Experience description:

We always went to my Mother's and help prepare holiday dinner. I was standing against the door going into the kitchen, just talking and laughing with everyone in the kitchen, family and I saw myself on the other side of the room sitting on the steps, peeling potatoes and talking and laughing, but I could not hear what I was saying and all I could do was point at myself. Of course everyone laughed and said yea right, but I could not explain it, didn't know why, how or anything only how strange I felt at the time. Everyone laughed it off and I though no more about it until about hour later, I was actually sitting on the steps peeling potatoes, and it was like I felt a shock, jolt and I realized that where I was, what I had seen an hour earlier. It just happened.

Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?     No      

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Yes     The feeling was like elation, absence, disbelief and an Oh my god! How could I see myself on the other side of a room, doing something completing different that was I was currently doing.

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          No      

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           Great, very alert

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   No

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     No      

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            amazed, I guess

Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?           No

LOCATION DESCRIPTION:  Did you recognize any familiar locations or any locations from familiar religious teachings or encounter any locations inhabited by incredible or amazing creatures?    No           

Did you see a light?           No      

Did you meet or see any other beings?           No      

Did you experiment while out of the body or in another, altered state? No      

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          No      

Did you notice how your 5 senses were working, and if so, how were they different?          No       I could only point

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   No      

Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?    No      

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?             No      

Did you become aware of future events?       Uncertain      I didn't know until later when I realized where I was and was like shocked, or just he wired feeling.

Were you involved in or aware of a decision regarding your return to the body?       No       Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?   Yes     I knew in July that our dog would die Christmas morning. I was washing dishes and she ran by the window and when I saw her I knew, I actually said " God you wouldn't take the dog and on Christmas morning. She died Christmas morning of a heart attach in my husband arms at the vets office.

Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?   Yes     I always felt as if I'm a round peg trying to fit in a square hole

How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?       Badly, No one believes in anything except what they can see, feel, or hear and it so hard to pro, of these things. Even with little things that happen that you said and it becomes just a luck guess

Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?         No       You learn not to talk about them as no one believes you. I have only recently started opening myself again to the experiences I think I have hid for a long time. I have a hard time explaining the feeling, except I can not seem to find my answers. My husband just thinks I'm strange, weird, he has told me not to talk about such things.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     laughing

What emotions did you experience following your experience?  That I was connected to more or something I just did not understand

What was the best and worst part of your experience?      The only down was the disbelief of others.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         No      

Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?               Yes    

Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.    It is a good questionnaire, it just that there is no way to prove an out of body experience until, you can bring something back with you, and something tells me that is possible, I just don't know how yet.