Thread: Out of body experience

Wow, thanks for sharing !

I haven't had a Out of Body experience, yet. But I look forward to it

Thank you for reading my story. I have a lot more out of body experiences but this one was the most exciting one. The other ones I experienced lasted only a few minutes if not seconds. They are always so hard to move around and everything is dark. I would run down the hallway as fast as I could and then be exhausted and just float down to the floor. They always start off with sleep paralysis. Sometimes I would exit my body and proceed to the door and then get sucked back into my body, I would try two or three times and get sucked back in, then I would just give up and go to sleep.

If you want to have an out of body experience, you have to try every night. I did this for about a month before I had a really good experience.

Wow, thats a truly incredible experience!
I would love to have an out of body, ive always been fascinated by them and the idea that you may, in essence, have concentrated your being into your 3rd eye and thats what your in control of. I can put myself into SP at will through Wilds, after reading this Im going to try rising from my body before i go into an LD tonight.
Do you have any advice for me?

I don’t consider myself an expert at it just comes to me spontaneously. The first thing I try to do when I wake up in sleep paralysis is to stay calm. Don’t panic just relax your body. If you feel vibrations throughout your body you are ready to separate. Most of the times I don’t feel any vibrations. I just simply sit up out of my bed, sometimes it works. Or you can try to roll out onto the floor. You can try what I did and close your eyes, and pretend that you are weightless and floating upwards and see what happens. Once you do separate try not to get too excited, because you might get sucked back into your body. Try those techniques out and tell me what happens.

I had a similar experience. I would keep getting sucked back into my body. I felt like I was being pulled. It is probably the coolest thing that has happened to me and it does feel different from a lucid dream.

It Worked!! Last night I had my first truly successful WILD and it started with what I think was an OoB! Full details in my dream journal. It was freakin awesome!!

Congratulations,
I have read your dream journal, sounds like a very cool experience. I have never successfully induced sleep paralysis while in awaken state. What is your technique for doing a WILD?
Next time when I have an out of body experience, my goal is to get out of my house.

I spend 15 minutes or so in darkness with music on, something like Chillout Sessions, then i turn it off and think of being lucid and repeating lucidity mantras (i will become lucid, i will realise im dreaming) for a while. Then i try to blank my mind as much as possible and focus on the hallucinations as i fall asleep, sometimes i tell myself that my mind is asleep and that my body needs to follow suit. Eventually SP comes over me if i keep my mind blank yet awake long enough. Then the images take over and i try to watch them like a movie, soon enough they take my senses one by one until im lucid. Then its just a matter of sitting up in my dream, although last night i jerked into it as youd have read which was a tad odd but it worked.
Have a read through this site, it prepared me for WILDs alot;
http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/WILD.htm

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I had experienced things when I was a kid waking up not be able to move.<SNIP> When I was a little bit older like 13 years old, I woke up not be able to move and being terrified.

Aaaah yes.. the old "false awakening" dreams, with concomitant fear and visions/hallucinations/whatever.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

Then one night I had a really good out of body experience. <SNIP> I woke up in a sleep paralysis.

Hmmmm.. sounds like just another bog-standard FA.. but I'll read on.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I close my eyes tried to feel weightless and at that point I shot out of my body at Mach 2. <SNIP>Then I felt the sensation of slamming back into my body at a fast rate.

So.. all this happened with your "eyes closed".. you just felt physical sensations.. no "visuals"..

Hmmmm..

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

Right at that moment when I hit my body, my eyes opened. I was still in sleep paralysis. I tried to sit up and it worked. I've then started to proceed out of my bedroom..

Classic FA.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I stop myself because I want to see if my body was in the bed. I turned around and noticed my body was laying there.

Big mistake. What looks like "your sleeping body" in-Dreaming usually isn't. Usually, it's a DC. You should have ascertained that what looked like your "sleeping body" really was your sleeping body... but, you didn't, so..

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I noticed in the living room on the floor there was someone laying there. I thought it was my wife, so I decided to touch her hair on her head to see what she would do. When I did that she looked up at me and then put her head down. <SNIP> My wife came into the bedroom, she just got home from work. I was confused because I thought she was in the living room. I don't know who that was in the living room that I seen.

Well.. just another DC in an FA situation.

Okay.. I don't gain any pleasure from raining on your parade somewhat, but, in my opinion, you didn't have a true OBE.. you weren't even close. You just had a dream in which your desire to "OBE" was manifested in the dream. You know.. "dream incubation" and all that.

