Post your most memorable OBEs... (research for upcoming book)

[Synergy]

I have decided (with some prodding) to revamp Spirit-Quest, my book about OBEs, so that it might be print format.  I've already begun to add much more content, especially in the neuroscience side, and experiments that have been done to help validate OBEs.

What I would like now, is to gather OBE descriptions.  If you respond here, please remember that your OBE may end up in a printed book.  I will try to incorporate as many as possible, to help illustrate different aspects of OBEs.  So I need all types of different experiences, like Astral Projection, Etheric Projection RTZ, descriptions of meeting entities, flying, visiting awesome places (like space, or remarkable places on earth like stonehenge etc), and OBEs induced by different means... so please type your response post (if you wish to participate) in the following format:   

A descriptive titile, type of OBE (AP, EP etc), how it was induced (spontaneous, willed by what method etc)

"OBE - like a journal type description... a few paragraphs long. Include in your description how the OBE affected you emotionally etc"

Your first name, and last initial (eg; John M.), and location (eg: Canada)


Please post only one or two OBEs per person so I can include as many different people as possible to help show how prevalent OBEs actually are.... pick your best most memorable OBEs.

Thanks, and look forward to reading them! 

(If you wish to look Spirit-Quest's firts incarnation, it is a FREE e-book available on my site... link is in my sig.)

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Hi Synergy, sent you PM.

[Synergy]

Just wanted to add.... if you feel that you'd rather submit your OBE anonymously, feel free to send them to my PM box. 

I have gotten a few already now, and all were by PM

[Selski]

Hi Synergy

Glad to hear you have had some responses.  I would also like to throw one in for possible inclusion, but I'm just mulling over which one to choose.  I'll be back... 

Sarah

[Selski]

Hello again Synergy

I've found one I'm rather fond of... it seems to incorporate a traditional RTZ OBE and then goes into the astral via a picture on the wall.

Please feel free to edit it as you see fit.  It was posted here a few years ago, but for some strange and unknown reason, it's been deleted... *cue twilight zone music*

Here it is...sorry about the length, but I wanted to incorporate the whole experience.
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I didn't fall asleep, but was very close to it.  I noticed the top half of my body was slowly moving backwards.  Immediately, I knew this was my astral body and I "pushed" it so it would go faster.  It did.  I then thought that rather than push, I should go limp, so I did this, but I just went slower.  I was obviously totally astral.  I carried on pushing myself, but realised I wasn't actually going anywhere, except round in circles.  So then I pushed my body upwards, and I started moving that way.  It was very pleasant doing this pushing.  I'd never done it before.  It wasn't mental, but more of an energy push – hard to describe.

Next I thought I'd better get out.  I got a bit tangled in all the bedclothes, which was a tad infuriating, but I managed it in the end!  I noticed my sight was very dull in the bedroom, like a hazy black and white film (very hazy I might add).  I quickly moved into the hall, where things were better. 

Someone was in the hall with me.  It was my Grandma Ellison.  I wasn't surprised at this, nor did I really acknowledge it.  I was preoccupied with finding an astral doorway to take much notice of her, although her presence was related to me, she wasn't just there doing her own thing.  I took her with me to the front room.  I didn't get any sound from her, but now I think that is because I was so mentally "noisy" and didn't give her a chance.

I couldn't see any obvious doorways, so I started circling with my finger again, then suddenly I remembered I wanted to go through one of our new pictures in the lounge.  Off I trot to the lounge.  I think Grandma gave up on me then, because I don't remember her after that.  On my way to the lounge, I thought about my drawings, but realised they hadn't been put up on the wall yet, and then knew which pictures I was going in.

I stood in the lounge and moved forward into the picture on the left side.  I could get my head in and everything changed.  How on earth do I describe this?  Soft, peaceful, different, very different from the physical world, but subtly and gently different.  I found I couldn't go any further than my head, so I pulled my head out.

I seemed to bring the new world to the RTZ, because when I went to go into the other picture, it wasn't there on the wall, even though I knew it should be.  I could just see softness, so I went into the space where the right hand picture was anyway.

