It’s a very interesting account Ysim, especially the clock thing and the high lucidity level. People who have OBE’s say their lucidity level is very high. Yet I remember there was a LD’ing experiment about internal clock accuracy and there were some good results in it: Your clock
Hello all. I had my first OBE last night. I couldn’t believe it and it was spontanious.
I was laying in bed practicing my visuals as usual. I don’t remember falling asleep but I do remember feeling a tingling all over my body. I’ve been tinkering with astral projection and thought I was just in a trance. Only this time, when I got that floating feeling indicitive of a trance, I went with it and tried to push myself out of my body. I had a strange vibration all over my body. It was like I was being electrocuted. Well I pushed to hard and litterally flew up through my cieling. I saw a few images of what I thought were spirits and a city. I got scared and threw myself back down in my body. At this point, I didn’t want to continue but I kept raising back up.
I looked over at my bedroom door and there was my two year old son. At this point I really wanted to stop because I thought that he was out of his crib. I got really bad sleep paralysis which scares the crap out of me. I was so concerned for my son that I stayed out of my body and went over to him by the door. He looked up at me and said, Mimi (thats what he calls me) Your doing it! Now you can play with me at night! This calmed me somewhat but I was still scared. I was able to get out into the living room and I saw my husbands astrally projected self and he kept trying to cuddle with me! Whats up with that?
I finally got so scared I pushed myself back into my body and MADE myself sit up! I was shaking all over. I couldn’t believe it. I was in a daze. I asked my son the next morning if he remembered playing with Mimi last night and he said YES!
Does anyone know if children are born with this ability naturally? My husband didn’t remember anything and gave me the “your crazy” look. Anyone ever had a first experience like this??
Light and Love,
Sarah
Sarah, that’s awesome! It’s great to have an outside affirmation of your actions, no matter how much you believe them without it.
I haven’t done much research at all into LD or OBEs, but I knew a mother whose daughter very often had OBEs while she was asleep, to the point that she was moving things around in the house and worrying people quite a bit, until they figured out just whose spirit/astral body was playing with her toys while she was sleeping.
Has your son helped you any more with your OBEs since that first experience? Have you thought of asking him to come and get you sometimes if he wants to play with you like that? If he has a natural ability, he may be able to walk into your room and help you come out just like he did the first night.
-Treeshifter
Last year, before i had even know such a thing as LD could exist, i accidentally had an OBE. I awoke to my alarm and hopped in the shower, then i went to lay down on my couch to watch tv. I went to “sleep” and then while sleeping i was watching the same tv show and i could feel that my body was very cold, and then i looked down and there i was on the couch, i kind of peeked my mind up out of the back of my brain. then i was afraid that i was dying and woke myself up
I almost had such an experience but I didn’t quite get it…
I remember I was in a lucid dream and i decided I wanted to have an OBE I always thought it would be cool to do so and explore the world around me without my body weighing me down. Well I think it was this website or another that gave me advice on having OBEs in a LD one of the things it suggested was to start flying and repeat “up, up, out of my body” So i decided to both will myself upward out of my body and repeat this phrase. Very slowly but surely my dream started disappearing and my line of sight ascended just slightly above my bed, as if my sight was forcing its way through my eyelids, I can’t even totally explain the feeling. As I was doing this I wasn’t totally out of my body but I could see outside of it slightly and started glancing around. Finally I tried to hard to push myself out of my body and instead woke myself up, I recall a slight sensation of falling backwards as if back in my dream and everything went black for a few seconds and I woke up. I only got to glance around while I was slightly out of my body, but I was surprised to look around when I was awake to see everything was relatively in my bedroom as i saw it in my “dream”, lighting, object placements, everything, whereas it usually looks distorted and way different when I dream about my bedroom. So I consider this an almost OBE but not quite, I just couldn’t get myself beyond that boundary, if you will, but almost…
Topic merged into the BIG OBE topic
Hi, what’s the difference between an out of bed experience and a lucid dream? Because the 2 sound very similar, it confuses me. Are you awake or not in both, I assume you’re not awake.
