Swims Bounding Story

[Harry]

Many many moons ago, when SWIM was still an experimental teen, they had an experience whilst under the influence of both acid, and sleep.

It was a Friday night, and SWIM (even tho very tired) decided to pop several (like 4 or 5) hits of acid after having a shower to prepare for the night on the town to follow. Being tired, they laid down in their bed and decided to rest a bit until the acid kicked in. Suffice to say, he immediately fell asleep.

The next thing SWIM became aware of was what could best be described as your typical out of body experience. Still seemingly asleep, he began to float out of his body, towards the ceiling. Thinking the whole time as he seemed aware and in control to a degree of it, "COOL!"

The ceiling proved to be no barrier as he passed straight thru it and emerged from the house in an upward angular motion. As this was going on he was paying close attention to detail, noting that things in the now darkening night, the little old lady in the house across the street by her window where she always was watching tv, the regular kids riding their bikes thru the neighborhood were occuring. The realness of it was spectacular, as again SWIM thought, "COOL!"

As SWIM took in the various sights and sounds in his upward angular trek over his city, amazed by the great detail and awareness he was presented with, in complete and utter awe, he reached a point where he was no longer going upward, but soon began to head downward, in nearly the exact same but opposite motion to whence he came, except at an accelerated speed. This was the first time so far in this experience that he started to panic. Watching the earth coming towards him, faster and faster, going..."Oh shit, oh SHIT!" and feeling helpless as impact seemed inevitiable. Right before contact SWIM closed his eyes, fearing the worst, when best could be described as a 'B-O-O-I-I-N-G" occured, and SWIm was once again climbing into the night sky in the same angular motion. "COOL!"

During SWIM's 2nd slow climb upward, again paying attention to detail, he looked down and saw 3 of his friends standing in a line outside a bar, this being one of a likely 4 or 5 possible bars they might be at. In fact, had SWIM awoken he might be standing in that very line or some line with them. He tried screaming and waving to them as the detail seemed so completely real, they might just spot SWIM in the night sky, hear his acknowledgement of them and wave back, but to no avail.

Again SWIM reached a plateau where again SWIM began to fall back to the Earth. With less fear and seemingly more control he decided to keep his eyes open this time as the ground rushed towards him, but admits with a bit of hesitation. When again, eyes open this time 'B-O-O-I-I-N-G', and once more he was travelling upwards. SWIM paid great atterntion to detail, noting not only how everything was seemingly correct for this particular night, but also how the 2 previous bounds were identical as far as he could tell in both speed and distance, and the entire thing was in a straight line across his city.

As again SWIM plateau'd and came back to earth, this time looking forward to the carnival like sensation he would experience upon impact, this time, right after SWIM hit the ground, instead of continuing in the same angular motion, he was this time going straight up, now noticing the Earth disappearing further from him then ever before, and was now speeding up. "Whoa, WHOA!" was the feeling SWIm had as the speed increased, faster and faster, as SWIM soon broke through the Earth's seeming orbit, and began to shoot through space, faster and again faster, now passing the moon, then faster, watching stars fly by, "Whoooa....WHOOOOOAAAA!"

That was the last thing SWIM remembered, as he awoke the next morning, safely tucked in his bed, wearing the same clothes he fell asleep in, no hole punched through the ceiling, no "I just visited Jupiter and all I got was this crummy sticker' on his ass.

It has been nearly 25 years since SWIM had this experience, and this is the first time he has ever really told of it, for frankly, he just kinda felt most would think he was off his rocker. Anyone had anything similar?

Addendum: SWIM did ask his friends the next day where they went that night, and indeed the 3 of them DID go to that particular bar, and in fact were waiting in line. It still gives SWIM the Willie's today when he thinks of it.

*Any similarity in this story to characters, real or imagined, is purely coincidence, and SWIM holds/ bears no responsibility*

Reputation Comments on this post:

	Intriguing story.
	thanx for sharing!
	Cool story!

[augentier]

I love this story..reminds me of astral projection, have you ever read into that? I believe it's possible, perhaps that night swiy was lucky enough to be under all favorable conditions to make it happen I am curious how long this experience was in "real time", although that answer is impossible to find..how long did it seem to take?

Fascinating

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cool info. with the astral projection. (reading up now)tnx!

[TMM]

Originally Posted by augentier

I love this story..reminds me of astral projection, have you ever read into that? I believe it's possible, perhaps that night swiy was lucky enough to be under all favorable conditions to make it happen

Of course it's possible. One can have complete, 100% control over dreams with enough practice and enough imagination, but it requires a tremendous amount of work, and the ability to pretty much induce lucid dreams at will.

I second 'fascinating'. When SWIM woke up, was he still tripping, or was the entire experience encompassed in the dream? I wouldn't have thought that possible, what with dream cycles and all.

*re-reads*

Oh right, that was the last thing SWIM remembered. It's likely that SWIM had several more dreams that night, but unfortunately didn't remember them.

[Harry]

SWIM hasn't really looked into the prospect of astral projection, but I think they may now.

The closest he could come to explaining it, via some research was that of lucid dreaming, and out of body experiences many have experienced in varying states of sleep. The finding out that his friends were in fact in the bar line, at that bar that night is what most threw him for a loop, but it of course could just have been a coincidence in part with the lucid dream.

As far as time goes, when SWIM was in the bounding portion, all he can say is that it seemed as real time wise as time is as they type now. But when SWIM started heading for the cosmos, lol...well...zip, zing...and like he told me, next thing he knew it was morning.

SWIM's always felt a bit embarrassed to tell this story, and sorta just wrote it off as a really cool, freakish acid trip.

[Harry]

This was a fairly interesting link I found on the astral projection deal, that I felt wasn't overly biased. http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/astral.htm

Interesting stuff, to say the least.

[KBLSD]

something like this happened to swim once but he didnt fall asleep he was tripping on 4 hits of some dank dose and someone brought in some salvia tosmoke well he smoked the salvia passed out and the whole time swim just watched himself lying on the couch passed out it was really scary and when swim came out of he was trippping and it was a very fucked up expierence for the next 10 minuets he was really fucked up but than he was fine for the rest of the time