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Once I was lifeless on the ground, after a fall, my neighbors and parents came near to check how I was...
I was bathed in the most extreme living light one could imagine...
I was walking with my granddad and two dogs on leads...
I had been twenty-one years old for about one month...
It was April 2006 and I was driving home from an event at my school going about 140 kmh in my car when I lost control...
I was living with a girl who I loved very much...
I do not very often share my experience not because it was not real but because I cannot make people understand the depths of what it meant to me and I feel they make light of it...
It happened one lovely summer night in a small town of northern Spain...
I had been operated on for a gastric problem and awoke from the anesthesia in the intensive care unit...
At the age of sixteen I had an experience which on the one hand I thought was beautiful but on the other hand it was rather frightening...
I was coughing up fluid from my lungs, which had accumulated in my windpipe...
I was in surgery to repair a broken hip...
