Hi all! Lately I've been experiencing some progress with my metaphysical studies. I've been doing some energetic works, some mantras, I don't know which has caused my progress (probably both), but there is some, definitely.
I had two experiences, both during my night-time sleep and not directly related to my espontaneous attempts to leave the body.
One took place about a month ago. I was asleep and then suddenly found myself fallen on the side of my bed. My sight was blurry, but I could tell the objects around me. I was conscious and immediately noticed I was not in my physical body. I was either outside my body or having a lucid dream. I tried to get up once, but failed. Tried again, and managed to stand. I thought to myself "Since I'm outside my body, I should be able to go through my closet". I tried to, but once I went through its door, I was disoriented and, being afraid to get lost, I thought about standing by my bed again, and there I was. I was a bit more careful now, and tried going through my bedroom door (less likely to get me lost). I procedded through the door and headed to my mother's room. There, I saw my brother laying beside her (in reality, he was sleeping on a bed in the same room I was). He was awake, noticed me and seemed as scared as one could be. I though about going back to my body in order to tell whether all of that was true. I was back in my body, got up, talked to him and clarified all that had happened. He asked why I didn't tel him the ghost he had seen was me, I told him I had tried to, but he wouldn't listen. Then, I suddenly wake up again, now in my actual physical body. I try to memorize the situation as hard as I can and go back to sleep. The end.
The other experience took place yesterday. I had just got a flu, and woke up in the middle of the night with the sorest throat one can have. I was feeling horrible. I got up, took some medicine for the pain (local anesthesics, nothing that could induce an altered state of consciousness) and tried to go back to sleep. After some time, I woke up to find myself floating above my body. I knew I was not in my physical, I had clear perception of floating above my body. I tried rolling to the right, failed my first attempt, and then succeded. I fell to the ground. I tried to go through the floor to the floor beneath mine (I live in an apartment). I felt a light buzzing sensation as I went downwards thorugh the floor. I landed then on a room that had the exact same layout as mine (two beds, a wall with some shelves, two people, one on each bed).
As I landed, I saw two boys, one on each bed, and they were scared to death to see me. I looked at them, they weren't me and my brother (the other person who sleeps on the bed on my side), but they were some sort of look-alikes. They had about the same appearance as we did when we were very small kids (5-8 years old), but they weren't us.
Both of them were really scared, I tried to calm them down, to no avail. Then, I stood in the center of the room and tried to direct some energy onto them. I felt really strong energy sensations on my hands, and they calmed down almost instantly. One of them talked to me, addressing me as "Doctor" (I'll graduate on Medicine in 2011) and told me all was ok now. He seemed really friendly towards me. Then, the experience ended and I woke up. Again, I found it amazing I had achieved a OBE, only to wake up again in some seconds (this time on my real physical body).
How often does this double-wake up happen to you guys? I think the second experience might have been an OBE that turned into a lucid dream when I thought about going back into my body, but I can't be sure of anything at all.
Horacio.
hi horaciocs
Both of your experiences were probably OBEs. Especially the second experience. Sometimes medications combined with a weakened physical state will result in an unintended spontaneous OBE. It appears that this is what happened to you.
Did your brother corroborate your first experience? (He may also have out of body at the time and not known it?) If so that certainly is a noteworthy form of validation.
The two kids that you saw in the second OBE may also have been living people out of body. Maybe they could have been ghosts? Unless of course two kids live in the apartment below.
Regards 8-)
Grey
Thanks for sharing your experiences horaciocs!
Quote from: Greytraveller on March 21, 2010, 14:23:37
hi horaciocs
Both of your experiences were probably OBEs. Especially the second experience. Sometimes medications combined with a weakened physical state will result in an unintended spontaneous OBE. It appears that this is what happened to you.
Did your brother corroborate your first experience? (He may also have out of body at the time and not known it?) If so that certainly is a noteworthy form of validation.
The two kids that you saw in the second OBE may also have been living people out of body. Maybe they could have been ghosts? Unless of course two kids live in the apartment below.
Regards 8-)
Grey
My brother isn't interested in astral projection at all :P In the next morning I questioned him about it but he didn't remember a thing.
I found them to be too comparable to me and my brother for them to be just some ordinary beings living their lives. I think that's what made the experience a bit less likely to have been a OBE for me. They seemed like symbols that represented us, not totally separate entities from us.
No kids on the floor below, btw, but it was an interesting experience anyway :-D