I was working on a riverboat when a co-worker handed me a book to read. The topic of the book was out-of-body travel. The author, Paul Twitchell, claimed that he could project out of body and other people could, too. The prospect of projecting out of body sounded amazing, but was it really possible? Could I do it?   

For the next two weeks I tried concentrating at bedtime in different ways, with no luck. Still on a riverboat, my work shift ended and I laid down in my top bunk bed. I started concentrating on being somewhere outside my physical body. My brain began to tire and then I realized that my physical body had fallen asleep, but mentally I was still awake. So I began imagining myself above my physical body. A roaring noise developed in my right ear and suddenly I was above my body in a world of blackness. I couldn’t see my physical form beneath me but I knew where it was.