[layevymed]

My opinion is that it has to do with what kind of sleeper you are. I am a light sleeper who wakes up every 4 hours- I have probably slept through the night 3 or 4 nights in my 48 years. I believe that light sleepers have more awareness of the OBE, because IMO everybody does it, but if they are asleep then they can't remember. So, in my case, my son is also a light sleeper- I think I mentioned in another post that the first time he slept through the night he was 2! And of course, like me, he wakes up every 4 hours. Same sleep patterns. Now, at eight, I don't call them OBEs, because I don't want to frighten him into giving his nightmares reality, but I call them "special dreams"- he tells me on his special dreams he flies around the house and has seen our dog who passed away 6 months ago. So I've explained to him that I also have those special dreams that next time he's flying to come get me and I'll fly with him. I've kind of introduced the idea of part of his mind going around- sometimes in his own mind(dream) and sometimes around the house but without leaving his body- more like using binoculars- and he doesn't seem frightened by this idea. If he continues reporting projections that seem like OBE's and can be somehow verified, then I'll broach the projection subject. So going back to the subject of the topic, I don't think we have an OBE gene, but it's our sleep patterns that determine our projection recall- and I don't know if that's genetic- A brain scientist would know that.