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My experience occurred the summer of '87 or '88, when I was 18 or 19 years old...
My husband and I both woke up with a jolt at the same time in the night...
Nine years ago, I was busy putting on makeup in the restroom before going to work...
The experience began as a dream...
Before this event (days of this very enlightened feeling, actually) I had extensive counseling for depression...
In my dream experience I was made aware (as it has often happened lately) of the mystical state of being a single point of consciousness about to be born...
My memories are of Pre-Birth...
I am going to turn 62...
So I was driving home and on a little road by night, at one moment I just became more and more aware of the world and of my life and while I was asking questions, the answers were immediate...
The first night at home I was so tired that I don't remember anything...
I experienced something more real than Earth, Heaven or Hell, and something beyond any religion...
I was having open-heart surgery...
