No, but i do want to get out of this body.

There are two points at the back of your brain. One of them determines your relative place in space around you. When this point is disabled for some reason (through meditation may be), the body cannot know its position in space. so, you will feel out of your body.

When I first moved to Japan about 25 years ago, I wanted to contact a very good friend. I didn't bring his number of address with me because I wasn't expecting to say in Japan for so long. After about 3 months, I dreamed that I was back at my college and I bumped into my friend, I told him that I wanted to contact him and handed him my address and asked him to write me. About a week later, I received a letter from the friend I dreamed about. He said that he was walking on campus and bumped into another friend of mine that he didn't really know. That friend handed him my address and he wrote to me. I didn't know that my two friends knew each other.

During meditation, at times, I watch myself from about 10 feet away.

Yes, on narcotics. It wasnt very pleasant.

Yes, I have...without the use of narcotics or hallucinogens. I have never been able to reproduce the experience at will.

Yes. A couple. Would you like more information?

A few, but I haven't done LSD for decades.

I wasn't particularly thinking of narcotics or extended periods outside of the body. Once I crashed my bicycle into a car and was thrown over the car with the bike behind me. I saw the whole thing from above, including the bike landing on my back. Then i was back in my normal perspective, looking through my eyes.

Yes, but I was very young...And it was in another country....and another world. I do remember having a great perception of reality at the time,..but it was fleeting, and I had to come back. "For I have promises to keep,...and miles to go before I sleep"...

Yes I have three times.

Yes, I was high on marijuana and I was laying down looking at the popcorn ceiling and I must have focused so much I exited my body. I saw myself laying on the sofa with my eyes now closed, I remember walking around the living room outside my body and I was thinking if I could go outside and float away, so I went for the door handle and I turned to look one last time at myself on the sofa and my eyes opened and I came back into my body. I have never been able to recreate this even on acid.

Of three experiences I would consider out of body, I’m fairly sure one was drug induced, one pain induced and the last had no apparent cause. One of these was more like time dilation. I had an experience of being in contact with a dear friend who was dying, I’ll give you that one too. The drug induced experience (smoking hashish) - I was lying on my back on the ground looking at a clear night sky, a thing I enjoy, when I noticed I had a perspective that was certainly not what I would have expected under any circumstances. It was as though I was somewhere well up in the sky, to get a better view of the sky I presume, and decided to look downward to see if this was true. Yep. I saw the layout of the local land, the party of people I was with and myself laying right where I last remembered being. I was very comfortable with this, even though I experience fear of heights. I can’t recall what interrupted the experience. It lasted a few seconds and was very satisfying. I was in my early 20’s. I had a subcutaneous aneurism. This was fun. I won’t get into all the details. I wound up lying on my bed in a fetal position waiting to die. I wanted to die. I thought to God, or whatever, ok, I am ready, let’s get this over with. Pain, incredible pain, nothing I have known like it before or since and I have had many broken bones, surgeries, etc. Next thing I know, I was above the bed looking at my body. There was no pain, no fear, no anxiety, just bliss, a very peaceful experience. I was not in my body, that was certain. It lasted for who knows how long. I don’t remember how or when I was next conscious of being in the bed. I think I was 37. I was standing in a doorway of a bar I used to hang out in. There were a lot of people around, lots of noise. Just standing there with my FIRST beer of the evening in hand, had drank less than a couple ounces, when…to my utter amazement…there was no sound and no apparent motion around me, there were none of the sensory things going on that usually go on in the body except for the visual. I saw a frozen scene, it was like a panorama only in real space and frozen in time. Not like a picture. Could have been a display in a wax museum. Who knows how long this lasted in my mind, time does not stop, but somehow my mind was not in the same frames of reference that everything else was in. Anyway, I heard what seemed to me an audible voice. Couldn’t have been , but I heard it. A question, “Are you going to do this the rest of your life?” That was it. Everything around me returned to me as it should have been. The animation and the sound. I looked at the beer in my hand, walked over to the bar and sat the beer down and walked out. Didn’t say a word to anyone. What an incredibly unusual thing I thought. I was 31. Finally, the touch of death. I was sitting on the front porch of my parents home talking with a girl I knew. Normal everything. Just a conversation about nothing in particular. I don’t even remember the girl I was with. Like all these things, it was an instant departure from ‘normal’. In my head was suddenly a kind of chaos that I had never experienced before or since. Everything else around me was unaffected, no visual or aural weirdness. There was utter confusion in my mind, maybe like a mental tornado, I was conscious of this ‘tornado’ but unable to make sense of it, there was a mild panic, I thought for sure my madness would be apparent to the person I was talking with and I had absolutely no explanation for it . It seemed to last for a very brief period. Nothing I have experienced in the rest of my life was like this. It WAS utter chaos. The only thing that was rational or sane about this was my awareness of it. It was very weird. It passed as quickly as it had occurred. The time of this event was what was most significant about it although I didn’t realize it until the next day. WHEN it happened established the connection to my friends death. My friend was in a fiery explosion and was killed. It turns out she was dying at the same time I lost my mind. Her death was a tragic occurrence for me. I cried over several days after. I was 19. I am convinced and have believed since that something in me changed forever during those moments. I was not the same person after. Now, granted, I had lost a dear friend and that can change a persons life, but I experienced the final moments of her life on earth WITH her. I cannot explain, have not been able to explain, to anyone since, the significance of this. Not just that she died and I cried and everyone loses a loved one now and then, but that I suffered with her in her moments of dying. I have never bothered with researching this kind of stuff. I have some suspicions that these things occur to a lot of people but generally it goes unmentioned. I’m still not sure I care enough or am moved enough to investigate. I think these things are another aspect of our existence that are only less common or less detected than “normal“ reality. No room in the comment box for this, was being dense, thanks for your interest.

Yeah, only once though. It was scary as I saw myself hanging the washing and I went over my garden. I felt as light as a feather. I didnt enjoy that seeing myself from above.Later on I was telling a friend of mine about it and she didnt seem surprised at all, and said that was called `Astral Travel'. Since then I have not had any other experiences of that type.

several times as a child about 2 or 3 years old in daycare. i would separate and watch myself lying in the bed and watch the other children in bed sleeping and the teachers walking around doing stuff. obviously this was not drug-induced. i also have a memory since birth of being a ball of light with another ball of light and that ball of light was telling me it was my time to be born on earth (we were in space above the planet) this news shocked and scared me and i asked him why i had to go and he just told me ill know why when i get there. i think im slowly figuring it out...

I spend all my time trying to get into her body & never have time for an out of body experience.

Don't think so.

Yep. The old man didn't like something I said and hit me so hard my body went one way and my soul the other. Soul never did come back.

my mother said she had when she wa giving birth to her 9 kids each time she said she felt as though she was looking down watching herself go through labour

Theres been a couple of times where I would be falling to sleep, and i wouldnt quite be there yet. And then I felt like I was being pulled...spun around, and then flying through the air going west at 100000 miles per house. I couldnt move, scared as hell, and afraid to keep going that I might never come back. But then I would just open my eyes after awhile, and then wish I would have went farther. But I havnt had it for awhile. I think its just like my spirit/soul excaping tryin to get somewhere alittle early, but realizing I canat go anywhere as long as I have a body that is still alive n kickin. Plus its just darkness. I havnt seen anything.

Can we go somewhere private to discuss this???

Yes, twice.

Been out of my head, but not the whole body!

Yes; it was utterly bizzare