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I usually find saying 'awareness now' or 'clarity now' usually allows me to focus more clearly. Never has failede yet, so if you can ever remember (that's the hardest part) give it a go.

Funny you should mention that because in some of my OBEs I will view myself the "OBE'er" from above, or from the side, but basically viewing myself from a different angle, but never really thought of this as some form of extended vision but more as a separation or split, but could be just a wrap around type vision.

Just curious if anyone has made efforts to explore past or future lives in their experiences. Only recently I have just started reading a book called 'Mending the Past and Healing the future with Soul Retrieval' by Alberto Villoldo. The book is good, and is making think perhaps in somewhat a different context towards when I'm able to have my next experience.
 
It's weird but in all of my previous episodes, they have only ever taken place in what I would call the present time frame, or in what would appear to be a complete non-earthly time frame, either way I have never had an objective to explore my past whilst in an OBE but very interested in the concept.

As much as I'm aware of the 360 viewing opportunity I have never yet experienced that, my vision is exactly the same as when conscious in the real time frame.

However I find that despite having vision during my experiences, as an aid it feels secondary to other senses, sort of hard to explain but almost as if vision is only there because I expect it to be there but it's not acting as the primary tool in my decision making, sometimes I will stop my vision to prevent corrupting the experience. But thinking about it perhaps vision is interpreted exactly the same in the physical world - entering the philosophical discussion on semiotics I guess.   

However it would be cool to experience 360 viewing.

I have chronic insomnia since diagnosed since age 13 and if anything it has only helped encourage my projecting.

Agree - me too. My problem is waking up during the night then difficulties getting back to sleep.

On bad times I will leave my bedroom and go and sit in another room such as my living room. I often find leaving my bed and then dozing off in a chair/couch is easier than trying to fall back to sleep in my bed. On most occasions this then triggers am OBE.

I think the sleep deprivation allows me to relax more and subsequently separate.

Funny - in some OBEs and I guess APs I have seen what appears to look like a gremlin/monkey. Initially it appears looking up at me from floor level while I'm laying in bed, almost as if I suddenly awoken and startled it by it's presence, and its about 18" high approx. Not always but sometimes I then leave my bedroom and go on a journey with it.

Can't quite figure out what the symbolic link is. On one journey it met me at the foot of my bed and we went to this planet or place. We then just sat on this desolate rock face looking down over this desolate plain. It then asked me to assist it with a problem - but can't remember what it was (LOL).

I read in one book by Robert Bruce where he said it was sometimes common to get what he called Astral Wild Life that can play mischief with you.

I have also had a few similar experiences in which during my OBE exit I appear to roll off my bed as if I'm rolling over in my sleep but then fall off the edge of the bed and through the floor at a tremendous speed - in what appears to be a dark void.

I have learned to say 'lightness now' and I gain visibility. Once visible if the scene appears to be somewhat convoluted I say 'clarity now' or 'awareness now' and I gain clarity.

Works every time, although not tried it with entities yet.

Wow - will have to PM you about this, excellent to know there are others out there as well.

Don't worry the confidence eventually aligns between the condition and APs/OBEs but as you know diabetes management can be somewhat deep rooted and I know this from trying to test my sugars during my OBEs, but I feel type 1 diabetes can provide an extra advantage to the whole projection scenario.

I have found my sugar range needs to be lower to project than higher. In the UK sugar level measurement my levels need to be 4.5-5.5 to successfully project. Anything higher can cause the experience to become slightly corrupt.

I still believe that there must be something in insulin chemically that allows easier opportunities for OBEs or APs.

I can see your point, and agree this year there has been several large events within such a short space of time ranging from natural disasters to political unrest within several countries in the Middle East.  After decades living under oppressive dictatorships I think it was somewhat inevitable that a new generation that have grown up within a global age of communication would eventually up rise and try to stake their claim to democracy. 
 
As we have evolved the unfortunate by-product of our expansion (good and bad) has led to global environmental issues as you have mentioned. But when we hear the news, read articles, it feels as if we all should be bearing the weight, and living in fear of our own current and future footprints.
 
My experience of OBE's and other unusual events have taught me to try and look further than the immediate boundaries of my known and perceived environment, and dare I say it perhaps even leading to sense of apathy. But my point I want to make is change will happen but small bit size chunks, and change usually only happens as we are eventually left with little or less choice than previously being offered.
 
