Literal Out-of-Body Experiences
This is something that I've been wondering about for a while, and I've worked on it a little bit but I usually forget while lucid. Let me explain what I mean by "literal".... There's a lot of talk about OBEs here, but even in the typical out-of-body/astral projection experience you still have a body. The implication of the "out-of-body" name is generally that you're outside of your physical body, but your mind still incorporates a mock physical form, exactly like in a dream. And since your mind generates your entire experience even when you are in your physical body, there really isn't any difference in the way these experiences are composed, the difference is just in where the information being used to piece them together is coming from. What I'm interested in is the type of third-person experience you get where your perception of having a body is completely gone, whether physical or otherwise, and there's nothing separating you at all from the rest of your perceptions. The only times I've ever been at this point in a lucid dream I felt like the camera in a video game level designer mode, I could easily slide around to whichever point in space I wanted and everything I wanted to move or alter was easily achievable as the environment felt like it was just a map of my mind (like I was experiencing a visualization as opposed to a complete dream scene). It's this level of control that really interests me, I think you could do a lot from this state of mind if you used it right.
Does anyone have much experience with this? :huh: I'm really interested in what people might have achieved through this method.
