A vaguely random question.

[Alex]

Has anyone out there ever had an out of body experience? Not something I can ever say I've had myself, but I'd be interested in hearing from people who have.

[316zombie]

yes, but i'll have to tell you about it tomorrow, i'm off with the cougars for the evening. slainte!

[Svengoolie 3]

Yes I did.

[ER]

Yes, sir, in childbirth.

[Rev. Powell]

Sort of. Around 17-18 years of age I started having these semi-regularly when I was drifting off to sleep (probably happened between 3-10 times). They were accompanied by a pretty unpleasant tingling/buzzing feeling, and some very vivid dreams where I felt myself floating and even sometimes looked down on my body.

Once, however, while I felt that I was outside my body, I looked around my room and saw a Jim Morrison poster on the wall. Of course, I did not have a Jim Morrison poster, so I realized that it was a dream, despite the fact that it was otherwise very realistic.

I stopped having them by the time I was in my 20s. I wonder if they were seizures of some sort.

[claws]

Once I think, when I was 20. I was floating above my sleeping self, slowly drifting towards my sleeping self. Didn't feel like a dream. My floating self was then laying on my sleeping self and at the very moment I woke up because I felt pressure, staring into my "floating version" eyes and vice versa. This was the only time I ever jumped out of bed.

I still think about this sometimes because it felt so real.

[RCMerchant]

I had just the opposite. Something called 'Sleep paralysis."
When I was about 13, I would wake up, but I couldn't move. 2 shadow people were leaning over me. I could hear a buzzing.
Happened 3 times. I heard loud thumps too.
It happened again when I was 24.
I thought it was ghosts! 

[ER]

I had just the opposite. Something called 'Sleep paralysis."
When I was about 13, I would wake up, but I couldn't move. 2 shadow people were leaning over me. I could hear a buzzing.
Happened 3 times. I heard loud thumps too.
It happened again when I was 24.
I thought it was ghosts! 

My....friend in Texas had that, RC, (I guess he still does) and was calm about it and explained it away, talking about which parts of the brain became active and telling me the processes behind sleep paralysis, but it scared THEE hell out of me and I am not convinced it wasn't something....creepy.

I remember in here Alan Hopewell said he believed it to be a demonic manifestation, and I swear, I  am not going to tell him he's wrong.

Makes my night terrors seem like the kiddie pool.

[RCMerchant]

I had just the opposite. Something called 'Sleep paralysis."
When I was about 13, I would wake up, but I couldn't move. 2 shadow people were leaning over me. I could hear a buzzing.
Happened 3 times. I heard loud thumps too.
It happened again when I was 24.
I thought it was ghosts! 

My....friend in Texas had that, RC, (I guess he still does) and was calm about it and explained it away, talking about which parts of the brain became active and telling me the processes behind sleep paralysis, but it scared THEE hell out of me and I am not convinced it wasn't something....creepy.

I remember in here Alan Hopewell said he believed it to be a demonic manifestation, and I swear, I  am not going to tell him he's wrong.

Makes my night terrors seem like the kiddie pool.

At the time, I thought it was real. I thought it was ghosts.
Scares the f**k out of me even thinking about it.