My Experiences Thread

[Psan]

Date : 1/5/08 Early morning

Intensionally trying to hover around the sleep/awake line. I fell asleep with an intension of not going too deep in sleep.
While in sleep, thought of checking time on my cellphone. Stretched my hand but experienced a "rip", which means I moved my astral hand, and as soon as I came to know, I got up out of the body.

It was murky and confusing, could not focus on anything, so decided to go out, but then changed my mind and decided instead to go back into body (which is rare ).
Got back with a very clear crisp memory of the experience.

[slipknot0129]

how often do you get out of your body when you are asleep? this only happened to me once.

[Psan]

Once in a blue moon
But chances increase if I persist and practice daily. (Early mornings i.e.)
I wish I was more devoted, I spend most of my time thinking worthless things and reading stuff... :p

[Psan]

Date : 10/5/08 Early morning

Fell asleep while practicing but the intent worked and woke up in astral with mild vibes. I could see myself but everything was heavily blurred. Got up and tried to move away from the body but something was not right and I found myself stuck.

I wished myself away, did not work. I focused on solar plexus (this is what moves you in astral), and as soon as I did this I became aware of my physical body and neatly snapped back into it, as a result.

Fortunately, it did not break the trance and I got up again, however this time it was low in energy and dreamlets started appearing. I saw the room, but it was a made-up room. I wanted to turn on the lights, I was afraid of pressing the switch because I thought my finger would go through it and I will get a shock. Suddenly many many switches appeared on the wall...some big some small . Realizing my foolishness and that I was just wasting my time, I decided to go out.
Anyway I went out of the door in reverse (moving backwards towards the door, I do this when I can't open doors or can't get through).

Outside the scene was different and a bit dull. Energy was running out and I was falling into dreams. I remember getting back to the body once again and a false awakening and lots of flying and jumping on the rooftops.

[slipknot0129]

sounds like an amazing obe.

[Greytraveller]

Psan
The lack of energy while out of body is a problem that I also suffer with.
There just HAS to be some way to renew energy during an OBE.
I practice pranayma and yoga on a regular basis. Both seem to provide energy during the normal day. But neither seem to be of much help when I am out of body and about to run out of energy.
The usual result is (like you) that the OBE abruptly ends. Frustrating indeed. 


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[Psan]

Psan
The lack of energy while out of body is a problem that I also suffer with.
There just HAS to be some way to renew energy during an OBE.

I do charge myself with NEW and stuff, its not enough I guess...
For now I'm totally dependent on my own natural energy, which depletes with each obe and takes a week or so to re-charge itself.

[Psan]

Date : 13/5/08 Night

Noticed something very interesting today while practicing.
While in trance, my entire right arm became very very light and lifted itself up, as if levitating.
I'm sure, it was not merely an illusion, because it startled me and the hand fell back.

It has happened many times that my right index finger lifts itself up involuntarily, as if its weightless..

Saw a dream later, in which some people appeared. When I called on a number, the caller tune had changed.

[Psan]

Date : 14/5/08 Early morning

Went to sleep while practicing. Found myself conscious after a while in a dream. I was not knowing that its a dream. The bed, the house everything was different but somehow I had no doubts and thought everything was ok and I was out. There were many dream elements and some people. Everything was darkish and dull.

Went out anyway, the doors etc were solid. Outside it was dark, as if just before sunset. Recited my full name and phone number, everything was ok, except I was under the impression that its a real obe.
Whenever I tried to look too far, awareness diminished.
Thought of going to someone and willed myself there, but was just dragged around a while and fell. There I knew something was not right and decided to end it. Woke up in the dream body. Got out again with ease (?) and was wondering why I could keep out for so long...

Woke up in real body, was ticked a bit...

[Psan]

Date : 17/5/08 Afternoon

Had another "dreamed up obe"
It was dark and I experienced all common symptoms of obe, all in a dream....
The dream was very lucid though, and I tried some experiments, like writing down something on a paper and touching my (invisible) sleeping (dream) physical self. Generated some interesting special effects...

Woke up with mild vibes in real.
I don't like these "fake" obes

[Psan]

Date : 21/5/08 Morning

Another "dream-obe" occurred. This time even more experimentation done. Strangely, my 'dream-obe-body' was invisible to others in the dream and to a dog, but was visible to a cat, who was afraid when I approached him.
The dreamscape was a house and its compound where I used to live years ago.

