First Out-of-body-Experience

[saint_charming7]

Hey everyone. What's up?!

I just had my first Out-of-body-experience today while practicing my daily morning meditation. It was kinda weird and scary because it was completely spontaneous and not intentional at all. I felt like watching myself in third-party view (like floating in air or something) and not feeling my body for some micro-moments, and it actually scared the sh*t out of me, because sometimes I had to "return" to my physical body to breathe.  I know it sounds pretty fantastical and dreamy, but I was really surprised...I've been practicing meditation for four years now, and I never felt something like this before.  I would like to ask y'all for some suggestions, on some credible sources to research on this topic, I was really curious to understand what the heck was going on with me at that moment. If it was an enlightenment experience or just a misunderstanding or something like that. Thanks in advance!

[cetus]

@saint_charming7 Did you see the reply I left an hour ago on the topic "Spiritual growth makes unhappy"? Yea it's a freaky feeling to become separate from the body location. When it first happened to me it was spontaneous. I never seen it coming and was completely unexpected. I couldn't find much information on it when I researched it. But I know that feeling of "What was that???" "What just happened?"

[Nahm]

@saint_charming7 ? The breathing is illusionary too. Trust homeostasis. Explore. 

[SFRL]

I have had outer body experience when I get really really fucking angry. 

Also during very extreme physical exercise there can be a split between the mind and and the body. 

Edited July 17, 2018 by SFRL

[Highest]

Very nice!

[saint_charming7]

@cetus56 Exactly, we had the same feeling (or something similar)...I'm glad we can relate on this. I haven't seen your reply yet, I'm returning to the forum after some time away. I will definitely check out soon!

@Nahm Yeah, for a micro-moment I could feel that everything is an illusion, gradually (if I have more similar episodes) I'm really interested in exploring homeostasis. It was funny actually, because after my meditation alarm rang, and I opened my eyes. My body was immobilized and my mind was completely blank for a couple of seconds.

@SFRL I feel sometimes something similar after an intense workout followed by a meditation session...But, this time it was much more spiritual like my body was just an "image" or "astral-projection" or something like that. It is really hard to explain with words what I felt...

[Salvijus]

@saint_charming7 what kind of meditation you do?

[saint_charming7]

@Salvijus I learned a couple of years ago the Zen method (been training with it the past years) but I can say nowadays I'm implementing my own style (mixing with some breathing techniques and visualizations of Swásthya Yoga, for example, but the foundation still rooted in zen).

Edited July 18, 2018 by saint_charming7