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Do you believe when someone said they had encountered an out of body experience ?

Sometimes people say that they have ever encountered an out of body experience where they could go through walls, look back at themselves at their own unconcious body or float and go above roof tops, do you believe that ?

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  • anyone
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes. Unfortunately, lots of people spend too much time outside of their bodies. There's no particular advantage to it most of the time, other than pure escapism. There are lessons that can be learned and spiritual work that can be done while traveling outside of one's body, but most people do it just for escape or to prove that they can. That's worthless.

    Of course, some people only delude themselves into thinking they have traveled outside their bodies. In an actual out-of-body experience, a person's consciousness is ALWAYS aware of a connection to the body, often seen as a "silver cord" that keeps the "spirit" connected to the body. If we look at it honestly, we can know what this connection means: a human awareness does not actually exist without a connection to a body. But we believe what we want to believe.

    As much fun as an out-of-body experience might be, it is much more important to learn how to be IN your body, rather than try to escape from it. That is to say, it is better to actually live in your body than to pretend that you can live without a body.

    With all of that said, it is a matter of perspective. You could say--in some ways--that Astral Travel is real, but you could also truly say that it is imaginary. It depends on the traveler and the purpose of the journey.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ofcourse because I have done the same things and why would I lie anyways? Like I want people to think I am crazy or something. Many things are going on in this universe that I do not get, many universes all around us. Don't believe the hype, expand your mind.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Actually, it's a legitimate sleep problem. The mind wakes up, but the portions of the subconscious relating to control of the physical body don't and the person is trapped in a waking dream. They can't move, and they often experience delusions.

  • 1 decade ago

    I should neither believe not disbelieve because it is valid for those who have, or who claim to have, such an experience. My faith should be based on my own experience. Until then it is better to let it remain in a suspended state.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Nothing is impossible and I tend to believe that 'coz I had one such experience in my childhood. But 'go through walls or roof' that I hadn't heard before.....

  • 1 decade ago

    yes, but i would say it more like deja vu! sometimes I will have dreams about future conversations, talking to my husband or mother inlaw and weeks later it will happen. I will be like wait a minute didnt we already discuss this and they look at me liek im crazy. i had vision sof my grandma pasing, i knew she dies before anyone told me, she speaks to me in my dreams, she told me she was giving me a special bag for christmas and my mom dropped off her old louis vuitton. i have had a lot fo of out of body experiences but i would classify it as de ja vu.

  • 5 years ago

    thank you on your question, it relatively is yet another thought scary one isn't it? First i could choose to share a scripture: 2Corinthians 4:18 jointly as we glance no longer on the flaws that are seen, yet on the flaws that are no longer seen: for the flaws that are seen are temporal; however the flaws that are no longer seen are eternal. we are able to verify from this scripture that each little thing you may bodily see alongside with your eyes are momentary. however the invisible issues ( the flaws you may no longer see alongside with your actual eyes ) are eternal. i've got faith like those invisible issues is what you have been speaking approximately on your question, those issues that God has made and has additionally declared they'll final perpetually. As we glance around we are able to verify the earth and how it relatively is now, and all of us comprehend that sometime it too gets replaced ( Rev. 21:a million ), or perhaps our very own physique it relatively is so splendidly made, as believers in Jesus our bodies gets replaced in an instantaneous. ( I Corinthians 15:fifty one-fifty 4 ) God has giving us all souls and those souls will stay perpetually, there are merely 2 places that persons spend eternity. In Heaven with God, or in Hell without God perpetually. God has no exhilaration in human beings going to Hell, for this reason He despatched His Son Jesus Christ to take your punishment on the circulate, Jesus paid the cost for the sins of the international to reconcile us to God. God raised Jesus from the ineffective, and Jesus is alive sitting on the suited hand of God. God does take exhilaration in a sinner that turns to Him, and believes on Him and His Son Jesus Christ. Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I stay, saith our lord god, I have not any exhilaration in the loss of existence of the depraved; yet that the depraved turn from his way and stay: turn ye, turn ye out of your evil procedures; for why will ye die, O homestead of Israel?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I had sleep paralysis as a teen, and it seemed like OBE, but it is a medical happening. "Many who experience sleep paralysis also report sensations of floating, flying, falling, or leaving one's body. The condition's primary emotion, terror, sometimes yields to feelings of excitement, exhilaration, rapture, or ecstasy. "A small number of people, while acknowledging fear during initial episodes of sleep paralysis, come to enjoy the experience,""

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Although it has never happened to me, yes, I believe my Mother and husband when they told me this happened to them because they are down to Earth sensible people that don't lie.

  • joe d
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    yes the mind is a powerful thing that could make dreams seem real.

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