Post your most memorable OBEs... (research for upcoming book)

[Synergy]

I have decided (with some prodding) to revamp Spirit-Quest, my book about OBEs, so that it might be print format.  I've already begun to add much more content, especially in the neuroscience side, and experiments that have been done to help validate OBEs.

What I would like now, is to gather OBE descriptions.  If you respond here, please remember that your OBE may end up in a printed book.  I will try to incorporate as many as possible, to help illustrate different aspects of OBEs.  So I need all types of different experiences, like Astral Projection, Etheric Projection RTZ, descriptions of meeting entities, flying, visiting awesome places (like space, or remarkable places on earth like stonehenge etc), and OBEs induced by different means... so please type your response post (if you wish to participate) in the following format:   

A descriptive titile, type of OBE (AP, EP etc), how it was induced (spontaneous, willed by what method etc)

"OBE - like a journal type description... a few paragraphs long. Include in your description how the OBE affected you emotionally etc"

Your first name, and last initial (eg; John M.), and location (eg: Canada)


Please post only one or two OBEs per person so I can include as many different people as possible to help show how prevalent OBEs actually are.... pick your best most memorable OBEs.

Thanks, and look forward to reading them! 

(If you wish to look Spirit-Quest's firts incarnation, it is a FREE e-book available on my site... link is in my sig.)

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Hi Synergy, sent you PM.

[Synergy]

Just wanted to add.... if you feel that you'd rather submit your OBE anonymously, feel free to send them to my PM box. 

I have gotten a few already now, and all were by PM

[Selski]

Hi Synergy

Glad to hear you have had some responses.  I would also like to throw one in for possible inclusion, but I'm just mulling over which one to choose.  I'll be back... 

Sarah

[Selski]

Hello again Synergy

I've found one I'm rather fond of... it seems to incorporate a traditional RTZ OBE and then goes into the astral via a picture on the wall.

Please feel free to edit it as you see fit.  It was posted here a few years ago, but for some strange and unknown reason, it's been deleted... *cue twilight zone music*

Here it is...sorry about the length, but I wanted to incorporate the whole experience.
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I didn’t fall asleep, but was very close to it.  I noticed the top half of my body was slowly moving backwards.  Immediately, I knew this was my astral body and I “pushed” it so it would go faster.  It did.  I then thought that rather than push, I should go limp, so I did this, but I just went slower.  I was obviously totally astral.  I carried on pushing myself, but realised I wasn’t actually going anywhere, except round in circles.  So then I pushed my body upwards, and I started moving that way.  It was very pleasant doing this pushing.  I’d never done it before.  It wasn’t mental, but more of an energy push – hard to describe.

Next I thought I’d better get out.  I got a bit tangled in all the bedclothes, which was a tad infuriating, but I managed it in the end!  I noticed my sight was very dull in the bedroom, like a hazy black and white film (very hazy I might add).  I quickly moved into the hall, where things were better. 

Someone was in the hall with me.  It was my Grandma Ellison.  I wasn’t surprised at this, nor did I really acknowledge it.  I was preoccupied with finding an astral doorway to take much notice of her, although her presence was related to me, she wasn’t just there doing her own thing.  I took her with me to the front room.  I didn’t get any sound from her, but now I think that is because I was so mentally “noisy” and didn’t give her a chance.

I couldn’t see any obvious doorways, so I started circling with my finger again, then suddenly I remembered I wanted to go through one of our new pictures in the lounge.  Off I trot to the lounge.  I think Grandma gave up on me then, because I don’t remember her after that.  On my way to the lounge, I thought about my drawings, but realised they hadn’t been put up on the wall yet, and then knew which pictures I was going in.

I stood in the lounge and moved forward into the picture on the left side.  I could get my head in and everything changed.  How on earth do I describe this?  Soft, peaceful, different, very different from the physical world, but subtly and gently different.  I found I couldn’t go any further than my head, so I pulled my head out.

