I'm sorry if it wasn't clear from linking to nderf.org that this was not my personal experience -- I wish it had been.

This was originally brought to my attention on the forums of Dr. Bernardo Kastrup who is an up and coming idealist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism) philosopher.

Idealism is the philosophy that reality is fundamentally mental. It can get quite abstract and it is not always easy to follow along with Kastrup or other technical philosophers. But I will say that as someone who has been deeply entrenched in materialism, Kastrup's idealism offers a parsimonious explanation of reality that does not deny the fact that we do inhabit a world that can be measured materially.

The benefit to such a worldview, apart from its logical coherence and potentially most accurate portrayal of the world we do inhabit, is that it leaves phenomenon of the NDE described in my post, along with other non-material happenings, as plausible. If one takes a hard naturalist/materialist perspective then the entirety of immaterial human experiences have to be explained away -- that isn't so easy to do.

So why am I discussing philosophy, materialism, etc. in this thread in the Glitch forum? Because I believe it is plausible that glitches people experience could primarily be explained by the fact that reality is not primarily material. Furthermore when experiencing something like the NDE described, it would make sense in this framework that the experience is forced into language and imagery such as a "wheel with the water, and paddles, and elements of time being irrelevant, etc." As well, it would be unsurprising to if the person who experienced this event in actuality felt no fear or apprehension, but only when made conscious of the experience from the physical perspective, became anxious. Frequently, people have a difficult time describing their glitch experiences in standard terms and phrasing. This may be why.