Out of Body experience

[Kev]

I've experienced similar things while under the influence of drugs, but I guess that doesn't count. It sounds cool though, do any sorts of emotions accompany the experience or is it purely a physical thing?

The only emotion I feel is fear because it literally feels like my body is floating away. That's why I can't hold onto it and come out after just a few seconds.

The first couple times it happened I was terrified but afterwards I felt exhilarated and wanted to go back in.

It was then that I tried to reexperience it and like I say I find that when I'm tired, on first waking if I focus on my eyes I can induce the experience within a few seconds. It only works when I'm just awakened though and always accompanies by my ears ringing.

It's not that I actually leave my body, and to open my eyes immediately takes me out of the experience, but I feel the sensation incredibly strongly. It literally feels like I float off of the bed and then hurtle down tunnels at breakneck speed. I can see the ground undulating underneath me in my mind. I don't consciously 'think' what I'm seeing it just appears, usually I[m caved in, kind of like hurtling through a sewer, or wipeout style track but occasionally I'm speeding over ground.

My best one ever I was hurtling over these rolling hills on a misty day and came to a lake, shrouded in fog.

It seemed so real it was amazing, but again probably only lasted 15 seconds tops, although it seemed much longer.

Fear aside, that sounds really cool... I wonder what is happening. As someone who is religious do you feel that there is any spiritual significance to it? Or do you feel that it is stricktly a mental trick (for lack of a better term)?

I doubt there is anything spiritual to it whatsoever. As the event is always preceeded by a ringing in my ears I can only logically conclude that somehow inducing that ringing is responsible.

Maybe it affects the balance in my inner ear or something which combined with tiredness and being in a semi woken state makes me feel a temporary floating feeling. My brain probably then automatically enhances this state and allows me to feel as if I'm hurtling through tunnels.

That's just my opinion, and a complete guess but I'm fairly certain is it something along those lines. I have never experienced it without my ears ringing first and I always need to close my eyes and focus on them to trigger the ear ringing in the first place.

Most likely I'm triggering an ear pop or someting

But i'm 100% sure it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with a spiritual dimension, and I'm also 100% certain that it's not real, i.e I don't really float anywhere or leave my body.

So yes, a mental 'trick' is what I'd say it was.

Next time you wake up try it. Close your eyes hard and focus on them. I can't explain it any better than that but if your ears start ringing hold on, cos you may be in for a hell of a ride!