Expansion of consciousness and perceptions

I had an interesting experience yesterday night which on hindsight, seemed to be regarding the expansion of my consciousness and perceptions. These experiences are infrequent but are definitely not unfamiliar. They’ve been going on for about eight years or so, and while I’d wondered last time what kind of delusional experience I was having, I understand more of what it is now.

What happened last night was that I was at a dimly-lit diner with the guy whom I work for. We usually meet for about three hours or so to work on his stories (I edit for him). Around an hour or so into our work, we took a break and were chatting, when I suddenly felt my mind/brain go fuzzy. As I continued staring at the guy, it was as if the fabric of space around his form was pulled towards me, and everything enlarged as a sort of perspective-alignment; his face seemed to be sucked away, seemed to shrink. Yet, both the space around him and his face also stayed the same dimensions.

It was a very very big struggle to focus my mind enough to work on the editing discussion for the next hour or so. After work, I walked home and felt the dimension I’m in being very insubstantial. My mind wasn’t in my head. It took effort to function in this world.

I passed by a small park on my way home and saw a black cat lounging on the ground. At the first glance of it, I jumped and then stared hard at it for a few minutes. In my head, I was asking myself what a monster like that was doing in our world. Again, on hindsight, it was perhaps the ‘wrong’ question to ask (even though it was perfectly legitimate at that time). I understand that my consciousness had expanded to include other dimensions, and that the cat in other dimensions was a ‘monster.’ Because my mind wasn’t focused on our three-dimensional world anymore, I felt as if the ‘monster’ had intruded into ‘my’ world, when in fact, I’d expanded to be conscious of other dimensions where the cat was in fact also a monster.

I’ve had some other experiences like this one, but dealing with spatial dimensions and stuff.

I wonder how I can use this expansion of consciousness to my advantage…