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I've had numerous experiences with OBEs, however, recently I've been experiencing something quite different. Instead of feeling my own etheric/subtle body rise out of my physical one, when I relax my body before sleep, sometimes I feel someone else's etheric/astral body rise out of me, while my consciousness remains in my physical body. It feels very much like OBE, but the only difference is that my awareness is in my physical body and I observe/feel someone else's ethereal body or energy (whatever it is) rise out of me.

That's normal and happens when you recall only the physical body's experience. Perceiving an energy body that is your own but not downloading the memory from it it can feel strange, alien and "not like you". Robert Bruce's mindsplit theory explains it very well, I'd say. Are you familiar with it?

When you relax enough, the etheric body's connection to your body gets looser and it drifts around. When your mind is firmly unto the physical body, for whatever reason, this strong memory is the only downloaded perception into your brain.

Robert Monroe reports similar experiences IIRC.

I once observed the reentry of my astral body into my physical body from a perspective of the physical body. I thought a frightening presence had entered the room. I was afraid. It entered me. But from mixed up mindsplit memories I could actually find out what happened and that another version of me remerged with me, because I had some minimal parallel memories of it. If I lacked those, the experience would have been just plain scary and seemed like an attack. In fact it was no such thing at all. We just simply not always recall the subtler bodies' memories.

Take good care,
Oliver