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

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I have a medical condition that sometimes brings on seizures. I have stopped breathing a couple of times in the past. I felt really unwell in a hospital waiting room one day (best place to be I suppose), and after waiting hours, I got up to speak to the receptionist to tell them I was feeling really unwell. I collapsed in the middle of the waiting room. I was aware, but things around me seemed a little distant. I noticed that I wasn't breathing, and I really thought that I was going to die. My mind was very calm and willing to go along with it. I thought Oh well, that's that. I was 32 at the time.

Any way, the doctors rushed over and got me breathing again. I find it a little bit reassuring how calm I was. But also a little bit scary how little fight I have to survive.

Has any one had any experiences like this they want to share?

Just to add that I also have depression and anxiety, so that probably doesn't help a person to have survival instincts.

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. 🙂

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

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. 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.

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

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.

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 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.

I almost bled out and started flatlining after a medical procedure. I was oddly calm while everyone around me stepped up a gear. The bleeding was stopped and I was fine. Dramatic at the time but a positive outcome (another thank you NHS).

I had a really bad choking episode on some toast a few weeks ago - I live alone and even with trying to drink something to try and help force it down, I just could not clear my airway - I very vividly remember thinking something the lines of "oh god if I don't clear this and die then I'm going to be found dead, rotting in my flat in at least a few weeks time". Obviously I managed to clear it as I'm still here to tell the tale but it was so awful and scary!

Trigger warning: domestic violence
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My ex tried to strangle me.
I remember being very calm, and thinking to myself "I can't believe I'm going to die in Skelmersdale"
Of all the things to go through my head 😂

Has a massive haemorrhage (2.2L!!) after child born- crash call, BP in my boots, couldn't get any new lines in when current ones failed due to being shut down. I could hear it all but couldn't move or respond. But I felt very calm, not scared, aware that I was critical. Like you I just thought- oh, this is happening.

We was doing the national speed limit and so was the car we hit head on. Not sure what the combined force was but it was a real. Mess, police drove me home past the cars and I couldn't belive no one died. No seat belts. Someone went to prison. I was absolutely fine. The person next to me had all her teeth go through to the outside her face and smash. I was lucky I rolled up I think

I choked as a child and I was terrified. I swallowed a chicken Kiev ball whole 🤦‍♀️ I remember thinking I was going to die and being frantic with panic. Luckily my dad got it out.

The fear of choking has never left me, every single meal my children and I have, I internally panic.

It's awful but if my kids start coughing at the dinner table they say "dont worry I'm not choking" , my sister once tried to give my DD sweets in bed when she slept at hers and my DD had said "dont you need to stay with me incase I choke"

• The very last time my ex hurt me, he was strangling me and I thought I was going to die. And all I could think was, what about my babies as the black spots were getting bigger. Absolutely horrendous.

Both times I have been frantic with panic at the thought of dying.

Meatymeatytimetoeaty It reminds me of a documentary I watched years and years ago about a guy, a climber I think- my memory is vague, who got trapped in a crevice or something dire. There he was all alone, facing death, stuck for good until his last breath, and in the film he's reflecting on his experience and remembers thinking at the time of his imminent death, "Fuck, I'm going to die to Daddy Cool stuck in my head!" 😆

I'm glad you're here Meaty. You made it through that incident and its aftermath, which surely must have been some hard work to overcome. ❤

Yes, I was on the brink of death with severe dehydration from campylobacter food poisoning once.

I felt so weak, so tired. No fight left. Honestly, dying felt like a nice option at the time.

Luckily they managed to stop my organs shutting down when I was raced in. But it took a long time to recover afterwards.

Thanks for sharing this.
I’ve been listening to a near death experiences podcast. Many describe similar experiences.

Yes, nearly died of hypothermia. I was calm and happy, just wanted to die and was pissed of with people trying to keep me awake. I was even pissed off when the mountain rescue arrived and moved me, I didn’t want to open my eyes even but they had to get me across a river in a canoe and I really didn’t want to go!

Car slipped on ice on the motorway and did the whole bumper car thing against the central reservation and around a lorry. Car went forwards, sidewards and backwards. Scary but oddly calm. I remember thinking I was going to die and was waiting for the final impact. I wasn't scared and no one else in the car made a sound, we were too shocked and time just went so slowly that it didn't seem fast or panicky. It was all over in seconds though.

@SerenityNowInsanityLater that was oddly nice to read. Obviously not good you nearly died, but it was a reassuring read.

I choked on a piece of lamb.

I immediately couldn't breathe at all. I stood up and honestly thought that was the end. That's about all I thought but I did think I was dying.

My husband was with me luckily. He hit my back to try and dislodge it. After 3 failed attempts he did the heindlich manoeuvre. It dislodged it enough there was a small enough hole to let me breathe. I sat down and didn't want to move scared it would move back. It didn't...it seemed to disappear and the breathing hole.got bigger (from my recollection).

Yes. A drowning incident whilst white water rafting. I remember completely panicking and trying to get to the surface and then total peace, calm and a slightly surprised feeling of "oh, I'm going to die". Not terrifying at all. Never felt peace like it since! Woke up being resuscitated and was told that when I lost consciousness was when my body stopped struggling and the whirlpool spat me out.

Absolute terror. I was a child and drowned in a public swimming pool. Thankfully the lifeguard managed to resuscitate me.