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

[Maitri]

Wow....nice to see so many replies. I am currently 48 years old. I have not had an OBE in about ten years with a couplr rare exceptions, This was after having them almost nightly from age 14-37. For me this is a blessing. For I am one of the unfortunatel people who entrained myself to respond to the sensations and experiences with fear. At first as a youngster I did not tell anyone. It was during the 70's, and I smokedd pot, etc... got in trouble at school. And was afraid that the counselors I had to see, etc... would interpret these experiences as psychotic, etc... They began with what seemed at to be a light swirling around my head when I was laying down ready for sleep. Then as the light moved faster it would begin to pulse up and down my body. An electrical feeling hum would begin in my ears and I would become paralyzed. I was sure I was dying or something on another plane of existense was trying to get me. So I began sleeping downstairs on the couch. Because my bedroom was upsatirs in a refinished attic.

Anyhow. That is all I feel like posting for now. Later I worked with a scholar who was working with Bob Monroe and learned much.

Maitri 

[sstonevenuss]

was asleep in the early am, I remember hearing my host getting ready for work then leaving and locking the front door. Somewhere between wanting to go back to sleep and actually being asleep, I became suddenly aware that I was no longer alone in the house. I opened my eyes just in time to see a dark figure pull back into the hall from the view of my door. I panicked and sat up. As i sat up, It felt as if I had passed through a tight film. I looked down at the pillow and saw my body lying there asleep. I realized that when I had opened my eyes and saw the entity, I had actually opened my astral body's eyes, not my real eyes.

I wanted to wake myself up, so I layed back down and started to rock back and forth, passing in and out of my body throught that thick, tight film. The instant I layed back down, I was struck with fear and panicked again when the entity came back into the room.  I sat up again, noticing that when I separated from my body, the fear vanished and I felt completely at peace and in control, then the entity would retreated back into the hall. I layed back down again and tried to shake myself awake, This process repeated itself 3 or 4 times until the entity got so close I jumped right up out of the bed and my body.

I expanded to about 3 times my normal size, same shape.  My view was from closer to the cieling, my arms and legs were longer, hands larger, over all, bigger. My vision was a sight so perfect, It cannot be described, I could hear the steps of insects, and the sound of the breeze on individual blades of grass.

I followed the entity down the hall, while saying things like, I am of the light, If you are not, you must leave, there is no darkness here, there is no negativity here, we have no drains for positive energy, light and love to leak out, You can choose to be of the light or you must not be here. My voice did not generate from my throat and come out of my mouth, It came forth from all around me, as far as infinity can reach and manifested through me.

I followed the entity around the living room and we ended up at the front door. I actually unlocked and opened the door. The knob felt small in my huge hand. As I openned the door, the entity passed through and I closed the door behind it.

I stood there and contemplated the fact that I had just opened a door without my body.  Then, I remembered my body.

I went back into the room and stood beside the bed. I looked down at this little defensless creature and thought "what an incredible machine" What a gift...then I thought, no, the gift is the life I live in that little biological computer.  Then I thought, no..

THE GIFT IS HAVING HAD THE CHOICE

The choice to choose this life, the free will to BE. anything anywhere anytime!!!!

I thought about all the options I could choose at that moment, to be someone else, something else, somewhere else, to create something altogether new and go there and experience it in anyway I chose!

I thought about the pain I would cause when my family discovered I had died in my sleep at 28. I thought about the family I had always wanted and had not had yet, I thought about that one spaecial person I would find someday to have all of that with...

I chose again. I chose to finish what I had started. i knew there was infinite time to choose again later, when I was done here.

I chose to remember everything about that experience, as it changed me forever. I chose to know the instant I laid eyes on my soul mate that I would Know it was him. I chose to live the ultimate life I came here to have, with every breath, Live.

As I sat on the bed and started to lay back down, I thought about how uncomfortable it was to be crammed into such a small place, but I knew I would not be aware of that when it happened.

I layed down, passed throught the film and I was completely awake and aware in real time.

* there was no differentiation whatsoever from my obe sight to my physical body's sight. no blink, no instant between one and the other. they were one and the same, there was no interuption of sight at all.

