Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
What I am interested in is if there are proofs that OOBE is real in objective terms - by which I mean that it is not just a fantasy inside the brain, but that it is proved that it has an objective reality (please, no questions like "what do you mean by "real" or "objective" - you know what I mean).
Did anyone make successful experiments about the reality of OOBE like reading some text someone has writen and which is in some other place, or determining what picture another person has drawn on a piece of paper or similar.
Basically, has anyone made successful experiments proving that one can get objective information trough OOBE in the real physical world about something that one could not know otherwise?
There are people outhere (not me, but I have doubts) who claim that OOBE, lucid dream and astral projection are just a phenomenon inside the head and that there is no real exit from the body.
Has anyone proved the objective reality of OOBE by retrieving correct information trough OOBE about something in the physical world that proved to be right after checking?
Keyword: OBE Validations
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
yep. there's plenty of evidence around to prove it, i'm sure the Mods will be able to point you to some... get to work Mods :wink: :P
in the meantime, consider, would the US military have spent so much time/effort in developing remote viewing programmes, if the benefits were simply fabrications of the mind?
from my own experiences, i've had validation thru connecting with friend's consciousness when they're on the other side of the world, and shared experiences with numerous friends, nearby, and in other countries at the time.
how could we all be in each other's brains, having the same experience, at the same time?... :?
and when you get the validation you're looking for, you'll then have to reconsider your opinion regarding "where" consciousness resides... cos it's not in the brain.
sure the brain allows us to experience physical senses and reality and all that goes with it, but consciousness doesn't end with the brain.
and when you get your head round that, :wink: , you'll have no choice but to start considering and understanding the true nature of reality... and that's when things really get fun!! :lol:
the rabbit hole is bottomless, it seems.
enjoy the trip... 8)
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
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Originally Posted by Neil Templar
from my own experiences, i've had validation thru connecting with friend's consciousness when they're on the other side of the world, and shared experiences with numerous friends, nearby, and in other countries at the time.
Could you give an account of some, or at least one of these cases where you validated the objective reality of OOBE?
And in general, could anyone having such validating experiences or experiments describe some of them here please?
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
i've posted about them, they're around here somewhere...i'll see if i can find them. pretty old posts...
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
As some here might already know from my consciousness change post to Robert lately I'm a parapsychology geek who also likes doing some online research concerning these topics. :wink:
So I might help out with some verification accounts on APs.
Here's some links to interesting obe verification accounts I found on other sites, forums, story collections, plus one lab experiment report by parapsychologist Charles Tart (third link):
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welco ... 607.0.html
http://www.monroeinstitute.org/forum/di ... ng/#Item_0
http://www.paradigm-sys.com/ctt_articles2.cfm?id=31
http://www.oberf.org
I had collected the most interesting of them some time ago in a text file for myself, so i can copy them here for your convenience.
Not all of them are equally strong evidence - some, however, are astounding.
You still could - as a close-minded skeptic - argue that it is all 1. imagination/delusion and just accidental coincidence, or 2. made-up stories, lies and plain fraud. These however are always the standard "belief system defense mechanisms" of those materialist skeptics. I think we shouldn't do this here and instead value people's experiences and not be cynical about them, so I "believe" their accounts and evidence contained therein to be "genuine" experiences to some great extent.
Still, it remains of course subjective and personal, like all conscious experience, which makes it always somehow 'unscientific' because it remains "anecdotal evidence" - a term generally used by the skeptics to play it down. Apart from Tart, I guess no extensive scientfic laboratory tests have been done so far with OBEs.
Btw, it's a very different matter with scientific research on Remote Viewing, which is almost PROVEN! - I could post a lot on that, but I will leave it at OBEs now. It also should be mentioned that a lot of NDE-OBE accounts supply verifications, e.g. unconscious patients experience what the doctors and nurses were doing and talking exactly during the surgery, or remember what their worried relatives were doing at the time, one account mentions a shoe on the roof of the hospital, which was confirmed later, and so on. Moreover, there are many verified facts in accounts to be found in the vast literature on NDEs, since NDES contain OBE as an element, I would count these in! However, here's for the "genuine" Astral Projection validations:
Astral Pulse Forum:
„In one of my projections, some years ago, I decided to go to visit my parents' house, which is 15 km far away. It was 10:00 in the morning. I overflew my city, following the way to the hose of my childhood. I could recognize all the details, the highway, the fields...
