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Hello everyone,
I want to ask how was your first OBE? I mean what techniques did you used? how long did it take? how long have you been practicing? Please write down your story in detail. This information is very great value to me. Thanks.

It was in my student dorm room, must have been sometime in 2005. I had listened to a Focus 12 tape from the Gateway Experience - the series of binaural training tapes for OBE the Monroe Institute provides. This might have been one of my first tries at Focus 12 - what the Monroe people call "the state of expanded consciousness."

The tape itself had effects, but did not provide an OBE. That night I became conscious and it was dark. I saw nothing. Several strange things happened. I heard laughter, and I thought somebody must be having a party on the hallway (again). Only to realise that it sounded like directly in my room. I may have even wondered how they did get in my room at some point. It must have been astral noise.

The other thing was that I would drift around, like being a point of consciousness. Even though I saw nothing, I heard - seemingly with my physical ears - my alarm clock ticking. Now when I would move it was like I would move away from the sound I heard, like it was reversed, as if I was moving away from my own ears! I would move in different directions, not really realising I was having an OBE. I was just exploring this drifting sensation, never wondering where that came from.

At this point in time I had not ever meditated nor did I know what energy work was. I had just used the Monroe tapes. I also had done the Monroe exercises "Living Body Map" and "Energy Bar Tool" which indeed are energy work exercises, but I did not realise that back then. The exit was spontaneous and went unnoticed, I just became aware in the situation I found myself in.

There is at least another time where I mixed up the senses of the physical and the energy body - hearing from a different place.

Oliver