[sstonevenuss]

I had just read here recently about other people's "tricks" to getting OBEs. So just last night i was thinking about it before i went to bed, wondering if dinner would keep me grounded, and it would happen in the morning, like it usually does.

so this morning, i was dreaming (i always know when it's a dream, always.) i came to a door that i could not open. i was very aware of the feel of the carpet and pressure under my feet.(this seemed important)then i remembered what i had read here about realizing you are in a dream and wanting to go further and have an OBE. zoom! I was up in the stars!

then i remembered the post about the gal that went to "help" someone and thought that would be a good thing to do, and thought to ask for a guide, then i remembered about the porthole and grids and graphics people see...poof the stars became a digital white and black squares pattern (not a checker board) a digital pattern. then the white squares moved into a multi-armed spiral formation.



i flowed it into the center and it became a white tree, branches, trunk, roots into the ground...all white, no leaves, same black background. I have travelled down tree roots before,(real ones) so looked for a gap in the ground next to a root, found one, then backed out and felt pressure on the bottom of my feet.

I realized i was lying on my bed, the pressure on my feet again, and i could hear the air conditioner, and feel the pillow beside me in my hand. i did not want to wake up so i thought of my husband, who is away for 2 weeks, and I found myself in a military area, I saw my husband put up an antenna, he gave me a vaccuum out of a little blue car, gave me a young leutenant to assist me and off we went to suck up a "neg" into the vaccuum. ...found neg, assistant failed to plug in vaccuum in time, chase neg... assistant freezes up and i am back in dreamland...feeling the pillow and pressure on the feet(feet pressure is something i'm sure i only noticed after reading about it on the posts) i have never noticed it so much before.  and i know i am back in my bed...and awake.
 
i think it very cool that, even though i have not had an experience in MONTHS, i was able to conciously incorporate the things I've learned here, at will.

the point of all of this...what few posts i have made, and read, i am still learning new things, and this experience proved, again, that i believe what i have seen, and the advice i have given is based only on my own experiences...and in believing in the infinate possibilities opens the door to experiencing them...so which comes first? seeing or believing? they are sooooo close! 

no sooner do i think or say something, and it happens...always. A.

[sstonevenuss]

my first obe's were spontaneous...but there was a backwards spinning sensation that started in my head, and if i didn't fight it, pop, i was out.  also, a sound, like waves of vibration passing over and around my head. I could actually feel the sound and vibrations as a rolling pressure as it passed my ears and head in the same path as the spinning. from front to back. almost like passing through tunnels just big enough for my head to fit through. vwoosh, vwoosh, vwoosh...

so, when i would have these sensations, i would not try to think...about what why etc...just go with it.

a lot of people talk about fear stopping them. i find that the fear is only attached to the ego. to your human body that want to protect itself from losing you. it is a built in alarm to stop these things from happening naturally. the fear stays with your body, so when you go out, it stops immediatedly. you may be confused and concerned at first, but you will get over that very quickly, because if your first thought, once out, is to be back in, guess what, you will be. so all that work for nothing. good luck, A.

[sstonevenuss]

my BIG OBE: i normally expand to a larger form of my human body to begin with. it is not visible, even to myself, but i can "see" my hands and legs etc. It is more of an awareness of them that a physical sight. then, when i choose to become something, take another form, etc. i shift to what ever i chose and appear to be real and phisical in that form. but, the actual astral body in it's original form, just out of body, for me, is a clear, larger virsion of a human shape...or perhaps, that is the "form" it just was, so i see myself as that before i change...

another interesting experience, in a hotel room in vegas, 24 hours after the second sacred ceremony, (not sure if that had anything to do with it) but i was sitting on the bed, reading...had a thought about astral projection and in the same instant, i was engulfed in clouds and swirls of colors, lights, music...it was all very beautiful, was that my real astral body? I could still see the room through the lights and colors,it lasted about 3 minutes. then, it all stopped as it had started, it seamed to generate from and return within me. A.

