Near Death Experiences

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NC as this could be outing! I'm very interested in hearing from anyone who has had a NDE. A close family member was in a coma for several months after a nasty accident. He told us about how, at one point, he found himself in a large white waiting room. There he saw a relative who had died years earlier, surrounded by bright light. The relative told him to 'go back' as it wasn't his time yet.

Yes, people with hypoxia can have vivid dreams / hallucinations.

It wasn't an induced coma and he did suffer a brain injury in the accident. His parents were told it was very likely he was either going to die or have severe brain damage. Although he needed extensive rehabilitation it was a very remarkable recovery in the end.
@Leilu I know the effects of hypoxia might be the case for some but people do recover after being pronounced clinically dead.

OP I am very very very interested in NDE’s never had one myself would love to hear from someone. NDE radio podcasts on YouTube have loads of accounts. I’m totally fascinated.

I did as a young child, but I don’t know how much of that is true memory or how much of it is recreated memory from what I was told about the event.

From ‘’my memory’” I recall seeing my body with my aunt leaving over me, trying to revive me and my uncle coming in the room. It wasn’t frightening. I was watching from a height like from where the clock on the wall was. As I say, is it true recall or some sort of induced memory?

@SomeoneInTheLaaaaaounge Glad I'm not the only one! I realise this is probably a long shot as they're not exactly common😁I did see another poster mentioning they'd had one, on a different thread though. I haven't had a NDE (thankfully?!) but clearly remember a few very vivid dreams about loved ones who've passed, which felt real at the time.

During an operation, i had a very vivid dream that I was in a waiting room, nothing heavenly that I re call, then my deceased father was giving me a lift in the car he had when he was alive, driving quite fast almost through traffic lights fast, I woke up in the recovery room. The nurse came over to check on me and explained they had trouble with my breathing.

@RogersOrganismicProcess Thank you, that's very interesting. I've heard before there's quite often a feeling of calm, which is reassuring.

@minticecreamisjustok That sounds quite similar to my relative, do you remember what the waiting room was like?

It was nighttime, although the operation was during the day. I was aware of people around me and sitting on my own until my dad came to take me back. Nothing at the time made me think I've temporarily died, just remember feeling it was nice to see my dad but why we in such a rush!

Not near death experience but after having DD1, c section, excessive blood loss and totally exhausted I was in the ward and recall seeing myself from the other end of the room! From high up as if looking down. All very very odd. Had a blood transfusion later that day. Have never forgotten that experience though and would love to know what it was all about!

I’ve had one. My grandma was at the end of a long tunnel of light and told me to go back.

When my dd16 was 2, I was very poorly and in hospital for a few months.

I was as the surgeon said a couple of days at most from death, I was in bed, totally awake, not hallucinating for sure. My Nan who passed away when I was 7 sat next to me on my bed. I remember in my mind crying to her, her comforting me, cuddling me and stroking my hair. I remembered what she was wearing in detail.

after I recovered and left hospital I was telling my mum about it, she is very much none woohoo, she couldn’t believe the description of the dressing gown Nan was wearing. I had never seen it, it was what she wore at the end. My mum was white when I told her.

I know my experience isn’t NDE, but it sort of was for me. It wasn’t my mind making her up because I was in a bad way, it was real.

I wasn’t even close to her!! Feel bad saying that, but I wasn’t. But I feel closer to her since that day

Thanks @minticecreamisjustok 😊
I was around 11 when my Grandma died. She was the first person I knew to pass and I was so upset. I had a dream about her a few months later. She was sitting on a white bench in a sunny garden, surrounded by the most beautiful Chinese wisteria. I sat at her feet on the grass and we talked. I couldn't see beyond the immediate surroundings as there was a thick white mist covering everything. I felt so much more at peace in the morning and it seemed to me like I'd very briefly visited heaven. Years later I discovered that my Grandma's favourite flowers were Chinese wisteria (didn't know this at the time).

Great, love hearing all these stories. Going to have to call it a night but keep it up 👍

My Dad frequently spoke of watching himself having an operation from the ceiling. He could remember every detail of it but no pain or distress. So very odd.

Eben Alexander's account is very interesting because he is a neurosurgeon and his neocortex was shut down due to meningitis infection. From his expertise he was able to know that his brain was incapable of producing the profound and memorable experience that he had.

