Out of Body Experience

[liquidspace]

Anyone ever had one?

[Homer55]

Im having one right now, god i think im going bald

[Skreecheeboy]

I have!

[crete]

i know someone who did, theyd had a cardiac arrest and were rescusitated successfully. i was there at the time.

[liquidspace]

I had one as a child. I would like to hear about other peoples. Its seems a strange phenonema (however you spell it!).
They were talking about it on TalkSport radio last night and James Whale said he had had one and the way he described it was what happened to me.

[Skreecheeboy]

I had a head full of acid at the time and myself and a friend saw each other from the other person's perspective for an instant, it really freaked us both out but we weathered it. I've not tryed to do it again as I didn't find it beneficial and don't like dabbling in that sort of thing any more.

[liquidspace]

Thats weird but maybe that occured cos of the trip!

No-one else?
I usually tend not to completely believe these things but its only because I have experienced it that Im interested.

[mandimoo]

i have had one. i was laying in bed, awake but not opened my eyes yet. you know, kinda weekend relaxing. i felt my body separate and was aware of my body in my bed, but also my other body drifting to the far corner celing of my bedroom. i was calm, and thought to myself 'thats odd, this is what happens when you die'. still no panic, but i thought i oughta get back to myself, and tried to reel myself in. it seemed quite hard work to get back, and i kind of 'popped' back into my body when i got there, and woke up quite excited about the whole thing!

[admarlow]

...every Friday night!

[liquidspace]

Mine was similar mandimoo.

I remember floating along the ceiling with my nightdress hanging down in front and after a while wanting to get back down and finding it really difficult.

[ummmm]

Saturdays for me.......

Howya doin AD ? xx

[admarlow]

ha ha umm, im coolio im in Cambodia at the mo off to the Killing Fields tomorrow :0s shot a machine gun yesterday!! (sorry for Hi Jacking your thread Liquidspace xxx)

[liquidspace]

No worries mate

[ummmm]

Wicked.....Great film as well :-)

How's Mrs liking it ? I'm still soooooo jealous :-(

On the plus side my Auntie is moving out to Thailand on Sunday.....they have built 5 houses so cheap holidays here I come.....yipee :-)

[RATTER15]

This was covered on TV a few months back, this "out of body experience" is due to something happening when the brain is giving up(before death) and the body feels like it is floating and when you are resuscitated you automatically assume it was whilst you were dead, the feeling of lightness also leads the brain into thinking it is floating and then you dream about looking down on to yourself or other people.

Well it works for me!!

Being an atheist it sounds a lot more believable!!

[jollygreen]

I believe it's nerve endings firing as the brain starts to power down...

Nothing more.

[mibn2cweus]

Skreecheeboy, I believe what you had was an OME (out-of-mind experience), not so much different really as I've had both varieties myself although the OBE was nothing to write home about.

I was lying on my back and went to sit up only to discover I was still lying there so I tried again and was successful in bringing my body along with me on the second attempt. My experience was accompanied by a buzzing that seemed more than auditory, although I was not buzzed at the time. There was pressure applied to the base of my skull from lying with my neck resting on the poorly padded arm of a sofa and that may have inhibited blood flow to my brain. That�s all I remember (it was a long time ago) but I had heard of the OBE phenomenon before my experience and concluded at the time that this was related, although not that impressive.

I do not believe that drugs are necessarily required to confuse reality with what one believes is real, although it helps. When confronted with an apparent contradiction, such as consciousness apart from or outside of a physical body and functioning brain, I tend to question the veracity of a belief on principle when an isolated experience belies everything else my mind has been able to integrate up until that moment. This policy, often categorized as �closed-mindedness�, is supported by the overwhelming evidence provided by the amazing consistency I have experienced in finding answers to some very perplexing questions when I make the choice to adhere to seeking logical explanations even when this means I must dispense with some highly regarded and endearing beliefs that simply do not stand up to rigorous inspection.

My OME�s, that�s another story! It�s good to be back although some might dispute this.

[lobbert]

ketamin - its like being in a very odd computer game thats kind of all wrong. completely forgot i was human or even what that meant. an out of mind experience and kind of out of body.

[liquidspace]

I wasnt talking about drug related out of body experiences, just ones that happen naturally.

[Champagne]

I've experienced it twice. Both times freaked me out a bit as it didn't feel natural.

The first time was when I was standing talking to friends in a busy shopping centre. I stopped and listened for a few minutes and obviously became very relaxed because all of a sudden it felt like I fell out of my body! I actually thought I fell down sideways (the way you would if you were about to faint) and just before my body hit the floor I panicked and brought myself back up to normality. I remember standing there thinking, "didn't anybody just see me fall down?" but they were still chatting as normal and then I realised that it wasn't my physical body that had moved.

The 2nd time was a lot more defined as an OOBE, insomuch as I could see that my 'spirit' (for want of a better word) actually left my body. I was lying in bed when suddenly the top part of my body, only from the waist up, started to sink through the mattress towards the floor. I could see under the bed and everything. It felt really strange, so again I brought myself out of it really quickly.

I have a friend who can astro-project around her bedroom whenever she wants. She's learnt to control it.

[liquidspace]

Wow thats really odd. What a strange experience, being able to see under the bed, I cant understand why that kind of thing sometimes happens.

I wonder how you can train yourself to have them "on demand", not that I would want to - far too scary.