I found myself looking at a beautiful, soft landscape.  I keep using the word "soft" because there was nothing dramatic nor obvious about it.  Just pastel hills, all different colours, rolling hills, no high peaks, nothing jagged.  Someone was with me.  She was female, young (my age), and told me (not via speech) that she would take me to our castle.

The next image is that we are riding on horses to get to this castle.  I am naked and riding the horse, which is a wonderful feeling (not sexual, just very free).  My horse is black, hers is brown.  When we arrive at the castle, we dismount and my black horse turns into a black Doberman dog.  I show a little fear as I wonder if it will turn and snap at me.  As I think this, it looks like it is going to, so I turn quickly away.

The next image is I am in the castle looking out through one of the turrets at the landscape below.  It is utterly peaceful, calm, pastel colours, rolling hills.  My female friend is next to me and I know that we are lovers and have been in the castle now for many years.  We are young (late teens?), and our lives are comfortable, in that we don't need to work.  We never age.  We just live in our castle, enjoying each other.  I feel her come up behind me and hug me, her hands on my breasts.  I do actually literally feel this, as in a lucid dream.

The next image is that we have just finished making love (of this part I don't recall), and 4 young men/boys have come to visit the castle.  They have obviously heard us and when we open the door, they have grins all over their faces.  At this point, I become a watcher, and see myself and my female lover for the first time.  We are both young, lithe, very fit, both with cropped short hair, boyish looking.  I look slightly more feminine.  Both very attractive, pixie looking young girls.  Both looking very happy.

The next image is one of destruction and war, although not directly near the castle.  The effects of war.  Everything is dark and depressing.  My lover has caught some fever or disease (typhoid?) and needs medicine.  We have a housekeeper, an older woman, and my lover is calling to her to get the medicine for her.  I am still well and panicking, not knowing what to do.  My lover has collapsed on the outside of the castle and I know that if she doesn't get her medicine, she will die.  The housekeeper is walking away from us.  I shout to her "where are you going".  She tells me she has had enough and is going to join the war.  I never get to see her face, she always has her back to me.  She looks old and is wearing a shawl and bonnet.

Then, in physical life, the postman drops the letters through the door and I instantly fully regain waking consciousness.
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This was September 2004. 
Name - Sarah G, Lincolnshire.

I look forward to the finished product. 

Sarah

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Visualization of a very memorable experience during meditation practice early one morning last winter.

After feeling strong sensations of shooting upward, I lost all awareness of my body and found myself within a blue ocean like 3D void.

I then saw what I can only describe as being a yellow spark. I'm not sure if I was the yellow spark and looking at myself, or if I was observing something else in the blue void.

I choose this experience as a first in a series of illustrations because of the simplicity of the vision. This is as close as I can get it from memory, and I feel that it is a good representation of what I saw.


Please click for full size image.
Winter of 2006
S. Franklin  - Eastern USA

[Kodemaster]

Here is the link to my OBEs to the Akashic records:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_experiences/second_first_visit_to_the_akashic_records-t25226.0.html

Jeni R
USA

[Synergy]

Thanks so much for the submissions everyone!  The book is coming along really   It's alot more work than I ever thought hough to get one ready for actual print lol. 

I am interested in people's personal experiements that could shed some scientific light on the experience and ways to incude OBEs.  I have included my own experiments with electromagnetic fields, and also my (not so scientific) experiment with an empath.   Do any of you have any personal experiments?  Maybe with sound waves, supplements, hypnosis, etc. 

[Mustardseed]

Dear Synergy
Here is one from me. Good luck with your book.


