I experimented with OOBE as a young teenager. Learned the
  techniques in one of those books - probably Linda Goodman's Star
  Signs/Sun signs something like that - back in the mid 80s
  somewhere. Flew around town. Lucid dreaming. Awesome stuff to
  learn and I still use it to this day as I'm a frequent dreamer.
  [every time]. I died three times before I got out of the
  hospital (premie), so I got that all over with young. No
  interest in getting close again. When you figure out that you
  shouldn't even exist at all at a very young age, you get
  grateful. [I don't know when I learned I died three time before
  getting out of the hospital - probably around the age of 6 or
  7... probably my mother consoling me after a classmate had died
  while riding her bicycle down our street - and the news shook me
  up]