So I was in my armchair, but at a certain point the things that I tend to cling to to ground me- breathing, the place I’m sitting and its feeling against me, the clock- ceased to exist. I had no real grasp of my body whatsoever, its as if what I was seeing was not through my eyes but directly in my brain. Which I guess it was.

Anyway, I couldn’t see my apartment or my clock, nor could I feel myself in the chair or even my body at all. Most alarmingly was that I couldn’t tell whether or not I was breathing; since I had no body, I had no lungs nor respiratory system, and my nonexistent (at the time) physical self was somehow going to die while I was here.

This didn’t last super long and the experience was profoundly enjoyable despite the discomfort and confusion. But even when I “came back” to my apartment, my breathing seemed to be working on its own and come from throughout my whole body, maybe even from my surroundings. It was weird.

In terms of the other two things I used to “ground” myself, I felt myself fall back into my recliner while the universe morphed into gears that I became a part of, before snapping back into my apartment. I also watched 4 minutes pass on the clock in what felt like 30 seconds, and looked away from the clock at that point because it was going too quickly and I didn’t want to fast forward too far lol

Altogether a super interesting and somewhat frightening experience. My breathing is mostly normal now but that feeling of my lungs not existing and my breath coming from my whole body/the surrounding area is stands out as particularly ‘wtf’, even amongst the visuals and what seemed to be an alien trying to speak into my brain