a little about me..........

[Lasher]

Nice to meet you Finn.  I'm quite new here myself.  I'm about your age, 38.  I first read about OBEs in high school when my best friend loaned me Monroe's book, Journey's Out Of The Body.  That book blew my mind and I used to try repeatedly to have an OBE.  I never really got beyond a feeling of strong vibrations.  Also, my friend was not successful either so I thought that maybe the whole OBE thing was actually fiction.

Then, a couple months back, my mother told me about two paranormal incidents she had had recently.  This made me start to think about paranormal phenomenon again for the first time in many years.  I surfed the net out of curiosity and came across this site.

After reading many posts here, I am convinced that OBEs are not fiction.  I believe that this will help me to actually have one at some point.  I'm reading Bruce's Astral Dynamics right now.

I'm married, 10 years this thursday.  We have no kids, but we do have two large dogs and a cat.

I too play guitar.  My day job is working as a courier for a Med Lab.  Lately I've been juggling several interests, Kabbalah, Astrology, music, and fiction reading.  Right now I'm reading Clive Barker's Imajica.  And I'm mostly listening to the new Evanescence CD.  

I've never remembered a lucid dream, although I have had a few flying dreams and I love it whenever I do.

Lasher

P.S.  Maybe some of the regulars could post some info about themselves under this topic too...?

[Mirador]

Lasher

the new Evanescence CD? well that sounds interesting, tell me more.

Mirador

[KP]

I've been here about a year.  
I found this place because I woke up one morning unable to move, unable to scream.  A very frightening experience, I finally got up and thought everything was fine but I turned around and saw my body on my bed.  I was so shocked, I woke up but knew it was no dream.  This is what got me into OBEs!  I was scared but very excited.  I've had about 30 now, but have almost lost interest.  I'm more concerned with understanding consciousness, mediation.  Currently going through a strange energy phase, pushing, pulsing up my body and out of head throughout the day and night.  Kundalini I have heard, i'm not too concerned with what it is, but it is wonderful, I am changing!  And I am changing so much, I feel I am becoming myself again, like when I was young.  The OBE is what brought me back on course  The rope thing from Robert Bruce's book.
And nowadays I am becoming less and less interested in hobbies.  I love to talk, to go out with friends but sometimes I do nothing at all.  I just stand for a whole day... I just stand and listen or sometimes walk.  Not normal for a 19 year old these days, good.  I smile a lot.

[Thing]

Only two words from me: "I wish"

[finn]

nice to meet you guys and read about your experiences.

>>thing<<  I take it that you have not experienced obe yet then?

>>lasher<<  cool, you play guitar as well, I think music helps me to relax and I usually play a bit before starting meditation. Good luck with those lucid dreams, For myself, I cant explain it but usually something happens and I think, hey - that cant happen in real life, so I must be dreaming. Then I think, if I am dreaming, then I can use this time to fly! and I fly LOL it is a great feeling. I have not consciencely tried to fly in an obe, I am still learning how to walk about and regain my wits when I project.

I have only once experienced a sensation of flying out of control, being pulled up into the sky higher and higher, and fighting it cause I wanted to stay close to the surface. Then I read chapter about astral wind and I think I might have been obe, cause it was very much like that. I dont remember anything about it except flying higher than I have ever flown before and sorta scary becuase I was not in control.

>>KP<< hey, I know what you mean. I go hiking and I will just stand in one spot and listen. I too used to have a zillion hobbies, now I am more content to just be out walking, listening, and be around people. I dont know how I ever fit all my previous hobbies into one day

I gotta get back to class and meeting a freind to hit the gym later,

-finn

[finn]

hey, I recently read the astral dynamics book and that is how I found this forum. I wanted to say hi to everyone.
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I have only recently started to focus on obe and am trying to learn more. I have always had lucid dreams as far back as I can remember, some good and some bad and growing up in a small town did not lend itself to spiritual developement very well, Most of my experiences were chalked up to dreams and nightmares by my parents. and any information I found in books was dismissed very quickly.
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After a while I started to believe them and dismissed these experiences myself. I even taught myself to ignore these sensations, I even stopped remembering most of my dreams . However, recently my dreams have become very vivid and I could not ignore the sensation of flying. It is euphoric to say the least! I "HAD" to try to get an understanding of why I was flying and what these vibrations are?
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Since finding this forum, I realize now that I am lucky to be able to "wake" out of a lucid trance state and sense my arms or legs floating above me allowing me to focus on floating out of my physical body and then walk around.
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I have recently started attempting to project while awake and in a meditative state, but I have not projected that way yet. I "have" went deep enough to feel or sense my breathing in a way I never felt before - like I could feel the lungs themselves expand and the air was filling up my entire being, hard to explain.......I also felt REM or something close, my eyes began moving rapidly of their own accord, which was enough to bring me out of the state I was in, I had never felt that before and it freaked me out.
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For now I seem to be able to recognize the signs of obe while in a lucid state long enough to project and transfer my consicience. I seem to sort of sense my body leaving, and its like a duality sense. you can feel your arms floating but you can also feel your arms, body lying on the bed. I just stay relaxed and let my arms or legs float free, gently pulling the rest of me out of my body. sometimes I lose focus and I then try a last ditch effort to "will" myself to sit-up or roll out of my body. this doesnt always work and I end up waking out of the trance state. If this happens I just let myself fall sleep and try again another night.
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also, I am 37 - a full time art student, I play guitar, I spent 6 years travelling all over the world in the military (plenty of experinces there - let me tell you, a lot of things happened to me in italy that I cant explain) and I am currenlty into weightlifting and yoga - kinda combining the physical and spiritual sides of me. And I fly a lot in my dreams lately [], which has some way lead me to this site.
-finn