June 21 2006
Laid down on my left side, as I wanted to exit. That works best for me. After having drifted in and out of hypnotic imagery for some 20 min, I had to cough, and became very alert, as I was laying there quietly after having coughed, and then the vibrations started coming. Suddenly my whole body started to relax and I began to fall and suddenly I had astral sight. I decided to experiment and raised my right hand straight out of my body. It was amazing. With a sort of mental exertion I willed my body to stand up and as usual it worked and I got up easily. Everything was peaceful and calm around me. I decided to make sure I was in my room and followed my laid out procedure. There was a book on the table beside the bed on the front of it. It said something in Latin, "bacillum concillium" or something like it. I looked through the book but could not read it, think it was in Latin or something. I looked around, and I realized I was not in my own room.
There was a window at the left, a door across from it and also another door to the right of the bed. The window had no glass pane. The sun was shining through the window, it was beautiful. I went out the door and came into a small hall, took a right and found myself emerging into the street. It was a small street with a pedestrian walkway at each side. The feeling in this place was very peace full, and uncannily calm, not eerie or anything just calm. It was not the golden light that I have seen in other locations, but more a clear summer days feeling, but as soon as I stepped in the street the vibrations started and I got sucked back. As I got sucked back in my body I thought "well that was it" , I was a bit disappointed but very happy. I opened my eyes and looked around I was in my room for sure, then I laid back down and closed my eyes.
To my amazement the vibrations started right away again, I gained astral sight immediately, and stood up beside my bed again. I came out of my body with no break in consciousness and much to my surprise, I was in the same room. This time I decided to do something different, and went through the other door instead, and as I did I came into a small hallway. It looked somewhat like a pension, with a long hallway and rooms on either side. It led toward a glass door maybe 20m down. I wanted to have some fun, and started running toward the door and dove right through the glass into the street. I felt a ripple as I went through the glass pane, and bust into the middle of the street and as I did, I lifted my hands and started to praise God in a very strange song. I was singing all about praise to him and thanked him, I have absolutely no idea why I did that and no idea of what I was saying. The words just kept coming to me, while I was twirling, and rising slowly. Then I started to levitate faster and rose toward the sky, with my hands held up.
As I gained altitude I noticed a band, which was practicing on the balcony or the top of a building to my left. They saw me, and got very exited. I don't know why, but I had the feeling they were having some sort of service or meeting or something because they were all in white. As I flew above them they were looking at me excitedly and kept playing. Then the vibrations started slowly  and I got sucked back again.

As I came back to my body I opened my eyes and looked around to make sure I was in my room. It was very exiting. I just laid real still and closed my eyes again and as I had hoped for, the vibrations came again after few seconds. Getting up was a cinch, and as I got up I looked around. The book was on the table, the doors and the window in place as well, I was back in the same room.
This time I went out the window. I just crawled out into the street, and went toward a small shop some 100 m down the street, on the right. It was a bakery, and there were lots of people going in and out. A girl was on her way out the door, with a white paper bag of bread in her hand, and as I approached her she looked straight at me and smiled, as if she realized who I was or why I was here. It surprised me. She was my height, reddish short hair, and she wore a dark trench coat or something that looked like a trench coat. She started to walk down the road, and I walked with her. As we walked quietly I asked her "Am I in heaven?" She smiled mysteriously and said "yes, but in this place, we all came here by our own hand". It was as if she communicated to me that everyone here was suicide victims. I asked her "does that mean that I am going to one day commit suicide. She turned toward me and smiled and said "no" with a big smile, I asked "Is there another place", she kept walking and started to talk excitedly, it was very mysterious. She said something like "oh yes in ra aum ....wow.... the things that are happening there are wonderfull", the impression was, that she had knowledge of a different location, and what was happening in this different location, but could not go there. It was like she was restricted, but knew about this place....Ra Aum or whatever.

As we walked down the road, it turned left and slightly down hill, and we passed a man in a black dune jacket, wearing a knitted black hat, and sun glasses. He was very surprised to see me, almost stunned. She did not look at me, it was as if she wanted him to go away or not talk to me at least. I wanted to talk more to her, but as soon as we had passed him, he turned and came back to us. He had pulled his hat down in his forehead, and his jacket up, so only his glasses were visible. He was very exited, and grabbed my arm and tugged at it, but I did not want to talk to him, but he was very insistent and kept tugging at me, as if he just had to talk to me and just would not let go, the tugging was not scary but irritating to me, and I started to feel my arm and was reminded of my body and immediately I started to have the vibrations. I knew I could not stay, and as I was being sucked backwards, I kept looking at the girl and she kept smiling at me. As they grew stronger she faded and was gone.
I was back in my body immediately and this time I did not want to go again. I got up to write my diary. I was so exited and happy. It was as if I was floating on a cloud, and coming back was a big let down. The feeling stayed with me for a few hours. A feeling of peace and assurance, as well as excitement. I felt like I had seen something wonderful and her face kept coming to me .

