even in a basically anonymous forumn, I can't believe I'd let this known about *me*... however I am a tad interested in this subject because of OOB
experiences I had as a child.
I did not consciously try to astroproject, nor did I by definition...wasn't out zooming about on some other plane relishing the stars with any
"rushing wind" sounds...though I did perceive the physical world around me just as I would with physical eyes and ears...
OK, here we go...what I would do was gently effortlessly leave my body quite often when very relaxed at night in bed. I was completely mentally
conscious and not dreaming, however I was definately seperated from my body....sometimes while not reluctantly, still not by my own will either it
seemed...
Anyway, I could move with ease around my home and did. I could spy on people too-lol. I don't know why...but I never went too far...never left my
house and when I did seem to go too far, I was usually quickly pulled back into my physical body. Very quickly. This once happened when I was being
physically "awoken" from my "sleep" I was almost instantaneously pulled back into my body and was momentarily physically paralyzed-like my body
had not caught up with the fact I had re-entered it...
... and another time when I had bobbed and floated my way down the hall past my sister's room and found her in the livingroom, and I attempted to
reach out and touch her while was lay sleeping on the livingroom floor-well I was immediately yanked back into my body.
The force was so quick it was like an extremely strong vacuum-LOL-when I re-entered my body my arms (to touch my sister) were immediately
simultaneously outstretched as I laid there in my body again in bed.
NO paralysis that time! I then physically got out of bed and walked physically down the hall to wake her, tell her to go to bed and to ask her why she
was sleeping on the floor in there anyway...
but she was not there...hmmm....I thought...I KNOW it wasn't a dream...dreams of "flying" etc were much different than reality of being out of
body...but I was left scratching my head until as I turned to go back down the hall past my sister's room again she called out to me quietly asking
me what I was doing up/doing going to the livingroom etc...
I said I was looking for her-that I thought she was in the livingroom...
she asked why I had thought she'd be in the livingroom in the middle of the night?
I lied and claimed I didn't know...was just tired I guess and not thinking straight...
she laughed and told me to go back to bed...
next morning she asked me again..."Do you remember looking for me last night?" I said I clearly did, and she asked "What made you think I was in
the livingroom, you walked right past my bedroom without even checking?"
Again, I lied and said I didn't know...
she said, did you feel like someone was in the livingroom maybe? Did you kind of just "sense" someone there do you think?"
I said, I don't know...maybe..knowing it wasn't the acurrate truth but wondering where she was going...
She said "Because I WAS in the livingroom, just seconds before you came walking past my room.... I had been laying on the livignroom floor listening
to the stereo (we had a big console stereo) quietly...but all of a sudden I felt a presence in the room...
I couldn't see anyone, but I definately felt a presence in the livingroom with me...and it felt like it was coming closer to me, like it was going to
touch me-it freaked me out so I quickly ran to my bedroom and got into bed with covers! Then not a minute later I saw you walking past my door to go
to the livingroom and I wondered why?!
it kind of freaked me out-even though I saw it was you-I wondered why you were going towards the livingroom and wondered if I should call to you, stop
you, even warn you....that there was some presence there...I know I sound crazy, but I swear I felt *something* in the livigroom and it was a live
presence...
I said..."Well, I don't think you're crazy at all."
"Then you felt something to when you went in there? "
And I said "um....no...but I still don't think you're crazy at all."
LOL
Anyway, as time went on I did want to learn to control the act of leaving my boady and re-entering it etc...but when I attempted to speak of the
subject with those who seemed enlightened on such I was discouraged from it entirely. They told me it was very real to do so, and OOB and
astroprojecting could be learned to be highly mastered and controled, however...
BIG HOWEVER HERE... leaving your body void of it's spirit leaves it open prey for other spiritual entities which wil never be born of a physical
form, and are envious, and in search of forms they may habitate... as well as, some who have gone before in physical from, and are now living without
physical form and seek the life of flesh...
as well as other physical/spiritual entities that likewise mastered OOB so as to project themselves into unprotected unsuspecting bodies...
A dead body is of no use...but a live, unprotected body void of a spirit was exactly what they seek-all of the described above...
Anyway, I didn't want to go OOB...to find I couldn't return because my bod was otherwise now occupied!! LOL
So...be careful folks...