What would cause this experience?

[AOK Tiger]

KFCA,

I have had odd experiences where I felt like I was in “another place” or felt powerful or tall or “removed” somehow from the situation.

As I have NO corroborating evidence for any ACTUAL change (ie someone else mentioning .. “gee you were tall a few minutes ago”) I know it was some trick of my own mind.

Fortunately YOU have gone down the sensible path and are open to the same interpretation… sadly SOOO many think these experiences are “supernatural” and prove an alternative existence for the consciousness.

Thor…

Are you an Aussie ??? Those experiences must be just soo universal.. you have a nice talent for succinctly pointing them out and.. yes they are pleasant to relive !

Thanks.

 

[epepke]

When I was in my mid-20ties, I went home for lunch one day, stayed longer than I should have, which necessitated me running (literally) back to the office full-speed for a 1pm meeting.

As I was running, I was transported back in time for a few minutes & I became not a 25 year old running back to work, but a grammar school child running back to school (I was ALWAYS running late to school back then). It was not that I "remembered", but mentally I was actually in a different place. It was truly weird.

This happened over 40 years ago
& I still wonder about it. I've certainly had to "run" on other occasions, but have not had the same experience...just that one time.

Any ideas?

This is only a guess. However, there's a transition that happens when running where the body starts to autolyze muscle tissue. This is associated with a flood of all sorts of neurotransmitters. Athletes call this the "second wind." Since this was right after lunch, I would suspect that you were in the middle of digestion mode and so the second wind mechanism got triggered earlier than normally.

 

[Oleron]

Another possibility could be a mild form of seizure, such as mild epilepsy.
As a child I used to get these odd episodes sometimes, kind of like drifting off in a very intense daydream. People would be speaking to me and I wasn't aware of them. After a few seconds I would snap out of it and be back to normal. It usually occurred when I was under stress.

My doctor said that it was a mild form of childhood epilepsy and I may well grow out of it. I did grow out of it and haven't had any attacks in the past 25 years.

Some evidence suggests that some feelings, such as deja vu, can be attributed to these little 'brain hiccups'. I think it is at least possible that your experience was one of these.

Even now I get deja vu pretty regularly, probably more often than most people.
(Have I posted this before? )

 

[mgdwcb]

A similar thing happened to me several years ago while walking down an office coridoor in London. I was suddenly aware of being a child in my grandmother's house - I could even smell the aromas of the country and feel the tablecloth. I also felt as if I was more the child thinking about being an adult rather than an adult remembering being a child. It lasted a split second. I think the vivid nature of the experience could have been caused by some sort of trigger of the part of the brain where such memories are stored, but thats only a wild guess.