319.  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.

318.  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.

317.  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. 

316.  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.

315.  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!

314.  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.

313. Robert W Experience 3/16/08 From 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.

312. 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.

311. 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.

310. 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.

309. 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.

308. Jen C Experience 2/29/08 The funeral home had brought out a bunch of caskets for us to look at.  I was standing there with my family and suddenly realized that I could see myself and everyone else below me.  It was brief but real and it happened.  I have never forgotten about my experience.  When it was over I didn't say anything to anyone I just continued on with what we were doing.  I'm not sure what you call it because it doesn't fit a lot of the descriptions that I've read in other people's stories.  I've been told a few things....one is that I was helping my Dad cross over and the second is that I was so traumatized that my mind separated from my physical body to protect it.  Either way, it was a life altering experience for me that I haven't shared with many people.
OBE at time she was helping select a casket for her recently deceased father.

307. Agnes J Experience 1/13/08 From France, Original in French, translated to English by Amy.   I went in for a routine operation, to remove a cyst located on my wrist. I saw and heard everything. Everything was bluish, a beautiful blue; as I stared at the people around me I became less and less aware of them. Behind me stood the anesthesiologist. She was aggravated, which annoyed me. The surgeon removed the cyst with a tweezer-like device, and said that the cyst was as big as a raisin (which didn't bode well) and that they needed to send it to Paris to be analyzed. I felt fear coming from a man who was in a room beside mine. I don't know how I saw and how I heard, it was like a ball of thoughts.
SOBE during anesthesia.

306. Rick S Experience 12/28/07 From the UK When my wife and I were courting I lived in Lincoln UK and she lived in south London UK. (An approximate distance of 170 miles apart) I was in bed late one night thinking about her and just beginning to fall asleep. I found myself in her bedroom, there was an orange glow in the room, she saw me and got out of bed and gave me a hug. I then found myself fully awake and back in my bedroom in Lincoln. The following evening she rang me and asked how I got into her bedroom the previous night, she had woken up and seen just my head and shoulders in her room. She said she had fallen asleep with the electric bar fire next to her bed but seeing me had woken her and she switched it off. Somehow I knew she was in danger as the electric fire was right next to her bed and the quilt on the bed was very slippery and kept falling off, had it fallen on the fire she would probably been seriously injured.
OBE visit to girlfriend.  Was seen by girlfriend at the time.

305. Tracy R Experience 11/10/07 From New Zealand. I remember when I first arrived at the hospital in Hamilton to have the operation done on my chest that this lump had to be removed as yet I still have the scare to prove it, I was then put to sleep and about 3 minutes later I saw myself above my body floating on the ceiling and looking down at the doctors operating on me at the time and wondered why I was up there and my body was floating to me at the time I was happy but wondering why I was up there and not down where my body was laying, it is hard to explain but it seemed that I was there for ages, then what seemed for ever I awoke back in my body again I remember saying to my father that I was up there looking at the doctors down here, my father sort of looked at me and laughed to himself but this experience is one that I have never forgotten since that day.
OBE at age 6-7 during anesthesia. 

304. Laura H Experiences 11/10/07  When I was having my appendectomy at 16 years of age, I remember "waking up" in the corner of the room and watching the doctors operating on my body.  I was not conscious of darkness or light or any other "beings" but I could hear every word the doctors were saying.  They were talking about a women that both of them had gone out with and then they said something about my insides that I didn't understand.  When I came out of the anesthesia, I remembered the conversation and told my doctor.  He was quite taken aback and said, "People have funny dreams when they are anesthetized." But, he seemed very disturbed and seemed to avoid me after this.  I didn't feel I needed to defend it, because I knew it had happened.
Three OBEs.  One under anesthesia, one while unconscious, one due to drug overdose.

303. P.T. Experience 9/16/07  From Finland.  At one moment I was thinking of a song in radio, that the song was too boring song to listen at night (5am). Next thing I realized, I saw myself (my car & me) coming against "me" on the road. That was quite confusing experience, and I was startled. Then I was "back" at the car and started to keep the car on the road, and breaking heavily. After short moment, I ended up to a ditch backwards unharmed. I am not sure if my external me helped me to stop or slow the car in time so that nothing worse happened - car was damaged, but I was basically fine and feeling very alert and swift at thought.
OBE associated with auto accident. 

302. Carolyn T Experience 9/13/07 I was standing in the outfield of a baseball game we kids played whenever possible.  Suddenly I was over the sign at school, floating there, watching my girlfriend and myself walking home after school. we saw two boys walking towards us so kid like decided to cross the street so we would not run into them, and decided once across the street that that was a silly thing to do and crossed back.  I was floating above all this and yet also aware of all that was happening below me.  No sounds or odd feelings at any time associated with this event.  A few weeks later this event in it's totality and down to the smallest detail, including colors, clothing and place were repeated for me in real life and real time.
Interesting OBE and premonition at age 10 shared 54 years later.

301. Elizabeth C Experience 9/13/07 My bike began going too fast for me to control, I hit a hole, flipped over the handle bars and the bike landed on top of me. Then I slid down the hill on my left side for a few feet before stopping.   It caused an open head wound with a rather large 3 corner tear, gravel in the skull, a compression skull fracture, blood loss, shock and severe concussion with vomiting for 3 days after the accident.  I watched the entire accident happen from above my body (to the left) and never felt pain.  It was so strange.  When the bike stopped I was still watching my body lay there, then suddenly I was trying to lift it off me and started walking for help with blood pouring down my face.
Apparent OBE prior to bicycle accident at age 10.

300. R. P. Experience 9/13/07 Next I'm just outside the car looking at myself through the window of the back door on the driver's side from just above the car.  I can kinda see the roof of the car, it's reddish in color and I'm beating on the rear window and screaming.  I can't make out what I'm saying but I know what's happening and that we won't be coming back home. wow, I'm crying writing this, I don't cry.  it's like feeling it all over again. um, like finally confronting the realization that I knew we were never coming home again, never gonna be with mom or aunt Pat again and all three of us would grow up separated.
OBE at age 5 at a time she was in being adopted.

299. Gary B Experience 9/13/07 I thought of the ocean and then there was a blur and I was at the beach moving again all over the sand, from up high from seemingly inches away from the sand and then into the sand and under the dunes and then into the ocean and down through the sea.  At some point it occurred to me to go under the ocean down into the floor of the earth at the bottom.  I went under the ocean and down into the center of the earth and through the earth.  When I was in areas where there was no real light, like at the bottom of the ocean, I was still able to see, but it was a more subtle kind of vision.  I probably was seeing in this same way when I was out where there was light, but it wasn't apparent that my vision was different until I went into the cells of the trees and into the rocks and down under the ocean.  The way I have written this may make it all sound very fast, but there was much exploring into the fine details of things and it was a peaceful and relaxed pace.  It was just that if I thought of something new to focus upon, I was almost instantly transported there.
OBE at age 9 with remarkable journey about and into the earth.