PS Her face kept coming to me for the next 3-4 days. I don't know how but many times a day I would see her standing there smiling cheerfully, with her beautiful eyes, red hair. 

[Kodemaster]

Hi again Synergy:

Here is the link to an alternate projection you can use for your book if you would like:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_obe_discussions/projection_that_may_be_a_profound_look_into_my_future-t17245.0.html

It's a validation, although not the one I wanted.

Jeni R

[Lume]

Hey Synergy!
Not sure if you have done you book yet or not, but here is one from me!



Astral (Future) Wind Experience!     

It was just a normal astral projection after willing myself out of my body by disorientating myself.
I went out of my room and out the front door and started making my way down my street. All was normal until a force took hold of me. I could not go against the force. It slowly started drifting me backwards on an angle, and back through my house. It started to pick up more force and speed and started to take me higher into the air. What happened next, words are hard to describe.

I kept going up higher and kept going faster and faster and faster. Soon enough, I realised I was being ripped out of this atmosphere at what I can only describe as 'warp speed'. It felt incredible! As I was being whipped out of earth, I could see it disappear as I was too far away to see it. I was being carried through space at an amazing pace being flown past what I was desribe as dream pools. There were pools of events happening in pockets of space in the middle of nowhere (very hard to describe).

The force came to a sudden hault. It stopped me around 100m above a town. This town looked very systematic with most houses looking the same. The one thing that caught my eye, was that for every house, there was about 3 large poles next to them with what looked like solar panels on top. I was then brought back to my body.

I have had the exact same experience one other time. This time I was stopped outside a house at night and this house had its light on. I went inside the house to be in a lounge room. There was a stuffed bunny knitting a number on itselt (I think the number was 1868). When the bunny saw me, it looked shocked and stunned and stopped knitting. Then I noticed the TV was on, in black and white, with a
'big band playing'. I was then brought back to my body.

I only realised these were future winds after reading Roberts Bruces information on the net.
I still don't know what symbolism meant. Apparently it could take years for it to come. I will be extremely excited if one of these future winds shows signs in the future. For me, the astral wind was one more of a validation that astral projection is alot more than just some crazy dream for me.

Bronte W
Australia

[Eternal_Soulmate]

First of all Hi to everyone, life has kept me busy with other matters for a while now.  But I always come back to my inner self who is wanting OBE's as a natural thing... some day.

Here is my first OBE and also my only one because for some reason I did not try to do it more.  I tried a lot when I was younger though, maybe it's to avoid disappointments.

It was when I still lived in Belgium in the year 1999. I came from my nightshift and did a little chatting when I came home around 6 30 at 8 30 went to sleep.
I found myself very quickly in a dream, faster then normal that's for sure.  The difference was that I didn't lose my consciousness and was able to control my movements in the dream and was thinking rational as well. I realized that I was having a lucid dream and I knew that this was the moment to try to induce an OBE.

I climbed on a van that was involved in an accident in that dream and jumped off to get a falling effect.  It was weird to find myself almost programed to and know what to do to get an astral projection!
The dream disappeared and everything around me was black like I was just laying there with my eyes closed.  I didn't feel or hear anything nor my own body but I knew where I was and that I was still in my body.  The thought of movement had an immediate reaction to it as if I was hanging loose.  I decided then to roll out.  As I rolled out I heard like a sucking sound at least something like that.

There I was floating next to my bed but I had to think of seeing to start to see my bedroom and yes there was the edge of my bed.  Thought of movement was immediate action so I moved up a bit to see my bedroom which had like a slight misty view to it.  All the object had like a bright grey metallic shine to them and as I observed everything I had this constant high pitched tone I could "hear".  But the strangest was that I didn't recognize myself, my personality was gone, no thoughts, no doubts, no feelings at all.  Just maybe a slight being home feeling.  But I didn't feel like wow this is it lets go to watch the neighbours!
In fact I didn't feel the need to go anywhere!  I then "wanted" to see my hands to see how I looked.

But this was a mistake I think because the thought of moving an astral limb like it would be a fiscal immediately triggered me back to my body.  After all those years I tried in the past without success I sure wanted to hang out for a bit longer so I started to struggle but whatever I did the return could not be avoided.  I felt like I was going trough  the structure of the quilt I had on me a bit like I felt all the material which it was made of going trough me on a microscopic level!  I heard that sucking sound again and then I knew I was back.

