Just wanted to share this experience since there is a lot of talk lately about OBE's.

This one happened in July.  As I woke one morning, before even opening my eyes, I realized I was waking and didn't want to.  It was my day off and I wanted to sleep in!  The next thing I knew was, I felt myself moving away from myself.  What I mean by that is, I could feel myself still lying in bed and was completely aware of my physical self, but at the same time my awareness also began to float away from my body.  Visually I instantly saw that I was outside, although there was no feeling of distance between my visual awareness and my awareness of my body.

I didn't know where I was, but what I saw was my husband standing on a lawn, holding something in his hands.  He was looking at the lawn carefully, examining it, and occasionally bending over.  Although I had complete visual acuity and conscious awareness, for some reason I had absolutely no clue what he was doing.  This did not seem characteristic of him at all.  What did he care about the lawn?  He never carefully studies anything!  So I just kind of floated there watching him, when he motioned for me to come closer.  He then pointed down into the grass as he wanted me to look at something.  So I felt my awareness float over to him and look down into the grass.  And there I see a tiny dead mouse that looked so peaceful.  I felt so sorry for the poor little thing and wondered how I could help it. 

I got so caught up in trying to figure out how to help a dead mouse, that I began to think too much! Since I still had awareness of being in both places at once, I then got myself confused trying to think how my physical self could come to where I was and help a poor dead mouse--perhaps I could bring my covers from my bed?  No, that wouldn't work, and what good would that do?  BAM!  Too much thinking and I was pulled away and woke up in my body. 

Well, it was a very cool experience indeed, but I had no clue what it meant until later on that evening.

As I was preparing dinner, my husband was busily tidying up the house because he was expecting company.  They were just supposed to drop by briefly, and were now already over an hour late, but he still was frantically picking up the house.  (This is why I love having company, it gets him doing house work-ha!) 

Anyway, the last thing he said he wanted to go do was to clean up the dog poo in the back yard.  So he grabbed a plastic grocery baggie and the pooper scooper, and out he went into the back yard.  He stood there looking at the lawn...examining it...and occasionally bending over.  You get the picture.  This is exactly what happened in my early morning OBE. 

But it didn't occur to me yet at this point.  I had remembered the OBE clearly, but I just hadn't made the connection until I heard him holler, "Hey, Vic.  Come out here and see this dead mouse."  Okay, now it hit me.  I think I went flying out the door in disbelief.  There he stood looking exactly like he had in my OBE.  As I bent over and peered into the grass, there was that tiny dead mouse, looking so peaceful as if he were merely sleeping.  I did indeed feel sorry for it, but knew there was nothing I could do. 

This OBE was an exceptional one for me, as it gave me this concrete proof that I was indeed out of my body and experiencing something that I would otherwise have no way of knowing.  The information of the dead mouse was not important.  But this experience showed me several things:  How to recognize that separation feeling, how my thinking and perception works while out of body, how I had a look at a future event. 

My feeling as to why I had this experience is that it would help my learning process as far as how perception and awareness work, and that I could trust those two things to be true and accurate means of experiencing reality. 

Vicky

Hi Vicky, just had to say I loved your story. Thanks for sharing!

Hi Kardec,

I know I should have, your thread made me think of it.  But I wanted to hear responses from it too, make it stand out a bit more if you know what I mean?  So I made a new thread for it knowing everyone would see it. 

I wasn't even going to post it at all until I saw you ask for people's proof so thanks for the nudge!  But you know, does this kind of experience make people believe in the OBE state?  This certainly is proof enough for me, but then again I was the one who experienced it.  It might not satisfy most people who just read it. 

But I wasn't looking for proof, as I have had many OBE's and I already believe in them.  So perhaps this was proof for others as well?  Who knows. (My husband doesn't believe any of it.  He thinks we're all insane here on this board.  Well, if we are all completely nuts then its fine with me.  As long as I have all you guys to be nuts with, I'm happy).

Tayo, thanks, I am glad you liked it!

And Ryan,

The dual awareness SOUNDS freaky yes, but it isn't.  When it happens it actually makes perfect sense!  Do you understand what I mean?  I love when it happens, and I am able to have complete conscious thought and awareness of BOTH aspects at the same time.  I have not split into more than two at a time I don't think but would love to experience that too.

