Thank you very much for the responses guys. I'd never seen "The Inner Light" before, I see the similarity, although I suspect that the trope of living someone else's long life in a brief vision has probably been told many times. And I do particularly like the descriptor 'tactile'. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but I really do like transformation writing that includes a lot of sensory language. You've given me another way to look at and improve my writing.
