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NDERF 2930 Pegi R NDE 6164 - Childhood Drowning
https://nderf.org/Experiences/1pegi_r_nde.html
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2012
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At age five, Pegi experienced a drowning incident that she wouldn't consciously remember until her early twenties. On a hot summer day, she went with her mother, sister Teri, and brother John to swim in a pond. Being the youngest and unable to swim like her older siblings, she could only dog paddle. She found a floating board and used it as a raft to paddle to the center of the pond, proudly calling for her seven-year-old brother John to witness her accomplishment. John quickly swam out and took the board away from her, causing her to sink immediately. She began kicking, screaming, and swallowing water while trying to get her head above the surface, becoming disoriented about which direction was up as the dark water looked the same in all directions.
Suddenly, Pegi found she could breathe underwater, feeling completely fine and fascinated by this discovery. She thought her parents had lied about drowning and was amazed that she could breathe underwater without difficulty. The water transformed from dark to a beautiful, shiny transparent light green. Fish swam directly in front of her face, bumping into her suspended body as if she were just another object in their environment. She watched in wonder as they opened and closed their mouths, studying their fins closely. This was remarkable because she and her siblings could never catch fish with their bare hands when their father was fishing, yet now the fish treated her as harmless. She felt herself rising in the water and developed a unique dual vision - able to see both underwater and above water simultaneously, like a white egg being dipped in Easter egg coloring. From an elevated perspective above the pond, Pegi observed her mother and sister sitting on a bedsheet on the bank, talking together unconcerned. She felt intense anger that she had drowned and they didn't even care, feeling excluded and unloved. On the opposite side of the pond, she saw her brother John on her board, feeling a rage beyond what a child should experience - an adult man's rage at the injustice. Her next memory was awakening while draped over John's shoulder as he carried her to the house, vomiting water down his back. Her mother, walking ahead with Teri, showed relief when she saw Pegi was conscious. John asked if he could put her down, and the incident ended without further discussion. This experience remained completely suppressed until Pegi was in her early twenties, when it suddenly crashed into her consciousness while looking at the night sky. When she asked family members about it, her mother said she thought another one of her children had died that day, her sister recalled it happened, and her brother remembered getting in trouble. The recovered memory revealed profound insights about her family dynamics and the reality of consciousness existing beyond the physical body. The ability to perceive others' thoughts and emotions during the experience, along with the impossible underwater breathing and dual vision, provided early evidence of consciousness surviving bodily death.
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Drowning incident, loss of consciousness, vomiting water upon revival
Underwater breathing experience, dual vision capability, observation of family from above pond
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