Soul Leaving Body - What Does It Mean?

I've had these several times. All only when I was n church years ago happened after I joined. Backslid for years. 20 plus. For over 20 years nothing. Last July 16 2023 I gave my life back to god. Started happening instantly. Now bout every other night. When I pray n bed flat of my back it doesn't. Happen for me. It's after prayer. I start worshiping god in my mind until I fall asleep. Continually. Happens 3-5 times a week for me during worship and like a meditated mind state just before I fall asleep. Most of the time I ask for this to happen and it does. I hope this helps a lot of people but over the years when I was n church before and now I've had hundreds of these experiences. It can b scary. But I do honestly feel it's of God. The Bible tells us that to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord. But also the Bible tells us where good is there is also evil present and to know how to discern between the spirits. I've sensed good spirits and evil spirits. Mostly I have had good experiences. But I've had bad. Just rebuke satan when it happens and you can b elevated to diff levels this I have taught myself to do. I feel this is a gift we have. And we haven't fully figured it out to our benefit. Don't be scared of it. Most of my experiences are wonderful and I feel it is of god. Reason is only time I've ever had these is when I have had God n my life and living for him. I'm a very spiritual person. Remember difference n prayer/worship. Prayer is asking. Worship is thanking him for all he does for us. Use this to your benefits those of u who are not scared of it. Because if it's a gift all of you have it. Saying that in a good way too. Only time I can bring this on is worshiping him n meditated state. After I've done prayed. Flat on my back arms to sides. And I say ok god I'm ready let it happen. Sometimes I may worhip him for few minutes and it happens. Other times it may take quiet a while. I beg for it daily. Sometimes I get it sometimes I don't. Most times I get it. I love my Heavenly Father. And I thank him daily for my salvation. I really enjoyed reading other people comments on here. If anybody ever needs to speak with me I'd love that. Feel free to contact me on here. Or mess me. Fb me. CraigandDena Hurley. If FB. Please do it on mess tho please. May God continue to bless us all. He blesses me daily. This mess was a blessing for me to share with all of you.

To anyone reading my post, it was a gloomy night after we had a short prayer of about 40mins, I felt weak tired and exhausted everyone started to fall asleep but I was just feeling thoughtless just a moment of emotionless feelings, I felt something trying to creep coercely initially but I felt it's just a state of my mind trying to evolve because my mind is very perceptive and makes me feel psychic attimes, moments later I felt relief but it now happened the second still the same feelings creeping and surging out like very forcibly and intense, I felt I was about draging out of my body, I was frightened could'nt move I tried calling my dad beside me but my lips couldn't move I was immobile everywhere was dark densely so my mind told me to look to the moonlight shimmering from the window as soon as I struggled to look at the light shimmered from the moon I felt relief night then I felt calm and strange can't still tell anyone this dreadful experience...i'll really be elated if anyone could give me reason.

This is exactly what happened to me! I was laying in bed next to my daughter and I closed my eyes and my head felt like it was spinning and my whole body felt like it was vibrating and I felt like my spirit was being pulled from my physical body. I remember saying no no while floating upwards. I stopped going up and I was hovering above my bed and could see everything in the room and my daughter sleeping. A bright light appeared and who I feel was God extended his right hand out to me. I have always had a fear of death but I didn't feel scared anymore in this moment I felt a strange calmness. I said if it is my time I will go with you but please do not let my daughter find me this way, and I snapped back into my body fully awake. Something I cannot seem to find information about online or anyone with a similar experience is when I looked to my left I seen a woman deceased after a car accident. It looked as though I was looking at a projector type clip. I couldn't tell who it was but I had recently lost a close friend to a car accident and thought it was her but why would I see her in physical body deceased? It disappeared immediately after.

