Experience description:

I remember speaking about for years as a young child what I always thought of as my first 'remembered dream'.  I feel my experience is rather an unimpressive story next to some of the fabulous NDEs I have read about. I was around 2 years old and lying in bed asleep.  I remember floating out of my body and seeing my small form lying face down, apparently asleep.  I went through the ceiling and immediately found myself in a dark void.  I felt myself being pulled along, through this dark, featureless space.  It was neither cold nor warm.  I do not recall seeing my own form or body, but nor did I look down at myself.  Beside me, as a floated, were various people.  They were entirely still, reminding me of manikins.  These figures were watching me, expressionless - neither smiling nor grimacing.  I recall feeling perturbed but not scared as their eyes only followed my movements. I had a sense they somehow knew me but I did not know them at all.  These figures all appeared to be dressed in what I considered old fashioned clothing - 1940's or 1930's.  I felt a pull downwards and a sense of falling and I found myself back in my body rolling out of bed to land on the floor - I had fallen out of bed.  For many years I told my parents about my vivid 'dream' - my first dream - and thought nothing more of it until I started reading about NDEs and saw some synergy between these and my own experiences.  I wonder if I perhaps was having a late stage cot death or had a fever...I will never know.