Out of Body Experience Research Foundation
Jody A. Long, J.D. and
Jeffrey P. Long, M.D.


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OBERF is part of a triad of websites that is designed to collect information on all aspects of consciousness.  The main website is www.nderf.org which studies near-death experiences (NDE).  The next website is www.adcrf.org which studies after-death communication (ADC). OBERF studies all other aspects of consciousness that are not an NDE or ADC.

After Death Communication, ADCRF
Near Death Experience, NDERF

OBE/DREAM FAQs - EXCELLENT!
(Several methods on how to have an OBE)

Spiritual Spectrum Bulletin Board - one of the best way to discuss these matters and meet people of like minds.

Where to start?  Try the Index page with a list of complete contents of OBERF


 

Newest Experiences - Updated Bi-Weekly:  Click Link

Click Each Category Below To View the Particular Type of Experience Page

  SOBE        Spontaneous Out of Body Experience
  OBE          
Meditation, induced or at will (aka frequent flier) Out of Body Experience

 
NDE-like   
Near death experience but without physically dying

  NELE         Nearing End of Life Event is one in which the person may see beings and bright
                         light at or as far as 6 months prior to time of death
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  STE           Other spiritually transformative events
  PRAYER   Healing power of prayer, miracles
 
  UFO           Unidentified Flying Objects
 
WV             Waking Vision

  OTHER      
These are experiences that don't fit into the above mentioned categories, but
                         contain elements of several categories.

  Dreams/Lucid Dreams

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NEWEST WEB ADDITIONS:

 

   Spirit Orb Phenomena: Fact or Fiction?  By Anthony Kevan Sercombe 
   Astral Projection by Lori A. Alvarez
   How to Have an OBE, by Cezyl
   OBE Validations by Dave Warner

RESEARCH:

Spiritual Spectrum Overview, In order to fully understand what an out of body experience (OBE) is, it must be understood as one of many related spiritual spectrum phenomena.  An OBE can be defined as an experience in which a person seems to perceive the world from a location outside the physical body.[1] In this writing, I will look at the history of OBE and research findings on near death experiences (NDEs), the most extreme of OBEs.  An OBE is also compared and contrasted with dreams, lucid dreams, astral projection, and autoscopy. 4/21/02

Review of the Swiss Study on OBEs, by Jody 9/25/02 The study was published in the British journal Nature on 9/19/02.  Several media articles were published based upon this study.  This article takes a look at: 1) the study, 2) the media coverage, and 3) critical discussion of both, the study and the media. 

Healing and Paranormal Gifts: Survey Results Between NDErs and non-NDErs, by Jody 12/23/02  First of all I'd like to thank everyone who participated in this HUGE study.  We had 124 NDErs and 75 non-NDErs who participated in the survey. Without your help, we would never have such startling results to report on! The healing questions pertained to the meaning of healing, whether the participant had experienced any emotional or healing gifts and whether the timing of these gifts was before or after their NDE or other paranormal experience.  They were also asked if they had healed anyone, and if so to explain or give examples.  Past studies are reviewed.  Present tension between medicine and alternative healing is explored.  The main finding of this study is that healing and evidentiality of alternative healing depends on how a person views "healing."  Most of the time the way a person views healing is part of a larger belief system rather than a compartmentalized body of knowledge about the physical body.  

 


 


OTHER GREAT READING!

   Spirit Orb Phenomena: Fact or Fiction?  By Anthony Kevan Sercombe
   ITC (Instrumental Trans-Communication)&spirit photography by Uday
   Astral Projection by Lori A. Alvarez
   How to Have an OBE, by Cezyl
   OBE Validations by Dave Warner
   Materialization of entities By Uday
   Electronic Voice Projection by Uday 
   Thought Projection onto Computer by Uday
   Dream diary and dream interpretation by Uday
   Guide Contacts by Uday

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Here are our newest experiences: 

Terry T Experience 5/3/08  Following my open-heart surgery for – four bypasses, I experienced an out-of-body experience.  I can best describe my experience in two images in the recovery room just prior to waking up:  1. In the first image I see myself as a floating spirit hovering above my own physical body as if it were looking down upon it - waiting.  My spirit is transparent and floating in orange-like cloudy-waves.  2. In the second image, as soon as the ventilator is pulled from my mouth (I see the arm of a nurse and the ventilator), my spirit in an up-side-down pyramid form zooms back into my physical body.
Saw his own spirit apart from his body twice around time of open heart surgery.

