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only to find that I was powerless—as if I adhered to that on which I rested. "Eventually the feeling of adhesion relaxed, but was replaced by another, equally unpleasant—that of floating. At the same time my entire body (I thought it was my physical body, but it was not) commenced vibrating at a high rate of speed in an up and down direction. Simultaneously I could feel a tremendous pulling pressure at the back of my head.... This pressure was very impressive and came in regular spurts, the force of which seemed to pulsate my whole being. "Amid this pandemonium of bizarre sensations in total darkness—floating, vibrating, zig-zagging, and head-pulling— I began to hear familiar and seemingly far-distant sounds. My sense of hearing was beginning to function. I tried to move, but still could not, as if in the grip of some powerful cryptic directing force. "No sooner had my sense of hearing come into being than that of sight followed When able to see, no words could possibly express my wonderment. I was floating, in the very air a few feet above the bed. Things, hazy at Erst, were becoming clearer. I was moving slowly towards the ceiling, all the while lying horizontal and powerless. Naturally, I believed that this was my physical body as I had always known it, but that it had mysteriously begun to defy gravity.... Involuntarily, at about six feet above the bed, as if the movement had been conducted by an invisible intelligent force, present in the very air, I was uprighted from the horizontal position to the perpendicular and placed standing upon the floor of the room... where I remained for two or three minutes, still unable to move of my own accord. "Then the unknown controlling force relaxed. I felt free, noticing only the tension at the back of my head. I took a step, when the pressure increased for an interval and threw my body