Got so close.... and then.... yeah

[Eloquence]

Ok, so for the last few weeks as I mentioned in my other post ive been trying to have an OBE with little success other than greatly improved dream recall. But that all changed last night. I was determined I was going to get out. So I lay on my bed, went through all that relaxation stuff and all the things you do before hand. Nothing happened, not even vibes. So I rolled over and thought... well... you can OBE through a dream right? So I just started chanting in my head, I will remember, I will become aware and concious, over and over.

So I fall asleep after a while and then I have this dream. Ill spare you the boring details of what it was about lol. But at the end of it, I was in my garage at home, why I dont know. But all of a sudden, awareness rushed over me and I knew I was only dreaming. Bingo! I thought, and had this instinctive urge to fly. Of course, being still in the dream I did.. up. At that moment, I felt my eyes open (any ideas? Astral body's eyes maybe?), I also felt my astral body breaking free of my physical and then everything went black. I was really excited because this was the furthest I'd ever gone. But then.... I could suddenly see myself in the blackness, my crumpled up body on the "ground".. blood.... dead. So, naturally I kinda freaked and then woke up   with my arms and legs tingling like mad, and they kinda felt crooked for a second [shrugs]. So I figure this was just my imagination up to its dirty tricks again! Ahwell, im sure ill get out sooner or later hehe. Damn you imagination!

[Selski]

Hi Eloquence

Well done - you are making progress!  

At that moment, I felt my eyes open (any ideas? Astral body's eyes maybe?), I also felt my astral body breaking free of my physical and then everything went black. I was really excited because this was the furthest I'd ever gone. But then.... I could suddenly see myself in the blackness, my crumpled up body on the "ground".. blood.... dead. So, naturally I kinda freaked and then woke up   with my arms and legs tingling like mad, and they kinda felt crooked for a second [shrugs].

Firstly, it probably was your astral eyes.  Everything going black is most normal.

Seeing something unpleasant (your dead self on the ground) is quite normal too.  I think it's to do with fear (even subconscious fear) and it is you holding yourself back, due to fear.  That's all it is.  In my opinion.  We all have it.  You will get over it (if you want to).  The more it happens, the more used to it you will be and the less it will bother you until you are no longer afraid and chances are, it will then stop happening.

The one thing about your experience that tells me it was a classic OBE is when you say your arms and legs were tingling like mad.  That is something that happens to me most of the time when I finish an OBE.  It's one of my absolute signs that my experience was a 'genuine' OBE rather than a dream of an OBE.

All you have to do now is get used to seeing odd/strange/fearsome things - above all show no fear - and you'll be flying high in no time at all!!  

Sarah

[Eloquence]

Thanks man

[Porkchoppiglet]

I also have the problem of fear to a certain extent. I was lying in my bed, TRYING to focuss on the patterns i was seeing, but i started to dream or think of another scene, just random images and scenes. Before i knew it I was vibrating quite a bit, and that scared me, and so it stops:(