Just my opinion.

Thanks for raining down on my parade. Do you know what false awakening is? It’s when someone thinks they woke up and went about their day not knowing their sleeping. I knew my body was sleeping and my mind was awake except for the second time I went back into my body. I had a lot of vivid lucid dreams, I know what they feel like. Lucid dreams didn’t even compare to this experience I had. I don’t really care if you don’t believe me its my experience not yours. Until you had what I had then you can talk about the differences.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

Do you know what false awakening is? <SNIP> I knew my body was sleeping and my mind was awake except for the second time I went back into my body.

Yes, I know what an FA is. It just appears to me that you don't, from what you wrote.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I had a lot of vivid lucid dreams, I know what they feel like. Lucid dreams didn’t even compare to this experience I had.

That's right, they don't. What you describe is a classic FA situation, implicit in which is not being lucid. It wouldn't be called a "false awakening" if you were lucid.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I don’t really care if you don’t believe me its my experience not yours.

You make two more false assumptions here:

1) That I don't believe you. I do believe you. I just question your conclusions about it all;

2) That I haven't had such experiences: I have.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

Until you had what I had then you can talk about the differences.

Another false assumption. Number 2) repeated. I wouldn't even comment if I hadn't had my own extensive empirical experience.

A word: you seem to have a proclivity for "looking before you leap", and also for getting offended when someone deigns to disagree with your assumptions. I'd put your sense of self-pride aside, and avoid knee-jerk reactions because something in you is offended.

Take some time and think about it.

I don’t know what you are trying to get at? Did I say in my post that I didn’t know what was happening to me? My title even says out of body experience. I even said in my posts that I was trying to have an induced out of body experience. That means I was trying to have an out of body experience while in a awaken state. I knew what was happening the whole time. Yes I am offended, I don’t know how you can make assumptions to my experience if you weren’t even there with me.
You even said ”I don’t gain any pleasure to rain on your parade somewhat”.

Obviously you’re trying to turn my story around to make it look like I didn’t have an out of body experience. Unless I am reading your reply all wrong.




Ok, I think you are mixing up sleep paralysis with false awakening. They are two totally different experiences. When you are in sleep paralysis your body is asleep and your mind is awake and that’s why you feel paralyzed. You can see everything in the room in real time. I know this because I had sleep paralysis throughout my whole life. Couple time I was in the living room on my couch. I had gotten into sleep paralysis, I could see my daughter running around and playing on the floor with her toys. I force myself out of sleep paralysis with my eyes open and my daughter was still in the same spot playing with their toys on the floor. I’m not hallucinating, I have never hallucinated or seen anything out of the ordinary while in sleep paralysis. I may have felt a presence there sometimes but I’ve never seen anything.

It is hard to explain what it feels like having a OBE. Because there are different levels in my opinion, there is lucid dreams, out of body experience and astral projection. When you have a lucid dream you are sleeping and you can control your dream and do whatever you want. Astral projection is when you project your astral body into a different realm, you can fly around and interact with other beings. Which I never experienced that, that’s why I say that astral projection and lucid dreams are the same. When you have out of body experience you feel yourself separating from your body, and into the real world where you live. You see your own body laying there in the bed. You feel like you are floating around not walking around. Sometimes when I have a lucid dream I think I am out of my body, but realize that I’m just having a lucid dream because it feels different.

One other instance I woke up in sleep paralysis and decided to leave my body. After I separated from my body I proceeded down my hallway. I was losing energy and I was getting tired feeling. I fell to the floor and then all of a sudden I was in my kitchen. Everything was clear and bright and I was wide awake and full of energy, but something was different. I discovered three men were in my basement trying to rob my house. Then I realized that I am in a lucid dream. So I can see how many people think OBE are just the same as a lucid dream, it gets confusing sometimes. When you have a OBE you are still connected to your body, you could just go right into a lucid dream, if your energy is low enough.

Can I prove that I separated from my body? No, I cannot. Scientists can’t prove that you separate from the body but they can’t disapprove of it either. I think of it this way, it’s just another way of separating different types of experiences that you have when you’re sleeping. That out of body experiences feel and looks different then a lucid dream. I have been trying to do the card trick to see if it is real but so far I haven’t had an OBE yet. That is my belief in OBE and lucid dreams.

Theres alot you cant assume just from reading an account Oneiro..

