I, too, have had this type of experience. It is pretty cool, but difficult to maintain. Meditation is a means by which people try to keep this sort of thing going on a regular basis, but it takes practice and time, the latter of which I don't have. One very simple experiment anyone can do is to focus your thoughts. Imagine that your brain is in your right thumb. Hold your thumb out to the side and focus all your thoughts on that thumb. Blank everything else out and imagine that the center of your thought is in that thumb. Now imagine that thumb experiencing the world around it. Imagine it looking back at the rest of you - instead of seeing your thumb as a part of you, imagine that the rest of you is a part of it. It's pretty easy to do this. This is actually one simple exercise in the ancient Chinese art of Qi Gung, which is similar to Ti Chi, but more focused on focusing your energy. There are so many variations of altered states that it's hard to know where to begin in doing a search, but it's a fascinating topic.
: After talking to Goran about this on MSN and also reading this threat and
: your post, steve. I just started to remember that i've had similiar
: experience. Not as scary thou. I remember lying in the bed. Kinda sick,
: had a flu and stuff so it was hard to move and my body felt so damn heavy.
: It felt like something heavy was lying on top of me. Just like you feel
: when you are having a bad flue. But well, after relaxing some time i
: noticed that i started to feel different. Like goran described, my mind
: went somewhere else. The body started to get really light and i started to
: feel really nice. I remember seeing something, not a thing, more like a
: gradient or something. Just a empty space with lots of colors (not bright
: colors, just relaxing colors) and i remember that i felt like spinning in
: circles. I can also remember that i could get out of this easily. I just
: concentrated a little bit and voila, i was in my bed again. But as soon as
: i started to relax i went there again. And this went like that for 10
: minutes and damn it felt good. :-)
: About hallucinations while awake, or more like when you just woke up in the
: middle of the night. I have had that a lot. I got a really strong
: imagination and sometimes when dreaming it doesn't stop, even when i wake
: up. So i see lots of stuff in the room. when i was 5 year old i woke up
: and saw there was a skeleton wrapped around me, and it said "hey
: johannes, how are you?". Then i remember seeing flying eye ball
: around the room, staring me. TV's with horse racing in the ceiling, A guy
: that jumped on the bed, broke into pieces and then the mouth bit me in my
: hand (and yes i felt the pain), The room all being covered with grass, and
: the latest one. Rain inside.. green rain. So yeah, i'm experienced in
: Halluciations. Too bad i haven't been able to see naked chicks in my
: hallucations.. yet.. :-P
: I would like to learn more about that altered mental state, any websites you
: know about with info about this? And is this anything like what we always
: see in the comics/movies when those african voodoo doctors or whatever
: they are go into another realms and stuff?
