You might be interested in Samuel Sagan's book "Entity Possession", or Edith Fiori's "Unquiet Dead". You may have been picking up :hitchhikers".  A quick check is to look inside and ask if anyone else is in there with you. If so, anyone good at past life regression should be able to help get rid of them. The IBRT site has names of Board Certified PLT workers.

Most of us have a few strays lurking in the background. They're usually frightened, uncomfortable, and earthbound, while their hosts are usually OK. You might use a standard retrieval method to investigate.

dave

Thank you Dave and Lights of Love for your replies 

I hadn't considered that the 'mass' might have been a hitchhiker/separate entity. I love God and don't have any obvious dark side lurking within me so, if present, the 'influence' isn't an evil one thankfully. I have done as you suggested, looked inside and asked if anyone else is in there with me, but nothing. I don't feel as though there is either but am going to research this further, thank you.

Lights of Love, I had considered the 'mass' may have been my astral body returning into my physical body. I somehow managed to fall asleep with the cramp and I wondered if the pain had caused me to leave my body. However, all the accounts I have read about OOB experiences describe rising above and observing the physical body from a distance whereas I would have been in my physical body observing the 'astral' body - is that possible? I haven't read anything like it  ??? Also, that would not account for the second time it happened.

Lights of Love, you suggested what I experienced may have been healing light coming from my guidance. the 'mass' was white (first time) and coloured (second time) but it was not a bright light. I did not feel anything as such when it happened to be honest. I woke because I sensed something moving towards me, I saw it, then observed it fall into my body (I didn't FEEL it enter my body). I cried out aloud in shock waking others in the room who asked me if I was alright. I lay awake for a while and then fell back asleep. Neither my body nor spirit felt any different. I had been in emotional distress for some considerable time prior to the experience, however - my mother had commited suicide and I was being bullied, though I stress this did happen and I wasn't imagining it (I wasn't under that much duress). I did not feel love, as often reported when visited by loved ones.

My experience doesn't seem to be one regularly had by others as I haven't come across anyone else in life or on boards such as this who recognise what it was which is a shame as I would like to know as part of my own spiritual journey.

May I ask what your friend experienced while sitting at his kitchen table? Did he see, or did he feel his mother - or both?

Thank you Lucy, that was a very helpful reply and I shall do as you suggest.