Strange Occurrences: Life After Death Experiences

I am very skeptical person. When I see psychics on television, or hear of things like being struck by lightning and seeing God, I usually laugh. I am not one to believe in such things. However I did have an experience once, that still leaves me baffled to this day.

It was a Sunday morning. I had been partying with my friends the night before. I was a little hung over to say the least, and decided after drinking some coffee, I would try to go back to sleep. So I laid back down in my bed.

All of a sudden I was in the dining room of the house "floating" above the kitchen table. I could see everything that was going on. My two nieces were playing on the couch in the living room. While my mother was on the phone, I could hear the conversation my mother was having.

When I realized I was no longer in my body, I was so scared. I went back to the bed room and tried to get back into my body, but could not at first. After around two minutes I woke up in a sweat, and sat there wondering, what exactly just happened to me?.

I quickly ran out of the room and told my mother what had happened. She also verified everything I had seen and heard. The phone call, as well as my nieces being there.

It's been 20 years since that day. I am still left to wonder what happened?. I had been drinking the night before, so I must have been hallucinating. Or maybe I could simply hear all the things going on and incorporated it all into a dream. Whatever it was, it was terrifying.

Now and then, I will meet another person who has had some similar thing happen to them. I was talking with a friend the other day, and the subject of life after death came up. He also had an unusual experience while working at an electronics fair.

He was trying to connect a speaker and was electrocuted. Although his body was laying on the ground, he was floating above it and could see himself lying there. His situation lasted for around three minutes. Eventually it frightened him, and he wanted to go back into his body. He tried, succeeded and woke back up. For a year he could not even bring himself to talk about his experience. But he felt he could open up to me, because I talked openly about mine.

I also remember a story my mother told me when I was very young.

My mother was around ten years old when her father died of leukemia. She was the youngest child in her family, and was also the only girl. Her father adored her, and in her heart she knew that she was his favorite.

The night he died my mother was awakened by someone pacing through the halls. As she lifted her head to see who it was, she was horrified. It was her father. He walked into her bedroom and stood by the foot of her bed. She started crying and said to him, "Please daddy you are scaring me, go away", so he did.

Are these occurrences reality or just bad dreams?. Since I probably will never have an answer for that, I will chalk it up to be the worst nightmare I ever had. At the same time when I hear similar stories as mine, you can be sure that I will not laugh. Or have any doubt that they were telling the absolute truth about what they perceived.