Dreamt I had achieved an OBE

[VeladonF]

Last night I dreamt that I had achieved an OBE. I was flying over my friends and all around the sky but they couldn't see me. This wasn't a lucid dream though - I didn't know I was dreaming, I thought I had achieved it in 'real life', so-to-speak. I did try OBE'ing the night before (as a side-note, I haven't yet achieved an OBE).

Does this mean i'm close to achieving an OBE, or is it just my sub-consciousness recreating what I was thinking about before I went to bed?

Or what

-J.

[malganis]

LOL, i had almost exactly the same experience few weeks ago.

My mother and sister were looking for me. I was waving back and shouting
but they could not seen me. So i thought to myself that i'm in OBE. I started to fly straight upward waving arms like a bird and thinking to myself to go as fast as a bullet. I saw below a city with red roofs. I went through the ground easily and had no feelings of penetrating materia. Then i found myself walking on the street. [i didnt know i'm dreaming] I concentrated on having an OBE and i started to fly again. I did that few times.

After i wake up i realized this were dreams. I had some control over flying but i didn't know i was dreaming. Are these still lucid dreams?

[Syke]

lol yes I too have had an experience just like this.

It is extremely strange, because you think you're having an OBE so you can do everything you can in a Lucid Dream but with some serious differences.
Like with mine people knew I was having an OBE and i could effect some physical objects.

Then towards the end I lost my body and was unable to reenter. So the one friend who could see and hear me let me stay with him while we figured out what to do.

I never resolved it all but it was certainly a great experience.

-Syke

[Ben K]

The only difference in DREAMING you had an OBE and actually having an OBE is your level of awareness.

There are many different levels of awareness, in fact infinity. Think of it like a cup with water. The cup is your consciousness and the water is your awareness. When dreaming, the cup is empty. The more aware you are the more water in your cup.

So technically, you DID have an OBE. You just werent aware enough to realize what was going on. Which is completely understandable for beginners.

[GeKKo]

I don't completely agree.
When having an OOBE, the environment is a lot more like reality.
When having a lucid dream, then environment can be anything, and your power over it is a lot bigger.
In OOBE its more sort of an "observer" status ...

[dmoney]

the same thing happened to me last night. I woke up because I got really scared and when I did, I could feel the vibrations. I started moving around so they would go away.

[Bynx]

Ok, I kind of dreamed that I had an OBE, my very first one. But I'm not exactly sure if I really dreamed it, or if it was real. It seems like it was possibly real, but I'm not an expert, this was maybe my first time, so tell me what you think.

Last night, before I went to sleep, I told myself that since tomorrow (today now) was my birthday, a good birthday present to myself would be to have an OBE. Sometime during the night while I was sleeping, and I woke up. Not moving, I thought "hey, I should try to have an OBE!" So I started thinking about rocking back and forth like those viking ship rides at amusement parks (I'm not sure why I thought of doing it, I just did" Then I started feeling like I was shaking all over. A couple seconds later I felt weightless and floaty, so I rolled over, and fell on the floor. I looked at my bed, and there was me, sleeping. I was surprised that it had happened that easy. I was "rocking" for maybe 30 seconds. I decided I wanted to see my sister and I started to try to walk through my wall. (Her room is right next to mine). Then I woke up.
This is the reason I think I might have dreamed it all. When I "woke up" I was dreaming (Though I didn't know it at the time, of course.) In my dream, I was like "Yay, I did it! I had an OBE!" So I wrote it all down and went on here and wrote all about it, excited. (Funny that I dreamed that I went on here... hehe) Then I REALLY woke up, and laughed at myself because then I had to write it all down, and go on here for real. But I just don't know if it's possible that I did it at all. It felt really real, and it is possible that I could have done it, and then had a dream, right? Does that usually happen?

[Ben K]

I don't completely agree.
When having an OOBE, the environment is a lot more like reality.
When having a lucid dream, then environment can be anything, and your power over it is a lot bigger.
In OOBE its more sort of an "observer" status ...

Thats because OOBEs take place on "earth". its like the boundary line between the physical world and the mind. lucid dreams on the other hand take place in a variety of environments. sometimes earth-like, sometimes completelt non earth-like.

Il say it again- the ONLY difference between DREAMS and LUCID DREAMS/OOBE/AP is your level of awareness.

[Ben K]

I don't completely agree.
When having an OOBE, the environment is a lot more like reality.
When having a lucid dream, then environment can be anything, and your power over it is a lot bigger.
In OOBE its more sort of an "observer" status ...

Thats because OOBEs take place on "earth". its like the boundary line between the physical world and the mind. lucid dreams on the other hand take place in a variety of environments. sometimes earth-like, sometimes completely non earth-like.

Il say it again- the ONLY difference between DREAMS and LUCID DREAMS/OOBE/AP is your level of awareness.

[Syke]

The only difference in DREAMING you had an OBE and actually having an OBE is your level of awareness.

There are many different levels of awareness, in fact infinity. Think of it like a cup with water. The cup is your consciousness and the water is your awareness. When dreaming, the cup is empty. The more aware you are the more water in your cup.

So technically, you DID have an OBE. You just werent aware enough to realize what was going on. Which is completely understandable for beginners.

Well "technically" every dream is an OBE, as you're not physical at all. It's a journey of the mind.

They were merely dreams, nothing to do with being beginners or not.

Like my dream: in my dream I was having an OBE no question.. But I could still talk to "physical" ppl and effect "physical" objects by touching them and such.

I guess you would have to experience it for yourself to really understand what it's like, when you wake up you know it was a dream.

Bynx your experience sounds to me like a false awakening... you may have had an OBE but then for whatever reason (maybe not enough energy or concentration) you fell in to another dream. It's quite common.

[greatoutdoors]

For my two cents worth, it is very possible you had a genuine OBE but just remember it on a dream level. Here's an example: I was sleeping at a family reunion and an uncle (with a sense of humor   ) tried the old "tickle the nose with a feather) to see if it would wake me. I dreamed there was this gigantic mosquito buzzing around my face and kept trying to swat it away. When I woke up I discovered the uncle "bugging" me.  

Your dreams can reflect what is actually happening in the physical. They can also allow you to recall what is happening in the non-physical. Both experiences are equally genuine.

By the way, and just for grins, my definition of "Real" is the everyday physical environment that we normally inhabit. However, I find myself using it to describe non-phisical events that are just as genuine, only not on the physical plane. We have to function in the "real" world, but that doesn't mean our experiences in the non-physical are not equally real (oops, genuine).

[Astral Projection]

Same thing happened to me a month ago. I was dreaming that I have AP. I was at the street flying (but it was like I was swiming thru air) and "knowing" that I'm having an astral projection. Later in that dream I flew into one building (willingly) and then I woke up. Very nice dream..