Thread: I'M NEW! a question about a possible OBE

Hey, I'm Becca, I'm 19, from Canada and I'm new to this sight and to lucid dreaming in general.

My friend Quat was the one who introduced me to the idea of lucid dreaming, I actually didn't know it was possible until he told me! I was kind of skeptical at first but when he described his dreams to me I became extremely curious. Actually I've been kind of obsessed with it for the last few days. I was so happy to find out that I can actually learn to have dreams like that cuz i thought he was special or magical or something I dunno haha... I want to be able to do more with my dreams because i feel like i am wasting them by not learning how to manipulate them. I can't wait! So yepppp thats just kind of my intro to the site and I hope to learn a lot here (I have already learned so much already!) Thanks a lot!

Also I have a question about something that i'm not sure is related. A couple years ago i had a bad experience with shrooms (honestly the worst experience of my life, I'll never do them again). now that I have read up on different dreaming states I think that what i experienced might have been an OBE and i was wondering if someone could help me in determining whether it was or not..

What happened was, I was in a movie theatre and i started feeling dizzy so I put my head down but i was still awake and i could still see everything around me. I felt like I was paralyzed and I was stuck there with my head down on the arm rest and I was closing my eyes but I could still see everything around me. Then i felt this kind of disconnectedness from my body and it felt like i was rising above myself and looking down on my body from above. I don't remember a lot of what i experienced but i know i was flying through a white sky and at one point I could see the breakdown of every element around me...kind of like i could see particles of objects and even sounds and feelings. I felt like I was travelling back to previous memories...at one point I went to the time when iw as just about to take the shrooms and tried to stop myself but i had no impact on anything around me. Never experiencing anything like that before I was convinced that i was dead and i would never be able to return to my body so it scared me so much. Eventually i was able to bring myself back to reality... even though it was REALLY scary it kind of made me curious. but i would never want that to happen again unless i could control it.... anyways I was just wondering if anyone could help me understand what was happening.. im not sure if it was just hallucinations or if it was, in fact, an OBE but I was definitely disconnected from my physical self and i was not sleeping! Thanks a lot!