William Buhlman says you can have hours long OBEs... Your longest OBE?

[LoLmart]

From his book "Adventures Beyond The Body"

Clarity
One of the best ways to enhance your awareness when out-of-body is to immediately focus and maintain your attention on
a single idea or goal. If your attention begins to wander or your vision becomes fuzzy or dreamlike, firmly ask for complete
clarity of your awareness. The most effective way of maintaining and enhancing your awareness and control is to request
complete clarity of consciousness at the first sign of mental wandering.
Requesting clarity of thought is the key to prolonged out-of-body experiences. Using this technique it's possible to
maintain an out-of-body experience for several hours. Every time your mind wanders, simply demand clarity by saying or
thinking, "Clarity now!" It is often necessary to demand clarity immediately after separation, when moving to a new nonphysical location, or when traveling between energy environments or  dimensions. In the beginning, the easiest way to
control and prolong your out-of-body experiences is to acquire the habit of demanding your clarity of awareness every few
minutes. Eventually, as you gain experience, the clarity of your perceptions will become increasingly automatic.


I thought 20 minutes is incredibly long. Hours? Is it possible or not? Your longest OBE?

[Szaxx]

In my last one 5 hours or so elapsed in their time all of which seemed real. In our time I usually have 5 or 6 hours sleep each night. That night I can only remember this one. Its posted on here a couple of days ago. Quest or Retrieval.
Many others have lasted less and some have took far longer.

If you keep your mind active you dont need to demand for any clarity, it's there constantly. It's more real than the physical too. I can't remember the last time I demanded it either. Could have been in the 80's when I went oob each lunchtime for some fun.
Safe travels.

[Xanth]

Anything is possible.

Don't limit yourself... especially by what others might tell you, because NOBODY knows for certain.

My longest projections have felt like 60+ minutes.  Doesn't happen very often though.

[LightBeam]

Mine are usually long, few hrs astral time. Many times upon return of a short one, I immediately focus on separating again without giving myself a chance to wake my physical body, so that way I can have 5 or 6 OBEs on a row. I usually initiate my exist when I briefly wake up during the night. Sometimes I look at the clock and it happens around 3am. I know for a fact that shortly after dosing off I separate, because I dont even fall asleep completely and I can feel my dual awareness. 90% of the time I experience strong vibrations which I initiate on purpose. That helps with the amount of consciousness, awareness, clarity, etc. Then I snap back when it's time for me to naturally wake up around 6am. So, that there is 3 hrs.
Buhlman is right about focusing one one goal to keep your clarity. Although, sometimes just a simple command does not work. It is the thought behind the verbal statement that counts, not just saying it.

[Bedeekin]

I spent about 5 years back in my 20s experimenting heavily with Sleep Paralysis... prolonging it... seeing how long I could stay within the state... how many waves I could endure.

This resulted in three distinctive experiences spanning the 5 years. All were connected in the fact that I would find myself seemingly experiencing the everyday life of this other guy. The experiences themselves lasted probably an hour in physical time, but the actual experience would last hours... one sprawling day was one where I thought I was trapped. I just had to spend most of the time trying to go along with anyone without raising suspicion... I was concerned that whoever I was would have been classified mad in the other 'reality'. They never happened after I made a conscious decision to stop getting too deep without any proper knowledge of what I was doing. I especially loved the fact that Monroe seemingly experienced this same reality. The cars were identical.

Normally though the longest last about an hour or so... I don't really take note of the length of them anymore.

[rezaf]

I have only had a few very long experiences lasting more than an hour and in all of them I was surrounded by 2 or more guides who probably were helping me in prolonging the experience. They were quite similar to the experiences that are called belief system territories on this forum.

[ChopstickFox]

I haven't really kept time... But going off how long it takes me to write them down and from what I remember, it's taken me twenty minutes just to summarize a few before, so I can only assume that the whole experience was much longer. Granted, they are "dreams", but ones so distinguished that I feel comfortable adding them here. No idea how long they were physical time, but I remember a pretty long one once... upon waking, only a few minutes had passed. Funny how that works, eh?

[Steel Hawk]

I don't think it's possible. Ouch, ew, oh no, what have I said.  

