I never knew what remote viewing was, but when I heard the term i immediately was reminded of some experience i had that felt like exactly that. However, I never had any target, and a scene would come, is this remote viewing, or what is it? according to some of the descriptions on this site, it doesn't seem to be quite the same. an example,

I was laying in a pitch black room, eyes partially closed, open or closed it was pure darkness. I saw these squiggly lines/lights behind your eyelids when you close your eyes, I decided to watch them and see what they do. I was not sleepy.
Without intention, the lines came together and began to form a shape, like a square, it was small and distant. I wanted to focus on the square and in an instant the square zoomed in from far away, opening up like a window on the computer but zooming in rapidly, so that I was now staring into a room as though my face had went into a TV screen. There was no color, everything was dark, and the lines behind my eyes had now created an outline and silhouette of a typical living room, there was a couch, table, object hanging on the table, and i could see a glow from another room. there was nothing happening, I was staring into a dark room and it was like my eyes were adjusting to the dark. Something glittered on the couch and then I noticed someone was sitting there, it was a girl and her eyes were staring at me, and though I couldn't see her face her behavior was cautious and even nervous. It was as though she could see me or sense i was there but i was not physically there and couldn't speak to her, she shifted slowly to the other side of the couch and then cautiously exited the scene.
after she walked off, i couldn't move the scene to follow her and the room remained empty for a few seconds before suddenly it zoomed out, back to random darkness and then opened my eyes. during the entire 'viewing' i was physically aware of the bed under me and had no sensation of 'waking up', it was just the feeling of opening my eyes after closing them, and i had not fallen asleep. is this remote viewing? i know the different between lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and other complex sorts of dream states but this was not a dreaming state at all in comparison and i could not manipulate any part of it with any thought/feeling, it was just like watching a show on tv.

i have many other questions related to remote viewing and different levels of consciousness, also have reoccurring experiences of a malicious unidentifiable (sometimes identifiable) entity during certain states of consciousness, especially in the paralysis dream-state which is very intense, but will ask about them later i suppose. I am not religious and don't participate in any worship or spiritual practices..