[sstonevenuss]

this did happen to me a couple of different ways, first, the time loss thing, freaked me out, i could not believe i did it, so dangerous! second, i actually expanded right out of my body while i was driving and i had my mom and her boss in the car with me. I was going south on the I-5 in san diego, california. I got the backwards head spin and pop i was looking from above the roof of the car. no kidding, i was still in the same spot, the driver's seat, but was out of my body completely, and expanded to 3 times my human size. I always expand when i'm out. so there i was driving down the 5 with people in the car and i was looking at the freeway in front of me from over the roof of the car. I asked if anyone thought there was something strange going on, they said no, why? I said, because i am above the car. they told me i had better pull over, that i had been driving too long and should definately pull over right now.
  i realized this was dangerous, and i could not see the inside of the car unless i really strained, then i think i was just remembering where things were, not really seeing the interior. I got a little scared that i did this while driving and wanted to be back in, and pop, i was.   i pulled over and let my mom drive. A.

[sstonevenuss]

the first time i was 14 or 15 years old. It was spontanious. I had stayed home from school, i had no energy, thought i was sick, heard the phone ring, got up and headed down the hall. very suddenly, i got very dizzy and turned around to go back to bed, just made it in time to fall backwards on the bed and (major spinning) POP i was up in the corner if the cieling looking down at myself on the bed. my first thought was to be back in my body and i was wide awake and back in my body.
 this happened a number of times, les and less with the lethargic warning.

 the last one was ultimately the culmination of my life's experience in these things.  about 5 years ago. at a friend's house in vancouver after snow baording for 2 weeks. (very meditative) I was alone in the house, sleeping in the am about 7ish. suddenly aware of a presence.

it entered the room and i "saw" it with my astral body's eyes. (my body was still asleep). as soon as i opened my "eyes" it backed out of the room. I was trying to sit up to defend myself, but i could not move. i could only rock back and forth on my side. I could feel my astral body pulling in and out of my body as i rocked. like going through a thick film, clingy, tight. It came in again,

I have to go for an hour or two, but i will be right back to finnish this...anyone checking in, you'll want to read the rest of this, I know it's my experience, and it means the deapths of creation to me, but it's a great one!!!!!

[sstonevenuss]

I've never shared this one until now...
I OBE'ed and was standing in front of the dresser looking in the mirror. i could not see my astral body reflected in the mirror, but did see my physical body lying on the bed. i turned and went to the bed and sat down beside myself. I wondered what it would be like to give myself a kiss, so i bent down and kissed my physical body on the lips with my astral body's lips. It felt very much like a real kiss. it was amazing. It was sweet.

[Pindusa]

I'm not sure how to post things on a web site, so here it goes.  I believe this is an OBE I had as a 6 or 7 year old child.  It also involved my Grandmother OBE.

TWO PERSON OBE

I got up one night, seeing my grandmother at the door to my room holding a glass of orange juice and calling me to her it.  It was the middle of the night so I thought it was a little unusual, even though she took care of us during the day while my mother and father were at work.

I got out of bed and, on my way to where my grandmother awaited me at the bedroom door, walked past the beds of my older and younger brothers whom I saw fast asleep on their respective beds.  I was barefoot so I could feel the coldness of the polished granite floor on my bare feet.  I slowly walked to my grandmother and took the glass of orange juice from her.  I could see the rich orange color of the juice and the condensation on the glass.  I drank the juice and could taste its cold sweetness and feel the pieces of pulp which my grandmother liked to leave in the juice.  (It was the best tasting orange juice I can remember!)  I handed her back the glass and turned around to walk back to bed when I noticed there was someone on my bed.  I slowly walked back to my bed to see who it was.  I was not really scared, just puzzled.  When I got right next to my bed I saw myself, asleep on the bed, with my face turned away from me.  I could see that my eyes were closed and that I was asleep, with my short brown hair tumbling over my cheek.  I go to touch me and suddenly I find myself back in bed, my mind wide awake, but my body paralized, unable to open my eyes, and then I drifted back in to sleep.

