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I was lying in my bed awake for around 3 hours...
I was laying in bed, and got to thinking about what my father in law said about OBE...
I was alcoholic at the time...
Many times throughout my young childhood I would wake up in the middle of the night with a feeling of extreme emotion in my chest, and found myself rising above my bed all the way to the ceiling, and would just hover there...
I should preface this by saying that when this happened to me, I was not taking any medication...
Lyn R's Experience Home Page Share Experience New Experiences EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION July 2012 - Lyn from Australia (See experiences 339 and 1727) I have a new partner in my life and since I've known him, (one year) I hadn't had any OBEs or even close calls...
It was a cloudy and rainy day and I was hoping to realize one of my dreams from the time I was a tiny girl of 5...
I was in bed and had been sleeping but during the experience I was definitely not asleep...
Shaye A OBE Home Page Share Experience New Experiences EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION For context, I was about 18 years old (I am now 40), and had recently been prayed for because I had a pretty wicked lifelong fear of the dark and other things...
Overuse of drugs, lack of sleep and tiredness We returned home from a trip after sixteen hours of non-stop driving without accommodation...
I would like to preface my description by telling you that I was experiencing periods of deep depression around the time of the experience...
The first experience I think I have of an OBE, I remember seeing myself being held by a man...