I didn't move at first, just opened my eyes and it was as if there was never been a change in my consciousness like I would have closed them and opened them a few minutes afterwards.  I went over the experience like I read once in a book of Monroe you have to recall everything for your brain to remember it like happens with dreams, you forget it.
I watched the clock and only 10 min went by since I went to bed ?!

I felt very happy because this was definite proof that I would not just die and vanish.  But also a bit sad because I could not recognize my personality when I was out as if I was a different being.
So who we are is all stored in our brain?  Why are we here? I know that our soul is eternal but our ego?

[Synergy]

Thanks so much guys these are all awesome!  I have to admit for the last 4 months I was unable to work on this project as I am in the Canadian Navy and was away on deployment.  I am back now though, and won't be sailing again until after Christmas, so I will be working again on the book (however I just got a new laptop and need office 2007 reinstalled grrrr)  Anyway, will save all of these this weekend and get back into it

[jub jub]

This was my first and also very spontaneous OBE.

I fell asleep on the couch after reading a chapter in "Holographic Universe" about OBE's. It started off the classic way, with intense vibrations. I just laid there thinking "float up, float up" and the next thing I knew I was floating up, face down and looking at myself on the couch. The room was dark but I could still see everything clearly.

As I floated at the ceiling, I thought to myself "How do move?". The first thing that came to mind was swimming so I started to move my arms like I was doing the breast stroke! As I did this I started to move. I swam over to a wall where there was normally a clock, but instead, I noticed a painting. It's funny because at the time it didn't seem to be out of place. I was very excited now and wanted to see if I could move through solid matter so I floated toward my bedroom and as I came to the wall, I went right through! As I passed through the wall I noticed the texture of the sheet rock and how it seemed to pull energy from me. I looked down and saw my wife sleeping on the bed and thought "Okay, what now? Let's go up!" I started to drift upward, through the ceiling, through the insulation in the attic. I could see the rafters just like they normally appeared. As I went through the roof, I looked out at the street and then poof, I was back in my body, but not for long!

Next thing I know I'm in a different location. This time it's broad daylight. I'm following a car from about 20 feet up and back doing the same breast stroke I was doing at my house. The scenery was beautiful! I notice a beach to my right, lined with palm trees and a bright, blue surf crashing against sugar white sand. To the left there is a small rise with a few shops that sell surf boards, bathing suits etc. Just as I start to really enjoy myself I'm back in the body. I just laid there and marveled at what had just happened! It was wonderful and exciting!

[lajeanfitz]

i have had out of body experiences.. But the most recent really suprised me because i was totally awake i was sitting watching tv and felt myself moving through space. Quite exhilarating..Once i was half asleep and i was looking over a large body of water but...  looking mostly at the inlet and all the greenery trees and no sign of and people there..no habitation of people.. I have a lot of out of body .. as i remember them i will jot down and send the rest to you.

[Maitri]

Wow....nice to see so many replies. I am currently 48 years old. I have not had an OBE in about ten years with a couplr rare exceptions, This was after having them almost nightly from age 14-37. For me this is a blessing. For I am one of the unfortunatel people who entrained myself to respond to the sensations and experiences with fear. At first as a youngster I did not tell anyone. It was during the 70's, and I smokedd pot, etc... got in trouble at school. And was afraid that the counselors I had to see, etc... would interpret these experiences as psychotic, etc... They began with what seemed at to be a light swirling around my head when I was laying down ready for sleep. Then as the light moved faster it would begin to pulse up and down my body. An electrical feeling hum would begin in my ears and I would become paralyzed. I was sure I was dying or something on another plane of existense was trying to get me. So I began sleeping downstairs on the couch. Because my bedroom was upsatirs in a refinished attic.

Anyhow. That is all I feel like posting for now. Later I worked with a scholar who was working with Bob Monroe and learned much.

Maitri 

[sstonevenuss]

was asleep in the early am, I remember hearing my host getting ready for work then leaving and locking the front door. Somewhere between wanting to go back to sleep and actually being asleep, I became suddenly aware that I was no longer alone in the house. I opened my eyes just in time to see a dark figure pull back into the hall from the view of my door. I panicked and sat up. As i sat up, It felt as if I had passed through a tight film. I looked down at the pillow and saw my body lying there asleep. I realized that when I had opened my eyes and saw the entity, I had actually opened my astral body's eyes, not my real eyes.

