"Have you ever had a similar experience? If so please share in the comments what your goal (if any was), how you obtained it (to whatever degree), and what it was like. I look forward to reading them!"

Regularly. Where do I even begin?

Well, I did a post on the short and long term side effects of doing what you described doing:

https://steemit.com/philosophy/@zero-infinity/heart-chakra

And then that inspired @in2itiveart to write an interesting post on how her heart chakra got activated.

https://steemit.com/philosophy/@in2itiveart/how-my-heart-chakra-got-activated