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The Challenge of the Week (literally.) on Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:33 am

Scyze

Joined: 27 Apr 2006
Posts: 40

I had an interesting thought, and I've decided to post a challenge:

I've noted how that after a failed OBE attempt, I cannot get to sleep for quite a while because my body is 'rested', in a sense. At least, that's how I feel.. I don't feel tired at all.

Now, I figured--if this is possible, that the body rests, and under the ASSUMPTION that the mind can go on without sleep itself, and just relies on the brain getting rest (huh? I don't know what I'm talking about) to function properly, then what would happen if you were to stay awake in mind for a week? Your body would sleep regularly, but your mind would be awake for a whole week.. What would happen? Would you go insane? Razz

Myself, I think I'm going to try it.. good luck to me not waking myself up for 7 hours. :\

It'd be cool though, if others tried it too and posted results/conclusions/progress checks/etc. Or just comment on it with what you know already. Maybe some warnings?
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Posted on Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:04 pm

Streakerseraph

Joined: 11 Jul 2006
Posts: 31

nothing will happen, your mind never sleeps, it just thinks about simpler topics. say, if you studied advanced calculus and quantum physics for 4 days straight, you would snap, but just messing around with dreams won't do anything
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Posted on Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:13 am

Lleu

Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Posts: 153

What would happen if, say, your heart got ripped out in OBE? That's my main conern about staying out over a night.
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Posted on Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:36 pm

Draken_

Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Posts: 102

Lleu wrote:
What would happen if, say, your heart got ripped out in OBE? That's my main conern about staying out over a night.

If your heart got ripped out, I don't think you'd have much time for concerns.
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Posted on Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:29 pm

Lleu

Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Posts: 153

I don't really want to die. That's why I'm concerned. Would I just become immortal? I wouldn't really like that either.
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Posted on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:02 am

Isotope

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
Posts: 86

. . .

What?
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Posted on Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:11 am

Felix_the_Cat

Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Posts: 177

Lleu wrote:
What would happen if, say, your heart got ripped out in OBE? That's my main conern about staying out over a night.


While I've never had this experience (that I recall, and I think I'd remember it), I'm 100% confident that the worst that will happen is that you snap back to your body and are disoriented and confused for a couple of seconds.

There are no confirmed cases of lasting physical harm during OBE. I'm about as certain as I can be that you cannot be physically harmed during OBE. Well, I mean, a tornado could hit your house in reality and obviously you'd be physically harmed... but that's unrelated to OBEing.

Interested to hear how the OP's idea turned out. For a couple of days I meditated for a couple hours at night and successfully replaced sleep, but found that I was less alert and physically less responsive the following day.
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Posted on Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:55 am

Lleu

Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Posts: 153

I'm talking about your physical heart here.
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Posted on Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:55 pm

PK_11

Joined: 28 May 2006
Posts: 142

...what, is there a group of guys who want to rip your heart out while you're OBEing? Confused
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Posted on Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:58 am

psiready

Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 93

It's your brain that rests while you sleep.... not your body.

I think you just have insomnia.
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Posted on Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:25 am

Lleu

Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Posts: 153

[quote="PK_11"]...what, is there a group of guys who want to rip your heart out while you're OBEing? Confused[/quote]
Let's just hypothesize here for a minute.

I don't really care what's resting when you sleep. What happens if your body is killed/dies?
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Posted on Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:19 am

derricktheone

Joined: 29 Jul 2006
Posts: 356

Lleu wrote:
PK_11 wrote:
...what, is there a group of guys who want to rip your heart out while you're OBEing? Confused

Let's just hypothesize here for a minute.

I don't really care what's resting when you sleep. What happens if your body is killed/dies?


How can you expect someone to have that answer. Anyone it's happened to is dead. Anyone's guess is as good as yours.
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Posted on Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:22 am

Mad_Hatter

Joined: 19 Feb 2006
Posts: 393

It's not unusual to have trouble sleeping after an OBE attempt becuase you have just been resting. And your assumption isn't true, at least for 99.9% of our population. The brain needs time to rest and dream.
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Posted on Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:40 pm

Lleu

Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Posts: 153

Still... I'm sure some people here have been in the Astral Plane long enough to have some sort of theory.
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Posted on Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:54 pm

Felix_the_Cat

Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Posts: 177

Lleu wrote:
PK_11 wrote:
...what, is there a group of guys who want to rip your heart out while you're OBEing? Confused

Let's just hypothesize here for a minute.

I don't really care what's resting when you sleep. What happens if your body is killed/dies?


The same thing that happens if you die in ordinary sleep, I would presume. For obvious reasons, we don't have any reports of what happens if your physical body dies while you are in OBE Wink
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