My Out of Body Experience

When I was fourteen years old, thoughts of suicide filled my everyday. I lived in an abusive household, and my only hope was turning 18 and moving out. But after one suicide attempt, I had the most vivid and life changing dream.

I thought I was awake, as in most dreams, but that was the only similarity. I saw the arm I was laying on, and everything else in the room was as it was in reality. The thing is though, I couldn’t move or talk. The temperature seemed to be elevated as the blood rushed to my head and the paranoia hit.

The whole dream lasted only a second or two, but it seemed as though each moment of time unraveled into more moments in time. When I woke up, I realized that I wasn’t paralyzed, and I became more grateful for the things I had. That was my last suicide attempt.

Six years later, I came across a book that explained what happened to me that day. I had an out of body experience. What intrigued me, even more, was that I could train myself to have OBE’s at will. Great stories of flying thru the night air and reaching a deeper understanding of life gave me the drive to test out this author’s technique.

So one night, I was laying down, and I began to meditate. My body became completely relax, and I began the visualization of leaving my body. I pictured my body or soul rocking out of my physical being, just as the book described. Suddenly, I felt myself swaying back and forth, even though I knew I really wasn’t moving.

Then it happened. The separation of my soul and body was the scariest event of my life. Scarier than getting beat by a 6 foot 4inch and 200 pound man. My body floated up about a foot before I snapped back into my physical vesicle.

That is the furthest that I have ever gotten with OBE’s, but it opened up new ways of thinking. New hopes. New dreams. A deeper connection with my Creator. Before then, I couldn’t wrap my mind around the conception of a god, but now I see how blessed I really am. It took a miracle for that to happen. And that’s exactly what it was.