Omnaka Experience 5/1/08  The veil was like static, with all the colors , kind of like static in the TV when you get no channel, This lasted one millionth of a second,  and came out the other side to an abrupt Stop in another kind of space. This space had no stars or planets, but there were energy balls who were other spirits whipping around  me, talking To me filling my brain with some kind of universal knowledge, They were all different colors some bright some dim. I wanted to see what color I was so I looked down, and there was nothing there. How could I see If there was nothing there I wondered. , I looked at an angle to my stance what ever that was, because I had no body, and saw what looked like a Jetson's spacewalk, the moving sidewalk, with entities Human looking as well as animal on it, with their heads hung low, oblivious to the one in front or behind, for as far as I could see, some were crying, some were berating themselves it was a very sad state. 
Interesting encounter with his daughter on the inner planes.

Marlene B Experience 4/29/08 From Canada. Original in French, translated to English by Jean Peter.  During the night I awoke, my body was laying, and I was sitting in it. At the ceiling, there was a long tube with a dazzling light in the end (the tunnel). There was a lot of figures walking about in my bedroom, at the foot of my bed there was my deceased grandfather and grandmother. While trying to leave my body, I told them, “No I’m too tired, another time.” And I laid down in my body. I woke up with a need for living, not to set anything aside, study soul, spirit, God, training, psychic, clairvoyance, reiki, dream and a lot of other things. I’m in it full time (I spent at least 2 months not wanting to sleep, because I told them, not now, another time.
NDELike experience from possible heart attack.

Chris N Experience 4/29/08 From Belgium. Original in French, translated to English by Jean Peter. I kept rising higher and higher, when all of a sudden, I was in totally indescribable atmosphere. I started to slow down as if I had reached my maximal height, and I heard a very pleasant music, and I had never heard anything so beautiful on Earth, no sound compares to this. Then, I felt kind of enveloped in a very sweet and invisible presence, somewhat like a baby  swathed in its cradle. I found myself in a very bright light, the music kept playing on, I felt incredibly well, very well. The only feeling I had was the love which flowed from this light. The only thing I saw was the blazing light that enveloped me, while feeling the sweetness of the Presence amidst the music.

Dan M Experience 4/27/08 I felt an emptiness that I had never felt before, my old life was gone and the last thing I wanted to do was start a new one. Through my tears I looked up and yelled out ""God help me"". It was a plea and a demand at the same time, and before I could close my mouth on the last syllable, it felt like my consciousness was seized. My vision was drawn down to a single point of white light which immediately exploded up around me in a violet color that seemed to have texture. Then I was aware of being on a cloud while retaining all my minds faculties, but I knew I was no longer present with my physical body. The first thing I saw was the figure of who I can only describe as being Jesus, sitting across from me looking into my eyes. He wore a white robe and had white hair and beard along with a radiant smile. I immediately knew that every bit of my life was known and accepted as being good and right. Several moments in my life flashed through my consciousness that let me know that I was known by a power that I had not previously been conscious of, and in that there was the feeling of unconditional love.
Remarkable STE.  Very life-changing.

Alicia C Experience 4/24/08  Two and a half months later, when my son was legally declared deceased, I was holding him and I experienced this feeling of not really being aware of my senses. Although I was holding him, I couldn't feel him and it seemed if though everything was standing still. And as I looked at him I saw that same yellow light I saw when I was in the tunnel two months earlier.
During delivery, OBE into tunnel.  Saw light.  Later while holding deceased son, saw same light.

