Thread: Trying hard to OBE but struggling to feel tired laying on my back.

Stay on your back and dont move. No matter how bad you want to move, just focus on breathing instead. Keep working on the visualization until you can visualize the box you described very easily. Keep trying.

Originally Posted by kadie

Stay on your back and dont move. No matter how bad you want to move, just focus on breathing instead. Keep working on the visualization until you can visualize the box you described very easily. Keep trying.

Can I do it if I'm not feeling tired? If I'm wide awake surely that will affect it right? Because OBE's happen when you're asleep don't they?

On my first time I did actually slightly feel as if I were floating about an inch above my body, maybe I was just feeling numb though. I started to panic a little bit (my heart got faster.) it didn't work.

Originally Posted by NullDrone

So I'm reading this book "Out of Body Experiences: How to have them and what to expect.".

Well in the book it goes through a procedure on how to have an OBE, I'm struggling to feel tired when on my back, here's the routine that I go through.

1. Lay in bed.
2. Fatigue muscles by tensing each part of body.
3. Lay on my side to make myself sleepy.
4. Lay on my back.
5. Imagine a box floating above me and imagine i'm floating towards it as it floats towards me.

But when I reach the part where I lay on my back I just become too awake, I don't drop off to sleep because I'm used to laying on my side, in the book he says you've got to visualize coming out of your body by laying on your back and imagining a box floating above you, well as soon as I'm on my back I'm wide awake and then I can't get to sleep. I do eventually fall asleep but don't notice it, I get tired but don't realize when I'm asleep. I've got to be on the bridge of consciousness before having an OBE.

Why do you want to feel tired? It is hardest way to do OBE. Probability to asleep is high. Easiest way is to exercise while your body is rested and mind is sharp.
Try to do this :
1. lay down comfortably... get something soft under lumbal part of your back. It will make laying more comfortable. Use something comfortably warm to cover your body... body tends to loose warmth when it is laying long without moving and deeply relaxed.
2. start to concentrate on your hand. Concentrate on feeling how heavy it is. How it is pressing on bed. Feel it stronger and stronger. Feel it, how is heaviness permeating up your hand... an how it is filling all your body. Make your body very heavy. It becomes impossible to move it, so heavy(simmilar to sleep paralysis). This will deeply relaxe your skeletal muscles and it is also exercise of concentration.
3. relaxe your smooth muscles through concentration on warmth. Start again with one hand. It is warm... feel it. Make that feeling grow... concentrate on warming. Let that warmth permeate up your hand... let it flow... like the hot water. make whole body warm. Make it hot... but comfortably hot.
4. Concentrate back on your hand, feel its heaviness. Send impulses to your hand, to move... but at the same time muscless must be relaxed, unmoving. Concentrate on making rocking movements with your hand. Miniscule at start is enough. Once you start feeling movement, start to make it larger. You will feel heavy physical hand laying on bed and second hand permeating and surrounding physical hand rocking slowly. You will start to feel second body permeating and surrounding physical one... Start slowly to rock your whole second body, till you can make rolling movement with it and separate it from physical one.

During the whole exercise :
-be quiet, still. Be concentrated on here and now.
-be in balance. Your emotions must be neutral. Separation brings extatic feeling- observe it. Don't attach to it. Feel it but remain neutral to it.
-don't think. Feel. Observe state of your body and mind.
-don't imagine things. Be unattached observer.