An Out-of-Body Experience While Under Anesthesia

What if this reality is only a small piece of the bigger picture?

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It was meant to be a typical knee replacement—the second titanium knee surgery.

“Sher, I’ll have 2 new knees after this.”

The first one had come and gone, sans anything more than the brutal recovery one must go through after acquiring a titanium kneecap.But this second surgery caused my dear friend to walk through time and space itself.Steve recalls the doctor asking him to count back from 2023 — the year of his second knee surgery.“Where’d you grow up?” the doctor asked.“The Bronx. I have been thinking a lot about growing up there.”As the IV cocktail worked its magic on Steve, memories of his time as a teen in the Bronx started to flood his senses.

“I started thinking about the Bronx, my old neighborhood, the kids on the street. Then I remembered something, a day that for fifty-five years, I didn’t like thinking about. August 12th 1968”-

Unlike the typical counting back while going under anesthesia until one doesn’t recall a thing and wakes up groggy, Steve experienced something remarkable: he time…