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The biggest surprise to me about my OBE was that I could still see and think. I remember thinking that!! I got such a shock when I saw my body...I thought I must've died. I just kind of floated there ...
Well first there was complete darkness and all was very silent. The darkness seemed to fade away and things got brighter and brighter as if I was looking through a black cloud that blurred and hazed m...
I sat on the couch in the living room in my home, cradling my sleeping, infant son in my arms. It had been a long day because my son was not yet on a sleeping schedule so I was tired as well. The TV w...
(2000) I was teaching and had my planning period during 2nd hour. I smoked then so went to my car to have a cigarette as usual. I sat behind the wheel smoking while I looked up into the mirror to chec...
I had two distinct OBE's, both occurred spontaneously while I was dancing. The first time I was a teenager, the second time I was about 40 years old. As a teenager I often used to put on my favorite m...
This experience went on for a number of my early years and eventually stopped in or about fifth grade or so. I never mentioned this to anyone at the time. Years later, in my forties or so I mentioned ...
I went to bed as usual. I had a bath before I went to bed. I don't know when I got up but I realized that I was not in my bedroom but I was in my study and thought that I had gone there to just to stu...
When I was 12 years of age I was playing in the street in my neighborhood when I ran across the street without looking. I was struck by a car at was traveling at a high speed. My recollection of the a...
It was a beautiful spring day, early afternoon, in San Francisco. I was walking to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park with a friend. We were walking and talking, side by side, along the shoul...
I was a 10 year old child. I had an angioneurotic edema. My grandmother was keeping a vigil on me because I was thought to be in a critical state. I was no doubt critical at one point: my eyes were cl...
I was approximately 7 months pregnant. I was home alone (as always). I did not know where my husband was. We were getting divorced after the birth of our child so he was with a girlfriend more than li...
I became interested in astral travel in my teens and always wished to try it but, try as I might, I could never purposely induce this state. There have been very lucid dreams but, nothing I could ever...