YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE OF OBE

[jilola]

Sylvain: Wow! I used to have a recurring dream with a witch in it. In the dream I'm stuck in something and watching the sky/cealing above me when a hag comes hovering in. She's either just hovering and getting closer and closer or buzzing me by flying by me real close. She has a pretty scary face and fingers like thin leafless branches. The dream used to end just before I either got unstuck or the witch reached me.
Looking back this seems like an aborted OBE but may just have been a recurring bad dream.

Jouni

[Momentsofclarity]

My first obe was a spontaneous projection when i was 26. I am interested in hearing about how other projectors first hear about or experience obe or Astral projection?

It changed the way i look at everything in this life!

Life is good!

[Naykid]

I thought it would be helpful to bring up some old topics, plus I added my first (conscious) time on here to. Thanks for telling me to talk about obe's xanth!    I think reading other experiences is very helpful instead of reading about techniques all the time.  Reading back on my own experiences help as well.

Yes!  Victory!!! 

**dances around a bit**

Ok..I will calm down to tell you what happened..

Woke up around 6am this morning. (hubby stayed home cause I am going to get some out patience stuff done today)  sooo I said..alright I am going down to the couch (cause of the snoring) He said "good-luck" and went back to sleep.

I get comfortable on the couch.. and do my relaxing tech.  But for some reason after a while (30-40 min) my legs start feeling uncomfortable..I turn onto my right side.. and within as few minutes  the vibrations are all over the place!  I then start looking out my astral eyes..everything is blurry and I ask for "clarity" doesn't really work except now I see my hubby standing in front of.. (I'm still on my side)  I think oh great he has come down to check on me again..but I look a little closer and his body looked all sparkly.. I tried to get up..but was sooooooooooooo heavy.. I hate that part..I can't get up!  So, I say Screw it..I will go into a dream and wake up there.. cause that does seem to be my thing. 

Next thing I know I am standing next to this line of people..I have no idea what they are doing but I walk up to them and I poke one of them and say "Hey, Man you're in a dream..wake up"! they just keep walking real slowly past me in this line..lol...so each person that walked past me I would poke them and say this...most of them didn't even look at me..But I did notice that each and everyone of those people were different.. I mean a woman, man, black, white, younger, older, ect...One girl had a lot of freckles on her face and I tried to get her to look at me but to no avail..Buuuuuut the guy behind her was starting to take notice...YES!  he looked like a teenager..big kid I got the impression he played football.. so I went up to him and pushed him in the shoulder and said "Hey..you're in a dream..come on wake up".. he looked down at me and smiled..

Then I believe he "put" me in his dream...does that make sense?
We were in a house..I could describe but not important.. It was quite the boring dream actually.. we sat around drinking tea.. I know we had pleasant conversation..but eh...I have forgotten..
All of a sudden I say.."oh, someone is coming...gotta go" I got up ran for the front door and it opened right as I reached for the handle.  So I let the door open and I hid behind it as it opened..

I had this stupid 'you caught me look and grin on my face' when the guy closed the door and looked at me...lol...But he was cool and not surprised.. so I went outside and stood in the middle fo the street.
It was deserted and was dark but there were plenty of street lights on.  I was looking down the street to the left thinking of what to do next, when this guy with a bright red sweater and black pants was flying 4ft above the street.. I think he was on a broom...lol...
Soooo there he was coming down the street at me.. and the thought that crossed my mind was..*snicker*  I am going to knock him down..*snicker* or stick out my leg and trip him up...OH, MY!  I would not be this mean in the "real world" I thought.  So I just let him fly right by me...and woke up!

I ran up stairs and told the hubby..his eyes glaze over and he says the polite..."that's nice, Honey"  the time was 9:02.. when I got up stairs.

Sooooo...what was with the line?  They didn't really walk drunk or anything.. just real slow and looked straight ahead..

It was great fun!  Can't wait for the next time.. I will work on the heavy feeling..but if it's easier for me to wake up in a dream....why do I need to be conscious of the split?

thanks for listening!

P.S.  Asisya! Whoo Hoo..it's only a matter of time before I come get you!

Nay. 

[Stookie]

You know, I've mentioned my first OBE here a few times, but I'll do if for this thread:

It was in Fall 1996, before I had internet access. I had been getting into meditation after deciding college wasn't my thing. All info I had to go by was library books, which was really good because I learned all kinds of things in an attempt to get the info I wanted. It's why I'm fairly well-read regarding all kinds of religious and metaphysical stuff, even things I have nothing to do with.

So after about 100 books or so in and several months of practicing meditation, I found Robert Monroe's "Ultimate Journey" and it was the first time in all of this I heard about experiencing the non-physical in such an objective way and became determined to do it. All I had was that one book to go by regarding a conscious OBE technique. After about a month of constant meditation and practice, one Saturday morning I woke up, but I wasn't "awake". But I was definitely fully conscious and having a vision of porcelain china doll sitting on a mantle. I could feel myself asleep on my side, but it felt as though my eyes were wide open looking at this. And my next thought was "This is my chance!", so I thought or "willed" myself to float up in the air away from my body. There was no movement, it was instantaneous. I was immediately at the ceiling in the left corner of the room over my bicycle. I couldn't believe how physical-like and real it was - I imagined being ghost-like and vapor-ish before this. Floating was not a normal feeling, and I instinctual started flinging my arms and legs around all over the place trying to hold onto something. I rotated in the air and saw myself asleep on my side in bed, and immediately got pulled into it. I tried to will myself back out and kind of jumped in and out really fast 8 or 9 times, then sunk fully into my body. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think I immediately woke up right then. I guess it's possible I slept a little more, but I don't think I did.

After this I was excited. I thought I found something I was going to be a master at really fast.

