Near-death experiences are phenomena that are often considered enigmatic and mystifying. Have you ever had a near death experience? How was it like?
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I flatlined during a surgery. I saw the room, my body, the medical team, the devices around, the rush, the screams, the main surgeon swearing, the tension. I had no attachment to the body lying there, i just noted it looked good after all. The best way to describe it would be absently watching an old movie you’re not interested in. No emotions whatsoever. No happiness, no pain, no sorrow, nothing. I was looking at what happened somewhere from above but didn’t actually feel I was floating. I didn’t feel anything. I was just recording the information. Not sure what for? It wasn’t pleasant, it wasn’t unpleasant. And it didn’t seem that i was going anywhere: up, down or sideways. I didn’t find any “hidden meaning of life”. No deities. No dead relatives. Nothing about the past, nothing about the future. No revelation. Nothing. Just being there, glued somewhere on the ceiling. And no, it wasn’t scary. It felt normal.
I almost lost my life driving my car at 1am in the morning on the freeway after celebrating my sisters birthday earlier that evening. I fell asleep at the wheel going 90mph on cruise control. After falling-asleep on a straight-away, I woke up immediately once my car headed outside the lane and ran-off the road still going 90mph headed towards a ledge over an embankment aside from the freeway near Seacliff Drive. When I woke up, I had a split-second to choose whether I wanted to brake (and risk skidding over the ledge anyways), or turning my wheel immediately to hopefully avoid going over the cliff. I decided to turn my wheel immediately and felt a G-Force unlike anything I’ve ever experienced twist my car sideways as it spun 45 degrees and then rolled 4 times and landed right-side up on all four wheels. I will never forget the feeling of being in my car as it flipped and pounded into the ground and continued rolling, it felt like I was in a washing machine of glass as everything shattered, broke and scattered in the air, while I stayed locked-into my seat belt as the glass shard flew everywhere around me, while my head kept slamming into the side panel of the frame; each impact was thrusted by the cars’ momentum. The whole thing happened so fast, by the time it ended seconds later, the whole car was a wreck, I remember a cool breeze drifting onto my face.
After I realized what had happened, in the still and darkness of the night, a glimmering light was ever-so visible, it gave me a sudden sense of calmness, and a sense of security, safety and serenity overcame the body shock. I’m not religious person, but I felt the presence of God, or something similar as I sat in my drivers seat, it felt as though a spirit or my soul was lifted-out from me as I sat there and felt at total ease, with all the stillness of the present moment. I literally had seen my whole life “flash” before my eyes, as the car rolled every highlight clip of my life played on a cinema screen through my head quickly from before my birth in the womb, through the moment my car began to flip and roll-over. Sitting alone in my car and realizing I had cheated death, because I had on my seat belt, although I still could have died, I felt at total peace with myself. A feeling of contentment and ease overcame me and although my heart was pumping hard and glass was stuck in my head, my left eye was punched-black and blue and completely shut and my arms were bleeding profusely from the shard glass, there was a huge feeling of happiness for the life I had lived until that point. No negative feelings or emotions were being experienced like anger, animosity, embarrassment, humiliation, revenge or anything else. I felt tranquil, peaceful, content and enlightened. The feeling of near-death is nothing I’ve ever experienced. Total calmness, tranquility, solace with myself and where I was, despite all the trauma that had occurred and injuries.
I‘ve had a very close shave at death and I can tell you that is very easy to die. You slip into death like when you fall asleep. You are not even aware that you died. What I felt was that something heavy and cold was evaporating from my physical body; I would describe the sensation like when you remove the nail polish and you feel the nail polish remover cold and heavy on your nails while it evaporates. Then I did not perceive my body anymore, kind of like feeling everywhere in the room but in the mean time feeling small. I am telling you that is very weird, hard to describe and understand. I was able to see everywhere and I was able to hear, but people’s voices had a low speed frequency and I couldn’t make out much what they were saying. I felt calm, very good and with no worries. No recollection of my earthly life, though. No memories, not many feelings. Just feeling good and serene. But the whole time I was able to feel one part of my physical body: the belly button. I felt it cold and heavy and I felt like something was keeping me connected to it, something like a umbilical cord that I was aware of but couldn’t see. I could see myself on the hospital bed and people rushing around me and trying to revive me. That upset me a lot! I just wanted to be left alone. Then I looked to a window and I saw my husband’s face crying. This was the single time when I felt regret and sorrow. Suddenly, I was drawn back into my body. The experience was horrible as I felt like I had been thrown from a 30-story building. I felt the most horrible pain, not just physical but emotional as well. I literally jumped off the bed, and four nurses had to hold me down. My eyes were completely red because all the blood vessels popped during this experience. I couldn’t remember anything immediately; it took me three weeks to recover and remember everything. Maybe there is more that happened, but this is what I was able to remember.