To clarify, regarding the meditation tapes I mean that I have used either guided imagery tapes for specific purposes which do not relate to this, or else brainwave synchronization music or sounds for deep meditation.  The various brainwave synchronization cds are quite powerful for meditation and are the ones I am referring to.

Blink,

In my experience, there are many directions
you can go from C-1. It's not linear like
OBE, then, astral, then F27, etc.

Sounds to me like you are getting to the fun
stuff (astral/F27) by simply phasing into it.

I don't hear M-band noise that much. I guess
I should be thankful. But I hear all sorts of
sounds and music as I traverse through different
planes.

Vibrations are not a requirement for OBE's. They should become less and less with experience. And they only occur during a certain detachment point. If you pass through that phase quickly or not at all, you'll miss the vibrations completely.

Keep up your meditation work. Sounds great. You might be able to use your intent to move to other places if your uncomfortable with the noises or vibrations. And also ask for help from guidance if you need it. That's something I've only done more recently, myself.

-mike

hi there. I haven't heard M-band noise but that's because my own head is so noisy, or I mean has been. not so noisy anymore. lol.

it's true we are a noisy bunch. I did hear singing of millions of wave like voices at 9/11 one time. I sing here so I immediately began to be sucked into the choir of inspirational wave texture, but something said no, you have to go back to your body right now.

I think u are doing really well to read many authors as it gives us tips and often enough just reading something can flip you out there as in phasing where u cannot percieve a time lapse, but you are instantly there. I no longer get the initiatory vibrations, I think that has to do with energy portals of awareness. they spin constantly but we are usually locked into our five senses here. developing another sense is what u are doing and it is natural but can be a little fear of the unknown entering in. I think you will have assistance. I've never met anything frightening out there except for my own constructions or belief systems chasing me around, lol. I never made it to my kitchen obe either. seemed too blase of a journey to attempt. you might try this to get a sense of your greater self...imagine yourself standing in one of your relative's door way extending a hello greeting. then if they call you and say they saw you standing there, you get a neat verification that you succeeded. this happened to me. my sister called me the next day. I couldn't remember having succeeded except I remember the vibrations had begun; I was trying awful hard before drifting off to sleep. I was elated she saw me and this was funny, as I immediately asked her, "well, what did I say?" lol!
she said I didn't say anything, I just put in an appearance. cool. cause if I'd said something which confused her I'd have some explaining to do, right? it helps to have some positive emotion around it. I was thinking in my mind that I missed my sister and that I would always watch over her when I did this trick.
love, alysia