I had a near death out of body experience two months before my third birthday in 1973, I was having a tracheostomy done while slowly choking to death as my epiglottis was swelling up from an infection. I remember a blue illumination that captured my interest and looked into it, but don't remember what I saw. Fast foward to xmas season 1978 when I was 8 2/3 and we were shopping in DownTown Portland as a family, it was nearing dusk, we were passing by a display and a large blue illumination caught my interest. My Dad, who was holding my hand felt my sudden stop and asked me what was going on, I pointed to the illumination and told him it was like looking into eternity. Later that night I woke up hearing my Dad crying his eyes out, heart sobbing wrenching his body shaking, he was telling my mother I said the same thing to him a month after I had my trache when it was removed and I could talk again a month before my third birthday. Apparently I told him things before I turned three that shook him to his core and that in 1978 it reminded him what I said.