When I arrived the house and I went into it, I see my mother cooking in the kitchen. I tried to call the attention but she did not react at all, like she couldn't see me.
Later, I went to my sister's bedroom. In that time, she was still living there, but in that moment she should have been working in the office. I checked all was normal in the room. She wasn't there, as I expected. Some thing attracted my attention. There was a paper on the table. I approached to it and I could see it was like a note. I had many problems to read it (like usually reading something out of the body). But at the end I was able to understand what It said: “PRESENT FOR _____ (my real name)â€
More things happened, but to summarize I went back to my body and made a decision: I would go physically to my parents' house to check all those things. I did it, what it took twenty minutes, and my mother was there, in the kitchen cooking. I say hi and I went into my sister's room, very thrilled. There was a note on the table, exactly like the one I saw being out of the body, which said: “PRESENT FOR _____ (my real name)â€. Then I imagined she was thinking in my birthday, that would be in two weeks.
I think it is a perfect validation of an out of the body experience.....“
„When I was a little kid I had OBE experiences all of the time. I used to visit a place called "The Boys Club" for fun in the physical after elementary school.
I was around 8 or 9 years old and had the experience of flying thru the club at night, the lights were off. I took note that the placement of everything ex. "pool tables, ping pong", was completly different than earlier that week. Sure enough a couple days later when I went back there in the physical, everything was exactly as I had seen a few nights earlier!“
„Saw my dad in the yard once and noted his shirt, tried passing my hand through him, couldnt get a reaction, awoke and found him wearing the same shirt and pants.“
„The most convining validation I have experienced yet involved my sister, when I was still living at home. I became lucid in a dream, which caused me to wake up. On waking I discovered I was paralysed and experiencing the vibrations. I rolled out, and for some reason, I decided to try and pull my sister out. I went to her room (in my experience the light was on in her room, but in reality it wasn't) and started pulling at her arm. When I finally got her out, I showed her how to float, and helped her float up to the ceiling (we had our heads sticking through into the loft). The experience wasn't much more than this. I returned to body and checked the clock.
Out of curiosity, the morning after this experience I asked my sister if she had any strange dreams. She went a bit weird and didn't want to talk about it. Later that evening, she opened up and told me she woken in the night to see a black 'smoky' figure (see through) leaning over her bed with its hand reaching out towards her, this terrified her. She doesn't recall any of what I did (pulling her out), but the times matched up.“
„A few years ago I was living in the south of England whilst my parents lived in their house in Leeds in the north. One Saturday morning I AP'd and decided to pay my parents an "astral" visit. So concentrating on their house in Leeds, I soon found myself outside in the street in front of the house. It was a bright morning. Walking up the garden path I passed through the front door and into the hallway in my parents' house, where I discovered my mother watching in utter surprise as I came in through the front door.
I calmed her down and explained that this was just a kind of "special dream" and she had nothing to worry about. We walked through the living room and into the kitchen where I sat down on a very flimsy wooden "sewing basket", knowing that I couldn't break it. My mother complained, saying I'd break the basket but I reassured her that I was "as light as a feather" and it wouldn't break.
Then I decided to show off, so I started pointing at objects, cups, jars etc, making them fly around the kitchen. My mother was pretty shocked by all of this. At this point I lost consciousness and returned to my physical body.
A little later in the morning I got up, had breakfast, went about my business and by mid-day, curiosity got the better of me so I decided to phone home, just in case anything "unusual" had happened there. My mother answered the phone, sounding agitated, and as soon as she heard my voice said "Thank God! I thought you had died!". It turns out that she had a "dream" which was identical to the OBE I had.
She remembered dreaming that she was standing in the hall when I emerged in front of her by coming in THROUGH the front door. Shocked by this and feeling certain that something was very wrong, she continued to dream the same events that I had experienced - walking through the living room into the kitchen, complaining that I would break the sewing basket and then watching as I made objects fly around the kitchen. My mother recounted the dream without prompting. I didn't guide her in any way.
