'The short clips look and sound like a mystical experience, but there is also a verifiable medical explanation for what happened.' Photo: by Lindy Baker on Unsplash

‘I genuinely believed that the waters had transformed me.’

Brain waves: Ann Limb in the deep end

‘I genuinely believed that the waters had transformed me.’

by Ann Limb 14th May 2021

I visit the Northumbrian island of Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, regularly. It’s a special place. The wind is more or less a meteorological constant, whether it blows in from the chilly North Sea or finds landfall from the west, still bearing moisture from the Atlantic. It’s rare for this island to bask in becalmed luminosity or sustained stillness.