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human
Huh, really interesting. This lines up with my experience, though I'm not 100% sure I had an OBE, it was very brief though and I haven't had the strength to replicate it since.

I had listened to the tapes for a few days (5-6), then stopped once nothing really happened outside of head pressures and falling asleep. 

About a week after while sleeping, I woke up and turned over to get more comfortable, and closed my eyes again. I noticed a weird blue fuzzy cloud over my field of view with my eyes closed and a very low, almost inaudible ringing. Once I spontaneously decided to focus on both what I was seeing (by imagining the cloud being pushed into a circle, sometimes moving my eyes a bit) and what I was hearing (imagining the ringing getting louder/giving 'energy' to it), the visuals got brighter and the ringing got louder.

At some point, my body started vibrating and I seem to have felt the my body and my mental conception (?) of my body separating. My legs were bent and started moving on their own to become straight, but at the same time I could feel them still there in their original position. As the vibrations became more and more violent, I focused on those same two sensations, and then suddenly I shifted into some sort of computer terminal with a list of options.

It was a completely dark space and all I could see in front of me was a bright blue computer-like terminal, but there was no monitor or computer. I didn't have a body, it was more like I was an awareness. It felt extremely vivid, far more than the lucid dreams I had in the past. My continuity of consciousness wasn't broken either, like as I normally feel when going to asleep (usually don't get the see the exact moment I start dreaming). The experience was very brief though, as soon as I was about to read the text in front of me, a woman's voice said very gently '...whoops, let's get you back.' Then I had suddenly came back to reality.
gpt
Since then, I had been trying to replicate this feeling again and again. Focusing on the visuals and the ringing, eventually leading to the vibration stage that I've read many OBE practitioners get. It seems so far in my experience that for me if I don't have both the visuals and the ringing, I can't get to this vibrational state.

However, I've never been able to get past this stage since, and I've tried several times. The vibrations now are also much more violent then last time, causing me to stop it prematurely, and I notice now when I come back down from it, my heart starts beating much harder than it ever has. A feeling I did not have during that first experience. I'm starting to wonder though if that woman locked me out of experiencing that again or if there's something I'm missing here...

Perhaps I will have to revisit those tapes again?
human
Youre not suppose to stop it prematurely, monroe said to move past that fear.