If you're talking about being in a meditative state for more than an hour of physical time all the while out-of-body without returning to your body I don't buy it, I call looney tunes. It may feel like hours, just as one may fall asleep and wake up 5 minutes later feeling that hours have passed. But to think that you can spend more than an hour without returning to your body is physically impossible -- unless your brain is unique in the way it stores these memories. I've had experiences that have felt like hours, yet when I return to the physical 30 minutes has passed. It's a strange thing.

Why am I saying this? What am I basing this on? The physical brain we need to actually recall these memories classes OBEs along with dreams and shuts down long term memory storage while in this state. So if you did manage to stay out for hours your recall of the event would be sporadic and dream like at best. It's physically possible, you would need to "wake up" every so often and recall the event while in the physical for it to be stored long term without losing it.

I know I'll take some flak for this and I'm not trying to flame, it just doesn't seem legit to me.

[rezaf]

I don't think it's possible. Ouch, ew, oh no, what have I said.  

If you're talking about being in a meditative state for more than an hour of physical time all the while out-of-body without returning to your body I don't buy it, I call looney tunes. It may feel like hours, just as one may fall asleep and wake up 5 minutes later feeling that hours have passed. But to think that you can spend more than an hour without returning to your body is physically impossible -- unless your brain is unique in the way it stores these memories. I've had experiences that have felt like hours, yet when I return to the physical 30 minutes has passed. It's a strange thing.

Why am I saying this? What am I basing this on? The physical brain we need to actually recall these memories classes OBEs along with dreams and shuts down long term memory storage while in this state. So if you did manage to stay out for hours your recall of the event would be sporadic and dream like at best. It's physically possible, you would need to "wake up" every so often and recall the event while in the physical for it to be stored long term without losing it.

I know I'll take some flak for this and I'm not trying to flame, it just doesn't seem legit to me.

At this moment I don't remember any of my dreams except for bits and pieces of a few special dreams, I don't even remember what I did yesterday  but I can recall my few long OBEs and dozens of short OBEs (out of hundreds) in detail so I don't think your theory is correct but as I said in all of them I had help from many guides and it wouldn't be so easy to stay there for that long and remember everything like that if it wasn't for their energy. It's your energy level and experience that raises your awareness in such experiences so theoretically if someone has a lot of energy and focus I don't see why he shouldn't be able to do this on his own.

[mindflood]

I don't think it's possible. Ouch, ew, oh no, what have I said.  

If you're talking about being in a meditative state for more than an hour of physical time all the while out-of-body without returning to your body I don't buy it, I call looney tunes. It may feel like hours, just as one may fall asleep and wake up 5 minutes later feeling that hours have passed. But to think that you can spend more than an hour without returning to your body is physically impossible -- unless your brain is unique in the way it stores these memories. I've had experiences that have felt like hours, yet when I return to the physical 30 minutes has passed. It's a strange thing.

Why am I saying this? What am I basing this on? The physical brain we need to actually recall these memories classes OBEs along with dreams and shuts down long term memory storage while in this state. So if you did manage to stay out for hours your recall of the event would be sporadic and dream like at best. It's physically possible, you would need to "wake up" every so often and recall the event while in the physical for it to be stored long term without losing it.

I know I'll take some flak for this and I'm not trying to flame, it just doesn't seem legit to me.

your not saying why its impossible your just saying you wouldnt be able to remember all of it

[Bedeekin]

I don't think it's possible. Ouch, ew, oh no, what have I said.  

If you're talking about being in a meditative state for more than an hour of physical time all the while out-of-body without returning to your body I don't buy it, I call looney tunes. It may feel like hours, just as one may fall asleep and wake up 5 minutes later feeling that hours have passed. But to think that you can spend more than an hour without returning to your body is physically impossible -- unless your brain is unique in the way it stores these memories. I've had experiences that have felt like hours, yet when I return to the physical 30 minutes has passed. It's a strange thing.

Why am I saying this? What am I basing this on? The physical brain we need to actually recall these memories classes OBEs along with dreams and shuts down long term memory storage while in this state. So if you did manage to stay out for hours your recall of the event would be sporadic and dream like at best. It's physically possible, you would need to "wake up" every so often and recall the event while in the physical for it to be stored long term without losing it.

I know I'll take some flak for this and I'm not trying to flame, it just doesn't seem legit to me.

You won't take flak for it... because it's a misguided opinion and that can't be helped, that's all.