Margaret G OBE
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Experience description:

I slept in a bedroom with my sisters.  I remember feeling that I had awoken, and found myself above my bed, I could see my sister asleep in our bed and my two other sisters asleep in a separate double bed.   I remember looking down at everyone from above.  Somehow I travelled out of and above our house and travelled a couple of miles into the countryside.  I looked down at a little farmhouse, surrounded by trees.  I found myself moving towards the house and somehow went inside the house where I saw an old man, who was dead.  I watched people standing around in the house and greeting people who came into the house to attend the wake.  I remember people shaking hands and commiserating with an adult man.  I only watched for a short time and found myself travelling up out of the farmhouse and floating towards my own home.  I went in through the roof of the house and floated back down into my bed.

I found myself awake, confused and scared about what had happened.  I remember  reaching down under the side of the bed and looking at my watch, it was 2.15am.  I remember re-running what I had seen in my head and when I got up to go to my work, I told my mother about the strange "dream" that I had.

When I arrived into work that morning, I was still pre-occupied by what had happened and what it meant.  I mean, I knew it happened but I could not make sense of it.  I remember a lady called Bella O'Leary coming into my workplace and asking a young teenage boy called John, why he was in work that day.  Didn't he know that his grandfather had died in the night?

I remember feeling very strange, like the blood was draining from me.  I felt faint.  I didn't say anything to anybody, but I rushed home to my own home at lunchtime, to tell my mother about the old man really dying. My mother accepted what I was telling her.  I had the feeling that she believed me, but it didn't make sense.  The teenage boy John was a neighbor of mine.  I didn't know anything about his grandfather and I don't remember recognizing anyone at the wake.  This experience has never left my mind.  I have rarely told anyone about it, mainly because I didn't think anyone would believe me at the time.  I know this experience happened, but I still have difficulty understanding why it happened and how.

 Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?      No     

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?          No     

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event? No     

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?    I'm not sure.  I felt that I was fully conscious and awake but how could i travel through walls and through the air, to another place.

            Was the experience dream like in any way?  Now, I tend to view it as dreamlike. But, that night when I checked my watch and couldn't wait to tell my mother about it in the morning, my impression at that time was it was not a dream.  It happened.

 Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?   Yes   

What emotions did you feel during the experience?          Relaxed during the OBE, but afterwards I felt confusion and a level of fear

 Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?         No, just people talking in low voices

 LOCATION DESCRIPTION:  Did you recognize any familiar locations or any locations from familiar religious teachings or encounter any locations inhabited by incredible or amazing creatures?         No     

Did you see a light?        No     

Did you meet or see any other beings?         Yes    I saw several adults inside the farmhouse, the dead man and people coming into the house to offer condolences to an adult man.

 Did you experiment while out of the body or in another, altered state?         Yes   

I went to a rural farmhouse and saw a dead man, with people coming into the house to offer condolences and attend the wake.  I didn't remember recognising anyone, and the following morning I was told that a neighbour's grandfather had died in the middle of the night.  When I asked about where the old man had lived, I was told that he lived in a little house in the country, surrounded by trees.

 Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Uncertain     I observed people attending the wake of an elderly man.

 Did you notice how your 5 senses were working, and if so, how were they different? Yes    I felt that my senses were heightened.

 Did you have any sense of altered space or time?  Yes    I felt that I had been watching something that didn't happen yet.  An old man did die, but at that time there were no arrangements made for the wake that was to follow.

 Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?         Yes    I was able to see something that, at that time, nobody else knew.

 Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?           No     

Did you become aware of future events?      Yes    I observed a wake being held for an old man.  The wake would not happen until at least 12 hours later, in the afternoon and evenings for 2 days.

 Were you involved in or aware of a decision regarding your return to the body?          Uncertain     I didn't feel that I decided to return to my own home, I didn't feel that I was controlling what was happening.

 Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?      Uncertain     About 5 years later, I awoke in the middle of the night to see a man at the end of my bed.  I was living in Dublin at the time.  I remember staring at an angry looking man with facial scaring, possibly from acne?  While I stared at the man, he stood silent, but stared back.  I felt that he was angry.  What I sat up in the bed, he was gone.

 Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?     Yes    I began to realize that there were things that happened to me that I could not explain, but I was absolutely certain that the experiences were real.

 How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?   I don't know.  I suppose I chose very carefully who I told about the man at the end of my bed.  Some people I told, laughed and joked that I must have been drinking.  I hadn't been drinking and I am conviced that I saw what I saw.

 Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience? No     

Have you shared this experience with others?       Yes          People generally did not believe me.

 What emotions did you experience following your experience? Confusion, I was fearful of the man, because he looked so angry.  I was wary of going to sleep for a period of time after that.

 What was the best and worst part of your experience?          The best, is that I know that there are occurrences and experiences that we cannot explain at this time, and in many ways that is also the worst part.  I would like to know what these occurrences meant and why I saw them.

 Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience? No, apart from the fact that there were a few more incidents where I could recall seeing something that I couldn't have seen, in that I knew something that I couldn't have known.

 Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?       Yes    I've had a few experiences where I saw something, or knew something that I could not explain.  I have not had another OBE

 Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?           Yes    I believe so

 Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.       no