Message-ID: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> From: Suzanne Organization: @Home Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-AtHome0405 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Questions to OBE'ers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:58:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.67.6.118 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.ab.home.com 987389925 24.67.6.118 (Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:58:45 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:58:45 PDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.ab.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66024 The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who experience OBE's regularly. How often do you experience them? What time of day do you usually have them? Are they random or induced? Do you experience blackout? How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? Thanks in advance to all who reply. Suzanne ###### From: "dorothy" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:55:05 -0700 Lines: 33 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 NNTP-Posting-Host: sanduser2123.bossig.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sanduser2123.bossig.com Message-ID: <3ada8932@news.newszilla.com> X-Trace: news.newszilla.com 987400498 sanduser2123.bossig.com (16 Apr 2001 00:54:58 -0500) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!212.43.194.69!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!RENT.THIS.SPACE.FOR.ADVERTISING!news.newszilla.com Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66003 "Suzanne" wrote in message news:3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com... > The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who > experience OBE's regularly. > > How often do you experience them? It varies, but maybe averages 8 or 10 per year. > What time of day do you usually have them? Usually at night; occasionally during the day. > Are they random or induced? Both > Do you experience blackout? Yep > How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? I've had a few experiences that could be interpreted that way. Half a dozen, maybe. > Thanks in advance to all who reply. > > Suzanne > > ###### From: not-me@not-here.net (Janice) Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Message-ID: <3ada8b53.10908287@localhost> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hn8aO+drt86XNZrJz3ZNzbFgkdg= References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 X-NFilter: 1.2.0 Lines: 58 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 01:18:09 CDT Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-FUy4twmIjD12GA8S9e88MGf5GmXUr6fAEEfmT3XJZ55KlVnBqD58uuETE8bmxq84ydQpaoDQ0oXdvf9!I3k6lcfeIFPk+40L/HjWAVWMfqgNuzkpG9sFNkeqMreNYIlYSHE7unIncFpDJTs= X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@giganews.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 06:18:26 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!207.207.0.27!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!news6.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66001 On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:58:45 GMT, Suzanne wrote: >The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who >experience OBE's regularly. > >How often do you experience them? I don't keep count. Sometimes I have several in a week, some weeks I don't have any. I don't think I had any at all for the entire month of January this year. >What time of day do you usually have them? Can't say. I sleep too irregularly. >Are they random or induced? Kind of a combination. The preceding state (SP) usually occurs randomly, but I induce OBEs from it. Sometimes I do induce SP after waking up briefly but I hardly ever induce it at sleep onset anymore. >Do you experience blackout? If you mean are there sometimes no visuals in my OBEs, then yes. >How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? Never. My dreams are very much based on things I have experienced in this life, with the occasional fantastical or futuristic thing thrown in for variety. I think many years ago I had one dream about being in a Southern plantation manor and that's about the closest I've come to anything remotely suggestive of a past life. > >Thanks in advance to all who reply. > >Suzanne > > ----------- Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't know the difference until it's too late.--Despair, Inc. ----------- My homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/jayavogelsong/ * * * The alt.out-of-body newsgroup homepage: http://www.geocities.com/janice240obe/index.html ###### From: Gunnar Ljungstrand Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:22:15 +0200 Organization: Telenordia Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3ADAABB7.34016889@algonet.se> References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> Reply-To: dervak@algonet.se NNTP-Posting-Host: du166-90.ppp.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: zingo.tninet.se 987409382 4027 195.100.90.166 (16 Apr 2001 08:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@algo.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2001 08:23:02 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: sv,en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!194.213.69.151!news.algonet.se!algonet!pepsi.tninet.se!