I seemed to bring the new world to the RTZ, because when I went to go into the other picture, it wasn’t there on the wall, even though I knew it should be.  I could just see softness, so I went into the space where the right hand picture was anyway.

I found myself looking at a beautiful, soft landscape.  I keep using the word “soft” because there was nothing dramatic nor obvious about it.  Just pastel hills, all different colours, rolling hills, no high peaks, nothing jagged.  Someone was with me.  She was female, young (my age), and told me (not via speech) that she would take me to our castle.

The next image is that we are riding on horses to get to this castle.  I am naked and riding the horse, which is a wonderful feeling (not sexual, just very free).  My horse is black, hers is brown.  When we arrive at the castle, we dismount and my black horse turns into a black Doberman dog.  I show a little fear as I wonder if it will turn and snap at me.  As I think this, it looks like it is going to, so I turn quickly away.

The next image is I am in the castle looking out through one of the turrets at the landscape below.  It is utterly peaceful, calm, pastel colours, rolling hills.  My female friend is next to me and I know that we are lovers and have been in the castle now for many years.  We are young (late teens?), and our lives are comfortable, in that we don’t need to work.  We never age.  We just live in our castle, enjoying each other.  I feel her come up behind me and hug me, her hands on my breasts.  I do actually literally feel this, as in a lucid dream.

The next image is that we have just finished making love (of this part I don’t recall), and 4 young men/boys have come to visit the castle.  They have obviously heard us and when we open the door, they have grins all over their faces.  At this point, I become a watcher, and see myself and my female lover for the first time.  We are both young, lithe, very fit, both with cropped short hair, boyish looking.  I look slightly more feminine.  Both very attractive, pixie looking young girls.  Both looking very happy.

The next image is one of destruction and war, although not directly near the castle.  The effects of war.  Everything is dark and depressing.  My lover has caught some fever or disease (typhoid?) and needs medicine.  We have a housekeeper, an older woman, and my lover is calling to her to get the medicine for her.  I am still well and panicking, not knowing what to do.  My lover has collapsed on the outside of the castle and I know that if she doesn’t get her medicine, she will die.  The housekeeper is walking away from us.  I shout to her “where are you going”.  She tells me she has had enough and is going to join the war.  I never get to see her face, she always has her back to me.  She looks old and is wearing a shawl and bonnet.

Then, in physical life, the postman drops the letters through the door and I instantly fully regain waking consciousness.
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This was September 2004. 
Name - Sarah G, Lincolnshire.

I look forward to the finished product. 

Sarah

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Visualization of a very memorable experience during meditation practice early one morning last winter.

After feeling strong sensations of shooting upward, I lost all awareness of my body and found myself within a blue ocean like 3D void.

I then saw what I can only describe as being a yellow spark. I'm not sure if I was the yellow spark and looking at myself, or if I was observing something else in the blue void.

I choose this experience as a first in a series of illustrations because of the simplicity of the vision. This is as close as I can get it from memory, and I feel that it is a good representation of what I saw.


Please click for full size image.
Winter of 2006
S. Franklin  - Eastern USA

[Kodemaster]

Here is the link to my OBEs to the Akashic records:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_experiences/second_first_visit_to_the_akashic_records-t25226.0.html

Jeni R
USA

[Synergy]

Thanks so much for the submissions everyone!  The book is coming along really   It's alot more work than I ever thought hough to get one ready for actual print lol. 

I am interested in people's personal experiements that could shed some scientific light on the experience and ways to incude OBEs.  I have included my own experiments with electromagnetic fields, and also my (not so scientific) experiment with an empath.   Do any of you have any personal experiments?  Maybe with sound waves, supplements, hypnosis, etc. 

[Mustardseed]

Dear Synergy
Here is one from me. Good luck with your book.


