[Cyncceply]

Interesting topic this.
I believe there are roughly, two kinds of people when it comes to this

1) the ones who would rather believe they are insane, than having an OBE experience or any other,
none science proven experience.

2) The ones who would question the experience and through experimentation and study
would gain insight into this exciting field.

I am clearly in group 2, and I will try to answer why I think my OBE's are not some imaginary
thing happening in my head.
As long as I can remember I have been interested in things that couldn't be explained and always
wondered about if there is more to life than meets the eye. I never discarded ideas or views in the
usual stubborn way that many try to when it comes to aspects of life they, or their peers cant explain
in a rational way.

My first OBE was around 5 years ago and it was through my curiosity and the help of the internet that
i first discovered about OBE. I had heard about the subject mentioned before in various books, but
I had seen nothing detailed regarding the matter.
So I enlisted the internet to my aid, and soon found this site and another one, on which I found tutorials
and guides on how to aproach getting out of body.

My first OBE was from being lucid in a dream, I suddenly felt i was dreaming and I got aware of my sleeping body,
while my mind being fully awake. From my reading on the internet, I started to chant, as I had read it could trigger
an obe or energize your energybody. I chanted Ommmm for a brief period of time and suddenly without much warning
or any symptoms I was standing in the bathroom of my parents house.
I was still lucid and had the complete use of my analytic brain, and standing infront of that mirror in the bathroom,
I decided to do a test I had heard mentioned.
I pulled my thumb, to see how the energy body reacted and as described it was pulled out of shape. My test seemed
to follow what I had read, but it was not this that made me "believe" that it wasn't some jedi-mind trick that my mind
was playing with me.

It was the fact that everything was so clear and 100% like being there in your physical body, I had full brain
functions, full sight, body was not solid but all the qualities we know from our daily lives was there.
I was being in that bathroom but I was in another vehiecle.
Some might argue that it might have been a very vivid dream and have every kind of "logical" explanation for it,
but for me experiencing it, there was no denying that it was an obe.

For people not familiar with OBE and who haven't experienced it, it might be hard to grasp, but once you read up
on it and set aside some time to explore and finaly get our of body yourself, you wont be in doubt if it was an obe
or just something in your head.

Mreee