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This is On Point.

I'm Megna Chakra-R-Bardi, and it's episode four of our special series Brainwaves.

In 1996, Joan Pavlinski was riding her bike along a path in East Ham on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

And then suddenly, she was somewhere else.

I woke up floating above the trees.

It was blue, you know, blue, bluebird sky.

No wind. It was just gorgeous.

Very peaceful. Very, very peaceful.

Joan says right next to her was her dad.

He is sitting in the tree in a lotus position, and I'm up there with him.

And he had on a turquoise blue Nehru jacket that my mom had sewed for all seven of us in the 60s.

I just thought it was odd. Even at that point, I knew he was dead. I'd been dead for 10 years.

I didn't say, like, what are you doing here? But it was more like, what am I doing here was dead. He'd been dead for 10 years. I didn't say, like, what are you doing here?

But it was more like, what am I doing here?

I kept saying, this is so beautiful.

I had this incredible feeling of bliss.

I never had a feeling like this before.

And he kept saying that I had to go back,

but I was arguing saying, no, it's so beautiful here. I really want to stay.

I looked down and I saw from the tree a bicycle

and a woman who was sort of tangled up in the bicycle.

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