AlexAnderson
Paranormal Novice
For the majority of my life I have had a roller coaster ride of experiences during my sleeping hours. Ever since I was a young child I had vivid dreams, in my late teens these developed from vivid to lucid dreams, and after several years the lucid dreams eventually grew into Out of Body experiences.
Today I will have maybe one or two OBE’s a month, these are either triggered from a lucid dream, or from sleep deprivation. Either way the experience of how you exit/re-enter your body, real world/time perception, environments, and people/entities that you encounter is always a powerful, exhilarating and sometimes daunting experience but you are always left with the question what is the nature of our reality?
In my early years I used to think that OBE’s were linked to some chemical imbalance to the brain. And perhaps unknowingly some of us may have certain ‘doors or windows’ open within our brain that disguises the neurological activity as an experience where we feel consciously separated from our self.
But in my latter years after several OBE’s and education through previous experiences I have noticed my incidents are slowly developing into a more intelligent and controlled occurrence - my subconscious and conscious awareness becoming more aligned. So this begs the question is it a paranormal experience, or is it explainable resulting from a misbalance of neurological activity.
I’m now more weighted on thinking perhaps it’s a combination of the both, but only in that the neurological activity perhaps acts as the door while the paranormal experience is what lies behind the door once we understand how to open and step through it. I do not think it’s purely just confined to neurological activity, as it doesn’t explain how you can sometimes validate the experience.
It’s odd but in terms of the paranormal our attention is always drawn or steered towards the subject of the UFO mystery. Nonetheless in terms of paranormal experiences I would think OBE’s/ Astral Projections would be a more common tangible subject to explore and the Paracast should have a few shows dedicated to this subject matter.
There are some interesting studies looking into the subject from a scientific/medical standpoint and naturally numerous books have been written on the subject. An interesting show would be to get Hernik Ehrsson (Swedish neuroscientist) currently studying this phenomena, and Robert Bruce who is best known as one of the leading experts for his studies into OBE’s.
Today I will have maybe one or two OBE’s a month, these are either triggered from a lucid dream, or from sleep deprivation. Either way the experience of how you exit/re-enter your body, real world/time perception, environments, and people/entities that you encounter is always a powerful, exhilarating and sometimes daunting experience but you are always left with the question what is the nature of our reality?
In my early years I used to think that OBE’s were linked to some chemical imbalance to the brain. And perhaps unknowingly some of us may have certain ‘doors or windows’ open within our brain that disguises the neurological activity as an experience where we feel consciously separated from our self.
But in my latter years after several OBE’s and education through previous experiences I have noticed my incidents are slowly developing into a more intelligent and controlled occurrence - my subconscious and conscious awareness becoming more aligned. So this begs the question is it a paranormal experience, or is it explainable resulting from a misbalance of neurological activity.
I’m now more weighted on thinking perhaps it’s a combination of the both, but only in that the neurological activity perhaps acts as the door while the paranormal experience is what lies behind the door once we understand how to open and step through it. I do not think it’s purely just confined to neurological activity, as it doesn’t explain how you can sometimes validate the experience.
It’s odd but in terms of the paranormal our attention is always drawn or steered towards the subject of the UFO mystery. Nonetheless in terms of paranormal experiences I would think OBE’s/ Astral Projections would be a more common tangible subject to explore and the Paracast should have a few shows dedicated to this subject matter.
There are some interesting studies looking into the subject from a scientific/medical standpoint and naturally numerous books have been written on the subject. An interesting show would be to get Hernik Ehrsson (Swedish neuroscientist) currently studying this phenomena, and Robert Bruce who is best known as one of the leading experts for his studies into OBE’s.
I shoulda seen it comin. 
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