This happened to me as well. My body becomes paralyzed. I can not talk, or move or even blind. I can see myself lying in my bed. But the emotions I'm feeling is not good I feel scared, but the weird thing is it also happens to my mother. I personally think you enter into the spiritual realm. In the bible God tells us angels and demons are fighting every second of everyday and that is where our spirit is going. I have done a lot of research and the things I have discovered is terrifying

I had gone to bed as usually, I am not sure if I was dreaming or was I having an outer body awakenings, I was a sleep definitely not awake
I was suddenly very quickly go up the to most amazing luminous light
I had a overwhelming sense of live... Like I have never experienced before, different to the love of your first true love,
I didn't speak to anyone just travelling to the light, I thought I was going to heaven, I concluded this was how I died, I didn't miss anyone back at home, I was totally disconnected from everyone and everything the love I felt just made me want to go as the feeling was unbelievable, Eventually I came back into my bed or body and was actually so sad and upset as the experience was something so profound... LSo much love it took over every of fear, and all earthly feelings.
It has stayed with me and hope this is what happens when I do pass away and leave my worldly body... It was Amazing I didn't see fields of flower and beautiful Scenery... I didn't get that far I must have come back before I got to see the true beauty of Heaven.

Hello,
Something like this happened to me last night.
I was going to sleep and as usual, I had my eyes closed, was trying to find a comfortable position to sleep etc. About 10 minutes had past and suddenly I started to feel weird. My head was gently spinning and I felt like everything had started to grow longer and taller including me. It started to get really creepy to have my eyes closed cause every time I closed them it felt like someone had tried to gently lift up my soul from my body and steal it. I was really terrified and as it happened for the first time I nearly started to cry. I was scared that I was dying. Eventually I got up to get help from my family and they helped me to calm down.
After this experience I'm still really scared, so if anybody knows any reasons why it happened or any suggestions and tips to calm down if it ever happens again, that would really make my day.

Another experience. When I was still drinking heavily one day, a guy that I'd recently met invited me to his house for thanksgiving. I went and asked him to get me a 40 ounce of beer. As he cooked dinner, I sat there and drank the whole thing and noticed that he had buddhist pray box on his wall. I had learned the chant Nyam Myoho Renge Kyo, so I started chanting it over and over until I could hear my voice get deeper and deeper. Next thing I knew I was like an infant child lying on my left side in a fetal position in a dome of light. Everything about the light was filled with perfect love as though I was being held in the arms of God. My friend said that he put me to bed. I guess he thought I had passed out and I woke up the next morning. I believe that was the beginning of my spiritual awakening because I started receiving the Holy Spirit within the following months. This might seem unusual to some, but I learned that alcoholics heal by hitting bottom or through spiritual awakenings. God worked closely with me and I am very humbled and grateful that he did. Of course the saying goes "The same visible God is the same invisible God" so I don't discuss it that much because of the condescending looks or responses you get sometimes. Sounds crazy to those that haven't had the experiences yet and I understand that it would. But one day... All will understand.

Later in life, I remembered a dream that I had at three years of age. It was at night and I was laying on the ground with the moon above and I was extremely angry and fussing and cussing at these two blackened shadows that I could see leaving. I wanted to get up and get revenge, as though they had killed me but my body would not move and I felt trapped inside. Then I felt my soul being lifted up and released from my body. It was a feeling of total peace. I knew I was in God's hands. Later in life at the age of seven years old my friends and I played a game that would cause you to lose consciousness. You would stand in front of someone, hold you're breath and they would put their arms around you're stomach and squeeze. I went down and was out, however, I was floating above the scene looking at my friends slap me and faintly hearing scream for me to wake up. All I remember is the perfect peaceful feeling. No heaviness of the body. Later in life I had a horrific alcohol and drug problem. I tried programs and nothing worked until I received the Holy Spirit. The first time, I had gotten out of jail for being drunk in public and did my usual number of asking people for change, but on that day, absolutely everyone said no. I continued on toward a popular lake in the middle of a major city and sat there feeling sorry for myself until I heard on a nearby person's radio that President Bush, Sr. Had eased up the immigration policy for Mexicans to enter the U.S. That was the year some Mexicans were left to suffocate on a train by some people they trusted to bring them into the U.S., I was pretty drunk usually but I had heard about it. So that month I was protest drinking and when I heard the news on the radio, I got off of my own problems and was happy for the Mexicans being able to enter and in that split second, God poured the Holy Spirit. I saw the world as He created it is still in His perfect peace. That all things are connected to Him in perfect peace. It took another couple of months for me to realize that I couldn't get that kind of high again from alcohol or drugs, so I went to a treatment program AA? NA for the very last time. I went long term, six months to a year. After I left the program I went to live with my mother and continued in business school. One day after school, I was standing on a busy street corner downtown with nothing in particular on my mind, waiting for the bus. God poured His Holy Spirit again. This time I saw what I describe as a sort of umbilical cord connected to each person from God above. I liken it to this, just to give you a visual, the sun with individual rays shining on the earth. Each person having they're own ray. Then back to downtown and the bus came. As before when I received the Holy Spirit and was shown these things all I could do was behold with tears in my eyes. The third time I received the Holy Spirit was when I had gotten out of school for the day and I had severe premenstrual syndrome and was tired and grouchy. Real grouchy. When I got home all I wanted to do was lay down, but my mother wanted me to go to the grocery store, so I grouchily hopped in her car and grouchily drove to the store and got what she wanted and grouchily headed back home. When I got to a stop light underneath a major highway bridge, I was angry at the way traffic was, even mad at the way a bus was turning when the Lord poured his Holy Spirit again. This time I was by the same lake, but on the other side of it and in the car. All the anger left me and again I saw the world in God's peace.

