I don't want to steal this thread with my introduction, but I've been lurking long enough and my one OBE relates to this topic.
Well, I was 17 (now 29) and had stayed up really late doing homework. I really needed to finish, but not as much as I needed sleep, so I told myself I was only going to take a 5-10 minute nap. As soon as I closed my eyes I felt the vibrations which before reading up on what they were had always scared the cr*p out of me and I would fight off. Now that I had an idea of what they were, I let them continue - radiating from my solar plexus. They reached a high level and I popped out through my solar plexus and was hovering above my body. It took me a moment to realize what had happened and once I knew what was going on I was surprised at how familiar it felt. All I could think about was "I wonder what I look like" - the projected hovering self. After wondering this for just a couple seconds, I saw my hovering self from another point in my room. I had no preconcieved ideas of what I would look like. From a point a few feet from my body I saw my projected self as a grapefruit-size orb of glowing white/light blue light. I thought that was pretty cool. Then, I started to become aware of my body again and thought I would try to force my physical eyes open to see my projected self, and well that of course ended the experience - but it seemed to be winding down anyway as I had never made it out before.
In regards to this topic, I guess I had 3 projected selfs - my physical body, my projected glowing orb and the self viewing the orb. Only at one point was my consciousness split - when I was transitioning back to my body and I was aware of both my body and third perspective (self viewing projected orb self).
--RM
Well, I was 17 (now 29) and had stayed up really late doing homework. I really needed to finish, but not as much as I needed sleep, so I told myself I was only going to take a 5-10 minute nap. As soon as I closed my eyes I felt the vibrations which before reading up on what they were had always scared the cr*p out of me and I would fight off. Now that I had an idea of what they were, I let them continue - radiating from my solar plexus. They reached a high level and I popped out through my solar plexus and was hovering above my body. It took me a moment to realize what had happened and once I knew what was going on I was surprised at how familiar it felt. All I could think about was "I wonder what I look like" - the projected hovering self. After wondering this for just a couple seconds, I saw my hovering self from another point in my room. I had no preconcieved ideas of what I would look like. From a point a few feet from my body I saw my projected self as a grapefruit-size orb of glowing white/light blue light. I thought that was pretty cool. Then, I started to become aware of my body again and thought I would try to force my physical eyes open to see my projected self, and well that of course ended the experience - but it seemed to be winding down anyway as I had never made it out before.
In regards to this topic, I guess I had 3 projected selfs - my physical body, my projected glowing orb and the self viewing the orb. Only at one point was my consciousness split - when I was transitioning back to my body and I was aware of both my body and third perspective (self viewing projected orb self).
--RM