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I don't know if I would classify it as dying and coming back to life, but Its certainly something that's had me to this day -knowing- there's more to the world than we see and 'know' to exist, but Im still clueless as to what that really is. Heres my story.
When I was about 13 I went horseback riding (trail riding) with my family in wyoming. From the first minute I started I had a terrible feeling about the entire endeavor, and it proved all too true of intuition later on. On our way down a very steep, narrow, and winding path working its way down a very sloped patch of open grass it happened.
We never found out why but for some reason or another my horse panicked and took off running, aborting following the path and just going diving down the slope with me still on board. What followed was me eventually falling off, shattering my left arm from the fall and falling/rolling down another 250 ft of the mountain slope before I slammed into a tree and stopped. Thats what my family tells me happened, that's what the eyewitnesses say happened. Thats not what I Remember.
What I remember is as the horse took off my vision began to blur, and somewhere along the line of this fall I got the sensation that I can only describe as all the air being sucked out of my body, but it was more than air...its like my body was flying down the hill and something else was holding a part of me back. I hate to compare, but it was like my soul/spirit was being pulled out through my back as I flew down the mountainside.
The next thing I remember, while brief, was I was looking down from above, the horse running quickly down the mountainside. I wasn't on the horse, but I can't honestly say I remember seeing my body at all. What I do remember is that in comparison to where my body -would- have been at the time, I was up in the sky, to my body's right, at about the height that you would get from sitting atop a full grown tree I watched.
People speak of lights and a tunnel when they 'cross over'. While I don't really remember seeing a singular bright light or a tunnel, I do remember that all the colors were -very- vibrant and bright, much more so than they would have been normally. The only thing I can compare it to is when you've been in the dark all day and go out into the bright sun. For the first few seconds EVERYTHING is washed in a massive amount of light which slowly fades as your eyes adjust.
There was no sound, complete silence, no screaming or the thunder of hooves or anything like that. I just 'floated' here and watched for, as I remember it, about 30 seconds. The next thing I remember a weird sense of 'awakening'. It was like I had opened my eyes and rejoined my body. It was obvious I had been moving and talking with the people that found me on the mountainside, but I hadn't been aware of it. In fact I stopped mid sentence when I 'woke' because I had no idea what was going on.
Long story, sorry, but that's the closest I've come.
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