Far Out, Man
When I was 4 I had surgery and I remember them putting a breathing apparatus over my nose. It smelled funny so I started breathing through my mouth. The doctors instructed me to breathe through my nose in English, but I didn’t speak English yet at that age.
This was 40 years ago and there wasn’t really any multilanguage people around at that time, especially doctors. In my memory, I followed this instruction, and everything turned black fairly quickly. I was conscious, but in pure blackness.
Like I was floating in space all alone, but with no stars or planets, etc…just blackness. I remember thinking thoughts to myself. It was completely silent. I was all alone, but at peace and not scared.
Then suddenly I felt a buzz and I was in my hospital bed with those round sticky monitors/ sensor things all over my body.
Story credit: Reddit / Oliver_Klosov