Special Relativity. Lifetime.

[Athene]

Did you read up on this particular technique or did you just "stumble" upon it yourself?

Because I feel inclined to suggest that all of these lights you're seeing (even in simply walking to the kitchen) may actually be a sign or symptom of any number of physical ailments or disease processes. Have you shared any of this with an MD in an attempt to rule such possibilities out?

Anyway, go on. 
Your non-physical eyelids open, and then what?

That was my first big experience. After I jolted back to reality I found I was still in front of the TV and a friend of mine was laughing. So I wasn't even going to the kitchen. I didn't talk much after that but later that day said what happened. I was told my eyes were open and I looked spaced out for a while before jolting.

If I had witnessed that (seemingly unwilled) event as you've recounted it, I would've considered the possibility that you'd had a seizure of some type. A sudden disconnected, "spaced out" look in which someone appears to be awake but is no longer responsive to normal stimuli can be a sign of seizure activity within the brain--Most people just to tend to associate seizures with the dramatic tonic-clonic jerking of major epileptic episodes.

I assumed that happened to you as a child, as you did mention it occurred when you were very young. Whatever happened to you as a kid could've been an isolated event and due to any number of causes, but if you're continuing to have similar experiences to this day, I think it would be in your best interest to relay those symptoms to a physician and get checked out--whether it provides a pathway to dimensional travel or not.

I later stumbled into what sounds like meditation. I don't drink much and got quite drunk. When laying in bed I started seeing lights in the darkness of my eyelids. Speckles of light and mists of colours. I laid there and watched them.

The next morning I was thinking about the lights and of my prior experience of seeing lights I couldn't explain. I also thought about how quiet my mind was. No thoughts for a long time. I have a busy mind so that was new to me. I started doing 30 minute to around one hour sessions of just closing my eyes and looking. It was peaceful having my mind was completely still. Selfless. Then I started seeing dark on dark as in shadowy shapes in the darkness. Then I started seeing the lights again.

One day a white light appeared and it was different than others I had seen. I started often seeing the white light after that. It seemed alive how it would advance and retreat but I think it was my focus that was making it retreat. Then one day it was getting closer and suddenly rushed right up close and filled my whole vision. That's when I could see all the colours swirling around in its centre.
I gave into the light and let it do whatever. That's when my eyelids opened.

I thought nothing had happened until I got up and started walking then started feeling strange and freaked out a bit again. Closed my eyes and ended up back where I started so found I had not even gotten up. It took me few goes at it and I wouldn't look behind me because thinking about seeing myself creeps me out. Returning was done by closing my non-physical eyes and looking for reality.

I found my surroundings are where I am until I venture out. Then it changes and was the same each time. Its a forest. With people there. 
They were just sitting or wandering around. I avoided them but would try to see if I recognise them but didn't. I thought I have seen a lot of pictures in my lifetime and my subconscious would have taken in a lot of faces.
It later got strange after something happened to me there that made me decide to start talking to them.
Not sure if I should say. Sounds pretty weird.

If it makes you deeply uncomfortable to talk about it, then I guess not. But if you're simply hesitant because you think it'll make you seem silly and cause people to doubt you, then I'd submit that such is already the case in some folk's minds, so so what? I'm interested in hearing  the rest, and I reckon a few others might be too. All skeptics aren't interested in shouting down claims without hearing them through. Real or imagined...you're leaving out the best part of the story, and perhaps the most compelling reason to give your technique a whirl.

Continue please, if it's not too upsetting for you.