Brian C Experience 4/24/08  From Philippines.  Back in 1990's I desperately wanted my friend (Edward) to go with my family to our home town in Leyte.  The night before our travel, I had a dream that I walked to my friend's side of the house and inside his room (cannot recall if I opened the door).  I then saw him sleeping and vigorously shook his legs and told him to wake up since we are about to leave (I though he was going with us).  Then he woke up and said "Didn't I tell you I wasn't going".  Then I looked at him and realized that he did.  Then I woke up.  I felt very drained and tired that I can hardly get up.  I was so weak that I had a difficult time taking a shower.  Then my family and I went to Leyte for 2 months of vacation.  When I came back, my brother told me that my friend (Edward) had a scary experience with me as a ghost.  I confirmed the story with my Edward, even confirming that I was shaking his leg and everything that happened.  He said that after he told me that he wasn't coming,  I just disappeared and I scared the hell out of him. 
OBE during dream with visual and physical interaction remotely later confirmed. 

Linda R Experience 4/19/08 I remember saying firmly in my mind, "Jesus Christ please help me, I need you RIGHT NOW!". I immediately felt him arrive and he, like a big wad of energy, was on my upper back. (It reminded me of having a shiatsu massage! When the therapist stands on your back.) Anyway, it "HE" felt like a weight of 1000 pounds bearing down on my back and through my entire being. Again I was on my stomach and I couldn't really move or feel myself breathing. The vacuum thing was still happening but could feel my focus changing.
SOBE with Jesus.

Farley J ExperiencePrecognitive Awareness   4/18/08  ON 2 DIFFERENT MORNINGS, UPON A PEACEFUL AWAKENING IN THE MORNING AND LYING STILL WITH MY EYES OPEN...I EXPERIENCED A FEELING AND SAID TO MYSELF THAT THIS MUST BE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DYING.....I WAS NOT DISTRESSED AND IT WAS AN OKAY THOUGHT AS I FELT THAT I HAD A GOOD LIFE AND HAD HELPED SO MANY PEOPLE AS PATIENTS. I HAD TOUCHED MANY LIVES IN SUCH A POSITIVE WAY AND RECEIVED MUCH GRATITUDE FROM THEM AS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THEIR LIVES AND ALSO MY OWN PERSONAL FEELINGS OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHOM I SAVED THEIR LIVES… IN A MATTER OF WEEKS I BEGIN TO FEEL PHYSICALLY BAD... I HAD RENAL CELL CARCINOMA WITH PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME.
Physician shares probable precognitive awareness of his own diagnosis of cancer.

Roseann Experience 4/17/08 Original in German, Translated into English by Iris. About two hours later, after the ward round, I asked her what she meant by referring to the letter. She responded that she sensed from what I had written how much I liked my mother and she described me in detail what I had written. I insisted on the question how she could know about all this and she told me that she had watched me from above, from the ceiling. I had written the letter at a desk and worn a green bath robe. I wanted to know if she could speak Spanish. She said that she did not speak Spanish but she again accurately described what I had written. She described my pen, how everything was arranged on my desk, the writing pad which all exactly matched how it really was. She even could describe the Roman style of my chair. I asked quite desperately: “How can this be possible?” “I do not know, I have never experienced anything like that”, she answered. I could not find an explanation and finished the conversation. 
This is a second-hand report, but what a REPORT!

José CL Experience 4/17/08 From Spain. Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio.  I then saw my room at night.  I saw my bed, the bedroom window, and I saw a rose colored aura and enveloped my bed.  Then everything seemed as though in a video.  I saw the other room.  I peered into the inside patio.  It was nighttime and a saw  blue colored cloud that rose from the patio into my room.  It seemed to me that it melded with the rose aura creating one of violet.  Then I went to the dining room.  It was dark.  I clearly saw the second hand of a clock there on the wall. I say the walkway of my house with the electric light illuminated and the door to the street from inside the room.  With GREAT COLOR and MUCH ELECTRIC LIGHT.
SOBE from feeling in love!

