Out of Body experience

[Kev]

This will sound pretty weird and everyone I've tried to explain it to before just gives me a blank look but I can 'sort of' induce an out of body experience at will.

I don't actually leave my body, I just get the intense feeling of floating up and then hurtling through tunnels really fast.

I can only do it when I'm tired, usually on first waking and it happens by me concentrating on my eyes. I keep them shut but focus on them and after a few seconds I'll get a high pitched ringing noise in my ears and I'll immediately feel myself floating up and then hurtling through tunnels.

My eyes are shut and in my minds eye I experience myself hurtling down tunnels.

I can only stay in this state for a few seconds, maybe 15 seconds tops and then I automatically pull out of it.

I've tried to stay longer but it feels weird, almost like I'd die if I stayed under.

I've been able to do this for as long as I can remember and have done it hundreds of times, but whenever I've tried to explain it people think I'm nuts.

But it's the same process every time.

I have to feel really tired, semi conscious.

I need to focus on my eyes. Can't explain it, I guess it's like looking at those Magic Eyes pictures, you can't explain what you do but when you get it you understand.

When I enter the feeling of floating it's ALWAYS accompanied by a high pitched sound in my ears.

I can only maintain it for a 10 - 15 seconds


It always follows that pattern. I never open my eyes, so am not really leaving my body, it's just a physical sensation.

I'd love to hear if anyone else has ever done this..........

I've experienced similar things while under the influence of drugs, but I guess that doesn't count. It sounds cool though, do any sorts of emotions accompany the experience or is it purely a physical thing?

The only emotion I feel is fear because it literally feels like my body is floating away. That's why I can't hold onto it and come out after just a few seconds.

The first couple times it happened I was terrified but afterwards I felt exhilarated and wanted to go back in.

It was then that I tried to reexperience it and like I say I find that when I'm tired, on first waking if I focus on my eyes I can induce the experience within a few seconds. It only works when I'm just awakened though and always accompanies by my ears ringing.

It's not that I actually leave my body, and to open my eyes immediately takes me out of the experience, but I feel the sensation incredibly strongly. It literally feels like I float off of the bed and then hurtle down tunnels at breakneck speed. I can see the ground undulating underneath me in my mind. I don't consciously 'think' what I'm seeing it just appears, usually I[m caved in, kind of like hurtling through a sewer, or wipeout style track but occasionally I'm speeding over ground.

My best one ever I was hurtling over these rolling hills on a misty day and came to a lake, shrouded in fog.

It seemed so real it was amazing, but again probably only lasted 15 seconds tops, although it seemed much longer.