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WHEN I GET READY TO GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT IT TAKES ME HOURS TO FALL ASLEEP BUT WHEN I GET THIS (OBE) I FALL ASLEEP RIGHT AWAY I CAN SEE MT SELF WATCHING ME AND MY HUSBAND SLEEPING IN ARE BED BUT I FEEL AS IF IM FALLING STRAIGHT DOWN REALLY FAST I HEAR AND CA...
I was married, mother of two beautiful little boys, had just taken my last law school exam (I graduated mid-year due to spending one semester off because of sick baby)...
In adolescence, at the age of 14, I developed a grave anxiety disorder that in ten years left me disabled...
Terms I've elicited such as "dimensions", being "sucked out" and the images during the experience not of this universe are only for description, for lack of better/ more defining words...
I was awake in bed, just lying on my back, when I felt my body vibrate and this increased sort of like a humming through my body , it intensified until I felt some part of me lift up and leave my body behind...
I found myself at a place that would be similar to a landscaped rest stop on a typical American express way, although I did not see the highway...
I had been taken to the hospital following the accident...
Before this event (days of this very enlightened feeling, actually) I had extensive counseling for depression...
I was driving in my car and was experiencing much emotional distress when I experienced the sensation of an invisible arm sweep down from above me and across my face very fast, and then plunged with great force into my chest...
It was about 10 O�clock in the morning...
I'm at the boarding school, on an evening with the game 'calling souls', with 'true' stories and with the finger on a glass; a great fear from a girlfriend who is going to bed...
I had an experience a few years ago that was NOT a dream but it did happen after I went to sleep - it was 100% real...
