[iqxdvjgmat]

Well I guess I will post this here. While I myself have never have a conscious OBE; though I have been very close I believe I had one once when I almost drown when I was 10. I didn't think a thing of it till the other day when someone brought it up to me. Here is how the story goes...When I was about 10 years old me and my family were at a hotel for a banquet for my fathers office, and we had just eaten dinner and were lounging around the pool. My mom had taken me back to my room and let me change into some trunks so I could swim, though I was just going to chill in the shallow end because at the time I couldn’t swim very well. Well I somehow end up falling off the drop off into the deep end and I remember going down. I remember struggling trying to get out but I couldn’t. All I could do was reach for the top of the water...around this time is when my life began to flash before my eyes and I realized I would never see my friends or family again...and that this was it. Around then is when I gulped in my first breath of water...that’s when it happened: It was like I was watching myself from above the water in 3rd person, and I seen my dad running over and grab my hand and pull me out of the water. I remember watching as they pushed on my chest to get the water out of my lungs, and that is when I "came back to life" and I remember being back in my own body coughing up water. I remember telling my parents about it, but they still to this day don't believe me...I believe that this is why im so interested and a believer in OBE's.

EDIT: Also if anyone else has had any near death induced OBE's, it would be cool if they posted it here too

[parishilton]

eThanks for the link.I have never done the "forum" thing and didn't know where to post. I noticed you used the word"watching". Were you out of your body then? Did you feel that you were stillin this dimension? I wasn't in this reality. I was in spirit form. Everybody was made up of light.When they would do a good deed or have a good thought, their light would get brighter.The opposite was true if it was of a negative nature.Do you remeber being around any spirits or beings of light?

[iqxdvjgmat]

Hey no problem . If you have any question of where to post, under each forum is a descriptive heading telling you where to post. If you accidently post somewhere wrong, its no biggie. The mods here are great. --- Well yes I believe I was out of my body then, and I guess I still felt like I was in this dimension because I still seen all the living and even my body as they pulled me from the water. I guess I was just in astral form...and not nearly as far gone as you were (I guess I was just unconcious). Your experience sounds like it was great, yet it sounds like it could be horrifying knowing you have died...was it? Nope, I really don't remember any spirits or beings of light...they could have been there but I didn't take my eyes off my body after I seen it and the experience didn't last very long. Once they got most of the water out of my lungs I went back into my body.

[parishilton]

Hello again. No it was NOT horrifying to know that I died. I was confused and embarrassed.You gotta realize I was a kid back in high school. At the time I didn't realize exactly what had happened.I was afraid to tell anybody about it cuz I thought they'd think I was f...... nuts.It was in 1990 when I got clean and sober when it kept surfacing in my mind.The instant that thought hit my mind, I was so matter-of-factly it was strange. Like it was no big deal. What was hard was having to come back. It had nothing to do with leaving family and friends. It was like that place was my REAL home and reality and that this time on Earth was sort of a testing ground.I loved it in when I was dead.Love down here is mostly a feeling but where I was at, it was so strong it was like a physical thing. I NEVER felt so loved and contented in my whole life.