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Couldn't it be that his brain only fabricates that part of the memory, to fill in the blanks of panic period of being underwater?

I do think that my brain may have fabricated that part. It's the fishy part--pun intended.

I have never been picked up again by my scalp, so I think that's decent reason to believe the memory of the physical sensation is pretty accurate.

There's not a lot else to the memory.