Eight minutes it takes to come to ...

There's a tingling sense of deep cold dissipated with a softly whispered spell,
... approximately seventy four rose thorns of ice ...
... thaw into nonexistence ...
No messengers come, expectation of puzzling source stings unfulfilled,
... oppressing question defying articulation,
weighs down the buzz of wakening,
and eventually turns into sense of earth below ...
Breath scared off by the sudden attention it receives,
darkness only just realised reseeds and first glimpse of a thought enters mind, followed by a flood.
... where, why, feels different than it should ...
... must not wake up. must wait for the memory to catch up ...
... 'please settle down, it's just panic nothing else'
... who's panic
Eventually reason prevails over fear and you open your eyes.

You see a circle of light at about an arms length above you. You aren't sure whether it's changing colour or just becoming brighter.

From there on everyone's experience differs.

You have been revived from stasis and you know that it will take a while to come back to your selves. Meanwhile there's a great unknown around and no way back to the time when you slept. You've been born again to live out another purpose.
You're light years away from your home and you have slept through the rest of lives of everyone you left behind.
... Take with you an item of clothing you only wore at home, you'll find that it's the only home you'll need ...

Some feel melancholic, some are scared and some sad. Non's ever reported to have felt happy.
Every journey's end feels should deserve a certain sense of content.
This one doesn't. Or maybe just haven't yet.
No one has yet travelled it more then three times as it's considered unethical and possibly dangerous.

They call them selves the free.
you travel once you shed your lineage.
you travel two times you shed your place as you lose your chance to ever go back.
you travel three times you have lost all regret.
Third time most lose parts of their memory too. They'd never say they forgot, they say they only just stopped remembering what they didn't need to.

'Aliens From Earth' were the headlines
But that was long ago.