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I was about six years old, and my mom and I were at a small, local beach near our home...
I was in the Army assigned to Germany...
I closed my eyes as my essence left my body...
I was visiting a college friend's home in Kansas...
I felt myself float out of my body...
I was in bed and had been sleeping but during the experience I was definitely not asleep...
It was night and I was asleep when I saw a sun colored light...
I went on a weekend white water trip with friends on the Gauly and New Rivers in rural West Virginia...
We were all training on combative techniques...
I was laying in my bed, it was extremely hot and I was having a regular day, nothing out of the extraordinary...
When I was 17, I was riding a horse to a parade ground event...
I was lying in bed awake when I 'saw' a black, ropy, roiling mass coming down toward me from a point at my upper left...
