When I woke later that afternoon, I was shocked to discover that I was still alive.

….Because I could not identify the position of my body in space, I felt enormous and expansive, like a genie just liberated from her bottle. And my spirit soared free, like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria. Nirvana. I found Nirvana. And I remember thinking: there’s no way I would ever be able to squeeze the enormousness of myself back inside this tiny little body.