So when I started doing get into meditation and stuff, I was started off as a hypnotherapist, and so I got trained and didn't have any experience to really know what I was doing. And I had my first session with someone. Yeah. So I got a call someone actually want to come for a session if anything unusual happened when he started that first, that first session, as a matter of fact, something unusual did happen. So here I am this like greenhorns, hypnotherapy guy not really know what I'm doing. And I'm working with this young guy, he's probably early 20s or something.
And I take him in this session, so far, so good. And then all of a sudden he he flips immediately into this, I guess it was a past life, where he is caught in an open field in Vietnam, in a gunfight and this my first time Yeah, so as I'm kind of, you know, kind of, you know, okay, relax. And you know, and this guy starts going ballistic in the chair to the fact where he was really reliving this experience. And then if you did the math, you know, early 20s guys in the early 90s if you do the math, he he could have been in Vietnam, you know. And so, so he goes through this really intense experience of where he's caught in this gun battle out in the open, and he's watching his friends get and his buddies get picked off, all all in all around him.
And then then all of a sudden, he looks out the sky, like you just got shot, you know? And it's like, it was intense. And then, and then he stopped breathing. In my chair, he, he stopped breathing, he stopped moving, he was unconscious, and I thought, Oh, my God, it gets this. This guy just died in my channel. And this was my first session, and I don't have insurance.
And then so it seemed like forever, it seemed like, you know, I didn't know what to do. You know, what do I do? They don't teach me this in school, you know. And then, after a few minutes, which seemed like forever, she takes a gasp, like he, he's back in his body. And, and then, you know, to kind of bring him out of the session and he was kind of this this passive kind of hippie kid, you know, like, you'd never figure him to be like a was season warrior. And he gets up, he leaves and that was it.
Like, I have no idea what happened afterwards, no interaction, I didn't have any interaction with them. I didn't have a contact information. I didn't really, you know, learn about the mess and the need to follow up with people after their sessions and stuff. I didn't learn that till later. And so, so it was really bizarre. Now the cool thing is is like But this is like 30 years later, I saw his business card at a yoga shop in town.
So he's a musician and so he's still around so he didn't die. So I reached out to him on the business card. No. Yeah, I don't know. That would be kind of weird so I can let that one go. I think yeah, that's my first experience with a real life hypnotherapy session.
Wow. Yeah.