This weekend I had a very strange episode that was my most detailed and prolific experience I have had in a very long time. I'm not sure if my experience was an OBE, Lucid Dream, or something else.
The experience started as I was running down a flight of stairs, and upon reaching the bottom step I was standing in a hall (unknown location). Something felt unusual and I suddenly thought if I was having an OBE, as I have not had one in several months. So to test the waters I decided to do my hand test and I clasped my hands together then tried and pulling them apart to see if my fingers would stretch. As I did this I laughed and sure enough my fingers stretched and melted like a loose rubber band or cooked sticks of spaghetti.
I then decided to turn left and walked into the hall/corridor area which eventually led into a kitchen. As I entered the kitchen I saw a woman who I assume based on her clothing was a maid. She was busy kneading some bread or working on some chore as her hands were moving in a repetitive motion across a table top. She did not appear to notice me as I stood there watching her, however a few seconds later a tall man suddenly walked around the corner near the bottom end of the kitchen.
He walked in and stood opposite the woman on the other side of the centre work table and appeared to be in a panic stricken state. He was saying to the maid 'they are going to find where I buried her; they will find the bones'. He started to cry and then buried his face into arms, as he did this I noticed in his left arm he was holding a brass coloured knife (odd but resembled a cake knife).
The maid was trying to console this man, and calm him down. Then all of a sudden she turned to me and motioned me to exit. As she did this the man suddenly noticed I was there and stepped forward waving the knife with swooping gestures near my face. I suddenly got scarred and turned to run back through the kitchen door and up the flight of stairs I had initially ran down when I awoken during my experience.
As I ran up the stairs I eventually ran onto a landing and saw a door to my right which I opened running into a bedroom. When I ran in to the bedroom there was a single bed to my right with a young woman fast asleep. I ran up to the bed and quickly pulled the covers off the bed to wake her. We then both heard the noise of the man and maid running up the stairs.
This woman in the bedroom motioned me to run over to the cupboard and to hide in there. So I ran to the cupboard on the other side of the room, opened the door and squatted in the centre. As I squatted I could see some grey or beige woollen coats that were hanging above me, and some black boots and shoes taking up some of the floor space. The cupboard was very small (about the square width of the single door that opened into it) but I remained squatted and buried my head between my arms in fear of being caught. I kept saying 'please make me indivisible so I'm not caught', and I just kept repeating this. All of sudden the door opened and I looked up and it was the maid, who shouted out 'she is not in here', and shut the door behind her.
The experience carried on for a long time but to cut a long story short I think I was a young girl, mainly because of my perspective when I entered the kitchen, the scale of the clothing items while crouching in the closet and the comment by the maid stating 'she is not in here'. For some other reason I sensed it was perhaps in the 1920's or 1930's or could have been a few decades earlier.
I have no idea why I was having a full conscious OBE but this time not in my usual home or surroundings; instead it felt like a detailed snapshot taking place in some other period.
Oh man... Sounds a bit terrifying to be honest. I have only had a few experiences that have only lasted about 5 seconds or so. Usually I can detach from my physical body and into the Astral for a brief second or two. In my second experience I lost focused and things became very sloppy and confusing and muddy... Perhaps it turned into a dream after a while for you? Did it seem real? Or more like a real time event? I remember very briefly seeing a few entities from my second experience. But absolutely nothing like you said. Very interesting and thanks for sharing man! I am all new to this so it's good to read up on this. I just hope I don't have to witness such a thing like that.
Cheers man.
-Cody
I was trying to cut the length of the post down but that was only half of the story (first half).
But this was one of my more conscious or focussed experiences. I had problems with my vision initially and for some reason it got blocky and dark around the edges with only a centre core area that was in focus. So I remembered to use 'awareness now' or 'clarity now' to remain focussed and clear headed. My vision started to improve after that.
I can remember the clothing the maid was wearing, and the man for some odd reason in very clear detail and a distinctive feature I can remember was gold coloured round slightly small framed glasses, brown eyes, round face but slightly chubby with a greased back blond thinning hair line.
In the rest of the experience I kept using 'Awareness now' to keep me focussed and to see if it would clear my head of any fantasy driven thoughts. But the story or narrative was just as clear as from the beginning to the end.
The rest of the story panned out where I left the closet and then sat in the room speaking to the women who I found initially on the bed. There were three large dark greyish tabby cats that circled and paced around the room when she was speaking to me. When these cats were moving I was getting freaked out as there eyes seemed locked on me despite their movements so for the first time I tried reciting a mantra to see if it would scare off the cats and ensure I wasn't creating this from my fantasy (My 'awareness now' trick no longer worked!).
However this was the first time I ever remembered to think of trying out a mantra during an experience but low and behold I couldn't remember the words to it, I think I even laughed regretting not doing my homework in the conscious! (it was the Bellilin mantra, not sure if this works or if anyone has used it some comments would be appreciated).
I couldn't figure out who the woman was with these cats in relation to the house. But she did initially tell me to hide in the closet when I was being chased. I sensed she was either testing me or providing me with an opportunity to correct something. But she implied this experience going forward would act as a precedent for further things to follow.
However the cats in the room were not on the same level as her. I do not know if this woman was even aware them or not as they appeared to fairly independent. Strange but I have never seen any animals in any OBEs before.
Bizarrely one of the cats attacked me and pushed me out of the room and over the stair well banister - to which I eventually woke up.
Hallo Alex Anderson
It is always difficult for a person to know whether another person was experiencing an OBE or a dream. One thing I can be certain of and that is your experience was neither a lucid dream or a false awakening. So then it must have been either an OBE or else a very vivid dream. Based upon your description of the events I lean slightly toward the possibility of an OBE yet that is just a guess.
Your experience highlights the importance of becoming aware and lucid in any non-physical experience. Because awareness = lucidity = control. In essence when a person becomes aware in Any non-physical experience, whether the experience begins as a dream or an OBE, then that person can transition the experience into anything that he/she wants it to be. They can make it a lucid dream or an OBE or an astral projection.
With a bit more awareness and control you could have handled the dangerous situation in the kitchen and extended the experience.
Better luck next time.
Regards 8-)
Grey