Doctor says near-death experiences are in the mind - Page 9

If I had an OBE I would need a good dose of Valium afterwards

I decided to take Jaz up on his challenge, and was actually successful. To anyone else thinking about doing this.... do NOT observe Jaz's bedroom... you don't want to see what's going on in there.

All of you guys are funny.

Jaz, I repeat, I am not attempting to convince anyone of astral projection. I think I made my intentions clear in my previous post. Once again, I say this with kindness.

I don't need to prove anything to anyone. If you choose not to believe me, that's okay. I don't take offense. As I have said before, if I had not had these experiences myself, I would not believe it.

Bassix, Rishodi, DaNiMiTe Dani & I all have something in common. We have all experienced sleep paralysis. I know that sleep paralysis can sometimes be part of the process of leaving your body. It's kinda like being stuck in the process; stuck between being in & out of your body (actually, more out). And it's for that reason that I would like to discuss this subject with them.

Is that so bad? Can't you just let me try and do this? I would really appreciate it if you would. And who knows? Maybe one of them will come back and tell all of you that it worked.

Dani, this is what I am talking about when I say what you believe, becomes...

Got it...

Dani, the next time you find yourself in a state of paralysis, try not to fight it & don't think about the dark murky entities. Just think of relaxing.

The next time you find yourself stuck in the state of paralysis, instead of fighting it and snapping back into your body out of breath with your heart racing.. you could have an out of body experience.

Just let me know.

I guess a lot of people have watched the CNN program about life after death which aired tonight. As I understand it, they had some very intelligent doctors arguing the subject.

Wish I had not missed it.

Honestly I can tell any dream apart from reality once I think about it. A dream has major differences that things don't line up perfectly like in real life, and yes I've been in control of my dreams many times. However dreams are just an illusion of the conscious mind, power predictors in some cases, what I find funny though is when I have a very strong dream about something it happens in real life, in fact sometimes the feeling of future prediction is so overwhelming that I wonder if it's not my subconscious mind telling me what to do. I am unsure how some people predict future events but there are definitely some people that have predicted the future successfully many times so I know it to be a true phenomenon.

I appreciate the level of interest you're showing in my experiences, but my view of them is completely different. I have no idea what astral body or astral eyes are even supposed to mean, so I don't even know where to begin with that besides the obvious: I don't believe in paranormal beings, or human spirits that exist separately from human bodies, because there is no proof of their existence.

The example I used of the chair was only one of several discrepancies I've noticed when experiencing sleep paralysis that have firmly convinced me that sleep paralysis is simply a particular state of dreaming that is markedly different from both the fully conscious state and from "normal" dreaming. Though my mind is fully aware that I am asleep during these experiences, it is imperfect and those imperfections manifest themselves in my mind's model of my surroundings. To answer your question directly: no, the view of the room I had with the misplaced chair was from the exactly the place where my head was when I fell asleep. As I mentioned before, my sleep paralysis experiences have always occurred in a first-person frame of reference. I have no reason to believe that sleep paralysis has anything to do with paranormal experiences, or that out-of-body experiences are anything more a peculiar dream state.

If you are aware of leaving your body, which some of us are, you will be aware of your astral body.

When I say "astral eyes" I simply mean that you are "seeing" from your astral state, which is out of your body.
Many people have experiences similar to your own, when they first find out that they are able to leave their bodies.

I'm sorry that my post was confusing.