298. Paul D Experience 8/18/07  As I sat up in bed I noticed that my "hard-shell" body was still lying down and my "transparent" body was sitting up. As a child I found that amusing and wonderful, so I swung my legs over the side of the bed and stepped out. As I did so I gently started to float. I found that by thought alone I could control the height and direction of travel that I desired. I floated upwards and observed my sister sleeping. I tried to wake her to show her what I had done, but was unable to rouse her. I then floated over to the bedroom door with the intention of showing my mother what I could do, but could not open the door or leave the confines of that room. I then in my childhood fears felt like maybe I was doing something wrong, so I floated back to my "hard-shell" body, laid my transparent body down over it in exactly the same way it was reposed and instantly I was alert and able to move the shell.
Child SOBE.

297. Alice Experience 7/15/07 I was "out of my body" and I just enjoyed the whole thing.  The first thing I experienced was the reality of consciousness....everywhere!  On every level I saw it.  I felt it and experienced the reality of a caterpillar,  and I was shown that life on any and all levels is equal and the level of awareness in every creature is the same.  Their purpose no less important than ours and just as precious. I then was shown and fully experienced "Creation", in every molecule everywhere and that it never ends, and that we never fully experience and appreciate the miracle of it and the beauty.  I apparently traveled up into "space?" and it was as though I poked my head through some layer of some kind and I could see that there were not just a few dimensions, but that the dimensions went on and on... that there was nothing but creation continuing, never ending.  There is SO MUCH more than we can ever try to imagine.
OBE associated with nitrous oxide at Dentist office.  Remarkably transcendent experience.

296. Tran D Experience 7/15/07 All the sudden I realized that I was floating right under the ceiling and looked down I saw my body lying on side facing the wall (Meaning my back was facing the window and the door to balcony that is adjacent). It was strange that I did not feel afraid at all (By the way I many times vividly saw strange people during my sleep but never felt afraid at all, some times even kind of exciting).  I do not remember why now but after that I flew out through the door, passing the balcony and was completely out in the air (So the edge of the balcony was about 1 or 2 m to my left)… When I passed the main square in order to reach the Q building where my exam would be held I saw exactly what I saw from the air when I was floating.
OBE from Thailand, occurring shortly before his MBA examination.

295. German P Experience 6/18/07 Original in Spanish, Translated to English by Carol G Without sleeping completely, I felt like levitating and I started rising to the space. Suddenly I was in somewhere like in the outer space. I did not carry my physical body; I was just like a little sphere of light that was joining with similar spheres inside of a giant spiral, transparent and silent.  The giant spiral was bending itself in the space. It was not in a linear direction. It was like an umbilical cord floating on the infinite space.  At the end of the spiral, I saw a strong light, like the sun and all the little spheres including me, were going closer and toward it.  Suddenly, my journey through the spiral finished, and I was in front of that strong light, amber color, yellowish, and I was penetrating on it slowly. In that moment, it was so big the love that I felt that it was to me unbearable and very hard to comprehend.  It was like if every molecule of my body (even though I did not feel my body) were shocked before all that love, were vibrating in such a high frequency that I started crying of love and peace.  I was going inside the light, and at every moment the sensation of complete love was stronger.

294. Dorothy S Experience 5/28/07  AS SOON AS I DID, I WOKE UP TO FIND MYSELF COMING OUT OF MY BODY AND FLOATING TO THE CORNER OF THE CEILING... I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT, BUT I KNEW, THAT I WAS DYING. I WAS ON THE NE CORNER OF THE CEILING AND ADJACENT TO ME ON THE NW CORNER OF THE CEILING, WAS A MALE PRESENCE WHO WAS "PULLING" ME WITH SOME KIND OF ROPE OR CORD THAT WAS CONNECTED TO ME, AND HE WAS TELLING ME,  "IT'S TIME TO GO, IT' TIME TO LEAVE THIS WORLD" AND I TOLD HIM "NO! I CAN'T LEAVE MY MOM, MY DAD, MELVIN CALVIN PETE MARYLOU AND DOLORES. AND I KEPT REPEATING THAT AND TELLING HIM "NO NO NO NO NO!!!! I CAN'T, I CAN'T LEAVE THEM THEY'LL GO THROUGH A HARD TIME WITHOUT ME! I CAN'T I CAN'T!!!!  
Integration where you can see how the experience was processed over a period of time.

293. Michael S Experience 5/14/07 She was holding a bowl of fruit in one arm.  I "knew" without even having to ask that the spirit of Oya is not actually one spirit but a collection of many, many entities who are very advanced and evolved.   Oya showed herself as a black woman who had the most amazing brilliant white, deep, "old" eyes that I have ever seen.  She was absolutely HUGE and very, very tall.  I could tell just by looking into her eyes that this was a very wise collection of not just one spirit, but many, many spirits, probably hundreds, who are fiercely powerful. She had on an orange robe and a white turban-type headdress.
Dream/Vision of Oya, and African Goddess.  Submitted by a Ph.D.

291. Ali Experience 4/27/07 …for few nights I realized that I am detached from my body some how but EXCEPT FOR ONE TIME I DID NOT DARE TO OPEN MY EYES WHILE I WAS FLOATED.  THEN WHEN I half opened my eyes I realized rotating in the air and I could see the carpet in living room and I CLOSED MY EYES AND I was so scared and I could not open my eyes up until I FELT THE HEAVINESS OF MY BODY SO I could make sure that I am in my body.
OBE as a child from doctor in Iran.

290. Harold C Experience 3/31/07  I descended to about 10 feet and "flew" up the drive between the tall cedar trees. I came around the corner where I could see my house and three cars parked out front. Two cars I recognized as ours but the third was unfamiliar. The big living room windows glowed with light and I floated up to the windows and looked inside to see my family talking and watching TV. I paused a moment looking at my parents and brothers and then was somehow satisfied… When I returned home my father told me that an uncle had come by a couple of nights after I left for camp to show off his new car, the very car I had seen in my OBE.
Probable Dream OBE at age 10.

289. Chris R Experience 3/31/07  I had the sensation that I'd "broken through"... I found myself standing in this ecstasy near the foot of a bridge which ramped slightly upward and to my right, then peeled down to the left and descended into the most magnificent city I had ever seen. I have since seen Paris, London and New York, and this city dwarfed all of them - all of them put together. The city was giant and shimmering and pulsating - magnificent. The sky had an amazing, iridescent twilight quality. Out-posted on this bridge were sentient beings. They floated about eight inches off the ground, facing outward, stationed approximately every 60 yards. *IMMEDIATELY* I ran as fast as I could to the closest one to me - on my left. As I ran I mentally screamed, "I'm here!! I made it! I'm back! I'm home! Isn't this glorious!?! Isn't this wonderful!?!"
OBE at difficult time in life at age 17.

288. Andrew B Experience 3/31/07  In a instant I was rising up in the air. I looked down to see my body still standing I looked around saw the neighborhood. Then I continued to float higher. Im guessing around 100 feet. I thought I was dying because Why would I be going to heaven. At that moment of fear I went back into my body. My girlfriend was yelling for my attention. The whole time I heard no sounds. I did however notice landmarks that were later confirmed.
OBE while standing outside.

