Comments on: Out of Body Experiences (OBEs)

By: Katherine acevedo

Katherine acevedo — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:20:15 +0000

In reply to Sanne.

I’ve had what I think are OBE’s, I’ve felt the loud buzz a slowly pulling myself away from my body which is laying down and now it’s happening more were I just know to pull myself up.
The strange thing for me is most of the time I’m in my own home and I’m not floating but walking around and experience my kids there when I know they are somewhere else and also see things that I know aren’t there in my home or not actually happening so I have trouble discerning wether I’m in an OBE or lucid dream there has only been a couple of times were I have been to space and travelled with the stars and also come across a planet, most time end of so excites that I just end up back in my body or I scare myself and end up back in my body but I know I’m safe.

By: Dr Clare Johnson

Dr Clare Johnson — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:52:51 +0000

In reply to Uzzy Joe pepple.

Hi Uzzy, it can feel scary if we aren’t used to these sensations, I know. It took me a long time (as a child) to understand that we need to release fear in these states, and when we manage that, we open up to incredibly beautiful experiences 🙂 If you are desperate in sleep paralysis, hold your breath to shock your body into waking. But I would advise relaxing and taking slow deep breaths. You can still control your breathing in SP and calm breaths send a message to your brain that all is well. It’s vital, as these are thought-responsive states. I give many practical techniques in my book The Art of Transforming Nightmares (also available as an ebook) and in my video courses, especially The 30-Day Power of Dreams class. Good luck, and please know that you will wake up safely in your bed.
Clare

By: Uzzy Joe pepple

Uzzy Joe pepple — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:48:09 +0000

In reply to Al. So I've had the OBE like 5 times but each time I'm scared 😨 todays experience was joined with sleep paralysis because after I entered my body back it took me quite sometime to move my body because it was stiff. Please how can I stop it 😔

By: B

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:52:54 +0000

Need to know more, years of obe. Get in touch

By: Víctor

Víctor — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:14:27 +0000

In reply to Dr Clare Johnson.

Thanks a lot Clare!
The book I have is The Art of Lucid Dreaming, the one with over 60 practices.
But I will buy the one you tell me, because I see that it is the most complete of all.
Lately I feel like it’s hard for me to remember… it’s been a few days now that I don’t remember dreams to write down in my journal, I guess I have to reinforce my intention.
I feel that dreams are a wonderful path of self-discovery and self-therapy. I hope I can master them a tenth of what you do.

By: Dr Clare Johnson

Dr Clare Johnson — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:10:34 +0000

In reply to Victor. Hi Victor, OBE and LD are not the same but there are experiential overlaps. If the book of mine you're reading is Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, you'll find a chapter in there deveoted to OBE, and others devoted to the lucid void and the Lucid Light, all of which are OBE. Enjoy!

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:53:03 +0000

Dear doctor!!
I am reading one of your books and it is really wonderful. I wanted to ask you a question. Many people experienced in obes say that they are one more form of lucid dreaming… and that they are a reality created by our mind. And they say that the proof of this is that when they leave the body and see their body in bed they see it in one position and when they return to the body it is always in another position. On the other hand there are always people who visit unknown places where they had not been there preivously and when they go to that place it is exactly the way they saw it in their obes. Is it a real experience??? My intutions tells me that when the experience is not fully lucid we see things that are not there.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 04 May 2021 08:53:51 +0000

Mine are not as exciting as some of these. I have one or two a year usually in the sunroom on the couch. Commonly there is no one around and I am unlikely to be disturbed or interrupted. Often they last for 2-3 hours and are completely distinct from a ‘normal’ nap. Often someone will visit, or the phone will ring or one of my children will return home from school. I will get up and engage fully aware that I am asleep but the voices sounds and conversations are real and very clear, audibly. My sleeping body feels weighted down and I can feel myself trying to drag my sleeping body up to meet the circumstance but cannot. They are surreal and extraordinary feeling dreams. I can pick things up move to the phone, or knock at the door but it takes extraordinary effort like I am dragging myself there in super slow mo. I wake up from these dream feeling completely washed out but I love having them? I had one today. It was wonderful. My wife came in I could hear her distinctive walk and she just let me sleep. My son came home and we chatted. None of it was real but my out of body made it feel so. They were both away.

By: Marica

Marica — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:12:48 +0000

Hi,
As a young child, 8-10 years old I had several OBEs while I felt like floating around in our home, watching my brother sleeping, I saw myself from above and distinctively remember the feeling of floating. I had similar sensations sometimes even when I was not sleeping.
I was convinced for many years I have the ability to float.
I have no neurological issues, apart from severe anaemia had no medical issues either. As a child I thought everybody had similar experiences so never discussed it with others.
Fast forward 30+ years and I felt like that again. Only 1-2x.
Until a few nights ago.
A noise woke me and I sat up in bed and looked to my right where the noise came from and I saw a translucent figure looking right at me and hovering over my husband’s sleeping figure and moving back into his body. It took me a bit of thinking to realise the face was my husband’s face. I looked at him, he’s sleeping, breathing and his leg just moved. I laid back on the pillow and listened out for the noise and my husband’s breathing for a while before drifting off to sleep again.
This was unusual as I saw myself as OBE several times.
But I have never seen this sort of astral body of someone else.

I usually have vivid dreams with colours, sounds, smells and feelings and sometimes I am an observer, sometimes it is me but in a different body. Some dreams are like movies and I remember them well after waking.
I now wonder how much is dreaming and what might be something very much else..

By: Venus

Venus — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:22:40 +0000

In reply to Dr Clare Johnson. Hi my name is Venus and my story is a bit different. I was dreaming that I was in a large grassy field dancing to the beat of drums and then I started to spin round and round, I closed my eyes and I could feel everything (the sun, the breeze, myself, spinning) I Suddenly I opened my eyes and was elevated about 25- 30 feet in the air still twirling. I looked down and I saw my other self still on the ground dancing round and round. My Astral self was suddenly wearing a white dress, it felt so real, beautiful and peaceful. I did not know I was dreaming. I woke up never making it back to my body. Or maybe I don't remember doing so. Was this just a dream or is this OBE within a dream or something else? Thanks so much for your time.