6/10/2009
by Mari Luz

I was playing a game of basketball at school, when the ball left the court. I ran towards it, picked it up and turned my head in order to throw the ball, which is when I struck my temple on an iron bar. This is where my experience began.

I was looking down on the whole schoolyard from above, as though floating in the air, and could see my fellow-players weeping and crying out. I was to their right, the teacher had his back to me, kneeling over a girl who was laid out on the ground. Approaching, I asked what was going on, but nobody answered me. The teacher was shaking her and slapping her with the palm of his hand on her face, and at this point I realised that the girl on the ground being slapped was me. I had my mouth open and my eyes were open too, but vacant. The teacher (at the same time as he tried to revive me) was shouting, Oh my God, Oh my God, wake up... From my position (above and to the right of the whole scene) I could see everything that happened over the whole schoolyard with great clarity, the children and the people by the fence. (I heard) their comments about what was happening, could see children going in and out of the playground, cars passing by... when suddenly I found myself in darkness where something or someone was drawing me to them, and the closer I got the more comfortable I felt. My "pleasure" intensified to the highest degree the further I drew away from life, I realised, and so I wanted to come back.

I woke up and the first thing I asked was how were my mouth and my eyes.

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