I wanted to wake myself up, so I layed back down and started to rock back and forth, passing in and out of my body throught that thick, tight film. The instant I layed back down, I was struck with fear and panicked again when the entity came back into the room.  I sat up again, noticing that when I separated from my body, the fear vanished and I felt completely at peace and in control, then the entity would retreated back into the hall. I layed back down again and tried to shake myself awake, This process repeated itself 3 or 4 times until the entity got so close I jumped right up out of the bed and my body.

I expanded to about 3 times my normal size, same shape.  My view was from closer to the cieling, my arms and legs were longer, hands larger, over all, bigger. My vision was a sight so perfect, It cannot be described, I could hear the steps of insects, and the sound of the breeze on individual blades of grass.

I followed the entity down the hall, while saying things like, I am of the light, If you are not, you must leave, there is no darkness here, there is no negativity here, we have no drains for positive energy, light and love to leak out, You can choose to be of the light or you must not be here. My voice did not generate from my throat and come out of my mouth, It came forth from all around me, as far as infinity can reach and manifested through me.

I followed the entity around the living room and we ended up at the front door. I actually unlocked and opened the door. The knob felt small in my huge hand. As I openned the door, the entity passed through and I closed the door behind it.

I stood there and contemplated the fact that I had just opened a door without my body.  Then, I remembered my body.

I went back into the room and stood beside the bed. I looked down at this little defensless creature and thought "what an incredible machine" What a gift...then I thought, no, the gift is the life I live in that little biological computer.  Then I thought, no..

THE GIFT IS HAVING HAD THE CHOICE

The choice to choose this life, the free will to BE. anything anywhere anytime!!!!

I thought about all the options I could choose at that moment, to be someone else, something else, somewhere else, to create something altogether new and go there and experience it in anyway I chose!

I thought about the pain I would cause when my family discovered I had died in my sleep at 28. I thought about the family I had always wanted and had not had yet, I thought about that one spaecial person I would find someday to have all of that with...

I chose again. I chose to finish what I had started. i knew there was infinite time to choose again later, when I was done here.

I chose to remember everything about that experience, as it changed me forever. I chose to know the instant I laid eyes on my soul mate that I would Know it was him. I chose to live the ultimate life I came here to have, with every breath, Live.

As I sat on the bed and started to lay back down, I thought about how uncomfortable it was to be crammed into such a small place, but I knew I would not be aware of that when it happened.

I layed down, passed throught the film and I was completely awake and aware in real time.

* there was no differentiation whatsoever from my obe sight to my physical body's sight. no blink, no instant between one and the other. they were one and the same, there was no interuption of sight at all.

[sstonevenuss]

I had just read here recently about other people's "tricks" to getting OBEs. So just last night i was thinking about it before i went to bed, wondering if dinner would keep me grounded, and it would happen in the morning, like it usually does.

so this morning, i was dreaming (i always know when it's a dream, always.) i came to a door that i could not open. i was very aware of the feel of the carpet and pressure under my feet.(this seemed important)then i remembered what i had read here about realizing you are in a dream and wanting to go further and have an OBE. zoom! I was up in the stars!

then i remembered the post about the gal that went to "help" someone and thought that would be a good thing to do, and thought to ask for a guide, then i remembered about the porthole and grids and graphics people see...poof the stars became a digital white and black squares pattern (not a checker board) a digital pattern. then the white squares moved into a multi-armed spiral formation.



i flowed it into the center and it became a white tree, branches, trunk, roots into the ground...all white, no leaves, same black background. I have travelled down tree roots before,(real ones) so looked for a gap in the ground next to a root, found one, then backed out and felt pressure on the bottom of my feet.

