Unusual OOBE this morning

[terrance]

"Immediately I began to doze off again, but catching myself in the process I..."  I'm not well read on methods of OBE etc. but I'll give you my two pence.  This moment of catching yourself is extremely important i feel.  You can either get good at jumping on that moment or practising simulating that moment with various techniques - or both.  Other people on this forum will have more valid things to say about these 'techniques'.  But I think that nurturing either of these will eventually teach you to gain greater control.  Your 'clarity' demand is a great idea - i've never tried that and will next time i'm flying about out of control.

As for sticking your hand out to stop I would say just calmly will yourself to stop.  If you end up in that dark room again then great!  Explore it and become familiar with it.  You might find it's a place you can get to to jump out to other areas (not sure about that, but it sounds like a good idea to me:) You could also try calmly moving out of the room.

Hope this is of some help. help
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[ralphm]

This must be the week for fast moving astral trips in the dark. I just wrote a response under the "astral wind" question and the other one I just read is similar too.

[elasticca]

This morning I experienced what I think was my second OOBE this week. These were the first in many years. It was a strange experience however. First of all, I woke up this morning with a heavy tingling sensation in my right hand. I probably slept on it. But the sensation made me think of the vibrations, and I decided to try for an OOBE. I started to doze off, and felt slightly "detached" from my body for a moment. At this point, my mom knocked on my door to inform me that I needed to move my truck for her, as she needed to go to work, and was blocking the way.

After moving the truck I went into the bathroom, and with the thought of projecting still very strong in my mind, I decided to try the "mirror exercise" outlined in many books on astral projection. After about 2 minutes of this I felt silly and climbed back into bed. Immediately I began to doze off again, but catching myself in the process I compressed all my energy into the act of sitting up (rising out of body). I slowly began moving into an upright position on the bed. I could barely see, as if looking through blurry eyes. For a moment I thought I was perhaps still in the physical, however soon was to learn otherwise.

Suddenly I felt a strong force begin to pull me backwards, and I fought it as hard as I could for a moment. I suddenly felt myself let go, and just let it take me. Everything went black, and for what seemed like 10 seconds I felt myself rushing backwards into the darkness at a fair velocity. Next my visual perception shifted somewhat, and I could see a wall passing me by very dimly. My perception opened up for a moment, and I percieved that I was in a room somewhere. It also occured to me that I was moving around this room in a circular pattern backwards, very quickly. As I came close to the wall I reached out for it, and attempted to place my hand on it to slow my rotation. My hand passed through the wall however, I began to slow down a bit.  At this point I said out loud (or rather thought it out loud) "Clarity Now!". And I slowed to a halt, and my visual perception cleared. I was standing in a very dark room. It appeared to be nowhere in particular. Perhaps A room I had created in my mind. Don't really know. I then awoke.

This was a very odd experience to me, however I had had at least one other experience in the past that was almost identical. The sensation of movement I felt reminded me of William Buhlmans description of "moving inward" in his book on AP. I wonder if this is the sensation to which he was refering. Ah well. Any thoughts anyone? Anyone have similar experiences?

Thanks,
Michael