Have you ever had an out of body experience?

Question

I fell asleep few days ago on my couch and woke up pressed up against the ceiling. I gasped, pushed myself away and felt like I was falling, and sat straight up wide awake. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Is it a reallly vivid dream, or a genuine occurance?

Answer 1

I have 10 years of experience in biotherapy and psychosomatic diseases and I can tell you this is real.
But here is what you have to know: this may also happen
when a part of you is in trouble and needs help. This may
be an organ, or a part of your consciousness is trapped somewhere and cannot fight to escape or is"down". You
better check out the bad part to ensure everything is fine.
You need the help of a good therapist, someone who can "see" inside you and who can also help you lift back your fallen "bodies" and wedge them up. After that you will be able to find out more accurate what does this "out of body " means to you. The therapist may need to know if you felt depressed of something, if you need more comfort and more money though you might not have realised that, maybe you live under your natural level - check this out, it's a frecquent cause of hidden depressions and of bad "out of body" experiences. Or something might have SCARED you in other plan of existence( maybe somebody close is doing wrong to you or has a problem and needs help or is TOO close) so that one of your shocked bodies was blown away from you. Check out what body was that, what caused it's getting out. Ensure yourself you're in control over the bad part( or that there is no bad part God make it be so). The good part is to be found out also with the aid of a good therapist.
If you would like to send a message to my address [e-mail] I'll be very glad to know about
what you found out it was. And maybe I can be of little help.

Answer 2

While your question (and my answer) will tend to drive the militant atheists crazy, I must say I think it was a quite genuine experience. I had a couple like that especially while either falling asleep or just on the point of waking. It tends to be spooky when you don't know what is happening.

Later in life I have had several experiences of actually leaving the body under more awake and controlled conditions. You tend to see and hear things much more clearly (especially colors) as well as often having the experience of observing from a slightly different location than where your eyes or actual physical body are at the moment.

Many people on the point of death have reported the exact same phenomena of leaving the body briefly.

It is absolutely nothing to be alarmed about at all and in fact it is just more evidence that you are a spiritual being, a life entity, and NOT a meat body or brain.

Answer 3

Maybe you were still or half asleep and just had a sense of vertigo before fully waking. In your sleep-glazed state, your mind may have made you believe it to be an outter body experience.

Sometimes I think I'm awake after my alarm goes off when actually, I've fallen asleep again and am just sort of... you know... dreaming that I had woken up. Sometimes it's hard to find a distinctive line between dreams and reality.

But that's just what I would assume, I dont really believe in those out-of-body things.

Answer 4

It's going to sound strange but the first time I had sex I did. I remember being totally lost in the feeling and overwhelmed by the sensations then I remember feeling like I was floating and when I opened my eyes I could see him on top of me from like an overhead view. I was looking down at his back with me underneath him. And for the smart-asses out there......There was no mirror on the ceiling. There wasn't a ceiling at all....we were outside and I was completely conscious.

Answer 5

The OBE may or may not be followed by other experiences which are self-reported as being "as real" as the OBE feeling; alternatively, the subject may fade into a state self-reported as dreaming, or they may wake completely. The OBE is sometimes ended due to a fearful feeling of getting "too far away" from the body. Many end with a feeling of suddenly "popping" or "snapping" back into their bodies.

"I was lying in bed and I felt myself rising. This freaked me out, so I slammed back into my body."
"As soon as I noticed myself still lying on the couch I was instantly shot back in my body."
"I reached the floor and touched my bed in a sitting position. I whooshed back into my body."
"I realized that I was floating and became very frightened. In that instant of revelation I felt a sense of great speed and an impact as though I had smashed into a brick wall. I 'woke up' crumpled up at the bottom of my bed in the hotel."
"I was pulled violently back into my body and I jerked."
"I can remember walking home from junior school with my friend, and then, I saw myself in the distance walking and talking to her."
"The next thing I knew, I looked straight out in the woods, and I had an OBE. I saw the lights from the back porch, I was about 100–150 feet away from the house looking at me and my friend."
"The doctors did not use any anesthetic at the time because I was too young [two years old]. When they cut me open, I felt severe and intense pain and I left my body because it was too much for me to bear."
Some subjects experience spiritual epiphanies; others experience a general feeling of peacefulness and love; still others experience fearfulness and anxiety. Finally, some experience only the OBE itself, with no direct spiritual experience.

A majority describe the end of the experience as "then I woke up". It's worth noting that even (perhaps especially) those who describe the experience as something fantastic that occurs during sleep, and who describe the end of the experience by saying "and then I woke up", are very specific in describing the experience as one which was clearly not a dream; many described their sense of feeling more awake than they felt when they were normally awake. One compared the experience to that of lucid dreaming, but said that it was "more real".

Answer 6

It's a genuine occurance and yes, I've had them. OBE travel is more common than you think. There's lots of good books out on how to consciously do so. Check your local library.

Answer 7

I had a friend Dennis who definitely believed in out of body experiences. He said he did it all the time. I asked him once, "Did you visit me while I was sleeping? Was I drooling?" I asked only in half-jest. That stuff kind of creeps me out.
Anyway, he died on 1/24/00 in his sleep "of natural causes." His girlfriend called me to tell me, and she "explained" that he left his body in one of those out of body experiences and just didn't come back. Later I found out from his mom that he had a congenital heart defect no one knew about, not even him, and it stopped his heart. But sometimes I like to think he actually did what his girlfriend said.

Answer 8

More likely than not it was a very real like dream . Or in a half sleep you could have been on the floor face down . afterwards climbing back into bed to awaken utterly amazed .

Answer 9

Yes I have. I was swimming nude in a warm pond in the dark and looking at the clouds with sheet lightening going from cloud to cloud. Suddenly I was up inside the clouds and had left my body behind. I was wide awake and sober. So it happens.

Answer 10

once, even as camping out, I dreamed I stepped out of the tent and walked to the creek to take a swim. when I awakened, my top thighs and my dozing back were all moist. Does this qualify?