Thread: Getting an OBE

Welcome to the forum. I am going to move this to the beeyond dreaming section, though, because this does not pertain to LDing. Please refrain from posting non-LD stuff in the LD forum. Thanks.

Heres a run down on the typical technique.

1. Relax, find a way to relax. What ever suits you, whether it be meditating, stretching, listening to some music while laying down. Stretching limbs is deffinately a good one, as it leaves the person refreshed, and feeling light.

2. Put body to sleep (or more formally induce sleep paralysis).
There are a various ways of doing this, one thing you can do is lie down on a nice open surface, such as your bed. A good position to lie down in, is directly on your back, as it does not constrict any of your limbs, and also has the most minute effect on your breathing patterns. Preferably in your head, talk to your body parts, tell yourself they are falling asleep. Here is an example.

"Well hello foot, you have been working very hard to keep me walking around all day, for that I salute you. However, I think you are well overdue for a nice break. Just relax... Fall asleep and drift away."

Continue this on from your toes, to your head and face. It is especially important not to move, keep your breathing constant. This might take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. If you start to see flashing lights, or hear noises. Do not be afraid, as it is only your mind. After a while you will be in a state of sleep paralysis.

*Clears voice* Another technique I have found that works quite well, is to just stay completely still, it does sounds hard, but you just GOTTA do it. Try not to think to hard on one subject, but think of how your day went. How tomorrow should go. Mix it up a little, as you might be in the same position for a while. After awhile you will notice your body feeling lighter, (or heavier), or it will get a tingly feeling over it. Personally, with both of these two techniques I know when I start to enter sleep paralysis because my hands feel like they have been turned over. I keep my hands palm down beside my body.

3. Stay Passive (Trance Out) I guess this step is self explanatory. Stay very passive, try to clear all thoughts from your head. Think of nothing but darkness. At this point you might feel mild to severe vibrations. Or even a rocking effect, such as that of a wavy sea. You might feel people poking you, pinching you, even sitting on you. People will whisper in your ear, you may even get brief flashes of hypnotic imagery. But yes, the key is just to stay passive, let it all come, and let it all go. If thoughts arise in your head, just try to push them to the side, but not completely away. Some people find it extremely difficult to think of nothing, so if you have problems with it, id suggest meditation, or a simple technique wich involves picturing your thoughts rise in clouds above your head, and floating away. Visualization can be a very helpful part of OBE, if it suits you. As stated above, this step puts you in a trance. So I like to call it "trancing out."

4. Leave your body. Well, I suppose this is where many people find trouble, some say the best way to leave your body is to "just" let it happen. Unfortunately not everyone can just let it happen, so id suggest experimenting whilst staying passive. The feeling of leaving your body deffinatlely varies for many, some become aware after they trance out, and find themselves laying on the floor of their room in an astral state. Some however feel much more, and are totally aware as they "forcefully pull out." Typically they feel constricted breathing, and heavy feeling over their body. If you have been pulled out of body, you will know it. Go ahead and have a look at your hands, usually peoples hands look very peculiar in OBE's.

5. Dont get scared. If you start to get scared at any time, you can always will yourself out of it, and try another night, Its all good 8). Remember, getting out is only the tip of the iceberg, but is usually the most frusterating.

Well, I hope you have found this helpful.
Its 2:30 here and im going to bed, good night.

