I enjoyed the episode in which you were able to enlighten us into scientific explanations of OBE experiences,
which I saw on the Catalyst Program.
I have been having OBE’s for many years, the first being in 1989.
I fully understand that when I have tactile hallucinations that my physical body is actually in motion,
creating the ‘illusion’ that the movement is actually taking place in my out of body.
It was great to see this confirmed with your research!
I am hoping you may be able to enlighten me on two things.
The first, whilst bizarre, may have the simplest explanation, and the second is a little more complex.
1/
Toward the end of one OBE I experienced last year I found myself, seemingly prematurely, awaken from the experience.
I was not sure if I was back in my body, because I was conscious, my eyes were open, I couldn’t move my head,
but I could see clearly around my room.
I felt paralysed, except for my arms, and being able to have eye movement.
(incidentally, a nuerologist diagnosed me in 1990 as having sleep paralysis)
To assure myself that my OBE had finished I waved my arms in front of my face.
I was in absolute shock to experience that whilst I was waving my arms in front of my face, I could not see them,
yet everything alse was clear. I repeated this about 3 times to no avail.
I felt I was in limbo, experiencing a kind of death.
I panicked, and closed my eyes and tried to relax, and eventually was back to normal.
It was a frightening experience like I had no arms, and the waving were from phantom limbs.
What explanation could you subscribe to this?
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Secondly, on a number of occassions I have experienced an OBE without leaving my body.
My functioning ‘out of body’, is still within my body.
The above (1) is perhaps some type of example of this. Similar, however, not the same.
In these instances I recieve an incredible energy from within my brain, that is transferred to my hands.
My hands feel an incredibly amount of what seems powerful magnetic energy.
In these circumstances I am able to manoevere my hands ‘out of body hands’ (my actual hands are motionless)
Using my discretion I move them about one inch above my skin to a position which I gain most control.
Kind of like using the controls of a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (T.E.N.S unit)
If I move them too fast, they become painful, and if they are too close to the skin, they lose energy.
I then manoevere them over my body and the magnetic energy seems optimum.
I have on the odd occass