Possibly OBE or Really Really Vivid Lucid?

**ExtraSour** · 12-11-2013 03:26 PM

So i dont know if anyone on this forum is familiar with OBE's or some people call it astral projection but i just need some more opinions on this experience.

I was at my girlfriends house and we were sleeping but i thought i woke up at first and she was laying over me and i wanted to get up, well i tried to push her off by tapping her on the head but it seemed like she wasn't responding so i tried to say something. I felt my lips moving like it felt like i was talking but no sound was coming out and for some reason i couldn't breath. I started to panic and tried pushing her off but it was like i had no muscle and i couldn't move her at all, then it was like i blinked and i could breath and move again it was really weird. has anyone had this happen to them before?

**vasiona** · 12-11-2013 08:09 PM

At the point you could breathe and move again, were you awake, or in a lucid dream? Did you realise that you were dreaming while you were trying to push her off? After you could move and breathe again, did she vanish? Did it feel like waking up again, or did you still feel like you'd been awake from the start by the time it ended?

I don't have much experience with OBEs, but from what I've read and heard it doesn't quite sound like this one was. If you realised that you were dreaming and later noticed the transition when you woke up (if you just felt different, or found that your eyes were actually closed and had to open them again), then it was likely a vivid lucid. Or it could have even been a vivid non-lucid dream (if you woke up after it but hadn't realised you were dreaming until you awoke) or sleep paralysis (if you were awake right from the start.)

I've experienced similar things, both in lucid and non-lucid dreams, where I'm in bed being trapped by something and can't properly move or speak and then wake up afterwards. Hopefully someone else who has had more experience with OBEs can answer this, but to me this sounds more like being to some degree trapped within your body than leaving it.

**ExtraSour** · 12-12-2013 04:29 AM

maybe it was my eyes opening im not sure it was just a flash of black everything looked exactly the same as it just did when i was having this weird experience the only difference was that i could move again. its like i was asleep but could still see everything perfectly even the dog was in the same exact spot. like everything was exactly the same down to the T

**LouaiB** · 12-12-2013 07:52 AM

seems to me like a false awakening. I doubt it is something other than a disturbing dream ,especially that false awakening are very very vivid and feel really real. but do you have breathing problems while sleeping, because that could be the reason why you dreamed of not being able to breathe, because you actually have a problem breathing while sleeping. If not, then its probably just an annoying false awakening.