Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When my mother died in my arms, I feel I witnessed her spirit leaving her body, so let’s just wait and see.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
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Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
You have to go to the end of the line.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
More from Charles Collingwood
View profile →My childhood. I was an only child, happy and secure, and there was always plenty of time to play cricket.
Watching the Festival of Remembrance last autumn.
Not listening to me.
As a man who tried his best to entertain.
My beautiful silver Jaguar XKR soft-top.
Freddie Flintoff. He played cricket in the best spirit and in his series Field of Dreams, you could see the boys hanging on his every word. He’s a special guy.
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