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?

Similar, although slightly different as I never actually came to any harm- but was walking along and a car lost control on a bend and came absolutely flying towards me. It was as if someone was watching my life and pressed the slow motion button. And I thought nothing. Literally, nothing. Mind went blank. I didn’t move, I didn’t make a noise. I just stood there, waiting for the impact. And it flew past me with cm’s to spare and ploughed straight into the wall behind. Apart from being knocked slightly off balance by the wind rush as it went past, not a mark on me.

When I have birth to my DC, I had an operation as my placenta was stuck. During that operation I lost a lot of blood and I remember the most beautiful blocks of light that I was following. At some point the lights turned into 2 opposite directions and I had to make a choice which to follow. I felt strongly that one of the lights was my newborn child so I followed that. I am sure if I followed the other direction I would not have woken up. Later I was given multiple units of blood and IV antibiotics in high quantities to combat an severe infection.

This happened to me too, years ago! I’d forgotten about that. I only felt the fear afterwards.

I nearly died from peritonitis. I was lying in a bed on a ward because it was a Sunday and the scan room wasn’t open. I couldn’t breathe deeply because it caused terrible pain. I saw a doctor come onto the ward around 1am and managed to press my nurse call button. He took one look at me and pandemonium broke out and I was whisked off to theatre. He told me later I had 30 minutes left at most. Funnily I was incredibly calm and totally at peace, I’m not frightened of dying but I am frightened of being left in terror and pain which has given me lifelong health anxiety.

Thank you Mr Little for saving my life.

I was sent to A&E during lockdown - OH was not allowed to stay with me. My GP sent me because I had flu type symptoms and a band of swelling across my throat. He didn't know what it was but was worried.

I sat in A&E and felt my hearing go muffled and then had the sensation that I was no longer in my body but sitting next to it. I felt very calm and peaceful and absolutely tired out with no energy. I felt like I was melting away.

I was diagnosed with sepsis and in hospital for 13 days. The doctors told me I'd have died of I hadn't taken my GP's advice immediately.

I'm forever grateful to him and all the staff at the hospital who saved me.

Yes but it was my own doing TW a suiicde attempt took an overdose of insulin (I’m not diabetic) I felt all warm and a sense of calm then nothing. Luckily i was found by my husband he administered glucagon injection ambulance was less than 3 minutes and then spent 5 weeks in intensive care before being sectioned

This sounds like other descriptions of NDE I have read in the past.

Absolutely fascinating that you 'saw' your Uncle who had died not long previously.

The ''Seeing'' one's body from above and being calm and literally 'detached ' sounds very similar to reports I have read in books.

Is it the last desperate electrical firings of an 'in extremis' nervous system?

It would be wonderful if there was life after death on another plane, where we were reunited with our loved friends and family - and pets.

Wishful thinking?...but who knows.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Yup. Another calm experience here. I thought, ah so this is how I go. Damn it. And I was a bit miffed. But accepting.

Yes, I had severe hypokalemia several years ago. I managed to get a taxi to A&E, stagger up to the desk, and the only words I could say was "my heart". I was rushed into a cubicle and wired up, at which point the machines gave this one long, loud continuous beep, which was very scary. My heart was very painful, like I couldn't breathe but it was my heart instead of my lungs. Then as I was lying there, everything started to go black and the beep faded away.

I remember thinking that I would never see my son again. I had a crystal clear picture of his face in my mind. I was peaceful about it though. I felt like I was psychically saying goodbye to him.

Thankfully, it didn't last and I started coming back to consciousness.

I suffered a massive brain haemorrhage (SAH) I remember being in bed and having the most horrific headache, husband called an ambulance and I remember them coming upstairs and telling him to just give me some Paracetamol! (fortunately he refused) Then everything went blank!
I do remember seeing my precious little dog who had died previously and she wouldn't come to me, this I think was her telling me that it wasn't my time! That's all I remember and I came round two wks later thinking it was the same day!

I'm so sorry that this happened to you {and the other DV posts} evil men.
I too used to get severely clobbered as a child by Dad if he got angry about something, and I too thought I might die from it.
I used to cry out ''I'm dead''..as the blows and kicks rained down for what felt like an eternity , but probably was only a minute or two.

Massive bleed after I gave birth whilst dh had popped out to get the baby clothes, they tried everything to stop the bleed, nothing worked. They wanted to take me to theatre - I was calm but I needed to say goodbye to dh, it was all that mattered and the nurse refused to get him - I held off my consent to surgery till the consultant screamed at the nurse to bring dh in - I could then die in peace.

Another white water rafting experience...

We were all tipped out of the boat mid-rapid. dh was close to a rock and scrambled on, multiple really deep lacerations. Loads of panic and hurt.

I was mid stream whirlstorm (going through a river rapid without a boat). I expected I ws going to die in this.

It was like being in a washing machine.

