Out of Body experience

DubArk

Not sure if this subject has ever been covered here so if it has except my apologies.

I would have been about 9yrs old and I required my front tooth to be capped. I was a healthy active child with a healthy imagination but nothing over the top.

My father accompanied me to the dentists but left on an errand to return shortly after. Back then they used gas to sedate you for such a procedure. I remember that the dentist explained to me that I was not to be scared; that the gas would make me drowsy but I would be able to hear his instructions and wouldn’t be totally knocked out. He placed the mask over my face and asked me to take slow deep breaths; I did as instructed.

I found myself hovering over the room looking down on myself lying flat out on the dental chair with my eyes closed as if asleep. I remember looking at myself intensely as if it was the first time I had seen myself, studying myself, my closed eyes, my face, my arms, my legs, my shoes. The dentist was leaning over me moving back and forth preparing for the work ahead, all the time I was watching from above. I was not scared; I was observing the scene in a very calm state and completely at ease. Then I heard a phone ringing echoing out into the distance as if the ringing reverberated throughout the building and beyond. A female nurse entered the room and told the dentist that there was a call for him; again her voice echoing and reverberation throughout the room and beyond overlapping his replies. He asked her to keep an eye on me while he took the call me watching this from up in the ceiling. I just hung in suspension over the room hovering but completely bodiless listening to them conversing till he left the room and took the call. Suddenly the nurse called out to the dentist shouting, that there was something wrong and he needed to get back in and attend to the situation (Not exact words). Suddenly I felt as if I was been sucked backwards and it was all over.

I woke up. I was no longer in the dentist chair; I was in completely different room on a bed and the nurse and dentist were fussing over me. I could clearly see the relief on their faces when I started talking. They were telling me that I was a great boy, patting my head as if I had done something really great?!

My father returned to collect me and the dentist explained that he had not carried out the work as intended, that I was to return in a number of weeks. I remember trying to tell Dad what had happened but I was unable to explain in clear English my experience, he bellowed with laughter at my efforts and that was the end of the matter. I did speak to him years later about the episode and he could hardly recall the time himself (5 children) but he did think it very strange.

I believe that I had an Out of Body experience.

Myrddin

Not to be dismissive by any means, but is it possible the ceiling in the dentist surgery was reflective/semi reflective even? In an altered state of consciousness such as this, something like looking at your reflection may appear surreal...

DubArk

EnterNow wrote: »

Not to be dismissive by any means, but is it possible the ceiling in the dentist surgery was reflective/semi reflective even? In an altered state of consciousness such as this, something like looking at your reflection may appear surreal...

I appreciate your point. The ceiling was in an old Victorian building and from memory it was just plain white. Of course I have no way of proving this happened but it was so real and I had never read of such happenings till later into my adulthood, for I was only 9 yrs old.

Leadamp

Sounds very interesting. I can imagine you trying to explain to your dad