Tempo:
phenomenon occurred.
"I had the clear and precise sensation of finding myself, with only my thinking personality, in the middle of the room, completely separated from my body, which continued to lie on the bed. I saw — if I may call by that name the sensation I experienced — the objects around me as though a visual radiation penetrated the molecules of the objects on which my attention rested, as if matter dissolved at the contact of thought.
I saw my body, perfectly recognizable in all its details, the profile, the figure, but with the clusters of veins and nerves vibrating like a swarm of luminous living atoms.... The room was immersed in complete darkness, for the flame of the overturned lamp did not diffuse its light beyond the blackened chimney; and yet I saw the objects, or rather their almost phosphorescent outlines, melt, together with the walls, under the concentration of my attention, allowing me to see in the same manner the objects in the neighbouring rooms. My thinking self was without weight, or, rather, without the impression of the force of gravity or the motion of volume or mass. I was no longer in the body, since my body lay inert on the bed; I was like the tangible expression of a thought, an abstraction, capable of transferring itself to any part of the earth, sea or sky more swiftly than lightning, in the same instant that I formulated the wish, and therefore without any notion of time and space.
"If I were to say I felt free, light, ethereal, I should not express at all adequately the sensation I experienced in that moment of boundless liberation. But it was not a pleasant sensation; I was seized with an inexpressible anguish, from which I felt intuitively that I could only free myself by freeing my material body from that oppressive situation. I wanted therefore to pick up the lamp and open the window, but it was a material act that I could not accomplish, as I could not move the limbs of my body, which I felt should move with the breath
"I had the clear and precise sensation of finding myself, with only my thinking personality, in the middle of the room, completely separated from my body, which continued to lie on the bed. I saw — if I may call by that name the sensation I experienced — the objects around me as though a visual radiation penetrated the molecules of the objects on which my attention rested, as if matter dissolved at the contact of thought.
I saw my body, perfectly recognizable in all its details, the profile, the figure, but with the clusters of veins and nerves vibrating like a swarm of luminous living atoms.... The room was immersed in complete darkness, for the flame of the overturned lamp did not diffuse its light beyond the blackened chimney; and yet I saw the objects, or rather their almost phosphorescent outlines, melt, together with the walls, under the concentration of my attention, allowing me to see in the same manner the objects in the neighbouring rooms. My thinking self was without weight, or, rather, without the impression of the force of gravity or the motion of volume or mass. I was no longer in the body, since my body lay inert on the bed; I was like the tangible expression of a thought, an abstraction, capable of transferring itself to any part of the earth, sea or sky more swiftly than lightning, in the same instant that I formulated the wish, and therefore without any notion of time and space.
"If I were to say I felt free, light, ethereal, I should not express at all adequately the sensation I experienced in that moment of boundless liberation. But it was not a pleasant sensation; I was seized with an inexpressible anguish, from which I felt intuitively that I could only free myself by freeing my material body from that oppressive situation. I wanted therefore to pick up the lamp and open the window, but it was a material act that I could not accomplish, as I could not move the limbs of my body, which I felt should move with the breath
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