My First Few Out Of Body Experiences

[DarkJedi]

Ever since the first one, i've recorded every OBE i've had. These have all happened at random, not at times where I tried to Astral Project. I've had several lucid dreams after this, but i haven't recorded them or my regular dreams. Thursday: January 8 2007 Time: 1145-1250 OBE 001 I was having a regular dream when all of a sudden BOOM! I was flying out of control in some sort of room. I could look around me and was completely conscious. Weird sounds filled my ears as well as a “whooshing” wind like sound. Everything was moving so fast. I was in a room of some sort; there was a chair and a TV in the front, a table behind me and an open walkway on my left. Disturbing images kept coming and going as I looked around the room. I was in complete control of what I was thinking. At some point I remember thinking how crazy I must look in the real world since my arms were flying all over the place. I was not necessarily scared of the experience but I do remember trying to make guns with my hands just to see if I could. Everything felt so real. I could truly FEEL everything. HEAR everything. It was as if I really was in the real world just spinning out of control. During my “flight” I remember starting to black out like I was going to wake up, but I managed to stop myself. Random thoughts also raced through my head, such as the Haunted House that I’ll be visiting with my Archaeology lab soon. I thought that maybe that’s where I was. I seem to remember some sort of figures racing about, appearing at random times. Although they were “frightening” images I knew for some reason that I couldn’t be hurt. They were gone just as fast as they had come. I strangest thing was that this all seemed real. All my senses were in tune. I mind was in a different world entirely. Wednesday: January 14 2007 Time: 1817-1819 OBE 002 My dad called me at precisely 5:53 pm, a little over a half an hour ago. I think that I was laying in bed drifting off to sleep when I woke up around 6:15. I felt tingling all throughout my body and there was a strange ringing in my ears. I knew at that moment that I was somehow still connected to the astral plane or something like that. I tried to drift back to sleep. I closed my eyes, and I could feel myself falling asleep slowly, my body would tingle even more, the ringing would get louder. I actually felt myself leaving my body. I don’t remember really seeing anything in my vision although I was looking. I went back and forth twice I think between both worlds, conscious the entire time. I remember I felt as though I was moving to the left about to hit the wall but nothing happened, almost like my consciousness went through it. I had not moved any part of my body the entire time. Again I though about something in the outside world and I came back, same as last time. Friday: March 2, 2007 Time: 1100-1220 OBE 003/004 I had 2 OBEs after class today. I went right to sleep and had just some random dream I can’t even remember now until at one point I was sleeping on a bed somewhere…back in NoVa somewhere. I looked outside and it was some pool reunion or something. I remember seeing Mendez and Donna (two people i work with) but I wasn’t sure if they could see me. For some reason I thought it was like a one way window. Then some guy talking to Mendez looked curiously back in the window at see and I everything got really fuzzy like snow and just his outline remained. Then I felt my conscious taking over but staying in the dream world. I knew it was an OBE this time and reminded myself that because I recognized that I knew that I was in a dream I was able to snap into my conscious self. I began to float around the room into and out of the wall on the side. I believe I was in the same room. I went up and down knowing that I couldn’t be hurt even if I were to fall. I remember that I could blink and control my eyelids in the OBE too. There were like children screaming/yelling all around me as well as the whooshing sound. After that I just woke up. After I woke up from that one, I tried something different. I decided just to concentrate like OBE 002 and see if I could just drift off into the astral plane…and I went right into it. I just felt like I was floating around then I realized that my eyes were actually closed. I opened them and it looked like I was flying around at night in the clouds or something. Things kept rushing underneath me…dark figures, maybe people. I could actually control my flight…it was truly amazing. I descended down into the darkness and everything went dark. Then I was in a room very similar to my dorm room except there was some larger strange door on the side where the closets are. The room was really dark and I remember crawling to the door. I reached for the door and litterly felt myself turning it, again curious and knowing exactly what was going on. After that I drifted back into just a regular dream state for another minute then woke up. Conclusion: There are actually places to visit in the Astral Plane. I was just floating in an atmosphere like are when I started off in 004, probably in 002 if I would have opened my eyes. I can’t fully control it all yet and my vision in 004 was rather vague. I’ll work on making my OBEs more clear and vivid next time. NOTE: This last one could just be a Lucid Dream, it's hard to say. You decide for yourself Saturday: March 10, 2007 Time: 1200-1300?? OBE/Lucid Dream 005 This one was really weird. I was just having a normal dream about something then next thing I know I was floating in the middle of the ocean. I can’t remember if I saw land anywhere in sight or not. It was raining really hard and it was dark outside. A few moments into it I thought about how ridiculous this dream was, acknowledging that it was just a dream. At that point I got the usual feeling when I go into an OBE. I could move my arms, knew that I was in a dream, and blink. At first I was scared out of my mind because my greatest fear is being stuck in the middle of the ocean. I looked underwater and I could see really big creatures swimming around below me. They looked kind of like dolphins but I couldn’t be sure. I also saw a few sharks too. One of them was right next to me. I brought my head out of the water and could see the fins. It was eating a fish or something too. I went back underwater and the shark tried to bite at my head. This is the really strange part. My eyes weren’t burning like they would have been in seawater, but I moved just as slow as one underwater normally would. When the shark came at me I blocked it with my hand and I could actually feel the shark’s skin, just like how sharks actually feel. At this point I started to get really freaked out because the dream was SO real, more real than anything I’ve ever experienced. I thought for a second and couldn’t remember how I got home from the party last night. I was too drunk to remember so I thought that maybe something happened and I ended up blacked out in the ocean. I punched the shark in the face and it swam off. After that I just slowly woke up. any feedback? interpertations? i'm open to all comments

[ShYne123]

Thats so cool, you should do the card trick... Put a card face down on a table, dont look at it, in ur next OOBE look at it, see if its right when you wake up. Thats how you can know if its really "astral projection" I personally think they are just weird lucid dreams...but then again iv never had one.

[LucidFlanders]

What's it feel like outside of your body? just your invisible you floating around town getting into strip clubs for free etc.

[Yggdrasil]

Wow, that's a pretty cool gift you have there. I wish I could do that so much, but I can't even acknowlage when I'm dreaming yet.

[Rainman]

In response to Shyne, that won't prove that it was or wasn't astral projection. There are different planes you can OBE to. The most common being the astral plane and the real-time zone. The astral plane is very easily confused with lucid dreams because with both, your thoughts shape your reality. The card seeing thing will not work with an astral projection to the astral plane. Your mind could completely make up a card. It would only work if DarkJedi projected to the RTZ, and even then it would be hard to be sure that [s]he saw was really there.

[BenQ]

How would you define the astral realm?