So the current financial crisis, upheaval in current oppressed regimes, and recent natural disasters will force us to step back and look at ourselves. But I strongly believe the majority will just follow the masses. For instance within the more developed world we may currently cut back on the number of items we purchase, holidays/vacations, and look more at our carbon footprint but given the opportunity we probably will all return back to our current standpoints once these waves have passed.
 
If we are to tackle the environmental, financial issues, and are overall well being then we need to approach change more strategically utilising a leaner and more agile approach as opposed to the current waterfall method which is adopted by so many organisations and governments – where one milestone is dependent another and if one fails then all the rest unfortunately shift to the right. 
 
Veering off on a bit of tangent I guess but getting back to the W Buhlman statement on 2012 I think as mentioned above we all each own a complex and powerful footprint, and I feel our strengths be it conscious or subconscious would not allow a demise as being perceived. The idea of 2012 appears to fuel our somewhat western institutionalised views that change which by the way is only based on assumptions is usually negative. Funny enough this is mirrored also in the business world. But perhaps this fuelled negative perception based only on assumptions is maybe the lessons learned required to allow for an indirect positive change that has been alluded too.

I thought this was interesting, because it's what got me into looking into AP and OBE.

I have realised now that this is the main driving force or agenda to my experiences. Despite my numerous experiences I still have a fear of death, but it's now not a fear of the unknown but more a fear of leaving things or loved ones on the physical plane unfinished/incomplete.

Perhaps OBEs are predestined and existing only to serve as a tool due to us reaching a stalemate on some life line or path. Once we can recognise and accept the differences then maybe it may allow us to progress to a different level.

And yet here I am witnessing a revolution, a major shift in consciousness sweeping across the planet before my very eyes.  Not even the Renaissance compares to the ongoing transition that is taking place throughout this planet.  Nothing major will happen?  I could not disagree more.  It already is happening.  Never before has there been more discussions regarding a transitionary period than what is going on now - Thanks in no small part to the Internet.

Yes technology, global communication has improved visibility and transparency but I do not think we are undertaking a birth of a new shift in conciousness. Tools such as the Internet provides us with the platform to voice opinions (negative, and or positive) and maybe even steer an audience. But I do not believe we are reaching a crescendo. We may be entering a phase in society looking at post modern values but I do not think it will lead to an enlightened path that some wish to believe.

We also need to realise that this perceived global shift is a view constrained to the western world, as a large percentage of society still does not have access to the Internet, (technology), education, well being etc. So I think its arrogant for us to think one belief system should take priority over another. Beliefs such as we are entering a revolution towards a shift of consciousness has undertones more associated with power, suggesting a collective force that would have the ability to control it's environment, including the behaviour and free will of others.

I do not think we are entering into a collective shift, and our social demographic belief systems will still exist with equal strengths within the religious, philosophical, and ideological camps. Ironically I think global communication and a supposed collective shift in society may fragment us than align us.

Yeah unfortunately oddly when your sugars get low you can sometimes enter a state of denial and become a little irate.  I sort of compare it to entering a stubborn young childish phase being told to do something you dont want to do.

Your mind can also be easily influenced and it takes a lot of control to stay focussed on your goal (which is to raise your sugar levels), however the positive side is a sugary drink has a rapid recovery time so there is often no post trauma that you have to deal with.

Completely agree with Buhlman, and I think if something was going to happen it would be somewhat more self evident through shared experienes on a forum such as this one.

The olympics happen in 2012.

And I have tickets, nothing in the fine print or disclaimers about potential unforeseen events that could end all humanity or worse case lead to a cancellation so assume there is nothing to worry about.

I have been a type 1 diabetic for the last 22 years, and I have noted a lot of similarities with my OBE's and diabetes (mainly low sugars/hypos).
 
As a diabetic when your sugars become low you suffer with what is called a hypoglycaemic episode. The actual hypo experience can vary between diabetics, but generally when a hypo begins you lose concentration/focus and experience various symptoms such as agitation, perspiration, irritability etc.
With severe hypos that have usually happened from waking you are initially confused as to who you are, where you are, and generally reality itself, while on the other hand there is still some conscious logic that allows a response or reaction. 
 
This initial phase when waking with a hypo is exactly like waking within a lucid dream, or even to an OBE. In fact all the emotional and physical experiences are identical, and I still cannot believe just how similar the hypo state can be to OBE or Lucid Dream. 
I have often wondered about people that have experienced OBE's or any other form of non-physical experience and perhaps the lack of similar direct comparisons to experiences within the physical reality. I think the hypoglycaemic episode is direct comparison, but I would not say drugs would be comparable either due to the fact that drugs are usually not a repeatable controlled experience and can have a different recovery time frame.
 
