Hi,
I have not yet described my first and other conscious out of body experiences, so I will give a consolidated version as follows. At about the age of twenty-five in the afternoon my wife and I were having a nap. , but instead of going to sleep I entered a cataleptic state that I now know is hypnagogic sleep. In other words, I was unable to move my body (sleep paralysis). I was aware of my surroundings and that I was laying on the bed next to my wife. Then in the area of my head, an extreme vibration and buzzing began to shake my whole being. I tried and tried to move with no avail at first, and then something weird happened. I found myself hovering just below the ceilings, looking down on the bodies of my wife and can still remember the red bed cover. That indicates some sort of mind sight.
I did not like this experience, feeling some sort of an malicious being was watching me all the time, in addition the vibration and buzzing were very unpleasant. However, this sleep paralysis vibration started to happen more and more spontaneously until I found myself outside the house one night looking at the stars. My consciousness awareness seemed to have separated from my sleeping body. I then began to take a real interest in this phenomenon and was let to read a book by Robert Monroe and found the term then used was astral travel. It was considered evil or even by my then Christian friends who advised me to stop as my vacant body could be possessed by an evil entity, while I was traveling into other realities. Taking their advice, I stopped trying to exit the body when the catatonic sleep paralysis came at night and eventually these experienced ceased for many years.
Then came my profound nde , which is possibly the most amazing OBE that anyone could wish for, this reactivated my interest in the OBE and I started to spontaneously experience all types of other realities on my nearly nightly travels. Some of these realms where so bizarre that there are no words to express these other dimensions. Realities alternate universes other selves, in the English language. The resent thread "they all walked backwards should" should give an idea to the forum.
There are other strange humanoid life forms so advanced from us that one could not get them to recognize me as a sentient being. Others were primitive, others almost totally like or earth but with minute differences. What we call matter is simply a wisp of smoke and I could rush through giant planets, which flashed be as rock, crystal, fire and again into the unimaginable void of the unifiers into the composite white light of SOURCE.. Our universe would at first appear as it reseeded as an infinite dark plane then become a huge black orb until it was just one black dot amongst the infinite other universe in the eternal now of existence. All interconnected molecules of one colossal gigantic cosmic body
I did not interact with those who have passed on but appeared to remain within the material realities. However, I did experience some frightening things, such as coming back in horror to the wrong body. This person was in a small prison cell somewhere and I really got a fright and immediately found myself back in my own body. At times, I seemed to have dual awareness in that I became somehow two beings, my sleeping self-communicating with my ethereal self.
Later unawares of Bruce Moens studies started to use the more comfortable method of vivid lucid dreaming as my method of OBE and only use this approach now
I hope this brief summary is of some interest to the forum
alan
Thanx for sharing those experiences Alan.
Your first OBE was rather typical of first experiences. It "fit the mold' so to speak of what many other people experience the first time they go out of their physical bodies.
Your other experiences are unusual and rather exceptional. Apparently you have a natural ability to OBE.
Your Christian friends were, unfortunately, narrow minded. Their reaction to your experiences is all too typical in that many religious people are scared of the OBE phenomena yet know little or nothing about it.
You are to be commended with continuing on the path of OBE and personal experiences. Try not to let the dogma of Christianity hinder you from discovery of the Truth.
regards
Grey
That's great Alan. I hope that your research on the phenomenon has led you to the discovery that you don't leave your body empty, that only your conscious awareness leaves. If you get more practiced, you may experience bilocation and multilocation at some point- something that is already happening but your mind sequentializes to avoid emotional trauma.
Cheers. You are indeed a natural projector.
Facinating, I enjoyed reading that, thank you. :-)
That was fascinating Alan and thanks for posting. I always enjoy reading about other peoples experiences.
I'd like to add that my first OBE was basically like you described except I found the experience enjoyable and was not at all afraid. In fact, I made a transition from the my ethereal surroundings to an entirely different location in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, it was short lived lasting only 3 minutes or so.