My experiences

[Aerli]

I introduced myself on the introduction thread but thought I should share a little of my own experiences.  I'm still a beginner at this all but hopefully I can learn to be better at this and have better control.

Here's how I got into OBE:

I had heard the term, "Astral Projection" off and on throughout my life.  Mostly I thought of it as fiction but an interesting idea.  I guess there were a lot of things that I thought would be neat if they really existed but I always told myself that they didn't except in fantasy.

About four years ago, my sister bought a book on astral projection.  I think she started it and put it down without getting very far into it.  Every time I came to visit, I would notice it laying around somewhere and I'd pick it up and leaf through it.  Finally one day I asked if I could borrow it.

The book actually wasn't very good or accurate, at least for me.  It did get me thinking about OOBE's though and started me learning to use relaxation techniques.  Struggling with the exercises in the book and failing did at least put me in the right state of mind I think to start having some experiences.

About a week or two after borrowing the book, I woke up in the middle of the night and heard a kind of scary wind blowing in my room.  I opened my eyes, at least at the time I thought my eyes were open and the furniture across the room all had this weird greenish glow to it.  This scared me and I came fully awake and didn't fall back asleep again for some time.  I told myself I had been dreaming and calmed myself down eventually.

The next night or at least soon thereafter, I woke up to that scary wind sound again and it felt like the bed was shaking or vibrating.  Again, I was freaked out and it led to me investigating what was actually going on a little.  I found some information about OOBE's on the web and was relieved and amazed by what I found there.

I decided I was going to pursue this and see if I could actually project out of my body.  There was still a big part of me that doubted I had actually experienced what I had and that it was all real.  I also started sleeping with the bedroom light on because I was still a little scared.

I had trouble getting the vibrations to return but I did start having strange experiences.  A few times I heard voices just as I was falling asleep.  Sometimes I would be doing a relaxation exercise and I would hear a radio on somewhere.  I started thinking why in the world do my neighbors blast their radio every time I try to project?  Eventually I realized there was no radio on and I still don't know why I sometimes hear what sounds like the muffled voices of a talk show when I try to project.  I saw weird streaks of light or energy when I was relaxed, watching tv or reading.

I started having dreams that I was projecting and leaving my body.  I would become lucid and excited and usually wake up.

When I was awake and did mange to get the vibrations to come, it was always a little scary and very noisy.  Sometimes I wasn't sure what I should do, should I try to pull myself out of my body while the vibrations are going?  If I wait till they are done will I miss out on my chance?

I started to think that maybe the wind I heard was the sound of my astral body pulling up in my body or out of my body.

A few times I almost did it but felt stuck to my body.

Anyway, I had my first successful experience that same year and it only seemed to last less than a minute but it was amazing to me.  I shot up toward the ceiling and out to the hallway and it was over.

There was one little detail about the experience that bothered me, the light fixture on my ceiling was different than the one that is actually there.  Eventually after investigating some more on the web, I reasoned that maybe this was a light fixture that used to be on my ceiling before I lived here and astral hadn't caught up yet with the material world.

Having experienced this, my whole world changed.  The world became a much more spiritual and magical place to me.  Death didn't seem like it would be as final as I feared it might be.

I had two other experiences that I can recall for sure and one that might have been a dream.

I've had lots of other experiences with sounds and energy.

Aerli