June 21 2006
Laid down on my left side, as I wanted to exit. That works best for me. After having drifted in and out of hypnotic imagery for some 20 min, I had to cough, and became very alert, as I was laying there quietly after having coughed, and then the vibrations started coming. Suddenly my whole body started to relax and I began to fall and suddenly I had astral sight. I decided to experiment and raised my right hand straight out of my body. It was amazing. With a sort of mental exertion I willed my body to stand up and as usual it worked and I got up easily. Everything was peaceful and calm around me. I decided to make sure I was in my room and followed my laid out procedure. There was a book on the table beside the bed on the front of it. It said something in Latin, “bacillum concillium” or something like it. I looked through the book but could not read it, think it was in Latin or something. I looked around, and I realized I was not in my own room.
There was a window at the left, a door across from it and also another door to the right of the bed. The window had no glass pane. The sun was shining through the window, it was beautiful. I went out the door and came into a small hall, took a right and found myself emerging into the street. It was a small street with a pedestrian walkway at each side. The feeling in this place was very peace full, and uncannily calm, not eerie or anything just calm. It was not the golden light that I have seen in other locations, but more a clear summer days feeling, but as soon as I stepped in the street the vibrations started and I got sucked back. As I got sucked back in my body I thought “well that was it” , I was a bit disappointed but very happy. I opened my eyes and looked around I was in my room for sure, then I laid back down and closed my eyes.
To my amazement the vibrations started right away again, I gained astral sight immediately, and stood up beside my bed again. I came out of my body with no break in consciousness and much to my surprise, I was in the same room. This time I decided to do something different, and went through the other door instead, and as I did I came into a small hallway. It looked somewhat like a pension, with a long hallway and rooms on either side. It led toward a glass door maybe 20m down. I wanted to have some fun, and started running toward the door and dove right through the glass into the street. I felt a ripple as I went through the glass pane, and bust into the middle of the street and as I did, I lifted my hands and started to praise God in a very strange song. I was singing all about praise to him and thanked him, I have absolutely no idea why I did that and no idea of what I was saying. The words just kept coming to me, while I was twirling, and rising slowly. Then I started to levitate faster and rose toward the sky, with my hands held up.
As I gained altitude I noticed a band, which was practicing on the balcony or the top of a building to my left. They saw me, and got very exited. I don’t know why, but I had the feeling they were having some sort of service or meeting or something because they were all in white. As I flew above them they were looking at me excitedly and kept playing. Then the vibrations started slowly  and I got sucked back again.

As I came back to my body I opened my eyes and looked around to make sure I was in my room. It was very exiting. I just laid real still and closed my eyes again and as I had hoped for, the vibrations came again after few seconds. Getting up was a cinch, and as I got up I looked around. The book was on the table, the doors and the window in place as well, I was back in the same room.
This time I went out the window. I just crawled out into the street, and went toward a small shop some 100 m down the street, on the right. It was a bakery, and there were lots of people going in and out. A girl was on her way out the door, with a white paper bag of bread in her hand, and as I approached her she looked straight at me and smiled, as if she realized who I was or why I was here. It surprised me. She was my height, reddish short hair, and she wore a dark trench coat or something that looked like a trench coat. She started to walk down the road, and I walked with her. As we walked quietly I asked her “Am I in heaven?” She smiled mysteriously and said “yes, but in this place, we all came here by our own hand”. It was as if she communicated to me that everyone here was suicide victims. I asked her “does that mean that I am going to one day commit suicide. She turned toward me and smiled and said “no” with a big smile, I asked “Is there another place”, she kept walking and started to talk excitedly, it was very mysterious. She said something like “oh yes in ra aum ….wow…. the things that are happening there are wonderfull”, the impression was, that she had knowledge of a different location, and what was happening in this different location, but could not go there. It was like she was restricted, but knew about this place….Ra Aum or whatever.