The other night I accidentally had a minor OBE. I was lying on my back doing a simple breathing meditation that always makes me completely relaxed. Just focus on what your breathe feels and looks like coming in and out of your body, don't think of anything else and do NOT move a muscle, just relax. It usually takes me about a half an hour to forty-five minutes to completley relax, patience is the key! Don't give up. After awhile my body went completely numb and some hypnogogic imagery popped into my head. All of a sudden there was a loud high-pitched noise and also a booming vibration in my ears. Next, I recall slowly lifting out of my body. I was afraid to open my eyes... but the next time it happens I will.

i think this can be done another way,when lucid,fell a place that exists,and fell ur sailf there,if u know how,i think it cloud work

P.S. do u have to sleep for 5-6 hours to do this?????????????????????????????//

Originally posted by Third Eye
The other night I accidentally had a minor OBE. I was lying on my back doing a simple breathing meditation that always makes me completely relaxed. Just focus on what your breathe feels and looks like coming in and out of your body, don't think of anything else and do NOT move a muscle, just relax. It usually takes me about a half an hour to forty-five minutes to completley relax, patience is the key! Don't give up. After awhile my body went completely numb and some hypnogogic imagery popped into my head. All of a sudden there was a loud high-pitched noise and also a booming vibration in my ears. Next, I recall slowly lifting out of my body. I was afraid to open my eyes... but the next time it happens I will.

I had a minor OBE this morning as well... after inducing SP for the first time in my life willingly.

Just going to copy and paste my experience from another post.

By the way, do LDs and OBEs have the same entry feeling. I was feeling some insane vibrations during the SP. I didn't know where it was going, it eventually led to a very short OBE.

It was like this. I woke up for a few minutes and started to go back to sleep. Beginning... I saw flashes, and I was pretty much watching a movie in my head (based of a movie I've seen before, I was viewing it all from 3rd person). It was all clear, funny, and I could hear it. The whole time though I was aware that I had awoken recently, and that I was laying down, so I knew exactly what was going on at the same time. Then at some point, I thought, maybe I can induce SP, and so I "cancel" my dream, and its just blackness, and I feel really light, like air, and I'm in SP because I couldn't move! I knew that feeling all to well from the SP experiences I've had before. So, I'm just there, and I get scared alittle, but I think, no I'm not going to experience the hag, I made this SP happen, I'm in complete control of it. So I think to myself, time to either LD or OBE, whichever comes I'll take...

And at that moment I start feeling some really, really intense vibrations.

Those I weren't ready for, and that's why my experience was so short. It was like super fuzzy electricity was bouncing up up and down in my body and in my ears I was hearing it as well, best I could describe the intense sound, is as "zzzZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZzzz." It was such a weird/amazing/scary feeling. It's a sensation I've never experienced while awake, ever, nothing comes even close, not even being really drunk. Next time I'll be prepared for it. Wink [/b]

I remember after that I saw the wall infront of me. I was positioned so that my head was facing the wall, except, I was about a foot off the bed when I first saw it. Then it went black again for a bit, and again I saw the wall except this time I saw the bed as well, I was kind of looking down where the wall met the bed at about a 45 degree angle, about a foot off the bed. That was my last view, I never saw myself directly below me because I never got a chance to look there. This whole time, this intense feeling and noise, just scared me, and I aborted trying to exit the SP with the sensation dying down until finally I woke up fully.
Now I'm angry at myself for doing so!!!

Tomorrow morning I'm giving another attempt.

man,last night,i was thins close to an OBE or a LD,i'm gonna say what happened and tell me what shod have i done nextk,i'm lieing down,findeing a nice position to lie,ok,i've done that,next i tell my body from the toes to the head to rellax,and it totaly works
a bit later i dont fell the bed anymore,it was wierd all my fingers where in a line exept for one whitch was higher and it welt really wierd,alitle later i cloud fell the blood pumping thro my whol body ,really cool,then i started seeing those,how do u call them images in my head,they where really advanced,i never seen them like that,then i forgot all of my body,and it was polling me,makeing my eyes to open,i think i opened them and what i saw was really strange,it rezembeld my my pilow and a part of the bed i was able to see,but i closed my eyes in fier of wakeing up/stoping the paralise,something like this hapened once again,then some pictures(dreams)started to to form,but they where really fuzzy,that i clouden't get in them,then i fell a sleep for a few seconds(this happened a few times),then i got out of bed,wrote this down to tell u to-day,oh and when i woke up,i fellt realy strange when i was walking.