I realized i was lying on my bed, the pressure on my feet again, and i could hear the air conditioner, and feel the pillow beside me in my hand. i did not want to wake up so i thought of my husband, who is away for 2 weeks, and I found myself in a military area, I saw my husband put up an antenna, he gave me a vaccuum out of a little blue car, gave me a young leutenant to assist me and off we went to suck up a "neg" into the vaccuum. ...found neg, assistant failed to plug in vaccuum in time, chase neg... assistant freezes up and i am back in dreamland...feeling the pillow and pressure on the feet(feet pressure is something i'm sure i only noticed after reading about it on the posts) i have never noticed it so much before.  and i know i am back in my bed...and awake.

i think it very cool that, even though i have not had an experience in MONTHS, i was able to conciously incorporate the things I've learned here, at will.

the point of all of this...what few posts i have made, and read, i am still learning new things, and this experience proved, again, that i believe what i have seen, and the advice i have given is based only on my own experiences...and in believing in the infinate possibilities opens the door to experiencing them...so which comes first? seeing or believing? they are sooooo close! 

no sooner do i think or say something, and it happens...always. A.

[sstonevenuss]

my first obe's were spontaneous...but there was a backwards spinning sensation that started in my head, and if i didn't fight it, pop, i was out.  also, a sound, like waves of vibration passing over and around my head. I could actually feel the sound and vibrations as a rolling pressure as it passed my ears and head in the same path as the spinning. from front to back. almost like passing through tunnels just big enough for my head to fit through. vwoosh, vwoosh, vwoosh...

so, when i would have these sensations, i would not try to think...about what why etc...just go with it.

a lot of people talk about fear stopping them. i find that the fear is only attached to the ego. to your human body that want to protect itself from losing you. it is a built in alarm to stop these things from happening naturally. the fear stays with your body, so when you go out, it stops immediatedly. you may be confused and concerned at first, but you will get over that very quickly, because if your first thought, once out, is to be back in, guess what, you will be. so all that work for nothing. good luck, A.

[sstonevenuss]

my BIG OBE: i normally expand to a larger form of my human body to begin with. it is not visible, even to myself, but i can "see" my hands and legs etc. It is more of an awareness of them that a physical sight. then, when i choose to become something, take another form, etc. i shift to what ever i chose and appear to be real and phisical in that form. but, the actual astral body in it's original form, just out of body, for me, is a clear, larger virsion of a human shape...or perhaps, that is the "form" it just was, so i see myself as that before i change...

another interesting experience, in a hotel room in vegas, 24 hours after the second sacred ceremony, (not sure if that had anything to do with it) but i was sitting on the bed, reading...had a thought about astral projection and in the same instant, i was engulfed in clouds and swirls of colors, lights, music...it was all very beautiful, was that my real astral body? I could still see the room through the lights and colors,it lasted about 3 minutes. then, it all stopped as it had started, it seamed to generate from and return within me. A.

[sstonevenuss]

this did happen to me a couple of different ways, first, the time loss thing, freaked me out, i could not believe i did it, so dangerous! second, i actually expanded right out of my body while i was driving and i had my mom and her boss in the car with me. I was going south on the I-5 in san diego, california. I got the backwards head spin and pop i was looking from above the roof of the car. no kidding, i was still in the same spot, the driver's seat, but was out of my body completely, and expanded to 3 times my human size. I always expand when i'm out. so there i was driving down the 5 with people in the car and i was looking at the freeway in front of me from over the roof of the car. I asked if anyone thought there was something strange going on, they said no, why? I said, because i am above the car. they told me i had better pull over, that i had been driving too long and should definately pull over right now.
  i realized this was dangerous, and i could not see the inside of the car unless i really strained, then i think i was just remembering where things were, not really seeing the interior. I got a little scared that i did this while driving and wanted to be back in, and pop, i was.   i pulled over and let my mom drive. A.

[sstonevenuss]

the first time i was 14 or 15 years old. It was spontanious. I had stayed home from school, i had no energy, thought i was sick, heard the phone ring, got up and headed down the hall. very suddenly, i got very dizzy and turned around to go back to bed, just made it in time to fall backwards on the bed and (major spinning) POP i was up in the corner if the cieling looking down at myself on the bed. my first thought was to be back in my body and i was wide awake and back in my body.
this happened a number of times, les and less with the lethargic warning.

the last one was ultimately the culmination of my life's experience in these things.  about 5 years ago. at a friend's house in vancouver after snow baording for 2 weeks. (very meditative) I was alone in the house, sleeping in the am about 7ish. suddenly aware of a presence.

it entered the room and i "saw" it with my astral body's eyes. (my body was still asleep). as soon as i opened my "eyes" it backed out of the room. I was trying to sit up to defend myself, but i could not move. i could only rock back and forth on my side. I could feel my astral body pulling in and out of my body as i rocked. like going through a thick film, clingy, tight. It came in again,

I have to go for an hour or two, but i will be right back to finnish this...anyone checking in, you'll want to read the rest of this, I know it's my experience, and it means the deapths of creation to me, but it's a great one!!!!!

