Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

It simply was.

There was no space, as I said.

There was no self.

So all of that was gone, except terror, ecstasy, and light.

And then after this timeless moment,

They'd asked me to put on a piece of music.

I asked them to put on a piece of music.

I will part as minimalist.

And so that last nine minutes, I just heard the first thing that became apparent was the ending of that two-instrument piece.

And then, you know, it's almost 10 minutes, and then you rapidly come to, and I stripped, I went into fetus, I cried, I had all these other, you know, autonomic reaction.

But within an hour, it's remarkable, you go into the void, and you come back, you can speak within an hour.

You can speak about it if you wanted to.

And there's no long-lasting physiologic.

I had my watch on, highly registered a difference.

No big increase in blood pressure or, you know, heart rate.

So there's still not a single day.

This was in the first week of the pandemic.

I think about it every day.

I had two such experiences.

The other one was very different.