I had an OBE this morning.

According to my logs, my previous one was August 5th, so I was certainly due for one.  I used to have them about once a month, but now it’s more like once every two or three months.

Even though I hadn’t had an OBE in a long time, I was fairly confident that I would have one.  I fell asleep accidentally watching TV at 8pm, and woke up at 2am.  Then I spent 5 hours messing around on my computer, and doing laundry.  I fell back asleep at 7am, with the intention of sleeping for 3 hours.  I knew it was likely that I would have an OBE because of the awkward sleeping schedule I was demanding from my body.

Whenever you change your sleeping pattern like that - whether it’s accidental or on purpose - it increases your chances of having an OBE drastically.  The trick is to sleep about 1.5-3 hours less than what you are comfortable with.  I usually sleep between 7.5-9 hours a night (which is a lot compared to most), so when I only slept for 6 hours because I fell asleep early, my body was very confused.  Was that my “night”?  Should my body be prepared to be awake now?  Or are we going back to sleep?  What the hell was that?

By staying awake for another 5 hours, but not really doing that much physically, my body stayed confused.  Finally, when I lied back down, my body hesitantly went back to sleep… but didn’t go into deep sleep.  This is perfect for OBEs.  It might not be too healthy :-P, but every once in a while it works flawlessly.

During my OBE I floated around quite a bit.  Since I was expecting it, I remained calm, and didn’t try to “control” anything.  I just drifted.  I went up through the ceiling, then drifted back down… then through my apartment, and close to my kitchen.

My vision faded in and out during that time, and I was playing with just trying to remain as passive as possible.  This helped my vision a lot.  When I relaxed, and didn’t try to force my vision, it would gradually fade in.  Everything had that trademark gray glow that is normal in OBEs :-).

At one point, while floating through my kitchen, my feet started to get pulled back towards my body.  I didn’t fight it, because I didn’t really care, so I slowly went back.  I woke up back in my body, and looked around without moving.  I played around with the vibrations at this point, and just observed them.  At one point I remember thinking the vibrations were too intense, so I stopped playing with them, and forced myself to wake up completely.  Upon waking and moving around, I noticed my right arm had been numb from loss of circulation.  Perhaps that’s why I got yanked back?

Overall, it was a fun experience.  I just moved into this apartment about a week ago, and it’s cool to have an OBE in it so soon :-).  I enjoyed the passive attitude I had, and it made the OBE less frustrating, and more like a calm roller coaster.  Perhaps I’ll have another one soon, because usually they come in groups of two or three.

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