The experience I'm about to share with you was one of the most incredible, yet terrifying encounters, I have ever endured.

I remember that my eyes just opened & I was awake. Just like that.
I can't ever recall having awoken like this before.
Usually before my eyes open, I am aware I am waking up & don't want to open my eyes just yet, as I ease into waking up. My mind thinks about my waking up & I might groan a little as my body slowly starts to move...
...ya know, waking up.

This particular morning, I was NOT aware in any way that I was waking up.
My eyes just opened & I was awake.
I didn't move or make a sound as my mind acknowledged my instant awakening.
I don't know if I couldn't or just didn't.

Across the room was this presence that didn't have any particular shape or form to it, but it was thick in consistency & white in color. It was just hovering right in front of the television, (and this is REALLY going to sound even crazier), but it seemed to be communicating through it to something or someone.
Though it did not have shape to show where its extremities would be, it most certainly turned & looked at me the VERY second my eyes opened. I mean INSTANTLY!
I don't know how it knew my eyes opened, BUT IT KNEW!
It all happened SO fast.
My eyes opened.
It whipped around & locked eyes with me as it shimmered right at me... (yes shimmered, not floated or flew, but shimmered across the room)...with such incredible speed, then without ANY hesitation at all, it went INSIDE OF ME!
I felt this coldness behind my eyes as I felt it LITERALLY re-adjust its sight to look out of my eyes. The left eye didn't seem to catch right away. I felt it struggling to connect the vision through my left eye & it was blurry a few seconds, before it adjusted.
I sat straight up & grabbed my face.
I heard myself cry out.

I cannot describe the feeling that came over me.
Something was inside of my body with me!
I felt fear... But I also felt excitement.
Somehow, I knew it was either a part of me always, or for a very long time at this point. I could feel the concern it felt for my having caught it outside of my body & that I was now aware of its presence within me.

I don't know if it was my own soul, if I have a wondering soul & a body soul... Ooorrr if it hijacked me when I had flatlined years back & the doctors called it, wrote down my time of death, covered me up & walked out of the room before I suddenly sat up & gasped to breathe.

For about 4 years prior to this
Particular experience, I would find myself suddenly aware I was standing in front of the mirror, sometimes for 8-9 hours at a time.
At times, I would be completely UNAWARE of where I was or that any time had passed, just standing there staring straight into my own eyes in the mirror.
At other times, I felt completely AWARE
That I was frozen in a paralyzed state, standing there unable to take control of myself, but could feel another consciousnesses inside me that had taken control.

At first, I was terrified when it would happen.
Then, I started seeing what it saw when it would send me into a vegetative state.
It opened the universe for me & changed my world forever.
After awhile, I began to have wisdom, knowledge & memories that I hadn't obtained myself.
I would go to bed at night & at times awaken sitting in my chair in my living room, at the kitchen table and one time even on my kitchen countertop. Each time I would awaken in a strange place, I would be writing pages upon pages upon pages that I didn't have any memory writing, or understanding to why I would write the things I was writing.
By the time I stopped having these spells I had filled 27 notebooks front and back of each page cover to cover.
It is some of the most profound writings, full of experience & wisdom.
There are 2 publishing companies wanting me to publish it with them, believing that it's just the beginning of much much more.

I now, not only feel, but KNOW there is more than myself looking back at me from the mirror. I don't understand the how or why... But I now accept the who within me.

