Has anyone here ever had a near-death experience?

Question

If so, describe your experience to me.

Answer 1

In 1989, I was in a terrible auto accident. I'm not sure if I was physically conscious or not, because I could hear what the paramedics were saying but I was not able to speak. I heard them saying things like, "We've got a bleeder and we can't find it." I also heard them say, "This one's going to be a DOA (dead on arrival)." I truly believed that I was dying. Even though I was obviously wrong because I'm still alive, I was CERTAIN that I was going to die. In those moments, I felt totally at peace. I remember thinking very calmly that "this is the end" and I was not afraid at all. I was no more afraid of dying than I am of falling asleep at night. It seemed totally natural. Whether or not my heart stopped beating at any time, I'm not sure. But I was definitely "near death". In fact, the doctors were extremely surprised that I survived. But I did not have the experience of seeing a bright light or going through a tunnel or any of the other things associated with the usual reports of "near death" experiences. But I did truthfully learn that death is nothing to be afraid of.

Answer 2

I never experienced the tunnel or bright light but I did experience what I would describe as an expansion of my consciousness. I had a fleeting awareness of being part of something far more complex than the material world.

Answer 3

I have had two near drownings. Once was at a local swimming pool. I wasn't very old and I was out it the pool and there was a steep drop off. I went over the edge and all the way to the bottom. I kept bobbing up and down until the lifeguard came and got me. The second time was at Geauga Lake. I was in the wave pool and got knocked down. I couldn't stand up because I had people in rafts on top of me. I was terrified. To this day I am terrified of water!!

Answer 4

Not exactly. But this may be one. About 4 years ago, my dad had finally reached the end of the road. After years of struggling with illness, the doctors said the end was near. Sure enough, my dad slipped into a coma and his vital signs were dropping rapidly. He stayed in that coma and then I realized that we had already spoken to him for the last time. I read the biblical story about the 'prodigal son' to him, even though he was unconscious. With my mother and two sisters standing there crying, my dad opened his eyes. He just looked at me for the longest time. He was awake, but couldn't speak, although he tried. He then turned his eyes to my mother and looked at her for quite a while. Intensely, for sure. Then he died.. . . We've always been touched by those moments. And we've always wondered what he was thinking.

Answer 5

Yes, from a near fatal heart attack, but I didn't know it because the doctors & staff didn't tell me. My only experience was surprise when all my family members arrived at my bed-side.

Answer 6

A member of my family was almost strangled to death by an attacker. She prayed "Jesus, please save me!" She said the next thing she knew, she regained consciousness, but all the blood from her nose, mouth and eyes had dried. The weird thing was, she said she was still in the middle of the same prayer that she began before she lost consciousness.

We had at least 8 medical professionals tell us she was "lucky" to be alive. We credit God with saving her.

Peace.

Answer 7

I didn't have an experience but my mom had one. what she told me was that when she was sick and couldn't eat or open her eyes, all that she could see was some horses with wings flying and swiming in a very large water wose tide was very high she said that the horses kept coming to her.

Answer 8

I almost was killed on my motorcycle the other day. I downshifted, poorly I might add! and didn't stop and went in front of a 24 foot uhaul.

no bright light, but i am thankful that i would have went to heaven if i had been killed.

it didn't really sink in til that night in bed, I just kind of gasped as it all came back to my mind.

praise God he was watching for me, and kept me safe.

Answer 9

It was fairly simple... I became aware that I was in a dimly lit cave (though there was no obvious light source), and I was sitting on the floor next to a large wolf that I knew immediately to be Fenrir Wolf of norse mythology. Nothing was said, nothing needed to be said. I simply reached out and placed my hand on his shoulder and he wrapped his paw around to rest it on my arm. We stayed like that for a moment, and then I came back.

Just a neurological condition, nothing dramatic, no tunnel of light, no dead people, no god or gods or goddesses, no heaven, no hell. Just a cave, me, and a mythological wolf-god.

Answer 10

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