287. Jewel Experience 3/31/07 Each time I would pass one of the frames (pleats) I would hear a slight whoosh sound. I kept watching my body as it was walking and became more afraid of it turning the corner and loosing it that the speed of my floating increased until I was moving at a high speed...still passing the frames "pleats". Only now it feels like im picking them up along the way. Like they were becoming part of me that I was leaving behind as I walked away.  The faster I would go the louder the whooshing sounds became as I joined up with each frame.  Just as my body turned the corner to go down the next hall way I rushed around the corner and went crashing into my body.  The joining of me and my body was such a hard impact that I heard a loud crashing/bang in my head then I lost my balance and fell into the lockers at my bodies side.
OBE at school at age 16-17.

286. Dwight M Experience 3/22/07  As I drifted above myself the people surrounding me became crystal clear and I saw that it was men and women.  The men were dressed in black pants and white shirts and all the women had on a blue or gray dress like the early settlers wore and each had on a bonnet.  No one said anything, I didn't feel scared by them but as they became as clear as day I knew that I was about to die.  I told myself that it's probably a heart attack.  I don't remember if it was me sitting in the drivers seat driving at 70 miles an hour or me (floating above me) that said it but I said very forcefully I'M NOT READY TO GO.
SOBE while driving truck.

285. Nora J Experience 3/22/07  One early evening in 1972 while I was driving on a freeway in Atlanta, suddenly I found myself ( or my consciousness and sight) floating near the ceiling in the back seat.  I could see the back of my body that was STILL driving the car but I couldn't see the front of myself in the front seat.  I was alone and was headed for a club meeting in town.  I was terrified seeing that I was no longer at the wheel ( or at least not all of me was at the wheel). Then in a flash I was back in my body and was relieved to see my  freeway exit come into view. 
SOBE while driving.

284. Samantha K Experience 3/20/07 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 shoulder of the road.  As if changing a television channel, I found myself in a completely different and unfamiliar environment: I was walking alone in a beautiful field of very fresh, green grass.  A large tree (oak?) was in full leaf on a hillock to my left.  Enjoying my peaceful surroundings and wondering what and who I would find as I continued to walk, it suddenly occurred to me that I had no idea how I had arrived there and thought to myself, “Wait, I was walking with ** in GG Park!”  The very moment I completed that thought I was back in GG Park. 
OBE while walking into different realm with large tree.

283. Bill P Experience 3/20/07 I started having lucid dream...but was aware I was still in my bed. All of the sudden I felt this electric current pass thru my body and I seemed to lift up like a puff of smoke. I could not see anything it was very foggy. Nita met me and was talking to me. She had a very deep voice for a woman which I had never heard before. There were three other women's voices with her. They were all talking with each other. Strangely although I could here the pitch and tone of the voices very very clearly, I could not understand the words, and the whole place was filled with a thick gray fog so I could not see them. The voices sounded like regular voices not at all like "thoughts". Nita was instructing me in a voice I could not understand so finally I decided to leave and willed myself back in my body.
OBE by Research Scientist at a University Pathology Department.

282. Karen K Experience 3/20/07 I left the building by going down the elevator talking with other students and walked outside to Fifth Avenue. As I started walking towards a restaurant, I suddenly felt this calm come over me and I noticed that I was floating several feet in the air and looking down at myself walking among the hundreds of other people also walking along the street. As I said, I felt very calm and I don’t recall hearing any noise from the traffic. It was like my mind was floating, while my body below was still walking to lunch. This went on for 20 – 30 seconds when I realized what was happening, became alarmed, and returned to my body.
OBE by currently retired professor.

281. Leigh G Experience 3/20/07 Quite suddenly, and disorienting, I was in space among the stars and moving more quickly than I can even describe. kind of like that stars computer screensaver. There was no Earth in view, but many many stars and planets, systems. I could not see or feel my body I just WAS, there was a feeling that I was a spark of light, and off to my left but a bit behind and out of view, there was a faint glow traveling with me. I seemed to feel automatically that this was another spirit. (I had thought at first it was an escort, friend... now I wonder if it was my husband- he has a vague memory of being in the stars in what he thought was a dream. He would only have been about 13 at the time.?) Anyway, I can't really express the feeling I had hurtling through the stars, I felt that I was going somewhere in particular.
OBE with rather startling associated events.

280. Lena H Experience 2/25/07 From Sweden.  Original in Swedish, Translated to English by Lisa M.  I land on all fours and it feels like cool, smooth sand beneath my hands. I'm thinking "now I'm dead, so it wasn't harder than this, there must be a light somewhere". I look around, but there's only darkness. I look to the left and there I find an opening, outside there's a beautiful meadow, extremely pretty with billowy green grass, just wonderful. I walk out on it and feel the grass and it waves so beautifully in the wind. The sun is shining clearly, it's a beautiful day. I look out over the meadow and see a city, it looks like a small town in Sweden in the 50-ies. Turn-of-the-century buildings are mixed with more modern houses.

279.  Stephanie Experience 2/25/07  As I looked around I saw my papaw we smiled when our eyes met. He helped me off the rock and we began to walk and talk. The funny thing was we never opened our mouth when we spoke it was like telepathy. I knew I wasn't dead though I felt more alive and accepted than I ever had here on earth. There was no sadness or fear no heartache no tears no sickness no hate no anger no worry AND MY DEPRESSION WAS GONE in the blink of and eye, leaving my body here was no worry for me. I was ecstatic to be where I was. I don't know where this place was I have always referred to it as papaws perfect place. It was almost like it was in between heaven and Earth.
OBE which included meeting deceased father.

278. Alva H Experience 2/17/07 From Cuba.  Original in Spanish, Translated to English by Rio.  The first thing I felt, or rather at the beginning, it was a sensation of inexplicable ecstasy that I had never felt before in my life that increased in strength until it almost became painful.  I lost perception of where I was and ceased to hear the noise of the motor. I then experienced a feeling of incredible unfolding of a reality impossible to explain that I can only describe as a melding of my consciousness with everything that was around me; like the physical integration of my being with the physical substance of the forest and the totality of nature.  I do not believe there is a way of expressing with words the feeling of joy and euphoria; of complete happiness and a super expanded consciousness I experience at that time.  This feeling was so powerful I felt it possible to die from their strength.  My chest felt very heavy and to my astonishment tears flowed from my eyes.  I was unable to contain my agitated breathing.  A sensation of ecstasy and rapture, a current of overpowering happiness completely overcame me at that time and I wanted it never to end.
SOBE submitted by an Engineer.

277. Chew L Experience 2/17/07 From Malaysia. I started to walk towards the lady, who is about 10 feet away. At that moment ,I noticed the images in front of me started to move and there was a momentarily blackout lasting perhaps a second. when I was finally able to see again, I found myself in another place. I was no longer in the office. I was in an enormously open space .I wasn't scared. I was feeling peaceful and I ask myself " where am I ?" I started to look around me but I could not see anything, no building, no people, nothing except me and the misty surrounding. I sensed something was amiss , I looked at myself and was amazed to see my body  transformed into a transparent light form with no flesh, no bone, nothing in between. in that instant, I heard a voice telling me that it is not the time yet and at the same time I felt a force is acting on me. 
SOBE while walking in office. 