[Psan]

Date : 24/5/08 Morning

Woke up with buzzing sensations. I knew instantly that I'm on the edge.
I didn't try anything (for a change) and just bathe in the feeling, on the boundary and was expecting that it will end within a few seconds and I will return to normal physically awake state.

To my amazement, I spontaneously and naturally floated upwards a feet or so and the room came into view (dark and blurred though), as if I was seeing through the closed eyes. A loud rushing noise, like a waterfall was waxing and waning. It lasted for about 10-15 secs. I intensionally didn't try exit.

I was satisfied with whatever little was achieved. Its not going to happen instantly, I'm not going to become a master in one night....
I should take the baby steps. Patience is the key. I'll go step by step -
1- Conditioning the body to stay still for long periods.
2- Silencing the mind (stop useless chatter, not the critical thinking) for as long as possible.
3- Hover on the edge, for as long as possible and not to hurry the exit.

[Psan]

Date : 28/5/08 Late night

Trying to remain awake through the sleep stages...
This is what happens -
1- Once I'm fully relaxed, the focus shifts to inside of my head mostly and I become more aware of bodily sensations.
2- The tiny and imperceptible pains and tickles become obvious.
3- A few itches and stings develop, which I don't resist because they become painful if ignored. A very slight touch is enough to kill them. Another way is to completely withdraw attention from them and wait a few seconds, but its difficult. Anyway its natural so I let them happen.
4- The internal chatter (worded) continues and is rational. After some time, eyes turn upwards and external sounds cease. A humming and ringing sound replaces them.
5- The thoughts (chatter) becomes incoherent and spontaneous. I caught myself thinking about senseless things, which were a jumble of words totally meaningless.
6- A rushing sound overtakes suddenly, and this is when normally people fall asleep and become unconscious. I resisted it and after a few tries, I managed to stay barely awake. Basically dipping in and out slightly.
7- Thoughts cease completely and are replaced by imagery. At first there are intermittent fuzzy images, which become clear after a while.
8- Sometimes, body twitches, and breathing sounds can be heard.
9- The images become continuous (movie), I did not perceive any sounds clearly but the characters were talking and I somehow 'knew' what they were saying. The images were flat (as if projected on a transparent screen) and were very clear.
10- I could hear a pop or a bang, which breaks the movie and wakes me up. I drift back to sleep again this time without the images or sounds.
11- There are 'gaps' after this and I don't remember much, except that whenever I rose back slightly I could feel my body and as if I never slept.
12- After about 30-45 min, there is an irresistible urge to move and change position. I resisted it and relaxed. It comes back again, mainly in legs, it a strange feeling. It keeps coming and getting stronger and after a while I gave up and turned to right. ( I guess its an autonomous thing which keeps our bodies turning and tossing whole night so that the blood flows uniformly, normally we dont notice this)
13- Woke up as if never slept and went back to bed after 10 min and slept normally.

[Psan]

Date : 03/06/2008 Evening

I did a little experiment today. Recorded a 1 min long sound clip on my cell phone which only says "awake" and the rest is silence. I kept the cell on bed and played it in repeat mode, so that it said "awake" every 1 min in my own voice. With this playing, I started my practice to remain on the edge as usual.

This worked . Not only it focused my attention back, whenever I drifted into meaningless thoughts and monologues, it kept me on the edge for a full 30 min. I reached this condition within 3 mins because of repeated reminders for silencing the thoughts. Some interesting things that happened -

- The sleep stages were over very quickly, and the dream (pictures and movies) stage was brief and clear. Those were crisp and in full color but without sound.
- I was aware of the "blank" period after that and could hear sounds from outside, but could not hear the recording anymore.
- Non physical hands/legs moved spontaneously. They would snap back as soon as I became more aware of this happening.
- Could hear voices, some were my own thoughts perhaps and some were foreign. Once heard a laugh, very distinct and real, but coming from 'my own head'.
- Body was very stiff when I came out of it, which means I was very still and I was sure I was still. There was a dry feeling in my mouth as if I slept for hours.
- Time appears to go slowly when my mind is completely silent. The recording takes forever to repeat. When I m busy with jumbles of thoughts, it goes fast. Don't know why it seems so.