A Couple of OBEs

From: Mushmouth (thelickofmyspoon@hotmail.com)
Story type: OBE
Location: England and Scotland
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Fri May 25 12:06:28 2007

This is the story of a couple of OBEs, one is my own, the other is an old lady's. My own dates back about seven years, I worked in a book warehouse that had a lot of books on metaphysics and the paranormal. One of the books I came across was the Llewellyn Guide to Astral Projection, it had an accompanying cassette so I stole a copy.

It took me months before I could consciously get it right to any extent. The only problem being that I couldn't project myself anywhere I wanted to go and also I couldn't achieve the same astral form as described in the text. I always ended up going somewhere I didn't want to be, back to work. This more or less killed the amusement factor. The form I would take was spherical and roughly the size of a basketball. I remember that I couldn't move where I wanted to go even at work, I was moving very slowly, going up through the floor boards and saw people around me who obviously worked there on the shifts I didn't.

A few years earlier I was working up in Scotland for a weekend and was staying at a bed and breakfast run by a couple of old spinsters. The first night I stayed there I had supper with the two ladies, the elder one who was at least ninety was very interested in my home in England and particularily in my cats. I remember I didn't go into too much detail and the woman asked if I wouldn't mind her coming to visit. Being polite, I extended an invitation not thinking she would ever take me up on it.

The next night I returned late in the evening and the younger old lady let me in and told me to sit in the lounge while she put on some tea. When I went into the lounge I saw the older lady slumped in a chair, as I peered round to see if she was awake I noticed her head was slumped to the side and her eyes were wide open. I said hello but got no response, it was then that I noticed she did not appear to be breathing. In horror I called out to the other lady who came running in and I told her I thought her friend was dead. The lady laughed and said, "Don't mind her, she's just out and about." The lady asked me to have a seat and then brought me some tea.

I sat nervously for about an hour thinking I was sitting in the same room as a corpse when all of a sudden the elder old lady got up and stretched. The other woman then said, "Oh, and how was your trip? You been gone a while now and You've given our guest quite a fright." The elder lady who I thought was dead told me she had a lovely time at my home in England and described playing with my cats, then she perfectly descibed my neighbour's cats and how the couple next door let their children run wild and had a set of curtains that looked like they'ld never been washed. She then thanked me for the invitation to visit my home in England.