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When I was six, me and my sister had chickenpox. I can remember waking up during the night with a fever and feeling thirsty. I continually 'walked' to the bathroom, touched the cold tap and started to drink from the tap and straight away was flung back to being back in bed feeling more thirsty. This happened at least five times.
When I was in my mid-twenties, my partner came home from work saying there was a baby seal stranded on the beach. I drove to the beach in NE Scotland and the *seal was still there. I ever so carefully touched it's tail to see if it was responsive and it bit me on my middle finger. I washed the tiny pin prick 'wound' and bathed it all night in neat disinfectant.
Seven days later I started to be ill. Really very ill. I spent four months in hospital. I remember a consultant sitting on the end of my bed most of the night, talking of how she thought she'd somehow failed. I came so close to death, my elderly parents drove the 360 miles to visit. At my worst, I remember leaving my body and floating to the far left corner of the single room I was now in. Then I remember feeling angry that this isn't really happening. I then felt as though I was sitting on the floor looking at myself.
Thirty years later, I have had quite a lot of operations. When I am feeling very ill, I quite frequently find myself at the top of the stairs and will 'snap' back into my body.
I believe that this is just the effects of being ill and nothing supernatural. However when my mum passed away with Covid in 2021, she was also in a single hospital room. A few moment before she died, she pointed to my sister and me about the light in the top right hand corner of her room.
It would be nice to believe in an afterlife, as it does make life so much easier. Unfortunately, I believe that the above is simply our brain misfiring?
*Baby seal was fine btw. I managed to get a phone number for the NE Scotland Seal Rescue - they really exist - and they did the same test that I did and he said the seal was simply tired and it would swim out when the tide came in. He was correct.