DMT studies are also interesting. They used to think that the experiences were produced by heightened activity in the brain (like in dreaming), but very recently they have found that actually what happens when people take DMTis large parts of the brain go black - ie a simulated death.

IANDS have lots of NDE accounts on YouTube.

I like NDE stories. Not got one myself thank goodness!!

Experienced the 'travelling down a dark tunnel towards a bright light' thing myself. Absolutely nothing spiritual or otherworldly about it. I was four years old and going under general anaesthetic, but it's such a vivid experience that I can still remember it clearly nearly half a century later. It's no wonder that when adults experience something similar their imaginations run wild.

Totally outing if some read this but never mind.

It wasn't so much a NDE but a very very vivid dream. Went to bed the night before my second driving test and obviously fell asleep.
Was driving a car and my Uncle, who had died months earlier and, incidentally, had spent time as a BSM driving instructor, was in the passenger seat saying how very proud he was of me passing . The colours were more vivid than in life as we drove along. The car stopped and he got out and there was a light, that I was told I could not go into.
Anyway I woke up and was quite upset as I missed my Uncle,
Later that day I passed that second Driving Test.

Another time was when my Nan had recently died and, again, I was missing her.. I went to sleep and then I was with her. She was sat on a bench at the seaside and I sat next to Her, told her how much I missed her and she said that "I am fine, I am happy and will see you again but not for many years yet"

I am enjoying this thread OP

I am obsessed with NDEs. You all should register your stories with nderf.org they are an oncologist and his wife who are researching them

Thanks for the YouTube recommendations, I'll check them out.

As requested, as much as I can remember of my NDE.

In December 2004 I had a subarachnoid haemorrhage, a significant bleed to the brain. I was in bed, wishing I could sleep as I had to get up for my very stressful work in three hours' time. Something like a depth-charge went off in my head. It was huge, and painful. My mind said 'Stand up! Get up now, or die!" I stood up and collapsed to the floor. Knowing that this would lead to death, I stood up again, and walked around the first floor of my house for the next three hours. I then started my everyday routine. Had I not lived alone, I would have been in hospital, but with no-one to assist and with my brain barely functioning, I just did what I could. It took weeks to get help. Eventually, my GP told me to take double dose of Ibruprofen and get on with it. I did and spent most of the next five months asleep. I had a headache where the bleed happened, for the following five years.

Quite early in the sleeping phase - so probably January 2005 - I told God I was ready to go. There was no need to continue living.

I was taken to heaven - it had cloud-like walls. I curled up like an animal by the wall, thinking that was perfect, I didn't need any more than that. But, I was drawn in through the wall. I was in a garden. It was very neat and not full of flowers (my great uncles saw flowers and the story had passed through the family so I expected flowers, not neat lawns with kerbed edges!). There was a bright light. I ran towards the light. I was puzzled that running was so easy on a cloudy floor and when I'm old and fat and not fit to run. There was some kind of music, distant and very lovely. The light was white-gold and gave out great warmth. There was a sense of absolute peace and bliss. The light asked me 'Is there anything left you have to do?' I answered, 'I don't think my daughter has finished with me yet.' And immediately, without further discussion, I was returned to my body, in my bed. The sense of loss, the longing for that place again, lasted for months. If that is what happens when we die, there's nothing to fear.

Yes, my GP was incompetent and has since been encouraged to retire. All records of my brain event have been wiped from my medical record, including the record of my brain scan. I discovered this in February this year when I had another scan.

In another 'experience' more recently, I 'saw' all my ancestors. I was stepping off a train (in my head. My other-worldly experiences often include trains) and the ancestors were lining a road or path, clapping and approving of me. It was very pleasant. They were in normal clothes, not any kind of heavenly garb.

You can send the people in white coats any time...😂

That's lovely.

Somebody I know had a NDE but they don't talk of it much . People mock them.
Apparently though, in her NDE, a train featured . I said its possibly what takes you to the afterlife.
Quite apt as well as her Grandfather was a Train driver in life.
She said there were others on the train, some she recognized as dead and some she did not know (she concluded they were ancestors)

Oh I forgot to add (last bit don't make much sense without this) she knew she was dead.

That is all she told Me.