My Out Of Body Experience

I must have been about 16 so many years ago now but still wonder why this happened to me, I was in good health so illness cannot be blamed, this particular night I went to bed as normal, it never took me long to nod off so I was soon in the land of dreams, but this was different, I remember feeling the strange sensation like floating, I can't say I could see down underneath me but the weightlessness, I then started to travel/float towards the corner of the room, and it felt like I was being squeezed/pulled through, the same again in the loft, I knew I was floating like a helium balloon, rising and rising, I began to panic, I could feel the covers and the warmth around me like I was in my bed, I tried shouting to my dad but I couldn't, my body started to sweat and my limbs felt like dead weights and I couldn't move them, but still the feelings of floating up and up getting short of breath, unable to turn around or go back.

I seemed to struggle for hours, but I'm sure it wasn't that long, I also don't remember how it ended just when I woke up in the morning I felt exhausted and uneasy.

I have read about 'out of body experiences' but most seem to float above themselves looking down, not sure if its related but when I was a young child I used to have a recurring dream about being in the hall with my mum and her friend close by, I would begin to float just below the ceiling, they would tell me off and pull me back down, silly I know.