Finally! After years of reading about OBEs, workshops and practice, last night was my first conscious OBE! I have gotten to the vibrational state many times, but i always panic and cant hold it. My first vibrational state was about 4 years ago and it was the most intense. I felt and heard electric-like vibes in my body and I got my arms free and waved them around but have never left my body all the way. Last night I got the vibes once, paniced, woke up and then fell asleep. A little while later the vibes came back, even stronger now, and I was feeling even more conscious than usual and I didn't panic, I just kept telling myself to hold the vibes (cuz usually I just try an exit technique right away and Ive been thinking that I need to hold the vibrational state for a little longer) and keep calm. I held it for what seemed to be about three times longer than I normally can, probably about a minute and a half, and then it just happened quite naturally. I simply began to float right out. The vibes went away and i was floating over my bed. I made a conscious choice not to look down at my body so that I wouldn't get sucked back in and just slowly floated to the window by my bed. I felt the weird tingly texture of the window as I passed through and out above my street. Controlling where I went was a little difficult, but I was getting the hang of it. I tried a mantra, I looked up to try to see the moon, I was going to use it as a reference point to fly skywards, but I didn't have full consciousness or full control. I flew up above my house and looked down but it didn't look quite right. It didn't look like I thought it would, like it would from an airplane. It was almost like I was putting some of my own mental projections into the landscape. It seems like there were houses on my block the were missing altogether and I even looked at a tree when I was at ground level and it looked almost tropical (i live in Colorado, no tropics here), and it seems like I was creating some of these inconsistencies with what my neighborhood actually looks like.
So I guess my question is can you project your own creations into the astral realm, like a tropical tree that doesn't exist? Of course you can do this in other dimensions but I thought the astral was supposed to be an exact replica of the physical plane, but this was almost like a lucid dream where I could create objects, and some things like neighbors houses were missing. But this definitely wasn't a lucid dream, I felt the strange texture of walls and windows when I passed through and when I floated out I was in my bed, not in some dreamscape. I only wish I would have remembered William Buhlman's advice of saying "clarity now!" to gain full vision, consciousness and clarity, because like I said I wasn't 100% conscious and in control, more like 85%. And maybe this is why it didn't seem to be an exact replica of the physical? Almost everything did look right, and this morning to my suprise I noticed the "tropical" tree next door is a big, brilliant tree and maybe seeing it in the astral I put my own twist on how it looked? It just seems like some of the details where missing in the landscape, maybe not missing, but that I couldn't see the whole street in full detail at the same time. But it was still an amazing 5 minutes of floating around my street, I got a mantra in, I looked up at the moon and I remember it well, I woke up right after I returned.
So overall I cant really ask for more from my first OBE, but next time I'm hoping for more clarity and detail and control. But have any of you veterans noticed this lack of vision and detail on your early excursions?
So I guess my question is can you project your own creations into the astral realm, like a tropical tree that doesn't exist? Of course you can do this in other dimensions but I thought the astral was supposed to be an exact replica of the physical plane, but this was almost like a lucid dream where I could create objects, and some things like neighbors houses were missing. But this definitely wasn't a lucid dream, I felt the strange texture of walls and windows when I passed through and when I floated out I was in my bed, not in some dreamscape. I only wish I would have remembered William Buhlman's advice of saying "clarity now!" to gain full vision, consciousness and clarity, because like I said I wasn't 100% conscious and in control, more like 85%. And maybe this is why it didn't seem to be an exact replica of the physical? Almost everything did look right, and this morning to my suprise I noticed the "tropical" tree next door is a big, brilliant tree and maybe seeing it in the astral I put my own twist on how it looked? It just seems like some of the details where missing in the landscape, maybe not missing, but that I couldn't see the whole street in full detail at the same time. But it was still an amazing 5 minutes of floating around my street, I got a mantra in, I looked up at the moon and I remember it well, I woke up right after I returned.
So overall I cant really ask for more from my first OBE, but next time I'm hoping for more clarity and detail and control. But have any of you veterans noticed this lack of vision and detail on your early excursions?