The title may sound a little strange, but maybe it's not as strange as all that.
When I was almost 11 years old, I fell out of a tree I had climbed — some 30 feet or so — hit a thick branch with the small of my back on the way down, hit the ground with a thud... and I died right there.
I was without breathing or a heartbeat for about seven minutes, before I was "jump started" back into life.
Technically speaking, that was the second time I had been "dead," the first having been in the delivery room when I was born and arrived without a heartbeat and the umbilical cord wrapped several times around my neck.
Having been "dead" is one of the strange common traits I share with Mrs. Denmarkguy.
She died on the operating table as a child during an inner ear tumor removal where she evidently had responded far more to the anesthesia than the anesthesiologist had accounted for. She was "away from this life" for about ten minutes.
She "died" a second time, many years later, as a result of severe adrenal fatigue that briefly turned into adrenal failure.
Some people call these "Near Death Experiences," but I'm not too sure what's an appreopriate name for them.
What I do know about such events — from experience, not from reading a book or pop culture — is that they change you, in subtle ways. Exactly how varies widely from person to person.
It's not stuff you can really talk to people about, for fear that they will call for the white van with the padded interior and cart you off as a certified nuthatch. So you generally don't talk about it, except on rare occasions, with fellow NDE experiencers.
For me, it has been dreams. I never dreamed much as a kid, until I fell out of that tree. Then my dreams became stunningly vivid and weird, and always in full color. I would dream of things — and still do — that included imagery I have absolutely no idea where came from. some dreams became... precognitive or prophetic in extreme detail.
For Mrs. Denmarkguy, it was her intuition that went off the charts. She was already intuitive-to-the-point-of-almost-being-psychic and her NDEs dialed it up, off the charts. I won't say more than that because she prefers not to talk too much about it.
Anyway, I got to think about it this afternoon because I was sorting some old photos, including a couple from the property where I fell out of the tree.
It made me thing about just how much there is in the world that we totally do not have an understanding of.
I watch how advancements in technology and science rocket along, and I can't help but think that some of the things people tend to call "paranormal" now will simply be explained by science within the next 50 years or so. Perhaps including what happens in people's brains while they are "technically dead" and come back feeling like they are not quite as they were before...
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