The next morning I asked my mother if my grandmother had come over the night but she didn't know what I was talking about.  I asked my grandmother but she dismissed my question and I never got an answer.  I had never heard about OBE's and that was not anything that was publicized at the time.  I really had no idea what it was.  There were none of the usual distortions of dreams.  Everything was in its place and looked exactly as it did during the day only now it was night.  The unusual thing was that there must have been some kind of light, as I could see in the dark and it seems my grandmother was lit from above, as if by a small unseen spotlight.

What was this, reallY?

Were we both out of body?

[astral traveler]

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)

Levitational Guidance of my Energy Body from Astral Entities:

One time at the age of 15 (roughly in the year of 1983), when my energy body was already spontaneously separated from my physical body, I astrally awakened to find myself levitating above my bed, aimlessly out of control, much like an astronaut floating around in space or in a simulated NASA weightlessness environment might feel.  The astral planes seem to have different gravity environments as otherwise compared to our material plane in this context.

Suddenly, a series of gentle hands from perhaps a half dozen invisible entities steadied my torso and limbs.  They were guiding me how to levitationally balance with purposeful direction, instead of simply allowing me to float wildly out of control.  I didn't feel threatened by this outside intervention, but instead felt like I literally had guiding hands made available to me.  I reasoned that if outside entities were willing to lend assistance in my astral endeavors, then the experiences must have some inherent value that I was not fully aware of.  I became pleasantly excited that my pursuit of astral consciousness was progressing in a greater universal context.

- Vince B.
Chicago, Illinois

[KarmicTruthSeeker]

My most memorable obe was my first. And the one that got me interested in astral projection! It was about four years ago at the age of 20 and i didnt know what obe was! I had at this time been into other occult activeties, ouija boards etc.. (This was also when I was smoking pot) anyway; it had been about a week since I had smoked. I went to bed. I felt relaxed and felt heavy, this was not unusual! the next thing that happened was i felt a pulsating energy surge throughout my entire body! i started to experience propertion changes and felt "high" even though i was not. these were all new sensations, but not threatening. Then i started to feel a spin, it was a light spin at first and then all at the same time, without warning the energy and spinning increased 1000xtimes then it happend! I flung out of my body like a projectile out of a slingshot, right out the window of my room, and then down toward the cold pavement. I did not know i was out of body, I thought I had a seizure and just jumped out the window. the second before i was about to hit the ground i had enough time to think this exact thought "ohh **** I just killed myself " then i felt like i was flying. Went back through my window and was thrown back into myself with about the same speed I was thrown out with! my body jerked wildly and i felt an electrocution, like the feeling of a static shock, only 100xtimes more intense. I sat up breathing heavily, shaking, and sweating! I was completely freaked out by this experience and was afraid to go to bed for some time after that! then i realised i wasn't dead. read up on near death experiences; which lead me to learning what spontaneous astral projection is! I concluded thats what it was. And ive been hooked on the idea of AP. ever since. this was my most memorable obe, also my first, and most frightening! it only lasted about 8 seconds, but in chaos thats a long time! i still don't know why it happend, but since then i have been trying to obe, and have made partial separation!  floating about an inch above my body, for a second or two, then back in!   

[oOpixiestephOo]

I hadnt had an OOBE for a long while, i used to get them spontaniously when i was laying in bed at about the age of 6 and then later when i was 16 i decided to try inducing an OOBE and it took so long to make it happen. Then one evening after i had been laying motionless for about 5 hours straight my whole body numb and weightless i decided it was time to catch some sleep. It was strange because it was so unexpected but just as i was about to drift off, i suddenly became alert. My heart started to beat insanely with an adrenaline rush and and my astral eyes opened wide. My eyelids in reality were shut, which was new to me because when i was little i was always awake with my eyes open when it happened. I started to exit my body but it was strange because instead of rising up towards the ceiling, i started to feel as if the bed was moving forward at an insane speed and i felt like i was gonna go flying off the back of it! i grabbed at the covers and unfortunately i was so excited that i was finally experienceing it again that my body jerked itself back to reality. As i opened my eyes i was laying there just as i had been before when i was drifting off to sleep. Iwas laying on my front with a pocket of herbs clutched in one hand and my head laying on the other. I was completlely aware of everything when it started to happen,and i wasnt atall sleepy despite having meditated for 5 hours before hand in a dark room! all of my OOBE's have been not very 'real' in the way that i dont see things like some people see and they swear they where happening in real life at the time and i can only think of one that was like that but i was so young i wouldnt like to count on me remembering it right. I have also been floating around and hallucinating things in my room at the same time that i know definately werent real cos flowers dont grow out of carpets! (and no i dont take acid or any other drug!) if anyone knows anything about hallucinations or have experienced unrealistic things like this please let me know! x x x pixie steph x x x