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:65995 Hi Suzanne, Suzanne wrote: > > The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who > experience OBE's regularly. > > How often do you experience them? Too seldom. About once to twice a month nowadays. > What time of day do you usually have them? Early morning. > Are they random or induced? Semi-random. That is, they happen when I make a conscious effort to "get out", but it does not always work. > Do you experience blackout? Not sure what you mean. If you mean OBE with no visuals, yes, that's very common; about half of my OBEs start that way (I usually get vision within a minute or so tho). If you mean very short (a few tenths of a second) blackouts during what I call "scene change" (teleportation), then yes too. It usually happens when I'm crossing some threshold, say phazing thru a window, a door, a wall, a ceiling or something. I tend to end up somewhere totally different from what I see thru the window. Unfortunately I have never been able to bring teleportation about when I want to and to where I want to, but a few times it has happened for no discernaible reason at all (no threshold crossing) too. > How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? In OBEs you mean? Very seldom. I can only think of one possible example (the Desert). > Thanks in advance to all who reply. You're welcome. > Suzanne See you out there... /Gunnar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ###### From: "dorothy" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> <3ADAABB7.34016889@algonet.se> Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:10:15 -0700 Lines: 70 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 NNTP-Posting-Host: sanduser2033.bossig.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sanduser2033.bossig.com Message-ID: <3adab6ef$1@news.newszilla.com> X-Trace: news.newszilla.com 987412207 sanduser2033.bossig.com (16 Apr 2001 04:10:07 -0500) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!newscore.gigabell.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!RENT.THIS.SPACE.FOR.ADVERTISING!news.newszilla.com Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66014 "Gunnar Ljungstrand" wrote in message news:3ADAABB7.34016889@algonet.se... > Hi Suzanne, > > Suzanne wrote: > > > > The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who > > experience OBE's regularly. > > > > How often do you experience them? > > Too seldom. About once to twice a month nowadays. > > > What time of day do you usually have them? > > Early morning. > > > Are they random or induced? > > Semi-random. That is, they happen when I make a conscious effort to "get > out", but it does not always work. > > > Do you experience blackout? > > Not sure what you mean. If you mean OBE with no visuals, yes, that's > very common; about half of my OBEs start that way (I usually get vision > within a minute or so tho). > > If you mean very short (a few tenths of a second) blackouts during what > I call "scene change" (teleportation), then yes too. It usually happens > when I'm crossing some threshold, say phazing thru a window, a door, a > wall, a ceiling or something. I tend to end up somewhere totally > different from what I see thru the window. > Unfortunately I have never been able to bring teleportation about when I > want to and to where I want to, but a few times it has happened for no > discernaible reason at all (no threshold crossing) too. > > > How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? > > In OBEs you mean? Very seldom. I can only think of one possible example > (the Desert). > > > Thanks in advance to all who reply. > > You're welcome. > > > Suzanne > > See you out there... > > /Gunnar Hi Gunnar! Looks like you're the 1st person awake over there in Europe! There was a bit of a lull here in the NG after Janice peeked in. I'm really pleased that my isp finally seems to have hooked up with a reliable news server. I sent a post to Suzanne and got her reply in about 30 minutes. Unprecedented! Anyway, in regard to the question about blackout: yes, she means the very brief loss of consciousness during a scene change (see the 'to Suzanne' thread). (Actually, I shouldn't assume you 'lose consiousness', just because I do. Do you...?) Anyway, have a nice day, Gunnar. (And everyone else too!) It's 2:00 AM over here, so I'm going to go get some shut-eye. Dorothy ###### From: "Dominic Catellier" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Lines: 59 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 05:16:53 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.200.124.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.net X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 987412531 24.200.124.176 (Mon, 16 Apr 2001 05:15:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 05:15:31 EDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!wesley.videotron.net!weber.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66015 > How often do you experience them? Only once, but not the last time! > What time of day do you usually have them? Night ? > Are they random or induced? Not quite sure, I think they are always a wee bit induced. > Do you experience blackout? Yeuh > How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? ? Zero... I wish I'd have one experience though ^__^ sounds fun... maybe I was a turtle... or a dolphin, or a star! Maybe a god? (hmm no) "The truest love is the one that hurts." - Anonymous "Life is as simple as the mind it lives in, the truth is a waste of time when we're conditioned to understand lies" - No Use for a Name "Black holes are where God divided by zero" "The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word 'fuck'" "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour to console him for what he is." "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. " - Ancient Proverb "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pac