[Uplillacype]

It first happened on a day I woke up really early to have an early photoshoot with a family and their baby. Later that day, exhausted, I layed in my bed for a short nap. 5 minutes into laying down on my stomach the strangest sensation I have ever felt came across my entire body and I felt like i was floating. I was instantly shot out of my body towards the ceiling and began to slowly rotate around and could only see black. I got scared and popped back into my body and woke up. What a sensation!!

Two days later, I woke up in the morning early because I had to use the restroom. I got back in bed right after and laid on my stomach. I started having a dream about me on the floor playing with a nephew that I don't have. The same vibrations from the other day started to kick in and I immediately became aware of what was going on and thought to myself, "alright here we go I'm going to pop out, and control my body and be able to see." So the vibrations continue and again I'm shot out of my body and begin floating and slowly rotating in mid air. It felt like I was floating in outer space! I floated for a good 5 seconds and tried to move with no luck. I tried moving my lips to command my eyes to open but they were stuck shut. I tried opening my eyes to see but my physical body's eyelids open and I wake up. This trip was a lot longer than the last, but I just can't see or move my body parts.

Any suggestions?

[Uplillacype]

And why have these random obe's been occuring now that i've started reading about them? I take naps all the time and never pop out of my body like that, but over the past few days it's happened twice without me even trying to do it.

[Serereids]

Any suggestions?

Getting away from your body is the only way that always works for me to get sight. There's other things (like commanding vision) that may work also.

It's a matter of intention- if it previously wasn't in your conscious mind, you may not have articulated the desire to have these experiences- so maybe reading about them may have caused you to desire the experience, and to have it consciously.

Even though many of us have these experiences as children before putting a label on them, many forget them (perhaps because they assumed they were dreams, especially at an early age) and not ever think about them or want them. But if you did and forgot (I think this is the case) reading about them may have put the issue upfront in your mind and caused you to stay awake for them.

[Uplillacype]

I'm 20 now, but when I was 14 I had bought the book Astral Dynamics and would attempt to have an obe quite frequently with no luck. So maybe that has something to do with it too.

That's interesting, I wonder why getting away from your body gives you sight? It's really hard to control where I move or even moving at all, I just float right above my body without any effort and any ability to move! I also hear weird noises that I can't really describe. The feeling is so intense and is such a shock to my body but I would love to go further with it and control them! From my first to my second experience I was a lot more aware of what was going on and tried more to move. The first time I was just scared haha.

[Serereids]

Well, in theory when you first exit there may be feedback, and chances are you are in the etheric, so the feedback may be such that you're trying to perceive with both your energy body and your physical body, causing this 'blindness' or confusion.
Once you get away, the feedback diminishes until you can 'regroup' with your focus completely out, and possibly shift-or phase out into the astral, which is a little more 'removed' from physical reality, or locality.
But when you get back, if you are still in the astral, you can occupy spatially the same 'location' that your body is in and not have the feedback problem- that is, until you downshift into the etheric, or completely phase back into your body, so that there is less confusion than initially.
But of course, this is only theoretic, we don't really know why.

[Uplillacype]

I see, so when you first leave your body you're etheric, and from there you can either stay in the physical world or phase into the astral plane? What if I'm not ready to leave the physical world while I'm first experiencing with obe? Is this a hard task to accomplish for a first-timer like myself?

Also, on both occasions after returning to my physical self lying in bed, I'd keep laying there and try to induce another obe. I'd come really close with intense vibrations and then they would just go away. This happened both instances. Is there a good method to kind of egg on these vibrations to keep them intense until I get thrown out again?

[Serereids]

I see, so when you first leave your body you're etheric, and from there you can either stay in the physical world or phase into the astral plane? What if I'm not ready to leave the physical world while I'm first experiencing with obe? Is this a hard task to accomplish for a first-timer like myself?

It's not easy to begin with- but let me tell you the caveat with this:
You OBE every night when you sleep. You usually just sleep through the exit, so whatever you experienced, if remembered, it's as a dream. The hard part is to stay up for the exit, which is usually a bit traumatic the first time you do it consciously. So there's no hard and fast rule about it- Chances are if you can exit it's to the etheric, and from there it depends on what kind of energy body development or mental development you have, and those things decide what you do once you're out.

Also, on both occasions after returning to my physical self lying in bed, I'd keep laying there and try to induce another obe. I'd come really close with intense vibrations and then they would just go away. This happened both instances. Is there a good method to kind of egg on these vibrations to keep them intense until I get thrown out again? Well, I just say forget about the vibrations, they are only a side effect of transition. The vibes you are feeling are just reentry sensations, so just go back to trance and start all over. It is doable (I have had multiple projections) but it takes a lot of energy out of you- so if you want to have multiple projections, practice energy work.

[Uplillacype]

Thank you so much for the responses I'll keep this thread updated when I continue to have more obe's and experiment with them.