I had this experience about two weeks ago.I didn’t write about, I guess I didn’t consider it important.Anyway, I was lying in my bed.I was thinking about some random stuff( I always do that till I fall asleep.I don’t even try to do MILD or WILD.Sometimes when I just show a slightest will for lucid dreaming, I get a lucid dream.That also happened a few days ago.I was like:’‘OK, I wanna have a lucid dream when I fall asleep’’ and just continued thinking about other stuff).
While I was thinking, I just felt an OBE coming.I don’t know how, I just knew it was coming.I was like:’‘And there comes the OBE…’’ and I felt like my soul was being pulled out.Like someone just took my soul.But the weird part was, I was still awake LOL.SO, that was not an OBE.I was like:’‘WTF?I’m still awake.Ah well…’’ and continued thinking about some other stuff.
Your inner ear fluid-balance can shut down for the night, as part of the falling asleep process leading to a brief “change of location” sensation (hee! rhyme! um. sorry…) even if you aren’t actually asleep.
But when you have an OBE then you are supposed to be awake? I have only had an OBE once and the difference from a LD is that I felt…and somehow knew I was completely awake. In contrast in a LD I know I am dreaming.
So it seems very possible for my beliefs that you had, or started to have a OBE without falling asleep.