276. James B Experience 2/17/07 As soon as I saw my dad punch my mother, I shot out of my body. I was instantly above the car and rising upwards at an incredible rate of speed. I'd say that within a few seconds I was several hundred feet above the car. I could see our yellow Chevrolet cruising down the 2-lane highway. I could see the tiny little cars passing our car in the opposite lane of traffic. I could see the forest on either side of the highway. I was deaf to everything that was occurring in the car while I was experiencing the OBE. At about the time that I REALIZED I was flying and no longer in my body, I suddenly popped back into my body.
SOBE associated with emotional trauma.

275. Rosemarie Experience 2/3/07 I  received a telephone call from the lady who rents my house,  while on the telephone, I felt myself come up out of my body and I seemed to float in the air and sort of arrived at my house.  I was actually looking into my house through the wall, and could actually see my tenant and her daughter sitting down on the sofa, and I was able to tell her this.  However I could also see a little girl, (whom me and my husband had always joked of that we had a ghost in the house.)
OBE with observation 40 miles away and also observation of entity while OBE.

274. Shyam Experience 2/3/07 Then I turn around to fold my blanket and shocked to see my own body lying on the bed in front of me. I was surprised and shocked and was wondering how that could be possible when I am literally standing and also confirmed that my parents came in my dream and not real anymore. Then in that shock, I suddenly realized that something happend either to me or my parents and closed my eyes and with folded hands standing in front of my body, I called Krishna Krishna Krishna three times.  (Everyday morning when I wake up, the first word I utter is always Krishna and every night when I go to sleep I say His name which is my habitual nature since my young age).  Then after I uttered the name three times,  in a fraction of the moment, the standing body of me, merged with the sleeping body and I actually felt that kind of jolt in my real time sleep and woke up with palpitation and sweat with a shock from the real sleep to see myself in the same direction and angle and my hands and legs in the same angle as how I saw myself from outside. 
OBE.  Contributor was born in India.

273. David Experience 2/3/07 I seemed to be hovering above them looking at them. I saw myself, a baby in my mothers arms.  We were in a car traveling, dad driving, my older brother in the backseat. My perception was normal, just as a person seeing with natural sight. I noticed my mother trying to console me still arguing with my dad. She made him stop the car getting out with me on a dirt road. I could see around me the trees, the hills on a sunny day. My mother was comforting me. The last sight I remember my mother standing on a dirt road in the country side holding me trying not to cry. At and during this experience it was as if I was an outside observer.
OBE at age 3 month shared 57 years later.  Confirmed 40 years after experience by mother.

272. Iran Experience 2/3/07 From Iran.  I found myself sitting in a small office talking to a personnel representative about benefits and what family status means for an employee. As we talked, without any warning or premonition at all, most of my consciousness   gravitated to an observer position somewhere over us. I could hear and see myself sitting in the chair talking, simultaneously wondering just how this could all take place. It was then that I began to become alarmed that should my body below lose track, the situation might become unmanageable. As I was thinking this,  the consciousness that was above quickly and without any interruption to my body’s speaking during the interview merged back into my body.
OBE during discussion with another person.

271. Don C Experience 2/3/07 I had just finished surfing. it was in the morning and I was traveling down Seal Beach Blvd and I saw a golden orb in the sky maybe a fourth the size of our moon. I pulled my car over to the side of the road. the orb was traveling towards me and eventually took on the appearance of a golden city which filled the sky. I was transported into a great hall of much beauty and peace.  No life was present. the hall had many doorways to other rooms and I was drawn to one. upon entering the room I felt for the 1st and only time in my life a feeling of profound peace and LOVE.  the walls were of gossamer/fine gold and seemed to emanate the feelings of peace, safety and love.  it was truly paradise. I knew than that this was going to be my eventual home.
OBE to heavenly realm.

270. Patrick P Experience 1/4/07  …standing there was Jesus Christ like you see in the movies, in robes with a beard and his arms outstretched and welcoming me. As I floated closer he said to me come with me and you will have all you ever desired.  And I thought that wrong! Why would I want everything I desired. After all, all I need is what I need not what I desire. And while I am thinking this I am still moving closer to him, and then it hits me, a smell that is hard to describe in words. Just pure filth like a million years of unwashed bodies. Now I am only about 3 feet away and still moving closer so in an instant I knew who ever this was it sure as hell wasn't Christ and just like that he changed to a beast or demon or maybe even the devil himself.
OBE- possible NDE.  Interesting experience elements of meeting what appeared to be Jesus but was actually demonic.

269. Debashis DM Experience 11/10/06 From India I was in deep meditation with an image of a spiritual being in front of me. then I thought of cutting the image. suddenly after mentally dividing the image into two halves I felt as if hurled into space. then suddenly the space narrowed down and I was moving with extreme rapidity through a tunnel towards a bright source of light. but before I could reach that destination, I felt my body give a violent jerk and I woke up from meditation. one thing for sure I was not dreaming. after that whenever I sat in mediation I felt as if my body is floating in space, the boundaries defining my body dissolving. the experiencing was joyful and I felt tremendous pleasure after the experiencing.
SOBE during Meditation

268. Randolph N Experience 11/10/06  After we began meditating, trying to clear our minds, I became very peaceful and gradually became aware that I was surrounded by a large clear ball that had a distinct golden hue and at the same time my body and the ball floated off the ground to the upper left.  The ball reminded me of a giant soap bubble, not a solid glass-like ball.  It was big enough to surround me with a little clearance around me so I was comfortable, but no room for anything else.  It was firm yet flexible, supported my body without distortion to the shape, and the color was particularly strikingly golden.  I felt warm, glowing in sort of a sunshine, and protected, yet very alert and cognizant that I was meditating yet could see out of the bubble, able to look around, and attuned to the experience.  I was aware that I was having a very special experience.
SOBE from an attorney during meditation.

267. Jean J Experience 11/10/06  My friend and I were standing by the fire place in my den on a sunny summer day.  We both were having marital problems, hers worse.  We talked and the sadness and sorrow were almost unbearable.  I was an only child and Donnis was my best friend-sister, so I felt her pain.  With in a flash suddenly there were 4 bodies in the room.  @ standing by the fire place unmoving, not breathing, eyes unblinking.  And the other 2 bodies dressed the same seeming to be US, was amazed, awed unbelieving, awed.  Then we asked mostly me Donnie was always the weaker, and more afraid.  What has happened?  How?  What are we going to do?  So many questions I was asking with Donnie just saying "I don't know".  We did not know how we got out so when I asked how will we get back in filled me and I guess Donnie too.  Being a nurse I walked over to my body and said "What are we supposed to do-step in at waist level?”  And knowing that we could not do this I felt the worst fear I had felt in my life.  Instantly we both in a flash were back in our bodies…
Remarkable simultaneous shared SOBEs with communication with each other in the OBE state.

266. Kristi Experience 10/6/06 I felt very drawn to look up and as I did I saw this incredibly bright light that was not at all calming. It was so bright that I knew with every fiber of my being that it was not allowing me to see its full brightness because it would destroy me utterly. It spoke to me through my thoughts and it told me it is time to go now Kristi. You no longer belong here it is time to come home please do not fight me. As this was happening I was unwillingly being drawn from my body to this incredibly bright light. I fought and told it I can not leave my family right now they need me as I need them. I could literally feel the light drawing me away from my body and taking away my breath it was so terrifying.
OBE involving frightening encounter with a mystical light.