My mother's dream was identical to my OBE in every respect, and it troubled her so much that she was sure some harm must have come to me and that the dream was some sort of harbinger of bad fortune. She didn't have a contact number for me so when I called she was extremely relieved!“
„Ap Friends,
It's been awhile since I've posted my latest validation attempts and tracking. I've been following whole heartdly for the last two years now of my own personal experiences and validations. Your more welcome to view the contents in my web site to listen/read.
I recently conversed with a hard-core skeptic and it was a terrible conversation, to say the least. Purely one tracked minded, not open to the slightest of possibabilities and claimed that NDEs/OBEs were all hullcinations.
It was a good and eye opening experiences because it did give me some good insight on a few things that I needed to add into my FAQs about skeptics. Here it is:
•What are your thoughts about skeptics and their views?
I totally respect the views of skeptics trying to prove that the out of body experience is false memories, hallucinatory, and generated in the brain. It’s always good to be objective towards this field of study. However, we should keep a open mind and not be quick to judge either. Here’s a near death / out of body experience to consider and seriously think about:
Example: How do you explain the near death experience of Pam Reynolds? Under a medical and scientific controlled environment she was able to validate with accuracy during her operation external events outside her body.
During her operation, Pam had no brain activity, no blood, no vital signs for over an hour to remove a tumor. Doctors, Scientists, Skeptics can’t explain this experience but only try to theorize.
So how would a skeptic go about theorizing when experts in the medical / scientific fields can't.
Anyways, as I tracked my own personal success with obe's, I've come to one conclusion that if any skeptic asks "prove it to me". Why should I prove something that I've proved to myself and done the work.
Here are the journal entries on my web site if those who are interested in validations.
1 07/14/05 Thursday 3:45 AM 3:52 AM 10:30 AM 10:37 AM 2 Of Hearts King of Diamonds/8 of Hearts Jack Of Diamonds Couldn't Remember 416 to 1 - Validation 07-14-2005 - Card Verification #1 - Conscoious & False Awakening Projection.mp3“
„dream: I get lucid and decide to visit my sister L. I find her in a huge building. There are large open hallways almost like a mall, but bigger and lots of other people are there too. I look and finally see L standing nearby. I call to her, but she looks scared and starts running away. I'm confused and run after her, weaving in and out of people until I lose her in a crowd.
waking: call L to see if she remembered me in a dream last night. She said no, but she did remember a scary dream. She was in the Mall of America and someone was chasing her through it.“
„User: Mendel « Reply #94 on: March 25, 2007, 00:54:41 »
I didn't make it to your room in my projection last night, but I was thinking about your experiment and noticed a light blue object on my brother's dresser. It had five connected vertical open cylinders and little symbols of animals on it. It almost seem to sparkle as though it were made from glass.
User: Nay « Reply #98 on: April 02, 2007, 15:35:00 »
Oh and btw the object on my desk was a plastic easter cup, filled with pens and pencils.
User: Nay « Reply #105 on: April 10, 2007, 13:20:47 »
Hi Mike!
I can't believe I failed to see your post, I'm sooooo sorry! I went back to see what you said and what is absolutely crazy is, I have never mentioned that there are some little bunnies on the cup and you mention animal prints!!
Looks like we got a winner! Very impressive Mike!“
„I have a silly story of what I thought would be validation:
2 nights ago I had and conscious-exit OBE and wandered around my house. I was so sure that I had was fully focused in the RTZ - I've been in my new house a few months now and everything was exactly as it was before my OBE attempt that night. It was all very solid, everything being in place. Then I noticed a crack in one of my new blinds. I inspected it and was sure this would be my validation. I made a note of which set of blinds and the area it was cracked.
So the next morning I get up and check, and the blinds are fine. I was positive it would be cracked. I checked all the blinds in the house, but nothing. Oh well.
and TVOS told me this:
Quote TVOS:
That would have been cool to see that the blinds were indeed cracked. Maybe this was a future event that you saw? If I were you, keep a tab on the blinds, maybe if you can remember draw to paper what the crack looked like. When the time does come when the blinds do indeed crack, compare the two. Something to think about!
