Lately I have had two experiences that seemed include altered states popping out in the course of daily life.

1) While I was listening to a contraband subliminal tape (which I have since deleted) my computer suddenly started experiencing problems. It would freeze and need to be restarted, this happened many times. I had been in a state of deep relaxation and the atmosphere in the room was similar to what I would have termed the "presence of the holy spirit" when I was a born again. I had to keep asking myself if this was not a very lucid dream because my body felt so relaxed and yet the computer problems seemed so peculiar. it took about ten minutes before I could finally decide for sure that I was not dreaming. Part of the difficulty I think came from my hope that LD's could be that vivid. Which was also a little scary because if you were to be murdered in adream that vivid it would be sheer terror.

2) I was at a local beach just yesterday with my wife and asked her to bury me in the sand. As she is burying me (damn slowly I might add) I began feeling little bites on my arms which were the first parts to be totally buried. At first I thought nothing of it and then they really started to hurt. The second time I yanked my arm up out of the sand and looked where the pain was. I would have sworn that I saw a little maggot about 1/2 inch long, white body little black head sitting among the grains on my arm. Started I jumped up and wiped off my arm. So needless to say I don't usually think of there being maggots in the sand at the beach so I am down on my hands and knees rummaging through the sand trying to find another one. I could not do it. There are some explanations like dead seagull that got burried and the maggots were pervading the sand in that area but it also occurred to me that I may have just been pricked by sharp grains of sand and hallucinated the whole thing. We go to that beach pretty often so I may try a serious effort at finding the offending worm.