Hello everyone,
I'm new to these forums, although I have been very interested in OOBEs for a long time and read up into the matter occasionally in my life.
Lately I have started my own attempts at leaving my body. The furthest I have been getting to so far is the part where the vibrations set in.
I am still not 100% sure these were in fact the renowned vibrations I keep reading about but I lack a better explanation for it. All I can say is that after several hours of lying still in bed, some sort of electrical surge and loud ringing sound suddenly overcame me. At that time, I wasn't really sure how to proceed though - whether I was ready to try and leave my body - and if so, then how.
On my attempts over the last week I had trouble even getting to the vibrations mentioned earlier.
What I can do reliably is lying still in bed until my limbs get numb and occasionally some sort of gentle swoosh goes through my body - similar to a cold shiver running down your back or the sort of feeling you might have when your body parts aren't properly supplied with blood. These don't feel very special to me though - it's probably the least oddness you should expect when you didn't move a muscle for hours.
So now I'm looking for a bit of help from people who already have experience with the procedure of exiting their bodies and maybe can help me out of a couple of questions that I have.
1. The reason I'm sceptical about my progress is that I never experienced a sleep paralysis so far (not that I want to in particular). I'm not sure whether that was the case during my vibrations part, as that felt overwhelming/highly distracting at best but not exactly paralyzing. I did not try, but I'm pretty sure I could have forced a movement if I had wanted to. And I'm also sort of sure that it would have moved my physical body and not my astral one. At this point I also started receiving heavy breathing problems - but again, probably not because I felt paralyzed - but rather because I got so tense that I "forgot" to breathe and had to start doing it manually. I guess this was a mistake and I should have proceeded to ignore my breath even if I felt like I'm going to choke?
2. After roughly estimated 5-10 seconds the vibrations passed and I felt as I did before them. After a good amount of minutes these vibrations returned for a second time - although they felt slightly weaker and somewhat ... distorted. After some seconds they passed again, without anything changing. Does this mean I have 'failed' at the stage where I'm supposed to exit?
3. When I relax, the feeling of numbness in my legs and arms can get very vivid, but not so for my torso and head - perhaps due to the constant breathing? Is this normal? I'm not sure if there's something wrong with my relaxing procedure or if I'm just too impatient.
Hope you can overlook my bad english and thanks if you read through everything.
I would be so glad if someone can help me out with my questions.
Lazy Panda
I'm new to these forums, although I have been very interested in OOBEs for a long time and read up into the matter occasionally in my life.
Lately I have started my own attempts at leaving my body. The furthest I have been getting to so far is the part where the vibrations set in.
I am still not 100% sure these were in fact the renowned vibrations I keep reading about but I lack a better explanation for it. All I can say is that after several hours of lying still in bed, some sort of electrical surge and loud ringing sound suddenly overcame me. At that time, I wasn't really sure how to proceed though - whether I was ready to try and leave my body - and if so, then how.
On my attempts over the last week I had trouble even getting to the vibrations mentioned earlier.
What I can do reliably is lying still in bed until my limbs get numb and occasionally some sort of gentle swoosh goes through my body - similar to a cold shiver running down your back or the sort of feeling you might have when your body parts aren't properly supplied with blood. These don't feel very special to me though - it's probably the least oddness you should expect when you didn't move a muscle for hours.
So now I'm looking for a bit of help from people who already have experience with the procedure of exiting their bodies and maybe can help me out of a couple of questions that I have.
1. The reason I'm sceptical about my progress is that I never experienced a sleep paralysis so far (not that I want to in particular). I'm not sure whether that was the case during my vibrations part, as that felt overwhelming/highly distracting at best but not exactly paralyzing. I did not try, but I'm pretty sure I could have forced a movement if I had wanted to. And I'm also sort of sure that it would have moved my physical body and not my astral one. At this point I also started receiving heavy breathing problems - but again, probably not because I felt paralyzed - but rather because I got so tense that I "forgot" to breathe and had to start doing it manually. I guess this was a mistake and I should have proceeded to ignore my breath even if I felt like I'm going to choke?
2. After roughly estimated 5-10 seconds the vibrations passed and I felt as I did before them. After a good amount of minutes these vibrations returned for a second time - although they felt slightly weaker and somewhat ... distorted. After some seconds they passed again, without anything changing. Does this mean I have 'failed' at the stage where I'm supposed to exit?
3. When I relax, the feeling of numbness in my legs and arms can get very vivid, but not so for my torso and head - perhaps due to the constant breathing? Is this normal? I'm not sure if there's something wrong with my relaxing procedure or if I'm just too impatient.
Hope you can overlook my bad english and thanks if you read through everything.
I would be so glad if someone can help me out with my questions.
Lazy Panda