Has anyone had a near-death experience? What was it like?

Answer 1

whenever i have a seizure....lol (i have epilepsy) so i'm convinced it is nothing more than halucination when the brain is deprived of oxygen and starts to shut down.

Answer 2

I survived a fiery airplane crash.

The last second or two before impact took about an hour, as I experienced some sort of a mentally induced, slo-mo disruption of my time perception. I can still remember every little detail in the sequence of events.

Then, just as I saw the ground finally rising up to meet me, I became aware of a rather sharp metallic flavor in the back of my throat. I later found out it was the taste of adrenalin.

There were tremendous G forces, a big bang, followed by a moment of absolute silence, and then everything went very, very black.

I came-to a short time later, still belted in.

The airplane had impacted the ground nose first ... just like a big lawn dart ... and I was looking almost straight down at the runway.

The fuel lines and at least one of the two wing tanks had ruptured. Fuel had poured out onto the hot engine, as well as the tarmac, and fire was in the process of engulfing the plane, both inside and out.

There were flames licking up around and between my feet, and gray, wispy smoke already filled the cockpit. It was definitely time to go.

I located and pulled the handle for the quick release pin on the door, and it fell away. I popped open the safety belt harness, scrambled out and down, and quickly put some distance between the fire, the gasoline, and me.

As I turned to look back, the whole thing went up in a burst of orange flame, followed by a big plume of thick, black smoke ... just like in the movies.

Even wearing a 5 point military style harness, I had stretched enough during impact to bruise my hands, arms, legs and feet on and under the instrument panel. I had also solidly banged my head and face on the door frame, but there was no sense of pain.

Miraculously, I was not burned at all.

I had lost my glasses, a few charts, the contents of my shirt and pants pockets, (and later, $880 in insurance deductible costs) but that was about all.

They swept up what remained of the aircraft structure, and then hoisted the blackened remains of the engine, and the pretzeled propeller, into the back of a truck.

The plane, a sharp little Cessna 150 Aerobat, was only about a week old, when it died. I was 18 at the time.

During my period of unconsciousness, I experienced nothing at all. No white lights, no tunnel effects, no Jesus, no dead relatives. Just blackness.

If I had died there, it would have been painless, and I would probably have never known the difference.

My mom later told me she had sensed something had happened, and she wasn't at all surprised when she heard the report on the news, and got a call from my brother, telling her I was OK.

An hour later, I got another, similar type aircraft, went back up with an instructor friend of mine, and we figured out exactly what had gone wrong.

Most people don't get to walk (run?) away from things like that, and I didn't want to make the same mistake twice.

Answer 3

when i was a 10 years old boy, i ran into a T junction road. right after a step on the middle line of the road, a high speed bus ran pass behing me. i still can feel the wind and hear the sound of laughter of the peoples in that bus. actually, i don't really feel anything at that time.

when i was 19, i nearly drown in a river. it was when picnic with my ex-classmate. it happened last year, i still remember it clearly. it was 3 of us in that river. when that happened, it was like your life is the most important one. you try so hard just to save yourself by pulling your friend in and make yourself out. it was like a bestfriend since chilhood, and when that happen, you want to save yourself more.
it was no use, the current were too strong. a near-death experienced? i don't know about other. that time, all i could think about is to breath. i opened my mouth, i tried hard to keep on the water surface. i just want to breath.
fortunetly, i was saved by a friend drinking by the river. he saved all of us 3. but it only happened after i beginning to sink. it was blank. nothing. i think about nothing. it feel heavy and tired.

Answer 4

My dad (God rest his soul) had 2 NDE back in 1976, and the way he described them to me was peaceful and beautiful and then hearing God say it was not his time yet. My dad passed away in 1989 at the age of 60.

Answer 5

During an operation my heart stopped, and I wasn't breathing, I was clinically dead. It was like I felt a thousand years ago. Nothing- - - a whole lot of nothing. Blank

Answer 6

yeah i don't remeber when it happened cause i was 2 but i almost died by choking on a pretzel well my dad was in another room i stuck a pretzel in my mouth and i walked in his room and i couldn't breath my face started turning blue and i was unconcious and my eyes were rolling to the back of my head my dad was doing cpr breathing in my mouth and he called 911 and they were there in like 5 min

Answer 7

It was...very cool. Scary at first, then it was OK. Coming back was like being launched into orbit.

Answer 8

There were some bright lights, a large crash and five weeks in hospital. It sucked.

Answer 9

I have had bullets flying near my face, does that count?

Answer 10

Yes. It was very scary.