Man had affected us as kids, now we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, bumping into people, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." This guy on the net Dominic "Syralid" Catellier ICQ: 40283938 E-Mail: dcatellier@videotron.ca "Suzanne" wrote in message news:3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com... > The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who > experience OBE's regularly. > > > Thanks in advance to all who reply. > > Suzanne > > ###### From: Gunnar Ljungstrand Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:25:02 +0200 Organization: Telenordia Lines: 57 Message-ID: <3ADABA6E.9DC55370@algonet.se> References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> <3ADAABB7.34016889@algonet.se> <3adab6ef$1@news.newszilla.com> Reply-To: dervak@algonet.se NNTP-Posting-Host: du166-90.ppp.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: zingo.tninet.se 987413150 10521 195.100.90.166 (16 Apr 2001 09:25:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@algo.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2001 09:25:50 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: sv,en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!194.213.69.151!news.algonet.se!algonet!pepsi.tninet.se!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:65999 Hi Dorothy, dorothy wrote: > Hi Gunnar! Looks like you're the 1st person awake over there in > Europe! Yep, looks like it. :-) > There was a bit of a lull here in the NG after Janice peeked in. I'm > really pleased that my isp finally seems to have hooked up with a > reliable news server. I sent a post to Suzanne and got her reply in > about 30 minutes. Unprecedented! Yeah, that is good! Tho it seems my ISP is even better; its latency (time before something posted at other places shows up) has always been on the order of 5-10 minutes. Instead I have this other problem, that some 5-10% of posts turn up empty. Heading, author, time posted, yes, but no text whatsoever. That is very frustrating, especially since Google seems to have a latency of 2-3 days. > Anyway, in regard to the question about blackout: yes, she means the > very brief loss of consciousness during a scene change (see the 'to > Suzanne' thread). Ok. Great! > (Actually, I shouldn't assume you 'lose consiousness', just because I > do. Do you...?) It really doesn't feel like I am losing consciousness, just the sensory input. A few times the "black phase" has lasted for 3-4 seconds and I could still think and remember very well during this. My hypothesis is more or less that scene changes are some kind of "frequency change", like when changing station on the radio, you jump to another vibratory level in the planes, and that the blackout more or less corresponds to the static between stations, that is, empty energetic levels. Or something... > Anyway, have a nice day, Gunnar. (And everyone else too!) It's 2:00 AM > over here, so I'm going to go get some shut-eye. Nice dreams (and OBEs) Dorothy! :-) > Dorothy See you out there... /Gunnar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ###### From: not-me@not-here.net (Janice) Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Message-ID: <3adb0496.1021606@localhost> Cancel-Lock: sha1:pDq5Zkrq2HkjjEuVipdbyeTlwAg= References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> <3ADAABB7.34016889@algonet.se> <3adab6ef$1@news.newszilla.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 X-NFilter: 1.2.0 Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:42:15 CDT Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-R8iEjsyRz6SnfUjpcTGXl4TG7XU/JXdxBPrVkpQGXydUNsJCehYDN2TMELHf6ul1semu45eTnXItjzd!HvmOxS7ztS/w/EieQKybY3pQPBvTZHbww3fAjKHqdyxzPm4U0GkifgRFzuvKtg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@giganews.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:42:32 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!209.30.0.50!nntp.flash.net!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!news6.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:65987 On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:10:15 -0700, "dorothy" wrote: >Anyway, in regard to the question about blackout: yes, she means the very >brief loss of consciousness during a scene change (see the 'to Suzanne' >thread). (Actually, I shouldn't assume you 'lose consiousness', just because >I do. Do you...?) I don't lose consciousness during scene changes. ----------- Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't know the difference until it's too late.--Despair, Inc. ----------- My homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/jayavogelsong/ * * * The alt.out-of-body newsgroup homepage: http://www.geocities.com/janice240obe/index.html ###### From: not-me@not-here.net (Janice) Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Message-ID: <3adb050e.1141787@localhost> Cancel-Lock: sha1:TTCJjMRjJszMKKUeeJwEv4QvWMk= References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> <3ADAABB7.34016889@algonet.se> <3adab6ef$1@news.newszilla.com> <3ADABA6E.9DC55370@algonet.se> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 X-NFilter: 1.2.0 Lines: 58 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:49:13 CDT Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-pm4hpTQWz94a+AukOrgdQdH14NiyijzOc/wBld5z8y4jb7EeDZH7zaXzjtd5FGA0loAZIaa4gtHCuAA!UIUfPYPD+LfnE8l/CmcnTqs2TWSBwm6aV8kk/AMZE1yvggvwb0DqU9RIGL8ZWg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@giganews.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:49:31 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!isdnet!howland.erols.net!portc.blue.aol.com.MISMATCH!portc01.blue.aol.com!