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I had something like an OBE just now. Really though, I'm not sure what the hell it was . It felt like I left my body... but at the same time, what I actually experienced reminded me of dreaming. I really don't think things are as simple and distinct as dreams and OBEs... I think there is a lot of overlap and blurred experiences. OBEs exist... but so do experiences that are like 50% OBE and 50% dream... and like 72% OBEs and 28% dream... etc... Things are weird, that's for sure. If it was a dream, then I did a great job of staying lucid and aware during it. I asked very conscious questions that were logical and well thought out (for some reason, a lot of times logic and reason get deactivated during dreams/OBEs). Perhaps one day I will figure this out.

EDIT: I was sitting here thinking more about it. Some parts were definitly a dream... I remember one point when I was luigi playing dodgeball in my old highschool gym. That strikes me as too strange to be an OBE (not like I would know, but I'm just going on basic ideas here).

Also, I forgot to mention that the OBE/dream did start out in my room, in my bed. This is the basic break down: Laying in bed, tranced out, started flapping and vibrating in the wind like a flag, snuck out the bottom of my body, stood up on my floor, couldn't see, but could walk around and feel stuff... after messing with this state back and forth, I eventually was able to see. Once I could see, I don't remember where the switch was, but at one point I remember being in my house in NY and running and jumping in the air. It was raining outside, and I was lucid. Everything after that point was very dream like.

Perhaps that switch was when I went from the OBE into a dream. I don't remember the transition from inside of my room, to my lucid NY experience. Oh yeah, now I do! Once I began seeing, I went through a door in my room, and walked into the bathroom area. However, the bathroom area was NOT the same layout as my bathroom in real life. From there, I met some people in the bathroom area... then somewhere along there I transitioned into the NY experience.

So it sounds like my transition happened when I walked through the door into the bathroom area. HOWEVER - before that happened, when I still couldn't see correctly and was bumping into things in my room, I remember picking up my chair, and feeling the texture. The texture was all wooden, yet my chair in real life has padding. I noted this differece while OOB/dreaming (which shows how conscious I was during the experience, normally things like that wouldn't be noticed until after I completed the experience).

Also, while in bed and slipping in and out of body, I was playing music in my head. I could select a song, and hear the music. At one point, I knew my alarm was going to wake me up, so I turned over and gave myself another hour (did I do that in real life? or was it a false-awakening? I can't remember or tell - THIS IS WHY I NEED TO VIDEO TAPE MYSELF WHEN I HAVE OBES). After reseting the alarm, I had to lay back down and take another minute or so to trance out to the level where the music was playing again. Then I could leave my body.

Oh yeah, and one more memory: while leaving my body at one point, I was getting frustrated. Then I heard someone say something along the lines of, "This is something you need to experience." . Bizarre.

I have no clue.

~Sean