I have some questions regarding OOBE's, Past Lives, and Astral Projection

I've been experiencing oobe's with growing frequency over the past 8 or so years, and I'm at a point now where I wind up having an oobe once or twice a week. I relate the increased frequency to having a cramp in the calf - it's random at first, but you can keep getting the calf to cramp up if you're not careful afterwards by just slightly flexing the right muscle in the wrong way. Not to say I look at oobe's like a cramp - in a negative light - it's quite the opposite. It just seems that I'm able to do it quite easily of late. Also I have had glimpses of what may be past lives during the period that occurs just prior to sleep. I often see faces that my mind tells me are my own, but are not in any way physically resembling my face. Sometimes I'll see the face and it will become a full person, and the person will begin doing things. At about this point I snap back into full consciousness because I realize what's happening and it excites my curiosity. I don't know if this is just the beginning of a dream or part of hypnogogic sleep or not. In terms of astral projection, I'm not sure if you would relate it exactly to having an oobe, but for me it's more like a lucid dream - a very intense lucid dream where I can fly through walls, and through the universe itself. I do this with some frequency, but not as much as what I consider oobe's.
Ok that having been said my questions are these. When I feel myself going into an oobe I typically feel a being laying beside me on my bed. They usually gently touch my legs and my arms and sort of gingerly help pull me out of my body. Only once have I ever seen this being. I was actually staying in the guest bedroom at a friends house the night before a backpacking trip, and I was in a state where I wasn't fully conscious, but wasn't asleep either, and I just sort of "melted" out of my body, which is not the way it usually happens. I slid out to the side and I was very heavy, I slid along the floor of the room trying to right myself and I was finally able to. When I was trying to move around I was very clumsy, kind of like my whole body was asleep or unresponsive. I tried to talk but could only mumble. After what seemed like a long time, but probably only a few seconds, I went back into my body and woke up. I looked at the foot of the bed and saw a glowing figure. It was a man with blonde hair and he was talking to me. I saw his lips moving but I couldn't hear what he was saying and I was frustrated because I wanted him to speak louder. I saw the apparition for about 15 solid seconds, and I was fully awake, then it just dissipated and I eventually went back to sleep feeling very peaceful.
Occasionally though, especially recently, the being hasn't always been gentle, and hasn't always seemed benign. For instance a couple of weeks ago when I was just starting to go oob, I felt the familiar touches on my legs, but then the touches moved to my stomach and began to push violently, and it was very uncomfortable. When I woke up I felt something in the room that wasn't altogether comforting.I was wondering if anyone who has had oobe's has ever had any similar effect as this, and if so, what they think may be the reason.
Also during a lot of my oobe's I can't see much going on, usually I see the outlines of my room and then I go through the roof of the house and out into the stars, but shortly after my acension will stop and then I begin a VERY rapid descent back into my body, and the oobe is over. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to prolong these oobe's and also how to increase the ability to see while having an oobe. So far my favorite experiences have been lucid dreaming where I have had my astral travels.
Along the lines of past lives and astral projection. I was wondering if anyone had anything like a hypnosis or meditation track that I could download that would help to achieve awareness of past lives, or aid in becoming lucid during a dream? Please post or u2u me any interesting info u have.

very interesting post which sounds similar to my own( p82 conscious oobe thread) ,i also couldnt hear sound but could see a glowing white 'being' smiling at me,funny you mention cramp in your calf aswell,only this week i had cramp there.

Do you remember at all what the being looked like? I am fairly certain I have seen the being I witnessed that night before the event happened, and a couple of times since. I do a visualization technique fairly often where I stare at my eyes in a backlit window or something similar at night and consciously turn my face into another different face - if this makes any sense. It is pretty interesting when it actually works, and I've turned into a number of people over the years, sometimes even female and I am male. During this activity I believe I have seen the same face as I saw that night. I was wondering if perhaps this may be a representation of my true self or perhaps a spirit guide or guardian angel if you want to call it that? Or perhaps just an extension of a dream where I was having a night terror type of incident only it wasnt 'terrifying' (I've had three night terrors that were truly terrifying).

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i began having OBE's out of the blue but wanted to contact my recently past on cat,we are so close we didnt even need to say anything to each other,he got taken from me on a road near where i live and i just didnt want to wake up just wanted to be with him,when it happend 1st time i was completely aware of myself and felt myself floating upwards,the atmosphere was like space but in front of me i could see 5 or 6 big yellow slits/rips in the atmosphere,didnt really know what to make of them apart from maybe portals or ways to get to different plains,about 5 minutes later it was like i was on a rollercoaser violently jerking back and forth ,even thugh i wanted to stay longer i couldnt because my physical body felt sick from the vertigo so i felt a thud and come back into earth time,my breathing was very bad,rapid heart beats,very hot and exhausted a few days later knowing how to feel yourself slipping away in your physical body i tried again to go...

same as above atmosphere of space but no slits of yellow,after about 1 minute a 'white being' is the best i can describe it stood right in front of me i could only see its head and upper body and the only noticeable feature were its eyes and smiling mouth,i couldnt hear no sound yet it seemed to say something to me,i wasnt scared and had a feeling it was not hear to do me harm,lasted about 10 minutes of it just stood in front of me,then when it was time to go same as before come back very violently and hard struggling to breathe at some points,it seems to me i got very deep into it at points where the body i left behind was struggling so it pulled me back into it even though i didnt want to come back,felt exhausted for about a week and a half after it,but it seems i got something for my trying...i feel my friend whenever i need him,i hear him at times ,i can smell him,just yesterday after seing outlines of him weeks ago i saw out the corner of my eye him prance past me and go upstairs,hear him breathing sometimes near me,i belive 1 or 2 things are coicedence not 20 or 30,the only other thing that startled me was a shadow person when i woke up recently,i was at the foot of my bed and it seemed shocked that i saw it and evaporated quickly.

Hey I've been experiencing sleep paralysis,and because I know it,I could control it whenever it strikes and seize the opportunity to astral project.I know it is as I could hear as if I'm in a wind tunnel and its very noisy.problem is,I could lift my upper body but as I soon as I sit and try to move around,i get sucked back in.this really frustrates me.anyone could give some advice?

Saltcube.com has some really good tips, and a forum with advice.

If you want to, they have a DVD you can download (it costs $), but it is well worth it. You can also preview it on youtube by typing Saltcube.

Of all the things I have tried, Saltcube, and my recent involvement in Eckankar have helped me the most. I was never able to have an OBE prior to these, and they are now happening with increased frequency.

If you would like to talk further, I can be reached by email jsmykal at cosmisco dot com. I would be glad to discuss, and offer tips on how I started the process, and how I have had success. It's trial/error, with a little bit of help, and you will be successful in OBE'ing.

hi Tickre32,it seems like if you sit and try to do it,you can get vertigo as if your gonna fall off your chair so your body pulls you out of it before you have a accident,try lying on your back and if i could give any tip it would be dont be scared when you feel your body 'slipping away' from you ,just go with it and see where it takes you.i had a OOBE the other day where i was lay on my stomach and managed to see myself lay on my stomach,i was just hovering above myself about 5 feet in the air,truly amazing feelings you get when your there or when you just come back.

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That used to happen to me all the time, and still does sometimes. I think it's just a result of being too excited about being able to get out. Now I try to control the excitement and maintain the same state of mind im in when I start to project. It seems to help a bit, but I'm still having trouble staying out for too long or going too far. I'm looking into building a sensory deprivation float tank, if it works out and I get the thing put together I'll let ya know how or if that helps any with achieving longer OOBE's.