✦Description
The 'rush': an overwhelming sensation of acceleration and forward (or upward) motion — being pulled, sucked, launched or elevatored at unimaginable speed through a tunnel, vortex or stack of dimensional layers. Often paired with a rising vibratory tone and a feeling of the body's 'vibratory rate' climbing. Travelers report a 'dimensional elevator' that rises through successive vistas, each opening a chance to exit; or a tornado/typhoon of sensation that sweeps them under. The visual correlate is streaming radial motion — walls of pattern flying past — typically resolving at the far end into the waiting room or breakthrough space.
✦What the sources say
'Acceleration, Acute' — 'a constantly rising, accelerating vibration felt through the entire body'; 'Dimensional Elevator' — a small rising space 'ascending through a multitude of higher & extra dimensional spaces,' opening periodically on new vistas.
39% (14/36) described intense sensory onset events — 'it came like a typhoon over me' and being 'in the middle of a tornado, everything was going at unimaginable speed.'
Volunteers reported 'a startlingly rapid onset' and a sense of consciousness being separated from and rushed away from the body.
Questions
What is Zooming / Rushing Tunnel Flight?
The 'rush': an overwhelming sensation of acceleration and forward (or upward) motion — being pulled, sucked, launched or elevatored at unimaginable speed through a tunnel, vortex or stack of dimensional layers. Often paired with a rising vibratory tone and a feeling of the body's 'vibratory rate' climbing. Travelers report a 'dimensional elevator' that rises through successive vistas, each opening
Is there research on Zooming / Rushing Tunnel Flight?
The tunnel-with-forward-flow percept corresponds to Klüver's tunnel/funnel form constant animated by expanding concentric activity in V1; the retinocortical map renders outward-spreading cortical excitation as motion toward or through a central aperture.