Childhood regrets are the worst.
Maybe you were so focused on the exchange you were having with the other kid, obviously not thinking about your body and so emotionally charged and wanting to escape the situation that the whole mix of stuff going on enabled you to project. i think as adults it's difficult for us to get totally immersed in a situation with our minds and emotions but for kids, it just happens. so maybe some trancy conditions were there, it just didn't look like we think a trance should look.
Just my opinion.
Or maybe a spirit buddy of yours hauled you out so you could look in on the situation from a detached point of view for future reference.
I see what you're saying Chupacabra. However one of the charictaristics of the trance state at least as defined by Robert Bruce is that the mind is awake while the body is asleep. In this experience of mine my body continued its actions on unhindered by my projection, fully active and awake as it had been before.
While moderately versed in things metaphysical I have very little experience in regard to astral projection. I did however have an experience when I was kid that is contrary to a statement Robert Bruce made in Astral Dynamics and I think it deserves some investigation. In the begining of the book when Robert is discussing the nature of the mind split he states that a trance state at least to some degree is necessary to achieve an exit from the body. Perhaps new discoveries have been made since that statement but in the following scenario that I will relate where I had a spontaneous projection, this does not seem to be the case.
When I was very young and still living in California an Uncle of mine came to visit. Upon his arival I was very excited to discover that he had come bearing a gift: a wonderful brand new mountain bike!
While it was far to large for the reach of my stubby little five year old legs it was a treasure of unimagineable magnitude to a little kid such as myself and definitely an event worth bragging about.
In no time at all I got in touch with my best freind Travis (my name also) and let him in on the tale of my new treasure. He had come to my house with his little bike that we were riding around the neighborhood but when I told him about my new bike he became very excited and started making offers to trade for it. I was very insistent that it was my bike though and he could not have it. He wouldn't relent though and offered his bike as a trade.
This continued for some time going nowhere with neither one of us bending to the others will. After a few minutes of this however something strange happened: I was suddenly outside of my body looking down on myself and the bartering that had continued unhindered. I moved around slowly in an ascending spiral around my body getting higher and higher while listening to the conversation between my body and the my best freind; a conversation I no longer had any control over.
"Come on" he would say "my bike you would be able to ride" but still my body said no. On and on this went out of my control but no longer important to my conscienceness floating higher into the sky, just fascinating in a disjointed sort of way. Finally I settled atop the apartment building that was our home at the time and watched as my body finally relented to my best freinds haggling, trading my bike for his. Once they were through I watched from above as my body walked back into the apartment building and then everything went dark and my next memory was waking up in my bedroom.
I was greatly relieved upon awakening because that meant that it had to have been a dream and that I still had my treasure. Unfortunately my heart was broken when I walked into the living room and there in the corner sat my best freinds bike and mine was nowhere to be found. My mother told me that I had in fact traded it and we were later unable to get it back. It was one of the greater tragedies of my childhood.
So,if your out there somwhere Robert Bruce (or anyone else) I would greatly appreciate any insight into this event because it has long baffled and saddened me [:(]
Renaisance