This was the strangest experience I’ve ever had. It happened only a few minutes ago, and it’s fresh in my mind. It started out as a lucid dream. I was lying in my bed in my room, though my room was strange and distorted (which I didn’t realize till I was off my bed). I felt something lying on my chest and licking my face. I thought “Is that Loompy?” (my dog) I looked and I could make the outline of my dog out. I thought it was strange though because he doesn’t live where I was, so I did a reality check. I pinched my nose and sure enough I could breathe. Once I knew I was dreaming I started to involuntarily float around my strange distorted room. It was getting kind of creepy in there so I decided to change the environment. When I did that I just ended up back in my bed, and my room looked normal. This is when things got weird. Note: this did not feel at all like a dream. I felt very hot, paralyzed, and it felt like my soul was being forcefully pulled out of my body by some sort of cosmic vacuum cleaner affair. It was a strange sensation, like my face was pushing out of, well, my face. the same was happening with the rest of my body, most notably my arms and chest. I tried to stop it but I could not move. I remember trying to jerk my arm free. At the climax of this ordeal I was pulled at least two feet above my bed. I yelled “help” but the word came out very slow and very deep like a dramatic no in a movie. The air, during this whole event felt very thick and slow. Everything, except what was going on with me, felt very slow.The air also seemed to be purpley, even though it was a normal color. I was completely shocked and scared, I had no idea what was going on. I thought a demon or something was stealing my soul, and I don’t even believe demons! But hey, I didn’t know what to think. I wanted so badly to “wake up” if I was indeed sleeping. I even remember telling myself to wake up. Eventually I descended back into my body. It felt like my soul was still poking out a bit from my body. I was still hot, paralyzed, and scared, and the air was still thick and slow. Every thing felt like slow motion. I remember thinking that I was having a heart attack or something (which is unlikely because I’m 16 and skinny as hell). This sounds sort of weird, but I could sense a red dot on my torso. I wanted to make sure I was breathing so I took deep breaths. I could feel air going through my throat and into my lungs. I yelled for help again but this time instead of my voice being slow and deep, it sounded like I had laryngitis. Like I swallowed a bunch of sand. I lied there writhing while still, if thats possible, for a few more moments. Have you seen film projectors change slides? Did you notice the flash of black between the slides? Well I saw a flash of black like that, and the thick, slow air dissipated instantly. I tried to move my arm, and I could. I got out of bed and splashed water in my face.
So, what do you all think happened? Dream, OBE, or something else?
Honestly, it sounds like a nightmare to me with OBE elements in the dream. It’s possible the middle part was OBE, since the real and unintentional OBE’s I have heard about from family are often a frightening experience due to lack of control or ability to understand what it happening.
It could be borderline either or even both. The real question is, what do you believe?
…I have always wanted to have an OBE, but after reading these forums I think I have. Last summer I was camping in the cascade Mtns. and sitting in a chair. It was the middle of the day, and suddenly I heard this loud buzzing that took me by surprise. It was like a dream, but it scared me so I tried to wake up…It took about a full minute for the buzzing to subside. I was scared, and seemed to have SP for a few minutes. Wow. It was the only time this ever happened to me. Wish I had recognized it for what it was. I thought it was the ativan I was taking, but it never did that before or since. Anyone who had an experience like that on meds let me know.
That story scared the shit out of me gunpowderedplato, wow, I definitely agree with Mohegan with this one. The way you described everything felt so real, as if it were happening to me. Its crazy, I would never want to go through something like that. Hah.
Yeah, indeed Scared the **** out of me as well. Don’t think I’ll try it for some time
But lots of people that have these things unvoluntarily are scared that they will not get back to their body so I guess your reactions were pretty normal.
If it felt so real it surely wasn’t only a dream right…
something similar happened to me this summer.i was sleeping vrey ordinary and suddenly i opened my eyes because my mobile was ringing.i tried to answer but i was totally paralysed.totally.i was very scared and i was trying disperately to move and suddenly i was out of my pralysed body…i was looking at mefrom the back and i was looking to my mobile in the same time.i felt it in my hand…but it was in the others me hand :smile:). and what impressed me was that i was looking in 2 different plans in the same time.i got scared, i threw away my mobile and i slept immediately...next day morning, i realized that my mobile couldnt have ring.i`m still confused…
Everytime I get this sensation, paralyzed and stuff… doens’t work to me try to move my arms or everything else, it just makes everything seems so heavy, so hard to wake up, just make me feel in a prision.
BUT, if I take a second to relax, to say to myself “it’s okay, breath”… I feel everything coming back and I wake up.
It works really good for me,
maybe it may be useful,
cheers,
As I’ve said here a few times, I think that trying to classify things into dreams vs obes and other definitions is a futile attempt since the nature of them all is just non physical, non local, and the borders between them are way thinner than most people think.
I’m curious about the red dot. Why would you sense something like that.
I would advise you to think if your mind may be telling you something.
did it feel like a dangerous spot ? Or anything like that ?
again, from my experiences, the only way to truly begin to understand these experiences, is to have a lot more of them until they become familiar and understandable to YOU.
Can’t learn to play the piano by reading about it. And this is even more complex than playing the piano. ^^
Scared the **** out of me as well. Don’t think I’ll try it for some time 
