OBE Aftermath

From: Ramon Vizcarra-Orozco (ramonvizcarra@yahoo.com)
Story type: Out of Body Experience
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Sun Sep 26 03:37:00 2010

My OBE happened only once but it certainly changed me for the rest of my life. It happened when I was about 14 years old, back in my hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico.

It was a hot summer day, nothing extraordinary, typical for a summer day in Mexico, it was approximately 1 in the afternoon, I had just come in from running around, probably doing some errands, I remember I felt exhausted as I was laying down on the couch, my legs extended before me, my butt on the edge of the couch and the back of my head pressed against the backrest part of the couch.

Next thing I know I am floating above my self, from above I can see the love seat below which would have been across from my physical body, the love seat looks really small, like I am looking at it from way high up in the air, then into my field of view comes the coffee table as well as the love seat, my field of view continues to enlarge as more items come into view, I vividly remember the alternating maroon and yellow tiles of the floor as they continue to diminish in size, at this point I am still ok, but the problem begins or ends (which ever way you may choose to look at it) when into my field of view entered my own image. I saw me! Down below! Exactly the way I was lying down on the couch! And that is why I am, to this day, able to describe exactly the way I was laying down. It is exactly at this moment that I FREAKED OUT (and I mean big time!) and next thing I know it all ended as abruptly as it begun, when I woke up I was struggling to breathe and I was coughing like crazy trying to get some air.

This incident left me feeling like I am forever a foreigner regardless of where I am, I can never feel at home, I know it is a lot to say but I will say it because there is no other way to describe it: It feels like I don’t belong on this earth, I am not kidding, it has left a profound impact, I have moved around to many places and cities and cant seem to find myself at peace. I have now been in Sacramento, Ca. for the past 5 years.

Only one thing is certain for me; there is another side/dimension to myself, I have seen it, felt it, and experienced it, and there is no reconciliation between my physical self and the one I experienced that summer day, the only problem is that I really long for the other one since it is not bound by the physical limitations of my mass.

I would like to experience that again some time.