Anyone ever had near death experience ?

[cantsleep1]

Been watching too many documentaries and it gets me wondering if there really is life after death🤔
Google tells stories of people who have but is there anyone on here with any stories ?
Xx

Can'tsleep1, don't worry, I meant more for others! I was seriously sexually assaulted and I could see myself above my body. I was only about 4 but I've never forgotten it. I was shocked and terrified. I'be heard it described as an out of body experience or some sort of dissociative experience, but I know that I was terrified and I can remember seeing myself clearly and there was no way I could have imagined, or certainly none that I am aware of. A few months later I was struck down with a serious illness and I was in hospital for a long time, in great deal of pain. I didn't come close to death but it was an awful time. Having spoken to specialists in later years they've suggested that my body went into some sort of shock.
As an adult, I have medical conditions that continue to affect me, but happily I have DCs and a lovely DH so I can't grumble, but the pain from the sudden illness continues and so does the trauma of the assault which marked the start of many years of abuse. I will never forget being above my body, it was strange. Maybe I have just lumped it together with out of body experiences though, who knows?

Sorry, should read I'd heard it described......

I have, was technically dead for a few minutes and no there was nothing that I remember, no floating, no running through sunny meadows. Just nothing.m

@CitadelsofScience same situation as you maybe different reasons there was nothing, but I felt strangely calm, and not afraid to die.

Yep @nrpmum it was very calm and I wasn't afraid, I just knew what was coming.

Twice, both times on life support in ICU. There was nothing and no conscious passing of time. I went to sleep and woke up.

a medical person said you can't actually die and come back again,

That is correct. There's no such thing as 'technically' or 'clinically' dead and then you come back. When you're dead, you are dead.

I nearly died having ds 6 years ago. I was booked in for an elective c section after a previous traumatic vaginal birth with dd and it was meant to be very straightforward. When they started it became apparently I had undiagnosed severe placenta prévia. I had no bleeding or symptoms of it at all - in fact the day before my c section I had been out gardening.

Anyhow I lost nearly 3 litres of blood, two medical teams were called in, alarms whizzing off etc etc. I remember the surgeon / consultant trying desperately to stop the blood and looking at the other one and shaking their head to say it wasn’t stopping.

During all this I really did think that was it, I was going to die. I looked at dh holding newborn ds and as weird as it sounds I remember feeling completely at peace and thinking what a wonderful dad dh was going to be to ds and dd. I didn’t feel scared at all, just really content! So odd! But I really did think that was it!

And then I came round in intensive care and recovery and here I am 6 years on!

Oh bamboo you know what we mean when we say we died for a short period of time, we're just trying to get the point across that when our hearts stopped and we needed resuscitation/ shocks/ whatever, that there was nothing there, no tunnel of light calling us. We just felt very calm.
And no I had no conscious passing of time in a coma either. Quite a surreal experience all round.

I was terrified and full of regret when it happened to me
I was screaming and looking into my husbands eyes saying he must find someone else to love him
I am so so so traumatised by it.
I will never ever forget that. I was resuscitated and I lived but it has affected me profoundly.
I was 24 years old with a 1 year old.

Not sure if you'd call it a NDE but when I was young, 7/8ish, I was visiting an Aunt and Uncle. They took me to the local baths and left me there whilst they went to do some shopping. A group of older kids held me under water, I can still remember the images of it now. Instead of seeing anything all I remembered hearing was the "hold your head up, keep your head up" part of Sweet Dreams. I think it was my brain trying to fight. They did let up but I got out and was just lying on the side of the pool.

Omg andromedia59 that must have been terrifying!

It was awful. The first person I told was my DP. I just didn't see the point in making a fuss. By the time I was picked up, I was fine. It just felt like one of those things.

Oh bamboo you know what we mean when we say we died for a short period of time, we're just trying to get the point across that when our hearts stopped and we needed resuscitation/ shocks/ whatever, that there was nothing there, no tunnel of light calling us

The point that was being made was that when your heart actually stops you are dead and cannot be resuscitated. You cannot restart a heart that has stopped beating, therefore you can't technically die for a short time.

I had a large haemorrhage after giving birth and needed resuscitated, similarly to what someone else said I completely lost my hearing just before I crashed, I still remember looking at my husband thinking what on earth is he saying, where has the volume gone. I've never heard anyone else say they've had the same experience. Life saving surgery and a few extra days I. Hospital and all was grand again. Although it gave me massive anxiety and I'll never have another baby again

Thankyou for the replies xx I'm really sorry if I've brought back bad Memories for anyone

You cannot restart a heart that has stopped beating

I’m pretty sure you can. Otherwise how could you do a heart transplant? It doesn’t keep beating while you’re transferring it from one person to another.

Afew times....

@cantsleep1, from a personal perspective, I'm glad to have had somewhere to discuss it. Quite honestly it's rather sad to have had a profound experience that one is somehow socially steered away from. I know a mother on the school run who seems to enjoy braying loudly that she IS a scientist and so schools of thought from any ott
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..... any other fields of academic research is trivial and beneath her notice. My experiences are too central to my memories etc to want them challenged by someone with an a

Axe to grind. Will leave it now, sorry for typos, I'm so tired 😴

Immediately after a medical procedure something went wrong (long story) and I went from being completely conscious and aware to feeling my body shutting down rapidly. I was on my own when it happened - followed by total panic as the medical staff came back into the room and realised what was happening. I couldn't speak, then move, then hear, then see. Then for a short while nothing, no dead relatives waiting for me or glittering seas or fluffy clouds. Also no flickering flames or screaming of tortured souls so that's good to know.

A few experiences.One was caused by Sleep Apnea.I was "sent back" and told I was coming back too soon by a being of light.Told what year my headstone would read.

I've just watched that lady Yolaine speak and I love it. I love the 'don't waste your life thinking you're not loved'.

For me, not a light, but in a coma I was in a dream state which carried on into real life when I woke up as in I believed that what had happened in the 'dreams' had actually happened..

In the dreams as I refer to them, I was on holiday and I recall needing to swim out to sea to rescue a baby. There were also dreams of being on a bed/trolley and trying to get up (still on holiday) and a very bizarre dream where myself and two other girls murdered a rapist. They were so vivid, they're more like actual memories than things I dreamed? There was another part of the dream state of coming back into the country and being arrested for drug smuggling or similar.

At times I felt like I was drowning (while swimming out to rescue the baby) and at other times I felt extremely tired. I think both of those sensations might have been reflections of what was happening at the time. The drowning might have been because my lungs failed at one point and I was on oxygen the whole time I believe. The tiredness might have been the sedation.

My ex was in the dreams prevalently too. Apparently he was by my bedside every visiting hour he was allowed. So it may have been him trying to talk to me that translated through to the dreams.

I've never had a near death experience, though I have almost died on more than one occasion. I do think there is possibly another existence, though the doubter in me can't quite believe.

It would be comforting to believe, though I'm not sure such a place exists.

I have questioned how I have survived so many near deaths. You actually couldn't make it up. I'm like the cat of nine lives, on my 11th life.

So I do feel that there's some darned reason I'm here - but I sure as hell haven't figured it out yet!

Interesting discussion OP.