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Once again a weird question x) If I'm lying in bed, covered by a blanket: Is it harder to induce an OBE that way? And what if I only cover my feet?

Another question: Is it easier to get out if I have my eyes opened or closed?

I need help. When I'm relaxing and am really far already, I sometimes (just now it happened again. I was bored so I tried to induce an OBE while the TV was running.) start to feel weirdly. I stop feeling my body, but then it feels so... heavy and I feel like I'm something IN this body, I don't feel that I -am- the body. The weird thing is: Sometimes when I'm really relaxed, a random body part twitches. The problem is following: This weird, even more relaxed state which feels "strong".. it happened twice already: During the first time, my foot started to move upwards, the right foot. It was so strange that I jumped up because I wasn't prepared. If you imagine the soul as a ghost inside the physical body, then it felt like I was the soul, and my soul-foot was moving out of my physical foot. I could feel the physical foot touching my soul-foot as it was moving upwards. The same thing just happened with my right hand, but when I was thinking about it, that it was moving, it stopped. Am I mistaken? Is this really my hand or foot twitching while I'm so relaxed that I no longer feel my body (which even starts to feel very cold)? My "joker" is that the twitching is usually a fast and sudden move, but the raising foot/hand was slower. While the twitching takes less than 1/4 of a second, the rising of my foot/hand wasn't a fast move, but it was ... medium-speed. I'd say it lasted for a bit more than a second.

Is this wishful thinking that I'm really leaving my body? Is it a twitching muscle? Or is it my spirit leaving my body? I mean, if you're leaving your body, does your whole body move at the same time? Or is it also possible that it starts with one body part?  When I stop trying to induce an OBE when I'm really really relaxed, I feel strange. My body is cold, for the first few seconds everything feels weird and strange. I stand up, and feel weird. I am also somewhat dizzy.

So yeah, that are my symptoms. Am I on the right track?

On several websites I have read that the Kundalini is connected to OBEs, is this true? While doing my exercises, I started to believe in this because of the similarity. For example, after a while, all of a sudden, my heart starts to beat very fast (yet I am neither moving, nor scared or anything). I can only explain this with the Kundalini and Chakras. There also are other examples, one being this weird, calm feeling after trying (and failing xP) to induce an OBE. I feel very calm and my mind is generally very sharp. So, is the Kundalini somehow connected to OBEs? Or is this just coincidence?

I have read the faq's, saying you need years using meditation... but well, I am so far already that I want to continue this, lying in my bed without moving, trying to induce an oobe. I have read the book "out of body" by William Buhlman and was practicing his technique for about a month, often getting into the vibrational state but then I usually stopped due to being scared.

Now, months later, I started again with the difference that I do it before sleeping with similar results. This time though I'm not scared anymore. First my body gets numb, then maybe I feel prickling, later vibrations. I believe I'm near leaving my body already, but I don't know how to get out. If I try really hard, I end up noticing that I'm using muscles (although it feels more like my astral body moving because I no longer feel my physical body). This night I tried something new, not trying to get out like before, but simply "feeling" my "new body". The result was that, with every breath, my body felt heavier. Then after a minute or 2, I felt very very heavy. I have no idea whether this is the right thing to do or not. My question is:
What do I have to do to leave my body?

a.) Really try to fly upwards?
b.) Not directly "try" but "feeling" my body, hoping that I'll end up leaving my body without doing much.
c.) In a my mind is very awake. I always KNOW about my physical body and sometimes I have to swallow. Should I not concentrate on anything but simply stay in this special state (vibrations, numbness, prickling ... this night I even felt soft "swings" to the left - right - left - right - left - right - stop. Few seconds later agian..".) so my mind possibly forgets what I'm doing or what's happening?
d.) Something else?

I know that you don't need a year to leave your body via meditation, I read about people who left their body this way after 1 or 2 months and I am sure I can also do this. I am really glad I found this website because, if I know what to do, I feel more like I'm doing the right thing without wasting a thought on "am I doing this wrong? Am I wasting my time?". I can imagine you get similar questions very often, but I started a new topic anyways because I wonder whether any of the options I can think of are right or whether I have to do something different. So, what do I have to do?