As we walked down the road, it turned left and slightly down hill, and we passed a man in a black dune jacket, wearing a knitted black hat, and sun glasses. He was very surprised to see me, almost stunned. She did not look at me, it was as if she wanted him to go away or not talk to me at least. I wanted to talk more to her, but as soon as we had passed him, he turned and came back to us. He had pulled his hat down in his forehead, and his jacket up, so only his glasses were visible. He was very exited, and grabbed my arm and tugged at it, but I did not want to talk to him, but he was very insistent and kept tugging at me, as if he just had to talk to me and just would not let go, the tugging was not scary but irritating to me, and I started to feel my arm and was reminded of my body and immediately I started to have the vibrations. I knew I could not stay, and as I was being sucked backwards, I kept looking at the girl and she kept smiling at me. As they grew stronger she faded and was gone.
I was back in my body immediately and this time I did not want to go again. I got up to write my diary. I was so exited and happy. It was as if I was floating on a cloud, and coming back was a big let down. The feeling stayed with me for a few hours. A feeling of peace and assurance, as well as excitement. I felt like I had seen something wonderful and her face kept coming to me .

PS Her face kept coming to me for the next 3-4 days. I don’t know how but many times a day I would see her standing there smiling cheerfully, with her beautiful eyes, red hair. 

[Kodemaster]

Hi again Synergy:

Here is the link to an alternate projection you can use for your book if you would like:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_obe_discussions/projection_that_may_be_a_profound_look_into_my_future-t17245.0.html

It's a validation, although not the one I wanted.

Jeni R

[Lume]

Hey Synergy!
Not sure if you have done you book yet or not, but here is one from me!



Astral (Future) Wind Experience!     

It was just a normal astral projection after willing myself out of my body by disorientating myself.
I went out of my room and out the front door and started making my way down my street. All was normal until a force took hold of me. I could not go against the force. It slowly started drifting me backwards on an angle, and back through my house. It started to pick up more force and speed and started to take me higher into the air. What happened next, words are hard to describe.

I kept going up higher and kept going faster and faster and faster. Soon enough, I realised I was being ripped out of this atmosphere at what I can only describe as 'warp speed'. It felt incredible! As I was being whipped out of earth, I could see it disappear as I was too far away to see it. I was being carried through space at an amazing pace being flown past what I was desribe as dream pools. There were pools of events happening in pockets of space in the middle of nowhere (very hard to describe).

The force came to a sudden hault. It stopped me around 100m above a town. This town looked very systematic with most houses looking the same. The one thing that caught my eye, was that for every house, there was about 3 large poles next to them with what looked like solar panels on top. I was then brought back to my body.

I have had the exact same experience one other time. This time I was stopped outside a house at night and this house had its light on. I went inside the house to be in a lounge room. There was a stuffed bunny knitting a number on itselt (I think the number was 1868). When the bunny saw me, it looked shocked and stunned and stopped knitting. Then I noticed the TV was on, in black and white, with a
'big band playing'. I was then brought back to my body.

I only realised these were future winds after reading Roberts Bruces information on the net.
I still don't know what symbolism meant. Apparently it could take years for it to come. I will be extremely excited if one of these future winds shows signs in the future. For me, the astral wind was one more of a validation that astral projection is alot more than just some crazy dream for me.

Bronte W
Australia

[Eternal_Soulmate]

First of all Hi to everyone, life has kept me busy with other matters for a while now.  But I always come back to my inner self who is wanting OBE's as a natural thing... some day.

Here is my first OBE and also my only one because for some reason I did not try to do it more.  I tried a lot when I was younger though, maybe it's to avoid disappointments.

It was when I still lived in Belgium in the year 1999. I came from my nightshift and did a little chatting when I came home around 6 30 at 8 30 went to sleep.
I found myself very quickly in a dream, faster then normal that's for sure.  The difference was that I didn't lose my consciousness and was able to control my movements in the dream and was thinking rational as well. I realized that I was having a lucid dream and I knew that this was the moment to try to induce an OBE.

I climbed on a van that was involved in an accident in that dream and jumped off to get a falling effect.  It was weird to find myself almost programed to and know what to do to get an astral projection!
The dream disappeared and everything around me was black like I was just laying there with my eyes closed.  I didn't feel or hear anything nor my own body but I knew where I was and that I was still in my body.  The thought of movement had an immediate reaction to it as if I was hanging loose.  I decided then to roll out.  As I rolled out I heard like a sucking sound at least something like that.

