I'm overjoyed. An accidental near-OBE

[kiauma]

I think your dedication and discipline are commendable.  Good job!

My only advice though would be that perhaps you are trying too hard.  Perhaps you had this experience because you have been developing the discipline, which is good, but also you are too rigorously trying to follow your scripts, which can interfere with the relaxation necessary to OBE.

I know it is a contradiction, but exercise your discipline to relax.  Let go the physical body.  Hold your intent in the back of your mind as your breathe eases you deeper and deeper into relaxation with every exhale.  The mild falling sensations of each exhale should build up in the end, culminating with your OBE.

You are very close - good luck!

[Tolvor]

Yes I know this will bore the experienced OBEr but I want to share it with you.  It was completely accidental, but it lets me know that at least it is possible for me, and the sensations that I should be experience near OBE.

I was having a dream, a rather intense nightmare, that was quickly becoming very bad.  I disliked the dream enough to wake up, and immediately remembered the dream, grabbed my notepad, and wrote "Burglar in kitchen.  Not there.  Behind me.  Knife.  Extreme pain."  Made firm intention *not* to continue that dream, and settled back into sleep not preping for anything special in particular.  Total time awake was about 20-30 secs.  

Immediately slipping back towards sleep I experienced a very weird sensation.  I suddenly had the strong tingle of deep meditation, and then it progressed to a light chest pressure and some difficulty in breathing, like I usually get (sometimes) after a *long* time meditating.  That vanished, along with both the sensation of breathing and the sensation of a heartbeat (not a heart attack), a complete disassociation with the body.  I started to hear a deep tone between my ears (first time for sound), not so much a sound as a mid-bass vibration. I thought "Holy $#^*!! OBE?!? Can't be. Let's see".  I was absolutely clear in my mind, and started my exit techniques, starting with moving my mind 2 feet in front of my head, as a glowing ball of light, and mentally commanded myself to EXIT, and kept the thought as the only thought.  Suddenly I felt a strong wave a strangeness, and somehow felt I was out of my body, and that I was flying.  I've experienced light floating, and drifting, and moving.  This is the first time that I've felt that I was flying at 70 mph.  I could feel the strong wind.  I let this go on for about 5 seconds, but strangely felt, despite the apparent speed, that I wasn't far from my body.  I tried to command astral sight, but nothing happened.  I tried to alter movement, to be able to sense walls, doors, or any sensation other than movement.  Nothing happened.  After trying intensely for about 10 seconds, the entire thing broke, I could feel it, and everything was back to normal.  I was able to open my eyes, and wrote it down.

I'm not claiming this is a full OBE.  The are a couple of problems with it.  I didn't experience seperation, nor reintergration sensations.  I shouldn't have been able to stay that close to my real body.  I can't understand how or why I fell into such a state to close after falling asleep (usually at that time in the morning/state I can't even get to the tiniest tingle).  I hadn't done any energy raising exercises, so I shouldn't have had anywhere near enough energy to get that close or sensations that intense.  It was one of the nights that I give myself off from a strong OBE attempt as I had a hard day yesterday and needed my sleep, so I shouldn't have been tuned to an OBE.  And lastly I wasn't able to follow my well-thought out first OBE script (go to main room, touch tv, return).  

I'm confident that it was a near OBE, despite being uncontrolled.  I'm not looking for validation, I just wanted to share it with you.  It lets me know that OBE is *possible* for me, that I'm not barred from the ability by higher powers, that it is safe, and that I'm somehow on the right track.  

If there is a lesson here, it's that if you try hard enough, long enough, despite frustration, boredom, discouragement at the loss of time and sleep, and lack of any progress feedback or self-grading system, then you will start to see results.

Now to do it better, intentionally, controlled, when I choose, and longer.

My apologies for those that this bored.