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Thank you all for the advice, first I'd like to apologize for the delay of my reply due to me not being able to access the website at times.

Now, I made another attempt and I must say that it went quite well, the rocking symptom arose and I had a feeling that I was nearly "there" so to speak, but then I suddenly snapped out of my thoughts and all the feelings slowly faded away, as to where I became so unfocused and unrelaxed due to the blankets smothering me and getting me extremely warm, oh well, I thank you all once again, you all have been of great help.

Quote) I get a little jealous of the uninitiated sometimes, believe it or not. That's because your first intended OOBE is usually a positive life changing event and that feeling and realization doesn't happen every day. It probably feels like winning the lottery only the odds of winning this game are in your favor. Knowing this, could you imagine yourself ever giving up? (Unquote

You make a good point, but I guess that's up to the person what he wishes to achieve in his life, I just see this as a great opportunity to explore ourselves, hopefully a revelation of sorts, not many people get the chance or method offered to them. I for one have been raised of Christian belief for the majority of my life but have converted myself to be of Agnostic belief, nowadays I just choose to explore and expirience things myself, such as this!

Thank you for the heartwarming welcome its_all_bad!

I thank you once again for the advice, it is really helpful to know that I am on the right track! A couple of things I forgot to add though, one of them is that when I attempt to "go with the flow" the symptoms seem to slowly fade away, the second is if I should attempt this more than once a day, since I don't wish to exhaust myself from practicing it.

I shall take a look at your recommendations, thanks, any further advice from anybody is completely welcome!

Greetings and welcome to my thread,

Recently for the past couple of days I have seriously attempted to OBE or Astral Project, I vaguely have an idea what the difference is and have been busy delving into the arts (?) of leaving the physical body with your conciousness. I started reading up on Rober Monroe's expiriences and techniques and have applied them to myself, so far they have been interesting and effective to an extent. I have been listening to an audio which lasts about an hour from this website I will include below, and I will list some of the symptoms I have in order for you to judge whether I am heading down the right path!

Audio : http://mp3skull.com/mp3/hemi_sync_journeys_out_body.html
Exercise: Hemi-Sync - Journeys Out Of The Body - Reinforcement Exercise Of Relaxation mp3

My first step is to dim the lights in my room to where I barely see any light through my closed eyelids, then I lay down on my bed with my headphones on cover myself in thick blankets in order to keep myself warm, from there I play the audio and follow the instructions. There are two questions I have that are tied in with this, is it perhaps a better idea for me to shut off the computer so that I don't hear the buzzing in the background resulting in complete silence? Which will result in the audio not being able to be played, and I'm unsure whether I should cover myself in blankets because it somewhat gives me a warm and safe feeling, but at the same time restraining to an extent.

Now onto the symptoms, the past few nights I have had "rocking" symptoms, it feels as if I'm rocking back and forth heavily, this feeling usually runs through my legs and arms. The first time I attempted this I got an intense feeling of fear and my body was borderline beginning to sweat from it, I kept myself calm and let happy thoughts get into my mind which somewhat neutralized the situation. Another symptom I had is my body slowly shifting to the right, I knew that my physical body was unmoving but it felt as if it was trying to leave my physical body in a way.

A couple of times I let myself get overrun by thoughts and dozed off into sleep for a short period of time, but then I "snapped" out of it and awoke so to speak, awoke in the sense that I was still laying there with eyes closed and the same goal in mind. A question is tied in with this one too, what do I need to focus on, or what do I have to think of? Do I just "go with the flow" so to speak and let myself get taken by thoughts popping into my mind? Should I come up with thoughts in order for them to carry me away?

I look forward to your replies, thank you in advance!