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This experience occurred at the moment I awoke from a lucid dream...
I was a young child, I think about 4 or 5 years old...
Hello, my name is Heather and I am from Southern New Jersey...
I usually know 3 to 4 hours before I will have a forced OBE...
I was lying down unable rest due to a stressful event at work...
I have always slept on my back and have had countless bouts of sleep paralysis as a child but never any OBE's...
I grew up in Connecticut...
My out of body experience (OBE) occurred in 1998...
After reading about out of body experiences, they seemed to be what I had experienced as a child...
I laid down to take a nap and I remember waking up but could not move my body...
I was physically exhausted...
It has happened a few times, but the most memorable is as follows: I was lying in bed, asleep, and I felt myself rise out of bed...