I've had an OBexperience when i was falling off my bike as a kid...in midair...i was scared

Firstly, let me preface this by saying that I do not reject the idea that OBE's may be real. However, it does not sound to me like you had one. I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, just hear me out.

From what I understand (correct me if I am wrong) in an OBE your astral body leaves your physical body and you can move about the real world. This would imply that whatever you see would be what was actually there, correct? The part of your experience that doesn't seems to mesh with an OBE is that of your seeing your wife laying on the ground downstairs, and then her later coming in from work.

To me, it seems what happened was an LD, which manifested itself as an experience of an OBE. This was followed by a FA, in which you proceeded to tell your wife about what happened, which was then followed by you actually waking up and your wife walking into the house.

I feel like if it was truly an OBE which you experienced, that you could not have had a FA in which you tell your wife what happened, only to wake up again. Instead, you would have simply had your OBE, and then woken up for real.

Again, I am not an OBE denier, nor am I an expert in OBEs. To me this just sounds like a WILD and an FA. Feel free respond to this in any way you deem fit. I'd love to be corrected if I am in fact wrong.

Oh, and if any of this doesn't make complete sense, forgive me...I should be asleep right now.

Hi MrWeiner, I respect your reply.

I know the story that I told wasn’t in the greatest detail because for me it is hard to explain what happened in words. Now remind you that this happened a year ago, I still remember to this day what happened, and what I have seen and how I felt, like it just happened yesterday. When this happened I had my TV on in the bedroom.

I remember my bedroom being so bright because the TV was on. I remember trying to turn my head around but it was to hard to, I had to turn my whole body around just to see my other body laying there. The light off the TV was hit my body on the bed so I can see it easily. My whole house was exactly the same as it is in real life. Except for two things, in real life my house should have been dark because all the lights were off. But throughout my house there was a glow to it. I remember looking at the walls, the ceiling, then the floor and seen every detail, all of the Knicks and dents and scrapes here and there. The second one was the person laying on the floor in my living room. I remember she had a glow to her, almost transparent looking. At the time I didn’t really care who it was, I just wanted to experiment what I can do, what I can’t do. Which I kick myself in the butt for doing, I should have took my time. But I remember looking at myself in the bed, I didn’t have any glow coming off my body. I ask myself this question all the time. If I had out of body experience who was that person in my living room? The only thing that I would guess is that it was a spirit or ghost of some sort.

The second time that I went back into my body I got up to tell my wife. That was a false awakening, I know I didn’t leave my body that time. Because I remember telling my wife what happened but there is more what happened after that I don’t remember. After my false awakening I woke up for real and looked at the clock and three hours have passed. Now if I was sleeping for three hours am pretty sure I would have been drowsy and tired feeling still, but I wasn’t, I was wide awake. I know that this was a rare experience that I probably will never have again. Because I know what woke me up in sleep paralysis just at the right time. My TV made a crack sound (you know how TVs get when they get hot they pop) and scared the crap out of me. My heart was pumping and my adrenaline was running through me. I woke up in sleep paralysis with very intense vibrations going through my body. For this to happen again would be slim to none.

If you have any more questions please ask, I might have forgot to write something down.

Nice OBE. To be truthful, I would love to have one but my fear is holding me back big time. Weren't you spooked and worried when you saw that person in your living room? I mean it might/could have done something to you

Originally Posted by BigFan

Nice OBE. To be truthful, I would love to have one but my fear is holding me back big time. Weren't you spooked and worried when you saw that person in your living room? I mean it might/could have done something to you

I wasn’t scared when I seen someone in my Living room . She wasn’t scary at all, she was laying there looking like she was sleeping. Plus at the time I thought it was my wife and I was distracted looking at everything else in my house.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I wasn’t scared when I seen someone in my Living room . She wasn’t scary at all, she was laying there looking like she was sleeping. Plus at the time I thought it was my wife and I was distracted looking at everything else in my house.

I mean afterwards when you OBEd again, weren't you scared to see the same person there waiting for you? If this happened to me, I would have a hard time getting into an OBE after

I have never had this experience since then. At the time when I got out, I wasn’t scared or had any negative feelings, like I was at peace.

The other OBE I had were dark and hard to move around. When I do get out I just tell myself that there is nothing that can hurt you or I just try not to think about bad entities.

