Interesting first almost OBE with phasing...I think

[Lamb]

I am new here, but I felt like sharing what I think was my first close experience with an OBE. I have been working on it fairly diligently, i'd say 1-2 times everyday for 2.5 months with what seemed like no progress. I never really get the "vibrations" people talk about. I get a mild tingling feeling fairly easily and I have learned to sort of pulse that through my body from my head to toes - but it still doesn't seem like those are the "vibrations" everyone talks about. Either way, I finally had a fairly close OBE - but it was not through the techniques I usually work at to achieve one. After reading a lot of posts on here I finally figured out it would be called "phasing".

It was in the morning, I had woken up and figured I would make my 1st attempt for the day since I hear it's a great time to do it. I just laid there in bed and let myself sort of fall back to sleep while keeping my mind aware as possible. Fairly quickly I saw a flash of a squiggly orange ball in my minds eye - it was very vivid. So I was like "oh, how interesting". Because of that I stayed even more aware because I was excited to see if more things like that would pop up.
I continued watching the blackness and saw some floaty colors for a while. I didn't realize it but I had lost most of my connection with my body at this point because I was so involved in watching for things in my minds eye...which I just discovered from reading about phasing that this would be called the "noticing technique".
A short time past and suddenly the floaty colors very distinctly turned into faces. And then the faces sort of zoomed into their eyes and I sort of went through their eyes -- if that makes sense.
This happened for a what I would guess was maybe a minute or two. The interesting thing was the faces were very much not human. I have a hard time describing them, they had bigger eyes and just alien looking faces, and I just kept seeing them. I remember laying there thinking "hmmm..that is interesting. I wonder who these guys are, they look kind of scary. Should I be scared of this?" but I wasn't scared and just went with it. Eventually the faces and eyes stopped and suddenly sort of out of nowhere their was a flock of birds. The most vivid flock of birds EVER. They were flying right in front of me and it was to say the least, fascinating. I would be hard pressed to say the were not "real". They certainly looked like they were literally right in front of me.
At this point I realized what was happening, or at least that something important was happening. I decided to check in with my body because I had become so completely unaware of it. I wanted to see if anything was going on with me physically that matched what other people said happen before an OBE (vibrations, etc).
When I checked in I immediately felt some pressure on my 3rd eye, which I had read happens sometimes. Then I checked in with my hearing (I really had to focus and check in with it because for some reason I was totally unaware of it) because people say they hear things and in all of my attempts over the months I have never had any sort of auditory disturbances or heard anything (which contributed to feeling like I was making no progress). Almost everytime I attempt an OBE I hear ringing in my ears, fairly intensely. I can hear frequency changes too. It gets a little louder sometimes, or sometimes a little quieter. But beyond that nothing more auditorily happens with me. But when I checked in this time, volia - I did hear something! It was like a muffled popping or bubbling in my ears. It wasn't scary, quite pleasant actually. But I was like "Yes!! Something REALLY is happening this time!" I do remember thinking it was strange how the bubbling/soft popping was occurring the whole time but I didn't actually hear it until I tried focus in on it. As soon as I changed my focus I lost touch with it again.
So after having these sort of physical validations that an OBE was in progress, I went straight back to focusing in my mind - back to the birds. They were still flying around and I had this feeling I was supposed to follow them with my eyes. So I did, and they suddenly flew upwards (towards where my third eye would be located I remember noticing) and I could feel a sort of sucking up feeling, don't know how else to describe it....aaaanddd then I half-panicked, lol. I had the thought "okay - this is really happening now, you can do this don't be scared!" and as soon as I thought that it all faded and I was very clearly back in my body...er, still in my body.

So just thought I would share. I haven't been able to achieve anything since, and that was 8 days ago. But only last night did I come across info about phasing (thanks to Xanth) and feel like it is something I sort of  am more naturally inclined to do. I am going to stop my attempts at climbing that rope obsessively and just follow what I always want to do - which is just to notice. I tend to get to focus 12 pretty quickly in my attempts, and then shortly after jump to focus 21 without much fuss, but usually stop "noticing" in my mind at that point because I am trying to get out of my body and I start doing something like the rope technique. Phasing seems like it worked for me once, so i'm going to keep at and see what happens..

[Lionheart]

 Phasing works for me quite well too. I found it takes too much focus on the physical to "climb out of the body", I just like to close my eyes and be there. With a lot of practice it will become second nature to you. This could be good or bad though, because you will find that when you go to lay down or anytime you just want to rest your eyes, that visions will Phase instantly. Now when I close my eyes to go to sleep I Phase for about the first 45 minutes before I actually get to sleep. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much when you are extremely tired and can't turn it off. That is why I try to warn people here that once you start this, there is no turning back, well that's if you are really committed to it. Phasing in the shower is one of my favorites though, just closing my eyes and being surrounded by the circle of waterfalls is an incredible feeling. 

[Lamb]

Interesting, so it starts happening all the time then? I started to wonder about this myself actually. Good to know.

[openmind]

Hi Lamb interesting post. when i phase i get the exact same thing with faces that you were describing. The funny thing is i didnt know what phasing was i just assumed it was normal and never took any notice of it.... i never used phasing as a method to project either. One of the biggest things that  will stop you from experiencing an OBE is fear, fear of the unknown. Keep up the good work and you will get one soon with practice!

[Lamb]

Yes, I agree that fear is the biggest inhibitor. I was becoming frustrated with my lack of progress so one day during meditation I asked for a reason, or some guidance about why I wasn't getting anywhere. Nothing happened during the meditation but that night I had quite the dream.
I was sitting in a room on a bed (I always practice in my bed) somewhere with the door closed. I was scared. I knew something was coming up the stairs to get me. I sat there frightened as I could sense it coming closer, and realized it was coming to posess me. It busted through the door, it was just sort of a vague hazy energy, and went straight for me. It took over my body and I was vibrating like crazy in the dream from it "posessing me". Then in the dream I became aware and realized that the vibrating wasn't anything possessing me, it was an OBE about to happen. Then I woke up and the vibrations faded. But it became clear to me that I was blocking it from happening (the door being closed in the dream) because of my fear of the unknown and the fear of how it would effect me. I also realized I could have some unadressed fears of possession happening when I'm out of the body, but it might not have been that literal.
Either way it became clear that the dream was telling me that fear is the key issue for me. So I am now I am working on adressing the fears and accepting them and trying more.

[Chaos Mage]

When you are in that state, and you search for the True Creator of the Cosmos, you can, actually, take too much.
After that, you can't phantasy, you can barely dream, all you can really due is Shine and Try To Worship.
God will kill you, that's true.
One day, you got to do this.
Then you see, God won't let you die.
He's always gonna protect you.
And you can Shine and Sing.
Then you see, there isn't anything wrong with reality.
God made you to stand within His Glory.
And Life Is Healed, it becomes Cosmic Existence.
Then you live your life, and it's all bright, and all right.
And you are given power, and truth, that you can do justice.
You will always Honor Love.

[Contenteo]

Nice Poem Chaos.

Lamb - You sound like you were right on with the visualization and got some phasing basics down. Good job. And the floating with a "being vacuumed out feeling", sound definitely like it was was you starting to initiate the F15 corridor (AKA opening your crown Chakra) Now, tell me was everything light soft and white all around you when you felt the "whoosh." Or was it that deep black with all sorts of etheric colors?

Cheers,
Contenteo