Anyone who experienced an NDE (Near Death Experience) please share here

[FlyersFan]

Not sure what forum for this .... NDEs ... are they 'paranormal' or are the 'natural and normal'?

For anyone here who has experienced a Near Death Experience and wants to share .... post your story here.   Please tell us what happened, what you experienced, what (if anything) that you learned, if it changed you tell us how, what you think of the afterlife now compared to before, etc etc.

I don't know if NDEs are actually real experiences or if they are just the dying brain hallucinating because of the lack of oxygen, the trauma of the situation, or the DMT that is being released ... but I find them very interesting.

Until recently I thought most people who experienced an NDE saw the light and felt the love and saw dead people all being nice to them ... but now I know that most people experience 'the void' which is complete obliteration of everything even themselves and they cease to exist ... so my thoughts on NDEs are wide open ... I don't know what they are but they are very interesting.

When I was a little kid of about 10 years old, I knew an older man who had a heart attack and died and came back.  This was the early 70s before people really all knew about NDEs and 'the tunnel of light' and all that.   I asked him what he saw when he died.  He said he saw nothing but he knew when he was dead and he had 'felt great and didn't want to come back'.

[KKLoco]

I watched the following video a couple days ago. It's not 100% applicable to the thread, but enough to post it.

It is a video of a renowned remote viewer. He was given a task to remote view Kennedy's assassination. He had no clue what he was going view. The sole purpose of the session (presented by his superior), was to find out how many shooters were there. After he saw the assassination, something unexpected happened. He witnessed JFK in the after life. All of the emotions he went through. And the beings that met him there. I found it to be quite compelling.

[BeTheGoddess]

yeah they sent me back, imagine getting kicked out of hell?

For those who may not be familiar, the University of Virginia are one of the few western unis to take on the topic

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-stud...nces-ndes/

[FlyersFan]

yeah they sent me back, imagine getting kicked out of hell?

You died and went to hell?
Do you feel like telling more?
What were your spiritual/religious beliefs at the time?
What are they now?
What did you experience?
etc etc etc

[sahgwa]

Not sure what forum for this .... NDEs ... are they 'paranormal' or are the 'natural and normal'?

For anyone here who has experienced a Near Death Experience and wants to share .... post your story here.   Please tell us what happened, what you experienced, what (if anything) that you learned, if it changed you tell us how, what you think of the afterlife now compared to before, etc etc.

I don't know if NDEs are actually real experiences or if they are just the dying brain hallucinating because of the lack of oxygen, the trauma of the situation, or the DMT that is being released ... but I find them very interesting.

Until recently I thought most people who experienced an NDE saw the light and felt the love and saw dead people all being nice to them ... but now I know that most people experience 'the void' which is complete obliteration of everything even themselves and they cease to exist ... so my thoughts on NDEs are wide open ... I don't know what they are but they are very interesting.

When I was a little kid of about 10 years old, I knew an older man who had a heart attack and died and came back.  This was the early 70s before people really all knew about NDEs and 'the tunnel of light' and all that.   I asked him what he saw when he died.  He said he saw nothing but he knew when he was dead and he had 'felt great and didn't want to come back'.

My experience was fairly brief.  I didn't die long enough to see the tunnel or other entities.
I was about 4 years old. 
We had a holiday bungalow in the Canary Islands.
There was a large (to me anyway!) pool out front of the bungalow. 
I had received a Kinder Egg and after eating it there was a toy of a diver in a little submarine diving suit, with the helmet etc.  I played him out on his string to go diving in the pool.
I leant over to see him hit the bottom and go 'exploring' and then I over-balanced and plopped in.
I hadn't learnt to swim yet so I sunk to the bottom. I remember just being confused. I inhaled a bunch of water and then the next thing I recall is seeing the pool from a birds-eye view.
I looked down and my body was on the side of the pool and I was floating above it, and my sister or someone was doing CPR and then I recall an extreme burning sensation in my lungs and a lot of coughing and I was back in my body.