[sstonevenuss]

I've never shared this one until now...
I OBE'ed and was standing in front of the dresser looking in the mirror. i could not see my astral body reflected in the mirror, but did see my physical body lying on the bed. i turned and went to the bed and sat down beside myself. I wondered what it would be like to give myself a kiss, so i bent down and kissed my physical body on the lips with my astral body's lips. It felt very much like a real kiss. it was amazing. It was sweet.

[Pindusa]

I'm not sure how to post things on a web site, so here it goes.  I believe this is an OBE I had as a 6 or 7 year old child.  It also involved my Grandmother OBE.

TWO PERSON OBE

I got up one night, seeing my grandmother at the door to my room holding a glass of orange juice and calling me to her it.  It was the middle of the night so I thought it was a little unusual, even though she took care of us during the day while my mother and father were at work.

I got out of bed and, on my way to where my grandmother awaited me at the bedroom door, walked past the beds of my older and younger brothers whom I saw fast asleep on their respective beds.  I was barefoot so I could feel the coldness of the polished granite floor on my bare feet.  I slowly walked to my grandmother and took the glass of orange juice from her.  I could see the rich orange color of the juice and the condensation on the glass.  I drank the juice and could taste its cold sweetness and feel the pieces of pulp which my grandmother liked to leave in the juice.  (It was the best tasting orange juice I can remember!)  I handed her back the glass and turned around to walk back to bed when I noticed there was someone on my bed.  I slowly walked back to my bed to see who it was.  I was not really scared, just puzzled.  When I got right next to my bed I saw myself, asleep on the bed, with my face turned away from me.  I could see that my eyes were closed and that I was asleep, with my short brown hair tumbling over my cheek.  I go to touch me and suddenly I find myself back in bed, my mind wide awake, but my body paralized, unable to open my eyes, and then I drifted back in to sleep.

The next morning I asked my mother if my grandmother had come over the night but she didn't know what I was talking about.  I asked my grandmother but she dismissed my question and I never got an answer.  I had never heard about OBE's and that was not anything that was publicized at the time.  I really had no idea what it was.  There were none of the usual distortions of dreams.  Everything was in its place and looked exactly as it did during the day only now it was night.  The unusual thing was that there must have been some kind of light, as I could see in the dark and it seems my grandmother was lit from above, as if by a small unseen spotlight.

What was this, reallY?

Were we both out of body?

[astral traveler]

A descriptive titile, type of OBE (AP, EP etc), how it was induced (spontaneous, willed by what method etc)

"OBE - like a journal type description... a few paragraphs long. Include in your description how the OBE affected you emotionally etc"

Your first name, and last initial (eg; John M.), and location (eg: Canada)

Levitational Guidance of my Energy Body from Astral Entities:

One time at the age of 15 (roughly in the year of 1983), when my energy body was already spontaneously separated from my physical body, I astrally awakened to find myself levitating above my bed, aimlessly out of control, much like an astronaut floating around in space or in a simulated NASA weightlessness environment might feel.  The astral planes seem to have different gravity environments as otherwise compared to our material plane in this context.

Suddenly, a series of gentle hands from perhaps a half dozen invisible entities steadied my torso and limbs.  They were guiding me how to levitationally balance with purposeful direction, instead of simply allowing me to float wildly out of control.  I didn't feel threatened by this outside intervention, but instead felt like I literally had guiding hands made available to me.  I reasoned that if outside entities were willing to lend assistance in my astral endeavors, then the experiences must have some inherent value that I was not fully aware of.  I became pleasantly excited that my pursuit of astral consciousness was progressing in a greater universal context.

- Vince B.
Chicago, Illinois