Anyway, this morning I decided to practice a little trance before getting up, so I just cleared my mind and waited for the sensations to come... soon enough, I found myself in trance (I always know I'm in trance, usually by hearing an intermittant noise which seems related to my state of consciousness - I can't explain it better).
Soon after noticing this noise, the projection reflex kicked in, without me trying. I decided to go along with it and project... and when I recieved my astral sight, I was looking up at the ceiling of my bedroom, exactly as I would if I opened my eyes. However, I could see my astral arms, only completely transparent. However, I noticed my left hand was completely orange, but after moving it, I realised it was just my lightshade on my ceiling, that was somehow reflecting onto my hand, as when I move my hand it went transparent. Anyway, that wasn't the important part.
I could see a strange face looking down at me, which was transparent much like my arms, but it looked inverted. It WAS me - I was looking at a transparent copy of my face from inside my body, as if my physical body was a glass mould of my body, and I (my projected double) was stuck inside! I tried to get out by climbing out with the rope technique, but all that happened was the face got bigger and clearer, but I could get no further than that... by the way, as I climbed, my astral arms moved like I was really climbing a rope... very cool 
The next thing took me by utter surprise. I stopped climbing, and started thinking that I was possible just in control of my etheric body instead of the higher subtle copy - I attempted to turn myself, or twist myself, and it worked... I felt nausea coming on, probably from my physical body... then something really weird happened... somehow, I moved further down my body, and was, to my utter surprise, looking out through my stomach area! I couldnt see any internal organs or anything similar, only a layer superimposed over my sight that appeared to be my body, but was transparent yet at the very same time easy to make out the detail and texture.
I tried unsuccessfully to get out of this "container", but could not, and just closed my eyes and waited until I thought I had snapped out of it... every time I "woke up", I tried again to initiate an OBE, and about 3-4 times I had this IBE (Inner Body Experience, as I would describe it), each time being able to move inside my transparent body (but not without difficulty). At the fifth attempt, instead of initiating my projection using rope, I just started imagining myself out-of-body, and then I realised I *was* out of body, flying out my house and onto the street. Success!
I posted a similar experience recently about this IBE-type phenonamen, and Robert Bruce stated that it was symptoms of a double mind split. Fair enough, but surely a double mind-split would have symptoms of mixed memories between an obe and dream? In this IBE, I was fully conscious, and my sight was crystal clear. Could there be another explanation?
I would be very happy if anyone who has heard or experienced anything even remotely similar to post it here, just to give me some peace of mind
Regards Conn
Section Widget
Products & Services
