Have you ever had a NDE (near death experience)?

[intrepidity]

12. This describes exactly my own experience.

And I mean, exactly.

But when I realized what was happening, I totally freaked out at the utter weirdness of it, and snapped back into my body immediately. But for just a couple of seconds, I was out of my body -- sort of. It was more like my astral body was superimposed on my physical body, like a double-image on an old black-and-white TV. That imagery illustrates what the sensation was like, and as I said, it ended almost as soon as it began, because of my total freak-out reaction.

The only detail I can add is that I freaked out when I felt my astral shoulder pulling away from my body. After I calmed down, I laughed and laughed and laughed, because upon receiving exactly what I had wanted for so long, my own fear aborted the experience. I gave up then on ever trying again (even though I hadn't been 'trying' on that occasion), one, because I now had first-hand experience that it was real--even though I had already believed so--and two, because I accepted that I was my own worst adversary on some things. It was a profound, life-altering experience, to be sure.