Unsure - Am I experiencing an OBE?

[Jabra]

Hello to all this is my first post on this forum and i hope it makes sense.

For as long as I can remember I have been having what i thought were vivid dreams... Today... Im not so sure....

Recently I have been waking up afraid... once I woke saying things like "You are not Welcome here"
another time just the other night I woke up in a panic defending myself... Sometimes after sleep I still feel tired... Is this normal?
I havent been sleeping well lately.

The thing is after reading other peoples stories it makes me think these arnt dreams these are OBE... Am i wrong?

Its a scary exciting thought...

Im 25 - No Drugs - Some Alcohol but not enought to matter and no exisiting documented mental issues...
I have a baby on the way.

My mother was a Reverend and had a very strong sense in the spiritual world.
I remember her once saying to me that she felt i have simular abilities... I feel crazy just saying it...

My mother passed away from unknown causes 8 years ago.

When i was younger When waking on multiple occasions I have seen a large dark figure looking at me in the door way. I wasnt afraid.(Due to my mothers beliefs she banished this spirit. After that i never saw it at my bed side - only at the front gate outside of our yard)

Is this my guide/guardian angel or is it evil?

Could a spirt become angry after being banished? Did it find me?

Some people are sceptics saying that we manifest these evil beings out of our own fear others say they are real entities.

I want to know... Have i been APing? Is it possible that something/one wants to harm me? Did my mother banish my Guide? What should I do?

Thank you kindly for reading...

[CFTraveler]

Hi Jabra.
Realize that everyone has different beliefs regarding metaphysics, because experiences and cultural conditioning vary.  So whatever I say is just my opinion.
All dreams are projections.  Some are to your subconscious, some are to the collective unconscious.  All are projections.
OBEs are experiences of being out of your body, sometimes with a remembered exit.  Most exits are not usually remembered, unless done on purpose.

When you 'see' 'someone' in your room and it's not physical, there are various theories- the one that I subscribe to is the 'Dweller on The Threshold' theory- that the entity you perceive or feel is your own expanded energy body, caused by a half-OBE-an expanded energy body in which your conscious awareness has not transferred and is being experienced from your physical body.

Some metaphysicians believe it's a self-aspect related to your 'past' life- a shadow aspect.  I believe something similar, in that it's a self aspect, but the issue of past lives IMO is irrelevant, because of the linear time thing.  What is also theorized is that you see those because you are evolving as a spiritual being and you project this guardian as a self-control mechanism (so you don't get 'too far').  I think this is  a fair possibility.

I don't disbelieve in spirits, but unless there is a clear relationship (a recently deceased friend or relative, or an entity that is attached to a house you've recently moved into) I see no reason to jump to the spirit conclusion.

[Jabra]

Thanks for your reply.

I do believe I have travelled outside of my bed room. I do not recall ever being scared by anything/one.

As far as I know - No one has died in the house but may have died on the land(?) Used to be Vineyard.

These are new experiences.

I confuse physical with the Astral realm. I find in myself in my "Dreams" Placeing the tip of my fingers against a wall feeling the preasure against them and slowly edging them through the wall once i have my whole arm, I attune myself and i am able to simply walk through walls... I have been doing this for some time...

During some - I fly - sometimes I forget how to fly... falling down cliffs waking with a jolt.

Ive flown over seas carrying another person on my back - Is it uncommon for people to help others in the astral realm?

Other not so friendly experiences I have felt myself being pulled down into my bed this felt negative and I awoke scared.

During times of sickness there are loud noises sort of like a V8 Engine reving really high then passing right by my ear. During these times I am in a white room looking at a wall - on this wall is broken lines pieces of the line pass by my head they are the loud noises. I feel I need to repair the lines. I want to but the sounds and the things flying at  me are to much and I awaken confused and sweating. Inner body travel? Is this still a projection? Does inner body exist?

It seems i have been travelling for years... Is there any thing to be afraid of?

I read on another womans blog that she believes that we have guardians? My Partner has recently become pregnant and since i have been awoken a bit scared - could (if they exist) her guardian be on over drive protecting her?

[CFTraveler]

I don't believe in 'guardians' perse but in guides, but they can be guardians if needs be, depending on whatever soul contract there may have been.  If she is pregnant, it's possible that you have 'new' energy in your 'space', getting ready, and are interpreting the 'new' energy as threatening.  It may just be a matter of getting used to it.

As to 'inner vs outer' body travel dialectic, metaphysicists often theorize that we are the microcosmos of the macrocosmos- the inside is the outside- that's why magicians represent the tree of life as the energy body, and travel to realms 'out there' that is represented 'in there'.  So inside/outside may be a matter of semantics only- we see it as 'outside' traveling because it's how we are used to perceiving the world- as an objective reality.

Think of the hologram- in each part of a hologram the whole is represented, no matter how small the 'sample' is, the whole of the information is contained within.  If it can happen and does happen in the physical, why not the metaphysical?
Food for thought and all that....

[Jabra]

Last night - I slept...

I put my head down to sleep and i was excited - I wanted to talk to what ever it was I wanted to know its name why it was there...
I dont think anything happened... I had a solid sleep.

I guess know & accepting what has been happening may have scared me?
Will I travel again? Will I have to travel by choice now?