OBE? Or Something Similar Perhaps?

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Story type: OBE
Location: woods
Source: Form Submission

Hello,

Some years back, I had what I consider to be an OBE. I have heard of disassociation, but I do not believe this is what happened to me. The reason I do not believe that is the term of what occurred to me is evident in the story.

One night I had left a nightclub, pulled up to a gas station to pump gas, when I went back to the car, my car would not start. A nice looking, well dressed man pulled along side of my car and offered help. Needless to say, his help was not the kind any woman alone at night, would want bestowed upon her. To make a long story short, I was kidnapped by gun point and hauled off to a remote section of town, and into a wooded area. I was unable to see where we were going and did not realize where I was, until after the event took place.

While he abused my body, I suddenly was not "there" in my body anymore. Now mind you, I was not hurt, and I did not feel as though he was "stealing" anything from me, and I just wanted the act to be over with so I could leave. I was not that afraid, funny as it seems now. But I was not.

Anyhow, I did not feel myself leave my body as others state happens during OBE's. I just became aware that I was above the scene, watching his back and my face, somewhat unconcerned by it all, and more like being an interested "outsider." I did not feel as though my entire body was "up" there, only a sense of my eyes and my brain. Not meaning my actual eyes and brain, just that those seem to be the body parts that were taking in what I was seeing. This part is hard to explain, what parts were in the air. If you want to call it my soul, then so be it. I can only say it was my eyes, as I could "see" and my brain, for I could "think." That was it. No other sensation of any other body part being a "part of me."

How am I sure I was up in the air? Well, if you have ever been in the air, maybe in a low flying airplane, and you have gone across the tops of closely planted trees, you get the feeling that they are like stepping stones. Or tops of mushrooms, you could say. I had the feeling that I could just skip away on the tops of the treetops. Tall pine trees they were. While I "hung" in the air, amazed by the fact that the trees appeared in a stepping stone fashion (amazing that this happened during a rape of my body) I noticed that there was also a street light that just barely topped the tree line. Suddenly my "brain" decided that I or rather, the body on the ground, could get away, possibly and if so, then to head in the direction of the street light that I saw above the treetops.

The next thing I knew, I was no longer in the sky but back in my body and I never felt it enter the body. Just was "back" so to speak.

Needless to say, I got away, not as fast as I would have liked, but I got away and I headed for the street light. It turned out to be a light for a business that was closed, but the main thing is, I could NOT have seen that light, had I NOT be in the air.

Several weeks later, with some male friends of mine, I returned by car to that same place, again in the middle of the night. I have them as witnesses that the street light can NOT be seen at that location or by the road. The business is set way off the main road, deep in the woods. It is a junkyard for old beat up automobiles.

I have had other things happen to me over the 40 years of my life, but this one fits the OBE field and I will write more to the other forums later. This was my one and only OBE experience and I am firmly convinced that this was indeed what happened. A form of OBE, not disassociation.

Sorry for the length of this message, but it was the only way to express what happened that night so long ago. Funny, the OBE had more impact on my life then the rape.

One thing more while on that subject of rape, a person can not "steal" or "take" from you, what you are not willing to give. In my instance, the body portion was just a "thing" but the person remains intact. His mission failed. I came away the winner and with so much more then I went into it with. The OBE for one thing.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for having a forum to allow folks to share with one another. Please continue to update the site.