The man, known only as James T, claims the incident occurred in 1968 when he was just four-years-old. His story was published by the Near-Death Experience Foundation blog, in which he revealed he “can recall every detail as if it had just happened.”
He said: “People seem quite surprised that I remember something from that age. I would have to agree.
“There isn’t much else I could say, but a traumatic event like drowning tends to burn itself into your mind.”
And despite the unsurprisingly initial “unpleasant” nature of the experience, he swiftly entered a state of nirvana.
He said: “Before I took that breath of water, I simply abandoned my life, psychologically, and in that letting go, was immediately embraced with the most profound sense of peace and calm.
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“I always thought it must be like being in your mother’s womb, the sense of weightlessness, floating in this perfect fluid that had no sense of temperature; it simply matched that of my whole being.
“And a comforting, quiet, dull white hum of a noise.
“Every sense felt this perfect comfort of an absolute love and belonging. I simply became this perfect white light.”
Fortunately, it was at this point he was apparently saved by a neighbour, leading him to cough-up water.
“When the heart stops, all life processes go out because there is no blood getting to the brain, to the kidneys, and liver and we become lifeless and motionless and that is the time that doctors use to give us a time of death.
“People describe a sensation of a bright, warm, welcoming light that draws people towards it.
“They describe a sensation of experiencing their deceased relatives, almost as if they have come to welcome them. They often say that they didn’t want to come back (to life) in many cases, it is so comfortable and it is like a magnet that draws them that they don’t want to come back.
“A lot of people describe a sensation of separating from themselves and watching doctors and nurses working on them.”