265. Sydney A Experience 10/6/06 I went to sleep I immediately felt a warm loving peaceful feeling wash over me and felt myself go out of my body to the hospital, I seen the hospital hallway and went through the door to my grandmothers room I seen my aunty on the other side of the bed who was reading a bible and I was opposite her .Then my aunty got up and went out the door… I described the room to my mother and where the other lady in the room was. including my aunty reading the bible and leaving and found out it was as I seen it.
Dream OBE and NELE (Nearing End of Life Experience).

266. Dino Experience 10/6/06 I was so close to pulling the knife down and ending life as I knew it, and I had an out-of-body experience of my mother, sitting down crying.  I then came out of the out-of-body experience and had another instantaneously, this time in the future, with me on my wedding day...  With the girl I had a crush on at the time...  It completely spun my life around, I have no thoughts of suicide now.
SOBE with visions of future events immediately prior to attempted suicide at age 16.

265. Kristi Experience 9/7/06  I felt very drawn to look up and as I did I saw this incredibly bright light that was not at all calming. It was so bright that I knew with every fiber of my being that it was not allowing me to see its full brightness because it would destroy me utterly. It spoke to me through my thoughts and it told me it is time to go now Kristi. You no longer belong here it is time to come home please do not fight me. As this was happening I was unwillingly being drawn from my body to this incredibly bright light. I fought and told it I can not leave my family right now they need me as I need them. I could literally feel the light drawing me away from my body and taking away my breath it was so terrifying.
OBE involving frightening encounter with a mystical light.

264. Anne W Experience 9/7/06 From Indonesia The manager still want to talk with my boss. I looked down to the stair. It is quite high. Suddenly I felt myself uncontrolled and my foot couldn't step to the ground. I felt frightened and confused. How such things happened. I felt myself higher and higher. I looked up, see the ceiling. It was closer and closer. I couldn't think, only prayed, God, help me. Suddenly I felt someone taped my shoulder. The manager was there. I thought I was day dream. We began chit chat, then suddenly I felt myself flying again. The manager stopped talking, surprised, asked, "Ann, can you fly?" "No, I don't know what and how" he looked frightened. I were still flying higher and higher.
Witnessed OBE at work. 

263. Gerry T Experience 9/7/06  I desperately wished to be at the wedding of my boyfriend's father since I missed my boyfriend so terribly. then I felt as if I was floating, opened my eyes and saw myself lying on the floor of my room. next thing I know was that I was floating in Istanbul above the wedding festivities, seeing my boyfriend seemingly a little sad and lonely. I tried to talk to him but he didn't notice me so I wished myself back and woke up in my room, feeling a little disoriented and dizzy.
Saw her boyfriend’s father’s wedding, even though it was in a different country.

262. Susan V Experience 9/7/06 I immediately experienced myself having an out-of-body experience while fully conscious and sitting up.  I exited to the right, rather than the left as the therapist had told me to do.  It was very much like sitting next to myself on the couch. The experience only lasted about two seconds, but while it was taking place I experienced full dual consciousness and felt as though I existed in two completely different spaces.  I could both see the white light self to my right, and from the eyes of my astral/spiritual body I could see my physical self.  The two states of mind were vastly different.   What concerned one did not concern the other; where my conscious self was nervous and fearful, my seemingly spiritual self was playful and something of a prankster, hence the exit to the right instead of the left.
OBE with interesting bi-location of consciousness described.

261. Jasmine K's Experience 9/7/06 From Oman ...just then my heart started beating really quickly. my hands began to vibrate really quickly and my entire upper body was vibrating and I felt that I am going through a black tunnel. it was like a passage upwards and I felt someone was holding holding my hand and taking me higher and I was smiling. I wasn't scared at all...m guide was higher than me and although I couldn't see my body I had a sense of leaving it and I opened my eyes because I wasn't prepared to leave....

260. Dianne F's Experience 9/7/06 I was driving my car with my Mom in it.  (No unusual circumstances around this situation either)  I decided to make a U-Turn.  As I flipped the car around on the Right side there was truck barreling out into the street and my Mom and I knew he was going to crash into the side of my car.  At the moment, everything stopped for a split second (my Mom & both felt it/it stopped/ suspended animation) and in the flash of an eye we were already in the lane on that street and there wasn't any truck around to be found.  I have no idea what happened there.  The odd thing is: We both saw the truck barreling at us.  We both felt time stop.  We both saw the car was in the lane instead of making the turn of the U-Turn.  We both saw there was no truck in sight.
Two experiences described.  One is SOBE, other is ‘time suspension.’

259. Matt Y's Experience 8/19/06 In my junior year, four years ago, I was in English class when my teacher called me to read a story out of our English book. At that time, reading aloud was my biggest fear in school. Half way through the story, I became so nervous that I left my body and quickly went to the ceiling with a 360 view of the class. I was directly above myself and could hear myself reading as though someone else was reading to me but in a room with a slight echo. I could think separately while I was out of my body with out skipping a beat in the story. I could look around the room with a peripheral vision perspective. Around 20 seconds, I thought to myself " what if I screw up". Just as I thought that, I was instantly back in my body reading.

258. Joe S's Experience 6/25/06  I reached the living room and stood up to go to the fireplace and get the candy.  As I stood there I felt and heard something simultaneously.  It was like a hissing/ringing/whooshing vibration that made the hair on my body stand on end.  I then felt a vibration.  All these things enveloped me and I felt being moved to another place in just a split second.  Then I was on a plateau overlooking a city.  I remember tall grass, a gentle warm breeze and someone there with me.  I remember being fascinated by the view and all the lights of the city.  The whole time I was looking out over this city the person there was telling me about my life here on Earth and that I'm here for a specific reason and to never forget that I have purpose here.
OBE at 17 months old.

257. Jill B's Experience 6/18/06  She had this beautiful pipe…she smoked first then turned pipe and I smoked….it was the most sweet smelling, sweet tasting tobacco…it was awesome…then she smudged me…and smiled beautiful and told me that she wanted me to tell those people and she pointed towards the dimension that I had just come from about love, peace and share the pipe, then she told me that I had to go back…..I begged her to let me stay I did not want to go back to that world…and she hugged me very tightly and lovingly and put my hand into that young girls hand and she led me back to the entrance….I was so lonely and did not want to leave…I remember crying…..but went through…..and when I got through it seems like there was this heavy evil thing that just all around and yet I felt so protected…and I was to tell what I had been through and take the message of love and peace….. 
Native American SOBE

256. Kathryn W's Experience 5/27/06 The ladies room was very narrow and each stall had only half a door for privacy. It was just one of things we put up with - heaven only knows why! Anyway, I was emptying my bladder - trying to maintain some privacy with the half door - when I suddenly was looking down on myself from above. I was seeing my body - my shell - down below. I must have been up about 7 or 8 feet and was off to the left side of my body. I wasn't cramped or hindered by the walls. They didn't physically exist for me. Like passing through a color. I didn't even notice I was out of my body until the strangeness or "uh oh!" of it hit me. It was mindless. It was regular existence, but without the physical human body. When it occurred to me that I was not in my body it was sort-of like "Hmmm...what am I doing up here? I better get back together!" So, I suppose I jumped back into my body or just instantly melded or something.
Brief OBE in a tavern restroom.

