Deja Vu

[Reilly]

Hey Astral Pulse!
Long time reader first time writer.

I wanted to discuss my first (and only) OOBE experience and see what everyone else thinks about it.
To this day I can't really explain it.

I was about 10-11 and was visiting my grandparents home in Arizona
I had pretty bad nightmares the first 2 nights after arriving at the house.
The dream would start with me walking to my grandparents home when I saw tombstones in the backyard
I would run into the garage to see my grandmother opening the door only to see her whisked away by a shadowy hand stretching
from a room and pulling her in the direction where my room was located (I couldn't see from my angle)
The room I was sleeping in scared me as a kid and I didn't get a good 'vibe' from it.
My grandparents slapped a bunch of night lights in the room and I went to bed the next night.

I was drifting off to sleep (but still conscience) when I started feeling a sensation like a powerful magnetic pull on my body
I couldn't speak or move and then suddenly I just popped out of my body and hovered over the bed.
Seconds later I saw something like a swirling blue vortex in the center of the room and I instantly flew face first into it, I didn't have any control over the experience at all.

There was a flash of light after I went into it and I found myself floating in the center of a blue-ish tornado.
I felt every inch of my 'body' being violently pulled on in all directions
(I was completely still, but it felt like I was a piece of metal in a room made entirely out of super magnets)
while pictures came down from the top of the place and floated across the sides of the swirling tornado in slow motion.

They were like floating tv screens with each image playing a different 'video'
my attention would be drawn towards one of the images and again I would fly face first into it.
I don't really remember a lot after that, only that I would come out of the same swirly blue vortex at a different location and see different things while I floated around.
The only one I remember vividly is I came out and saw my mom and grandmother walking in what looked like a mall
I tried to swim towards them in the air yelling at them trying to get their attention before being sucked back in.
This experience lasted a long time, I would be sucked back in and arrive back at the tornado and fly into a different image.
After what seemed like hours I woke up gasping for air and I ran out of the room and went back to bed on the couch

I just thought it was a really bad nightmare until I started having VERY powerful deja vu moments.
I would get the feeling doing mundane things. But as the years have passed they have started to get longer and more intense
and I'm starting to remember more and more things during these deja vu moments.

Such as remembering seeing the same situation but from a different point of view such as from above or inside the ground/floor looking up. Or most recently, remember floating up through the ground looking at myself and hearing the thoughts I had at that exact moment.

I'm not insane, I have no mental health issues (I thought I did for awhile though)
Whenever I tell my best friend or family about these things they just sing the twilight zone theme for the most part.
So I thought I would share my story here and see if anyone has had any similar experiences?

I became interested in it awhile ago and I found out that the town my grandparents live in is supposedly built on an old native american burial ground.
Which just made the twilight theme more appropriate  

Any ideas or other stories like this are welcome

*Edit* I should also say that I'm 18 now, I've been having this happen for 8 or so years now

[Boom]

Hi, thanks for sharing.

From what I have come to understand. People will astral project, or have an out of body experience or  what ever you want to call it, when the body falls asleep but the mind is still fully awake. Your conciousness is bound to your physical body like a strong electro magnet.  When you fall asleep that magnet looses a lot of its power, so its easier to push the focus of your mind away from your body to the other dimensions.  However, when we sleep we also loose our concious state, awareness and control of what we are doing.  Therefore, dreams, if we remember them, tend to be a random garble of crap that doesnt mean a great deal to us.

What I think happened to you, is that because you were spooked out in that room. Your mind stayed on guard and was still very fully active.  You didnt allow yourself to drift off into sleep because you wanted to be aware of what was going on. But eventually your body was just like, nope I'm going to sleep. And somehow your body fell asleep but your mind didnt. This opened you up to an Astral Projection.

What you experience in an Astral seems to be completely different between different people.  Like everyone has different dreams, we all have different astral projections.  Some people will see swirling vortexs, other people won't.  I think it just depends on the way you think.

But thanks for sharing.  There are more experienced people on the forum that may give you some better answers than me.  Youre amongst people who can think further than just their physical bodies. So no one here will take the tinkle with twilight zone music.

Btw, the following link might help you a little bit:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

And im sorry I couldnt resist

[Xanth]

Reilly,

You didn't mention if when you "popped out", how consciously aware you were that you were projecting.

I'll just assume you consciously knew, at the time, that you were... and say that you had a textbook spontaneous projection!  Definitely!
I feel that kind of projection you had, most people would simply shrug off as nothing more than "just a dream"... which is quite disappointing, because it means that their subconscious mind is trying to open their conscious mind to the reality of our multidimensional nature.

So, goodstuff! 

[pondini]

i enjoyed reading your post, reilly. i think you should consider trying to replicate your experience.

the quote below interests me because it's not something we hear about very often:

Such as remembering seeing the same situation but from a different point of view such as from above or inside the ground/floor looking up. Or most recently, remember floating up through the ground looking at myself and hearing the thoughts I had at that exact moment.

two theories come to mind. the first one is that you somehow were able to spontaneously separate the 'real' you from the human body your consciousness occupies. yes, i know how flaky that sounds, but watch this jim carry video (of comedic fame) and decide if his experience shares any commonality with yours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQJyKhmqkQ

another explanation might be that you accessed an un-actualized historical database (that sounds as crazy as the first premise, eh? ). philip k. willy, the author of The Adjustment Bureau, Blade Runner, etc. experienced a similar series of events during his life -you can watch The Penultimate Truth to find out a bit more about it- but Robert Crumb's Graphic Novel The Religious Experience of Philip K willy explains the events in more detail. you can read it for free here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10863883/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Experience-of-Philip-K-willy
(it's not a long read -a graphic novel is just a comicbook).
Thomas Campbell puts this theory into understandable terms in his book My Big T.O.E. (Theory Of Everything). it's a trilogy-book over 850 pages big -and well worth the read- but you can just read the 'Cosmology' section for free at google books to learn what i'm talking about:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=RYHtBPiZVgsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
no other book has influenced me like MBT, but if you want the condensed version, you can watch the author's 3 hour seminar here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/twcjr44#g/c/F3A7B4A9CBCFC1C1

good luck to you, no matter how you choose to proceed:)