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[phxsun]

Hi everyone. So this is my first post in here, been lurking! After a few lucid dreams, and not knowing what they were, I decided to learn more, and came upon this web site. For about two months now I have been trying to OBE. I get to the vibrations quite easy now but have had no success at leaving my body yet. Life's constraints only allow me to get about 6 hours of sleep and most of the time I tend to fall asleep. When I get the vibrations, they last about 20 seconds then as I relax with them I tend to just wake up, even if I try again I just wake up. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks in advance. Dan.

[dbmathis]

Hi faxing, welcome to the forum!

I will start of by telling you to keep trying, I have heard that it takes months possibly years to have a conscious out of body experience. Many people believe that your second body is slightly out of sync every night while you sleep, so as you stated that key is letting the body fall asleep while the mind stays awake. This is what's commonly called sleep paralysis. There is partial and full paralysis and you will want to achieve full.

I think that some key things to remember and try should be the following:

1) Keep you eyes and body perfectly still.
2) You may need to deepen the paralysis in your case. Try some deep breathing techniques. You can also trick the body into thinking your body is in full paralysis by slightly twitching each muscle in the body.
3) Try not to move unless you know you're in full paralysis or you will wake up, the vibrations indicate that your are in the transitory stage. Watch for full paralysis phenomenons such as seeing through your eyelids.
4) Another technique that has worked for me is to shift all of my focus away from my body.

Hope this helps

Best Regards

David

[phxsun]

Thanks David, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. I will take me time and give your suggestions a try.