What's good, fellow AP'ers? I just had an exciting string of OBE experiences that I'd like to share before it falls out of my head. First off, I haven't had any recalled OBE's since my last thread that reported me moving down my neighborhood road distinctly thinking "Wow! This is more real than reality." Over the passed few weeks I haven't done more than a half hour of light meditation here and there. Last night I ended up passing out at 8 pm and waking at 2 am with about a halfhour waking time in between. At 2 am I felt like I wasn't going to get anymore sleep so I stayed up watching Nick At Night reruns. Around 5:30 am I was still a little tired and with class not starting til 9 am I thought it was the perfect time to OBE!
I laid on my back, worked on muscle relaxing and exit techniques for a good ten minutes. One of these techniques is what I call the "elevator" technique, which has been elevating (no pun intended) my trance states recently. Obviously this entails one to think about laying in an elevator that is going up. I used a particular elevator, one in a elementary school where I work in town. That subtle rising feeling seemed to do the trick, for me anyway. At a certain point I figured I'd fall asleep and if my prior work had any effect I'd OBE spontaneously. I rolled on my stomach, pass out, and sure enough I did!
Before I fell asleep I heard my mom wake up to get ready for work. After I fall asleep, I OBE, finding myself sitting on (what I believe is) the pantry room floor next to the kitchen. My mom is busy getting ready for work but confronts me. She looks younger and has darker hair. She is wearing a black top and blue jeans which isn't her usual look. She asks me in a slightly peeved, accusing tone, "What's the problem?" I respond in a sarcastically polite manner, "There's no problem." That is our typical relationship, but I was a bit surprised she wasn't more eager to meet her son's astral double, haha. Anyway still with her different appearance planted in my thoughts I ask, "How old are you?" She passively responds, "60-75." Umm, I didn't ask for a range, but okay. Even more strange is that she just turned 53. I was about to question her response but thought there are more important quesions to ask. Before I could think of any, the OBE ended and I was in darkness.
Next thing I know, I'm moving away from this large hotel (or just a building but it had a hotel vibe) in the middle of a tropical ocean. The hotel is sitting on a small rocky island big enough to support it's surface area. While I'm moving away from this picture I hear this upbeat, hip hop music playing. It wasn't a song I've ever heard before but I loved listening to it at the time, very uplifting. I tried to remember the lyrics as they were in English, but I forgot.
Throughout these OBEs I kept returning to the blackness, or hypnogogic imagery. At one point in this state I heard my dad joking about something. I was trying desperately to focus on OBEing and considered this a nuisance so I didn't make an effort to make sense of what was said.
Okay so I'm in the blackness and recall the elevator technique. I suddenly appear in the school in which the elevator I use to exit is located. Specifically, I open my eyes to find myself in the school's hallway with stunning clarity. I notice that the paint colors on the wall and floor designs are extremely pale like something you'd find in a nursery. I move down the hallway and take a left and I turn into the gymnasium of a different elementary school in which I work.
Now I'm not sure if this is directly after the gymnasium or a different setting, but I find myself walking into a crowded room where people are sitting. I'd guess it looked like a bus station the way people were sitting and talking to eachother. At this point I remembered back to what I've read on "waiting rooms" and OBEs and recall determing whether this was the type of situation where these waiting people would ignore me or confront me. I noticed everyone was pretty much doing there own thing, not noticing me and acting like your average group of people. I walked up to one lady and either called her a swear or acted rudely. I'm thinking for that instant I had the "I can do anything I want" mentality, but felt remorseful after saying it. I thought, "was this any way to give a first impression in the astral?"
Those were the events I remember, though I vaguely recall flying around outside my house at one point. I remember I kept asking for clarity at different points but that seemed to work only a fraction of the time. I do believe the idea that the more calm you are, the more vivid the setting will be. That was proven to me with the pale-colored school hallway scene. I also want to say that I was on my stomach for this and experienced shoulder pain throughout the last half of the OBE string. I remember on a few occasions acknowledging the dull pain and wanting to wake up to adjust it. Anyway that is my latest story, I'm excited that I remembered a whole lot more than last time. It's funny how you can wake up and briefly forget, than it hits you like a ton of bricks and you're rushing to your computer keyboard. Anyway, I feel I'm making true progress with this being my second OBE. Please leave a comment if you've read through, thanks!
This is wonderful. I think you are a very good OBEer.
I love to read OBs account. So post as much as possible.
Good night!
Astral316
Your method of inducing OBEs in a string, one after another, instead of deliberately waking up and trying to record all the details of the first OBE is Probably the better of the two methods. Of course you will lose some (or alot) of recall and fail to remember a number of things that happened. Yet the bonus is that you managed to induce several OBEs one after another, (which is a relatively rare feat, even for experienced OBE-ers.)
Anyway you obviously did quite well, And thanx for posting your experiences.
:-)
Grey
Thanks for the encouraging words, guys.
Quote from: Greytraveller on March 06, 2009, 18:17:36
Your method of inducing OBEs in a string, one after another, instead of deliberately waking up and trying to record all the details of the first OBE is Probably the better of the two methods. Of course you will lose some (or alot) of recall and fail to remember a number of things that happened. Yet the bonus is that you managed to induce several OBEs one after another, (which is a relatively rare feat, even for experienced OBE-ers.)
This is interesting because the thought never occured to me to wake up after the first, or any following OBE. I guess I instinctively wanted to keep going back for more. I do remember trying to make things stick in my memory. In other words I'd try to remember something while experiencing something else, and it would jumble together and I'd salvage little of either experience. For example, I vaguely recall flying around in the trees outside my house but it is more the "residue" of a memory than an actual memory. Next time I'd like one long projection so I can explore an environment more thoroughly and/or engage in deeper conversation with astral folk.