Below is my journal entry from what is possibly my first OBE.  I say possibly, because a few months have gone by and nothing like it has happened again.  At the time I was very sure that it was an OBE, but now, I've had a few doubts.  Even if it wasn't, however, it was still the most lucid dream experience of my life.  

11/4/17

I transitioned into my first OBE from a lucid dream –the most lucid dream of my life.

I was with a friend in a desert scene. We were jumping for height and distance. This is something I do for fun whenever I become lucid to any degree in my dreams. I could jump higher than he… and I eventually decided to just stay in the air floating/flying. I told him I would teach him how to jump higher and asked him to follow me to the top of a nearby cliff. Once at the top, I told him “it’s easier than you think,” then I looked down the cliff at the sand about 100 feet below. At that point, I made a startling discovery. “Holy crap!!” I said to myself, “I’m totally present. I’m here! I’m really here!” “Wow,” I continued… “What should I do?” I looked back down at the earth below and said to myself, “I’m going to jump. And I’m going to totally let myself go. I don’t know what’ll happen, but I trust.”

I swan dived off the side of the cliff. As the earth approached me I didn’t get scared, I stayed calm. When I was 2 feet above the ground, I suddenly became suspended in mid-air. I also noticed lots of vibrations. Having experienced this through several practices is Buhlman’s “targeting” technique, I allowed myself to sink into it and for the vibrations to spread throughout my whole body. Everything got dark and I heard a pulsating sound.

When I opened my eyes, I was in my room! At the foot of my bed, to be exact. I looked over my shoulder and sure enough, there I lay, sleeping!!! I looked away quickly because I didn’t want to begin thinking about my body and thereby get pulled back into it (as Buhlman wrote). I closed my eyes and concentrated on something else. First thing that came to mind were my wife and kids (who were sleeping in the other room this night), so I focused on them. Again the vibrations, sounds and darkness. I opened my eyes in the hallway outside my bedroom door. I couldn’t see so well, so I called out, “Clarity now!” and I felt my consciousness drifting, so I also called out, “full awareness now!!”, just as Buhlman suggests. It worked. I could see things come into focus better, but honestly, it was still very hard to see, as it was very dark still. I started walking over to the room where my wife and kids were.

I found them awake on the bed. Compared to the whole environment, they were quite bright. I could see them well. “Can you see me?? I asked them. “Yes,” they said. “Wow! I’m asleep in the other room!” I exclaimed. “My body’s asleep over there! And here I am!!” They smiled.

I said, “Watch this, son!” and I stuck my hand into the wall, feeling the vibrations thereof. “Touch my arm!” I held it out and my son put his hand about 2 inches above my forearm and we both felt intense energy vibrations. Then I looked up at the ceiling and said to myself, “oh yeah, I can jump up there and get stuck in it.” So I jumped, and sure enough, my head got stuck in the ceiling. I couldn’t see what was on the other side.

Maybe next time!

After this I slipped back into a lucid dream and never got back to out of body.