A Familiar Scene... But Not Normal

Date: April 5, 2025

Last night, I launched my very first serious attempt at an out-of-body experience. I was calm, relaxed, and fell asleep with the clear intention of observing everything I would feel, without pressure.

Around 4 AM, my daughter briefly woke me up. I went back to bed, and then I felt my body falling asleep quickly. It was like an internal switch: I wasn’t asleep yet, but my body seemed completely at rest. I perceived amplified sounds—like a radiator humming in my ears—and blurry images began to appear behind my eyelids.

Then came a very vivid scene. My wife walked down the hallway and told me she was waking up earlier because the children would be awake in an hour. What struck me was that I immediately knew it wasn’t really her, though I couldn’t say why. Yet everything felt utterly realistic: the environment, the light, her voice… all “normal,” but different. And the most unsettling part is that the kids did indeed wake up an hour later, just as she had said in this scene.

I half-sat up—just my torso—to tell her I was too tired, and then I “fell back asleep”… within that scene.

Looking back on it now, I wonder if that was a real partial exit. Did my energetic body rise up without me noticing? Was I invited to cross a symbolic threshold I failed to recognize?

I’m not certain. But one thing is sure: that night, I wasn’t experiencing an ordinary dream. Something happened. And that will be my starting point.