Oh yeah! Thats what im talkin about!

[Eloquence]

Well.... no, I didnt fully OBE. I was literally one step short. Anyway, heres what happened:

Well, it was early in the evening when the power went off (severe weather). So after a while I got kinda bored. So I thought... why not go have a nap. So I did, I lay down, and then instead decided to try and OBE.

So I didnt bother with the relaxation stuff, and still managed to reach that point where I see the swirling clouds and my whole body goes numb quite easily.
Next, I started sinking further and further (conciously though) into sleep. The next thing I know is a dream is playing, but its totally in my control. So I played around with that for a while before my initial goal came back to mind.
So while in the dream, I... tried to "channel?" myself away from my physical body. (Yes, that sounds retarded, or maybe it doesnt. But if you think it does, then I agree with you and say... I dunno what else to say!)
Anyway, I could feel myself lifting up. Unfortunately I could hold this "lifting" and just sank back into my body (by this stage the dream had sort of changed from being in my "head" to being in my "vision").

So I kept trying for a while, with this dream playing around me (it changed every so often, at one stage I was in some room looking out onto a valley, then the next thing im falling through some tunnel, then im in deep space)

But then it occured to me while I was trying that the power was going to come on at any minute, and no doubt the lights turning back on would wake me up. So I kinda had to edge out of it.

I woke up feeling SO weird. My vision was really glossy, my body felt like jelly, my arms were tingling, and I had no sense of direction (not "where am I" direction, but "what am I doing" direction). So I kinda stumbled around the house for a while, sure enough the power came back on.

So thats my experience! Ill try again when I go to bed later on, hopefully ill have the same success I did earlier! If not better  

Peace!

[Sepultura123]

Surely that was such an experience for your body to go on a lucid dreams 2 times and did a little OBE 2 times...

So its why you feel confused.

[baodur]

Nice experience man! :thumbsup: I've read somewhere that you should try ending the dream by cutting the emotions that are feeding the dream(something like that) Anyway try and end the dream and then try to get out. Not sure if it will work

Marko

[Eloquence]

I've read somewhere that you should try ending the dream by cutting the emotions that are feeding the dream(something like that)

Hmm, couldnt hurt! Thanks man, ill try that next time I get that far  

[french_hustler]

I've had similar experiences and I think I could give you a tip that really helped me out after practice.  While in a lucid dream, don't directly go to the step of getting out your body.  Since you are controlling the dream, make all the scenary dissapear.  Make everything black and think that you're in bed.  It's hard to explain, but try to exit the lucid dream without focusing too much and without loosing that relaxed state of mind.  Once everything's dark, picture the place you're in and at that point, attempt to exit.  It made it easier for me.  Sometimes I would try to exit right away from a lucid dream, and just end up in a 1/2 OBE, 1/2 dream.

[Sepultura123]

Thats the problem with trying to project in lucid dreams.

[Eloquence]

Cool! Thanks guys, ill remember that next time