Well, for my case it has been happening since I was sixteen... Am now 20... The very 1st time it was terrifying but as it kept on happening... I wasn't scared anymore... Am a christian and I tried talking to pastors about it though they gave me answers I felt were not satsifying... Told my friends about it but no one could believe me, they thought I was over watching movies... Anyways if there any specific reasons as to why it happens I would love to know...

I have also experienced this it happened to me while I was awake but I was extremely malnourished and tired. So I was weak therefore easily manipulated. I saw my soul taken from my body as I was singing a gospel song in front of my mirror. And I am a Christian. I was so scared when I saw myself choking out my soul. I was terrified I didn't know what was going on. It's been 2 weeks now since I haven't had my soul and I want to proclaim it. I also feel like my body changed visually and physically. Not in the same shape and don't have much stamina and strength like before. And my mind isn't so strong

I don't go to church nor I have any desire on going to one, but this just happened to me on my dreams... Suddenly I was on a white sandy beach and it was empty and there was a small little canoe and suddenly someone told me I,m real and I came and I will show you that I'm real and suddenly I saw my self sleeping in my bed and felt like my soul was leaving my body and I felt super super good, there was no pain at all and in the dream I realize I was dying and I said, no no no no but regretting it at the same time because I was feeling really good... So I woke up with wittery eyes and very anxious... This is my hotmail, if anybody knows what that means... Thanks ovicruz06 [at] gmail.com

I experienced my soul leaving my body today upon waking up. I was laying flat and my Soul was leaving the same way. I was super scared but did not utter a word. I open my eyes and could see colourful birds, chirping and happy. My soul went past that and was going up in the clouds when I saw a tiny white thing, couldn't figure out what until got closer and it got bigger and I saw Angel with wings, all white. At first it was scary but the thought just came like an intuition that don't be afraid I am protecting you. I think we had a conversation but I can't remember a word. Upon waking, only thing was strong in my head was" I am protecting you".
Been going through so much past few years but my faith in God is soo strong and recently going through Spiritual Awakening. I have been seeing repeating numbers and dreams a lot but this experience was something I never experienced before Its amazing to read how some people had similar experiences here.

I dreamt last night that my soul was leaving my body. I felt light and free. Was flying. After few seconds, I got scared and got back into my body.

I once saw a dream I was skateboarding on the streets of my old neighbourhood and suddenly I came across a big herd of birds in front of me in the middle of the road.
I stopped because I didn't want to scare 'em off, I remember hearing something about disstress and that's when something strange happened. My breathing slowed down to a point that it normally never reaches, it almost stopped and then suddenly it felt as if I was going to slip out of my body and float up towards the sky!
But I thought I would die and then I woke up...
I don't know what would've happened if I didn't woke up, but it was a scary feeling, that I can say!
Almost surreal...

I had a similar out of body experience on the 19th of Dec 2019 betweeen 18:10-~18:14. My soul left my body and was watching my landlord cleaning the yard with some gardeners. I was even able to follow their discussions. I thought it wad all a dream until fear gripped me and I wanted to wake up. I realised that only one of my fingers was active as I hit it on the matteras several times. I shouted Jesus, cried, holy spirit and got tired. Then I suddenly gave up and lied still, I then so my spirit getting back into my body. I saw my head very clearly and how my body was helpless as I tought it was an evil spirit coming to take control of my body. I couldn't get up, nor utter a word. When it finally entered, I got up and I was terrified. I have alwats had attacks and fights in my sleep, including other spirits following me ans I am running, but this one was the height of it as I was scared I was going to die.

I had something like this last night. Sometime in the night while I was sleeping, I woke up feeling a vibration throughout my body. It was brief, but then moments later I felt an even stronger vibration throughout my whole body, and so I sat up. After sitting up, I looked around the room, and in the dark I could see my husband sleeping next to me. Right after this, I felt like I was completely paralyzed, and it felt like something else controlled my bodily motions. It felt like something was pulling me over off the bed (the top half of my body was now over my husband's side of the bed), swinging my arms up and down (either like a dance, or after thinking about it, maybe whatever was trying to control me was trying to pull and shake me the rest of the way out of my body). I couldn't even move my lips, but I could vocalize sounds. I felt so scared because I was not the one shaking my arms up and down, so I spoke out (like a ventriloquist, since I couldn't move my lips) "Satan, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!" several times, and next thing I know I was laying like normal on my pillow. It was like my soul had been lifted up halfway out of my body when I had "sat up" in bed, and then something was trying to pull me out the rest of the way, and then I snapped back into my body.

