I remember now when I was trying to maintain awareness so as not to fall asleep the other day when attempting oobe, something very interesting happened. It seemed like my consciousness was split into two because I remember one part of my consciousness was trying to maintain awareness and it seem quite aware of what it was doing. The other part, was drifting off to sleep but wasn't quite in the sleep zone yet. It would be something like what Bob would call the free floating zone when thoughts are just loosely floating about and creating their own images or storyline. I remember thinking to myself how weird is that I'm fully focusing on two mental tasks at the same time and how cool was it.
Needless to say, I didn't end up oobeing for some unknown reason. But it's only a matter of time that I will be oobeing. I can feel it in my sleeps!!