By Gustavo Vieira © 2014 Usually, my WILDs tend to be like OBEs. I say this because those dreams always start with me on my bed in the position I fell asleep in. Here’s what usually happens: Around 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM when I wake up, after a little WBTB, I lay down on…
By Dawn Baumann Brunke © 2014 Imagine yourself in your private dream world, walking through an Arctic landscape, shoulder to shoulder beside a polar bear. You wake up inside the dream and realize: I am dreaming! You turn to the bear, look into his eyes, and realize that he, too, is awake within the dream.…
By Josh Langley © 2014 In the early days of my consciousness exploration, my first OBEs were instigated from dreams. Now that I‘ve had over 40 lucid dreams and 15 or so Out of Body Experiences, I can say that initially they felt completely different, but now the nature of both kinds of experience has…
By Maria Carla Cernuto © 2014 This is an account of an OOBE/Lucid dream taken from a blog I wrote for DreamsCloud.com titled, “Another Look at Out of Body Experiences: Astral Projection Versus Lucid Dreaming.” It illustrates how getting lucid can lead to an OOBE. Lucidity began in sleep paralysis, was followed by a false…
Intentionally and unintentionally throughout the day, you shift the focus of your awareness. Moving from waking to sleeping and back again provides powerful evidence for a significant shift in awareness. Similarly, transitioning from waking to deep meditating offers an intentional shift in focus and awareness. Even during a boring conversation, you may notice your awareness…
By Bill Murphy, LDE Science Correspondent © 2014 In a paper published February 10, 2014 in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, brain function of a healthy volunteer experiencing the sensation of being out of her body was analyzed. The 24 year old graduate student reported she had developed the ability for astral projection as…
By E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D. ©2014 © 2014 Given the theme of this issue of LDE, “Lucid Dreams or OBEs,” I’d like to share some of my comparative observations, based on my own experiences. I’ve had well over a thousand fully lucid dreams, and around a hundred OBEs, many of them intentionally. Some…
