From: gen5006@husky1.stmarys.ca (Bill McKinnon)
Subject: Experience
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:57:31 GMT

	Well folks, I finally managed to get back into the newgroup so here's
my experience.  Hopefully I'll be able to post my techinique in the future.
I've yet to get the time to write down, but when I do I'll post it.
TTFN.

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                               1-January-1993
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	I wake up and get the urge to hone my 'psychic sight' some more; 
I have up to this point become rather effective at it.  Essentially, it is the
ability to see perfectly while being blindfolded, in other words, using some
means other than the eyes to perceive the world around me.  I use my 
usually technique (to be noted elsewhere); everything is going as normal
and I've achieved a degree of success, although not one-hundred percent.
Suddenly all of my senses vanish.  I'm in a void much like that just before
an OBE, intrigued, I attempt to slip out.  ( point of note here, this is
not what people usually class as an OBE and is something I try to avoid
whenever possible because it seems an invasion of privacy as you will soon
see ) Seperation is successful and I can feel myself leave my body.  I
suddenly awaken only to find myself blinded, at first I think it is because
of the blindfold I wore for the technique, however, the blindfold is not 
there.  I can hear a female voice nearby.  All of a sudden she kisses me;
I figured it was safe assume that I'm not back in my room.  ( being single and
somewhat unused to being kissed by strangers; another point to note here,
while I'm using some normal 'physical' senses most are still that of an OBE
such as sight and perception of the space arond me )  I finally get my sight 
to work again somewhat and I see that I'm in a smallish, perhaps one bedroom,
apartment.  I'm feeling quite dizzy so I go to the bathroom; how I know where it
is is a mystery to me, but I've become used to such odd occurances from
other similar experiences.  I calm myself down and go back out to the 
living room where there is a young woman waiting.  She's about 5'8" with
shoulder length brown hair and hazel eyes.  She has the slim figure of
someone into fitness.  I try to figure out just where I am so I go to the door
to check the apt number so I will have something to remember, it says 703 so
I close the door and then look out the window there is a medium size city below
me and there are three buildings virtually alike beneath me.  They are about
four floors high and are in three wings that join to form a courtyard in the
middle.  They are all made of brick.  Somewhat satified and rather worried
about the woman who is at this point very distressed at my very odd behaviour
I attempt to leave. ( something I usually don't have to do as OBEs of this
type have never lasted this long )  I go back to the bathroom and look in the
mirror, at which point everything fades out, all my senses gradually disappear. 
I come back to my senses again but I am *still* not back yet, I'm looking 
from someone else's perspective yet again.  I'm in what appears
to be a lounge and there is a business luncheon or some similar function
going on.  This time I try not to alarm anyone so I try to play the part
as I'm supposed to without behaving oddly.  I'm fairly successful, just then an
older woman comes over to me and tells me it's time to get back to work so
I follow her and she leads me out of the room.  We go down a hallway to an
elevator; across from the elevator are some open doors, and through them
I can see scrolling signs showing stock market figures and a bunches of
desks covered with paperwork with people busy at work.  We then enter the
elevator and as it closes everything fades again.  ( the elevator doors
opened at the middle, and appear quite old ) This time I'm in the void
for a short while; when I come around again the same woman is walking in
front of me and we are approaching and office building.  For some reason
I look down at my hands and all of the skin is peeling off of them.  I call
to the woman to see if she can see them as well.  She turns around and
looks at them and gasps.  I don't know what she saw but at this point
evrything fades and when I come around I back in my own body.  As I've
said earlier I've had similar experiences, but, they all occured with me
being in the same person.  Also, they never lasted more than five minutes.
The clarity of the senses was not as good either.



Points of note:  If this is a dream i'd love to know where the stock market
came from. Also, while fully aware of my surroundings, i could no more control
them than i can now; and i was unable to force the experience to end.  Now,
most lucid dreams i can control fully, and *all* i can end whenever i want to.
I have taken control of someone else's body before but never that strongly and
i've never been bounced from one to another.  Also during the experience i had
no doubt whatsoever that i was awake, none.  It was so wierd i was trying to
make it end on purpose, something i don't normally do, but could not.  For
a while i was afraid i'd be stuck like that forever.

Description of the fading:  It was like in the movies a gradual fading of all 
senses until there was none, and then a fade back until they were full again. 
I also attempted an obe on purpose thought this isn't what i expected.

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