Nearly a decade ago, I almost drowned.

As an amateur scuba diver, I recklessly joined a group of experts for a deep - much deeper than I was qualified for - dive at night. Already exhausted from swimming my gear from shore, within minutes after I descended I lost my light, a flipper, and complete sense of space. I didn’t know which way was up. Oxygen ran low. Then very low. Read more about Towards ‘Eternal Sunshine’? New Links Found Between Memory and Emotion