Well, a few days ago I was grilling, sippin a few brews, and a fly got in the house. I'm pretty good at snapping them with a dish cloth, so I follow it over the the window and SNAP - got the fly AND the edge of the blind, cracking it EXACTLY as I saw it before. As soon as it happened I remembered seeing it broken in my OBE.
Seeing as how I was the one with the premonition and the one who broke it, and I've never had anything like this happen before, I don't necessarily call it a validation. I may have unconsciously broke it (with unnatural extreme precision that matches the experience perfect) to make my prophesy come true.
But I can throw it into my x-files evidence cabinet for future reference.
Thanks to TVOS or I would have probably forgotten the OBE and never made a connection to a future event.“
„A friend of mine seems to be a natural AP'er.
I told her to project and then think of me to project to me.
She said she could see that i was making motions like i was clicking the mouse on a computer, but I was the only thing in the room that she could see.
She also said that it looked like I was touching my face with my left hand.
At the time of the projection, I was on the computer, using the mouse with my right hand, and biting the nails on my left hand.“
„I've had several validations. But the most validating was the one in which my ex showed up in my OBE. He has these experiences also, only his are more progressed. He told me he was going to come and join me sometime. And he did! A few days after he appeared in my OBE, my ex came over to my house and asked me if I had seen him. I told him, "I knew that shadowy figure on the stairs was you!" I had recognized his silhouette----especially that of his hair!My ex even told me that at one time when I flew past him that my and his heads had collided.This had happened when I decided to fly through him instead of past him the second time around.I flew through him from his neck up. This is when he and I collided heads!
Another time my ex came over, and as he and I stood outside talking, he nodded toward the direction underneath my upstairs bedroom window and asked me if, a few days earlier, I had traveled out my bedroom window just underneath the spot where he had motioned his head. Again, I was excited but not shocked to learn that he had seen me. I told him I had done that very thing because I wanted to scare the neighbor's dog that was always barking and annoying me.“
„One in particular experience that I could call validation of an astral experience was when I was attending high school. I had left my body and found my conscious awareness at the top of some trees.
It was night time and I saw a fire burning below. I could see a definite red glow and smoke was billowing up through the air. Below I saw firemen scurrying about working on putting out the fire.
The next day I relayed this experience to my close friend from high school. He was astonished at what I told him and he then told me that there had been a fire at a school mates trailer that night. He said that himself and other volunteer firefighters were there that night, and the scene was very similar to what I had relayed to him.
One other time was when I wanted to visit this same friend at night during an astral travel. I remember hovering over his bed, but him just seeming to sleep, not responding. The next day I told him what I did. He said "that was you!!! Don't do that again, you scared the cr*p out of me, I thought you were a ghost!!!"
He he, I didn't bother him or anyone after that.“
„I saw my dog trying to jump up on a chair of the kitchen table which I’ve never seen him do before. I went upstairs right after the experience ended and he had actually gotten up on the same chair and was trying to get at a bowl and this is the only time that he had ever done something like that with the kitchen table chairs.“
„I traveled into my son's room and briefly watched as he sat at the computer and watched YouTube videos. Later, I asked him if he had been watching wrestling videos on YouTube. He said he had been watching UFC videos on YouTube. In my book, the same thing! He must have thought I meant WWE and was specific that it was in fact UFC. I asked him if it had been wrestling cause I just knew it had been two guys squaring off in a ring.“
Monroe Forum:
"I went out of body one morning, went outside my house and saw the postman walking towards my house with a parcel, I returned immediately went downstairs and he knocked on the door, he had a parcel for me. I was smiling like Cheshire Cat, I bet he thought I was a little weird lol. Validation is great fun."
"I saw a small plane while flying in an out-of-body state, and flew around the plane observing it. When I awoke, I heard a small plane, and looked out my window to see what appeared to be the same plane flying over my home. While obe I visited my children who were living with my ex-wife at a location on the other side of town; and the next day verified the events that happened and what my ex-wife was wearing with her the next day."
