Out of Body Experiences - My own + Discussion

[Crazywaffle5150]

The old hag sucks!! It scares me :/.. I want an OBE so bad I have felt my body slam trying to get out but I have never got out of my body while sleeping.

[proent]

3:40 - maybe you can search that site on google cache and go back a few years or archive .org to find that song

[HoustonRayR]

this guy is so gay its halarious

[lesouder2222]

The first was a mix of dream influenced by reality. The second was a meditation.

[PreviousGamer]

My friends 5 year old sister was not told about her nan dieing but then goes on to saying she see's her in her sleep and they talk, and her nan says she's in heaven.

[Mossasan]

Sounds like dreams to me. No offence intended but I have them alot when I have a fever. I only think we come to different conclusions. I explains it to be dreams and you OBE's.

[ImTheEv3nt]

I have had a dream like state happen to me while I was waking up in the morning. I kept drifting in and out of reality. I saw very unusual things, like lush plants. I finally woke up (or thought so) to my vision that i would have in reality. I was paralyzed this whole time and could not speak. I finally came to and nothing was wrong. Would this be an OBE?

[crazygeneral23]

@ImTheEv3nt that is actual just something to people as they wake up, it is rare but it does happen basically your body is half dreaming half awake.

[TheBlueFalconX]

@ImTheEv3nt This sounds more like minor sleep-paralysis. The part of the brain that communicates motor functions to the muscles is 'disconnected'/'off' when in a deep-sleep state. When coming OUT of deep-sleep sometimes it forgets to properly reconnect. Possible due to the way you woke up. I also have had this happen, where I was waking but was falling in and out of a dream very rapidly. When it comes to an OBE, you'll KNOW when it's happening. A sensation like none other will come over you.

[GrimSkellington]

I think this area of psychology is fascinating and I've done a lot of extensive research into it as well. My personal opinion on it (From a purely scientific standpoint, I'm not one for the supernatural) is that it is a field of lucid dreaming. The mind has show itself capable of extremely advanced imaginings and I don't see a reason why it couldn't simulate an OBE either.

I unfortunately haven't had an OBE before, but I have had lucid dreams with a lot of detail. Fascinating all the same.

[TheBlueFalconX]

@GrimSkellington I feel the same. Not one for the supernatural. I myself have had plenty of lucid dreams in my life, some of them are series dreams not unlike an LP. Haha. But I can say for sure that if a OBE is a form of Lucid Dream, it is a very stable lucid dream where your subconscious brain accesses all of your knowledge and projects a holographic world from your mind which your non-physical body inhabits in these few moments. During my OBE, when I fell through the floor to...[cont'd]

[TheBlueFalconX]

@TheBlueFalconX the living room I looked around the room for a few seconds and seen my grandmother sleeping on the couch (through the haze) and THEN I looked down the hallway to the front door and seen the light coming in through the window from the parking lot. All the things I had seen in the OBE I had seen before in some fashion. Grandma sleeping on couch - common. etc. The main difference between this OBE and a Lucid was the adherence of the OBE's world to reality. There was nothing odd...

[TheBlueFalconX]

@TheBlueFalconX about the house, the rooms, the location I was in. Usually in dreams there's always a few give away features that the mind didn't fully / accurately reconstruct the world you normally occupy in a normal-awake state. But this was a perfect reconstruction. OBE's are an odd thing. The feeling of entering into an OBE state is so insane. My whole body was vibrating with the 'wind' I described. The duality of being in bed and in the living room and being vividly aware of both...

[TheBlueFalconX]

@TheBlueFalconX my locations was surreal. Like "Hey I'm in the living room, hovering in a non-physical state. I can see what's in the living room." but also "Hey I can feel me laying in bed, the covers on my skin and the sound of the fan in my room."

Soooo messed up. But it was fun. Sorry for the long reply.

[GrimSkellington]

@TheBlueFalconX

Don't be sorry, it was an interesting reply. As to the "wind" feeling, I've read it is a common experience when entering Sleep Paralysis (A needed step in OBEs as well). I think that having that was a side effect of the Lucid Dream rather than the OBE itself. I think that OBEs put less emphasis on resting and focus entirely on the dream itself and in turn get less details wrong or make you more willing to ignore them. [cont'd]

[GrimSkellington]

@GrimSkellington

It is seen in a lot of psychological circumstances that an individual is willing to overlook a lot of things if they don't feel it belongs or would be counterintuitive to what they feel should be. It may be that when one recognizes that one is in a OBE they simply don't register that anything might be out of place because the subconscious tells them it isn't. If your whole world is ran by it (including your perception) then who is to say it is wrong? I hope that made since..

[TheBlueFalconX]

@GrimSkellington Yes it does make sense. What I mean by adhering more to reality this; Have you ever had a dream/lucid dream in which the setting is your house and/or your city? For me, usually only after waking do I actually realize that the house which I considered MINE in the dream looked nothing like what I know it to be while awake. Extra rooms, random hallways etc. And often, the house is not even in the same location/city as it should be. The subconscious is a powerful thing.

[TheBlueFalconX]

@TheBlueFalconX It's just too bad that I haven't had any more experiences like this one since. It'd really help with gathering more information as to what is happening and what is/or isn't possible. Problem is I haven't been able to apply the same conditions. It does speak volumes though that OBE's can be recreated in lab settings by stimulating the brain.