But that wasn't the case. They didn't come that easy again. While I was still doing the same things, no more unexpected wake-ups and OBE's. After 2 or 3 months, I stopped giving it as much importance and kept looking for new things to read. I had read some stuff by Rudolf Steiner before, but at the time it was over my head, but then I purchased Steiner's "How to Know Higher Worlds" at a newly opened book store by my house, and it literally changed the whole game for me. About 1 year after my first OBE, I finally had another one, but at this point I had quit focusing so much on getting out it wasn't so important - I was determined to develop along Steiner's path which has more to do with clairvoyance than astral projection. The better I got with that, the more projecting, lucid dreaming, and just plain crazy experiences during meditation happened on their own. Well, I say that, but I was meditating consistently.

Eventually, like so many others, life caught up with me (or I got caught up in life) and while I still practiced, I lost my consistency for about 2 years. Then I got internet access and started searching for this stuff. I found Robert Bruce's rope-technique, and had success the very first time with it. So I started trying more modern approaches like this, found the astral pulse, and all else is history. Well, almost, as I got back on the Steiner path and it's really the most important thing to me right now.

I guess this turned more into my history than about my 1st OBE, but that first one is where it all began.

[Timandra]

My first OBE was on August 23rd 2009. This is how it went:

This has happened between 8 and 9.30 am. I woke up around 8 am and after that I felt that I was suddenly in a sort of trance, a different state of consciousness. I could stay in it very easily, even when I turned around it came back immediately. But I couldn't fall asleep, so I stayed like that about an hour. Then I lost awareness and when it came back I was deeper into the trance and I felt vibrations. I noticed that I could feel my astral legs and started moving and kicking them around, just as if I was practising to try them out. It felt very weird, moving these legs while my other legs were not moving. After that I heard a loud roar in my ears, like the sound of a jet, and the next moment I was out of my body. I was thinking "omg, I am having my first OBE!" I was suddenly in the bedroom of the house where I grew up, and I felt the doors of the closet. They were smooth, but I couldn't go through them. I couldn't see anything, but I could see that it was light. I then went to the landing and to my parents' bedroom. I said to myself: Clear sight!, because I wanted to see something. And yes, I could see a bit around in the bedroom but not very clearly, more blurred, I don't know how to describe it. I wanted to see more but I didn't dare open my eyes because I was afraid I might open my physical eyes and it would spoil it. I looked out of the windows, and saw the small square that is there and in the middle was something dark on the ground, but I couldn't see what it was. I wanted to know what it was so I tried if I could fly out of the window, and yes! I floated outside to the square, it felt wonderful. I said to myself in my mind: Soft landing, because this was the first time that I floated and I was a bit worried that I would fall the last bit. So I landed next to that dark thing and then saw it was a pile of leftover dirty snow. Like someone had built a snowman there and this was the last bit of it while all other snow had melted away. Then suddenly I couldn't see anymore and lost my sense of direction. It scared me a bit so I wanted to go back to my body. (Also because I had once read that it is wise to not stay out very long on a first obe.) I was thinking of my body and with a thump I fell back into my physical body. Also a peculiar feeling. I wasn't awake then but slipped into a short dream, then I had a false awakening and then I woke up.

[Xanth]

My first consciously remembered Astral Projection...

I THOUGHT I had recognized it for what it was after I had experienced it, but then like most people, I started questioning my experience and wondered if it was "just a dream". 

Well, now-a-days, I *KNOW* for a fact that it was a projection.  There's absolutely no doubt in my mind of it.

For all intents and purposes it was a spontaneous projection.  I was living with my parents at the time, so it was 4 - 6 years ago, I don't know exactly.  One night, I just "woke up" floating a couple feet off the floor in my bedroom, I had all of my "waking faculties".  I recognized that I was in my bedroom at the time, everything looked just as it should have, and I turned around to see if I could see myself sleeping in my bed.  Well, to my amazement all I saw was the imprint of "someone" lying there, I didn't actually see my body.

I turned around and my father was standing there, he looked all "out of it"... yet said only one word to me, "Congratulations".  Which, I assume he was congratulating me on having my first projection.  I turned towards the window and jumped out... I don't remember if the window was open or closed, regardless I was out and flying over my house.  At this point I remember trying to figure out what to do next... I decided to visit a friend.  The next thing I knew I was on the street where she lived flying towards her house.  Now, one thing that really stands out was that I passed by someone else on the way there and I waved and said "Hi!" and this woman waved and said "Hi!" back!  So that was kind neat.

Anyway, around this point I started losing consciousness... and I woke up back in bed.

[Stookie]

Had you been doing anything that may have caused it, or was it just random?

[astraladdict]

My first OBE was back in the 8th grade. I woke up early in the morning what day and decided. "what the hell, why not?"
So i simply laid down. attempt after attempt i couldn't get it.
so i kept asking for help. Help from my spirit guide.
I would say things like " all i need is a push" ( which is true, now i project whenever i want )
so on my last attempt i laid down, my head was hanging off the side of my bed
Next thing i know, every thing look as if it was in the movies when people have flash backs
I see a strong man standing there. he was wearing a blue hippy looking muscle shirt
he was white, i haven't got a look at his face
He said "sorry i havent been much help.. i'll just.. "
he put his hand on my face. Than my astral eyes YANK open.
i feel my breathing going crazy. i tried to move up but it felt as if i had 100 pounds strapped on
i wasn't sure how to teleport so i said "i want to see ____" at that time i said my exes name... >.<
all i SEE is like a slideshow of pictures of her. i just sat there watching them
than i pop back into the physical

                                                                 FIN......

[Xanth]

Had you been doing anything that may have caused it, or was it just random?

It was during one of my periods of "READ EVERYTHING I CAN ABOUT AP!"  LoL
So yeah, not entirely random... but was unexpected at the time.