Who has had an "out of body experience" and would you care to describe it?

sometimes if i think too much—like at a funeral or something, i’ll hear a ringing noise that sounds like a fire alarm and then pass out. it’s happened like 5 or so times since i was 16. i dont know if that’s the kind of thing you are asking about, but whatever.

I’ve heard the ringing before but it’s only when I try to listen to silence. It gets louder and louder until my body jolts a little because my mind has to hear a sound to snap itself out of the extreme noise the silence makes. I can only last like 30 seconds of listening to it before I jolt it really makes me mad because I try to outlast it lol. I wonder if I would pass out if I tried so hard not to make a noise…

Oh, I have floating dreams. I love these, and can remember having them back into my childhood. I can jump up in the air, and swim. They’re so real that I have a hard time remembering that I don’t really have this ability.

Do OOB experiences under the influence of drugs count? If so i have a ton of stories i can tell.

Back in the day when I was in Junior High we had this experiment we used to do…Im not sure who started it or where they got it from, but you basically lean your back against a wall, bend over and take 20 short breaths. Then, you come up, lean back up against the wall, take a deep breath, hold it, and have someone in front of you push your chest in for 5–6 seconds while you’re holding your breath. Then the person releases and you breathe. This is suppose to bring about some sort of hypnotic state or something. But I had a person do this to me and when I woke up, I was curled up in a ball on the floor in a fetal position and I had no recollection of going down on the ground. Observers later told me that I had just began to drop to the floor slowly and curl up. I had some visions as all this were occurring but they were all bits and pieces until later on when it became more understandable to me. I described what I saw to my mom and she was nearly in shock. During that whole hypnotic process, I was reliving my own birth. I described to my mother how the hospital room looked when I was born and the people who were there, things that only she knew. Pretty crazy!! I haven’t tried it since.

Strange experience BoyWonder. Do you think it was a safe experiment though? Would you do it again? Reminds me of those native indian teepee trance-like experiences where you sweat it out until you see a vision.

@uberbatman: Nahhh, no “under the influence” tales please, if you don’t mind. I want the real deal, man.

@siren fair enough :P

Well that took place when I was about 14. I’m 27 now so I guess it was safe. I’m not sure I’d do it again, I rather just smoke a ton of reefer and zone out loll.

@uberbatman: Ok, since you’re such a good sport. Give us one.

Does recollection of events count? For example when ever I think back about anything I’ve done (today or years agoa) I watch what I did from 3rd person. I’m like a free floating camera watching what I did. I don’t know if this is what your talking about, is it?

Last week i tried DMT for the first time. When you dream at night, thats DMT. The bright light you see when you almost die, DMT. Life flashing before your eyes, DMT. Fun^_ ^.

I put the dose in my pipe and slowly inhaled the hit. Before i could exhale vision was distorted. There was a bright flash of light and it felt like someone had launched me out of a cannon. I was flying forward towards some giant chrysanthemum fractal pattern saw a bunch of other bright patterns as well. I saw this which is really bizarre because ive never seen that before in my life. I found the image on google one day,turns out if a shamanic symbol. I felt the presence of these beings. They spoke some alien language but i could understand it. Feel what they were saying.(its really hard to explain sorry lol) There was overwhelming joy and happiness. (as dmt goes you have to smoke a certain dose to “break through” all the way. Since this was my first time i didnt smoke enough) All of a sudden i started seeing flashes of my life. I was there in each memory living it, but only for a second, before it flashed to the next one. Each flashback was random and had no real meaning. For some reason i found all of this terrifying. In hindsight its not, but i did then.There was this extreme fear, more than ive ever felt in my life.(somehow this is all still enjoyable to me lol) i felt as if the universe was ending.I felt like i was in a void, nothingness. And then rebirth.And i awoke from the trance.
All of the above happened in 5 minutes. ^_^

Ive also had some weird obb experiences on mushrooms where i can see myself from another point of view. Very strange.

FYI, from Wikipedia:

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the theory that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience (NDE) phenomenon. Several of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or visual hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases.

Several subjects also reported contact with ‘other beings’, alien like, insectoid or reptilian in nature, in highly advanced technological environments[7] where the subjects were ‘carried’, ‘probed’, ‘tested’, ‘manipulated’, ‘dismembered’, ‘taught’, ‘loved’ and even ‘raped’ by these ‘beings’. Those could be the same beings that some of the ancient cultures that consumed DMT rich beverages, like ayahuasca, considered their gods. Also, this leads to the idea that the alien abduction phenomenon could be produced by high levels of endogenous DMT in the human body, and that it might be a physiological condition that could pass genetically to the descendants of such people. (see Abduction phenomenon). Strassman noted, though, that the experience might be highly influenced by the actual user’s life, showing what the person needs, given their personal story of the moment, more than what is wanted, and also that the setting could play a partial role, too (ex: in a waking dream state).

Sometimes, when things are really tight with the other musicians in my group, I feel like I’m both inside and outside my body at the same time. From the outside point of view, oh gosh, I guess it’s kind of like a William Gibson cyberspace kind of thing. I see the musicians… well, not really see… more imagine them as these geometric colored shapes with lines running between them. I can look at the shape, and see what is missing, or what, were it there, would transform the whole thing, and then I play that. It is very cool, and it doesn’t happen very often.

I think the first couple of times it happened, I wasn’t expecting it, and so I let it happen. Now, when it starts happening, I am too aware, and this keeps it from developing.

I used to think I could make stuff like this happen any time I want, but I didn’t do it because, I don’t know. It didn’t seem appropriate? Now I’m not so sure I can do it just like that. Now my consciousness needs to be fooled in order to let it happen, and it gets harder and harder to fool my consciousness, since, with more experience, it knows what to look for, and it knows all the tricks. The best I can do, these days, is to let both conditions (consciousness and out thereness) coexist.

Obviously, it’s hard to describe, and that probably made no sense.

@BoyWonder: You are lucky. That can stop your heart. It’s one of those things that kids inevitably get into, but can be terribly dangerous (similar to the “choking game”).

@TheBox: Sure, it can be. I mean, if you feel like you’re out of your body watching your past from afar, that can be a surreal experience.

@uberbatman: Interesting. If you don’t mind me saying so, it’s still 1000X more freaky when it happens without drugs. We’re talking sci-fi experiences. Weirdness not artificially created, you know what I mean. Thanks for sharing though. Sounds parallel to what others experience without the drug influence. Hmmm…I wonder if some of these experiences are due to the chemical makeup of our brains and that some people, due to their unique chemical makeup, are more susceptible to having these experiences, or thinking they’ve had them.

@daloon: Cool info my friend. Sounds like you’ve tapped into some subconsciousness that can potentially work for you. Hopefully you can recreate it again.

@EmpressPixie: Hear! Hear! No dangerous games, please. We only have one life. Well, that’s my belief anyways. Apologies who think they have 9, or will return for a comeback (not meant as a put-down either).

@daloon the spirit molecule was a great book. Well worth the read.

@siren oh yea, i definitely agree.

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@uberbatman That’s pretty intense.

@Siren I’m a believer in drugs not putting things into our brain, that stuff was already there in your head. Thanks for asking this question though, I’m also interested in OBEs and all that, so now I can track this :P