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Did you get the self evaluating "life before your eyes" feeling? I have once (its a bit embarrassing, but I nearly choked on a 1 dollar coin, and I wasn't young
by michaelneale 18y ago
Did you get the self evaluating "life before your eyes" feeling? I have once (its a bit embarrassing, but I nearly choked on a 1 dollar coin, and I wasn't young enough for that to be a realistic possibility) - but I remember despair and then acceptance and then it was like a dream. All in about 30 seconds of not breathing... I would never have believed it had I not experienced it.
The funny thing was, while I was "thinking" all this, my hands were actively pressing my chest as hard as they could which eventually dislodged it, but I have no memory of doing that.
- swombat 18y agoNo, I didn't actually. My mind was literally just a loop of the terrifying thought "I'm about to die", with nothing else, apart from a very persistent soundtrack (a progressive house tune, one of my favourites at the time, that kept going through my head for the following 45 minutes). I think the music was part of my brain's attempt to keep me calm and focused. Once I started moving, the soundtrack continued, but the loop was gone.
- biohacker42 18y agoThanks for sharing your stories guys, great stuff. But when you're old and telling your respective stories to your grandkids replace dollar coin with prime rib and progressive house tune with Beethoven's 9th. Cheers
- michaelneale 18y agoThanks for the tip. I was going to replace it with wrestling a terrorist or something like that... let it get embellished over time. What an embarrassing way to go...