i have never had an obe and this if the first time ive ever tryed to have one. i used a technique which i thought of myself in another area of my room and told myself i was going to have an obe before falling asleep. the feeling i had before i drifted to sleep can only be described, for a split second, as a wave floating in the ocean. i dont remember anything else until im about to wake up. this might sound crazy but i think something was talking, i dont know if it was my mind talking or something else. then i could feel myself breathing thru my nose, suddenly i felt panicked and woke up feeling disoriented, with a burning feeling in the back of my neck. i quickly got up and turned on the tv feeling shaky and scared, still with a burning feeling in the back of my neck and cold hands. i went upstairs to the washroom looked in the mirror and i felt dehydrated and it feels like im getting sick. i took 2 tylenols and went back downstairs to my room. the panik'd feeling lasted a good 20minutes and now im sitting here on my computer afraid of what will happen if i fall back asleep.

i dont think i had an obe or at least i have no memory of it. could i just be getting sick which caused the burning and disoriented feeling and dehydration, its very possible. but i still have the feeling right before i woke up as if i became conscious, felt my breathing, heard something, panicked and awoke.

not sure what to make of all this. but i dont think ill be attempting any obe's anymore

Yes I have also tried it last night for the first time, but unfortunately I was unsucsessfull.
I'm really curious about this lol ...

As I laid last night, doing stuff few sites have said to do, and I did hear a noise and tingly feeling.. But it was really fague. I got scared and woke up and didn't want 2 that again.
I want to know can u get stuck there or something?? Like if your body is out of you, is it possible if you can't come back?

And another thing lol may sound crazy, I dono but I want to know ... If you leave your body, you can actually say your spirit/soul leaves the body? I've heard recently about archangels and your personal angels and stuff, and I've heard if you do OBE you get some sort of a guide or someone/-thing... Is it your angel?
And another Q ( I ask alot), is it safe to do OBE when your house or the place your at is haunted or something? Like bad spirits or souls or ghosts or whatever lures around, can they do something to you and can you interact with them?

Lizzy out

I have been attempting for three months now with no luck. Oh well, never mind, but I think I know what you mean by the scared feeling. Lately my attempts have been providing quite a vast variety unexplainable effects. One of the most notable was going to the show (carnival) not so long ago and mysteriously passing out and waking up with that jolt that you get occasionally when you awaken in the morning. The paramedics came and took my blood pressure, asked questions, but in the end no one could come to a conclusion of what it was all about. I have had a feeling ever since it has had something to do with my attempts at astral projection, although I told no one, as my mother does not know, and probably wouldn't believe me or be shocked at what I am doing. Other effects include but are not limited to: Energy drained the next morning, including colour from the face, A sick "fear" feeling that happened the morning after once, sweating during an attempt even though freezing and shivering and the twitches while attempting.

I don't think it's possible to get stuck outside your body, there are people who've had hundreds of OBEs and Projections but are still here to tell the tale.

Don't do whatever you're not comfortable with, if you're not comfortable with OBEs then attempting them may not be the best thing for you. At least you can still say you attempted once rather than knew about them, was interested in them, wanted to try it but never gave it a shot.

Peace - and don't let ANYONE force you to do what you don't want to do.

sounds to me like you panicked and brought on a panic attack .

The voice you heard could've been your spiritual guide, it's only there to help you so no worries =] I tried to have one last night too...a rule of thumb is that before you leave your body, you should feel a vibration...it's reeeeally big...you feel your whole body shaking. Did you feel that last night?

i never started shaking until after i woke up

and i was sweating pretty good

i have a strange feeling more happened then i can remember.

needless to say the hole thing kinda freaked me out.

and after going back to bed and getting a good sleep i realize im not coming down with something or sick.

