An obe or someting else?

[Timandra]

One time I woke up and kept my eyes closed and tried to stay relaxed so I could fall alsleep again. Then suddenly I was between the stars and planets with an awsome 3D sight. It was so clear and sharp and I felt a certain atmosphere. It really felt like I was there. Alas it only lasted about 2 seconds. Was this some sort of obe? I would like to hear your opinions.
Thank you.
Timandra

[astralmugee]

I know im a vary vivid person wether it be lying in bed or awake. sometimes I can see life times pass through my head in a matter of seconds. the only time I ever had a vivid experience as yours awake, is when I was sick and on medicine. I beleive it was a Dxm trip I was having. I traveled through the stars and to other planets. saving life and seeing it destroyed, all in a matter of a half hour. it was extremly epic....im not sure what you saw, maybe it was a vivid visualization of some sort?

[Timandra]

Thank you astralmugee for answering. Your experience sounds very extraordinary, especially because it lasted at least 30 minutes. Mine only last 3 seconds at the most. I don't think it is a visualisation, because they are started with the intention of seeing something in particular. My images just happen out of the blue, while I am trying to fall asleep. They are in the hypnagogic state, but then with the full 3 dimensional feel and sight and the sensing of the atmosphere that goes with the image. I also get the normal hypnagogic images, they are more like watching a film, not at all the feeling that you are right there. I have had 3 of these 3-D experiences now since December 2008, that is when I started to get more interested in obe's and lucid dreaming. 

[ancient_one]

Thank you astralmugee for answering. Your experience sounds very extraordinary, especially because it lasted at least 30 minutes. Mine only last 3 seconds at the most. I don't think it is a visualisation, because they are started with the intention of seeing something in particular. My images just happen out of the blue, while I am trying to fall asleep. They are in the hypnagogic state, but then with the full 3 dimensional feel and sight and the sensing of the atmosphere that goes with the image. I also get the normal hypnagogic images, they are more like watching a film, not at all the feeling that you are right there. I have had 3 of these 3-D experiences now since December 2008, that is when I started to get more interested in obe's and lucid dreaming. 

Timandra
You know, if your experience, brief as it was, was not an OOBE but some other precursor- you are bound to have some very intense OOBEs when it does happen.  The description of your experience lacks a few key indicators of OOBEs. But, hey- Who is to say? It could just be a different type of OOBE than most are commonly having.   

[Timandra]

Could it be that just my consciousness went out of my body and not my astral body? Like a rapid shift from one place (my body) to the spot between the stars and back again. If that is possible at all.

[CFTraveler]

One time I woke up and kept my eyes closed and tried to stay relaxed so I could fall alsleep again. Then suddenly I was between the stars and planets with an awsome 3D sight. It was so clear and sharp and I felt a certain atmosphere. It really felt like I was there. Alas it only lasted about 2 seconds. Was this some sort of obe? I would like to hear your opinions.
Thank you.
Timandra

Yes, you phased into the Void.  It is a projection, not necessarily into an astral plane or focus.  This is a good experience, most people want to go there and can hardly.
There are many types of projections- all involve the focusing of consciousness- depending on the type of projection, some will be more 'realistic' and mechanical (OBE to the RTZ or etheric) and others will be more like melting into a landscape-phasing, for example.
They are all projections, what differs is the degree of closeness to the physical- but they are all projections.

[Timandra]

Yes, you phased into the Void.  It is a projection, not necessarily into an astral plane or focus.  This is a good experience, most people want to go there and can hardly.
There are many types of projections- all involve the focusing of consciousness- depending on the type of projection, some will be more 'realistic' and mechanical (OBE to the RTZ or etheric) and others will be more like melting into a landscape-phasing, for example.
They are all projections, what differs is the degree of closeness to the physical- but they are all projections.

Thank you Ancient one and CFTraveler. I had never heard of phasing before, I was very pleased with your answer CFTraveler. This means that I have these experiences without trying to get them which is a good sign. I am now trying to find more information about phasing, especially a way to extend the experiences because they are magic places to explore! I think now that I have had many more of these phasing-experiences as I read through my dreamjournals. I started having these images in 2006 but not as many and not always with the feelilng that I am really there. Also sometimes I see myself in these images, is that phasing as well or another type of projecting? Or could they be a kind of memory from some other type of projection? E.g. I saw myself saying goodbye with a hug to someone who was all dressed in white. This becomes more and more interesting. 

[CFTraveler]

They could be clairvoyant episodes (of the precog type), but to me they are all projections- just through time as well as space.  Or something like that.