scientific research poll 1: How long to NPR

[Gilles]

Ok, please be honest.

[soarin12]

You should have a 'spontaneous' category.  I was just lying on the couch fully awake and not really thinking about anything when I spontaneously levitated above my body and realized I could fly anywhere I wanted -which I did.  I had never heard of AP before.  I had heard of OBE but thought it was only something that happened only at near death.  My experience was a complete surprise.

[no_leaf_clover]

I'm guessing lucid dreaming counts here.  When I started keeping a dream journal, I had one night where I didn't remember any dreams.  After that I started remembering more and more every night until I finally had a lucid dream  within a month or so.  I tried throwing an object into the horizon but it only went as far as it would in real life.  That's when I realized... woah, my subconscious really does have a lot of influence on me.   

[Szaxx]

Concious exits remembered before any dreams etc. I knew how to get out and to me it was what everyone did. How wrong was that assumption?

[Aaron330]

not sure how to answer this. Because the first time I literally EVER tried to astral project, I actually had a pretty successful projection. It wasn't a fully conscious OBE but I had 4-5 rounds of loud astral noise and it looked like I was going through a tunnel. The 5th or 6th time I was finally able to "sit up" out of my body and was in 3D blackness for a few seconds. I was too freaked out/excited at this point and it ended.

So that was kind of an anomaly. After that it took me about 6 weeks of practicing to have my first real OBE. What should I answer?