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Hi all, I do not know whether this is relevant to this board, but it was the closest I could find. I am just really asking whether anybody else has the same experiences as I do, and does someone have an explanation.
I do not classify myself as a particularly spiritual person, I am more science oriented, but I am a human being and am therefore part of the cultural wallpaper, so experiences are all to often duplicated.
The feelings that find me on occasion I can only describe as strangely euphoric and yet so subtle as to be invisible. They are very hard to relate because when they occur it is like a tiny bell chiming only once and I am left with only a faint echo of its' initial sound, so to articulate the experience with any accuracy is near impossible. The emotions I am left with, even though they are ghost, are absolutely wonderful and delicate, but their fragility denies me any further investigation, as soon as I begin to think about them they evaporate. I cannot grasp or duplicate them because it would seem they are out of my control, which is a pity because they are so brilliant.
It's like having your eyes wide open and awake, like being a child again, all of my preconceptions fall away, and I am left with an excitable feeling in my stomach. I think I remember the same feelings from my childhood; an total abandon to the immediate situation. It's funny because this only occurs during the day, never at night, and normally when it's nice and bright outside.
So what could this all mean, mid-life crisis, a latent memory, the child in me calling out to wake up, I do not know...does/has anybody else had the same feelings, or is the alzheimer's finally kicking in?
Marcus

I don't know if this is a discussion/question for the OBE, but here goes- You all know of the 'Dream Machine' as developed by Brion Gysin and used by such luminaries as Bill Burroughs? Well I have been on the sites with the plans to make your own, i've downloaded them; but I seem to remember at a festival I went to there were these guys selling a great product that functioned on the same principle, whereby one held a kind of mask over ones face, and blew into a tube, point it into the sun, with your eyes closed. This caused a disk to spin, and the geometric patterns to form on the eyelids.
I have been searching for one of these for years, because I did'nt have enough money to buy one at the time, and I have never, ever, seen anything like it again [] It was great cos' you could carry it anywhere with you, a portable dream machine!
Anyways, I was wondering if there was any of you lot out there, who knows where I could find the genius who made this machine?
It would make me vvvv.happy [] I would make it my Christmas present to myself.
Cheers guys, Marcus.

Hiya guys, great site to come across on my travels. I have not read a great deal about OBE' but am very excited about the similarities to my experiences I have found on this site.
I have been having OBE type events on and off throughout my whole life, the main bulk being when I was younger and consuming vast quantities of xtc. I still have them now but they have become less frequent. My experiences consist of an unbearably intense ringing in my ears accompanied by a paralysing electrical shock that feels as though it would make my teeth explode. I realise what is going on, and sometimes bate the feeling into greater heights, I am not fully conscious or aware because I do not have complete control of the fear of maybe going to far, where to I do not know. I have managed to move and become aware of my surroundings a couple of times, but the feelings of the electricity, and paralysis do not abate, it's like moving through treacle, even turning ones head requires intense concentration. Normally what happens is the feelings overwhelm me, and fear makes me struggle to move and become conscious.
I remember as a child going through a series of hellish nightmares with the same feelings, but being unable to articulate them. I had images of being unable to stay on the ground, I used to end up in space with the feeling of my whole body being infinitely vast, the feeling was unbearable.
I have always attributed these events to nocturnal epilepsy- does anyone think that this is what it could be, or maybe epilepsy is a form of OBE, (*which I feel is quite possible because they happend more frequently while I was taking Class A drugs). I have never had a fit during the day so I have not felt the need to see a doctor about this.
I think that is everything, cheers guys, great site!
Marcus.[]

Hi guys, it's a device that promotes creativity, using a light bulb, a cardboard tube with holes cut into it, and a record deck that can play at 78rpm. Basically it produces a stroboscopic effect that when 'played' onto the closed eye gives beautiful, golden, everchanging kalaidescopic patterns, that eventually form into whatever your mind chooses to create, rather like taking acid, but without the paranoia. In that respect you eventually 'see' what you need to see, depending what questions you are asking yourself, it's quite amazing!
There are plenty of links out there, here are a couple-
http://www.txt.de/spress/author/gysin/dream/english.htm
http://novatrilogy.tripod.com/dreamachine.htm
http://www.brainwashed.com/h3o/dreamachine/dreamachine.html

Nothing like the 'Nova', although I am intrigued by this machine, I've had one lucid dream in my life, but as soon as I realised, I woke up. Does this machine work, it's bloody expensive! [:O]
Cheers guys, Marcus.

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm297607.html
http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/obe.htm

Here are a couple of interesting articles on the epileptic connection.'Inner-worlds', I think the one you looked at Alt0', illustrates what I am getting at, in that I am not saying that epilepsy is a prerequisite for an OBE, but that it could be a contributing factor in producing one in certain individuals. I was wrong to say in my first post that epilepsy was a 'form' of OBE, it's not what I really meant, sorry, do you agree?

Hiya Tish, I'm new to all this OBE, do you have control over your OBE', cos' I do not. They happen when I am extremely tired/jet-lagged or flu-sick, their intensity always eventually overwhelms me and I struggle to wake up.

Yeah Beavis, that is exactly what I felt, being able to zoom into and away from in no time atall. I have never had that sensation since, but I remember being extremely frightend, and waking up in a sweat!

Cheers guys, Marcus.

Hiya Alto', there are lots of articles written about epilepsy and OBE having a connection, just type both into your search engine. I associate the symptoms with epilepsy because they are very similar, breathing, paralysis etc.