a 9-year old son and a 4-year old daughter), and a teacher. I live in Southern California.

I started having OBE's when I was about 20 years old. I did not go looking for them, in fact I had never even heard of them before!

I got really scared with the first experience because it seemed to last FOREVER and I could hear two troll-like voices and could not make out a single English word. My back hurt for like two days after this first experience. I remember when I FINALLY got up the nerve to get out of bed I went straight to the bathroom to see if I had a scar, scratch, bruise, ?? on my back because the pain was REAL and INTENSE. I thought for sure I had been messed with by either alien creatures or demons. The vibrations I felt were SOOOOOOOOO INTENSE beginning at that point on my back and spreading head-to-toe over my entire body. At one point I even felt the blanket pull down off my back! SCARY! I thought for sure there was SOMEONE in the room with me.

These experiences went on DAILY for at least 6-months to a year. I went to metaphysical stores and chatrooms trying to sort it out (again, fearing it was demonic). I read books about protection and grounding. I wore crystal necklaces and placed obsidian at all four corners of my bed. I burned a sage wand and smudged all the walls in my bedroom all while reciting some protection prayer. Talk about a stinky waste of time. The whole time my family thought I was losing it, as in going crazy. The whole time I was spinning out of control. I couldn't get a handle on these things. I never knew when I'd have one or why. I began crying at night trying to fight sleep. Sleep became scary. I began sleeping with my bedroom light on (I was in college mind you!) because even a night light or hall light didn't feel "safe" enough. Again, my family thought I was going crazy. How absurd. What is she talking about strange voices, vibrations, feeling herself peel out of her body...

Here it is 14 years later and while I still have OBE's from time-to-time they aren't nearly as often (about 4 a year give or take). Recently I have been having a lot of them again. Just the other night I heard someone say "The damn lighthouse won't quit calling!" I have no idea. LOL.

About 4 years ago I had my first and so far only really vivid OBE. I heard a woman's voice saying, "HELLO? HI? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME?" I tried to speak with my lips and it just came out really muffled and unintelligible. She laughed at me and said that is how it is the first time and that it would get better. It did. I was able to have a conversation with her and even see her! WOW! She looked like a nurse, wearing scrubs. Where my closet usually was it became a big hallway. It had these LARGE filing cabinet drawers that seemed to go all the way to the sky. She stood on a ladder and reached into one of the drawers. She was putting supplies into a tub she was carrying. I couldn't see what she was getting. She told me that the two women who were assigned my case (to teach me??) got fired and aren't allowed to "help" other newbies anymore because of how badly they scared me on my first experience. She told me their names but I forgot them. Then she told me that she would be back soon but she had to go because she had to go help my mom. My mom was at the time battling non-hodkin's lymphoma. I later found out that my mom had a doctor's appointment a few days after this experience where she found out she was now cancer-free. Yay! I think I got to meet and speak with my mom's spiritual healer!!!!

It was such a pleasant experience and I hope to have more like that. I can do without the ones where I see my cat hanging upside down on the ceiling or troll-like noises or "creatures" straddling my back, ya know?

Well if anyone has any words of wisdom for me I'd appreciate it. Still trying to find out WHO or WHAT wants me to do this (OBE thing).

Karen 

[NoY]

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[schockstuhh]

mm your experiences are pretty crazy lol. i just wanted to say that as long as you weren't physically, then i don't think you have anything to fear. if you have frightening experiences, it's easy to automatically believe that it was a demon or something of that nature. however, if you didn't believe in demons, then perhaps the experience might not have been so scary. i think you scared yourself the most by allowing your mind to assume it was demonic. the pain was odd. did you feel it throughout your body when you were standing up? when i had my first sleep paralysis experience, i woke up on my stomach, and i felt intense sensations flow from my feet, up my spine, and into my head. it scared the excrement out of me because i assumed that it was a spirit or even a demon entering my body. 3 years later, i found this site and read about similar experiences in which it's just an energy phenomenon. i pretty much scared myself lol.

[scaredsleeper]

Thanks for the replies. I felt the pain the entire next day just on that spot on my back. Someone told me it could have been a chakra that opened up or something like that? I don't really know. I don't get pain any more. But I still feel the vibrations.

Oh hey, I forgot to mention another really crazy experience. There are MANY. LOL.
But this one was AWESOME 'cause it confirmed, FOR ME, that these are not made up in my own brain or whatever...

There was a woman standing by my side of the bed. I couldn't "SEE" her but I "saw" her in my head. She looked a bit like Princess Leah and no I am not a Star Wars fan! LOL. But she wore a white gown and had her hair in two buns on the side of her head just like the character. Anyhow... she wouldn't leave me alone. She kept bugging me - my OBE's are usually induced by spirits, I think? Anyways, I kept getting the vibrations and I couldn't shake her. I would try to stay awake but my eyelids started to flutter like crazy and it was a very strange feeling not having control over your own eyelids. LOL. Anyhow... I finally managed to lay there awake for awhile hoping she would leave and then my husband started to hyperventilate in bed next to me. He does this on a regular basis as  he talks to spirits in his sleep often. He gets mad at me when I wake him because he says he is helping them. So I let him go for awhile. Then I shook him awake. This is what he had to say, "There's a woman on your side of the bed and she will NOT leave you alone!" I was like wow, no kidding!? LOL. He didn't know what she looked like, just that she wouldn't leave. He said he chased her around our house and then finally yelled at her, "God wants your head to blow up!" OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! He still feels bad about saying that YEARS later. LOL. She left and I was left with a new appreciation and understanding of these OBE's. Like wow... I'm not so crazy afterall. I didn't tell him. He was asleep. There was no way he could have known. We both experienced that spirit that night.

