posted on Jan, 8 2009 @ 10:49 PM
I was wondering if any of you had any thoughts about this "experience" I had many years ago. It always struck me as very strange, and I'm not
exactly sure what happened, but reading about the "vibration" feeling people get before an OBE, it makes me wonder. BTW, keep in mind that I didn't
even know about this "vibrational" state people are supposed to have before an OBE at the time of the experience. Anyway, here's the story:
In the dream I had figured out a way to levitate, basically. There was a certain state of mind (a sort of calm, happy, weightless feeling), and with
some concentration, I was levitating quite easily (in the dream, of course). It was really fun - I was floating freely around, and the feeling was
very exhilarating. But unlike previous flying dreams, in this dream it was as though I discovered the "secret" to levitation, rather than simply
levitating with no thought as to why or how.
Anyway, I woke up after the dream, and with the dream's image still fresh in my mind, I thought - what if I tried to levitate now? What if I really
did unlock some secret of the mind? So I tried, and the strangest thing happened. I got a very strange headache, almost a vibrational, noisy feeling,
that almost felt like my head was going to explode. The intensity and pain (sort of) of the headache was directly related to my degree of attempted
concentration. It was like I was blocked from concentrating at the level I did in my dream that achieved levitation - I felt like my brain would
explode if I concentrated harder (concentrate isn't the correct word - my imaginary ability to fly was effortless, as was my trying it after waking,
but I could only "engage" at a minute fraction of full "utilization" of the levitation technique without unbearable pain, or what I interpreted to
be pain).
That's it, basically. What do you think the headache really was? Maybe I just dreamed it all? Or maybe if I hadn't been scared to fully use the
technique I would have levitated in the form of an OBE? (I've never had an OBE btw)
Recently I've been trying to learn how to lucid dream, etc., and with increasing frequency I've been having times where I would somewhat
involuntarily enter states of this vibration/headache (which seems to be getting less painful each time btw), which from what I've read here is the
beginning of an OBE, which is why I remembered this old dream and thought I'd mention it here for your opinions/ideas.
[edit on 8-1-2009 by ac500]