Not sure how long it lasted, but my whole life I have felt and known that we are more than our physical forms, and have not really been afraid of dying.  I think this had a lot to do with it.
Also I have a larger pain tolerance than most people.  I think it also made me able to see behind the veil easier and communicate with non physical beings.

[FlyersFan]

I was about 4 years old. ...
I looked down and my body was on the side of the pool and I was floating above it, 

So you were too young to have been indoctrinated with a belief system or to understand what being dead is or what to expect.   So your recollection is really something more pure and credible, IMHO.

[sahgwa]

So you were too young to have been indoctrinated with a belief system or to understand what being dead is or what to expect.   So your recollection is really something more pure and credible, IMHO.

I had no memorable experience with the Church (Catholic) until I suppose 8 or 9/10? I had my first communion.  I recall that .  When they wanted me to get Confirmation around 13 or 14? Everything in me said NO , this is not spiritual to me this is a control mechanism.  At four I just liked nature and playing, like any kid. And I had no experience with anything dead.

[RadioKnecht]

While I have never (thankfully) experienced an NDE, I have experienced a couple of times the reaching out of a couple of friends that actually died, and had to be oriented to finalize their crossing to the other side of the veil. This was through dreams, too real to be just dreams. I don't consider myself a channel, nor do I feel like I have a special connection or anything to the other side, just an out of the ordinary sense of empathy that perhaps reached out to my friends that had died and were not entirely aware of that. This is why I know at my deepest core that there is something else after the last beat of our heart. DM me if you would like to know more, as this is something very personal to share in a forum.

In any case, knowing what goes on on the other side of the veil, is something that has really kept me up at nights. One of the best books on NDEs and what we should expect, is Proof of Heaven, by Dr. Eben Alexander. This book is the account of Dr. Alexander's (a heretofore atheist and Harvard trained neurosurgeon) experience when he had bacterial meningitis and his brain actually shut down and died. What is striking of his story, is the scientific approach that Dr. Alexander undertakes of his experience, and his willingness to put it out there, fully knowing that his reputation as a scientist would take a severe hit.

It is a truly compelling read and if NDEs are your cup of tea, then this book will really (if you haven't read it yet) grip you and I can't recommend it enough.

[sahgwa]

While I have never (thankfully) experienced an NDE, I have experienced a couple of times the reaching out of a couple of friends that actually died, and had to be oriented to finalize their crossing to the other side of the veil. This was through dreams, too real to be just dreams. I don't consider myself a channel, nor do I feel like I have a special connection or anything to the other side, just an out of the ordinary sense of empathy that perhaps reached out to my friends that had died and were not entirely aware of that. This is why I know at my deepest core that there is something else after the last beat of our heart. DM me if you would like to know more, as this is something very personal to share in a forum.

In any case, knowing what goes on on the other side of the veil, is something that has really kept me up at nights. One of the best books on NDEs and what we should expect, is Proof of Heaven, by Dr. Eben Alexander. This book is the account of Dr. Alexander's (a heretofore atheist and Harvard trained neurosurgeon) experience when he had bacterial meningitis and his brain actually shut down and died. What is striking of his story, is the scientific approach that Dr. Alexander undertakes of his experience, and his willingness to put it out there, fully knowing that his reputation as a scientist would take a severe hit.

It is a truly compelling read and if NDEs are your cup of tea, then this book will really (if you haven't read it yet) grip you and I can't recommend it enough.

Thanks for sharing your experience and the book recommendation.
Your friends were lost or asking for help as they weren't aware of being dead?
Do you recall what you did?

[RadioKnecht]

Thanks for sharing your experience and the book recommendation.
Your friends were lost or asking for help as they weren't aware of being dead?
Do you recall what you did?

This happened at different times. The first time was in 2002. My friend (more of a coworker, actually; I had known him for a couple of months) was driving on a highway to go see his girlfriend, who lived about 1 hour away. I am not really sure what happened, but he crashed and lost his life. We worked together and the day after he died, I dreamt of him. In my dream, we were at the office and it was a Saturday. I asked him what he was doing there, since it was the weekend. He told me that he "had a lot of pending work and things to do". He didn't want to leave. He didn't know that he had to leave. He wasn't aware that his time was up. I knew this instinctively in the logic that dreams have.  I told him that he had died, that there was nothing left for him to do in the office, and that he should go and rest. When I told him this, he looked at me really worried and concerned, and then it dawned upon him that I was right. He told me so. He thanked me, turned away and I watched him walk through our office's doorway into the light. Literal light.