OBE Research Foundation:
„I could fly over London, or be in a Maxfield Parish painting. It was as real as I am sitting here right now. Fun, amazing, and life changing. One time ,one of my first times, I went to a place that my friends were at to find out if this was real or just my imagination. I was able to fly there, and they were there and I saw what my friend was wearing and the next day I asked what she was wearing and it was true. I absolutely was floored…“
„In 1989 my family and I migrated from Italy to Canada. In 1993 my parents gave me as a sweet 16th birthday present a ticket for the summer to my home town of Perugia, Italy.
Approx. 2 weeks before my departure I had a dream. I found myself in front of my childhood friend's door. I found it peculiar to be there but in the dream I told myself 'it's just a dream'. I knocked and after a while my best friend came to the door and looked around but didn't see me standing there and as she was closing the door I sneaked inside.
As I stood inside their foyer and while trying to get their attention these are the things I saw: first of all it seemed like it was lunch time, all the women of the house were running around trying to set the table, and coming in and out of the kitchen. Why do I say it was lunch time? Because out of own curiosity of the time of day I looked outside toward their balcony and the sun was shining.
Then I turned my attention to the house. They had renovated the house. Where there used to be once upon a time my friend's sisters' bedroom was now the kitchen. Beside the kitchen was the new bathroom with granite like tiles from head to toe. And to my left their dining room was still the same but they had changed the arrangement of the dining room table and the TV. As I kept on trying to get their attention and calling out for them I started walking toward the end of the foyer and I opened the door to what used to be their living room which was now my friend's bedroom. And further down the hallway the old bathroom was no longer there and her parent's bedroom had not changed.
After again trying without avail to get their attention I finally woke up from my dream.
My first feeling was that it was a dream warning me not to expect much, and I actually tried to convince my parents to cancel my ticket for fear of rejection from my friends. But I'm so glad I went for that trip. I'm so glad to have had such a beautiful experience because when I actually went physically to my friend's house I saw all that I saw in my 'dream'. All the changes in their house, their cooking and eating routines and also the absence of their family pets made me realize it wasn't just a dream, I think literally travelled there in spirit.“
„On January 18, 1998 it was a Sunday, ( I remember because I kept a article of the event) That night I remember going to sleep and suddenly it felt like I was flying by my neighborhood above and watching a scenario happen. In OBE there was a boy I went to middle school with, I remember seeing him walk through this parkway towards the mall I lived generously close to. And it felt like I was following him above and sometimes along side. It kind of felt like I was there watching from above floating kind of. Than all of a sudden I saw a blue ford-like pickup truck driving through the park also, than I saw a blurred glimpse of a white male with a baseball cap, he pulled a rifle out of the window and shot the boy in the back. it was so detailed. I immediately got freaked out and wanted to cry because it was so real, I woke up crying. I just thought it was some silly nightmare, so I went back to sleep. The next day was no school, I didn't find out until I went back to school on Tuesday that this event had really happened. When I got to school it was so gloomy, people were crying and talking about some boy that got shot, and than I found out it was him. I freaked and thought maybe I’m going crazy, so ever since than I kept the newspaper article (that has every detail I so vividly remember), not knowing my gut instincts were right to keep it. Considering what I know now about OBEs, I definitely was oblivious to the extent OBEs really are and how life changing they can be.“
(note: there might be a lot more on OBERF, this is only what I found after 20 minutes of research time)
Charles Tart, lab test with "Mrs Z":
"Miss Z awoke and called out that the target number was 25132. This was correct (with the digits in correct order), but I did not say anything to her at this point; I merely indicated that I had written the number down on the record. I then told her she could go back to sleep, but twenty minutes later I awakened her so that she could get ready to go to work. (...)
It should be mentioned that Miss Z had expected me to prop the target number up against the wall on the shelf; actually, I had laid it flat on the shelf, which she correctly perceived. (...)
Miss Z's correctly calling a five-digit number (P = 10^-5 [i.e., odds of 1 in 100,000]) was the first strong evidence that her OOB experiences contained a parapsychological element. "
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I hope this is all helpful.
So far I have not yet found a "validations thread" here. I cannot contribute an account myself because I have not yet managed a good validation yet (seeing my body is not enough, it always should be an event unfolding or object you just don't know how it looks like before.).
:idea:
So ... has anyone here of you guys a good validation story to add? I would suggest maybe we can make this thread our validations-thread from now on?