The secret to astral travel, is belief. If you dont fully believe that you will leave your body, you wont, its almost like a fool proof system, also as soon as you get one scared feeling, your hurtled back to your physical body, which makes sense, its a safety feature.

you can do some exercises to develop your chakras, even if you dont believe in chakras, they are there and when you astral project, its your astral body leaving your physical body, this astral body is the body that has the chakras on it, its like a system like the veins, but its with different forces and energies.

one exercise to develop your heart chakra, the most important chakra, is to clear all thoughts from your head, get it as silent as you can, and imagine you are on an emerald green field of grass, with a vivid pink sky, then imagine on the top of a hill is a temple, this temple is your heart. walk towards this temple and enter, is it clean? or it is dirty? imagine cleaning it up and in the middle of the temple, there is a flame, this flame is your heart, and it beats with your heart,is it big or small? imagine making the flame a roaring inferno of energy, 40 feet tall it roars to the sound of your heart.

Do this a few times a day or try doing it before you go to sleep to see if you get any results, personally astral projection came easy to me, but thats because i understand the true reason we are here(here come the skeptics) it takes hours and hours of reading but if you want to fully develop your chakras, which is actually where this Psi power you guys call it comes from, go to www.rickrichards.com this is probably the best site ive ever come across, it fully explains the chakras, the astral world, the seven plains of conciousness, where we go when we die,etc...

another thing about astral projection, you will feel a vibration,like thousands of pinpoint vibrations all over your body,its a weird sensation at first. All matter is just strings of energy vibrating, different vibrations results in different matter, and the astral worlds matter vibrates at higher frequencies, which is why we cant see it unless we concentrate really hard and unfocus our eyes, and as you ascend higher in these fields, the vibration gets higher and higher, the astral world is only the second plane.

Just imagine that everything we see is created by us, our mind, the mind is the gateway between planes and it creates the image of everything, when you try to astral project, dont THINK your going to astral project, YOU ARE going to astral project, thats the mindset you need, conquer your OWN world.

Happy Travelling

P.S. if you dont feel like travelling the astral world, or your scared, then before you go to bed, ask for a spritual guide, and it will protect you as you venture further.

Greetings, I have had a similar experience as you....an acquaintance pointed me in the direction of a book by Robert Bruce called Astral Dynamics , now I am not telling you to buy the book but on page 507 in the chapter of Astral Fears and Noises he speaks of a phenomenon called "The Dweller at the Threshold"

If you aren't familiar with Robert Bruce, he is a world renown APer who wrote many many books on astral projection, if you cannot get the book, google the subject on the dweller any that might point you in the right direction.

Good Luck

You have nothing to fear, you won't astral project if you don't want to. Just tell yourself you want to remain in your body!

That's no problem, just bung the English Government some money. You'll have an OBE before you know it.

Maybe it was just a bad dream, brought on by a fever? It's possible that you could be coming up with a cold, or influenza. Drink plenty of fluids, take some tylenol, and get plenty of rest and fresh air!

If you do want to have an OBE, read up on Ziggy Stardust's post on 'Astral Projection and My Technique' It's had a lot of replies for a reason If you read into it a few pages you'll find discussions on the fear factors and what can and can't happen to you when you AP. Good luck if you decide to try!

-C

Yeah, you're probably going to die now.

it sounds like you were getting started on the right path. What you described sounds a lot like the beginning of an OBE/AP. The burning feeling on the back of your neck, did you hear or feel any sort of sensation connected to that burning that may have reminded you of an insect?

also, to quote the matrix: It will feel weird at first...but you get used to it.

I've had a few successful OBEs...and I had to struggle with myself the first time when I started to get the buzzing sensations coming out of the base of my skull. I forced myself to keep going, told myself to stay calm...and the next thing I know, I was hovering over my body and going through the screen in my window.

quiet AC you gonna scare em. lol, anyways, naw, it sounds more like a panic attack if u ask me. Ive seen a lot as one of my friends has a medical condition that brings on seizures and panic attacks and thats wat this truely sounds like. I do not doubt that you were starting to AP or something, but the stress brought on a panic attack for sure

I see you are a ray of sunshine and have a natural way of putting people at ease......

lol, that's assuming we are really alive in the first place

Why do you doubt you are?

no, i was just making a small point.

You had me worried there for a bit

while in an obes state does time still count. Like if you stay like that for a long time, do you see sunrise? What if you go too far?

There is a member on this Site (not me) who did have an experience whereby time seemed to stop whilst he was having an OOBE. Time is probably totally different, if it exists at all, on the astral plane.

What do you mean "go too far"? Do you mean like travel a long way away or something else?