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I don't think that its normal or a form of sleep paralysis, you can't exactly define this experience. Its not an unbelievable thing too, it can happen but you can't practise it however.

I think that it is associated with a physical or mental trauma, use of psychedelic drugs, dissociative drugs, or a dream-like state. Some of those who experience OBEs claimed to have willed themselves out of their bodies, while others report having found themselves being pulled from their bodies, somewhat like paralysis.

I've experienced lucid dreaming and astral travel, but never an OBE. I don't really care about OBEs because they don't sound as interesting to me as the other two skills. I have experienced sleep paralysis as well and it was disturbing.

I have never had an out of body experience per se. Six months ago, I would've said it was all nonsense. A couple of times during meditation, I had the experience of returning to my body. It feels that I have lost time, but I can't be sure. This has happened while meditating with a group with a time limit. Some part of me tells another part of me that it's time to come back. I have no idea what I was doing immediately before that or if I was doing anything at all.

I do remember focusing and then knowing that all life and that all things are connect by one power. Then nothingness and then the coming back. Then something strange happened when I came back, but I'm just not ready to discuss it yet.