Getting results with Out of Body Experience practice

I shall explain another day in my Astral City blog why I believe that learning to have Out of Body Experiences is probably one of the most important skill a human should learn while physically alive on Earth... The fact is that I have believed so for many, many years. None of my previous close encounters with Astral projection were spontaneous, so I can't say I have a gift for it. On the contrary, I always have had to work hard for them, so much so that I often got discouraged.

A few weeks ago, I renewed my pledge to learn that essential skill, never mind how much time I have to spend learning it. So, I set up a blog at Astral City to keep me motivated and to share with other interested people. I have been practising hours daily with relaxation tapes. But then, three days ago, I was reintroduced to the so called wake-up-back-to-bed method, but this time with the added help of a beeper that would wake you up at pre-defined intervals, to increase the chances of having OBEs. I was seduced, and despite a flu, started experimenting with this new method on that very night.

Today was my third night and here is an extract of my account of the night:

With my flu mostly over, it got much easier to practice, and this morning I got a lot of interesting results. When I started the Wake up back to bed + wake up timer method, I had hoped I would make rapid progress as far as OBEs are concerned. I am not disappointed with an out of body experience this morning, as well as sensations of lifting off the body, and much more :)

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Since that time, I have always been interested in everything connected to the dream world, lucid dreams, "ordinary" dreams and OBEs. I have noted many dreams in my dream diary and I often ponder about the temporal and physical discontinuity between the waking and sleeping worlds. One thing I always wondered was how close I could get my dreaming consciousness to my waking consciousness. Some dreams seem to take place from the current perspective, where I live, my marital status, and current occupation. Other dreams, sometimes during the same night, are from the perspective of my younger self, still single and without a clue that I would one day be living at the other end of the world...

All this is a kind of introduction that will explain the content of the out of body experience I had this morning during my practice. Somehow I had already projected. I didn't find myself in the Here-Now. Like in my first lucid dream from so many years ago, narrated above, I found myself in the garden in my parents' home. The perspective and the mood were different from that first LD. I was conscious of the fact that I was projecting. Indeed, the garden had strange colors and seemed somewhat wider than it really is. I wanted to test myself to see if I could accurately state the timeframe related to my sleeping body. So, I correctly remembered that we were in August 2009, the 20-something of August.... (like in daytime, I was not exactly sure which day, precisely, but I knew we were past the 20th). I don't recall remembering where my physical body was, but I knew in was not in my parent's home. So, I was not in the Here-Now, but most obviously in my Parents-Home-Now. :)

The following experiences, all from this morning, were less like a lucid dream, but closer to a more traditional Here-Now OBE.

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Those interested can read the account in full: Day 3: things are starting to get interesting....

And you?
Have you had / tried to have any such experience? How often?