“Out of Body Experiences”

A dark and evil terrible power holds you forcibly to your bed smothering you, you are unable to move or call out or struggle to free yourself. Fighting to wake up just makes it all the worse. You are completely helpless.

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There are related experiences where the mind also wakes up in sleep but without the fear. One has incredibly vivid dreams, lucid dreams. There very often are “out of body experiences”.

Things such as taking hallucinogens or excessive alcohol or other substance abuse, or suffocating or fever or exposure can cause similar dream visions and fantasy.

Please excuse me where my terminology is not quite correct.

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The person's spirit or so-called “astral body” apparently leaves the body and even stands looking at the material physical body asleep in one's bed. This kind of thing is very tempting and may easily be believed they are extremely deceptive.

Sensations of flying, breathing under water, falling down a pit of fire, earthquakes, visions of mushroom clouds or grand scale chemical disaster, future ruins and so on with visions of the past and the future and apocalypse.

All this vivid and very graphic.

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There are other strange things too like meeting a friend or his spirit then supposedly in the “astral plane”. Weird sexual encounters are not unusual and also can cause much distress. Such dreams as experienced are obviously not normal. These are for the most part very nasty in the end and usually really quite horrible.

They are not real I do not know of any documented proof. These things exist only in the mind.

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Of course there are other very common nightmares like a falling sensation and awaking with a fright, with a jolt on supposedly hitting the ground, or like being chased by some monster and trying to run away in great fear.

Children especially have such dreams I would say this all is harmless and are very common as nightmares. There are other dreams also such as accompanied by bed wetting and wet dreams morning glories and so on. This too is usually quite normal.

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Sleep and phenomena of kinds of sleep disturbances have been extensively studied in fact there has been a great deal of scientific research and there is a body of academic literature. Of course one can do scientific experiments there is really nothing strange and weird and wonderful. There even are sleep laboratories they are quite commonplace.

As a layman many observations here are of personal experience.

To me there must still be many crucial things not really understood. For instance it does puzzle me, why are so very different people's stories so very similar? Why do the many apparently very diverse causes result in so much the same stories?