[iNNERvOYAGER]

One of best flying experiences was over a coastal town.

It started from inside a house, then passing through a wall to the outside where I explored a neighborhood flying just above the roof tops.

Then progressed to a higher altitude where I could see a long stretch of coast line. Along the coast and extending from the shoreline was a water texture that I made a mental note of being unusual and interesting. The fun part was seeing how fast I could go.

Recently I've been getting photos from a camera mounted to a kite surfing wing.

Now I'm seeing the exact white foam textures that I saw in the flying experience last year. Here's one of the recent pics.
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[blackcat]

When I was about 6 years old, I was visiting a family friend in the country and was sleeping on the couch in the living room late one night when I felt the couch begin to move.  It was slowly scooting around the room in little jerks.  I could see my position in the room was changing.  I was scared and kept trying to close my eyes and make it go away.  Eventually it stopped and I fell asleep, but the next night, it started again.

By the second night, I decided to figure out what was going on.  The couch from my perspective was now in the middle of the room instead of against the wall.  I screwed up my courage and lept from the couch. I was afraid the couch might run me over as it moved, but it seemed to stay in place now.  I kept peeking back at it to make sure.  The room was dark and I was disoriented but by moonlight through the windows, I was able to make my way towards a wall and struggled to remember where the light switch was.  I was trembling in fear and reaching my hand tremulously towards the wall when suddenly all the lights came on!  I must have jumped a mile high with fear! 

I turned and there where a wall used to be was now a room!  The room was familar except that I knew it belonged elsewhere in the house, not there where there used to be the wall that was the edge of the house with bushes behind it.  There was no door to this room.  Instead, the space was open between my room and the out of place room, such that I could see directly in to where a woman was on a bed and reaching out after having just turned on a lamp.  The lamp was causing the light. 

The woman was one of the house residents and she was now demanding to know why I was up in the middle of the night.  In answer, I began to stammer questions about why there was a room in the middle of a wall.  She then asked me why I was spouting nonsense and told me this room had always been there.  I began to argue with her that no it was not!  She informed me that was ridiculous and I better pipe down, go eat some breakfast and get back to sleep before I got in trouble. Since this was a farming area, they often ate breakfast very early before dawn.  At this point, I was both scared and angry that she was denying the obvious fact that a room had moved into a wall, but I obeyed because I was a child.  I sat at the dinner table and she made me some eggs.  I ate them and then she sent me to sleep back on my couch which was now back along the wall and the weird room was now gone from the other wall. But I still felt extremely disoriented.  I felt I would never sleep after such an scary event, but I fell asleep almost instantly. 

In the morning, I still argued that things had been moving, but the adults said simply that I had a bad dream.  Years later, when I asked about the event, the adults told me that I had wandered into a back room and was standing in the doorway when the lady sleeping in the room turned on the lights, thus scaring her near to death.  To me, I had never left the main living room but her room had somehow moved to me.  I wonder now if it was a case of my astral body going one way and my physical self going another and then not rejoining right away, such that I was seeing from two location perspectives at once.  My brain might have just cobbled together the two varying perspectives, thus combining one part of the house with another in order to try to process them in a way I could understand.
-Eva N., Escondido, CA

[Chandresh]

Hi,
       I will appreciate if you help me find my way back to the path. Some days earlier I used to reach at some extent while Astral Trvelling, I could sense my Astral body and so many other things, I could go deeper in my sense but since last few days things has been changed. I can not concentrate and usually fall asleep while trying for Astral travel. Can you help me out such a dillemic situation.