And there was an incredible calm, and a peace. I felt sad that I wouldn't see my grandchildren grow up, but it was a sad acceptance rather than an overwhelming grief.

I'm never going white water rafting, paragliding or eating lamb. Just as a precaution.

Not me but I watched a programme about someone who was parachuting. His main parachute failed to open. So he pulled the cord for the reserve parachute. Which also failed to open.

He felt calm and peaceful, and thought how beautiful the blue sky was.

Then he crashed into a tree, and lived to tell the tale - on this programme.

@Barney16 I'm vegetarian, but I might start living on smoothies just in case. I have almost choked on a piece of salad before. I thought What a way to go, I'm trying to be healthy here!

Yes I was pronounced dead when i was 10/11 years old. I had a very high fever. It was very calm feeling which i can never forget even I was so young. For some reason my eyes stayed open and could see my family crying but I was at peace. Then my dad shut my eyes. Next thing I remember waking up in the hospital starving.
Yes this experience was surreal

I'm not OP, but, it's another white water one. I don't recall actually getting out. As one or two others have said I assume as i relaxed I floated out.

Motorway car accident after being rammed at 70mph concluding in a head on impact into a barrier, lost both front wheels, the bonnet, the windscreen, and the doors were crumpled shut. All I could think was while we were spinning repeatedly round and round was, Ahhh shit... I'm never going to see anyone again? I'm never going to see any one again. No panic or terror, just resigned disappointment really. A split second before the impact I thought, Oh this is what's next, ok, this is going to hurt, I'm at least going to lose my legs now. Oh well, here we go, kind of thing. It has one hundred percent informed the way I live the rest of my life, it was life changing in lots of ways.

I'm also never going white water rafting after reading this.

Over a decade ago I had spine surgery. I was only back on the ward a few hours when i started vomiting blood and was rushed to intense care suffering multiple embolisms in my heart and lungs. Nobody was able to explain why it happened but I spent a week unconscious while they battled to save me. I have a week of my life that I have no memory of. When it happened I remember I couldn't breathe properly and felt myself fading. I was scared and upset and angry that I wouldn't get to say goodbye to my family and fought to stay awake because i didn't want to die, but then this feeling of calm and peace washed over me and I felt acceptance that I was not going to survive. I remember wanting them to take my bed outside so I could look at the sky and hear the birds while I died peacefully. I couldn't fight any longer and closed my eyes and accepted my fate then opened my eyes again and it was a week later. I remembered the same nurse who was there when I used to be alive and couldn't understand why she came with me. They had to show me a newspaper because I didn't believe them when they said I had been asleep for a week. Sorry to disappoint anyone but there were no angels or singing. Just darkness. That's all I remember before I came back.

So comforting to read so many of these stories, not just for ourselves when the time comes but when thinking of family members who have died.

The sense that I am getting is that the body will fight whilst it can to survive (and this is often traumatic) but at at certain point, when there is nothing that we can do to save ourselves anymore then a sense of calm often takes over, an acceptance. Hugely comforting and also reassuring so many are describing such similar experiences.

I had breast cancer last year and was given a lot of chemo to get rid of it. The chemo made me very unwell, I had pain in my leg (thought it was a pulled/tight hamstring) it was a dvt, which turned into a pulmonary embolism.

By the time I had a chest scan I couldn’t stand up and the dr scanning me did an emergency call out in the hospital, they carted me off to emergency. Emergency triaged me up to ICU which is basically intensive care. They kept giving me blood thinner medication but I still couldn’t stand up. Every time I moved I couldn’t breathe properly and I was extremely anxious as I knew I was extremely unwell. Hooked up to all sorts of monitors, oxygen in my nose etc.

I got to the point where I was just saying please, please, please to the nurse and I couldn’t look at her as I could feel myself losing consciousness. It was very scary.

Then the heart Dr said it’s time to give you the clot buster medication. So they gave me back and literally within an hour or so I could stand up again.

Twenty years ago I would have died. Either ovarian or breast cancer would have got me. But… the clot buster worked. The chemo worked (nearly killed me but I’ll take it). The surgery worked.

Last year I cheated death several times.

Only due to the innovation of medical science.

I am beyond lucky. I am cancer free. I might get a bit longer. Six months on I get stressed out about normal stuff. What’s for dinner etc…

Thank you for the thread. I need to keep remembering how lucky I am.

That is absolutely horrifying. I'm so glad you recovered from that !!

My mum sadly passed away three months ago and I always remember her telling the story of my birth in which she had pre-eclampsia and I was born by emergency c-section 6 weeks early.

During the operation, she descibed floating up to the ceiling and was able to see the surgeons operating on her before travelling down a tunnel with a light at the end of it. She said she arrived in the most beautiful garden with her beloved dad there to greet her. However, a voice said it wasn't her time yet and she returned to her phyical body.

There is some comfort knowing she is up there now in the peaceful place she described.