My First "Traditional" OBE (With Exit!)

[mactombs]

I woke at 5AM and couldn't go back to sleep for a while (usually I fall right back asleep). I finally fell asleep, and then woke again. I thought I heard my roommate walking around outside my bedroom. I looked at the clock and it was 8:15AM or so, so I thought maybe he was getting up early for work.

I kind of dozed off and began hearing other noises and voices and such. They were pretty eerie, but I didn't let it bother me too much. After a while, I could start looking through my eyelids at stuff around the room. My body started feeling buzzy and weird.

I was too cozy too even get excited about the possibility of OBEing. I just became passive and observed things as they happened. When I started feeling like my consciousness was fading, I let it happen. But I didn't lose awareness. Right then I felt like I was being sucked sideways, and got pulled out of my body onto the floor.

I stood up thinking, I did it! My room seemed creepy, though. I can't really explain it, just a lot of weird voices and presences. I just ignored it, and decided for validation I would look at the clock. The clock looked just like my clock, but the time kept changing every time I looked at it from a different angle.

So I went to the door and decided to see if I could walk through it. Nope, I just slammed into it. I thought, well, I'll try that again later.

I decided to head back to my body so I wouldn't forget this experience. Looking back to the bed, the perspective seemed skewed so that my room looked twice as long as normal. I ran down the room and saw my body sleeping on the bed. It was weird looking at myself. I tried to do a belly flop into body, but I bounced off the bed. I was wondering how I was going to get back in when I spontaneously opened my eyes, awake again.

Unfortunately, I went back to sleep again after that, so it blurred my memory of the event to the point where I'm not absolutely sure if it was just a false awakening that led to a false OBE. During the experience, though, I do remember being aware and thinking clearly. On the other hand, I also thought to myself, if all OBEs are this creepy then I don't know if I want to have anymore. But right now I think that's craziness!Memories of this kind of thing are surreal, though, after being awake for several hours.

Anyway, that's my first full-body exit and romp, and first experience initiated from an (I think) conscious state.

Also, something of note is that for the previous two nights, I've said silent affirmations to myself a few times before I fall asleep, and again if I wake up in the night. I think affirmations, or setting your intent really does help.

[stephen~]

I can't really offer much as I am questioning myself a lot lately. However I'd try and put behind you that negative thought about all projections being that creepy, that could hold you back. And no they are not always like that, some are quite mind numbingly boring. You are never in any real trouble though whatever happens.

My feeling is that what you experienced you probably did have as lucidly as you think. true after a space of time there's a tendancy to play it down and write it off, but as it was your first of the kind then you may well have remembered more accuratlely than you thought because as you say were thinking clearly.

Obviously it is hard to interpret your own experiences accurately, let alone someone else's, but it seems  real enough, if only because you are not used yet to the perspective and movement. - At first I bounced around alot, now I don't think about it at all to remain on the floor (or in the air).

I'm only suggesting this, but I think if it was more 'false' as you call it, then perhaps it would have been more perfect? You know, no problems that you noticed in the same way that in a dream you tend not to notice weird things as weird till you wake.

Noticing stuff at the time is an indication of lucidity, and perhaps something to go on when  trying to sort out whether you think it was true or not. (By true I don't mean in a literal sense, but as to what you interpret to be true or not, if you get my meaning.)

[mactombs]

I'm only suggesting this, but I think if it was more 'false' as you call it, then perhaps it would have been more perfect? You know, no problems that you noticed in the same way that in a dream you tend not to notice weird things as weird till you wake.

Noticing stuff at the time is an indication of lucidity, and perhaps something to go on when trying to sort out whether you think it was true or not. (By true I don't mean in a literal sense, but as to what you interpret to be true or not, if you get my meaning.)

I understand what you're saying, and yes, it does makes sense. Thanks for your input, it clarifies how to view the lucidity issue a lot!

Also, I'm not ever concerned about scary things in the non-physical while I'm awake, but being asleep it seems that your emotions have more free reign, varying of course on the degree of lucidity you have.