From: michael.huxley5@btinternet.com
"hermes" wrote in message
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> On Feb 28, 8:27 pm, "MikeH" wrote:
(MikeH) My question: Are OOBE's truly actual separation from the physical
body and experiencing distant places, events and even times which one can
remember upon return and that RV is just putting out "feelers" and only
experiencing a vague idea of the target area?
(hermes) I only had a few OBEs, all of them quite limited and "local", that
is, I found myself in the bedroom, saw my body in the bed, walked through
the closed door. I can tell you that the feeling is very convincing. felt I
was there. In some occasions, I touched my "non-physical body", it felt
real, although somehow softer than my physical body.
It is true that the same feeling of reality can be experienced in
(some) dreams. This is something I would like to understand: which is the
difference between a dream and an OBE ? There is a difference, for sure, but
I wonder if one can distinguish them sharply or there are intermediate
states, maybe a continuous range of them ?
(MikeH) Thanks for that. That's just the kind of thinking I'm after. I've
read so much tosh with very little substance that I'm beginning to wonder if
I should bother any more.
A point that you brought up - the difference between a dream and an OBE also
splits into two other, distinct, problems. Let's assume that dreams and
OBE's are ACTUALLY different, it is possible that they can be PERCEIVED as
being similar, so that presents the difficulty of differentiating between
them. I recently had what I thought could have been either, but there was a
certain clarity about it and the fact that I can recall it clearly weeks
later makes me think that it was an OBE rather than a dream. But how do I
KNOW? Heeeelp!
MikeH
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