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LOL.

It was my birthday yesterday, and I've always been taught that your birthday is your best day for manifestation as it's the strongest day in your "solar cycle" as it were. (Therefore the weeks before your birthday are like a personal retrograde, where the focus should be on detox / introspection and new contracts in life shouldn't be made)

Well I got a nice little bday gift in the form of a spontaneous OBE! It was a pretty silly one, too. Grab your popcorn.

I was at the end of a night's sleep, after 8-9 hrs of sleep, flitting through dreams to the point where my REM cycles were extremely shallow (ideal conditions for lucid dreams / pre-OBE). I was at the end of a dream where I was flying around a house like a ghost, playing with other people who were doing the same, we were discovering that if you called any of the ghost people's names, they'd coalesce right there in the room as if summoned. The dream settled into a lucid state and I found myself standing alone in my parents' house in MI, as if I had floated gently to a standing position.

I noticed that my body felt lighter, and that I was extremely lucid, so I figured I might possible be OBE and decided to test it. So I reached out and pressed my hands against the window. Solid.

But something was telling me that I was really OBE, so I walked up the stairs to the breakfast nook and tried again, this time pushing my hands into the white walls. The walls were pretty stiff, but not solid... they gave as if I were pressing into a plaster-like substance, and my fingertips left dents in the walls and I knew that I could push all the way through if needed.

This proved to be a great reality check... walls just don't give like that.

First order of business? I wanted to try RB's tip about going to Astral Bob class.

"TAKE ME TO ROBERT BRUCE!!!!!!!!!!" I loudly ordered. The air felt denser to push my voice through / my voice sounded tinnier as if echoing in a compressed space, but I didn't have any problems speaking out loud, as some of my friends have.

There was an immediate response... I felt like I got picked up by a giant force, like an invisible hand, and I was moved UPWARDS through the air as if being carried. (Very much like the astral wind phenomenon)

Problem though... I stopped short at the ceiling and got stuck there. I guess I need to work at my astral physics because I'm pretty sure I stopped there because I EXPECTED to stop there. I felt intense tingling, enough that I figured I'd wake up and lose track of the OBE.

There were a few indecipherable moments and I was standing back in the breakfast nook at my folks' house. Surprised, I turned around and looked at the wall, and reflected on how light my body still felt. I suspected I was still OBE, and reached out to test the wall again. Yep, same give, same plastery / gooey feeling, same dents forming (complete with plastery dust falling). Still OOB!

I tried again.

"TAKE ME TO ROBERT BRUCE!!!!"

Same thing. Big whooshy force picks me up and carries me upwards through the air.

This time I took a different angle through the ceiling, went through it into a dark space, and promptly got stuck in the insulation. I couldn't see it but I could feel it... scratchy, itchy... pervading every nerve in my body. Not unpleasant, just very... visceral. I kept waiting to come out the other side, but never did. Just got stuck there like Velcro.

Tingling rush. Wake up?

No.

Lost minutes.

Back in the breakfast nook! Turned, pressed wall. Dents. Wow, I'm STILL OOB!

Ok, so this isn't working. Time to maybe try a different tactic.

My friend Vinnie keeps attempting to visit me while astral, so time to return the favor and up the competition. LOL.

I didn't order it, as I didn't want to get stuck in the ceiling again. So I reached out and wrote above the wood of the back deck door "Vinnie." His name appeared as if I had dipped my fingertip in water and written it on the wood. I set an intention in my mind that the doorway would lead to wherever my friend Vinnie was, in the present, right now, THAT IS WHERE I WOULD GO. (I was very intent. Very.)

I opened the door, closed my eyes and stepped through.

Part of me felt the coldness outside, as if I hadn't gone anywhere. But then I got what felt like a mental impression / picture... like seeing a TV show vs. being at that location. It faded in slowly out of the darkness of my "mental space"... I could see Vinnie crouched down, rebooting a computer. He was talking to someone, and someone's pager / Nextel / walkie-talkie was a part of the conversation. I could hear their voices and when I heard someone say something like "well, that should do it..." and Vinnie stood up, the experience started to fade back out to black.

I'm back in the breakfast nook.

Ok, fine... if I can't go anywhere and stay there, I'll just walk around the house I'm at. So I walk around, and I hear a TV playing downstairs, and I go down there, and see the back of three dark heads... three kids watching TV, and I realize it's just an echo of a memory of me and my brothers, that there aren't really three kids there anymore. But my Mom is there too, and as she walks by I excitedly tell her (knowing that it doesn't really have bearing) "Hi Mom!! I'm in the astral!!" She waves it off dismissively "That's great... but I have to go, I have stuff to do" and she walks upstairs to leave the house. Now my real Mom would actually be at work around that time, so based on her non-lucid behavior and "cardboard"ness, I take it she was just a dream fluctuation / construct... and that the house actually felt quite empty.

... more lost time....

Wake up finally! Normally taciturn cat comes over from perch, purring loudly, lies on shoulder to enjoy the after vibes.

I found it interesting that I had the memory gaps and kept returning to the breakfast nook instead of waking up. My instincts were that I didn't have the energy to stay tuned into the transitions I was making, i.e. that Astral Bob school was at a frequency I couldn't maintain, reach, or access at my current level of energy.

It was funny that I kept getting stuck in the ceiling.

Pluses:

-Good reality check experience, did it several times in the course of this experience!
-Noticed that "lighter body" feeling as another reality check
-Had no problems speaking in that environment
-Instant reponse to orders. Cool! Friends who have tried it have not gotten any response.
-Rather than waking up, the mysterious repeated returns to the breakfast nook. I *know* my body, and those kinds of tingly rushes ALWAYS made me wake up.
-Astral physics aspects... the "give" of the walls, and getting stuck in the ceiling