Just curious if anyone has checklist routine to validate they are having an OBE?
In my early days I often wondered if I was sleep walking, or being a diabetic if my sugars were low. So I now try to verify what's happening as soon as I sense I'm having an OBE.
I will often clasp my hands together then try and pull them apart to see if my fingers stretch. I will then test maybe putting my hands through a wall, or door and checking my senses while doing this. Finally I will try and state my name verify where I geographically am, and then acknowledge that I'm having an OBE.
Usually there appears to be an internal mechanism that indicates you are having an OBE but none the less when I do checks it starts me off fairly focused and confident based on the level of control I have.
Oh, you mean a reality check?
What do you do while in the non-physical to PROVE to yourself that you're actually IN the non-physical.
Most of the time "I'll just know"... sometimes I'll test by "flying".
Look at your hands and see if they have the melting look like Robert Bruce explained. :-D
Create a visual intent and see how vivid it is. I'm also on board with Ryan's flying reality check. There is really nothing quite like flying in the Astral World. :-)
I find that looking looking at your hands to watch them melt makes you focus too much on the physical. But, Robert Bruce and many others have had success with this.
I suppose with me it's a mixture, I sort of see my trips as studies trying to understand reaction times, real time analysis, and the generated environment being experienced. I guess for me doing snapshot checks every so often keeps me focused, and yes reminding me of the physical.
I think it's extremely important not to separate the two, as they both feed each other (reality and non reality). However all of my OBEs will happen from sleep, while on the other hand I have vivid dreams every night (I mean every night!). So often when I have waken into an OBE need to do a few checks to ensure I have control of my senses, and I do not find that flying instantly is a way of checking them, quite simply as that is what happens in most of my vivid dreams every night.
It's weird but being diabetic (type 1) involves doing checks most of your daily life (i.e. are my sugar levels OK, is it safe to drive a car, have eaten enough, checks while at the gym etc), and I guess for me this has rubbed off into my OBE state but in a beneficial way.
I have discovered through my studies that it is easier to have an OBE with sugar levels less than 4.0 mmol however aside from the danger of a lack of glucose in the blood stream the experience will eventually lack clarity. Any range above 10.0 mmol (too much glucose) usually begins to get distorted but with clarity. A range of 5-8 mmol always works perfect.
So despite still having OBEs I'm fascinated how my physical body with a medical condition can impact my experience by either lengthening, shortening, making it easier to enter, or distorting. So once I have left my body I do some checks be it reality checks but also perhaps more as OBE health checks.
But I'm curious despite my ability to have full control during my OBEs why the host body (i.e. me) can still influence my state and narrative of the experience. Could that just be an OBE disability as I'm diabetic?