Hello:
My name is Rob and I am new here.

I have a question for anyone having had Lucid Dream type out of body experiences.

Several years back before I heard about Lucid Dreaming I had experimented with OBE's. I experimented with different ways of inducing them. I had some successful experiences. At somepoint in my journey I discovered S.LaBerges books on Lucid Dreaming and noticed the point by point similarities between LD's and my OBE's. By logical extension it appeared to me that LD's and my OBE's were one and the same.
However, what I did not find were people saying that they had ever experrienced anything physically painful in their LD/OBE.

My experience is as follows:

I am in my room attempting to induce an OBE. I go through my procedure of visuallizing a long rope that extends into infifnit space. I grab the rope and begin pulling myself upward. I try to FEEL myself seperate as I pull upward.
I do this for several minutes perhaps twenty minutes to half an hour. It takes a great deal of energy to focus and hold my attention. Suddenly I am aware of myself laying in a fetal position and vibrating. The energy pulsations are intense. I FEEL myself roll out of my body and my feet touch the floor. SO far so good! But I can't move away from my body. I can see it laying there on the bed but it is like viewing it looking out the corner of my eyes. I can't seem to turn my head for a head on visual. This is odd. As I try to see myself and move away I feel an intense pain in the center of my head. I just can't move away and explore the suroundings. I end the OBE.

My question is actually two rolled into one. Have any of you ever experienced viewing yourself "OBE" in this way, out the corner of your eyes?
And have you ever experienced pain in the very center of your head? This has only happened twice in my many years of experience.

Rob