An OBE or a False Awakening: What's the Difference
Copyright © 2002 D. E. Berry Jr.
"If im tired for a week, or im exhausted one morning, i wake up twice. This morning, i remember seeing my body, but yet again i only woke up with the memory..."
"I remember getting up, like a pushup, and looking at the time, it said 6:30am. I hit the button to set the alarm and it still said 6:30 so i thought something was wierd, then i hear in the Background "Jonathan, JONATHAN!" My grandma was yelling at me to wake up and at the second i flew down and woke up."
"Was this an obe or a false awakening?"
Where these OBEs or false awakenings? The answer is... both! A false awakening is an out-of-body experience in which you leave the body, not knowing you did. You have still left the body though. When you pushed up to check the time you had left your body on the bed. You WERE out-of-body! You just didn't know it. I used to do this all the time as a kid, determined to get up and urinate and not wet myself. I was determined to get up and use the restroom when 'I' had too, and did, but still woke up in the morning wet. Sometimes I couldn't get the light to work, or the environment looked strange, and I always still woke up wet, flabbergasted knowing that I had gotten up and went. I was getting up from my body without knowing it- as you are doing in these cases.
The memory of seeing your body is a valid memory of a legitimate experience. I suggest that you get into the habit of reality checking each time you wake up, especially when the conditions are right, as you named them. Look on the bed for your body, see if you can float, see if you can put your hand through the bed, etc. You'll then find yourself in one of these false awakening episodes and come to know it, and can then carry on as if you projected consciously.
Sincerely,
D. E. Berry Jr.
Copyright © 2002 D. E. Berry Jr.
"If im tired for a week, or im exhausted one morning, i wake up twice. This morning, i remember seeing my body, but yet again i only woke up with the memory..."
"I remember getting up, like a pushup, and looking at the time, it said 6:30am. I hit the button to set the alarm and it still said 6:30 so i thought something was wierd, then i hear in the Background "Jonathan, JONATHAN!" My grandma was yelling at me to wake up and at the second i flew down and woke up."
"Was this an obe or a false awakening?"
Where these OBEs or false awakenings? The answer is... both! A false awakening is an out-of-body experience in which you leave the body, not knowing you did. You have still left the body though. When you pushed up to check the time you had left your body on the bed. You WERE out-of-body! You just didn't know it. I used to do this all the time as a kid, determined to get up and urinate and not wet myself. I was determined to get up and use the restroom when 'I' had too, and did, but still woke up in the morning wet. Sometimes I couldn't get the light to work, or the environment looked strange, and I always still woke up wet, flabbergasted knowing that I had gotten up and went. I was getting up from my body without knowing it- as you are doing in these cases.
The memory of seeing your body is a valid memory of a legitimate experience. I suggest that you get into the habit of reality checking each time you wake up, especially when the conditions are right, as you named them. Look on the bed for your body, see if you can float, see if you can put your hand through the bed, etc. You'll then find yourself in one of these false awakening episodes and come to know it, and can then carry on as if you projected consciously.
Sincerely,
D. E. Berry Jr.
