Have you ever had an out of body experience? What was it like? What method did you use to achive it?

Question

I have been reading about different methods including the robert monroe method.

Answer 1

I use meditation and am to float out of my body. There are a number of DVD's with chants or drumbeats that are an excellent background for this type of meditaion. There is also guided imagery that will work.

Answer 2

I used to have them but I never learned a way to experience them on command. They would usually happen during times of stress. I would have insomnia and lay awake all night and then towards morning I would go into a state that was either a lucid dream or an OBE. After I read Monroe's book I tried some of his ideas for navigating once in the state and had some success. But achieving the state was a matter of chance.

As for what it was like, I remember that I could move through walls and fly high over the landscape. I had an awareness of what was happening which is like a lucid dream. Afterwords I would sometimes remember that the rooms in my house were not arranged correctly which suggests that the experience was more dreamlike than real. Unlike Monroe I never was able to "visit" someone I knew.

I had enough experiences before reading his book to satisfy myself that they were not the result of suggestion.

After I changed to a less stressful line of work my experiences tailed off and I haven't had one for years. I sort of miss not having them but I don't miss the stress that seemed to be their trigger!

Answer 3

I was actually fighting in Iraq and was so tired but still having to run anyway. At one point where i knew i could no more, i actually felt like i was out of my body watching me run.

Answer 4

I have. It was very unsettling for me. Why? Because I came very close to death.

It's not an experience I care to repeat.

Answer 5

yes i have

Answer 6

And how did you feel about that?