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?

Serenity, that is beautiful and comforting. Thank you.

I nearly drowned as a child and I remember feeling extremely panicked but not just for me but for my mum too. An Angel in disguise pulled me out and then handed me to someone and went back for my mum after I told him she was drowning too. It was horrible but I’m glad I was too young to really experience sleepless nights etc. Certainly no calmness, just panic

Yes, a wasp flew into my mouth and stung me at the back of the throat. I’m allergic.

I was 15 mins walk from home and my husband and family were all uncontactable. 999 said it wasn’t an emergency because I could still talk and breathe (I rang them as soon as it happened).

I walked home feeling my throat closing up and luckily got home in time to force antihistamines in. I then spent the rest of the night in a&e on a steroid drip.

Sepsis. Very calm and warm and the terrible pain had gone, and it was all going to be ok because I was just going somewhere else.

I had a ruptured ectopic. Lost 3l of blood.

Luckily it happened when I was in hospital as an outpatient for something else, so the nurse noticed something was wrong. Didn’t have the typical symptoms so they didn’t know quite what was happening, but a quick thinking consultant got me on a trolley and surrounded with concerned looking people.

I was kind of floaty and zen. Abstractly thinking well, I might die now. That’s a shame. I won’t know what happens next.

Absolutely no terror, just calm curiosity while they ran me down corridors. I remember the consultant slamming the lift buttons and shouting “we need the lift!” at the people coming out, and thinking it was like Casualty.

Someone was shouting “we need consent forms” and a frustrated woman was shouting “we can’t get consent!” As I was put under.

Woke up in intensive care sans a fallopian tube and with a huge stapled hole across my stomach. Was pretty bad after, but the nearly dying bit has reassured me it’ll be fine.

I was white water rafting when the raft went over in really bad rapids. I got caught in a rapid and was just going round and round under the water. I couldn’t breathe. Like you, I felt really calm and just thought “this is how I die”. Fortunately somebody managed to get me out. I had bruises all over my body. The strangest thing? I was in Austria and my parents were on holiday in the USA. At the exact time I was drowning, my dad had a dream I was drowning and woke my mum in a panic saying something was wrong with me. She calmed him down and said somebody would alert them if there was an issue. He’s the calmest person ever so this was really out of character for him.
he picked me up from the airport when I returned and when he saw my bruises he went really pale as I explained what had happened!

Amazing thread.

Yes, being held up at gunpoint in Durban, the boy then opened fire.

I remember just being focused on getting away.

I had a chocking incident a few years ago. I was absolutely terrified. My life didn't flash before my eyes and I didn't feel calm. I hope when my time comes I'm asleep and not know anything about it.

Thanks for sharing. Thank you to the people in the NHS. Also, this thread has put me off white water rafting. Not that it was particularly ever on the table for me.

Yep, lost just under 4L blood during childbirth. The mood changed in surgery and all I could think was "Oh dear" as they took the baby off me and gave me oxygen. We've not had another

I had a superinfection (bacterial on top of covid pneumonia) two years ago and kidney failure as well. I can only vaguely remember fearing I wouldn't wake up when they were about to put me under to go on the ventilator - after that nothing, till I woke up what I thought was later that day, but transpired to be in fact a week later. Very scary stuff. I was only thinking of my dd though, if not for her I wouldn't have been so fearful and just accepted it. Sorry if that's offensive but it's true.

DH had a cardiac arrest and only remembers being in the hospital being checked then awake with them telling him he’d had the arrest. No light at the end of a tunnel etc.

I'm pretty sure that was Touching the Void. I vaguely remember the film, but can recall that bit where he was trying to crawl back to base camp and that stuck in a loop in his head!

@TakemedowntoPotatoCity Don't be sorry. Your experience is valid and you are welcome here 💐

I now have Daddy cool stuck in my head

I nearly drowned as a child, around 7/8. I was quite panicked at first and then was very calm. It was quite peaceful and not at all a scary experience for me.

It sounds like from what pp have said its one of the less unpleasant ways to go.

Was also very peaceful and calm after loosing a dangerous volume of blood due to pph

Drowning, caught in a huge wave when surfing. I felt incredibly calm when spinning and realised that I wasn’t going to be able to get to the surface. Resigned. Then someone grabbed hold of me and hauled me to the surface.
Even now I don’t think of it as a bad experience, just very lucky that someone was brave enough and close enough to help me.

Oh no, I forgot to put the bins out

I've had a few T/C seizures and couple other incidents. I have no recall whatsoever of any of them. It's like it didn't happen in my mind. I had no idea

I was 14 and we were n holiday in Yugoslavia. My dad was a strong swimmer, i'm not. I never went out of my depth for that reason . Suddenly I couldn't fee the bottom any more. I started panicking and was bobbing up and down trying to attract dads attention but he didn't notice. Suddenly by sheer chance i found the bottom again. It's stayed with me.

Not really a nde but I'm currently fighting cancer for the second time. The first time, my bowel perforated due to the cancer and they operated on me at midnight as they said I wouldn't survive the night otherwise. I remember thinking really calmly waiting to go into surgery, "Well if i die, i die I won't know anything about it" When i came around i fought with everything I had to get better for me and my family and I'm doing it again now.

Being choked. I remember fighting as hard as I could against his hands whilst bargaining in my head for one more dawn with any deity who may have been listening. In that moment I would have done anything to live (and I did, he let go the minute I stopped fighting and then I let him hurt me over and over again til the sky burned with the dawn I'd begged to see). I still have nightmares despite lots of therapy and was diagnosed with Ptsd afterwards. The disconnect between how desperate to stay alive I was then and how too regularly afterwards I've wanted to die is still very hard to deal with. As is the guilt and feelings of cowardice.

Then years later, I lost consciousness during an emcs when my blood pressure crashed as they lifted dc1 out. I felt so peaceful, drifting out to sea knowing that I'd brought my cargo safe to harbour. That my role was over and I could just sleep forever until the anesthetist ruined it by pinching me very hard and giving me some sort of adrenaline.

My ex did the same

All I could think was 'my babies' (my children where a lot older than a baby at the time but will always be my babies)

Thankfully he let go just as I was about to pass out

In my 20s my heart stopped during surgery. I didn't think it important to mention my arrhythmia ( I do now). I do recall a calmness that I can't explain, I wanted to stay there in that calm. Then there were jolts, and I could feel needles, of whatever reverses anaesthetic I assume.

When I came around again I couldn't understand why there were so many people around me.

I don't know what they did to me, but I was not able to lift my head off a pillow for about 2 weeks after.

But that calmness stays with you. I'm not afraid of when it's my real time to go.

i had a brain tumour and suffered every complication with swelling on my brain.
they sent me for a ct scan and as I was waiting in the room. I had the feeling I could hold on any longer it was so intense
so hard. But as soon as I thought a way out of the pain is to die. I had an immense sense of peace and tranquility
it was so peaceful and calm.
I woke up in intensive care and had had a stroke.
I am not afraid of dying now as I know it is so peaceful and safe and lovely.