Self-induced OBE

It happened again today. Does it ever happen to you ever? What? The OBE: Outer Body Experience. The way to know if you had one is when you come back. When you come back is when you realize that you weren’t there. You were somewhere else.

Where was that somewhere else? For one of the ones today that happened, it was a world of beautiful pain, wonderful suffering inflicted by eating really hot Thai chili peppers, which I got last week at the farmers market, in a quinoa dish I had for dinner.

I did not expect them to be that hot. The first bowl I had in which I also had put some Thai chili pepper was hot but not OBE hot. But the second bowl – I guess I didn’t get the amount precise enough. And so, as I was eating, then it happened.

At first you know you just ate a mouthful of something that is really, really hot. The process starts. The burning starts. I jumped up and ran into my bathroom and used the water pick dental spray thingy which I like to use often, irrigating the hell out of my mouth but of course it didn’t help. Hell no. It was too late. Its like the water jet was only spreading the hot around inside my mouth. Knowing that it wasn’t helping I stopped. And just succumbed to it.

OBE. That’s the only way to describe this kind of experience. During normal states of consciousness you’re aware of different things: Aware of where you are. Aware of the colors, textures, sounds, etc. all around you. But then in the OBE there is no such awareness. Just a beautiful, wonderful totality that is the pain, the beautiful complete pain of the hot.

After some amount of time in this state of totality finally you come back. That moment is the coolest moment. I love it right when you come back, because its like “Where on – or off – Earth was I?”

I love experiences like that. Totality experiences. I guess I’m really geared for such things. I *love* my Thai chili peppers.