What do you think this other sense was?

Question

Many years ago I had what I call a transcendent experience. In this state of transcendent conciousness I had many different types of experiences/awarenesses. One thing I remember is experiencing a sense. A sense like one of the 5 senses, you know sight, hearing, smell, etc, but it was none of those. I have had many psychic experienced, telepathy, premonitions, and it wasn't a psychic sense. I have no idea what this other sense was or what it was for. Any ideas. Incidently, the experience I had was not related to drugs or any form of substance abuse, or mental health issues.

Answer 1

I think you imagined something and it has stuck with you.

Answer 2

I'm unclear on if this was even a sense at least within the traditional definition/understanding. One has to receive information (touch, taste, smell, vision, hearing) through the human body (skin, tongue, nose, eyes, ears).
What information did you receive? What part of the body was this information processed through? How did the information present itself (how were you aware of it?)
Interesting that you dismiss this being a psychic sense because it doesn't match your previous psychic experiences and at the same time you dismiss it being a normal sense. So, by your own criteria you did not have a sense experience even though you ask people to describe your experience in these terms.
I realize this section is flooded with debunkers but I don't think a disclaimer of I'm not a drug using mentally ill person is required in explaining experiences.

Based on your description I (and not anyone else despite any claim they make) have no idea what your experience involved or what meaning your experience may have had for you.

Answer 3

I dont know if it was similar to my experience, but I used to get it a lot when I was younger (mostly in my early to late teens). I do still get it even today on occasions (Im nearly 50 now), and rarely, can 'bring it on' when near that state. Never have I been able to adequately describe what its like to anyone. Its a sort of sensation that nothing around me is real, that the existence I know & understand is just...not here right now. It was very scary at first, but Ive got used to it and now Im just plain curious.
Also sometimes I used to feel I was floating just underneath the ceiling (which only ever happened if I was in bed) -though Ive never been able to see myself below, like they say you can in an out-of-body experience.
I have also tried to see if psycho-kinesis works (moving things by power of mind alone), and tried to move the needle of a compass on a coffee table in front of me. After a couple of minutes the needle didnt move -but there was a slithering noise which I couldnt at first identify, so I stopped with the compass. Only a minute or two later did I notice a picture weighing 3 and a half pounds on the wall close to my head had revolved a good 15 degrees in an anticlockwise direction away from me! Its never done that before and I never tried that experiment again...
Believe me, Ive never done drugs and dont normally drink any alcohol (and dont consider myself mad!). Its a big puzzle isnt it.

Hi Kel333 -in reply to your request for further info (assuming youre asking me and not the original poster): The floating effect began when I was aged 7, soon after my parents divorced & split up, so Im quite sure that mental/psychological stress was the trigger in this case, because it made me do other things like sleepwalk too (which had never happened before). When it happened, Id wake up in bed, open my eyes, and the ceiling would be right in front of my face. Id just lie there, looking at it. It felt quite claustrophobic (if you can imagine going up to and facing a wall then stay there for a few minutes without looking around, you might get the same impression perhaps). If I did move much, things would normally return as they were.

This also applied to the unreal sensation, which could also be stopped by moving. However that was a much later thing -teenage to present day, and if it happens I try to hang onto the effect because far from being scared anymore Im curious, and want to learn more about it. Best way to describe it is that I am suddenly seperated from my usual existence within life and everything in the world around me.
I suppose its comparable to saying: in experiencing life you are reading a book. Then one day instead of reading/living it, you drop the book, and are looking at it lying there. You can see its just a book, nothing more. You know what part of the story you are playing/living in it. You can recall anything you ever knew about this world if you wish, just like normal. But at that moment, you are completely separate from it. You are still able to think and reason, despite this odd isolation. (Its never happened outdoors, only in the house).
When this first happened, I was astonished. But these days, I always try to explore my new environment, either to see what else is there, or to try and find out more about this apparently false thing called 'life'. But it doesnt last for long -no more than say 20 or so seconds -though I can still move a bit without losing the effect (unlike the 'floating in bed' thing).
I know it all sounds a bit like 'the Matrix' etc,or even being on drugs, but Ive been having these experiences long before that film was made. Its certainly got me curious, but I dont suppose I'll ever really learn what this is all about.
Hope this clarifies it a bit.

Answer 4

It was probably a hallucination due to lack of sleep, irregular sleeping patterns, or stress. I used to get them all the time in college when I was under pressure. The mind can do some crazy things.

Answer 5

What do you mean by transcendent experience?

I won't know if it was like mine unless you tell all of it. Was it out of body?

Was it a Knowing Sense?

Answer 6

hi to the person above me..named "dont know"

when i was reading his or her answer, the exact same thing would happen to me when i was a child... i would float up to the ceiling almost every single night...at that age i didnt know it wasnt normal, so i used to tell all my friends, that we had a magic light on the ceiling....

the other feeling of your surrounds not being real, i experienced alot while i was living in Italy, its only just recently that ive worked out id walk through a time loop, in our town... as there was only one way to our home from the main square...sometimes id find myself lost, and could not recognise my surroundings...so then id walk back the way i came, and start all over again, only this time to find my home...being that age, you dont question things that happen...its only till later in life you remember it happening and try and find answers for it, like i did.....

can you tell us a bit more, about your experience ???

Answer 7

Did you 'feel' as though you were in complete 'balance' with the universe; like the third dimension didn't exist and you were 'one' with everything?Like you could walk on water/on air; complete bliss? I'm just trying to understand what you mean.....

Answer 8

The influence of the Holy Ghost perhaps

Answer 9

A sense of euphoria!

Answer 10

Was it the sixth sense - ballance?