I have had a very strange experience my whole life and I am starting to think is this a OBE or a form of an OBE.
When I sit on the toilet seat some of my best inventions come into my mind and I use the time to evaluate my day, my thoughts and my life. I sometimes sit there on the toilet for more time than I need because it is exciting,
Now while I sit there i will start thinking about things and then come up with a technique for inducing an OBE, now I would get very lost in the technique and by about 90 seconds I am in this place going about doing my technique and all this while I am sitting on the toilet, my eyes are wide open, my head resting on my left hand and I am basically not aware of my body instead I am now in this thought of mine doing the OBE technique that I am creating on the fly. Now I think there is a name for this, it’s just ‘getting lost in your thoughts’ or even ‘it’s called day dreaming’ but the problem I face is that this is real and in the experience I have no thought on my body nothing, just what’s happening in that world, and I have been able to do this at will my whole life, its on the return that makes me think it is an obe now, I never thought about it being an OBE before until recently, because as I was going about doing this OBE technique in my minds eye I am seeing a body but going a long with it, but I am viewing from a third person perspective like an observer perspective, Then suddenly I think outside of the technique and that’s what brings me back to my physical body and I go straight back into my view from my eyes which have been open this whole time now. I never leave the body conciously or view my body forming back with my physical body on the return. While the experience happens it feels like I am there but also like having two minds playing the same thing at once like my physical eyes are open but my mind is elsewhere but my body is on the toilet doing a dump or trying to have a dump, but I lose awareness of my body and not only see my physical world while I am also having a experience where I am trying to create the out of body experience in my minds eye. This also happens while I am eating food or visualising on anything, but it never happens when I am lying in bed at night trying to induce an OBE.
Please tell me what am I experiencing exactly?
I would say that i have very good visualisation skills, but they have never helped me to hypnotize myself or induce a concious OBE.
I dont know if this is the same but what you describe i think i have felt all my life as well…
when im just sitting in front of the TV or just doing anything where i daydream my focus go’s to the top of my head and it feels like im looking out from behind the top of my head,
when this happens everything in front of me suddenly looks far away and very small, it all go’s back to normal when i realize that something is strange…
I dont know what this is but i too would like to know…
Its called dissociation, a form of trance induction.
Remember that hypnosis is only one of many forms of trance induction.
I use this way when iam bored at an airport or plane or in the train.
I would say with this talent try selfhypnosis, good chance u do pretty well!
I did an internet search on dissociation and i found some interesting news but the more i read on some website i found something called ‘depersonalization’
What is depersonalization?
Depersonalization is the sense of being detached from, or “not in” one’s body. This is what is often referred to as an “out-of-body” experience. However, some people report rather profound alienation from their bodies, a sense that they do not recognize themselves in the mirror, recognize their face, or simply feel not “connected” to their bodies in ways which are challenging to articulate.
Is the above similar to what is going on in my mind?
I also just found a thread on this forum, which explains pretty much what i feel, but people talk about it as getting lost in your thoughts or even day dreaming, but i think it’s more than that, i will give you the link below, but what i would like to know is what i have got, is it the same as this thread:
Jeff you say that this is a talent, well doesn’t everybody have this talent? and you suggest me trying self hypnosis, well i have tried hypnotizing people and had a little sucess and i have been able i think to hypnotize myself but only at crucial times, like once i had 1st degree burns and i used self hypnosis to bring me to a state in my mind where i am in a waterfall, to cool my arm which was burnt, it worked to some extent but because of the pain i was not lost in my minds eye as i describe above. I use to do quite a lot of self hypnosis and i had a book on the subject but i don’t really ever think i had a big success in it. So i don’t think the hypnosis works well with me, but how can i use this talent, well if it really is a telent, how can i use it to induce an OBE, becasue if it is a dissociative then in an out of body you feel dissociated, so it must lead to the same thing am i right?
I will reply longer later but for now…its like this!
The quality we all have…but at the talent for it we differ.
C what i mean?
We all can paint, yet we are not all van goghs or rembrandts!
WE all can understand a bit of physics yet we are not all einsteins.
Most of us can learn to play football but we are not all super talented at it.
We differ with our talent…but yes the quality to dissociate we have that all, thats true!