WHERE? For thousands of years, countless individuals from cultures around the world have reported what we now term as out of body experiences. Because it feels so real, it's interpreted as a literal separation of a mind or soul from the physical body.
WHAT'S THE STORY? Such an event appears to be strong evidence for a spirit world, afterlife, and even alternate dimensions in which other intelligent beings exist. Could the OBE really prove the existence of life after death?
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES EXPLAINED. As a lucid dreamer I'm familiar with the out-of-body state. It all takes place inside the grand theater of your mind. Just practising a Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD) can induce an OBE, which exists on a spectrum of sleep-wake borderland experiences, near sleep paralysis.
Instead of projecting your awareness into a fanciful dreamworld (as in a WILD) you find yourself aware of the sleep paralysis which prevents you from acting our your dreams. You're in a replica of your bedroom, floating above your "body". This is spurred by diminishing bodily sensations as you fall asleep physically.
TELL ME MORE? So convinced that the experience is real, out of body explorers have long tried to prove its validity by trying to obtain data from faraway locations. Unfortunately nothing definitive has emerged under the necessary scientific conditions to lend credence to the true OBE state.
I have always been taught to fear the OBE. That leaving your body behind makes you susceptible for other potentially malevolent forces to enter in your body and plant their virus code inside of your mind.
I have experienced sleep paralysis on many different occasions, it is a very frightening thing not being able to move your body like that.
It's easy to say my understandings are ruled by fear, but I do believe there are some truths inherit in those fears. Better safe than sorry. Interested article though!
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