i had to tell someone who wouldn't think i was mad!

[katie2010]

hi i'm Katie
just had the craziest,scariest most amazing experience, iv'e read about out of body and near death experiences and like to think i am open minded about spiritual things,once went out with someone who claimed they could astral project regularly and lent me a tape which was supposed to teach you, astral projection 101 i guess,never happened for me,and left me feeling significantly not ommmmmmmm!
Anyhow recently iv'e been laid up with a bad back and am not sleeping too well.This teatime yes i live in the uk about 6.00pm felt really tired and thought i'd see if i could catch up on a few zzzd's so went for a lie down in bed,i could hear our local kids who were playing outside as my bedroom is at the street side part of our house, they were quite noisy and i was grumpily thinking there's no hope of nodding off,well i did can't say how much time had gone by but i came to awareness squashed up against the ceiling in the upstairs stairwell just outside the bedroom.I thought why am i not in the bedroom,anyhow as i was thinking this it was like an instruction to my body or should i say not body and i floated across the ceiling back into the bedroom
i then thought could i be astral projecting,then i thought wish i could go outside i put my hands up and started to push through the ceiling,i can only describe it as gently thrusting through marsh mellow although when i came out above the roof of our house i was clean not sticky.
I was just kind of hovering there and there was the sound of rushing wind,as i'm writing this i'm thinking this sounds nuts,i certainly won't be telling anyone but you lot,i looked down and could see some kids in the street on bikes then i looked left over the allotments that run to the side and back of our house and thought i'll try going there which i did it was like flying with the wind rushing past me either side almost kind of like a vague tunnel but to say it was a tunnel would be to try and say it was something it wasn't.
I flew over them and past onto the next road over and then further,i started to get a bit lost direction wise,and a little fearfull of not getting back,so i stopped but i mean thought it and i did,had a good look around to see whereabouts the allotments were,spotted them and went,as i was flying over the allotements i thought if i am astral flying i should have a cord,which i'd learned in the past tethered you to your body so i twisted my head down to look it was there but caused me to do a somersault,which totally freaked me out
i alighted the right way up just hovering about 6foot above the ground.i was alittle scared i thought i'm not sure i like this  then suddenly i sort of rushed back to my bed and woke up and just after my body was kind of humming all over,and i just thought wow wish i could do it again,there you have it
hope it's not the last time

[Xanth]

Hi Katie,

Welcome to the Astral Pulse.

Very classic first OBE experience.  Congratulations! 

Also, about the "Cord"... don't worry about not being able to see it.
Some people, myself included, actually don't believe the "cord" exists.
We believe it's a creation of belief... in other words, you have to believe it exist for you to see it during a projection.

But in any case, congrats! 

[blis]

Hi, katie. I'm also from the uk(Glasgow).

The title of you post reminds me how lucky we are to have the internet. Imagine trying to find open-minded enough people to talk to this stuff about in the pre-internet days.

I'm sure you'll have more obe's if you want them. You've done it once now so you already know you're capable.

[Pauli2]

I must say that was a very impressive first OBE. If you want to learn more stuff from your OBEs, you should write them down so you keep a record of them and from time to time go through your notes. You could also look in the Book Reviews forum to get some more ideas.

[Naykid]

I'm with Paulie, what an awesome first time!  I really enjoyed reading it, congrats!   Hope to hear more from you, oh and welcome to the AP forums. 

[katie2010]

Hello and Thank-you to everyone who replied to my post,they were very kind and understanding responses.
    After yesterdays event i'm left with more questions than answers i suppose  i want to do it again,but as my ap was not actively induced how?.Had a good look around the forum posts,and i hope i'm on the right track that the prep is relaxation related then maybe the rest will follow

[Greytraveller]

Hallo Katie
Yes, well done on your OBE. 
A couple quick comments. I agree with Xanth about the silver cord. I think most people do Not have a silver cord and that includes me. Very few people report seeing a silver cord during an OBE.
The strange noises that you heard are also not unusual.
Flying is Great. If there were nothing else to do while out of body then flying would still make OBEs worthwhile.
Some people experience several OBEs in a short period of time (a few days or a couple weeks) and then go long weeks or months with no OBEs. So be aware that it IS possible that you could have several more OBEs in the next few days.

Regards 
Grey

[katie2010]

Thank you grey traveller
    I've realised after reading other peoples experiences, i've had minor experiences before like sleep/awake paralysis and pre obe vibrations,sensory tunnels etc, but this time was the only time i've fully obe'd or a/p'd and iv'e come to the conclusion that these experiences usually happen to me when i'm sick.
Any conclusions?
                 love and lite katie

[personalreality]

your conscious focus is weakened when you're sick.  you could think of it as your mind being a little more "loose" when you're sick.

and welcome to the pulse.

[Greytraveller]

Hi Katie
When the physical body is sick many people find that it is actually easier to deliberately have an OBE. Perhaps the hold and the pull that the physical body exerts on the non-physical (astral) body is much less during periods of sickness/illness. That is one possible reason. One good example of this was the writer and OBEer Sylvan Muldoon (Co-author 0f "Projection of the Astral Body"). He was a sickly child and experienced hundreds of OBEs. Then when his health began to improve the frequency of his OBEs dropped dramatically. He wrote about this extensively in his book showing that the strength of the physical body has an inverse affect on the ability to have an OBE.

Regards 
Grey