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In reply to the discussion: Should there be any restrictions at all on abortion? [View all]electric_blue68
(14,996 posts)(maybe I was closer to 30 weeks but the number 27 has been strongly embedded in my memory for decades, and I had no reason to think that much of it as a startling fact for some time )
One other unusual experience. (important set up)
So I was in what they called an isolette (incubator) for x weeks. Clear plastic I guess.
Anyway 3 decades ('80s) later I'm a temp in a bank in a back area helping bank tellers in the front.
This is when some banks started putting clear thick plastic up from counter to ceilings because of a whole lot of serious bank robberies in a relatively short period of time. There's a hole at face level, and then another piece of plastic bolted in away from the hole to let sound/ voice through. Rather one typical protective solution.
Not a usual thing to happen but I have to go up to the teller's area and talk to a customer through one of these speaking holes.
As I take my final look through the plastic at the customer after we're done speaking, and start turning away I get the weirdest feeling mentally but seeping into my body a bit.
Woah. It lingered for a bit. I was totally mystified!
I've never had that feeling ever again.
At some point later it occured to me that maybe I experienced a preverbal image memory of my tiny self looking at the nurses, doctors etc through the thickish plastic of the incubator. 🤔 Pretty wild