ATDTDA (17): "He wondered if he could be his own ghost" (461.2)

[Tim Strzechowski]

"[...] He wondered if he could be his own ghost, and haunting these rooms and corridors, as if the nearly negligible fraction of his life spent here had remained here, somehow still proceeding, just past visibility ..." (p. 461).


"Out of body" experiences (OBEs) are personal experiences during which people feel as if they are perceiving the physical world from a location outside of their physical bodies. At least 5 and perhaps as many as 35 of every 100 people have had an OBE at least once in their lives (Blackmore, 1982). OBEs are highly arousing; they can be either deeply disturbing or profoundly moving. Understanding the nature of this widespread and potent experience would no doubt help us better understand the experience of being alive and human." [...]
 
http://www.lucidity.com/NL32.OBEandLD.html
 

[...] "The experience may be attended with spiritual epiphany or a more general feeling of peacefulness and love. Others have experienced fearfulness and anxiety and for some there is no direct spiritual experience other than the OBE itself.

The OBE is not generally long; on the order of a minute or so. However the subjective experience may be described as being much longer than the objective time which passed.

The OBE may or may not be followed by other experiences which are self-reported as being "as real" as the OBE feeling; alternatively, the subject may fade into a state self-reported as dreaming, or they may wake completely. The OBE is sometimes ended due to a fearful feeling of getting "too far away" from the body. Many end with a feeling of suddenly "popping" or "snapping" and sometimes a "pulling" back into their bodies; some even report being "sucked back" into physical form." [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience

http://www.oberf.org/

http://www.spiritualtravel.org/


And not to forget ...

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