Also, maybe someone can post here further good weblinks to more validation stories on OBE/AP? I like them a lot. :P
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
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Has anyone proved the objective reality of OOBE by retrieving correct information trough OOBE about something in the physical world that proved to be right after checking?
Yes, I've objectively tested myself once by viewing a playing card while OOB that was placed for me.
A diehard skeptic wouldn't take this as proof, though, since I had a 1 in 52 chance of being right.
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
Wow, CFT, that's really 3 great validations I can add to my little compilation of rtz proof stories now. :D
dreamosis: congrats for a successful "card trick", I still am waiting exactly for this kind of success, I try hard but failed so far, keep your fingers crossed for me :wink:
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
I think it is all in our heads, but just because it is all in our heads doesn't mean there is a loss of objective practicality.
I've tried the playing card experiment once.
The card i saw out of body was a red 3. Couldn't tell what suit.
The actual card was an 8 of diamonds.
I havn't really felt any major urge to pursue the objectivity of OOBE after that too much more.
I guess it depends on your goals though. I'm not really trying to project to validate its objectivity.
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I havn't really felt any major urge to pursue the objectivity of OOBE after that too much more.
I guess it depends on your goals though. I'm not really trying to project to validate its objectivity.
Me neither- but my reason for posting mine (there are more) is to show that indeed they exist and happen. Whether that's enough is a matter of personal preference.
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Originally Posted by heliac
I havn't really felt any major urge to pursue the objectivity of OOBE after that too much more.
I guess it depends on your goals though. I'm not really trying to project to validate its objectivity.
Me neither- but my reason for posting mine (there are more) is to show that indeed they exist and happen. Whether that's enough is a matter of personal preference.
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I hear ya. I'm finding there are a lot of little things that verify some kind of consistancy within the projecting environment.
Sometimes i will be reading through your posts and will say to myself, hey that same exact thing happened to me too. Or for example I signed up for the PAPI july course and Bob sent an intro email to me with a link to the astraldynamics ebook which i am reading right now. In the ebook there is a picture of how your hands look while out of body and one of the pictures looks like long boney witch like hands. That is how i documented my hands looking while out of body and i had not read this ebook before today.
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
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Originally Posted by heliac
I've tried the playing card experiment once.
The card i saw out of body was a red 3. Couldn't tell what suit.
The actual card was an 8 of diamonds.
Okay, I only ever did two trials with the playing card experiment. The first time I tried to project to the card, it was difficult to read it. I could tell that it was a spade, however, and I was right. I was wrong on the number of spades. I couldn't read the numeral, so I tried to count the number of spades on the card -- but they didn't seem to stay put, everything looked ethereal and misty.
On my second try I saw the right card laid out for me.
This experiment is tricky to do since it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between a real-time zone projection and a waking-induced lucid dream at the beginning of which you experience exit sensations. Usually if I'm projecting into the RTZ, then the quality of my presence within the experience is totally different than the quality of my presence within a WILD. A good, but not surefire, reality test to ascertain whether you're in the RTZ is to try to switch on a light. Typically your hand will pass through the switch, whereas with a WILD, the lights typically work.
This experiment is difficult to do for a number of reasons, but if you're focusing on inducing short projections in your immediate environment, it's something you might as well try to do.
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
I can feel with heliac, it can appear to be a hopeless case.
I always seem to be in the LD-state when checking the card, they "WILD"-ly :wink: fluctuate before "my eyes" then and I cannot make out a single card, if I do settle on a card anyway (the first or the seemingly most prevalent to me), it turns out to be the wrong one on checking afterwards.
Seems hopeless. :|
Now I'm tacking a card blindfolded each night/morning right onto the opposite wall of my bed with my face looking directly on it to have the shortest "way" possible, and I wear a dream mask to keep me "blind".
So, theoretically, i would not even have to project/exit, astral sight while vibrating or in trance but staying "in" would do.
And that is my plan now. I had this state already when I got out with heavy jolts and vibrations from a lucid dream, but that was a long time ago now and it did not happen anymore.
Anybody any hint for me how to reach it? Is it possible with commands, e.g. saying "focus on RTZ" or something?
