As I feel lazy, I'll just redirect you to my answer in this WILD/OBE thread . |
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Well, like all of us I'm fascinated about lucid dreaming, OBEs, AP etc etc. And want to experience some more. But I confess I'm more than a bit nervous about conciously trying to induce this kind of thing.... |
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As I feel lazy, I'll just redirect you to my answer in this WILD/OBE thread . |
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Dec. 2006 - July 2007:
92 DILDs + 30 WILDs ; 75% too short, 24% decent, ~3 of 2 to 5 minutes
(I stopped counting after that)
Thanks for the link - very interesting. You may well be right, and at the very least I think all of our experiences are blurred at the edges, kind of overlapping each other. The experience I described in my original post was totally different though than the lucid dreams I've had, but my experience is pretty limited so far. I think of it as OBE because I was still partly 'attached' (my legs) and my thoughts seemed to be located in my dream-body. I wish I'd turned around to take a look at myself! Whereas in the lucid dreams I haven't felt that way - I've been aware of the dream and had some control over it, but my thoughts have very much been in my head, the one on my pillow. LOL. It's hard to explain. Maybe it's to do with degrees of lucidity??? |
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OBE's are real, how else can you explain people going on roof tops they have never seen before, and getting everything right up there without seeing it before in their bodys? like whatever is on the roof they see, and people confirm it. Or conversations far away and it being confirmed, etc. Isn't a WILD just like an LD? LD's aren't real as they are dreams you can make real in your head, just as WILDS if i'm seeing this right. |
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I know what you mean, my LDs to date have all been where my thoughts are sortof in my sleeping head but im controlling my same body in the dream. But, reading the other posts on here about LDs in general, your 'OBE' to me couldn't have been anything other than a more vivid, more lucid, dream, as LDs seem to be incredibly lifelike and the person dreaming experiences it as if they were awake. |
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I've read accounts of apparent OBEs and astral travels where the surroundings are almost 'normal' but not quite. Like the TV is where it shouldn't be or there's a door where there isn't one. Are true OBEs actually true to life then? |
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Well I'm not sure exactly, I don't have first hand experience and I haven't read up too much on the subject. It is an Out of Body Experience though, where your spirit or soul or whatever leaves your body, and you travel out of your body. To me it wouldn't make sense that when you leave your body suddenly the door isn't there anymore, you know? |
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When once you have tasted flight,
You will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
For there you have been,
And there you will always long to return
If an OBE is the spirit/soul leaving the body, then how would it see around itself? I mean, it presumably has no eyes....so how does it see? Maybe, it just makes sense of things as best it can, hence the mistakes (doors where they shouldn't be etc) |
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What you experienced was indeed an OBE. I had something similar to this happen to me once when I had just woken up in the middle of the night. I tried to get out of bed, and rolled out of bed onto the floor. My sight was very weird, and when I looked up at my bed, there I was. Very odd experience indeed. Just like with your experience, my bed was in the wrong part of the room, and there was an extra door where there shouldn't have been. |
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Last edited by Rainman; 05-05-2007 at 09:14 PM. Reason: Had to add my experience also ;)
Thankyou Rainman, I really appreciate you sharing your views and your experience too (which sounds a lot like my own experience). Something I remembered while reading your post is that while this was happening to me I had consciously opened my eyes to 'see' the TV, yet my physical eyes remained shut. I don't know how I know this, but I just do....it's like I was in two bodies at once. Very odd! |
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Hey no problem at all I'm really glad my post was helpful to you! What you were experiencing may have been bilocation, which is a varient of an occurance called the "mind-split effect". Basically that means, you are aware and conscious in your physical body, but you phase in and out between that and one of your energy bodies, in this case, the etheric body (bilocation). You also may have been able to be aware at both of the same time (mind-split effect) It's a form of OBE. Sounds like you had it to a very extreme degree which could be considered astral projection, but that would be one of the things they could explain better at the AD forums. |
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Last edited by Rainman; 05-05-2007 at 10:17 PM.
Totally unrelated to the topic, but your name jolted me - do you live in whitby at all? I'd guess your name is inspired by Whitby in the UK with the jet reference but it would be interesting if there was someone else interested in this stuff living a few miles away (im in Robin Hood's Bay) |
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Hi Jim |
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hehe no probs was hoping you might be a local i could meet ^^ |
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