Though Tony's belief that he saw into his future is uncommon, it's by no means uncommon for people to report witnessing multiple scenes from their past during split-second emergency situations. Now, Tony Kofi is one of the UK's most successful jazz musicians, having won the BBC Jazz awards twice, in 20. He used his compensation money from the accident to buy one.

Later, Tony saw a picture of a saxophone and recognized it as the instrument he'd seen himself playing. He felt that he was 'being shown something' and that the images represented his future. Over the following weeks, the images kept flashing back into his mind. When he came to at the hospital, he felt like a different person and didn't want to return to his previous life. The thing that really stuck in my mind was playing an instrument.' Then Tony landed on his head and lost consciousness. As he described it, 'In my mind's eye I saw many, many things: children that I hadn't even had yet, friends that I had never seen but are now my friends.