OBE OR DREAM OF OBE

[Neoinferno]

Ok I am 23 I have been trying to have an OBE for the past 7 years. I have not tried in four years. Last night I think I had my first OBE. This is what happened. I was in a dream and I figured out I was dreaming this was not very hard I got pretty good at it a few years ago. Then I ofcourse took control of the dream I guess it lasted another five minutes. Then I felt that I was back in my physical body I don't know how, but I did. I was half sleep and half awake, well actually I think I was more sleep than awake but aware. At this point I started rubbing my astral hands together and rocking from side to side. I was laying on my side when this was happening. It felt weird I felt like I was rocking but my physical body was not moving, but it felt like it was. The last rock was a big one and I rolled out and onto my floor.

I DID IT I FINALLY DID IT. Ok after rolling out I remember telling myself ok don't freak don't get too happy. Don't think of bad and evil things. When I first rolled out everything was clear but it was all in black and white and there was no sound. I turned and saw my body in the bed on my side I told myself again not to get to happy. Then everything started to fade like my eye's were half open and closing. SO I started touching my walls in my house they felt solid I could actually feel them. My site started to return again and I started walking toward the door in my bedroom while touching the wall I turned to walk out the door but my vision started to blur and narrow. Well blur and narrow is not the right word it looked like the top and bottom of my vision were blurred very badly and it felt like my eye's were half open and I could not open them any wider. At this point I wanted to see the face of my physical body so I started to walk toward my body my vision was still blurred. my physical body started to curl not alot but maybe about six inches, right as I looked at my face so I never saw the face of my physical body.Then I start back to my door again and I was snatched back into my physical body and I was awake.

Things seemed to start to fade when I was walking and not touching anything and got better if I was touching a physical object like the wall or something. It was in black and white why? I think I could see behind and infront of me but I was focused very much of the front of me, but when I reached the door to my room the first time I could see my physcial body in the bed behind me, but this did not register in the OBE. This was the only time I remembered seeing behind me. My body moved when I walked toward it, not alot but it moved, and there was no sound. Now that I just wrote it all down for the first time I think it was an OBE. What had me skeptical was that my body moved when I approached my physical body, and it was in black and white. Is all this normal for an OBE?

What I was doing before I went to bed last night I was on youtube watching OBE videos. This is where I got the whole rub your astral hands together and rock before I was just trying to rock, but then doing them both at the same time was so much more powerful.  The videos also said when your vision started to blur start touching things and your vision would return and it did. So what do you guys think.

PS: The whole thing lasted about 15 seconds.

[blis]

Nothing in your account makes me doubt it was an obe. Becoming aware of your body from a dream is a way way to convert a dream to an obe.

The black and white thing sounds familiar although I cant remember where I read about it before. Your sight can be funny when you're near your real body.

Dont worry about your body appearing to move when you looked at it. Reality isnt that stable when out of body, weird things can happen.

Robert bruce spoke of being able to see in every direction at once. I think he called it spherical sight. Personally I've only experienced infront and behind like you. The first significant AP I had I thought there was a pane of glass infront of me all the time. I could see the reflection of what was behind me while looking through it at what was infront of me.

Congrats!

[Neoinferno]

How do I make it last longer?

[Pauli2]

How do I make it last longer?

There are some techniques. Request things like: "Clarity! I request clarity now! I request energy now! I request awareness now!"

Some say that moving around and touching items, furniture, looking at your hands, will prolong it.

[Xanth]

How do I make it last longer?

What Pauli said seems to work for some people...
However, in the end, it comes down to "practice practice practice". 

Congrats!