I couldn't give you the date of my first OBE experience. I came to that through lucid dreaming and it seems to me that many experiences in this transition period were probably weaving across that boundary. I used to have what I would classify as dreams that had a lot of the feel of astral projection, or the same themes and issues as my beginning OBEs. Also, my dreams can sometimes be pretty indistinguishable from waking reality, so...
A common beginning experience I would now have to definitely classify as an OBE:
It may be a few hours before I would have to get up, probably on a weekend when I didn't have to rise 'til I was ready. I would dream of being asleep in my bed, or know I was asleep in my bed and feel it. Being lucid, I would then try to kinestheticly 'roll' out of my body (I read that technique somewhere at one point, no idea where) - having a body sense of rolling onto the floor - without moving my actual body. Sometimes, I would just 'snap' back into my body and feel myself very near waking. Sometimes I would actually move my physical body. But if I relaxed and breathed, I could try again. And again. (IMG:
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Then, even when stabilized outside the body, I was very very weak, and could barely crawl or stand, often times leveraging myself up from the corner of the bed.
At first. Well, okay, for months. (IMG:
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Of course, I grew stronger. Sometimes then, I would just be standing by my body. Or in a kind of empty space. Can''t see anything, if I don't have gravity, I can create it if I want. Simple "this way is down ->" and land on an unseen surface, just hanging out in blackness. Yet if I concentrated, I could feel what seemed like my physical body as well. Strange to feel both upright and lying down at the same time...
I used the same method of interaction as I use for my lucid dreams. I generally do not interfere or push my conscious will to change my dreams, I use my conscious will to act within the scenes as presented. I feel that dreamscapes have far more overt reality than many would admit and thus generally treat the citizens of my dreams as I would real people.
In later journeys, sometimes I would roaming empty cities with empty houses (although some seemed to have some nasty electronics!), sometimes other city type scapes (mostly interior scenes) with more people ( sometimes not very nice places).
Rarely, I would be in Circle. In these group interaction scenarios many times I had trouble keeping my focus with the group. It might fade in and out as I struggled to maintain connection, either sight, hearing, or both. At least once I was #boot'ed so to say, although I never did figure out what I did.
I really had no goal beyond the experiences themselves, and I haven't practiced in quite a while.
I have not read much focused material about OBEs or the Astral plane (just mentions in some literature with other focus). I was also more interested in my own experiences without pre-seeding any programmed experiences based on what I read, so refrained after I got a start. Now, though I guess is a good time to take a look. (IMG:
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It should be interesting because my understanding of psionics vs psychics, OBE vs Astral, Chi balls (I am a Tai ji practicioner & Kung Fu student) vs psionic energy balls, etc., is a huge twisted ball ATM. Another map or two would be great and I'd like to make sense of some things.
namaste,
moonchilde
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| Kinjo Your First OBE Experience Mar 2 2005, 07:35 AM
Mar 2 2005, 07:35 AM
