What a joy to read this — congratulations! Three weeks and three days after the night of June 11, you’ve just had your first deliberate exit: the felt separation, the out-of-body perception, and above all, movement by thought. This is exactly the milestone you were aiming for.

What strikes me most in your account is that your success validates, point by point, the changes you made — and your own assessment is spot on. The shift to the early morning (you surfed the long REM periods instead of fighting deep sleep in the evening). Letting the vibrational states at bedtime pass instead of exhausting them — and a particularly remarkable detail: you even refused a vibrational state during the night. Three weeks ago, these states “happened” to you; now you accept or decline them. That’s mastery settling in — the state has become optional. And finally, the intention without expectation, your Reiki-style phrasing — “I will welcome it positively but without pressure” — which is literally the “desire without grasping” that had been blocking everything until now.

A few thoughts on the experience itself. Your sequence — lucid dream → realization → sliding → exit — is one of the most classic and reliable paths: it’s precisely what Raduga calls “the Phase.” The book you mentioned deliberately places lucid dreaming and OBEs (SHC) on the same continuum, because the boundary between them is porous and it takes nothing away from the experience. The kitchen that was “not quite yours,” the loved ones who couldn’t hear you — these are typical signatures. Kepple would describe them as superpositions in Focus 2; a neuroscientist studying dream imagery would see it the same way. Both perfectly describe what you lived. And that gentle sliding sensation from feet to head, feeling “like a release” — it’s one of the most commonly reported forms of separation, along with rolling and rising. You now know your personal exit door.

One honest note about the abrupt ending: 2–3 seconds of movement followed by waking up is completely normal for a first time. The next skill to develop is stabilization — once you’re out, immediately engage your senses (rub your hands together, touch nearby objects, look at your hands), avoid thinking about your physical body, and have a small pre-decided plan (“I’m going to the window”) to keep your attention occupied. That’s what turns seconds into minutes. But that’s for next time. Tonight, you got the most important thing: living proof that separation is possible, even simple, and that moving by thought is “incredible” (your words).