Out of body experience on afternoon at Vaal Power Station
By Alan McDougall

At about the age of twenty-seven, at Vaal Power station (where I worked at the time), in the afternoon at about 3 pm my wife and I were having a nap and instead of going to sleep as I expected, I entered a cataleptic state that I now know is Hypnagogic sleep. In other words, I was unable to move my body (sleep paralysis).

I was aware of my surroundings and that I was laying on the bed next to my wife. Then in the area of my head, an extreme vibration and buzzing began to shake my whole body. I tried and tried to move with no avail at first, and then something weird began to happen.

I found myself (Awareness/consciousness) hovering just below the ceilings, looking down on the bodies of my wife and I saw the red bed cover. That indicated to me, some sort of mind sight.

I did not like this experience, feeling some sort of an malicious, malignant entity was watching me over me. In addition the vibration and buzzing were very unpleasant. The sleep paralysis, buzzing and vibration began to happen more frequently and spontaneously , much to my distress.

During one of these spontaneous OOBE I found myself outside the house, one night, looking up at the stars, as if I were floating on my back looking up towards the sky

My consciousness awareness had separated from my sleeping body during these events.

I then began to take a real interest in this phenomenon and was led to read a book by Robert Monroe and found the term used for it was astral travel.

This practice was considered evil by my Christian friends, who advised me to immediately stop doing it, because there was a real possibility that my body could be possessed by an evil entity, while my soul was absent traveling into other realities.

I did experience some frightening things, such as coming back in horror into the wrong body. This person was in a small prison cell somewhere and I really got a fright and immediately found myself back in my own body.

I had a sort of dual awareness, in that I became somehow two beings, my sleeping material, and my ethereal self and was aware of both as if no distance separated them.

Once during another out of body event, I found myself again inhabiting the body of another person, what was really frightening is he was in the process of been murdered, by someone who knifed him numerous times. I experienced unspeakable pain as the knife went into his body and the fear of dying, as if it were happening to me, in my own body. I could actually feel the life drain out of this person, and followed him as he entered a dark but comforting void, and then finally separated my consciousness from his.

Taking the advise of my Christian friends, I stopped trying to leave my body when the catatonic sleep paralysis happened and eventually these experienced ceased for many years.

Years later I started to having spontaneously OOBE, again My types of other realities. Some of these realms where so bizarre that there are no words to express them in our three dimensional reality. In one thread on this forum I posted one of these bizarre experiences titled,” They all walked backward”

Alan Grant McDougall 2005