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Near Death Experiences Question
- Thread starter Psalm23
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A couple of times I bumped the back of my head at the bottom of a flume ride at a waterpark. Each time I heard a gunshot, and it looked like everything my eyes saw shrunk to a tiny dot then vanished exactly the way it looked when a old style TV turned off. Rapidly my eyesight shrunk to a white dot and then went out. I was then unconscious. Then there would be silence until I started to come to and struggled to get my aching head out of the pool. This happened twice.
My dad was mugged, hit across the head with half a brick and 0.72 pence stolen.
He was in a coma for a month, during that time he actually died 3 times.
To this day he insists that the only reason he is still alive is because god is a lousy poker player.
He was in a coma for a month, during that time he actually died 3 times.
To this day he insists that the only reason he is still alive is because god is a lousy poker player.
Psalm23
Well-Known Member
Wow , thank you for sharing. Good to hear he survived. Do you know if the mugger was caught?
I have a good friend whose cousin crashed his light aircraft at night. He crawled clear and lay, injured, against a tree in the dark. (I gather it was a clear night.) He says he experienced the classical elements of NDE─ a sense of a tunnel, a light, approaching the light, becoming aware that he could go on or go back, and deciding to go back. He understood the light to be significant, but he couldn't say what the significance was.
He was matter-of-fact about it, and regarded it as a curious medical phenomenon rather than a vision.
Can't say that I have. My mom is really into them, though.
What are your thoughts on near death experiences, @Psalm23?
Have you or someone you known experienced one?
Cheers
The guy was never caught for the attack on dad but im pretty sure the mugging was not a one off thing. Perhaps he got caught another time.
Psalm23
Well-Known Member
Can't say that I have. My mom is really into them, though.
What are your thoughts on near death experiences, @Psalm23?
I had a teacher whose family member I believe had one of heaven. I heard a story about a man who may have been a family member of ours and he heard a voice say something to “ it’s not your time. Go back in your body”
I never had a nde personally, just situations that could have turned out worse. One of which when I was still going to school and driving a four wheeler too fast down a path. I lost control and was headed to the trees so instinctively I jumped off. When I had jumped one of my legs was close to a wheel. Close enough to it that I had took my leg out from under where the wheel curves but not directly underneath where I would be stuck. I had a helmet on and experienced little to no pain at first.
I enjoy hearing people’s stories of ndes.
Well I'm glad you were able to escape unscathed in that incident! It always feels like a big wakeup call when you realize your mortality and escape from (or survive from) serious injury.
I think the last thing I went through with my ocular migraine was one of the more scarier things, cause I could feel my mental faculties just... Go away. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't think. What I found out later was that I couldn't think straight, which is something that happens to be a symptom of ocular migraines. It's also something that happens with strokes, which is what I got rushed to the ER for. Thankfully it was just a headache.
If it happens again, I know what to expect!I think the first time I really had a good taste of the prospect of my mortality was when I broke my arm, though. Not necessarily from the event itself, but from the doctor telling me that one day I may begin losing function of my arm (it was a pretty grievous injury - I got metal in my arm).
I also work work on the ICU and the CCU floors at the hospital, so death is kind of something I'm forced to think about and interact with on a regular basis. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, though. Keeps things in perspective for me!
I get to know my patients well, too... I've even made a few posts about them that you might enjoy.
The most amazing patient!
I had an elder friend who had one. I forget the circumstances, but he was of an age, that it was something medical but old-age-related. He was unconscious for a couple of days in the hospital. His wife was by his side the whole time, talking to him non-stop, on the theory that she might keep him connected to this mortal existence in some way. It seemed to work, because he revived/recovered. Later he said he'd had an NDE, "went through the tunnel and the whole thing". He lived another 10 years or so, long enough to see his daughter graduate from college.
I had a massage client, who said she'd had one after an accident of some sort. She also said, that she entered the tunnel, and so on.
I've read quite a few books about NDE's, and also the interviews with kids who remember past lives. I've never believed in one or more deities, but the consistent reports by NDE-ers of a Light, that communicates with them, usually telling them it's not their time yet and they have to go back to their life, are changing my mind. I'm now inclined to believe there's a giant ball of Light out there somewhere, in some dimension, that's a mysterious entity.
I'm just curious if anyone else has this giant-ball-of-Light religion, lol. There are all kinds of reports by NDE experiencers, about what goes on in so-called "Heaven". It's pretty interesting. A woman who went to Iraq during the war in some official capacity got blown up by a roadside bomb as she was passing in a jeep. She had quite an NDE, and published a book about it. Natalie Sudman is her name.
Interesting stuff.
I had a massage client, who said she'd had one after an accident of some sort. She also said, that she entered the tunnel, and so on.
I've read quite a few books about NDE's, and also the interviews with kids who remember past lives. I've never believed in one or more deities, but the consistent reports by NDE-ers of a Light, that communicates with them, usually telling them it's not their time yet and they have to go back to their life, are changing my mind. I'm now inclined to believe there's a giant ball of Light out there somewhere, in some dimension, that's a mysterious entity.
I'm just curious if anyone else has this giant-ball-of-Light religion, lol. There are all kinds of reports by NDE experiencers, about what goes on in so-called "Heaven". It's pretty interesting. A woman who went to Iraq during the war in some official capacity got blown up by a roadside bomb as she was passing in a jeep. She had quite an NDE, and published a book about it. Natalie Sudman is her name.
Interesting stuff.
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PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I knew a guy who was a little religious, but whose heart stopped working (medical) for well, I don't know how long. They were able to bring him back. He claimed that while this was going on, he experienced walking down a tunnel toward a light, then reaching the tunnel and entering heaven, and seeing angels. After that, he became a deeply religious man.
NDE's do tend to have a profound impact on people.
For some, it's a difficult adjustment afterwards, to being back in this life, where there's so much negative energy. Some survivors are depressed for a long time. They had a taste of heaven, then got yanked back to this mess on Earth. But that didn't happen to the two people I spoke with, mentioned above. They seemed to handle it well.