Out of body experience as a child - anyone else?? !!

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Just wondered if anyone else can remember experiencing this ? Remember being able to touch the ceiling in my bedroom almost as of rising upward….sounds bizarre but remember not being scared just it happening…. Sounds mental I know….

A similar thread was started yesterday www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4630114-could-you-float-down-the-stairs-as-a-child?page=1

I remember thinking I could float.

Yes, I still get this as an adult. Still scares the crap out of me!

All the time. I thought it was normal, everyone could do it. I continued with it until I was in my late thirties or early forties, when I found out it wasn't all that normal, and stopped.

Yeah I saw that thread that’s what reminded me - haven’t thought about it for years…

I VIVIDLY remember flying in my grans house.

Multiple times.

I few down her stairs and round the lampshade on the ceiling in the living room.

I remember jumping from the top of the stairs to the bottom too but not heavily. Like floating.

It's such a real memory

Yes, I experienced this as a pre-school child. It was frightening. I also have memories of being flung around my bedroom by some unseen force and also of ‘floating’ down the stairs. I used to get this overwhelming big/small sensation when waking. Rationally speaking, it couldn’t feasibly have happened the way I recall it. Some kind of anomalous brain function perhaps — plus distant memory recall is notoriously unreliable.

The big/small thing is Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

I used to get it alot. I felt like my hands were huge and I was stood at my bedroom door and couldn't reach the handle as I was so small.

Very weird sensation

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4630114-could-you-float-down-the-stairs-as-a-child?page=1

Clickable link fail.

Yes, I had this. Also, feel like it's "easy" to fly (despite not being able to!) but just know "how" to.

@WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps already posted that link above 🙂 (not clickable either🙄)

Omg, I had the Alice in wonderland thing, what is that? I felt like everything was big around me, and sort of throbbing (can’t describe it any other way 🤷🏻‍♀️)

It’s a known phenomenon - it’s when you were carried. I think I posted many years ago on here under a diff name. And I was told that. Kind of killed the dream I’d had for so many years!

Wow I have no idea what that feels like but I'd love to have that memory, sounds amazing!

I havnt RTFT but I had a weird thing that happened often when I was a kid. Its hard to explain and everyone I have asked has no clue what I am talking about!

I would be falling asleep then I would be numb, my whole body could not move. I was obviously still awake to remember this. My vision was what I can only explain as being strangled and pulled from my 'norm,.

Its really hard to explain but it was like flatliners, My vision/sight/dream? was a line, horizontally that would get smaller and smaller and quicker and quicker until it was a dot, it was terrifying tbh.

I had this too, I think from googling it's sleep paralysis

Thats sleep paralysis. I get it often, especially when stressed. It was known as old hags syndrome many years ago.

And last week as well, also about floating down the stairs.

Yes I remember floating around the house, down the stairs as a child.

one explanation I’ve seen is that it is a memory of being carried down the stairs as a very young baby but mid-matched in your brain as happening at a later time.

I fell down the stairs and split my head open when I was about 7, I don't remember falling but I do vividly remember watching myself fall from the other side of the banister

I had the floating down the stairs memory too, also had Alice in wonderland syndrome as did my mother, my husband and our 3 children

No, never had this.

Oh my gosh... the Alice in wonderland, big/ small thing.... YES!!!

It would be a dream and I'd always wake up screaming. I can't actually put into words what happened in the dream but it was all about big/ small and time moving very quickly/ slowly..... horrible and scary!

I vividly remember a time at a church event outdoors, holding a lot of helium balloons, jumping in the air, hovering slightly and feeling pulled terrifyingly into the air, before letting go and landing with a thud (and being told off).

Even though I was a very scrawny skinny thing, I think it's extremely unlikely, the dynamics don't work. But I remember it very well.

Yes definitely and it wasnt when I was being carried. I remember it when I was about 7 and I would float to the living room door then quickly 'run' back to bed when I thought my mother was coming.