What death felt like

A little bit after my 28th birthday I went to get a regular blood draw. I always had issues around my blood draws, usually just fainting after the procedure was over, nothing too crazy.

I went in as usual and prepared my arm, the draw went a little longer than usual, I needed more blood than usual for some reason, and I began to fall asleep.

The sleep was not like normal sleep, it felt so warm, I immediately started to dream of my childhood and warm colors and sights, I could hear my mother (who was very much alive and healthy at the time of writing) call to me.

It felt like many bedside death descriptions of those who felt like it was actually their time. I think my brain tricked itself into running the death scripts protocol.

When I was awoken by the nurse, it had literally been one second, but it felt like 8 hours had passed in my head.

I got my apple juice and sat a bit for monitoring, I didn’t even get all my blood drawn.

it felt unreal, it felt scary, but it was also reassuring that you won’t notice when you die.