Ryan, maybe we all had a talk about this last night...  I felt a lot going on last night... 8)

Ryan and Tayo, it is possible we do gather together out there and chat about things, make plans, why not!  I just wish I had a better memory for it.   

Recoverer, you are right, time doesn't matter.  I love to discover new things about "time".  It is such an interesting concept. 

If you guys REALLY knew me, I mean like hung out with me and stuff, you would know what a doofus I am most of the time.  I just think it is hilarious that I get such a silly kind of OBE experience, but at least there is a lot to learn from it. 

I just wouldn't mind having some earth-shattering experiences as well!  Is that my ego talking?   

Hi Vicky, thanks for this thread! I'm searching my mind for a similar experience of dual consciousness + seeing the future, but so far searching my memory for discussion with you, I come up with dual consciousness + seeing future "self", but not dual cons. + an event.
I've seen an event unfold up to a year in advance which is buggin' at first, but it led me down a road to surmise, we really are probes of higher selves, and this here physical reality is just a movie we've been inserted into, within some previous choosing of course and then our memory wiped clean of that, to gather experience.
this is not as negative as you might at first think.
actually it fits right in with ACIM's statement "the journey is already done." we just "think" it's not done.

anyhoo, you had your event occur the same day which is great, mine are all down the road a ways...except for a few times I would meet someone astrally, a stranger, then the following day they would show up at my door, or I would meet them somehow. it really made conversation difficult when I meet someone "ahead" of time, because I keep wanting to spill my guts on them, and they of course don't know where your head is at, or what you're staring at them weirdly for.
it's not proof for them, in other words but powerful self truth. well, anyway I have this long drawn out philosophy of a holographic universe reproducing itself endlessly and scientifically as mirror images of itself and that all time is one thing. have I ascended?

I often think I'm dead and the only way I know I'm alive is to check the internet...   just kidding.

thanks, and btw this is the only place I know of to come and let it all hang out....love, alysia

Thanks so much for sharing your experiences as fully as you have recently, Vicky.  I enjoy them very much and you describe them very clearly. 

I am lately second guessing myself a lot and wondering what "real proof" would mean to me personally and how I could ever feel that it was solid.  If I had your particular experience I would perhaps, at this stage of my thinking, wonder to myself if I had noticed the mouse earlier at some point and just didn't remember it.   Or I might wonder if it is some kind of "future" esp? 

I know that sounds vague, but I find myself a little confused about what the actual significance is, and this is not to diminish your experience in any way!  I just find myself questioning everything, which is, perhaps, part of the process.

I feel the need to hear all of your stories, so believe me, I'm listening.  I'm not playing doubting Thomas to your experience at all, just explaining that as time goes on I become more unsure what a "proof" as described in the different contexts that exist on this forum signifies.

I don't go OBE the way you and some others do, but this is all very interesting to me, so, again, thanks for the sharing that so many of you do here.

blink

Hi Blink,

Thanks for your compliments!  I do appreciate hearing that you like my stories and that I describe them very well.  Makes me feel good!

All I can say about proof is that I think it will mean something different to each individual.  I'm not trying to brag, but I actually do remember OBE's that I had as a child!  I grew up thinking everybody did this sort of thing.  So I never went looking for proof as it just never occurred to me that what I was experiecing wasn't true and wasn't normal.

I also think it is good to question everything.  I certainly don't believe everything I hear and read.  But when it comes to my own self and my own experiences, I know I can trust my conscious awareness. 

About ESP, that means extra-sensory perception, which means outside of the normal means of perception.  My experience indeed can be called an ESP experience, and the way I picked up the ESP info was through an OBE.  I would think there are many ways to pick up ESP information. 

For me personally, this experience helped me learn to pay attention more to the separation feeling and what I view when I'm "out there".  In time I'm sure I will learn not to do so much silly self talk during the experience and actually tell myself, "Cool!  I'm out, I can do some really neat exploring now!"

I appreciate what you say and I am not offended at all by it!   

I am happy to share these things, and if someone gets something from it and another doesn't, well that is not up to me to decide.  If everyone I have learned something from had never, ever shared their stories, then I would not be where I am today.   

Love, Vicky