Arabya Experience 4/8/08 From Algeria. Original in Arabic  So same night of there travel I cried a lot because we were friends and good neighbors .I tried to sleep I couldn’t I was in a hard facer.  So suddenly I couldn’t move any part of my body. And my voice gone, I tried to shout  but no one heard me , that’s phenomena became recurrence to me in a especial circumstances, I was breathing  but no body heard my shouts.  My soul outburst in the beginning of that short paralyzed which doesn’t take more than three minutes, I saw a nice charming views with a lot of colors, I saw a cities that I never seen before. The speed of the birr was unbelievable.
SOBE after sleep paralysis.

Kathleen Experience 4/4/08  From Germany translated to English by Iris I was in a kind of light/water but at the same time, it was no matter. It was blue, I was floating in it. It was warm, comfortable and there was some beautiful music. I was being prepared to what was about to come, to life. I was there for an eternity and at the same time it was only a brief moment, time didn't exist. Suddenly, I was in a dark tunnel. It was very long, ca. 50 m. I was afraid of being alone. Thanks God, a woman with long blond hair was walking in front of me, holding hand with a small blond girl. I hurried quickly after them because I was so afraid of being alone, because I didn't know where to go. They turned left at the end of the tunnel, climbing up some 5-6 stairs. I ran after them. At the end of the stairs there was a very bright light and I saw the lights of the operation theatre.
Birth Experience.

Robert W Experience 3/16/08 From the Canada.  I was ill the week of the event. I think it was a very bad case of the flu.  I had been in bed for a day and I felt horrible. That night I was restless in bed and the sweat was pouring out of me. I felt like death.  The next morning I felt a bit better and got up to go to the bathroom.  I returned to my bedroom and approached my bed, I stopped dead in my tracks as I was looking down on my own body still lying in bed. This cannot be happening I thought, I neared the bed and looked more carefully at my face, yes it was me. I didn't look well though, very ashen complexion.  Afraid I turned away from the bed against the wall. I thought to myself I must be dreaming, it can't be real. I slapped my face hard, it hurt. I then punched the wall with my hand, it hurt also.
SOBE at time of illness.

Guy M Experience 3/16/08  As I was reading the tag, I suddenly wasn’t there anymore. I suppose that my physical body was still standing there, but the conscious me, the real me, my soul was some where else. The following is what I saw: I was standing in what seemed to be a room. This room was completely black, devoid of all light. I could not see walls, nor ceiling, nor floor. I’m not even sure if the room had a floor, however, I wasn’t falling. I also didn’t notice seeing myself or try to hold my hand out in front of me to see if I could see it. The only reason that I call where I was a room, is because of the only thing that I could see. About six feet in front of me was a doorway. The doorway had a frame and a door on it. The door was open outward (away from me) to the left, not straight out but about another 45 degrees passed that. I knew this because I could see the outside of the door through the crack between the door hinge and the door frame. There was a powerful light source that was on the other side of the doorway.
OBE.  Markedly NDE-like.

Jo Ann F Experience 3/16/08  I went close to the mirror to look closer at my face and for some reason I extended my hand to touch the mirror where my face was and my hand never touched a hard surface it just kept going through the air. I didn't realize I never touched the mirror until my whole body (although I didn't see it or maybe just my spirit was) inside the reflection of the mirror still facing the same direction foreword. I realized I was in the mirror and refocused my eyes around my image to the back of me to see the objects in the room (without turning around) I felt like I was in a separate box sort of I knew immediately I went into another dimension through the mirror I had an out of body experience while I was making love to him and my spirit went through the mirror when my physical self went to touch it not knowing my spirit had risen to the surface and out of me.
SOBE involving being in mirror looking out from perspective of mirror after especially spiritual episode of love-making.

