[Lilya]

I´ve reading this thread with interest.

I have never been able to understand if I had a so called Out of Body Experience or if it was a dream. It happened before I started using drugs; I was very young at the time and had no idea what out of body experience was.

I was twelve and fell asleep like I normally did. I had a dream about something I don´t remember. Then I woke up. I wanted to look at the alarm clock as I usually did, but I couldn´t. I was paralysed. I wanted to scream, but there was no sound. I heard sounds of thunder and then I saw myself lying on the bed. "That´s it," I thought. "This is how people die." I felt incredibly sad because I felt I was too young to die.

I felt I was pulled up by the shoulders and started travelling inside huge tunnels. There was darkness and I felt the presence of other people travelling with me. The speed was incredible. Then I was pulled up again into a dimension totally foreign to me. The colours were all totally different from what I´ve seen. There was a very strange golden light that overwhelmed me and I didn´t want to see it. I resisted it. Then my dead grandfather greeted me. He looked younger than when he died. He took my hand and told me that I was merely leaving my body for a while, then I would go back because this was not the time of my death.

I went back, got inside my body which was like diving into a hot swimming-pool and I could move again. I was so terrified I couldn´t sleep by myself for a long time. I also thought I was stark raving mad for a long time. I had no idea what happened to me.

I am not really religious and never have been. I mix all kinds of religions and concepts; that´s what I rely on. My father is a non-religious man. Later, I read about other people´s near death experiences and I found it amazing that our experiences were so alike. People from different culture, all over the world.

I cherish this memory/dream/out of body experience/ or whatever, because it made me think there were different dimensions out there, that haven´t been discovered. Both Einstein and Marie Curie believed there was more to this life than the eye can see; it just needs to be discovered. I tend to agree, otherwise I like to keep an open mind about this. Who knows?

When I started to do drugs, I wanted to induce this experience. I never could, and nothing on drugs felt as powerful as this.

Has anyone here has a similar experience?

Love and light,