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believe that out-of-body consciousness is very focused and directed. This single-mindedness makes it
easier to induce the experience, and usually stays with me during the experience. This focus also makes it
easier to remember details of an experience. It can also be a hinderance, because it's tempting to divert
your full attention to some small distraction during the experience, rather than doing something that you
had planned. For instance, several times I induced an OBE with the hope to astrally visit a friend, but
often I would become distracted and forget my goal.
I have experienced many frames of mind and states of consciousness during OBEs. Usually, my
consciousness is completely normal in all respects. At times my consciousness is very strong, and I feel
more awake and aware than in normal life. But sometimes my consciousness feels very weak. I've often
used the analogy between consciousness and a light bulb that is on a dimmer switch. Chapter 10, OBE
#52 gave a fairly good idea of how consciousness operates during an OBE. Here are some more
examples:
05/23/82 Sun - OBE #74
...Then something happened that might be difficult to describe. It seems like my
consciousness dimmed to the point where I couldn't organize memories. The memory I have
is of time standing still. I remember tiny flashbacks of things happening, but they all seemed
to have happened at once. I remember seeing DB, and I remember him walking back and
forth. He came toward me, then walked through me. Later, he opened the cabin door, and
the door went part-way through my astral body. I also feel I had some interaction with JP
and CA. But my consciousness was so dim that I didn't have conscious control, and my
memory is so jumbled about that part that I can't say any more [for certain].
05-02-83 Mon - OBE #94
...I went to bed around 10:00pm. I tried to project for a little while, but I was just too
mentally tired. I gave up and rolled over onto my right side to go to sleep, but I kept
thinking about projection. I fell asleep almost immediately.
The next thing I knew I was semiconscious and out of my body, in my bedroom. I was
standing up when I noticed my condition. I examined my consciousness to see how wide
awake I really was; I wanted to make sure I wasn't dreaming or deceiving myself in any
other way. I came to the conclusion that I was fully conscious in all respects. With that
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thought, my consciousness brightened suddenly until I was more conscious and aware than I
am in waking life. I felt wonderful, alive, and vibrant, radiating with life and consciousness.
I thought, "Wow! Now this is consciousness, better and more real than I've felt before!" And
I felt completely free from my body. I could tell it was very dark there in my bedroom, but
my eyesight was more astral than physical. I didn't hesitate to jump forward--through
physical objects--to attempt flight. I closed my eyes, and I flew forward through my house,
passing through walls and other physical objects as I gained speed. I felt each physical
object as I passed through it, yet it didn't disturb me. I traveled so fast that I was out of the
house in a few quick seconds. Once outside, I flew up and up, but I blacked out before I had
a chance to do anything, or see where I was.
Logical Thinking
One of the things I try to examine during my OBEs is how "normal" my thoughts are. In most of my
OBEs I seem to have normal, logical thoughts. Here are some examples:
08/02/81 Sun - OBE #45
...I woke up once at about 3:30am or 4:00am and went back to sleep. I dreamed that I was in
a store at the University when I was called to a special counter. I received a phone call to
come home immediately because of a death in the family. I asked the woman, "Who has
died?" She said she couldn't tell me. All she could tell me was the person's social-security
number. I talked to the woman a long time and had finally reasoned that it was my father
(he's still alive). I was shocked and terribly sad. I decided to quit the dream.
So I tried to wake up and I opened my eyes and saw unfamiliar surroundings. I was stiff and
felt paralyzed. My vision was weird too. I decided that I wasn't seeing truthfully. I didn't
realize that I was astral; a bit of grogginess still hindered my thoughts. So I tried to
remember where I should be and what I should be seeing. I decided I should be in bed
looking up and seeing my walls with posters and the ceiling. My vision blurred away. When
it returned, I saw my posters and all, but there was strange piece of woodwork that doesn't
exist in my room. "This isn't quite right either!" I reasoned that I could probably project
easily (I still didn't know I was nonphysical).
Then I thought of the dream. If my father had just died, I wouldn't want to project. I'd be
afraid. At the thought of projecting, I started to sway away from my body. But I pulled
myself back because I wanted to think this situation through fully before I dared to leave my
body's vicinity.
I reasoned further: "This prospect of Dad being dead was only in a dream. Yet, if he is dead
it is very possible that I would be informed of it in a dream. And if so, he may take the form
of a ghost or leave a nasty astral shell about." I started to pull away from my body again on
my own. I pulled myself back. I decided not to try to project further, just in case. I lost
consciousness and woke up in my body after a few seconds of what seemed like
nonexistence. I opened my eyes and saw how my room really looks and I felt my body
again. Then I changed my mind, but it was already too late. I noticed my entranced state of
mind though, and tried to project again with one near-success.
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I gained at least one good thing from this experience, and that is the knowledge of the
proper state of mind conducive to astral projection. I wonder what causes this state of mind
and body, and plan to read some books on sleep and the causes and effects of certain types
of sleep. I slept very deeply. My body was stiff and I couldn't feel it until I moved it and
stretched. My mind was almost entranced. I was in a staring mood and found concentrating
very easy. It was very easy to focus my mind on one thought. It was semi-easy to visualize. I
probably ruined my chance to project again when I moved my body and broke its stiffness.
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