How come everyone talks about maybe achieving an Obe or making themselves have one and be able to control it. I've followed the guides that people have posted yet to no avail have I had an OBE and it is frustrating as hell, not even a sign that I was going to have one.

So if someone who has really had one could help me out it would be appreciated greatly.

Here are some of the things I did to achieve an OBE, although it's different for everyone maybe it will help. I had a very difficult time Astral projecting also and just recently achieved it. So by no means am I an expert on this.

The first thing you have to do is shut down your body. The way I use to achieve this is by breathing and relaxing myself with each breath I take. As I'm breathing I tell myself to relax but I don't try to force it to happen. Ofcourse you don't want noise or anything else distracting around. The way I can tell if my body is relaxed enough is by feeling somewhat cold and numb. It also almost feels as if I can't move. ( You will want to wear comfortable warm clothes or a blanket.) I also find it easier to achieve this state if I'm laying down. At first it may take a while to be able to get this far, but the more you practice the less time it takes.

Don't try to force it, I have noticed if I try to hard it won't happen. Just go with it. Some people use visualization to pull themselves out of their body, I can't do it this way. Instead, I try to keep all thoughts out of my mind except the thought of achieving an OBE. When other thoughts cross my mind, I simply let them go by and I don't get frustrated about it. After a while I feel vibrations running throughout my whole body, this is the time where I try to lift myself. If you get to this state you will notice it feels like something is pulling you up. Just go with it. Try not to get too excited because it can prevent you from lifting yourself out, or
make you go back in your body if you started to go out.

This is the method I use, I have tried other ways that I have read about without success. I think the best way for you to also achieve an OBE is by experimenting with different ways you'll eventually figure it out. Also, if you have doubts about it working or being real before or while your doing it, it probably won't happen so keep negative thoughts out.

what does OBE stand for

unfortunatly, OBEs are most likely lucid dreams. i was intrigued by OBEs for a while, but it seems very likely that they are indeed lucid dreams

OBE stands for out of body experience, have you ever compared lucid dreaming to the facts of OBE's they are not the same, it doesn't seem like you get the whole freedom and most everybody has lucid dreams, I don't quite think that they are the same.

I have to agree with Devilwolf, Astral projection is different from Lucid dreaming. I have dreamt lucidly quite a few times before. Just recently I had an OBE.. there is definitely a difference.

Lucid dreams I mostly cannot control (except once), and I can control an OBE

Wait - I'm sorry - I've never heard the expression OBES. I know what it stands for and what it means (I think) but can someone give me some examples of what they are or some expieriences they've been through?

I've had some insain Out of Body experiances, or so i believed them to be Astral Projection, but now that i've read much on the internet about these i don't believe that the experiances i have had are such.
What i've experianced seems so much biger i could see and touch to what i have come to believe the entire universe in a box. or touch the essance of IS (GOD) insain abouts of knowlege and understanding and wisdom flooded threw me beyond comprehension the point i believed i was experianceing death. can anyone explain what i have experianced/? or has had similar experiances?
I'll write a little more in depth of what happend

I was meditating on the beach the first time my soal left my body when it did at first i noticed that i could see myself sitting on the beach with my journal and i was huvering above my body next all i remember is leaving this world and relm as we know it. I was a ball of mass that could see, touch, feel, hear, taste, smell, and so much more that any physical since in all direction as far as the mind can fathem and father, as far is as east from west never actualy seemed as far as it actualy is once you experiance it. Insainity, Astranomical is so huge no human word not even the human mind can understan it. I've experianced infinite and i don't even think i have but i've at least touched a peace of it and i still can't fathem it in my consious mind at hand. i had obtained all of knowlege understanding and knowing of all that exists all that doesn't exist all that is and all the isn't. i had touched the eternal IS. THeirs no word to describe it becuase it's outside of what we can fathem to exist. i was a flood of knowlege and understanding of the essance of existance that was almost to much. to the point wear i believed very powerfully that i had died and what i was experiance ing was death not thinking i would ever return to reality and not wanting to. But i had no desires no cares no worries it was as if nothing mattered. in any since of any being it was as it was. and i was the essance of being content in every posible way.

This affected the rest of my entire life that was 4 months ago. After it happend with in a two week time i got rid of my car, quit my job, got a friend to move into my room in my dueplex bought a plan ticket to florda and gave away. practicly all that i owned and flew to Florida i have been hitchicking on the the road across the contry ever since liveing only out of a bookbag. in the woods, under bridges in peoples homes that i meet along the way im' in san fransisco now and life has become amazing in every posible way. i live every moment sec by second not thinking to much about the past nor the furture i only feast my eyes on the present. and it's amazing how much life starts to work perfectly in every situation providing all i need and seting up meeting with the exact people that i need to meet at that exact moment. I am 20 years old.

I'm still blurry? What are lucid dreams? Why would someone want a obe or lucid dream? After receiving an obe, can anyone explain the steps your body goes through during an obe? What happens to you after an obe? When it says pulling you up, does that mean your floating like levitating? Can someone answer and explain all these questions because I'm really interested in it and I want to know as much as possible.

A lucid dream is simply the fact you know you are dreaming. So you can try to manipulate your dream. Most people wake up the moment they realise they are dreaming, however, i have had lucid dreams that last longtime when i was little.

OBE = Out of Body Experience
OBE's are more common then you would think. You go out of your body every night and
play in your dreams. Believe it or not... Its the trick to be consious during that out of body experience.
This is my trick :

I lay down for taking a nap or sleeping. I have to feel sleepy.
I lay down still and dont move too much. Be comfortable on my side with my arms stretched, like a dog would lay down
Then i let my body go "asleep" and i try to stay awake with my mind. Most of the times i fall asleep, but sometimes it works. Just wait and let my body go numb and it start to vibrate. Hearing will be in realtime hearing.
Then one moment i feel its the right time and i get up. Sometimes i fall out of bed. I am in my astral body, in the astral dimension.
Sometimes i am messy, and i cant see with my astral eyes. Then i just float around in my room, turning upside down and stuff, but it doesnt bother me, i just feel it. This is nasty.
The trick is to get used to the vibration of your body, and then get used to the splitting proces.
Remember : practice makes perfect...

Wow! Thanks for the advice. And how do you go back into your body? Just fall into it? And couldn't you do so much stuff? Like go into people's homes and scare them? Can someone die from this?

Ha the classic questions.
The moment you want to go back, you automaticly go back. Just think about going back, and it will happen. You just wake up in your body. Sometimes with a shock, it kinda depends on the person. Yes, just fall into it. Get sucked back in.
You can do whatever you like, If you have control over your body. Control takes practice !! When you think of a place, you go there. You can go thru walls. Fly high in the air. Scare people ? I dont know. Mostly, people cant see you. And you only see their astral form, remember. But to me, they appear the same as in the physical dimension.
Some friends of mine somehow managed to scare a girl for several times. I dont know how they did it, and i think its a bad thing. Sooner or later they will get trouble !!
You can never, ever die from this. Its natural thing, you do this every night. No matter what you hear or read, it can never harm you in any way.
You can only die if you die in your sleep, like someone murders you or you get a stroke or something. But that can happen any time..

Wow. Thanks for the information. Very interesting. I'm going to try it tonight. Hopefull it works. I'm going to follow everyones steps. Have you ever learned anything while astrial projection? (like things you've never seen before, or information youve never seen before?

There are reports of people doing this. One of them was done by Robert Monroe. People have been able to leave their bodies and read a number or see some object that thry couldn't normally see we're their physical body is lying, come back and give the correct answer.