Actually, I believe I was home with some friends after the club, I had taken some MDMA (somewhere between 1-2 pills, which I did most weekends back then - about 2005 I think?). I had recently been seeing people's auras more consistently, and especially so with a little chemical assistance. That makes sense when you are careful enough with the MDMA to still get the visual effects and tracers... or, that's how I tried to explain it away because who would admit to such magikal thinking/experiences? I'd be looked at like a complete crackpot, or have the guys in white suits nab me for all kinds of experiments.
It's so weird, I remember some of that night, but how I went into a trance/oobe while sitting chatting with friends without anyone questioning my "departure", is still an unrevealed mystery to me. It took a long time for me to remember enough to put this much together, I denied and buried it so deep in my psyche.
I can't explain how I just trust the experience, it was more real than reality, how it helped consolidate all the bits of various religious and spiritual teachings I cherry picked parts of and how it seemed to provide situations to confirm whether I was on the right path (I always was, weird, I expected to get a few things wrong as I understand people can't always be right as much as I seem to be about these beliefs.
The recurring dream, that too is way more strange then I've let on as well - like the OP mentioned above, it would pick up from a left off spot, always one of three different scenes. The incredible part, though, was it was of a known past life I'd had, as a ~12 year old novice initiate in Eastern China, where I lived in a stepped pyramid temple in the forrested mountains. I spoke some Chinese dialect, both in my dream as well as outloud at the time. Even at 2and 3 years old you don't talk about this, but I later gathered enough courage to ask my mom if she remembered when I would speak a foreign language as a child. She remembered, bit I could see the disconcertment and fear as she confirmed it to me.
I seem to be tapped into some kind of extrasensory ability, as I've had times of telepathy and precognition/intuition. Everytime I look at the time it's always 1111 222 333 and on or 1414 1919 etc. (I use 24 hour time but spend time where other's do not.) Always it's some sequence lately.
The more I lean into this, the more the unexplainable happens. It's actually rather frightening. I was an atheist, believe in science and explanations for "magic" and other phenomena. But there've been too many signs and coincidences and just knowledge for ME to ignore it. I fully expect every other sane person to do just that, though

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I wouldn't buy it if someone else told me all this.