Gregory HM Experience 3/11/08 I remember the beginning of the dream.  There emerged our of deep-sleep darkness, luminous orange ovals against deep brown.  The orange morphed into moist peeled carrots on tilled earth.  Sensing a presence, I look up.  A person sits before me, writing.  Robed in black to elbow and knee, facial profile obscured by glossy shoulder length hair, her un-tanned forearms and legs are slender and long.  She is beautiful and I am glad she is here.  I strain to see a page of the book in her lap. 
Very detailed writing about an OBE. He has advanced degree in religion.

Anita G Experience 3/9/08  From Australia  I was wide awake, I felt the breeze, looked at the clock, 2.00am saw the hallway night lamp on, heard my young son toss and turn and turned to look at my husband who seemed to be sitting up in bed. I thought this was unusual so I went to put my hand on him, he was just looking forward and in a unusual daze, when I went to touch him, my hand went straight through him, it scared me so I jumped up and saw him sitting up but his body was lying down, it was really weird and frightening. I first put my head in my pillow and screamed a little, then I gathered my thoughts and looked and touched him again and the same thing happened, I then felt his lie down body to feel if he was breathing and I pushed him until he moved, then everything went back to normal, his second body was gone.
Witnessed husband’s non-physical body sitting up in bed with his physical body lying down.

Vanessa Experience 3/9/08 From the UK.  I was sleeping one night and I have previously had OBE but this night I saw myself, looking at myself from the ceiling then a sudden jerk. I was going through a tunnel at intense speed the tunnel was like brown, dark brown, like unevenly round.  Anyway I was travelling at extreme speed like lightning through the tunnel  and I shot out into light; The most beautiful light.  Then I sped through all the planets and stars and what seems to be like galaxies or planets. I remember passing a planet with rings  and extreme light.  Then I went in through another tunnel like a hole and fell into the most stunning, amazing, no-words-to-describe, lake surrounded by a forest - everything is green light, green everything in there is flawless. I sense someone is coming to meet me. I am in the lake which is light  blue, the cleanest water.  I felt it was the purest water, so beautiful, but I sense someone coming though the trees. I called out om a ma shiva over and over. I know I am dead, but I say "no, I want to go back." I am not suppose to be here. I keep saying this.  I travelled back at speed and woke up. I have never forgotten this. I don't think I will ever forget this. I felt so afraid, yet so loved.
Dream. OBE- tunnel. Into beautiful landscape.

John C Experience 3/2/08 I was viewing it from the side, me walking with my parents, alongside a pool, then I had slipped into the pool, the view that I was first viewing from was almost as if I was watching it from the opposite side of the pool, then I had fallen in, and when I fell in, I started to close into myself viewing it as if I was using a grappling hook to view it, then as soon as I had lost consciousness, I had viewed the lifeguards' view, in both third and first person, and as I had gotten up, I regained consciousness.
Interesting variant experience.  Occurred about age 3, shared age 14.  Apparently OBE began prior to fall into pool.  Apparent bi-location of consciousness.

Shelly K Experience 3/2/08 It was approximately 20 minutes after learning of my older brothers death in a trench cave-in.  I was standing outside of our front door with a police officer, who was crying.  I was holding onto his arm and looking at him and asking him if they're positive it was Johnny, and are they sure he is dead.  During this time, I briefly moved out of my body...I mean I, the physical me, was standing and holding onto the officers arm, but another part of "me" was standing beside me.  It was a very brief experience, but it shook me.  It's been almost 20 years and I can still "experience" that moment in time.  I can still see me as well as a consciousness next to me. 
OBE at time of hearing of her brother’s death.


For Over 500 MORE
(Archived) Stories: Click link below:
 
1.    NDE-Like Stories
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2.    Spontaneous OBEs
3.    Other Spiritually Transformative Events(STE), Prayer, Nearing End of Life Event, Death-Bed Visions
4.    Meditation, induced, frequent flyers, or at-will OBEs
5.    Dream, Lucid, Clairvoyant, Other Dreamlike Mysterious Events
6.    OTHER - those stories that can't be easily categorized, either they don't fit into any other category or they
                        fit into several of the above categories.

 

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