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Hi Vogerle,
I didn't really mean to say it's hopeless. When i saw the red 3 instead of the 8 of diamonds i actually thought i was pretty close being that an 8 and a 3 look kind of similar.
I just haven't really had the urge to try to verify objective reality through oobe yet. Maybe later on when i can actually get some good control and learn a little more but for now i'm just trying to focus on getting oob more consistently and with more clarity.
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Anybody any hint for me how to reach it? Is it possible with commands, e.g. saying "focus on RTZ" or something?
Auto-suggestions are worth a shot. Once you're in trance, try mentally saying to yourself over and over again something like, "I'm in the Real Time Zone."
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(please, no questions like "what do you mean by "real" or "objective" - you know what I mean).
LOL I laffed at this. I know what the person is thinking here I just get irritated when I ask a question in some forum and someone has to shoot it down and use this annoying thing like "well what is REAL?" or "what is validation?" I think to myself ahhh FFS!! I not here to get into this crap for gods sake you know what I mean!! it almost seems to be a trend these days for people to query basic things like "what is normal?" that annoys me too.
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
wait, so OBE's aren't merely imaginations of the mind or dreams, but are actual objects? i figured since dreams are workings of the subconscious, OBE's would work in a similar way. the way i see it, is that you can get induced into a trance so deep that you lose a sense of your physical being and merely imagining yourself come out of your body are just a working of the subconscious creating an image like that of a dream, only the dream happening is the OBE/AP.
are OBE's/AP's really actual beings from inside your phyisical self, and not mere subconscious images, such as dreams? how is that so? wouldn't this be more of a religious way of looking at it? you know, with the thought of each one of us have a "soul"? or is it not like that? i haven't done a whole lot of research on this, (beyond figuring how to even do it) but imo, i would imagine that and OBE/AP would be losing a sense of feeling your physical self, and your subconscious creates an image of your non -physical being because it lost communication with your physical self. almost like your subconscious knows you don't have a connection with your physical self, and it wants to give you a body to use (being your non-physical body) so your conscious brain doesn't get confused, or think something's wrong. isn't it the subconscious's job to make the best sense of what's going on? i think a good reason behind why some weird dreams that would never happen in reality are perceived to be real in the dream, could be the subconscious mind taking a break from creating sensable scenarios because it doesn't have to give your conscious brain a sensable image, because it knows it's asleep. but in a lucid dream, the subconcsious doesn't know the conscious has become awake, so the conscious mind can create it's own sense of what's going on. i could be wrong though, this is just the way i see it, but it makes sense to me.
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
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Originally Posted by Guitarmaster72
wait, so OBE's aren't merely imaginations of the mind or dreams, but are actual objects?
Everything you experience is your own brain processing input and signals, and your mind (which is not the same as your brain) deciding what it is, how it fits into your reality, etc. This is not just a spiritual viewpoint. It's basic neuroscience.
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Originally Posted by Guitarmaster72
wouldn't this be more of a religious way of looking at it? you know, with the thought of each one of us have a "soul"?
That's a big question, and probably better off on a thread of its own, or in one of the many threads already dedicated to the concept of souls and self-awareness, etc.
Generally speaking, most people experience the astral as being part of that which Jung called the Collective Unconscious. OBE may take place in the astral or in that which is called the Real Time Zone (RTZ). The things that people experience in any dream, lucid or not, or any OBE tend to be quite personal, though in some cases, OBE does show things that can be later verified (such as seeing someone in a specific location at a specific time, and having this confirmed later, but that's only one of many, many possibilities).
And, yes, dreams, lucid dreams, OBE, all of that is still your mind interpreting input, so it's as "real" or "not real" as anything else you can experience.
Re: Reality of OOBE - Just in the brain or objective?
Adding my two cents: What we experience as OBEs and/or dreams are our consciousness processing perception; where the information comes from is sometimes the question. That's why we have validations, group experiences, and precognitive experiences.
The 'how' of it from a purely scientific point of view can be found in Yamabushi's topic in the Science and Spirituality subforum, if you agree with his theories. (Which are fascinating.)
There is no need to believe these experiences are subjectified but 'objective'- but sometimes it's obvious it's more than just brain tricks, and it makes it much more interesting.