255. Ray U's Experience 5/13/06  I myself had no physical problems but a recent new acquaintance on base had began to have an epileptic seizure.  I was walking down a sidewalk heading for the location of this new acquaintance when I had the OBE twice showing me that he was having a seizure. I was approximately 1/2 to 1 mile away when I heard the sirens of the ambulance which triggered the experiences. My consciousness left my body still walking and traveled to his location twice.

254. Gary M's Experience 5/13/06  The next thing I know...I am suspended above the ceiling...about 30 feet at least it seemed so) above the floor of the bar, and my attention is fixed on the other end of the rectangular room...All I can see is the color...the smiles. the gayety.....people talking and enjoying each others company...all dressed so colorfully.....Really enjoying themselves in the light. Well now I begin the pan the room and slowly am focused on the dark part...I can see a couple. almost in the shadows, sitting at one table...a person in darkness sitting alone...and a few others similarly scattered throughout my part of the room. All of a sudden I am drawn to where I am...an it is like an eddy. swirling down and down darker and darker...beyond black. the blackest of black places. Then I'm back in my body. It wasn't scary...never gave it a second thought. the experience was as natural as breathing in and out.
OBE in bar.  Very life changing.

253. Donna B's Experience 5/13/06  Suddenly my bedroom door opened, it was so dark my whole body lifted up 5 feet from my bed I kept my eyes shut I knew I was awake I was confused and scared @ the same time the I asked in my mind "mom is that you? you are scaring me please put me down."  then my body slowly and gently dropped on the floor by the door.  then I just laid there on the floor because I was scared,  so terrified, I kept my eyes closed and did not say a word.

252. Arthur H's Experience 4/23/06  I disembarked from a 3 hour flight in the afternoon and was walking down towards the baggage area when I saw my daughter waiting to greet me. As soon as I saw her suddenly I was somewhere above watching me walking down to greet my daughter. I was in the scene yet watching it. It lasted about 5 seconds and ended when we met each other. No sounds. No light. Just complete silence as I watched.
OBE while walking.

251. Gary R's Experience 4/23/06  Since all this started in 1998, I've left my body at least 100 times.  I've flown from Earth to the moon then to Mars, I've examined my physical body while on the Astral plane, a spirit has taught me to move objects with my mind while on the Astral plane, I've tried to wake friends up to join me, I've been under water, I've been to the Akashic Records, I've been a leaf blowing in the wind, etc...  I've extracted by sliding out, flying out, rolling out, floating out, sinking out, sometimes a vortex will create at the back of my head and I'll allow myself to be sucked into it, etc...
Multiple OBEs.  Many dramatic accounts.

250. Paul F's Experience 3/26/06  One day, after picking up wounded soldiers from the jungle and while our dust off helicopter was rushing patients to 85th Evac Hospital, Phu Bai and I was busy as usual, in the back, wrapping messy stumps and starting IV's on severely wounded soldiers, it occurred to me to cause myself to have an OBE so I could take a step back and see the injuries without having to rush.  In this way, I thought, I could take more time to see what bones, tissue, etc. look like instead of having to put the large military dressings on the injuries so quickly that I never seem to get a long enough look at the injury.  Next thing I know, I am kneeling behind myself, watching myself apply combat dressings, etc. to the wounded infantry who were lying on the cargo floor of the helicopter!
Induced OBE while caring form injured Vietnam soldiers.  Found in OBE state he was unable to keep up his emotional barriers.

249. Kevin T's Experience 2/19/06  I was floating over people that were walking down the pier coming back to the ship. they were fogged too. with all the lights of San Diego and the lights on the Naval Base it was impossible to see the stars, but when I came to the end of the pier I turned up like I wanted to float up into the sky and I could see the stars. then suddenly I looked down and seen my pickup truck that was parked in the Parking lot. I was Married and lived off base and would drive to the ship each day. I was there that night because I had 24hour Duty that day. On my Pickup Truck under the drivers side windshield wiper was a parking ticket. The ticket was placed in the middle of the windshield under the wiper which was different than usual.
Evidential OBE.

248. Karen F's Experience 2/5/06 I was recently in a car accident, I hit into a vehicle going through an intersection, and flew up and flipped 2 times, landing upside down, hanging from my seat belt at my hips, no pain, no noise, no fear, calmness, slow motion, no major injuries, my dog ran out of the car, when it stopped, and I released myself from my seat belt and crawled out, as my windows had busted open during my roll over…  I felt as if I were just watching from the passenger seat, a slow motion view of the vehicle crushing in, and the windshield crackling little by little with no fear, just watching as if I were a camera person recording this scene, from a very safe place, again there was no fear, and in total silence.
Experience associated with car accident.  OBE.

247. Elizabeth B's Experience 1084 1/9/06 I finally got out  through my window, I felt the window, I heard myself  going through the window , it sounded like paper tearing. once I was outside, I was flying as fast as light, low to the ground. and naked! I realized I could do anything I wanted, so I rolled around in mud,  I wrapped myself up in weeping willow leaves as I flew through the tree. I felt the leaves on me I was so happy, just so happy, imagine yourself the happiest you have ever been, then multiply it times a million, happiness "here" does not compare to the happiness you feel when you are out. I was laughing the whole time, I knew that this was the true me, the real me, not bound by anything. What I learned is that whatever your personality is while you are in body is magnified millions of times when you are out of body, because there is nothing to hold you back or stop you, its all you.
OBE while trying to fall asleep.

246. Jeanette M's Experience 12/25/05  The following SOBE happened when I was 20 years old.  I have never experienced anything like it since, unfortunately.  I was skiing Mt Kosiosko, quietly traversing. It was a sunny clear morning and my boyfriend was about 20metres ahead.  I don't remember anyone else around.  I felt very fortunate and very very happy.  Then without warning I left my body and became a part of the surroundings. Not just observing the surroundings close up but I actually became a part of it all.  I was the sap in the gums, the bark of their trunks, the atoms of the leaves, even the molecules in the air. And I was all those things simultaneously.  Accompanying this physical experience was a spiritual one, namely overwhelming feelings of love, happiness and peace. I am not sure why I left that moment in space/time.  As far as time goes, I was unaware of it passing. Certainly when I returned to my body I was still traversing the same part of the ski slope.
SOBE while skiing.  Feeling of one with nature.

245. Shirley W's Experience 12/25/05  11/4/1994 OBE, driving to work as usual.  Was lifted up and out of the car and could see myself driving the car as I watched from above.  An etheric or angelic presence next to me that I could hear but not see said, "Accept all Love.  Release all Fear.  Prepare yourself to leave."  Sounded like good advice to me.  What I felt about the experience was how fascinating it was to see my physical body just driving along in the car performing just fine without me in it.  There seemed nothing in the moments of that morning that would have precipitated this event.  I wasn't thinking about anything other than driving and getting on to work and hoping it would be a good day.  The feeling or energy of it was peaceful, reassuring, yet quite wonderful or "other worldly" feeling.
Several OBEs described.