I was having hypos before I ever had my first OBE and lucid dream.  When I first started having my OBE's and lucid dreams I would often during the experience try and test my sugars to make sure I was not having a hypo, but to my horror the experience did not envelope as I thought it should have done.  This conscious or subconscious act influenced my behaviour and awareness during the OBE as I was required to consciously recognise reality within the non reality environment.
 
Despite the potential danger of hypoglycaemic attacks, I have also found them as a training tool towards my OBE's. The hypos have had a positive experience to the OBE while ironically the OBEs have also had a positive experience to my hypos.
 
Both experiences have become more controlled, and I have found that I have developed a more heightened conscious awareness to both the physical and non physical. Oddly I have also discovered that low sugars during the night can induce an OBE.

In the last two weeks I have had a few odd episodes in which I have had a full experience of an event happening prior to it happening. I often have OBE's but I have rarely had paranormal experiences within our own reality.
 
In each experience as it has happened I feel like I'm somewhat removed from body and watching the events unfold from the outside (I guess similar to an OBE but I'm watching myself from a third or second parameter).The events are completely random and have no symbolic meaning or importance.

One happened last week where I bought a coffee at work and decided to stop and read a news article on my iphone. Instead as I began to stop and read the article I felt an odd numbness and loss of my senses.  I then found I experienced the scene/timeline including what I was about to read before I even stopped to drink my coffee and look at my iphone to read the article.  I guess it was as if I suddenly separated fast forwarded a few seconds then rewound back again, a sort déjà vu but with extreme clarity.

These events have been increasing but the episodes as I have said are nothing meaningful, or symbolic and I have no idea why all of sudden I have developed this.  I sort of see them almost as glitches or a bug to my reality zone.

A difficult question to articulate but assuming that there is actual or shared non-physical environment in which OBEs take place, and assuming that in death there is a continuation into this non-physical zone, then could it be OBE's are an educational or opportunistic experience that can prepare us towards bridging the gap from the physical to the non physical.

I truly feel bad for people who do get these horrible apparitions. I'm unclear whether this is primarily caused by their expections, or are the actions of an independent entity, or perhaps something else.

I have had a mixture of both, some I feel was within my control (I could make them disappear and be on my way) while others definitely had a form of intelligence with an agenda/objective of some sort.

I have found with certain encounters that 'they' do not like my interaction or curiosity with an environment that I feel could be territorial.

I do not see that much difference in my memory recall be it real life or say from a dream/OBE/AP etc. And thinking about it I guess there wouldn't be any difference as the memory recall is being triggered mechanically in the physical.

I suppose what can distort, influence or fragment our memories is how content can define the memory context and/or how the context can define or influence the memory content.

On the other hand memory recall in the nonphysical feels somewhat less mechanical and more spontaneous, sort of like breathing.

Hey there Kelsie

My OBEs gradually developed over a slow period of several years and remained then somewhat infrequent - say one or two year. Eventually I was having up to several a week and began to master controlling the experience with greater clarity.

Then all of a sudden it stopped. It had been up to six months or more and only last night I had another OBE (very strange as well, managed to travel back in time), however it felt good again to be back in that zone.

So why did it stop for me, well I'm not too sure. I do know that I sort of relied on them happening naturally, but my instincts tell me if I want them to happen regularly then I need to educate myself more on the subject and perhaps even investigate self induced methods.

In terms of asking yourself what does all this mean and why has it abruptly stopped, I did find that over analysation perhaps had a negative or suppressing impact on my creativity. I had a tendency to over analyse right before bed which I think clouded my thoughts, but I did find writing at chosen times more helpful than the continuous brain chatter.

I'm confident it will happen again, simply because you are questioning why has it stopped. I would suggest not to worry about it and maybe grab a few good books to read on the subject, maybe in filling this void that has been created. That way you can keep your imagination fresh and active hopefully triggering an OBE at some point.

Well this is now my second experience of something similar, and had a very unusual experience when I was 16 (had an OBE and then woke up and everything in the OBE then happened in real time literally frame by frame. Strange but involved a goldfish consuming my other goldfish in my bedroom fish tank, it was all quite strange)

Anyway perhaps as Lionheart states they are sign posts. Eitherway my two experiences were repeated (from OBE to real time) almost identically as experienced in the OBE. Based on that I do not assume it can be coincidence but obviously has happened for a reason. However on the flip side perhaps that reason doesn't have to be anything to deep or philosophical but simply a glitch in our physical/non physical mechanical make up.

