to join my body (M.R.: wrong action), but did not manage it.
Fear overwhelmed me.
At once I recollected, that I had read somewhere that
one should make a turnabout to join his body. I did so and
soon found myself in my physical body.
John Merritt
Houston, USA
A friend of mine found A Practical Guidebook on the net
and sent me the link. I read the book, and soon it finally
happened.
I went to sleep around 10 or 11 and woke up at 4. I
stayed up for 30 minutes and lay back down. I started
meditating, and then going over the techniques and
separation in my mind. I fell into a free floating state, going in
and out of consciousness. I started observing images. And
soon vibrations started. I had already experienced vibrations
once or twice. The first time I felt them I was scared and they
went away after a few seconds. The second time I tried to
intensify them and it seemed to work for a few seconds, but
then again nothing. This time I used straining the brain and
the vibrations got stronger and stronger. And this time I
didn't lose them. They intensified and came to a crescendo,
and when they were over, I felt different. My next thought
was I was already separated from my body. All I had to do
was just stand up! And I was right.
I rose up out of my body and sat up and stepped off the
bed and I was out! I hadn't really planned what I would do
(M.R.: no deepening and no plan of action). The room was
dark, and my first thought was to turn on a light. I was in my
bedroom so I walked into the bathroom in my bedroom and
flipped the light switch on. Nothing. I vaguely thought to
myself, “maybe the light is burned out”, so I walked out into
the hallway and into the other upstairs bathroom and turned
on that light switch. Again nothing. But I remembered then
from reading lucid dreaming books that light switches don't
work in dreams. And since I was in my astral body turning on
the light switch wasn't going to work either.
I decided to go back to my bed and look at myself. I ran
into the room saw my bed and literally jumped up on the