Plz help me

I actually started going into SP again this morning.

I figured I need about 7 hours of sleep atleast before I can do this, or I'll be to tired to do so. I tried after 4-5 hours... I guess I interrupted my dream cycle because the images just weren't forming when I closed my eyes.

[ Last Night I recalled 4 dreams, a new record for me, and one was... amazing ]

Well, I start going back to sleep, after getting about a total of 7 hour of sleep. And I start getting these images in my head shortly after. It was wierd because one of them that came up was something that looked like the Winamp window, except instead of where the song title was I saw "You are now going into sleep paralysis." I wasn't surprised because I was thinking about it the whole time. Except this time was different, because I started to feel mild vibrations before I was in SP, maybe they were leading into SP, becuase I tried to move my arm to test, and I could, and the vibrations went away

And Nikolaa, I can't really help you with why you might be feeling strange while walking as its never happened to me before.

Except this time was different, because I started to feel mild vibrations before I was in SP, maybe they were leading into SP, becuase I tried to move my arm to test, and I could, and the vibrations went away
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How exetly does SP fell?i want to know was i in SP

Originally posted by Nikolaa

Except this time was different, because I started to feel mild vibrations before I was in SP, maybe they were leading into SP, becuase I tried to move my arm to test, and I could, and the vibrations went away

How exetly does SP fell?i want to know was i in SP[/b]

It's a really wierd feeling. Best I could describe as is, when I first realize I'm having SP while being concious of it, I feel like my insides are just made of air. I physcially cannot feel anything, or myself for that matter. If you try to move a limb physcially you can't, you're paralyzed. And try to not freak out, if you do, it will be 15-20 seconds (which seems like a lot longer) or hell when you struggle out of fear to get out of it.

I'm working on achieving sleep paralysis every morning now, (one day succesful, second day was almost a success) because its the quickest way to have an OBE.

i achived the final steps of WILD,and mabey OBE,i felt like i didn't have a body,but i was to scared to try to move,i didn't want to start all over again,i was really exsaided so i don't really know if i had a SP,but i think i did

I drank an 8 oz. bottle of Robo a few days ago, layed down in my bed, shut my eyes, and relaxed...about 30 min. later I started feeling like I was doing some weird kind of meditation...just paying attention to my heart, breath, the way my body felt laying there...then I started seeing things through my closed eyeslids...about 15 min. later my body got real heavy, I just let myself go to sleep, but the moment I went to sleep I was just focusing on the visuals and saying a mantra over and over...eventually, the imagery became totally real, and I was still saying the mantra but had it kinda garbled...then remembered what I was just doing and had my first OBE...weeee...

An OBE is basically just like a WILD...I've only been able to wild 3 times when not on anything...it's too hard for me to relax and let go...DXM makes it alot easier

Originally posted by Z a c h
I drank an 8 oz. bottle of Robo a few days ago, layed down in my bed, shut my eyes, and relaxed...about 30 min. later I started feeling like I was doing some weird kind of meditation...just paying attention to my heart, breath, the way my body felt laying there...then I started seeing things through my closed eyeslids...about 15 min. later my body got real heavy, I just let myself go to sleep, but the moment I went to sleep I was just focusing on the visuals and saying a mantra over and over...eventually, the imagery became totally real, and I was still saying the mantra but had it kinda garbled...then remembered what I was just doing and had my first OBE...weeee...

An OBE is basically just like a WILD...I've only been able to wild 3 times when not on anything...it's too hard for me to relax and let go...DXM makes it alot easier

I've pretty much got a 50/50 shot when I wake up after 6-8 hours of sleep, that is if try, and don't get to lazy and fall back asleep.

Day 1 - Partial Obe
Day 2 - Confusion about how quickly the vibes came - failed
Day 3 - No attempt - to tired
Day 4 - No attempt - to tired
Day 5 - No Obe, but had an LD