The first time it happened to me, I felt two hands grip my wrists and pull me out of my body.
Then the hands pushed my arms across each other over my chest and then let my wrists go.
I could feel myself 'bobbing' (like the weightless feeling when in water) and the floating sensation was really nice.
As I floated upright in that position I wondered if I could move and thought to go see my toddler son who was sleeping in an adjoining room.
As I was thinking this I started moving sideways over the bed (I was facing forward) and when I moved out beyond the bed, I started to slowly sink toward the floor.
As I felt my feet touch the floor, I *snapped* out of it and woke up lying on my back in my bed.
I had no doubt that I had experienced what it was like to be dragged physically out of my body and be free from it.
Now as to whether it was my 'amazing brain' or 'my mind playing tricks on me', I gave no thought to that being a possible answer to explain
what had happened.
I simply accepted that it had happened and got down to wondering
why it had happened. Since then I have encountered the argument for such things being 'the brain' 'the mind' this possibility has not changed my wanting to know
why it happened.
Years later I left my body of my own volition one night, floated upwards towards the ceiling, (reclined) went through the ceiling and then into the loft and then through the corrugated iron and out under the stars.
Going through things is a strange sensation of sound and feeling.
Actually the whole experience is a strange sensation - delightful and freaky all at once...
Would I do it again? Sometime I think about it, but until I can totally control my fear of the unknown, it is best not to bother because it is the fear which brings the whole experience to an end.
That - or responding to it too much like being physical...like instead of seeing if I could float to my sons room, I tried walking instead.
But also wondering what to do when such an experience happens - of what use is it to be able to do this?
Those who practice astral projection say that i am being too analytically which is getting in the way of prolonging the actual experience (going with the flow of it and see where it take me) and I would agree that it probably does but I don't seem to be able to help myself.