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Dear New Friend,

Thank you for your response.  I am very interested in speaking to anyone with experience in this area.  As I previously mentioned, I have not been able to share what has happened to me with my friends or relatives for fear of what they would think.  I can't say I would blame them, a year ago I would have thought something like this was impossible and the delusions of at worst a disturbed mind or at best a very interesting dream.  After having had these experiences repeatedly myself I know they are real but it's like anything else in life I guess -- seeing (or in this case feeling) is believing.

The first few times I endured this experience without knowing what it was were really scary.  After I was told what it was and read some books on the subject I was less frightened.  It was a relief to know there was some explanation as odd as it seemed.  I read many books but never tried any of the exercises since the OBE's were happening by themselves.  I didn't need to try to make them happen.  Since this keeps happening on it's own accord, I'm starting to feel like I would like to have some control over it, at least on a conscious level.

As to your questions:

Do you remember your dreams or keep a dream journal?

I have always been able to remember my dreams, sometimes more than others, probably just like most everyone else.  I have not kept a dream journal ever.  I have been keeping track of all my OBE experiences. 

Do you have any interest in expanding your concept of reality, of exploring more of what the Universe and reality have to offer?

I certainly do now.  I really doubted these types of things were probable but now I know they are.  It makes me wonder what else I am missing in life and what is really all around us.  My belief system has been turned around and I would like some answers.

Do you have any interest in healing other people or of contacting deceased relatives?

I would love to heal or help other people in any way possible.  Contacting deceased relatives sounds a little scary.  I'm not really sure what that is all about.

Thank you very much for listening and offering your insights and advice.  I do have one more question for you, every time I feel myself leave my body -- after all the vibrations   and such -- I find myself only in my bedroom but everything looks completely different, like someone has moved it around while I slept.  I can't seem to go anywhere else.  Several times, I have gone over to my dogs beds and they seem to notice me but don't interact with me or bark.  Any idea why?

Thank you again, and please feel free to share anything else you might think of.

Regards,
Leslie

Thank you!

Hello All,

My name is Leslie.  I began to have spontaneous OBE's about six month's ago; however, I did not know what they were at that time.  I suppose I had heard of this phenomena before from television and other types of media but it was not of interest to me so I never paid much attention.  I mostly associated OBE experiences with people who claimed to have died and were returned to their bodies.  Two years ago, I had a spinal stimulator installed in my lower back to relieve pain associated with a nerve injury.  I did not find it to be beneficial so last fall I started to look into alternative treatments for pain management.  I started to meditate during the day using techniques I learned from some books I purchased at a local bookstore.  Shortly thereafter, in the evenings when I was starting to drift off to sleep I felt as if my legs were levitating.  The sensation was like nothing I had ever felt before and it was unnerving.  I found myself changing positions to make it stop.  This pattern repeated several times until one night I awoke suddenly when an enormous jolt of electricity passed through my entire body.  I clearly heard three loud knocks in my bedroom and some type of classical music playing.  My heart was racing and I was scared to death.  I was sure there was someone else with me in the room but when I sat up and looked around everything was normal.  My husband was sleeping next to me, and my dogs were asleep at the foot of the bed.  I mentioned this experience to someone I knew who also meditates and she told me that you can open yourself up to spirits if you don't protect yourself when you meditate.  I had never heard anything about this before and decided to stop the entire meditation process.  I was not into spirits, ghosts, or that type of thing but given what had happened I didn't know what to think.  Nothing else happened after I stopped meditating.

About three months later, I was talking to a woman about the experience and she told me this had nothing to do with ghosts or spirits but was an OBE.  I looked up as much information on the subject as I could and as soon as I started reading about the topic the experiences started happening again.  I am unsure of how to proceed or if I even want to.  I am an ordinary housewife with two teenage children.  I have no friends who are interested in the subject and would most certainly call my sanity into question if I told them anything about this.  However, I have to say that these experiences have honestly changed the way I view the entire world and have thrown my belief system completely off balance.  I have no idea why this has happened to me.  I have never had any physic abilities, known anyone with any, or wanted any.  I just turned 40 years old and can think of no reason why this would be happening to me at this point in my life.  However, I do wonder if my spinal stimulator has anything to do with this.  It is a permanent implant in my lower back that sends electrical signals to my body.  Has anyone ever heard of this being a possible trigger for a spontaneous OBE?  The timing seems somewhat suspect to me.  I could find no references to this in any of the literature I have read, and there is no possible way I would ever bring this up to my doctor.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post, and any replies would be appreciated.

Leslie E.