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Had a crazy Out of Body Experience last night!

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<< do you really think that novon can't tell the difference between a dream and an out of body experience? >>



The concept of out of body experience is not well defined. Science does not recognize it as a legitimate phenomenon. What criteria are you going to use to differentiate between a dream and an out of body experience?
 
The concept of out of body experience is not well defined. Science does not recognize it as a legitimate phenomenon. What criteria are you going to use to differentiate between a dream and an out of body experience?

i take his word for it, because science has not yet reached the point where it is able to determine the difference based on such a description as he wrote.
 
I've experienced what you guys are experiencing as well, though I don't think they are out of body experiences. I think they are just strange dreams. I usually dream that I wake up and I can't turn on any lights, and that no one is around to help me. Quite scary. I also used to suffer from sleep paralysis. Now that really sucks.

Ryan
 
I know some things about OBEs and, yes, they do happen. There are techniques to bring them about but for some people they just happen.
 
I've only told this to a few people... cuz you always get a weird look when you retell it...

This was awhile back... almost 10 years ago, I believe. I had an appointment in the morning and got home
from work and was wasting time til I had to leave the apartment. I layed down on the sofa and I was fighting
trying not to doze off. As far as I know, I didn't doze off, I'm not sure though. Anyways, I was really relaxed
and slowly a low "buzzing" sound started to drone in my ears. I realized that I felt really heavy and then found
that no matter what, I couldn't move a muscle. I was looking at my hands laying down on my stomach and
trying to move them and just could NOT move an inch. Then... all of a sudden my perspective changed and
my viewpoint suddenly was as if I was in the upper corner of the room, opposite of where I was laying. I was
looking down, across the room and I could SEE myself laying paralyzed on the sofa! There was a hallway
behind my "real" body... and the only thing that didn't appear absolutely lifelike was... the hallway seemed
to have a "glow" to it... like a light was on the other end, lighting up the opposite end. I was absolutely sure
that I was awake and got just a bit more than scared and *pop*... I was back in my body and moving my arms
and hands like I just got released from the paralysis feeling. I jumped up and really never felt like I had been
asleep but just in awe over "what the heck" just happened!

I've had the paralysis feeling just begin to start again, a few times... over the years, but never had the out of
body feeling again. I've also had flying dreams and lucid dreams where you are in a dream and realize it... but
they were totally different than that one experience. (Oh... and I hadn't been drinking or doing any drugs at the
time... )

So... I can say I believe some weird stuff happens, things I would just roll my eyes at, before it happened to me.
I don't really know what else to say about it though... just weird.
 
Deprive yourself of sleep for a long while and fight off sleep for as long a time as possible and I can guarantee you'll start getting dreams like these, only difference is you'll still be partially awake (remember you're supposed to be fighting sleep) sooner or later you'll still be believing you are still awake while you are just imagining it and you're actually asleep and in a lucid dream state..
 
OBEs are certainly interesting. They don't feel like dreams at all. They generally occured for me at death. Curiously, after experiencing them I don't believe in god, an afterlife, ghosts, or anything paranormal anymore.

BTW, I don't recommend dying to try to have another experience. It's usually not worth it.
 
hmm, the only thing I've ever had that is similar to something like this is a few weeks ago I was really really sick with the flu or something. I got home from ski practice at 10 pm, and took a bath and went to bed. All night I was somewhere in between waking and sleeping, and I had a dream that I stayed in my bed for three days, and was so sick I couldn't move. It was odd because it felt like real-time; I seriously swore that when I woke up I could remember three day's worth of memories. Needless to say, when I did wake up and it was only a day later I was really confused.

I have never had a flying dream or really any dreams that could be described as surreal.
 
