Ok well this morning when i was waking up... I got the vibrations like i often do in a hypnopompic state and they'd come and go but i was trying to project anyway at SOME point I must have fallen asleep although its not clear to me when i did because it felt like i was concious the entire time... which is bizzare because I found myself in a dream environent and I didnt realise it at the time. Yet I still had the vibrations and was trying to OBE at this point whilst now (unknowingly) inside a dream...
very confusing...
Anyway I succeeded in my OBE within the dream... I had the vibrations and managed to get all the way out of my body in this very odd fashion of kinda peeling away from it with a mild dizzying sensation. When i was out I walked through the wall one way into a different room, then back to the original room, then through the wall the other way... Now all the rooms were in my house by the rooms were somehow synthesised... like the end room was combined with the bathroom. It was very strange. Anway whilst in the "OBE" i was quite lucid (i just didnt click that the rooms were wrong) and so I said to myself... oh oh oh i know! I'll meet my guide! And so i closed my astral eyes and now I was in the 3D blackness... but I didnt see my guide anywhere so i was like... hmm im just gonna return to my body so I can remember all this right now. So I just leaned back from a standing position and fell... The adrenaline rush was huge upon waking up and my eyes shot open and I sprung up.
But this was a false awakening... I had returned to my body and re-awakened inside the dream. I proceeded to tell my gf all about the experience. Then at some point I actually woke up... and realised what had happened. I was extremely confused. It felt like a real OBE and I was lucid but it occured whilst in a dream but I was awake before the dream started then somehow slipped into it. After the OBE I had a false awakening into the same dream which is just BIZZARE.
I dont know what to make of it. Hell cool experience though.
Wow, that actually is pretty cool... the first part really sounds like a lucid dream I had about a month ago. It was in the morning and I was really groggy and like, half awake half asleep, and I dozed off, but then I thought I was out of body (just dreaming.) So I got up and walked through my closed door, and into the living room, and I could feel my feet touching the floor, but I felt really heavy. Anyway, yeah, it sounds kinda similar to me.
I was dissapointed when I found out it wasn't an OBE, but it was still a really cool experience.
Hi Mez
I've had this happen to me many times too. I still maintain it is an OBE, it just occurs in the middle of a dream. I tend to separate from my dream body and go off exploring. Sometimes I'm incredibly lucid, sometimes not.
Just the other day it happened and I was drawn towards an entrance with a sign over the top. At the time I remembered the words on the sign. Then I "woke up" (returning to my initial dream) and wrote the words down on a notepad so that I could look them up later - the classic false awakening. When I finally did wake up, of course I'd forgotten the words... :-P
False awakenings are incredible things - you're totally convinced that you are awake and back on earth, even if there are oddities. And they tend to happen just after a very lucid experience. It's as if you've used all your lucidity up in the previous experience and so you fall like a ton of bricks into a normal dream where you believe you are awake. Very strange! :-)
Sarah
Ah... well that makes sense.
well it definately felt like an OBE! i was very lucid during the OBE portion much more so than the initial dream portion. I wish i'd stayed out longer!