I had dreams or I think I was dreaming that I was in my house and felt a presence in a room, and I would get mad and confront this ghost, like trying to defend my family. When I get close to this negative presence I would not see anything there, but it would feel like this entity would suck the energy out of me. I would fall to the ground, hard to move and try to punch this thing with no success. Then I would just wake up in my bed with no harm to me. This happens to me a lot.

All you have to do is get over the fear. if you do get out and see something scary or something is attacking you, more likely you would end up back in your body. The hardest part of having an OBE is trying to stay out of your body.

Today I laid down to have a nap at 1:20 PM. This was close to a OBE but it turned out to be a lucid dream.

I woke up on the couch, I tried to get up but it was hard, finally I got up and looked on the couch to see if my sleeping body was there, but it was not. Then I realized this is a lucid dream. It was hard to stay lucid, I felt like I just wanted to lay down and sleep. I told myself I wasn’t going to have it, so I did what other people say they do, rub your hands together. I was rubbing my hands together trying to stay lucid. It felt like it worked for a second then I was struggling to stay awake.

I tried to do another technique that I read on the forums, spin around. I was spinning around and then I stopped and felt like it worked a little bit. I got about 5 feet into my kitchen, fell to the floor so tired feeling like my mind wanted to drift off into dream world.

I remember laying there looking at the door to go outside but there was a couch in the way. It looked like my house, but there was things there that wasn’t in my house in real life. I tried to get up a couple of times and every time I got to the door I ended up on the floor again. Then somehow I got up with some energy, I knew I wasn’t having a OBE but it almost felt like I was in the beginning.

Now I realize this wasn’t an OBE but I’d still wanted to try out the card trick. (I had put a card on top of the fridge in the real world).
I proceeded towards my fridge to see if I can see a card there. I put my hand on the fridge and push myself up and I felt really light so I did it again for fun but this time I did it harder and flew up and hit my head on the ceiling and bounced back down. I thought that was funny because it didn’t hurt.

I lifted myself up again and noticed on top of the fridge that there was five papers there the size of a card but they didn’t look like cards. I looked closer at one and noticed that it was a card but there was writing over it, was hard to make out what was. I was examining one and made outs an ace of clubs. I knew it wasn’t the card it didn’t feel like it was. I said to myself whatever.

I looked up and noticed a round clock above the fridge (normally in the real world I have a clock to left of the fridge, square and digital) and noticed my reflection in it. My reflection looked funny, I look closer and it looked like an alien, like a hybrid alien, it had big eyes, brown hair on top of the head like mine. The chin came to a point and the mouth was small. Instead of getting freaked out I got mad and flipped my middle finger up at it, to tell it (**** you) lol.

Then I try to leave my house but ended back on the couch.
I think I woke up for real this time and looked at the clock, it was 2:40 PM. I close my eyes to go back to sleep and had a crazy dream in my house making a sandwich or something, nothing too exciting. Finally waking up at 4:10 PM, all drowsy and tired feeling.

Just wanted to share this one because it was almost like a OBE but it was just a crazy lucid dream. Oh yeah almost forgot, the card was five of hearts not even close.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

I have never had this experience since then. At the time when I got out, I wasn’t scared or had any negative feelings, like I was at peace.

The other OBE I had were dark and hard to move around. When I do get out I just tell myself that there is nothing that can hurt you or I just try not to think about bad entities.

I had dreams or I think I was dreaming that I was in my house and felt a presence in a room, and I would get mad and confront this ghost, like trying to defend my family. When I get close to this negative presence I would not see anything there, but it would feel like this entity would suck the energy out of me. I would fall to the ground, hard to move and try to punch this thing with no success. Then I would just wake up in my bed with no harm to me. This happens to me a lot.

All you have to do is get over the fear. if you do get out and see something scary or something is attacking you, more likely you would end up back in your body. The hardest part of having an OBE is trying to stay out of your body.