The second time was in 2008. This is really hard, as it happened to my best friend ever. We were like brothers.

At the time, I was living in London studying my masters degree. It had been two weeks since I had arrived there, and I dreamt of him that night. To be really honest, I don't remember exactly what I dreamt, but I know it was with him. Upon waking up, I realized that I hadn't spoken to my friend since I arrived in London, so I went to class and figured that I would call him when I got back (this was before smartphones, whatsapp or any other type of instant messaging in the phone). When I returned to my dorm, I had several missed calls in my skype account from my family and my brother. Several messages in MSN's messenger too, telling me that it was urgent to call back home. I thought that something had happened to my dad, since he had had a heart attack 4 years before. When I finally talked to my brother, he told me that my friend had been murdered. I broke down and told him that that could'nt be, that I had dreamt of him the night before (exactly at the time when he had been killed).

To make it short, I dreamt of my friend every night for an entire week. Real, vivid, technicolor dreams. The really curious thing, was that each night, before dreaming with him, I would dream of whales and dolphins; and of swimming with them in the ocean, or at times watching them from above, on a boat. Every single night for a week, I would dream with these animals, and then the dream would smoothly transition into scenarios where I was with my friend, and I would feel everything he was feeling. His anger. His desire to still be alive (he was only 30 when he was murdered). The sense that an injustice had been committed and his refusal to acknowledge that he was dead. For some reason which I cannot fathom, much less explain, in these dream scenarios I was still not allowed to tell him that he had been murdered. I was just allowed to be with him and talk with him. Once again, this was all very real and today, 17 years after these dream sequences happened, I can still recall perfectly well the sounds, the smells and the details in the settings of the dreams.

Anyway. This went on for exactly one week. First the dream with dolphins and whales. Then me engaging with my friend. The final night, the dream was set outside of a restaurant where we would usually hang out with the rest of our crew. Our friends were already inside, and in the dream me and him were meeting outside, getting ready to go in.  As he walked towards the entrance, I grabbed him by the shoulders and looking straight into his eyes, I told him that he could not go in. I was finally allowed to tell him that he was dead. I told him three times. You cannot go in. You are dead. Someone murdered you. You are dead. You are dead. When I told him the last time, he kind of realized it and told me, "you are right". Then I saw life abandoning him. In the dream he crumbled like a rag doll to the floor. And then I woke up. I have not dreamt of him like that since.

Maybe all this was my unconscious helping me deal with a couple of really traumatic events. Maybe they were just that. Dreams. However, there are a couple of twists in each of these stories that make me wonder and question.

In the case of my coworker, even though we hadn't known each other for too long, he told me that he really liked me, since I reminded him so much of his little brother. When his family went to the office to pick up his things, I saw his brother, and we really looked so much alike. I then rememberd what he had told me some months before.

In the case of my best friend, I had never had repetitive dreams before, so I investigated what it meant to dream of whales and dolphins and the sea. What I found was really interesting. In the oniric world, the sea represents the spiritual realm. The land of the spirits and departed ones. On the other hand, whales and dolphins are mammals that breathe air. That is to say, they are beings that have adapted to live underwater, while retaining ther original inland characteristics. In the dreamworld, whales and dolphins are beings that navigate seamlessly through the living and spiritual realms. According to what I read, when you dream of these creatures, you are also adapting to both worlds. You kind of become a channel between the dead and the living realms.

Since these two episoded happened, I have also lost several persons very close to me. All my grandparents. My dad and two of his brothers (my uncles). Another very dear friend. In these cases, I didn't dream of them, nor did I have to tell them what had happened.

Who knows. I think of this a lot. Our world is an amazing and interesting place, far beyond our understanding and what science can detect.