I'd say I haven't had one of these experiences, not straight forward anyway. I have had forced versions of this same idea though. Once I will probably not bring to light yet, though it will happen in one of these classes I'm certain, for it was an intensely personal experience, and another which follows here:
I was waling home from class one day last semester and I was having a great day. My day was so good in fact that it was nearly perfect. I thought about it as I walked and I decided that there was no reason for it to not be perfect and at that exact moment I felt as though the cosmos opened before me. Time slowed, the motion of my foot falling towards the ground completing my step was undetectable. It was as if I could see past the brilliance of the sun through our atmosphere and through space, getting close up visuals of the rocks on mars and the great storm on Jupiter and even farther to the storm on Neptune. I saw philosophies as if they were tangible and knew what my future was going to be like. I was rocked! Not in the short story by Shirley Jackson called The Lottery kind of way but in the way one is rocked when something is so amazing it seems that it is too much for one person to hold. My imagination had transported me throughout time and space at a thousand parsecs a second to places I would have only seen in my dreams. I didn't even spill my tea as I came back and waited for my foot to finish its descent.
The other experience is a story for another time.
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