I'd wanted to share this for some time, so I'm glad I found this message board and hope you find my experience interesting.
Anyway, a few months ago I was dreaming, I can't quite remember what about, when suddenly I realized I was dreaming. I didn't wake up, but I felt very much more aware and conscious, and everything was much more vivid. As I realized I was dreaming, I suddenly could feel both my physical body lying in bed, and my sort of 'dream' body. They felt separate but I could feel them both.
I had a sort of floating/ falling feeling for a couple of seconds as I realized I was dreaming, then found myself in a train station. At this point everything seemed much more vivid than in a dream, but not as vivid as real life. You know how when you're dreaming you don't really notice things around you, just the most important things? Well in my 'dream' I was aware of everything around me, lots and lots of people walking past me, signs, general goings-on in the station.
Anyway, I noticed some glass automatic doors which led out into the street, and decided I would walk out and fly up onto a building. I walked out, jumped and kept going up until I landed on the roof of the building opposite. As I was flying, I felt a HUGE sense of joy and could feel a massive smile spreading across my face- quite a weird but good experience. I then flew/jumped between the roofs of different buildings for no more than a few seconds, until I gradually became more and more aware of my physical body, felt a 'drop' and 'landed' in my bed and woke up.
What do you think? A possible OBE or just a dream?
I would initially say a you just triggered a lucid dream, but the fact that you could "feel" your physical body seems more like an OBE type deal. With all the lucid dreams I've had, I've never had one where I could feel my physical body in bed. I have yet to have an OBE, but from what I've heard and read, you are supposed to not have the dream symptoms, which is that kind of fogginess that comes with all dreams, you can just tell it was a dream when you wake up, you arent sure how, its just the feel. Haha, too hard to explain, but anyway, I guess you aren't supposed to have the dream fogginess with OBE's. But it sounds like you were just lucid dreaming.
That was a great experience. :-D
When you want to be sure of the difference, you can put up the intent to be in a different place, while Out-of-Body or Lucid Dreaming. Usually, when I am in a lucid dream and I want to have an OBE, I imagine myself Out of Body and then, seconds later, I feel the vibrations and there is a difference in the quality of perception.
So, next time you find yourself in that kind of situation, you can just think and wish to leave your body. Most of the time you will feel the vibrations right away and you will find yourself near your body.
Anyway, Nice experience :-)
Thanks peeps
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Its interesting how you became "aware" whilst you were in a train station. Alot of people view train stations as a conduit of transition. When most people think of train stations they think of them as a hub or "inbetween point" from point A to point B. I dont know about you but this holds symbolic meaning to me and I have an overwhelming feeling you were meant to have this experience and it was not just some mere "chance" kind of thing. :wink:
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I would say you had a Lucid Dream but since you said, "I suddenly could feel both my physical body lying in bed," and "felt a 'drop' and 'landed' in my bed and woke up," leads me to think otherwise. When your Astral body returns to the physical body, you may feel as if you have fallen into your bed (I've felt this before after an OBE). You had a Lucid Dream that became an OBE or just a Lucid Dream.
There are still some things that were said like, "At this point everything seemed much more vivid than in a dream, but not as vivid as real life," that leave me unable to definitively say whether it was an OBE or not (because an OBE would be as vivid/real as real life).