Please Help!!!

[Pageturn15]

I was listening to a hypnosis tape on quitting smoking and I think I had an out of body experience.  I need help because no one I know can help me.  I was very relaxed and about to fall asleep and then all of a sudden I realized that I was sitting up in bed doing something on my computer...now I can't remember what I was looking at though.  All of a sudden, my arm (on my sleeping body), fell asleep and started to tingle.  Then I realized I was really asleep and then it was over.  When I looked on the tape, atleast 7 minutes had passed.  I was wide awake when I "woke up".  Is this an OBE or am I crazy?  Anyone with a similar experience or some insight that would help me...please write!  This is a new thing for me and I am wondering if it was real or a dream.

[kiwibonga]

I wouldn't say it was a full-fledged OBE, but I have experienced similar things. You fell asleep but remained alert because of the tape -- so you reached medium trance where dreams become vivid real-time pictures.

Interestingly enough, Robert Monroe was working on sleep-learning tapes before he started having spontaneous OBEs every night. He wrote about it without giving it much thought, but I am positive that there is a link between the two.

The tapes force you to remain alert so that you may listen, but you are in a passive, extremely relaxed state. The transition into the trance state is rarely felt, just like you can never really pinpoint the moment you actually fell asleep. So here you are listening to the tape, but you don't know you're asleep, because you're perfectly aware of your surroundings.

It's good because it showed you a glimpse of how easy it is, you just let go, and it happens.