Neat-o skeat-o huh?

[schockstuhh]

yeah that was a crazy experience. i would agree on the possibility that the pain had something to do with your chakras. i wouldn't know for sure. and maybe, you have such experiences because both you and your husband attract spirits. has he always had the ability to talk to spirits in his sleep? or did that start happening when he met you?

[scaredsleeper]

Well I didn't meet my husband until I was like 23, three years after my first experience. I really don't know what triggered the OBE's but I definitely feel like something or someone wants me to have this gift for some unknown greater good. Like myself, my husband had experiences throughout childhood. I think I get my abilities/gifts from my maternal grandma though she would have never fessed up to them! I remember when I was about 11 years old she was over at our house and I waked out of my bedroom and into the living room and my mom said, "Oh you smell nice! What perfume are you wearing?" I told her I wasn't wearing anything. My grandma looked really uncomfortable and said she had to go. We tried to get her to stay as she hurried off. I think there might have been a spirit following me and she could see/hear them? She was a very private person. She would never speak a word about her family and how they came from Italy to America. The only thing we knew was that when they got here they changed their last name and the kids (my grandma and her siblings whom I never got to meet) were told not to talk about Italy, to not speak Italian ever again, etc. Strange huh? So sad when people take that stuff to their grave with them. Anyhow... yeah... When I was little I had recurring dreams of a guy who was kidnapping little girls. I have no way of going back to see if it was really going on. I would see his face so clearly back then (I was about 4 or 5). I would tell my parents and they would just roll their eyes and say I was being silly or whatever. Then there was the shadow man who silently watched/protected? every night in my room. All sorts of things... My mom used to say I was her "weird" daughter. LOL. Nice huh? Way to help me embrace it. My kids are going to have gifts too. My son used to have a pretty close relationship with my grandpa who died when I was only 4 years old! He would come visit him. He even told him he was going to have a baby sister before we knew the baby was going to be a girl. He used to have an invisible friend named Duke too. Once it was just me and my son at home and there was a loud bang/crash in my bedroom. I jumped and he laughed. He said, "It's just Duke mom." My daughter gets scared in the middle of the night and says there is a monster in her room. We were watching a cartoon the other day and they showed "ghosts" and she goes, "That's what the monsters look like mom!" She says there is a man with glowing red eyes that lives in MY closet. Yikes, thanks honey! LOL.

[Timandra]

Hi Karen, welcome to the Astral Pulse!  

[Xanth]

Hey Karen,

I can totally relate to you.
I've been lucid dreaming my entire life, well, for as long as I can remember... and one thing that stands out throughout my life are the many instances of when I'd wake up in the middle of the night to "seeing" people in my room, standing over me, standing in the corner, etc...

I pretty much grew to get used to it, and even to this day as an adult... I'll wake up in the night or early morning and see things/people.  I've just become so accustomed to it now that I'll see the stuff, shrug it off and go right back to sleep, because, as you found, in my 31 years here they've *NEVER* hurt me.  They just scared the crap outta me on more than one occasion. LoL

I know that I freak my gf out once in a while with it... but meh... she's getting used to it as well. hehe

[scaredsleeper]

hahaha, funny about the freaking your gf out bit. my husband and I freak each other out often or should I say freak out together sometimes? LOL.

once we were getting ready to go to bed, turned off the TV and went to turn off a lamp when we both just stopped and looked at each other silently. the room got EERILY quiet. like twilight zone, something-isn't-right-in-the-world quiet. freaky quiet. a quiet neither of us had EVER experienced before and haven't experienced it since either. anyhow!! there we are feeling this strange silence when a voice of a kid between 12 and 15 came over the baby monitor and said, "Booooooooooooooo!" then just like that it was gone. the voice and the strange silence. we ran in to check on our then 6 month old son and he was sound asleep in his room. no sign of a presence.

another night this woman would NOT leave me alone. i could hear her like you hear with your physical ears telling me not to go - I don't know if it was an OBE or not. I say that because while I DID feel the normal vibrations that I feel during an OBE I also didn't feel "out" and although I saw her, it was more like a picture in my head. Anyhow... she kept saying, "Don't go!" And I tried to stay awake but it took me awhile to accomplish that because my eyelids (spiritual ones I think?) kept fluttering open/shut, open/shut. Anyhow... I finally managed to stay awake and as I lay there my husband began to hyperventilate. I let him go for awhile then when it got crazy loud and fast I thought I had better wake him up. I shook him and he goes, "There's a woman on your side of the bed and she won't leave you alone!" He said that he chased her around the house demanding she leave and she kept refusing so he finally told her, "God wants your head to blow up!" Then she left. He still beats himself up about that... about saying that... LOL. Anyhow. That was the first time I knew for sure that this stuff was REAL and NOT my imagination or whatever.

Nice to meet all of you! Thanks for the replies and the warm, friendly welcomes.