Oobe?

[hogs]

I had a new experience , never experience something like it before. I think it OOBE? anysways i am doing some self-hypnosis for OOBE before i sleep. I get a feeling of numbness.(i got them before but this time i relaxed) I enter different state.(like am a spirit and i not bound by my body) anyways, i do the roll over method and it worked . while, i think it did. last time i try the roll out but it didn't work, i think i was to excited. but anyways i open my eyes frist and i can see i am in room. I can see the room but it's a different kind of room(like a different diminsion ). What do you guys think?(it's my frist time in that kind of awareness, cant really expand it.) Thanks for the help. It's very new to me, do you guys know what to think of it? it's very real like. so i dont know if im just hypnotize myself to thinking it? or i am walking in my sleep? or is it lucid dreaming? So i didn't want to leave my room. I try some experiments while in this state(dont really know what to call it). I go to the door to see if i can go through it. I cant? i can feel the door.(I can feel the door) so i think i am awake but i know i am not awake. i mean the kind of awareness i am having is not the consuoius of awake person. so i decide to go check my bed to see if i am there. i go see, but i am not there? or i mean my phyiscal body is not there. so i am thinking i must be awake but it's so different from being awake. anyways i lay back on the bed. i awake up and look that the clock it's been 15 min before when i started to sleep. or i think i awake up? anyways go back to sleep and i do some more rollouts(it's fun ) so i end up rolling out like 15 times for fun and stand up different place in of the room. sometime it's goes puff and i am back on the bed. I am going to try the same thing tonight. any thought to help me?? i would be very thankful.

[Flounder]

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[arby]

um Don't go trying too hard to help now.... As for the thread starter.. You're definatly getting the hang of it. Leave your room and go explore! =D Wheres your sense of adventure?

[dreamship]

No such thing as OBE or other worlds or astral bodies or spirits or whatever. It is all in your mind. I have had a similar experience. I am in bed and suddenly I feel as if I can feel my arm and I can touch stuff yet still feel another arm that is still 'asleep'. It is just your mind being very aware that it is asleep yet it still retains a pattern of a body. After all, your brain is used to being in a body so it is natural that it would still feel one. And yet it still can sense the real body. It knows it is dreaming. It is all a dream. Amputees, sp?, feel pain from what doctors call 'the phantom limb'. Their brain still retains a pattern that requires there to be a body part there. When it is not it signals 'damage' and feels pain in the limb that is not there. Might be a neat idea that if the brain still has a pattern for it it could repair damage or recreate the limb like some reptiles. Though I do not want to promote animal research by that statement. No ghosts. No astral bodies. Just your brain and a 'dream body' all contained in your real body. You really should read some science books on dreams. The pioneer of lucid dreaming is Stephen LaBerge. His Lucidity Institute website has a long article on OBE and some excerpts on OBE, and Shared Dreaming from his books and newsletters. Great stuff. You can get his books cheap through second party sellers at Amazon.com or ebay.

[Flounder]

I'd like to agree with you on this one, dreamship. Unfortunately I guess I wont know for sure until it happens to me!