Usually I say the Rosary out loud, but today I had some phlegm in my throat and was too lazy to spit it out, so I decided to say the prayers mentally.  I don't like to do this because I like to hear the words being pronounced.  In my mind they come out all garbled, probably because I let them tumble out instead of really thinking them through.

This was happening again tonight.  I was just kind of churning out the prayers in my mind, but I wanted each one to register solidly.  At about this moment, another mental voice overtook my own -- a deeper, more resonant one.  It began to say the prayers very, very slowly.  But each time I tried to rush the voice, it refused.  It would not be hurried.  And I had to go at its pace, the same way that someone with OCD has to flip the lightswitch five times each time he passes by.  If I didn't follow the voice, it would have felt like I was disobeying an order.

I followed the voice along, doing whatever it wanted, knowing that if it were a demonic visitation it wouldn't have been increasing my piety, restraining my impatience, and helping my devotion improve.  Often when I say the Rosary, without knowing it, I'm like a factory worker counting the minutes until his shift is over.  I am saying the prayers with more duty than love, or with a forced love.  This time I was in a sort of trance.  By the time I got to the Visitation, I was almost able to mentally smell the spicy leaves of a tree that Mary walked by on her way to Elizabeth's house.  There were moments that I didn't want to end ( although other moments where I was still impatient ).

For some reason, the voice hurried the "Our Father" along, but every other prayer was said exceedingly slow.  Towards the final prayers, suddenly the voice disappeared and was replaced with my own higher, reedier voice, but at the same pace.

I have the feeling that the Holy Ghost just taught me to say the Rosary directly, since I have no one else to help me.  I didn't check when I began, but I think it took about twice as long to get through the Joyful Mysteries as usual.  It's almost like I never really understood the Rosary until now.  

Try to say the Rosary SLOW -- 40 minutes for one set of mysteries.  It is like having an impatient, restive heart doused with cooling water.  I never realized before just how impatient that I really am when saying prayers.  This is only the beginning of the improvements that I need to make.

  Praying in hurry is demonic??

  As an OCD person I do exactly the opposite. In order to distract myself from unwanted thoughts, I focus on the words, their sounds and my lips movements. I actually choose noisy places for prayer to get rid of my bad thoughts.

When I say the rosary, I feel that I have gone to Heaven.

 Praying in hurry is demonic??

Catholics are to pray REVERENTLY.

 As an OCD person I do exactly the opposite. In order to distract myself from unwanted thoughts, I focus on the words, their sounds and my lips movements. I actually choose noisy places for prayer to get rid of my bad thoughts.

If you have the problem of being distracted, another thing that might help is listening to chant while you pray the rosary. What's nice about chant is not only is it meant to uplift the soul in prayer to God, but also, unlike music in our own language, the Latin is a bit less distracting because it IS foreign, so the mind doesn't seem to get caught up on it as much... or at least that has been my experience.

I used to sometimes do the same thing as you when my interior distractedness was TOO bad, because the fight to focus over some noise seemed at least to focus my mind toward that direction. But I think praying to good "noise" like chant was much better. It was calming instead of irritating like fighting to keep out worldly noise is, and as I said, chant naturally helps us TOWARD a prayerful state.

Just an idea. Fortunately, we all know someone who just happens to sell chant, too.  :rolleyes:

I am bothered by just having to rattle through the words and so I don't particularly like joining in public rosaries. But that's just me.

Those are my sentiments exactly.  I think they try to imitate the liturgical prayer of the priest and it just comes out badly, mitigating against the spirit of prayer.  

Whether from heaven or hell or if it was just something in your own head, not important. What's important is just that you prayed the rosary. Ask the Blessed Mother and your Guardian Angel to protect and watch over you before you pray next time. Then I wouldn't give it any further thought.