"Going down for the third time" and "your life passing before your eyes" are nonsense -- at least in my experience. How did you get into trouble? How did you get out?
Yep! I slipped off the dock on the Sacramento river when I was real young and almost drowned. The only thing that saved me was the Captain's hat I had on tightly and it held air and my Uncle dove in and grabbed me. Learned to swim right after that. Funny how after all of these years, I still remember it vividly.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 20, 2017 2:28 PM MST
Yes I did when I was young. I was pushed into the water and panic set in. That was a big mistake for the person trying to help. I almost drowned both of us. To this day, I don't go near the water.
I was about 11 or 12 hadn't learned to swim yet wading in a gravel pit when I stepped into a hole finding myself struggling to get my head above water. Was not able to. I had not inhaled any water yet; still fully conscious. I experienced this vision of myself floating through a long room seeing myself in detail from the present to infancy. At the end of the room there was no wall, was like a portal to 'the unknown' from where I could not return. "I'm not ready (for that) yet!" At that point I calmed down and let myself sink to the bottom of the hole which was not really that deep and simply tip toed out.
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