How It Felt to Float Like an Angel: Expansion

My immediate emotional experience upon lifting off into weightlessness the very first time was of a mystical nature. I became breathless while experiencing a sense of awe during those next few timeless moments. I consciously crossed my legs and floated into a seated lotus position, shutting my eyes as I had planned to do from the moment I found out that I was going to fly. In hindsight, my observation is that the majority of my consciousness was residing, during those initial moments, within the right hemisphere of my brain.

My body experienced a literal physical expansion in liberation from the constrictions of gravity. I believe that the boundaries of my body were in fact expanding at all corporeal levels of existence, including the subatomic. It is my hypothesis that literal, physiological expansion prompted my sense of an expansion of consciousness. I felt chills at the diffusion of what appeared to be my external boundaries as I floated in weightlessness. My feelings of physical expansion in weightlessness helped fracture my sense of containment within my body’s external boundary.

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