It wasn't for long. I had swam into the middle of the pool and didn't have the energy to get back. After struggling, taking on water and the like, I ended up floating to the bottom, looking up through the water, not moving or struggling at all. It was twilight out so it was quite dark, but the last thing I saw before closing my eyes, was the water breaking on top as someone dived in. The next thing I remember was waking up coughing out water on the side of the pool.
My first words: "Don't tell my mum"
I guess you didn't black out long enough for anything to happen. I think about this more as I get older, is this it? If so.., it's pretty crap!
Perhaps - but what I was happy with was the sense of calm. Once I stopped struggling, it was serene, peaceful and I felt total acceptance.
Life might be just a fade to black (I think it is), but that just means that we should put more attention into how we spend our consciousness. Some people think this means to live hedonistically, but I think that is a waste as, that experience ends too, with nothing created for anyone else to experience. Perhaps the goal is to improve the experiences of others to come - build a better world so that their consciousness can be better used to improve for the next iteration. To me, this seems like an evolutionary process that nature would "choose" to improve its systems.
That last part.., they all feel that. A few more seconds and that white light might have appeared. Maybe you were not there for long enough?
My missus also had one, and met someone dead (who had recently deceased).
'its not your time, you need to go back', they said. The accounts are strikingly similar.
There is definitely some weirdness that goes on and I would have liked to have experienced the white light of it. For me though, there is no usefulness in thinking about an afterlife, whilst still alive and find it better to take the position of fade to black.