I just expereinced something bad and terrifying. Usually I m not sleepy so as was today I only closed my eyes and within an instant I felt my ears could hear anything from far distance, as if my hearing is heightened. I was amazed and confused at the same time then it happened to me, I found myself paralysed not able to move or say anything! I saw my roommate, she was talking on the phone I tried calling for her but no sound came from my mouth!
I tried to run towards her but I cannot move. Then I felt myself getting up but I've never felt this light weighted before, also my chest felt heavy but at the moment, I just ran towards my roommate, I tried shaking her telling her that I need you help me, move my body but she was acting like as if I am not there. I got scared, I kept on telling her to wake me up but she can't listen to me!
Then I felt a very strong pull towards my bed. I didn't wanted to go as then I'll be trapped, I shut my eyes so that I could wake up once I reach back to my body but when I opened them, I was still stuck in my body, this was horrible! I thought that now I am dead! But then something clicked that I should start counting backwards, so I did that mental exercise too, I started counting back from 30 to 1 when I finished counting, I was still there stuck!
I thought I am dead now, my soul is somewhere just then I snapped back to my body and I immediately woke up!
The room was same as I saw in my dream or in soul state. I closed my eyes at 01:06 but I woke up at 02:15.i am confused of how I lost so much time because it felt like a minute when I was in there.

I had the feeling that my soul would leave my body last night. It was terrifying. I stopped it from happening by taking the drug Haldol. I believe I caused the phenomenon by over methylating using vitamin B9 so now I've damaged my soul. So I hope that I can fix this problem using some kind of natural remedy. Any ideas would be welcome.

Experienced this just now while trying to fall asleep. I've had some weird things happen when I'm sleeping like. A vibration feeling or that I couldn't breathe well, but this time was really scary. I was asleep having a dream I was walking in the dark woods during a thunderstorm. I'm with someone else and we begin to run toward a house in the woods. Suddenly it's dark and I feel my something pulling on my body like a vacuum as if my soul is trying to leave my body. I felt like I couldn't breathe, and I feel my body make a sound like a gag but not necessarily that sound, and then I snapped back in and woke up. To say I'm shaken up is an understatement, I'm a bit scared to fall back asleep as I thought I was dying. Does anyone have answers for what this is or what I should do?

About 2 months ago while visiting my parents place I had a strange experience... It was like an OBE and a paranormal experience all in one. I was super tired from a long flight and was laying propped up in the bed getting a nap. I woke up, still with my eyes closed, and could feel a very awesome vibration not in my body but every part of me that was touching the bed. It was a very comforting vibration but at the same time I was scared that a negative entity had taken control of my body. I could hear a low low earth type of rumbling in my head. Then I started physically feeling the top part of my body and head lifting off the bed. Maybe it was just an inch or two but I actually heard the pillow I was laying on shift. It moved! It couldn't have moved if my head was on it. I then hear and feel a bang on the headboard. In my mind I felt as if I was being lifted and about to be thrown towards the ceiling. This caused me to open my eyes. The vibration and noise was still there. It felt really comforting. When I would get scared, it would calm down and when I relaxed it would ramp up again. At the same time this was happening, my parents dog started barking at nothing in the living room. Every once in a while he does this at a specific spot in the house, sometimes accompanied by weird events. That night, hours later, I could still faintly hear the rumbling and the vibration but much much less intensity. That night I heard a female call my name and ask if "it was me". The weird part of all this was the vibration was more underneath me than inside my body... Just the part of my body touching the bed. It was either an obe or some type of other worldly contact. Last time I was at my parents house (6 months before this trip), something kicked the bed in the middle of the night and woke me up...

