I for one believe in OBE because I experienced more than a few of them. Though they happened when I least expect them too.
They started when I was twelve or so by simple things like my astral body would rotate 180 degrees and back. Shooting into space as fast as light speed. Things that freaked me out cause I could not explain them. But one thing I knew is that they where no dreams.
Nowadays I know what they are about and can control them when they occur ( not so frequent anymore ). If I get the paralyzing and buzz/vibrating feeling I realize that this is the first stage of OBE and try the best to leave my body. Sometimes I get it right, and just float around the house and outside in my yard. Never really went further than that, too afraid still.
But lately OBE’s are rare with me and I dont know why. But when they come I know what to do. Next time I will go a step further. I just hope it comes soon again.
Me too the first time that I will have one I will just visit my house.
I will got to be really good knowing of OBE to go on such far away place …
Maybe go on friends house and create dream when I will be more skilled . This would be a great thing to do and im sure it work.Maybe not create his dream but visiting his house work.
Over the past couple of days I think I’ve been getting somewhere with OBE’s and the thing is I haven’t really been trying. I used to try and use the WILD technique and hope for either an OBE or WILD (assuming they’re different things) but I haven’t really gotten past the feeling of electricity flowing through my body - I just couldn’t seem to clear my mind.
These past two nights though, I’ve gotten to the point where I fell asleep on my back(I usually sleep on my stomach and could never fall asleep on my back until these past two nights)and after dozing off I’d suddenly ‘see’ my room, though slightly altered, through closed eyelids. It definitely did not feel like a dream, mostly due to the feeling of altered consciousness that I got with it. It was a weird change that I’ve only come close to once while giving meditation a try and to say the least it felt very pleasant, as if my consciousness was floating freely in the air instead of being cramped inside my skull.
I’m definitely going to keep trying this for the next few nights and see if I can get myself to move around or something.
One time while i was stuck under the ladder of a pool I could hear myself yell but had no knowledge of me screaming, and saw myself struggle, yet i was strangely relaxed
I’ve been looking into LDing with a lot of dept and detail. Acouple of days ago I just remembered what I think was on OBE when I was about 5-7? I was pretty young, im 15, so i forgot what age I was but I remember like it was for real.
" It was 12, midnight, and for somereason I got out of my bed, and walked to the living room. In the living room there is a large window that stares into the street and the front yard. I saw this big alien space ship, i can even draw it for you till this day, with a lot of different colors and it was flashing. I than called my grandparents which live downstairs and they walked up the stairs, and i told them to look through the door. They looked through the door, and saw the spaceship too =/ But than a couple days ago i recalled that they never opened it… So what was that?/ Obe? LD? Or real life, which now i doubt.
You remember to have experienced this when you were 5? It’s like an old RL memory? A friend of mine told me he remember he could fly when he was 5. He remind this like RL memories. It can be FA’s or LD’s, but I think it can be also alterate states of consciousness during waking life.
Yeah. A FA? Explain what it would feel like or what it is? I know what the definition of course, because I just moved my mouse over it but what is it like? a LD, normal dream, OBE? o.O
You believe you wake up but you’re still dreaming. When you’re adult, you easily can make the difference and realize when you really wake up that you were dreaming (though I’ve heard accounts of poltergeists which were obviously SP or FA’s). But when you’re a children and can’t clearly make the difference between dream and waking life, I suppose you can remember this as a real life memory.
[color=indigo]My first OBE happened last Spring (2005). I recall getting my daughters off to school then I went back to my bed to just relax a bit. But before I knew it, my body was tingling and I noticed that my body was still on the bed yet I was up above it. Then that was it. It kinda freaked me out, so I ended up snapping out of it quickly.
It sucks cause I haven’t been able to do it since then.
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I was told that basically my LD’s are a step closer for me to become astral. Is that correct?[/color]
It’s said that you can astrally project from a LD. The principle is to move your consciousness to a distant point so that your astral body goes towards this point. It can be done from a LD through many methods:
provoking a vertical movement in LD, by flying up or falling from a high,
visualizing yourself floating above your body or simulating an OBE from a LD.
Another method is entering the “black void” (a dream zone where there is no more dream) and practising energetic methods (with shakra or breathing).
Last night I think I was as close to an OBE as I’ve ever been before. After smoking some bud and eating a brownie, I was relaxing on my bed and listening to some music. While I was laying on my bed, I would zone out, and then just have the feeling like I was being dropped back on my bed; this happened several times and I would only zone back in when I was falling down, I was never conscious enough to catch myself floating up. Maybe if I weren’t so stoned.
Although smoking weed may be helpful with relaxing and zoning out. I would definitely advise against smoking it (or eating it in brownies ) while attempting to have an OBE.
Yeah it never work when after smoking. Im always discouraging after a moment and maybe it relax more quickly but its so difficult to reach that stage to project ourself.
Ok, so I decided finally to seriously try OBEing. I have read Robert Monroe’s book about Astral projection and now I’m reading another book of other writer. Generally, I’m very motivated to do something like these… but I have never had Astral Projection that and I’m not really sure how to start seriously, because I have tried OBEing about 6 weeks ago but i decided to make a pause… Now, I try again.
BTW, I’m good at Lucid Dreaming (maybe it would help or something).
I hope that someone having knowledge about OBEing will give me an advice here.
What should I do to achieve OBE? Should I achieve mind’s silence? Some kind of trance? Wait for vibrations and jump out of body? What kind of body positions are helpful? What technique do you use?
You dont have to be in a certain position but I heard sleeping on the back is the best.
For mind silence forget it , its almost impossible to not heard anything from your mind. Just try to focus on your breathing it help me to not think about anything else from the sound part.
You dont have to wait for something . You will know when you have to project yourself. And if you continue to try to astral project yourself at a certain point in your mind you will automaticcaly try to project. But the best I think for me is the rope method.
Splitted from the “For those who believe OBE’s are real” topic and merged into the “BIG OBE” topic
Its like 2 OBE that I trying to did and each time I was trying to get out I was suddenly popping out of my body and landing right away on the floor without even seeing thing (just feeling in the dark) . It was hurting to land on the floor and to think that my body is maybe on the floor , I wake up everytime.
Any idea what is this and why it does this ? Its so weird , its untellable.
I remember not being able to fall asleep. I also remember lots of HI, and feelings of spining, wobling, ect. Although they all subsided and I thought I was fully awake, still having trouble falling asleep. I eventualy just got out of my bed and did a few RC’s. They all checked real. Then, I felt what I could best describe as a silvery/white light in my chest and, with a slight jerk, I was in my bed.
I thought it was just a weird dream, but after looking it over a few times…I think it was an OBE.
Any input?
[EDIT] The RC’s I did were:
Checking the clock (1:16)
Checking my hand (apeared normal)
Remembering everything I had done leading up to that point (I could remember the entire day. Everything seemed normal)
) while attempting to have an OBE.
Any input?