OOBE - Can't get off the ground

During my metitation, Near the climax I hear a loud rustle along and inside my ears, my body tingles, and I am able to see through my eyelids. This is something I did as a child but could not make sense of it. When I was a child I was able to float over my bed, but now, as soon as I start to move, I whip back down to my bed and lose everything I was working for.


Any suggestions?

Alot of people have that problem for awhile. You have made it much closer than many ever do. Just keep trying and you will get out.

Originally posted by shaimaison
During my metitation, Near the climax I hear a loud rustle along and inside my ears, my body tingles, and I am able to see through my eyelids. This is something I did as a child but could not make sense of it. When I was a child I was able to float over my bed, but now, as soon as I start to move, I whip back down to my bed and lose everything I was working for.


Any suggestions?

Get used to the idea of gaining higher altitude by using a program like Google Earth. Most people never get much of a high-altitude perspective on things, but Google Earth will allow you to see your neighborhood at an altitude where you can still recognize it. You have to get used to using your imagination that way. If you can't imagine what your neighborhood looks like from 1000 feet up or something, it's hard to take off.

Get used to the idea of gaining higher altitude by using a program like Google Earth. Most people never get much of a high-altitude perspective on things, but Google Earth will allow you to see your neighborhood at an altitude where you can still recognize it. You have to get used to using your imagination that way. If you can't imagine what your neighborhood looks like from 1000 feet up or something, it's hard to take off.

This suggestion is brilliant . I have used google's program a few times and wondered if this is how people who Astral project must view things as they move around OOB.

EnKidu has come up with a simple but effective use for this program.

Great Idea....Solid thinking.

Parker

So far I have found that visualisation has nothing much to do with OOBE, but that could just be me alone I dunno......

I was OFTEN at the same place you are at, and this would excite me like 'OH YEY MAYBE I CAN DO THIS AGAIN'............ and then BLAM it was over like that. I have learned that any decent emotional rush can stop the OOBE process. You can't want it to badly, or get to excited, this stops it......try remaining as calm and nueteral as you can. Have the attitude of hmmmm if this wants to happen let it, if not oh well.....the less emotion you have about the process can facilitate the process....
Sometimes when I first got out I was so pumped and this would send me immediatley back to my body, and I could not get the process started again and I would get frusterated. The frusteration ALSO can keep it away.....
I have learned ANY strong reactions send it away....

..You need to remain as calm and nueteral as possible, and then the ability comes to you. Once out you can explore and move around......go whereever you want to so some say....lol I seem to be directionally challanged and go where the wind takes me.....I fly through space alot, and it looks so much like Star Wars's warp drive. Exciting at first but that gets old and I would like to float around more locally....

Seeing through your eyelids is KEY....your partway out....just relax relax and do not worry, or put to many hopes on it, or get to excited and it happens easily.


Please pardon my horrid typing and spelling I am dyslexic...




[edit on 30-3-2006 by theRiverGoddess]

what do you mean by seeing through your eyelids?

Originally posted by Stol Xodar
what do you mean by seeing through your eyelids?

My eyelids are closed but I'm able to see the room around me.
This happened to me during stressful or pushing moments in my life previously. At first I thought I was in a dream state, or it was a hallucination.

But since then I had one occurence when my girlfriend walked into the room, and I could see her legs where she was standing. The top of her body was transparent, but when I opened my eyes she was in the same position of where her legs were.

You're already there. Just say to yourself, when you find yourself in that position, "up, up", or "I want to leave my body". Technically you've had the experience but you are just lying there inside your body. Try to get up using your mind.

Don't try to force it, just let it happen.
Sometimes if you try too hard you will get the reverse effect.
Keep at it, practice really does make perfect.