244. Sapthagiri's Experience 12/25/05 From India I prayed to the god, First time ever in my life. I said to myself the sacred chanting OHM. I could see the holy symbol coming in front of my eyes. My pains gradually decreased. When the pain ceased I felt as if i was looking out of the window. I could see 15 buffalos tied up and controlled  by one single man. I couldn't get a glimpse of that man. But suddenly I felt I was thrown back and when I opened my eyes I was lying in my bed.
OBE from India.

243. Kassie M's Experience 12/20/05  I REALIZED THAT MY BODY WAS FEELING LIKE IT WAS ABOUT TO SUCCUMB TO THE "FEELING" AND I LET IT GO, THIS TIME I JUST SEEMED TO FLOAT AROUND MY SPACE AND LOOK AT THINGS, IT DID NOT LAST VERY LONG.
Several OBEs in dreams over several years.

242. Donn D's Experience 12/4/05  Then one night it happened, after meditating for what I guess was about and hour, I separated from my body, rose up and floated out of my bedroom.  I could see the night sky above me and the apartments below.  I flew toward the city for a while, just looking around. I was in a state of awe!  At one point I found myself dodging a large commercial jet taking off from SeaTac airport!  I knew from my readings that directing thoughts can control the experience so I tried 'transporting' myself to my parents home in Texas. I flew up above the atmosphere and traveled across the country to where they lived, found their house, and wandered around in amazement at what I was doing.
OBE after meditation.

241. Bill M's Experience 11/26/05 I suddenly felt detached from my body and the anguish. The sounds of life outside faded away into silence.  I found myself to be floating in a calm, dimly lit, featureless void.  Then I heard this loving, calming "voice" say "yes?".  This voice was not audible, but it seemed that way.  It was more like it was within my head and a part of the void all around me.  With the simple statement came an understanding that I could ask whatever I wanted, that it would be answered. That it was here to help me understand and to comfort me.  I did not feel afraid. I asked about the most vexing question within my heart.  It answered not only in word but in visions. It did this with every question I had to ask; a simple reply in word, with visions and a complete understanding.
OBE at time of great despair in his life.  Very NDE-like experience.

240. Tim M's Experience 11/26/05  I must have fell asleep or into some kind of trance, because the next thing I knew I was above my body looking down at my self.  I could not see the spirit I was looking out of.  It seems I knew that I had left my body and I started to experiment with it.  First I tried moving and I had excellent skills at moving, effortlessly.  I decided to take a chance and flew right out the window (about 10 - 12 stories above the ground) I was fast and it appeared to last for hours.  I don't know what or how I came back, but I think I wished it, for I had been experiencing this for quite some time at least 3 or 4 hours.  Anyway I think I wished to return, because I woke up.  I was really afraid that I had been gone (from work) a long time.  I rushed back to my work center.  When I got back I found out that I had only been gone about 15 minutes and knew it was impossible.
OBE in VIP room at Cape Canaveral.

239.  Carol F's Experience 11/13/05  From U.K. I was very depressed for a long while and had reached my lowest ebb, as I put it. I had really had enough of this life what with one thing and another.  One night I lay down in bed to go to sleep and after a short while I was aware that I was no longer on the bed, I was at the top of the room looking down at my body. This seemed to last for quite a few minutes, there was a sensation of being forced upwards but was unable to get past the ceiling. Eventually I broke through the ceiling and flew up into the sky, up into the stratosphere, faster than the speed of light. I was very aware of the speed - it was very exhilarating. I went up to the top of the universe with planets around me and slowed down then, but cannot remember any more after that - I lost all consciousness then. When I woke in the morning I remembered the experience in detail as it didn't seem like a dream. It was amazing. I told a friend a few weeks later. I can still remember it vividly.

238. Haitham H's Experience 11/8/05  From Egypt   All of a sudden, my first and only OOBE started; I saw my mum - carrying my sister - walking through the whole park looking for me. She was crying, and people stopped her and asked her what was wrong. I couldn't hear anything, though I saw all the details; my mum, my sister, the road, the people, the fence, and the lake. The viewing angle changed for a few times; close-up, far, from the back..etc.  Furthermore, I saw mum sit down on the side of the road, cry more, then she took off her high-heel shoes. She then got up, and restarted the search, walking barefoot. The experience stopped at that part, and I felt my body again, sitting in the same place on the grass. 
OBE as five year old at United Arab Emirates.  Contributor is a medical student.

237. Blair C's Experience 10/19/05 As the technician was about to close the printer case with a quick snapping moving that would take about half  a second, I noticed he seemed to be moving quite slowly.  Everything turned a slight cast of green and my pulse jumped, mostly because I wasn’t sure what the hell was going on.  I suddenly realized that I was aware of what the technician down the way was doing and he was behind a barrier, then I could see or feel or was aware of all the other employees in the building, the school, and the town.  I’m sitting here trying to recall an incident that feels very real to me yet as if it never happened.  I don’t remember any details other then that, I remember at the time that I knew EVERYTHING!! And then it was gone.  There were images of people, events, formulas, math equations (I’m terrible at math)  I realized I could look around the room and entire building, not really flying, but not walking either, just everywhere at once.
SOBE in a fraction of a second, yet with sense of coming close to understanding universal truths.

236. Sid K's Experience 10/8/05 My first awareness that I was OB was when I was looking down at myself from about 500 ft above my car in Clinton Mass. The view was as though I was looking at a matchbox car placed at my feet. I knew the car was mine (83 Mustang GLX Conv, top down) and I could see myself driving it. Everything was going fine until I realized that I couldn't remember seeing anything from the driver's view, or any other view for that matter, of the last 6 - 8 miles of driving.
SOBE while driving car.

235. John C's Experience 10/8/05  Sometime between 10:15AM (I had looked at my watch) and 10:30 I experienced an odd and never before sensation as if a pressure gradient was being drawn about my head which ultimately drew out or forced from my body what I can only describe as ME or my consciousness of myself. That consciousness/me moved above and behind my external body some distance (maybe 20-30 ft, although time and space seemed suspended during the experience). I was suspended in an incredibly brightly lit isotropic ‘universe’ bathed in a light of incredible clarity and brightness but not disturbing in its intensity;
SOBE while piloting a ship.  Very detailed description.

234. Alka A's Experience 10/8/05  I was sitting at a table in my apartment studying. All of a sudden I felt like I was up on the ceiling looking down at myself just sitting there. It seemed as though the person at the table was motionless, and I, the person on the ceiling was a neutral observer. My consciousness had switched from being oriented in the person at the table to the neutral observer. I wasn't aware of having any emotions. It was as if I was standing there checking myself out with my arms folded across my chest, just thinking "Hmmm". Then I remember switching positions to another part of the room. I remember thinking at one point that it was odd that I was up there.... I got up from the table and went to study myself in the mirror for some reason. The "consciousness" on the ceiling moved around the room and I remember looking at myself in the mirror and then I was back inside my body.
OBE while studying (graduate school).

