Sean Langan

And it was pretty constant fire.

And that's the Taliban al-Qaeda training camps.

And we realized we're surrounded by and we'd seen the checkpoints on the road up there before we were blindfolded near the house.

As I was describing, I was driving through a market and it's just covered in fighters.

I mean, like hundreds, millions.

And they had checkpoints everywhere.

And the locals wouldn't be friendly either.

So you're very aware that there's, even if you've got out of that farmhouse, that compound, which had armed men in, you'd be immediately, you know, look at me, you know, can't speak the language, hopeless situation.

So I pretty much realised escape wasn't an option.

Very quickly, other things started happening.

I had total recall of my entire life.

You know that saying, the drowning man sees their life flash before them.

I saw my entire life, but it didn't flash because I wasn't drowning.

So I could pause.

I just had to give myself a prompt.

Like, okay, my first day at kindergarten, at infant school, and I would see myself there, see what I was wearing.

Now, it was a great pleasure, actually, seeing your whole life.

Later on, less so.

It was like Scrooge, Christmas Carol, where you see the ghost of Christmas past.

Because I saw the first day I met my girlfriend, who became my wife, what she was wearing.