To ask if you've ever had a near death experience and what went through your mind?

I have actually clinically died. I went into cardiac arrest a few years ago. Before it happened, I collapsed on the road on a dog walk and the only way I can describe it is, the world around me was graying out. I could feel me leaving me. I can't even find the language to describe it. I just felt this physical 'ungluing' from myself. It felt very physical, this division of me. It was just that, a division. I was dividing... so weird. And I remember thinking, "So this is it. This is how it ends." And I just leaned into it and let go really easily. My dad and my uncles were there. My one uncle had only died a few days before.
Someone found me on the road and called an ambulance. I arrested when I arrived at A&E (good timing and the reason I'm here now, writing about this, for sure!). And that's the part where I really had an experience. I was gone. I died. Physical me stopped functioning completely. But I did go somewhere else and I almost don't want to describe it because it has become so sacred to me. All I can say is that what I felt is indescribable... it was beyond peace. It was perfect. Only, there isn't a word better than perfect and there ought to be. It was a feeling I haven't known in my living day. I was of something else. I became part of a collective peace in the most beautiful place. But it wasn't my time yet. I woke up to a doctor on my chest, my vision obstructed by the oxygen mask on my face, and rage. I had no idea where I was, what was going on, but I was so angry to have been pulled away from that place of peace. And then my mind started functioning and I realised, "I have no idea what is happening but something huge has happened to you and these people are trying to help you. Be polite! Thank them!" 😆
So I did.
And I always will thank them. And I'm really glad to still be here. It's alright, this whole 'being alive' thing.

Birth haemorrhage. I remember dreamily thinking my blood was an incredibly beautiful colour, and that baby DS (who had just been whipped out) would be fine with DH.

I had a huge bleed when I was pregnant and my baby was prem, we both were in intensive care.
I feel weirdly calm about it. I have big gaps in my memory and feel like it happened to someone else.

PS Thank you to the NHS I am grateful every minute of every day for saving us.

@DyslexicPoster my 60mph motorcycle crash doesn't actually get into my 50:50 list😒

Yes. Very similar. I was trapped underwater for more than 2 minutes. Standard get out of here techniques didn't work, that turned into abject panic, which in turn strayed into warped frustration (my DBro hadn't been to a funeral before and this worried me). I eventually passed out no biggie.

Yes bad head on car crash at 60mph. Not much time to think about more than this is it, I need to roll into a ball. That split second seemed to streach out as I heard the brakes and felt the car slow before the impact(passenger). By the time we had hit it it was clear I wasn't going to die. No time for any adrenaline and I think that's the difference. A split second thing there's time to think about much at all. I didn't even think "this might hurt"

Afterwards I was more upset that i was stranded in the middle of nowhere and no one wanted to get me home in the middle of the night. Everyone else went off in ambulance. I was 18.

Yes. I felt absolute terror, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t talk and completely shut down. I still have flashbacks and nightmares (diagnosis of PTSD).

My wind pipe was blocked once for several long seconds. I remember thinking it was a pity I'd never how how the date I was going on later would have been. I was pissed off but not scared.

Yes, I have. I just felt very warm, very calm and no worries. I had a serious infection that they didn’t think I’d survive. But, something bought me back. All it’s taught me is not to fear the end. 🙂