That’s really interesting. That is exactly the feeling that occurs when the … aw fuck… The whole Field of OBEs is fucked up by the language they use to describe things.
Let’s try again. I have been able to have OBE’s since I was a kid. My first sleep paralysis episode was when I was 3 and I recall it perfectly. I went from exploring these episodes and buying into the whole meditation bullshit until I had a few really good OBEs. So what I wanted to say above what that the experience of being dizzy in a dropping elevator is the exact feeling that occurs just prior to the OBE.
My experience is one of dropping, then hearing a roar like a train passing by just a few inches away. Then there is a dizzy flip as I spin feet over the head into a standing position and there I am. The “Astral Projection.” My brain pretending my body is still there when the body has been shut off.
My belief is that “sleep paralysis” and “phantom limb syndrome” are the evidence explaineing OBEs and NDEs.
What happens during an NDE or OBE is that the body shuts down but the brain remains alert. This body ‘shut down’ occurs every night when we sleep. If the body did not shut down we would dream about running and wake to find ourselves miles away from our bed.
The brain naturally separates from the body, disconnects, during sleep. When the brain wakes before reconnecting to the body, this results in sleep paralysis. An this freaks the hell out of most people.
But when you seek it. When you learn to stay alert as the body shuts off, your brain does a really interesting thing. Like ‘phantom limb syndrome’ when amputees can swear that they still have a limb and can even feel it. Sometimes even reaching out for things with it, to discover no limb there at all. The brain manufactures the missing limb in the same way it manufactures the missing body. I believe this is at the root of all OBE and NDE experiences. The experience is quite real and very interesting; however, it is nothing more than a brain state.