Ever Have A "Out Of Body" Experience?

[Lost Cause]

In June of 2000, I got admitted to the hospital almost in a toxic shock. (my gall bladder had died 2 weeks earlier-didn't know it) The surgery went well, and the surgeon told me if I didn't wake up when I did, I wouldn't have. I had this "experience" I can't explain, it's so vivd I can't see how it could have been a dream.
It was while I was "under" prior to surgery, I felt myself leaving my room. I thought about my Parent's, and I was at their house! My Dad was laying in bed, watching TV, my Mom was reading a magazine in the living room. I then thought of my older Brother, and "whoosh" I was at his place! He was working in his yard by the lake, and his wife was on the phone talking to her Brother. I also "visited" my other Brother's house, but it was empty, no one home. I visited my other two Brother's in my "dream', and recount in detail what they were doing.
Noone knew at the time I was in the Hospital. I never told anyone in my family about the "dream" because I don't want to upset them.

*Ever had a experience like this, or someone you know had it?

*Do you believe in this type of event? I still don't know what it was.

 

[juicylips]

The only time I have an out of body experience is when I orgasm.

That may seem a contradiction in terms, but really, it's not for me.

JL

 

[sch00lteacher]

I played this game when I had my heart attack. I have never really been able to explain to others just what happened or what I saw. I only know that I saw what I did. And I know I made a choice, to stay, or to move on.

I stayed.

I found this back in the back and thought I'd bump it back up, out of respect for Lost Cause.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I mediated for years attempting to force an OOBE, getting no closer than hovering inside my mattress, until one day I was able to float across the room and touch my sleeping brother on the arm. I forced myself awake and concluded that I hadn't gone anywhere, and that OOBEs are an altered State of Consciouness connected to memory.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

Lysergic acid diethylamide facilitated all of mine.

When the aliens abducted me, though, I was straight.

 

[naudiz]

When I was eight, I nearly drowned. There was a disorienting moment where I was looking down at myself in the water, and I thought, oh how sad, that poor girl is dead. Then there were people pulling me out of the water, and I started coughing and stuff. Weird.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

It might sound hokey to all of you that will read my response, as I've never had a near-death experience. But I've had many out-of-body experiences. I remember it starting when I was 10 or 11, in grade 5. I was in French class, and my French teacher was yabbering away, and I was paying full attention (I was a real keener when I was in school)... all of a sudden, though I kept watching her and writing stuff down, I felt like I was right at the front of the classroom, standing in front of her face, feeling her breath as she talked... it happens all the time like that.. I'll be across a room, doing something, and then all of a sudden, I'm somewhere else, but it's so real. I still experience it. Often times, someone will ask me how I am, and when I'm not fully in myself I make a circular motion with my right hand above my head and to the right a little... and I say "well, Im right about here today"... and they think I mean that I'm not with it, or that I'm just dazed... but I can feel myself leave my body, and I can feel myself experience things that my body never could. And they all happen when I'm awake.

And I swear to god, that's the truth... I just read it over, and it DOES sound hokey, damnit. But it is the truth.

 

[lilrosie lips]

In June of 2000, I got admitted to the hospital almost in a toxic shock. (my gall bladder had died 2 weeks earlier-didn't know it) The surgery went well, and the surgeon told me if I didn't wake up when I did, I wouldn't have. I had this "experience" I can't explain, it's so vivd I can't see how it could have been a dream.
It was while I was "under" prior to surgery, I felt myself leaving my room. I thought about my Parent's, and I was at their house! My Dad was laying in bed, watching TV, my Mom was reading a magazine in the living room. I then thought of my older Brother, and "whoosh" I was at his place! He was working in his yard by the lake, and his wife was on the phone talking to her Brother. I also "visited" my other Brother's house, but it was empty, no one home. I visited my other two Brother's in my "dream', and recount in detail what they were doing.
Noone knew at the time I was in the Hospital. I never told anyone in my family about the "dream" because I don't want to upset them.

*Ever had a experience like this, or someone you know had it?

*Do you believe in this type of event? I still don't know what it was.

I have similar dreams quite frequently. I have a sleep disorder called sleep paralysis with hypogonial hallucinations. The sleep paralysis is very scary, because you feel you can't breath or move, as if a very heavy weight is stuck on my chest. But the hallucinations are really cool. Often I feel that I am flying and I can direct where I am going, sometimes I feel like I am oozing all over the room. And everything I experience is very, very vivid.

The doctors explaination for this is decrease in a hormone that allows me to hang between somewhere between wakefullness and dreaming. It isn't an every night thing, and it has a tendancy to happen when I am not getting enough sleep or very stressed.

But before I found out what it was I thought I had a brain tumor.

 

[lisalove]

I have never had a near-death experience, but I've had many OBE's.

First one happened in grade 9, while my drama teacher was leading a meditation session. I had no idea what was happening, had never heard of it before and was terrified.

It always happens the same way. I am exhausted and lie down to rest. I hear a vibration or buzzing in my ear, then my entire body becomes paralyzed. I think I'm awake, but I'm willing to admit it could be incredible lucid dreaming. It is literally a spiralling sensation, and though I try to resist, I keep going up. It's rarely graceful floating (and I tried to induce one but it didn't work). Usually a noise will jolt me back to my body very quickly.

I don't like having these experiences, they're frightening. Perhaps if I could control it somewhat, but I'm not able to.

 

[Ask For More]

I have them all the time, although only little piddling ones.
Normally when I lie in bed, and empty my mind, I'll feel myself floating up and moving around, although I can't really see and control myself as other people have described.

 

[WaxNWane]

When I was eight, I nearly drowned. There was a disorienting moment where I was looking down at myself in the water, and I thought, oh how sad, that poor girl is dead. Then there were people pulling me out of the water, and I started coughing and stuff. Weird.

When I was about six I fell into a pool, sunk straight to the bottom, and sat there with eyes and mouth shut not knowing what to do. I remember clearly seeing, from an underwater perspective a few feet away from myself, my dad swimming to me and getting me up above the surface. Suppose it's just as reasonable to say I was imagining what it would look like as it being some sort of true out-of-body thing. But it's stuck with me as something that was a very distinct sensation.