233. Steven P's Experience 9/17/05  I was browsing the message board Sonic Vegemite, sonicveg.proboards22.com, and reading a post regarding an online comic strip. Suddenly, I heard a loud roar in my ears and a "BAM" kind of noise, and I was suddenly floating beside myself. I was terrified at first, but looking at my limp and motionless body, I understood what was going on. I briefly traveled around my home but could not go downstairs for some reason. I was lucky in that my parents did not see my body during this experience. When I was heading back down the hall to my computer room, everything at the end of the hall swirled and darkened, seemingly creating some sort of void.  I was too wary of it to experiment by touching it, but it seemed to be gradually pulling in everything else. I went back into my computer room, floated above my body and was instantly sucked, literally, into my head again. I gave a large jump and a gasp of air when I regained consciousness, and looked around before returning to my browsing.
OBE at age 10, shared when he was age 12.

232. Jennifer B's Experience 9/3/05 Once outside, I decide that I want to see things as they really are in my world. I look over at our van in the carport and know I'm doing good. As I look at the van, however, it vanishes, and the familiar carport turns into a structure that I've never seen before. I look to the right to a group of trees that I've never seen before. It's still dark as I float over to the trees and merge into them. Once inside the leaves and branches and trunk, a huge vibration begins. I feel the life of the trees. It is LOVE. The trees are emanating a very distinct vibration of pure love, and I just melt. I can't seem to believe how powerful and ecstatic it is to be inside the life of the trees. These are not dormant, mundane beings of a slow vibration. There is extreme bliss inside trees that one would never imagine!
Remarkable OBE with very detailed experience and encounter with people and inanimate objects.

231. David T's Experience 9/3/05  I looked at them, I became part of them and sensed their love and sensed that they are doing what they should be doing at this point, which was being in the park and doing exactly what they were doing. Uncanny.  My thoughts left the couple and heard a dog barking. In that instant i became a witness to the dog, and his partner having fun in an alley. I could sense the feelings and thoughts of the dog.  I remember thinking if I could do this, I always wondered what a tree sensed. The next thought had me being a tree and feeling what a tree felt. My next thought was of a blade of grass, and I was now sensing what a blade of grass felt. It was indescribable. Every emotion I wanted to feel, I felt. Every think I wanted to sense an emotion from, I did. I could not believe how easy it was to do.

230. Gwen C's Experience 9/3/05  I always did the same thing: put the sunlamp on the toilet and turned it on, set the timer for 15 minutes, sat down on the floor before the sunlamp, covered my eyes with a rolled-up bandana, and waited for the timer to ring. So, I did this process, and when I was still I realized that I did not have one, single thought in my head. The instant I realized this, I felt myself float out of my body and I ended up somewhere in the ceiling over the shower. After I had been suspended there for a few moments, looking down at my body, a disembodied voice told me I could travel this way, and that I could go to the Colorado River (that was my favorite place) if I wanted to. I answered the voice that I did not want to do that because I didn't know what I was doing. I felt apprehension after that and I suddenly was back in my body.
OBE while in front of sunlamp.

229. Mandy D's Experience 9/3/05 I started with my toes, tensing them up and then relaxing them. I did this from my toes all the way up to my head. As soon as I was completely relaxed I got little "twitches" in different parts of my muscles. Then I felt really light, like I was floating. I saw the red numbers on my alarm clock, but I did not see myself, I was too scared to look. I floated through the wall and to the backyard where I could hear my mother's wind chimes cling-clanging in the breeze as if I were standing right next to them. I started drifting upward and got a little nervous, so I tried to will my physical eyes open.

228. Alok D's Experience 9/3/05 From India  During this time since i am absolutely conscious, I sit and then see my body laying back in the fashion i was sleeping and when I put my hand across anything may be material, or my wife or my kid my hand passes them without them coming to know that I am trying to touch them. Actually this hand is not body hand but the hand of the being who has got up while leaving the body aback in the same way.
OBE from India (religion is Jainism)

227. Amanda D's Experience 8/13/05 "Hum," I thought, excited and trying to stay calm and clear headed, "I'm having an out of body experience."  I turned my arms over and was able to 'feel' them perfectly as I normally would.  I put my hands together, and was surprised that I could feel my hands and arms like they were real and solid, like always.  (I expected to 'pass through' myself, I guess.)  I looked down and saw my physical arms and touched them.  It was weird, like having 4 arms, I could feel both my invisible hands moving on my physical arms, and my physical arms felt the hands stroking them.  I glanced over to my bed side table and reached out, expecting to 'pass through' it, and again, was surprised to find it solid.  I touched the pot of my plant and rotated it so it faced away from me, so I could prove to myself later on that this was really as real as I thought it was.  ... The plant was indeed turned around, my 'proof' to myself that what I experienced was real.
Evidential OBE in which she was able to turn a plant around during the OBE.

226. Gill S's Experience 8/13/05 I was walking between classes with my school friends when suddenly I was aware of being beside my body. I was very scared at the time and all I wanted to do was that this weird thing stopped, I needed desperately to come back into my body and I just did spontaneously again. This experience was terrifying at the time and I tried to explain the experience to my mother and she couldn't take me seriously.
OBE at age 13-14 at school.

225. Arrow's Experience 8/13/05  Late one night I was in my room and it was dark. I was standing by my bookcase looking for a particular book, actually, I was looking for a particular piece of information that I knew was in one of my books. I was scanning the books trying to determine which book the information was in. Suddenly my roommates bedroom door opened. Before I knew it I was in the air. It was in a split second that I was in the air and I saw my body laying on my bed. I was out of my body. I quickly went down into my body but it was wrong! I was trying to get into my body the wrong way. I bolted up into the air again and spun around and went down into my body, this time perfectly aligned.  I remember seeing what seemed like a cord of light from my body to my spirit body. It was as though that cord had something to do with reeling me in.

224. Dana M's Experience 7/23/05 I watched as an orb of light came right through the window and I thought that was strange.  I also sensed that it had a presence to it, it was sentient, aware.  The light began to swirl around my head, becoming closer and closer with each rotation.  I heard a loud noise, almost like a helicopter, or a loud whirring sound.  Then I knew the light would enter my body and at the point that it did, I was aware of myself being at the foot of the bed.  I was a pinpoint of consciousness.  I did not notice having a body.  I could see my physical body on the bed.  It was summer and warm so I had just draped the sheet over my hip as I was sleeping on my side.  I looked exactly as I did when I started to drift off to sleep. 
She describes two separate OBE experiences!

223. Jennifer M's Experience 7/23/05  In fact, it was at this point that I distinctly remember feeling like I was watching a play from a balcony seat. I could see the "action" going on just below me and it was as if I were watching an actress "play" me, and I had no control over the dialogue. At the time I was absolutely mortified by what I was "witnessing" and I could see that the experience was having a painfully negative effect on my close friend, yet I could do nothing to stop it.  The whole episode lasted about 15 to 20 minutes.
OBE at friend’s house.  Able to see self in interaction that was displeasing to her.

222. Hayley M's Experience 7/23/05  On my way back down the stairs I suddenly became aware that not only could I see where I was going thru my eyes, I was watching myself descend the stairs from below. It all seemed to be in slow motion until I was greeted by my auntie who made my jump, and then I was one again.  Another time I was in the playground at my secondary school and I was talking 2 my friends when I was aware that I could see myself from one of the classroom windows. I tried to control it this time as it was more familiar to me, but when a freind tapped me on the shoulder I was one once more.
Two OBEs.  First at age 12.

221. Darren J's Experience 7/23/05 In the place I was in (outside of time and free of my body) I looked down on my physical self and came