[IamRobot]

This morning I was driving up Afton Mountain. The morning is warm. The wind is blowing my hair all over through my open windows as I pay homage to the New Year in my tradition of listening to U2. The band always makes me nostalgic for the wonder days of MTV in the basement with my friends in the 80's tribute to that 70's show. I always snuck down to the basement to watch U2's New Year Day video. Today it was the uplifting tune “Where the streets have no name”

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

The mist and fog swirled around the base of the mountain, like ghosts. The sun was casting warm rays of golden light through the dancing vapors. I was dancing with light, shadow as I twisted and turned up the side of the mountain.

I want to feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

As I start to crest the mountain, I break through the line of clouds clinging to the western side of the mountain. The sky is a brilliant blue crisp and clean over the valley. Shenandoah Valley lays beyond, warm and bright in the morning sunshine made brighter reflecting through the cleansing rain of New Years Eve.

I am on the tip of the peaks of the mountains that feel like I am scraping the edge of the sky, crossing from the mountains of nelson County. I see a bald Eagle just ahead and below. He is soaring over the peaks, the sun light casting a halo off his white head. His huge wingspan and majesty feels me with awe. I imagine flying with him. I feel myself soaring as him.

I feel myself start to separate and floating on the breeze along with him, free and high in the sky.

I look down and I see my dog in the car next to my body, and I snap back into driving again.


The moment was both amazing and terrifying. I felt on the one hand like I had been God Smacked. On the other, I felt a great fear of losing myself again and hurting someone in the process.


Has anyone ever had an OBE while driving? Unintended when the mind was so caught in the moment as I was? I need to get a handle on how to develop the ability but to also keep some safety measures in place.


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[usaguedriedax]

It seems a lovely moment but I'm not sure I'd want to be driving mountain roads while it happened. But then again maybe your body would handle things - when younger I had a number of occasions where I woke in the morning to find myself at home, car parked in the drive (sometimes strangely parked) & no dings in it. I had no memory of driving it home, & as I lived in the country & driving home was often 60 - 100 miles, that's quite a trip to do unaware.

So the body can do some interesting things...