Thank you for writing this interesting and engaging story. I also read similar case studies when studying parapsychology. My hypothesis of such incidents relate to the exceptional use reticular activating system (RAS) which I explained in a story. I link it here for interested readers.

https://medium.com/sensible-biohacking-transhumanism/the-secret-to-leveraging-ras-to-accomplish-dreams-with-less-effort-40197d2a1083