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Ok, i'm looking for some interpretations here... i was experiencing a time in the future where people were fighting with each other for survival.. kind of a post apocalyptic society. I lost a fight with a woman warrior and was stabbed in the back several times with a spear. I literally felt the pain, but it wasn't painful.... I died and my soul or essence or inner self (whichever label you want to give it) left that body without fear and automatically or instinctively floated into another body in the same scenario and i continued the "story" i was interacting with several other people or "characters" before and after my "death" I've never had this kind of situation before and i'm looking for opinions on what it could have been. it seemed like reality of some sort.....
Well, I don't know about the other users, but I'm afraid I'm might not be able to help as I've never heard of something like this before.
The only explanation I can think of, is that you had a lucid dream that you didn't quite got control of.
Although I don't know what kind of technique you use, I noticed that a lot of people, myself included, would have an intense realistic dream while trying to project. I think this is the consequence of failing in the attempt, since all the times this happened I 'd soon wake up.
Now, I think the reason for this, is that somehow our unconscious mind knows we're going to fail this one attempt for whatever reason, and promptly shifts the focus in another similar activity, once we're already in a hypnagogic state anyways, thus commencing the lucid dream.
Usually when this happens to me the dreams are all related to astral projection. It's so real when it happens, in the dream I start to think that I'm projected.
I don't know for sure if that's your case, but this is the only explanation I could think of, sorry to not be of much help.