I was in a backyard pool (with a deep end) at a
swimming party for our Brownie group. Playing with a beach ball a
friend accidentally hit me in the face and I went under water. I was
told that my mother saw me and tried to get someone's attention, but
then I looked like I was ok. I wasn't. I had struggled up to the
surface three times, and then had a very warm, comfortable feeling that
everything was going to be fine. I saw what I thought was the sun
sparkling on the surface of the water, then suddenly the water was gone
and I was moving toward a figure. Before I got to the person, I had a
flash of things that had happened in my life. As short as it was at the
time, and can recall three or four things that happened when I was an
infant (ivy wallpaper, getting my hair washed, having my tonsils out, my
first dog dying, etc.), but there was only a happy feeling, nothing
sad. I could then see that the man had a funny hat and the most
beautiful face. He smiled at me and seemed to say that it wasn't time
yet, but I kept close to him because it felt so comforting to me.
During
this unspoken communication, I was suddenly jolted back by a hard
pressure on my chest, and then I was floating above a scene by the side
of the pool. My mother was crying and kneeling over me while my
friend's brother was pushing on my back. It seemed like it lasted for a
long time, but I saw several people doing things that I remembered to
be strange, as I was 'treetop level' in the yard, (there was only an
avocado tree in the yard, not a tall one). At that moment, I came
whooshing back into my body, feeling like I couldn't breathe. Back to
reality.
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