I gotta admire your staying power!
I've also had my fair share of strange experiences. I want to try to explain the experiences I have had in scientific terms, otherwise, to some extent, they are meaningless. Unless we can find ways to pass these experiences on, and explain the underlying processes, the public at large will never accept the concepts. It is important to maintain a certain rigor in describing them, or they will be dismissed. That does not mean they are not real to you. To me, a huge part of the experience of life is struggling to explain how the magical and the mystical experiences we undergo actually work.
I've had a few beers. It's late. Please forgive me if I make no sense!
*sorry to go off standard TMA topic