ever had an out-of-body experience?

poppers

Once in a while, usually in the morning shortly after waking up, I find my "body" lifting up from my physical body, but I remain attached at the head. It's a very pleasant experience but I wish I could totally separate from the physical body so I could go exploring. This happened this morning again.

Sometimes I'll have a lucid dream where I know I am dreaming. This is always a fun time because then I simply will myself to fly but it never lasts for very long. How about you? Can you induce out-of-body experiences, and if so, how do you do it?

Mulan

Many times.

When I was a child, I would fly at night, and go see the neighbors. I am still not sure it was a dream or if I really did it. Once when my parents were visiting friends, I followed them, flying. The next day I asked them why Maxine didn't like Mom's cake that she took over there. She was shocked and I innocently told her I was there, watching them. I was about 8, and thought everyone could do that. She convinced me it was a dream, but I still wonder.

When I had my second child, I had the "floating above the table" experience. They had given me a drug to put me out, and I was floating over everyone, watching it all. As soon as the baby was born (another boy), I slipped back into my body. Later they told me they had a little emergency with me, and my heart had stopped briefly.

Always makes me wonder.

poppers

Mulan,

My gut feeling is that your childhood experience was a genuine OBE (but then, who am I to say). Others have a way destroying one's ability (especially children's) for genuine experiences such as OBEs because they "know better", and make one question one's own experience.

gitasatsangha

Ive been elsewhere in a few trance-like states but never the "looking down at my body" type thing.

Stefanie

Right before surgery, I had one, then i started telling my doctor how much i loooooooved him...lol It was funny cuz he just delieved my baby the day before, so he already seen my cookie...lol

Celtic

Hmmmmmmmm

Come take me by the hand, lets go for a float around the universe. Actually, tas only been these past 2 years or so my dreams have been in my own body totally upon the surface of this ruddy planet, before then I had many flying, levitation and inter galaxy lucid dreams. Bouncing off the rings of Saturn was great fun in huge swirling figures of eight, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, hell yeah, good fun.

Nosferatu

I used to read quite a bit about OBEs, lucid dreams, and whatnot. However, I've never had the pleasure of experiencing this.

I find my "body" lifting up from my physical body, but I remain attached at the head.

Apparently, the head is the most difficult to disconnect from. I knew a guy I went to school with who told me about his experiences. He said it's the easiest to have an OBE when you're sick in bed.

gitasatsangha

chanting a mantra (or something else easily rememberd not flippant.. can't chant "Cheeseburger" overf and over) can help also, as it is something of a mental sledgehammer which continually breaks the mind's attempts to wander and greadually forces the mental arising into smaller waves. Calmness is important for any mental endeavour.

Mary

I've never had an OBE, but I'm quite interested in the subject.......they sound remarkably like those that have a Near Death Experience. I wonder if it's your soul that's temporarily leaving your body?? Fasinating subject. Is it possible to 'induce' an OBE??

When I hear experiences like Mulan's, it really makes me think that we're not just flesh and bone.........

blondie

Yes, at every meeting I left my body and left the building.

ever had an out-of-body experience?

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