There I was floating next to my bed but I had to think of seeing to start to see my bedroom and yes there was the edge of my bed.  Thought of movement was immediate action so I moved up a bit to see my bedroom which had like a slight misty view to it.  All the object had like a bright grey metallic shine to them and as I observed everything I had this constant high pitched tone I could "hear".  But the strangest was that I didn't recognize myself, my personality was gone, no thoughts, no doubts, no feelings at all.  Just maybe a slight being home feeling.  But I didn't feel like wow this is it lets go to watch the neighbours!
In fact I didn't feel the need to go anywhere!  I then "wanted" to see my hands to see how I looked.

But this was a mistake I think because the thought of moving an astral limb like it would be a fiscal immediately triggered me back to my body.  After all those years I tried in the past without success I sure wanted to hang out for a bit longer so I started to struggle but whatever I did the return could not be avoided.  I felt like I was going trough  the structure of the quilt I had on me a bit like I felt all the material which it was made of going trough me on a microscopic level!  I heard that sucking sound again and then I knew I was back.

I didn't move at first, just opened my eyes and it was as if there was never been a change in my consciousness like I would have closed them and opened them a few minutes afterwards.  I went over the experience like I read once in a book of Monroe you have to recall everything for your brain to remember it like happens with dreams, you forget it.
I watched the clock and only 10 min went by since I went to bed ?!

I felt very happy because this was definite proof that I would not just die and vanish.  But also a bit sad because I could not recognize my personality when I was out as if I was a different being.
So who we are is all stored in our brain?  Why are we here? I know that our soul is eternal but our ego?

[Synergy]

Thanks so much guys these are all awesome!  I have to admit for the last 4 months I was unable to work on this project as I am in the Canadian Navy and was away on deployment.  I am back now though, and won't be sailing again until after Christmas, so I will be working again on the book (however I just got a new laptop and need office 2007 reinstalled grrrr)  Anyway, will save all of these this weekend and get back into it

[jub jub]

This was my first and also very spontaneous OBE.

I fell asleep on the couch after reading a chapter in "Holographic Universe" about OBE's. It started off the classic way, with intense vibrations. I just laid there thinking "float up, float up" and the next thing I knew I was floating up, face down and looking at myself on the couch. The room was dark but I could still see everything clearly.

As I floated at the ceiling, I thought to myself "How do move?". The first thing that came to mind was swimming so I started to move my arms like I was doing the breast stroke! As I did this I started to move. I swam over to a wall where there was normally a clock, but instead, I noticed a painting. It's funny because at the time it didn't seem to be out of place. I was very excited now and wanted to see if I could move through solid matter so I floated toward my bedroom and as I came to the wall, I went right through! As I passed through the wall I noticed the texture of the sheet rock and how it seemed to pull energy from me. I looked down and saw my wife sleeping on the bed and thought "Okay, what now? Let's go up!" I started to drift upward, through the ceiling, through the insulation in the attic. I could see the rafters just like they normally appeared. As I went through the roof, I looked out at the street and then poof, I was back in my body, but not for long!

Next thing I know I'm in a different location. This time it's broad daylight. I'm following a car from about 20 feet up and back doing the same breast stroke I was doing at my house. The scenery was beautiful! I notice a beach to my right, lined with palm trees and a bright, blue surf crashing against sugar white sand. To the left there is a small rise with a few shops that sell surf boards, bathing suits etc. Just as I start to really enjoy myself I'm back in the body. I just laid there and marveled at what had just happened! It was wonderful and exciting!

[lajeanfitz]

i have had out of body experiences.. But the most recent really suprised me because i was totally awake i was sitting watching tv and felt myself moving through space. Quite exhilarating..Once i was half asleep and i was looking over a large body of water but...  looking mostly at the inlet and all the greenery trees and no sign of and people there..no habitation of people.. I have a lot of out of body .. as i remember them i will jot down and send the rest to you.