Last night During my sleep there was a point in which I felt like my soul was getting ripped out of my body. While it was happening I was scared that if I let go, I would die. So I fought with everything and then I woke up to me screaming and reaching for something. All I knew is I couldn't/didnt want to die then I suddenly woke up to myself yelling like I was falling and reaching in the air... Weird. I searched it up and found this. It wasn't an out of body experience because I didn't see myself or my surroundings like so many people explain. All I felt was a force trying to rip my soul out of my body. It was scary. Anybody else? Please let me know by emailing me kristopherwtferg (at) gmail.com

I myself had a really strange dream were I was locked in an old house attic and I mean old like western times. I was laying on a twin size bed and I couldn't move... I remember hearing the door knob jiggle and I felt freightened the the door slightly opened maybe about 4-5 inches and I gazed into the darkness of it but couldn't see anything. About 20 seconds or so after I literally felt like I was being sucked out of my body as this feeling was going on I could see my body leaving my skin as I was being pulled into the darkness from the door. Then I woke up but honestly I myself have not felt the same ever since. I've even had panic attacks/anxiety while driving and I can't seem to focus on anything. It feels like part of me had been taken from me. Honestly I wish I could have that dream again so I can fight what ever that presence was.

It happens to me even now. I will leave my body fly to heaven to play with clouds then the voice will call me I will fly back home see my body and my spirit will go back to my body

Again I leave my body to fight with other spirits small people. The thing is it start as parallel sleep then My spirit escape my body to fight with this small people who causes me to have parallel sleep. I will kill them after my spirit will go back to sleep.

Sometimes I control it sometimes I don't it just happen

Great description. I experienced similar a couple of days ago. I came back home early in the morning from dropping my partner off to work and I usually come back home and jump into bed to have a snooze before I begin my day. I thought I was having sleep paralysis (because I do remember experiencing this just under a year ago) but this was very different this time. I felt as if my soul was trying to disconnect from my body and a very bright light was above my head... To be completely honest I thought this was the end of me and this was the 'gate to heaven'. I knew I wasn't dead because somehow I could see my room but not entirely sure if my eyes were open or if I was just imagining it. I tried my best to wake up and I had the urge to pick up my phone that was beside my pillow and call my partner but I wouldn't move or at least my 'spirit' wasn't intact with my body. I was so scared and I almost convinced myself that this was it, I was going to let go and be gone from my life and I was sad because I started thinking about the people in my life that I haven't said goodbye to and I didn't know how they'll make a conclusion to my death. I didn't want anyone to be blamed for anything to do with my 'death'... So I laid in bed and tried to relax. I felt as if my soul was being lifted out of my body. The next thing I remember after the bright light above my head was being placed on an empty beach, just hearing the ocean crash together and this was when I began to get really emotional and started to cry and was scared to find out what was going on. I woke up immediately like my soul snapped back into my body and reached over to my phone to try and send a text or call my partner just to check if I was real.

My whole day felt unusual, I didn't feel like myself and I was worried that I was going to feel like that for the rest of my life! Whatever it was, it was terrifying and I was definitely not ready for it. Maybe this is the gate beyond our physical ability as humans? So mysterious.

It's happened to me lots of times It energised me.
I keep trying to meďiatate as I don't know when it is going to happen.
I welcome it when I leave my body even though it scary because youbody is dead.
Some spirit say you have to go back to your physical body.
Then all suďen back into your body.
Remember once some spirit said not going back to your body ok said what will be will be.
Suddenly back in my body.
Some lovely experiences some scary.

Last night while I was asleep, in my dream my soul was force to come out of body. I try to laid back but couldnt. So I let my soul come out and was surrounded full of bright white light. Saw my body on bed.

I do it on a daily when i'm a wake. You see when I do it i'm still in my body yet at the same time i'm out of it. This ability I have has aloud me to travel and help people that have nightmares as I sleep. When I find someone with a nightmare I change it into a dream and help them that way along with people that are dying I do the same as they die in their sleep.

I had this encounter few years back. I was in a sleep when I Dreamt. In that dream, I saw my spirit leaving my body. Then after a while, I saw my spirit looking at my body lying lifeless in that dream. It feels as if I'm dead but no I'm not. Then I (my spirit) saw my school friend, still in the dream, Telling me things I can't remember. It's been years now, I'm still alive but I really need explanation for this dream.

This happened to me years ago while laying in bed sleep. I woke up to my room and left my body completely. I looked back and saw myself asleep. I felt like hands grabbing me trying to pull me away from my body. I struggled, but got back to my body and woke up. I was so scared! Later I heard a man voice in my ear that said my name. I thought it was my brother in the living room, but he said he didn't call me.