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I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
I was walking around the baby pool...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I remember my mother rushing toward me with a terrified look on her face...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
My experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
I'm not sure if time slowed down, or that my thoughts and cognitive processes were so incredibly fast...
This experience happened sometime between the time I lost control of my motorcycle and three and half days later when I came out of the coma...
It was a Friday and I stayed home from work, feeling like I had the flu...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
