OBE stands for out of body experience.

As I become more proficient at lucid dreaming and astral projection, I will document my more interesting experiences here for you to enjoy, and also so that you might learn from them and hopefully have your own experiences. Stay tuned for an upcoming post on how to lucid dream.

I had slept several hours on 2/24 due to a long plane flight, and when you mix up your sleeping schedule by taking a nap during the day, it tends to set up ideal brain conditions for interesting night time experiences. As I lay down to sleep around 2 am on 2/25, finally becoming drowsy, I experienced severe vibrations in my head and throughout my body. This is a common symptom of an oncoming projection, so I stayed with the pain, waiting for what happened next. It sounded exactly as if someone were revving a weed whacker inside of my head, and I felt the vibrations directly throughout my entire body. The pain was acute and intense.

Thankfully, after maybe twenty seconds of vibrations, I felt my head slide out of my body to the side, and the vibrations stopped. I pulled my legs out of my body and fell onto the floor, with my physical body lying in bed. There was no break in consciousness – I hadn’t fallen asleep, but only switched gears, so to speak.

Everything was very dark and dense. I’ve read that when you are able to get out of your body, you should try to get as far away from it as quickly as possible in order to, in a way, free up your consciousness. In my experience, this is good advice.

I felt groggy and had difficulty moving as I crawled away from my body toward the door. My hand moved through the door easily but my head wouldn’t go through, so I said aloud, “My head easily slides through the door,” and then it did. I crawled across the living room floor, still groggy and dense, then flew toward the window to get outside. I hit the window and fell to the floor (no pain). I tried a different window and slid my hand through it and slowly pulled the rest of my “body” outside. Once outside, I was free.

I hovered above the ground, looked down at the grass (there was no snow), looked at the trees which were all in the same positions as in my physical yard, and looked up at the sky, which was illuminated with billions of brilliant stars. I was ecstatic. My perception was clearer than anything I’ve experienced in the physical world, which is common during such experiences. As I flew through the air, down the street, everything looked as it does in the physical, except the air was filled with specks of brilliant light, like little stars, and I was flying through them, over and through trees. It was a feeling of pure freedom, of pure bliss and happiness. I was smiling as big as I ever have.

Through the whole experience I was completely aware that I was not in my body, that my body was in bed, and that my consciousness was completely removed from it. As I flew, I had the thought that I wanted to meet and converse with my guide, whose presence I felt. As soon as I had the thought, I received a telepathic response that said just to enjoy the experience, and I was happy to do so since I was having the time of my life.

I flew over a neighbors house, and for some reason there were metal flower pots on the roof. I accidentally knocked one off the roof to the ground, and as I turned around, hovering, I wooed it to my hand tele kinesthetically, then pointed to the roof to shoot it back up there, but instead it flew at me and hit my hand, so I just left it there.

I looked behind me and there was an old, decrepit building with no windows and graffiti all over it (there is no such building in my neighborhood). It had a dark, incredibly ominous feel to it. I wanted nothing to do with it, turning away to go somewhere else, when I had the thought that maybe this was some kind of fear test. A test of my resolve. Even so, the place was so scary that I avoided it, instead flying up over an adjacent maintenance yard. There was a man working in the yard, moving items from it to the dumpster. While he was in the large dumpster, I threw something into it and he didn’t react. At this point, things got foggy, I zoomed back into my body and opened my eyes, still without any break in consciousness, to document the experience.

I suspect the building was a test of my gumption, and I failed it; hence, the experience was ended. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to muster the courage to proceed in the face of what was, in this case, a terrifying prospect: exploring a dark, ominous building to encounter potentially scary-as-fuck beings.

The overall feeling of the experience was one of pure bliss and total freedom, like most flying experiences. I have thought about it multiple times throughout each day since then, and it always brings a smile to my face. Experiences like these are more vivid than “real” experiences on Earth, and the memories stay with you just as memories of Earth experiences do. In my opinion, they are no less valid or real than physical experiences. After all, with regard to the wider reality from which we came, this physical life is no more significant than a night time dream is compared to our physical lives.

Experiences like these are personal proof that you are not your body. Your consciousness is separate from it, and no physical laws bind it. It is free to roam, to explore, to experience heightened emotions and sensations you are unable to experience as a physical being. You might say, “Well it’s all in your mind. You were just dreaming.” I have no way of providing proof to the contrary. You simply have to experience it for yourself, interpret the experiences the best way you can, and decide for yourself. Many expert lucid dreamers believe these experiences are manufactured completely in the human mind, that there is no wider reality beyond the physical. It’s important to note that your experiences tend to match your expectations, so it’s best to try not to have any expectations whatsoever going in. I’m not sure if that’s possible. However, remember that without going to sleep, without any break in consciousness, I literally crawled out of my physical body and went on this journey with just my consciousness.

More to come…