The Transition
As I was being pulled through the tunnel I saw images seemingly on the walls of the tunnel. One of these images was the face of a man which I will never forget. I didn't know him but the image was embedded in my subconscious memory and the way he was moving his jaw from side to side left an unmistakable impression on me. I met this man one year later and we became friends although I didn't recognize him at the time. We both worked for the same company and were on a temporary assignment for a three month period in another city. One weekend we took a little trip together to a resort lake and got into something that I won't mention here. He became mentally unstable and wanted to sit somewhere and rest. We found a vacant bingo room in the building and sat in a couple of chairs. I looked at him and saw his jaw moving from side to side just as it had when I saw him during my N.D.E. I then recognized him and told him about seeing him a year before. He freaked out and became extremely paranoid and left to use the restroom. I became concerned about him and went looking for him but he was nowhere to be found. I search the town the whole night looking for him but he was just gone. He had talked about missing his wife during this assignment and I thought he may have caught a bus and went back home to see her. I went back to our motel room and found his things were still there and he hadn't been there. The next day when I still couldn't find him I had to leave to go back to the city where we were working and left without him. I didn't see him again for three days. When he finally turned up he called me at work from the resort town and told me the story of how he had lost his identity and orientation and didn't know who or where he was. He said he only remembers a "sea of people falling away from him". He had walked out into the street completely lost and someone picked him up and took care of him until his mind returned three days later. He caught a bus back to the city and returned to work the next day but we had a very strange psychic connection after that and he seemed to think that I was responsible for his unfortunate experience. I didn't see much more of him.