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!news6.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:65994 On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:25:02 +0200, Gunnar Ljungstrand wrote: >dorothy wrote: > >> There was a bit of a lull here in the NG after Janice peeked in. I'm >> really pleased that my isp finally seems to have hooked up with a >> reliable news server. I sent a post to Suzanne and got her reply in >> about 30 minutes. Unprecedented! > >Yeah, that is good! Tho it seems my ISP is even better; its latency >(time before something posted at other places shows up) has always been >on the order of 5-10 minutes. Instead I have this other problem, that >some 5-10% of posts turn up empty. Heading, author, time posted, yes, >but no text whatsoever. That is very frustrating, especially since >Google seems to have a latency of 2-3 days. Perhaps those are html posts and your newsreader can't read them? The old IE News program from IE 3, which Jay still likes, will do that with html posts. >> (Actually, I shouldn't assume you 'lose consiousness', just because I >> do. Do you...?) > >It really doesn't feel like I am losing consciousness, just the sensory >input. A few times the "black phase" has lasted for 3-4 seconds and I >could still think and remember very well during this. > >My hypothesis is more or less that scene changes are some kind of >"frequency change", like when changing station on the radio, you jump to >another vibratory level in the planes, and that the blackout more or >less corresponds to the static between stations, that is, empty >energetic levels. > >Or something... Don't you ever get the same scene back after a blank phase? I think I do more often than not. But then my blank phases usually happen while I'm just walking around. ----------- Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't know the difference until it's too late.--Despair, Inc. ----------- My homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/jayavogelsong/ * * * The alt.out-of-body newsgroup homepage: http://www.geocities.com/janice240obe/index.html ###### From: "The Original Ken" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers Lines: 53 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: <2KDC6.853$el5.28209@wormhole.dimensional.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:56:51 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.241.33.101 X-Trace: wormhole.dimensional.com 987432958 216.241.33.101 (Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:55:58 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:55:58 MDT Organization: Interlink Advertising Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.bme.hu!andromeda.datanet.hu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!wormhole.dimensional.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66018 Suzanne wrote in message news:3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com... > The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who > experience OBE's regularly. > > How often do you experience them? I go through phases. Sometimes I'll have 3-4 in a month, and other times I'll go a couple of months without any. I was pretty active in Jan, Feb, but now things have slowed down. > What time of day do you usually have them? 2-6 AM. Sometimes during a nap in the middle of the day, but I don't nap that much. > Are they random or induced? Something in between. I can sense when I might be able to have one in which case I turn my awareness on and go for it. I can't just induce one at will but I can set the scene so that I'm more likely to have one. > Do you experience blackout? Do you mean the blackout that occurs when your consciouness shifts just before an OBE? Sort of. When my consciousness shifts, there is a change that takes place where my mind goes to different memories and/or ways of thinking and this can feel like a blackout, but I don't think it really is. If you mean do I go through voids, then yes, almost all my OBEs involve traveling through voids. If I'm just OBEing around my house then no, but most of the time I travel great distances, which involves going through voids. > How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? I can't say. I've never really thought much about the subject. I always seem to speak in modern English, as do the people around me, so I don't think I do the past life thing. > > Thanks in advance to all who reply. Sure thing. Ken > > Suzanne > > ###### Message-ID: <3ADB37E2.A82F872C@home.com> From: Suzanne Organization: @Home Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-AtHome0405 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Questions to OBE'ers References: <3ADA6046.1497BA65@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:18:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.67.6.118 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.ab.home.com 987445124 24.67.6.118 (Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:18:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:18:44 PDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.ab.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:66027 Thanks everybody for taking the time to answer my questions. There's some really interesting answers! :-) Suzanne wrote: > The following are just a few curious questions I have for all who > experience OBE's regularly. > > How often do you experience them? > What time of day do you usually have them? > Are they random or induced? > Do you experience blackout? > How often do you experience what you consider to be 'past lives'? > > Thanks in advance to all who reply. > > Suzanne