In LD, since, its all in your head or at least that's what I currently believe, I wouldn't have a problem facing some threat but when in an OBE, I always fear that I'll get out only to see some entity waiting for me. My guess is that the fear is what causes them to be there if they can indeed sense negativity. I think to me its more of the shock of seeing an entity or being attacked by one(I've never been in a fight before). I do plan to try to induce an OBE tonight though, because, I just feel like I'm in the right mindset, but, I'm a bit short on techniques. Last one I tried was WILDing(it was for a LD) and I remember feeling heaviness, numbness, etc.... and then my left hand kind of floating. Since I didn't want an OBE back then(3 weeks ago), I decided to snap out before I get one. Going back 2-3 years, I remember relaxing every part of my body by tensing each and then relaxing followed by just concentrating on breathing and maybe doing a counting, so, breath out for 6 and in for 3, etc.... What method do you use to induce OBEs?
Thanks in advance

Edit: Just read your experience and it gave me such a good laugh about the alien part, lol. Lucky for me, I haven't looked into any mirrors in my dreams, not that I recall most of them, lol. Anyways, sounds interesting, guess the lack of energy caused you to want to go back to sleep, but, look on the bright side, lots of people are working very hard to get an LD and you got one

Everyone is different so the techniques could work on some people more than others. Like me I was trying different techniques for about a month. I lay there and count and try to forget about my body but I was having a hard time. I tried the one you’re talking about, telling my limbs to sleep starting with the feet. I was get pretty close, I felt tingling and heavy but then I would mess it up and get excited. Plus it didn’t help that my daughter doesn’t like to sleep in her own bed so every time when she moves it messes me up.

That one time when I had an awesome out of body experience I was trying those techniques but was getting frustrated. My mind kept wandering off and I couldn’t concentrate on the techniques plus my daughter was moving around. I decided to not try the techniques and just clear my mind and start over when i was more Focused. It happened so fast, luckily my TV made a noise and snapped me back awake in sleep paralysis.

So the best way for me is to not think, don’t think about your body just think about nothing, blackness. The hardest part is to know when to come back which I didn’t do by myself the TV helped me. All of the other sleep paralysis that I had I just woke up to it. The best way that I get sleep paralysis is being overly tired or sometimes I remember when I was a kid having too much sleep and slipping into sleep paralysis rather quickly.

I don’t know if that is much help for you but all I can tell you is to keep trying don’t give up. It took me for a whole month to induce a OBE but now I realize I didn't induce it, the TV helped me.

Originally Posted by Nightprowler

Everyone is different so the techniques could work on some people more than others. Like me I was trying different techniques for about a month. I lay there and count and try to forget about my body but I was having a hard time. I tried the one you’re talking about, telling my limbs to sleep starting with the feet. I was get pretty close, I felt tingling and heavy but then I would mess it up and get excited. Plus it didn’t help that my daughter doesn’t like to sleep in her own bed so every time when she moves it messes me up.

That one time when I had an awesome out of body experience I was trying those techniques but was getting frustrated. My mind kept wandering off and I couldn’t concentrate on the techniques plus my daughter was moving around. I decided to not try the techniques and just clear my mind and start over when i was more Focused. It happened so fast, luckily my TV made a noise and snapped me back awake in sleep paralysis.

So the best way for me is to not think, don’t think about your body just think about nothing, blackness. The hardest part is to know when to come back which I didn’t do by myself the TV helped me. All of the other sleep paralysis that I had I just woke up to it. The best way that I get sleep paralysis is being overly tired or sometimes I remember when I was a kid having too much sleep and slipping into sleep paralysis rather quickly.

I don’t know if that is much help for you but all I can tell you is to keep trying don’t give up. It took me for a whole month to induce a OBE but now I realize I didn't induce it, the TV helped me.

I am curious, for your SP, what do you experience? I was experiencing mostly heaviness, some numbness and less of my body, but, no vibrations. I got very strong vibrations 2-3 years back when I first tried to OBE, but, I just can't seem to get them this time around. Is there something wrong? As I recall, the vibrations were strong enough to even shake the bed which didn't really surprise me back then, since, I knew that I will have vibrations, but, didn't know their magnitude Anything like this on your end?
BTW, I tried the WILDing method to get an OBE last night. I used the mantra "1.... I will have a lucid dream and remember it, etc.....". Funny enough, I think last thing i remember was seeing some patterns with my eyes closed and then I am suddenly jolted away in my bed. I had no clue what happened. Originally, I thought it might have been my sister heading to bed but I felt like I was all of a sudden out of energy, somewhat tired, so, my guess is that I must have had something, maybe a LD or maybe even an OBE but the problem is that its only a guess on my part to explain this energy depletion thing Anyways, tried WILDing again over and over and all those times was numbness in my hands where 2 fingers on each of my hands were REALLY
numb, but, that was it, no vibrations, images, sounds, nothing. Anyways, enough ranting on my part, lol. Thanks for writing your OBE experience. It was a pleasure to read. Hopefully, you'll get more experiences