I can definitely relate. I had practiced transcendental meditation a while when I was younger, leading to an out of body experience, seeing a gold (or silver, i forget) cord connecting 'me' to my body.

I'll happily admit that I don't know if this was just my mind creating the experience versus it being objectively real, but the experience happened regardless.

I love the way the soul/energy and body relationship were explained in a babylon 5 episode, where the soul is a projection through our body: