Has anyone here experienced OBE (out of body experience)? Or astral projection?

[patrick t. cakes]

6. O.B.E. out of body experience

I've yet to experience astral projection, but believe I was close to an O.B.E. I'm learning about this, so forgive me if I can't answer to much; I don't know much yet.

It seems, astral projection occurs after separation, when your energy being separates from your physical being and you are able to experience higher levels of consciousness. It can be blissful or frightening depending on your state of mind, and your supposed to be able to conjure entire worlds of vibrant color, fantasy etc...

My event happened while napping on the couch. I was experiencing sleep paralysis (a state of sleep where you're body becomes paralyzed so you don't physically act out your dreams), and trying to shake myself awake from it. It can be uncomfortable though over the years I've grown accustomed to it and a bit of rocking will wake me.

This time something happened that I've never experienced. I noticed I could see "dream" hands and forearms protruding from my chest trying to rock my physical body awake. They were virtually transparent and had faint light trails coming off them. I could control them and tried to reach across the room to another couch, where a "light dwarf" was standing. It was bathed in bright gold/white hair and beard and red/orange cloak. It looked more a painting than humanoid. I don't remember being fearful at this point, just frustrated that I couldn't shake free.

At this point, my voice, or feeling more accurately, said: "if you can't wake up, go the other way", and a violent, vibrating, splitting sensation ripped through my mind with loud plastic like ripping filling and visual my minds eye. This was quite startling, frightening actually and once this began happening i snapped back and shook awake.

I'd never experienced this before, and it has had, I think, a profound affect on me. My "symptoms", I have found, have been experienced by many people in relatively the same manner, except many people make it through the violent vibrations to the astral plane, where from what I've read, wild adventures and fantasies are acted out.

I'm learning but I hope this explains a little more.

Peace