I used to have dreams similar to these about once a week. The most common one was that I had gotten up and tried to turn on a light, but found the light switch would not work, and I would turn and see myself sleeping. The first few times it happened, it was kind of freaky. But now if it ever happens, it's like "For chrissakes, not again..." I have pretty good power over them, now. Although I did just have one of a similar sort last week. None of the power in my apartment was working when I "woke up" and went out to the kitchen to grab something to drink. The light switches, the fridge light, everything wasn't working. I remember I went to the fuse box in the hallway, and tried to open it and couldn't. That's when I knew I'd "slipped out" again...

Weirdest non-lucid/OOBE dream I've ever had. I was in the backseat of a car. Someone was driving, but I could not see them. (Think of the Moby video for Porcelain if you have seen it). I could feel the car was physically moving forward, but all the scenery outside the car was moving as if the car were going in reverse. That's all. But think about it. It's really disorienting...

--Christopher
 
You never really did wake up. It was all just a dream. I've had a number of dreams where I "woke up" and hung out in my room or go down stairs and chill, but they're just dreams.
 
My 6 year old sleep walks all the time....usually when he has to pee. He goes into the kitchen, opens the refriferator and whips it out or he goes over the pantry and whips it out.
hehehe....

strange kid
 
I used to sleepwalk like CRAZY when I was a kid. My parents would find me curled up sleeping in weird places. They found me on top of the 8' china cabinet sleeping one time. I awoke one time hanging by both arms off the railing of our staircase (and fell as soon as I awoke). I used to show up in the living room and announce to my brothers (who were still up watching Carson) that "The dog is on fire!" and be in tears about it...

I'm glad I don't anymore. That'd be hard to explain why a 26 year old is wandering around the apartment building in his boxers...🙂

--Christopher
 
For those of you interested in more information on what you have and are experiencing, this is quite interesting and covers many aspects of the phenomena described here.
 
If anyone is interested in the topic read the books by Robert Monroe. Your local, or school library might have them.
 
I used to sleepwalk too. Stopped in my first year of college. I used to get up and talk to my roommate. I also talk in my sleep. Sleep paralysis is the worst.

Ryan
 
Ever notice that you always wake up during the vivid dreams? I'll be lying in bed, I'll be dreaming, and I'll know it. Then I'll wake up, and be like, "why do I never realize that I'm going to wake up during a vivid dream like that one?"
 
I'm not really sure what an out-of-body experience is but I have lucid dreams all the time. I usually don't like them because if it's a nice dream then I realize it's "just a dream" so that kind of spoils everything. But I have had the occassional nightmare and I realize that "its just a dream" so that really puts me at ease.

I do sleepwalk occassionally. Once, the night before a swim meet, I jumped out of bed onto the floor and started doing a "40" meter freestyle on the floor... I got up, said "and that's that", and promptly walked back to bed. I remeber it quite well (my parents heard it too lol), but I wasn't really aware of it at the time.
 
I had this wicked dream last night. I was at a party and this hot girl was checking me out, so i go over to her and she gives me a hologram business card type thing, and she tells me to write her number on it. Im like wow this is cool as sh_t. so i sit down somewhere and this girl comes over and starts making out with me.. nothing special right? But the thing is it felt SO real and so good that i hadn't the slightest idea i was dreaming, i woke up in the middle of it and im like ... "uh what the f just happened?" need less to say i was really pissed off when i woke up.

I had another dream a while ago that i remember pretty vividly. It's set in a place like GTA3, like in between buildings under the traintracks... every window is boarded up, and the streets are made of dirty water. It's everyone for themselves, cars are coming down this road, hitting each other, just trying to get through, running over people on the streets for fun. It was a really f'ed up dream, and i have no idea why my mind came up with that.
 
I saw the sleep paralysis thing on Discovery health channel you are either about to fall asleep or wake up and you cannot move, you feel something heavy on your chest and then you see a black figure, this is because there is something wrong with your brain and you are not all the way awahe and before you sleep your body paralyses yourself so you do not hurt yourself, it only moves for increased bloodflow to a part of your body, the doctor also said that most people have it at least once in their life.
 
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