Hehe, its Out of Body Experience, not out of bed 
. An out of body experience is where your spirit body separates from your physical body. Meditation can help you do this, but some people experience them in highly emotional events. Your spirit body goes into the Astral Plane. This is a huge topic in itself, so go to the Beyond Dreaming forum if you want to learn more.
A lucid dream is where you become concious that you are dreaming inside of your dream.
The difference? In a lucid dream there is no feeling of disconnection from the physical body.
Slinger
Another thing- to my knowledge, OOBES are always induced starting from the waking state. Lucid dreams can be induced not only from the waking state, but also mnemonically and through a variety of other techniques.
I have heard of some people who can have an OBE from a LD. But ofcourse, there is no way to prove that. It could just be part of the LD, but maybe not…
Some people say they can see real things while dreaming that why they assume it’s something different than a LD and that their “astral body”, consciousness, or something like that is travelling for real.
On a french OOBE forum, they give techniques to have an OOBE from a LD.
And now, I’ll merge this topic into the BIG OBE topic. 
I very dont like this method because we can’t really tell if its a LD or a OBE .
Another thing is if it work well , you automatically have to feel the sensation of returning to your bed and with the full transe feeling and stuff of OBe… And if it really work , im sure its very hard to pass between the dream state to the other state recquired for OBE.
You’re right. If it’s used by an experienced OBE’r who knows the feelings of an OBE, he will make the difference. But a beginner won’t.
And I already had weird dream that feeled a lot like OBE , the feeling of beginning my dream in my chamber and I feeled dizzy and direction changed . That was really weird , like nothing I experienced before…
I think I’ve had some OOBE right before or when the HI accurs, I feel in a different weight, dizzy, and mabye falling, but not in the dream state.
If anyone has a new version of Windows Media, player check out these, if saw stuff like this, and felt somthing like them, it was more like emotions then a dream: Battery: Drinkdeep or strawberry raid
For anyone who can help me answer this…
While in the process of an OOBE and as the heart beats faster and faster…is there a point when someones heart beat is way too fast that they should probably stop because it seems to effect breathing also.
(this happens to me alot)
It’s not only when OOBE’ing. It’s a common beginner problem with WILD and you could find many answers by searching the forum for “heart rate” or “breathing”.
The other day, i had the following dream:
Basically i was in a room, dunno what i was doing or where it was. I think there was an xmas tree. Suddenly i saw an angel like thing come and take me up this beam of light…
…Then i was kinda in my bedroom and had astral projected across my bedroom. I could see my room as it should have been. i decided to move closer to my bed and lie on the floor, which would, according to my dream logic, ascertain whether or not i really had astral projected.
i woke up and decided to check the time.
6:14 OK, but the backlight went off really quickly; it never does that… i try again…:
12:00 1st january… err???.. i try again:
All the pixels light up, like if you smashed it with a hammer.
I tried it a few times and i just got that. it has never happened before.
A few minutes later, i tried again, and it read 6:21 - the correct time with no malfunction.
(i noticed the following evening that the OTHER clock at the otehr sie of my bedroom has also stopped, at 1:45, but i dont know which 1:45)
What do you make of this? It appears that i astral projected and the energy or whateevr from that messed up 2 clocks.
Alternatively, I just had a very powerful dream and in it i could read the time correctly, but it didnt feel like that; i felt perfectly awake when i saw teh clock malfunction; i could see and feel everything OK.
Are you saying that you Astral Projected and messed up 2 clocks in REAL life?? That’s absolutely insane but also very interesting.
ok well, i usually go to sleep at 11 -12 at night, but when i do, and when i want to have an obe i feel my astral body floating out of my physical body in about 5 minutes… is it supposed to happen this fast? maybe its just my imagination?
thanks for the help
Once when i was sleeping, i could still see my bed, it was like a half dream. Is that an OBE?