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.
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.