I�m procrastinating and remembered something that happened to me a while back, found your site and decided to share whatever it was I experienced. 

In high school I was in a co-op program where I worked in an IT department.  One day I was sitting on a stool and watching one of the technicians working on a printer.  I remember starting to drift off slightly, just zoning out as I listened to him talk.  As the technician was about to close the printer case with a quick snapping moving that would take about half  a second, I noticed he seemed to be moving quite slowly.  Everything turned a slight cast of green and my pulse jumped, mostly because I wasn�t sure what the hell was going on.  I suddenly realized that I was aware of what the technician down the way was doing and he was behind a barrier, then I could see or feel or was aware of all the other employees in the building, the school, and the town. 

I�m sitting here trying to recall an incident that feels very real to me yet as if it never happened.  I don�t remember any details other then that, I remember at the time that I knew EVERYTHING!! And then it was gone.  There were images of people, events, formulas, math equations (I�m terrible at math)  I realized I could look around the room and entire building, not really flying, but not walking either, just everywhere at once.  I seem to remember actually looking around the room, turning my head and such, but that is not possible, because when the technician snapped the printer case in place, it reverberated in the room like a huge clap of thunder and the green cast was gone � but I had not moved an inch until I jumped and snapped out of it. 

In less then a second, the time it would take you to slam down a lid on something, I was completely covered in sweat and my heart was beating extremely hard.  I never said anything to the technician and he never said anything to me other then I didn�t look well.  It�s hard to write this chronologically because I�m remembering things as I write and it didn�t seem to happen in order really. 

I saw the printer lid crashing down, it slowed, the world turned green, I was flooded with knowledge about what seemed like everything everywhere, I became aware of the lid about to snap shut, the thunder clap, and the momentary feeling that I didn�t have enough time and it was all being torn away from me.  I was scared, amazed and saddened all at the same time.  I sat there for what seemed like minutes trying to retain any of what I had just experienced. 

Obviously I thought that perhaps I was experiencing a heart attack or seizer or stroke.  For a bit, something was very, very wrong.  But after a minute it went away and I realized that it was something different.  But if it was my brain was misfiring as a result of stress, fatigue, medication, mild and rare narcotic, or alcohol use � then we have a great deal more to learn about the human brain.  I have never experienced anything remotely close to that event before or since. 

Anyway, no idea what happened � perhaps a wrong number? :) 

Blair

Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?     Uncertain            Nothing within days of the experience or perhaps months.  Being a teenager in the 90's I used alcohol and occasionally light narcotics, but very infrequent.  It very well have been a residual effect - but boy, what an after effect!

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Uncertain      Yes and No, I have only an echo of the experience to reflect upon.  It was as if something enormous was given to me and then suddenly ripped away.  And I mean ripped, the impression was that it was painful.

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          No       Nope, just sitting on a stool listening to a friend talk.

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           During the experience is was heightened to the extreme I know that much, like being hit in the head with a knowledge baseball bat.

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   Hmm, not dreamlike, hyper-realistic would be more accurate.  Very now, and about everything that exists everywhere.  But there was a green color or cast over everything and there was so many images and information, it was hard to focus on anything.  I can still see some of the images in my mind:  I'll try to explain it.