Was this my first OBE?

[newmethod]

I've just woken from this so it's an exciting start to the day to say the least..

I was dreaming.. it was a lengthy, vivid colourful dream one NEARLY worth telling.. eventually it progresses and I notice the scene in the dream has changed.. It's still vivid and colourful and because it has been so vivid I wonder how I got to this scene.. Plus I'm naked and no one else is.. I'm sort of sitting/lying on the grass in this scene.. a quick question to myself suggests this is a bit weird and likely a dream! Here I become lucid.. My Mrs is sitting beside me on the grass.. I'm super excited by this point.. I pat her on the back a few times with love and excitement and shout a feeling like "Yes! OBE?"

The plan was clear.. just sit up in bed! As the scene moved from the dream to the back of my eyelids I felt quick but most pleasant quite unusual vibrations (different than i'd ever felt doing vipassana) throughout my body.. AND i simply sat up...

I could see a little in the bedroom but it didn't last long.. I then found myself in my body again and tried to sit up again... I felt the vibrations again but this experience also didn't last long.. I remember something happening on this exit but after waking I couldn't remember this exit aside from the actual exit sensations and then sitting up... I then found myself in my body (again with vibrations) but now i had difficulty sitting straight up.. I moved around a bit in an attempt to get out and at one stage had no idea of my orientation with regard to my physical body. I was completely confused...

I remembered one of the Lucidology videos and decided the way I was facing was possibly the same as my physical body so I decided to switch ends and hopefully have my astral feet up the end of my physical bodies head (Phew !).. Anyway this felt more loose and I found that a bit of rolling loosened me up and I simply rolled out onto the floor.. I could feel the floor underneath me.. I then crawled as I couldn't stand and crawled to the end of the bed..

At the end of the bed I felt lighter and stood up and at the same time as I was just about to look for my physical body in bed I was so excited that I screamed my partners name with excitement saying "look i'm out"... My two children were there and came running up to me (though my youngest is only 5months and sort of floated/ran to me).. I heard them giggling and laughing and obviously happy with their Dads transition to this state.. but then I noticed my physical body wasn't asleep in bed and the sheets on my side of the bed were even pulled back I thought I was actually awake and the rolling onto the floor and everything else after that was experienced in my physical body..

At this point my attention wavered and I slipped out of consciousness... A very short time later I then noticed I was still lying in bed.. damn! I tricked myself! I could feel vibrations again and started to remember the experience and got so excited about remembering and writing it down that I couldn't exit again as I was becoming too awake!

Two interesting things:
1. I believe this was my first OBE as exit sensations were present and I feel like I had the same/similar consciousness in the short OBE as I do while awake although I was definitely not in the RTZ (Real Time Zone)
2. Interesting how I/we devalue the waking state enough to be happy to loose and consciously aim to loose consciousness in it at times - Thinking I was awake in physical and devaluing the awake state is why I lost consciousness in this OBE experience.

Thanks,
Dean

[Stookie]

Awesome! That sounds surreal. You obviously had the awareness needed for an OBE - you remembered good details. Thanks for sharing.

[Greytraveller]

newmethod
It certainly appears that you had a full OBE. Confusion and excitement are normal during the first projection. So don't let that throw you as you should be able to control it in future OBEs.
Interesting about your 2 children. Obviously they were not physical then so both were probably having OBEs as well.
It might be interesting to ask them both if they remember anything about that night.
Regards 
Grey