OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES(OBE’s)

Out of body experiences (OBE’s) are quite simply defined. The dream is so real that the person actually believes that they have left their own bodies and are entering the world of the spirits and souls.

They are often linked with sleep paralysis - that involves an extreme feeling of paralysis followed by the body drifting out and away. The feeling is one of extremely swift movement - like a floating sensation which is why people believe that they have left their body. Often the experience of sleep paralysis is extremely fast. The paralysis ends then the dream ends virtually at the same time. But occasionally the dream will continue with the sense of floating continuing while the person drifts into an extremely vivid dreamscape.

This is an OBE I had a couple of years ago.

I dreamt I was paralyzed. I had to struggle very hard to walk. Then suddenly I was flying. I floated firstly into the top of the room. I could see things very vividly and in color which was unusual.

I then start to fly through the walls and I am over the sea. There is a ship in the north bay of the town I live in. I can see the people on the ship. They are taking supplies on board. It is a military ship.

I then woke up and was very very spiritually uplifted by the dream. For the next hour I was not awake fully but also not asleep. I was in a kind of twilight state. There were dream images rushing into my head in kind of waves.

I was getting little snippets of dreams. I for instance was getting information about radio waves. Apparently people can hear radio in the psychic souls. I was getting all kinds of insights just like that.

The next day..I passed by the north bay just to check there was no ship there. There was none but in the south bay there was a military ship...a destroyer which had anchored in the bay. It may have been possible for me to have read that a navy ship was due to anchor off the coast...these are often publicity events for the navy to encourage recruitment. But on the other hand I do not read local papers or keep up to date to local affairs.

Other than that there was nothing specifically I could check though I did see things very vividly - as if it was real.

DREAMS AND THE MIND
THETAWAVES :Hallucinations and dreams
DREAM SYMBOLISM :Neural patterns and their relevance to dream interpretation
ROBERT STICKGOLD:Robert Stickgolds studies of dreams and the game Tetris
NIGHTMARES
DISTURBING DREAMS : Nightmares.
NIGHTMARES : Childrens Nightmares.
WORLD WAR ONE NIGHTMARES : Dreaming of the front line.
NIGHTMARES : A practical study of nightmares showing what individual nightmares meant
CONFRONTING FEAR IN NIGHTMARES : By Dorian Paul

SLEEP PHENONOMA
HYPNOPOMPIC AND HYPNOGOGIC IMAGERY :Hallucinations and dreams
HYPNOGOGIC IMAGERY :Example dreams
SLEEPWALKING :Dreams and sleepwalking
SLEEP DEPRIVATION :The TV reality show "shattered"
CIRCADIAN RYTHMS :Dreams and melatonin
LUCID DREAMS

DREAM SYMBOLISM
ANIMALS IN DREAMS :By Dorian Paul
ANIMALS IN DREAMS : Animals in dreams
COLOURS IN DREAMS : By Urban
COLOURS IN DREAMS : By Kafka
Archetypes and myths : Jungs archetypes by Dorian Paul
INDIVIDUATION : understanding the Jungian approach
ARCHETYPES : Jungian archetypes
EVIL ARCHETYPES : By Dorian Paul
Heros and archetypes : by Dorian Paul
DREAMS AND MUSIC : by Dorian Paul
CRUSH DREAMS : The archetype
DREAM DICTIONARY? : Are we influenced by the dream dictionary we use by "Comrade Bart"

PREMONITIONS AND TELEPATHY
PREMONITION STUDY - A personal study showing how dreams can link to the future
HEART TRANSPLANTS - Does the heart have a memory
DAVID MANDELL :Psychic paintings?
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES :OBEs and psychic phenonoma
Premonitions :places deep into the future?
NEURAL IMAGING:Attempts to prove or disprove the existence of ESP
SCIENCE :Towards an understanding of premonitions
EXPERIMENTS :Premonition studies and false premonitions

OTHER ARTICLES

BIG BROTHER : A study of the Big Brother reality show
THE SPIRITUAL APPROACH : By Always Dreaming
INSPIRATION : By Dorian Paul
THE FUNCTION OF DREAMS Why do we dream
COMMUNICATION SKILLS : Dorian Paul on left and right brain issues?
MEDITATION :Using meditation to expand your mind

FAITH AND DREAMS : By Weiss
MONTAGUE ULLMAN : Swedish researcher
DREAM FORUMS : Helpful advice
ETHICAL GUIDELINES : By Dorian Paul
FACTS ABOUT DREAMS : Some thoughts

OTHER DREAM INTERPRETORS

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