The out of body experience

[avaiyak]

I have had the out of body experience more than once.  But it has not been on a willful place.  I was wondering how could I willfully release myself from my body?  Are there certain techniques that people have followed in order to release themselves from there own bodies?  How does one stay out of there bodies once they are out of themselves?  Are there any answers to my questions out there?

[Rising_Sun]

i've had an ou-of-body experience while sleeping once. it felt very good and real and i could see myself sleeping, but it lasted only a few seconds. i have a material that explains seven ways to willfully have an astral projection experience. I will try and post them later. I do remember that in order to experience astral projection while sleeping you have to fall asleep on your back with your hands on your shoulders making a cross over your chest with your arms, this is an egyptian technique and i can tell it works.

[velvetraven]

i have had many of obe's i do it almost every night when i sleep

[parallelmessages]

I have heard and read about having out of body experiences in sleep.  Apparently there has been a study done (university escapes me..) and they have produced a website called Lucid Dreaming that walks you through a series of exercises to help achieve out of body experiences (mainly flight) in dream states.  I haven't been able to achieve this yet as I mostly don't sleep more than a few hours...poor me...lol
Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you.