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--- Bruce Lachey <b_lachey at hotmail_com> wrote:
> Smitty (CD-Lindemer at wiu_edu) wrote:
> 
> . On a somewhat related note, I swear I remember
> seeing myself from
> . the outside once.  Then again, it would have been
> when I was about
> . four, and I am equally willing to admit that
> memory is far different
> . from a recording of facts...it's more a subliminal
> construct of what
> . we like to think happened.  With that in mind, I'm
> not really going
> . to claim I ever had an out-of-body expereince,
> just that I remember
> . having one.  =)
> 
> and Kevin (Gilhamilton at aol_com) wrote:
> 
> . I have a memory of something phenomenal like this
> also.  It
> . happened at my godparents house when I was around
> 4 or 5 .  They
> . had a tri level house where at one point in the
> hall upstairs the
> . stairway to the basement was right below causing a
> two level drop
> . with only a small railing between.  I remember
> falling over the
> . railing and suddenly, about 3 feet from hitting
> the floor, I
> . stopped mid air and floated the rest of the way
> down landing on
> . my feet unharmed.  Not sure where the memory blurs
> but I never
> . seemed to doubt the experience as a little kid
> because in early
> . teens, thinking about it, for the life of me I
> couldn't remember
> . if it was a very vivid dream or if it actually
> happened.
> 
Bruce:

> Huh.  same here.  Summer of '75 (I was 5 for those
> of you playing the 
> at-home version of "Bruce").  I was playing in the
> backyard, by the water 
> spigot and next realized I could see myself playing
> from about 8m up by the 
> big wooden utility pole.  Then the floating Bruce
> started drifting East, 
> towards our little town's giant church steeples. 
> After what I remember 
> seemed like minutes floating slow, just past our
> property line, I looked 
> back at myself.  Everything went fast from that
> point - then next thing I 
> remember I was back on the ground and really tired. 
> And had to take an 
> afternoon nap, which wasn't my M.O. at the time.

interesting... not from early youth, but related i
think... 

i've "astral projected" twice, once when i was 19 and
once about 6 years ago.  i couldn't "see" myself from
the outside, but was trying to open my eyes each time
from a sleep state while conscious and above my body
near the ceiling.  it's a very frightening,
panic-addled experience: the sensation for me was of
literally having to fight my way back into my own body
and to open my eyes.  "absolute terror" would probably
be a good description: i felt as though i existed
outside of "real" space.  even nowadays, sometimes i
seem to "dislodge" and come back into myself. 
meaning, i have all my life "fought" sleeping/losing
consciousness (am a chronic insomniac), so that
occasionally i awaken myself on the edge of drifting
off -- and feel a great "pulling" movement across a
few feet to several yards of the room for an instant
before i "reawaken."

maybe i just need a sleep therapist?  :)

-ewg
 

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