Margot Grey – Return from Death

I was very ill and had great difficulty breathing.  One evening I woke about 9 o'clock from sleep realising something was prompting me to wake up and I realised I could not breathe.  My eyes were popping out of my head and I was awake I was being asphyxiated.  I can remember trying to rouse my sister who was asleep in the same room with me, but as I couldn't breathe this wasn't possible.  I told myself to relax and accept that I was unable to breathe and just lay there waiting to die.  By this time I was unable to close my eyes.

Then I realised that I was starting to move upwards towards the ceiling and I thought I was going to bang myself on the  ceiling at any minute and turned to avoid hitting the ceiling and as I did so I saw myself lying on the bed and I thought I looked very ill, terrible with great bags under my eyes.

I felt weightless and I somehow moved through the ceiling which was no longer important.  I was aware of going faster and faster.  I wasn't frightened, but I wondered where I was going.  Suddenly I heard a stern make voice above me which said

'Get back, get back in there'.

With that I found myself back in bed in a split second.  I have no idea how I got there but I gasped for breath and sat up coughing blood.  I managed to rouse my sister and told her what happened but she said it was obviously because I was feverish [sic!].