Did I Just Leave My Body?

It was another day of 5^th grade at Howard Elementary.  Today was special because it was movie day… and out-of-body experience (OBE) day!

They rolled the big fancy tube TV in on its bulky cart and placed it front and center.  Movie time, we all started shifting our desks in a horseshoe arrangement around the screen.  I can’t tell you what “edge of your seat nail bitter” was playing (clearly I wasn’t into it.) Lol! However, as I mentioned in my first entry I do have a “snapshot” of my surroundings that I can remember vividly.  It was sunny outside, the lights were off, the teacher was standing towards the back of the room closer to the windows, my desk was positioned in the back row of the cul-de-sac formation, and my “prey” was sitting a few desks over towards where all the coats hung on the wall.  She was also in the back row.  I never did tell the girl any of this.  Are you kidding, discussing such an occurrence would be like asking for a life sentence of recesses spent alone! 

Now, that I have set the scene, lets get to the meat and potatoes of the story!

I was sitting sideways in my desk. What started off as an innocent blank stare suddenly turned into something completely foreign. I no longer hear the movie and then almost like a blink of an eye, I am no longer in my body, I am in her body.  I feel her desk, I am sitting the way she is sitting, and I am seeing the TV from her vantage point.  What is this? How did I get here? Only a few moments after arriving I hear the teacher, “Allison… pay attention”.  The teachers voice distracts the girl, so she looks in my direction, but I was still in her place.  When she turned her head to look at me it seemed to be in slow motion, and for one split second I see myself sitting in my desk across the room. Then, Snap! I’m back.  Perplexed by what I just experienced and irritated at my teacher, I think. 

I’ve haven’t experienced an OBE while awake since! Thanks a lot, Teach! ha

I have astral projected (AP) before.  If you are unfamiliar Astral Projection, it’s the ability to separate your awareness from your physical body. It takes place during lucid dreaming, meditation or hallucinogenic drugs.  People report traveling to the “other side”, seeing the universe, meeting ethereal beings, learning lessons, getting guidance from higher begins. Its not always all psychedelic, sometimes people will just go to somewhere else here on earth.  Later if they go to that place physically, they report knowing their way around and knowing where everything is, since there soul has already been there.  (My Dad has had this happen before.)  Flying in dreams is said to be a sign of astral projection.  My verdict is still out on that claim, because I do a lot of flying around in my dreams and sometimes its just kind of dorky and catawampus, and doesn’t seem elegant or educational at all?  Overall, OBE/AP is a controversial subject.  Scientists can’t prove it, so they tend to dismiss it.  However, for many religions and on a spiritual level there is no question of its validity and importance.

Personally, I have experienced it during dreaming.  I have always been a vivid dreamer.  It’s a rare occurrence if I don’t remember my dreams from the previous night.  I am able to control what’s happening and change outcomes. More times than not, I am completely aware I am in a dream.   So, what are my AP experiences?  There a good amount of them, but there are a couple particular experiences that stand out.  One was not too long ago. 

I was inside of a cube… at least that’s the best I can describe it. I was traveling through a wormhole or something.  The best way I can illustrate it is by giving you a movie reference, “Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure”. Ha ha!  When they get into their phone booth and go through a roller coaster like tunnel at high speeds, seeing colors zoom by, it was kind of like that.  I was in a box  and it was opaque.  However, the faster I went the more translucent it became.  The creases were all starting to become colorful and bright, until the whole base was transparent.  I remember thinking, “For how fast I am going it’s going to get hot in here, these edges have to be hot.” When I put my hand over them to check for heat they weren’t hot but there was a warmth within the cube.  I also remember being concerned that as the surface became clearer it wouldn’t support me.  It did though. I don’t know where I was going in that box? Maybe I was just buzzing around the universe, who knows? Ha Ha!  

I once read that our souls are tethered to our bodies.  Imagine a rope connecting the physical body to the soul.

The soul can wander but it doesn’t detach until death.  This felt “correct” to me.  Many pictures of OBE depict this, like the picture above.  On that note, I’m going to come to a close.  I could talk so much more about this; it will probably arise again in a future entry. For now, I’m just trying to get through my experiences in order and then when I'm done I can delve further into specific subject matter.  Now, go take a nap and let your soul embrace the endless possibilities this world and the astral plane have to offer!

All I can say for sure is this is my truth, my journey, and its time to journal it.  

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