When I was on top of the roof top bar in Bangkok I told my wife, brother in law and his wife about my experience. They did not fully understand the impact of how I saw this rooftop bar a year earlier in an OBE and how strange it was to now see it in the flesh having never been there before. They just shrugged their shoulders in conversation, and sort of joked about it.

It's a shame when we experience these major milestones we often have to dismiss them or emotionally dumb them down. Often having OBEs/APs can often create a divide and/or distant ourselves from those that do not have them. Almost creating and us and them scenario.

About just over a year ago (in 2010) I had an OBE (or journey), where I was flying in an unknown city above a very large building (skyscraper) and looking down onto its roof top. In the experience I swooped around in a circular motion, perhaps similar to a bird and noted what I was viewing.  I saw the building had a semi circular end to it that contained a bar and extending from that I saw a series of tables with white table cloths and people sitting down eating and drinking. At the end of the tabled area I also a large raised building with a domed roof that had steps coming down onto this rooftop dinning/drinking area.
 
At the time I thought nothing of it and just diarised the experience as I do with all my other OBE's. However last week my wife and I had an opportunity to fly out for a short holiday with her brother who worked as a cabin crew member for a British airline. He was on a flight sector that took him from London to Sydney but with a two day stopover in Bangkok and Sydney.  As we are his two named persons to get discounted flights we decided to fly out with him to Sydney and back.
 
Anyway when we were in Bangkok he took us to a bar called the Sirrocco bar, which was a rooftop bar on top of one of Bangkok's second tallest buildings. When got to the top and walked out to the bar area, my heart literally stopped as I Iooked out onto the roof top area, this was completely identical in every detail to what I saw in my OBE (the table layout, steps down onto the roof top, even the bar at the end in the semicircular extension to the building.
 
As we had a drink I looked around and began to think why did I see this a year ago and why was it so alike, was something going to happen me? Was this my demise?
Well nothing happened apart from an expensive bar tab, however I can still find no reason as to why I had this experience, I'm completely baffled. However this has reaffirmed or bridged the gap that there must be some sort of link or purpose or objective to the journeys I have been taking.

I feel for you, but funny enough sometimes lack of sleep for me stimulated the experience and allowed me to comfortably slip into an OBE/Projection than otherwise. However I suffer from sleep problems as well, more than likely yours is probably stressed induced where you have become too aware of the issue which in itself is triggering/fuelling the insomnia.
 
I had problems where I would awaken several times during the night and then have problems falling back to sleep. Often maybe just waking two or three times a night for a few minutes was enough to shatter my energy the following day.
 
I initially took some sleeping tablets (prescribed), tried melatonin, various herbal tablets, reducing caffeine, alcohol, eating times etc but all didn't help. I realised I had developed more of a deep rooted problem induced by knowing I was not sleeping properly which then fuelled the brain chatter or panic upon waking or thinking negatively before going to bed – the brain can be real stubborn sometimes! Admittedly the medicated sleeping tablets did work wonders for a short period of time but it did not solve my sleeping patterns long term (which often is the case is if there are more deep rotted stress/issues).
 
However I eventually fell back into my sleeping patterns which are better than previous but not the best - I have come to accept that we are all different and maybe I'm just not someone who sleeps the standard eight hours every night.
 
As mentioned above I would first visit your DR for more advice. However if they just prescribe sleeping tablets and that doesn't cure it, I would highly recommend acupuncture and massage therapy – it can work wonders in reducing stress. Lastly remember you're not alone...hopefully you can sort this out!! 

Despite my numerous OBEs I have not mastered the technique to objectively choose a destination and explore, my journeys are always to my physical locality. However if I had the chance I wish I could visit not to 'rubberneck' but to assist assuming the opportunity existed.

Hello, this question is based on some assumptions, and hopefully not be viewed as too morbid, or insensitive.  But I was wondering if anyone during their OBE's has visited/explored recent natural disaster areas such as Japan, New Zealand, or Burma etc.
 
If so, because of the large recent proximity of loss within a confined region, does the experience take on a different form, or energy?
 
My question is somewhat stimulated by the recent Monroe book I finished (Ultimate Journey) and Monroe's case of an afterlife and his stories how he assisted departed individuals who were somewhat lost and in need.
 
I guess I was curious if such a thing existed then would it have a stronger force or presence in areas where a large volume of death has taken place.