Has anyone here had a near-death experience or know someone that has had one?

[sage2021]

[exitseven]

My first job out of high school was in the city about 15-20 miles away. I did not own a car so I hitchhiked to and from work every day. I used to stand on a traffic island that had a blinking light on it and stuck my thumb out after work and usually I could get a ride in 10- 15 minutes. To get to this traffic island I had to cross a busy turnpike. I always looked both ways and ran across. One Friday night in January I ran across and somehow I was struck by a speeding car. I got a glancing blow but it was enough to send me hurtling through the air. I can remember seeing the hiway coming up close and seeing little bits of broken glass and plastic, the result of a thousand rear enders.
Months earlier a homeless man was hit near that area and cars just kept running him over, thinking he was a pile of rags.
As soon as I was struck, I immediately knew I was dead. I knew I would soon be reduced to a pile of rags. Instead of getting scared, I was strangely calm, thinking it wouldn't be a bad way to go if it didn't hurt too much, besides I wasn't doing anything great with my life anyway.
All of a sudden it got quiet. When I looked up everything was bathed in this weird light, sort of like one of those sodium lamps. All the cars were in slow motion as if they were practically frozen. Somehow I got to my feet and finished running across the road. As soon as I got to the other side everything sped up and went back to normal. As if that wasn't weird enough, I felt like I could sense other people who have had similar experiences.
Then I could taste my own blood and found that I had bit through my lower lip.
I limped for a couple of weeks after that but I never figured out what happened.

[sage2021]

@exitseven
WOW 😲 that's quite a story 7. Man, kinda unreal that that happened to you. The other guy died, but you lived. I got a weird feeling in my stomach when I read that people just kept running over and over him. Poor man. No one deserves to die like that. That's horrible! And just think that people in China run over children in the street and continue to run him over until you can't see anything in the street to show a child was killed there.
I swear if that happened to my son, I would have to eliminate myself because I wouldn't want to live anymore. How sad life can be sometimes.
I got the Chinese boy information from an opinion on here and can't forget about it. 🤨

[exitseven]

I think that there are things in the universe that we cannot perceive and every once in a while we an get a glimpse of them. I know that I probably should be dead and I was lucky that night that something intervened.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Likes2drive]

I almost drowned in a lake when I was 12 , luckily my brother was there when I fell in off the ledge of the rock cliff and he was able to reach me and grab my hand

[douride2]

I should have been dead twice by the time I was 16. both times the doc said I should have never survived.

[Jmmmfi4]

THATS AWESOME

[IslaTheWitch]

I had... Officially I was dead 7 times. At least it's the number of reanimations I have in my hospital papers, I remember only a few of them.

[sage2021]

@IslaTheWitch
Anything you'd like to tell us about? I love to hear about near death experiencees.

[IslaTheWitch]

In my case, nothing special... I was in the ambulance with damaged lungs... I had 3 reanimations there but remember only 2

The thing hard to forget is the excruciating pain when the lungs stop working... and the strange feeling of a still beating heart when you know you are dying. When your lungs don't work, you feel the heart differently, stronger, the beat is clear...

There is this moment when, because of the lack of oxygen (lungs not working), your brain cuts you off from all senses (including pain) and shows you all in slow motion... It would be enjoyable if you weren't scared as shit...

Then your heart stops, and you black out, but not completely... you still "feel" what they do with you. I heard the counting as paramedics keep track of time to asses brain damage if there is no way of making reanimation. I remember the second time the paramedic, who sat there with me and tried to keep me alive, just grabbed my face and shouted, "breathe for fucking sake, just breathe"
And you know... My lungs took one breath, then a second...

but those memories aren't clear. It's like you would be in a very thick, dark fog... you feel some things, you hear some things... but nothing is certain, and you don't know what is the effect of CO2 poisoning and what is real... From a medical point of view, you are dead. No breath, no heartbeat. But your brain still doesn't know it and uses the last reserves of oxygen trying to survive and waiting for a miracle

I talked with the paramedic when I was released, so I know he shouted that :D

[FenixG45]

*whoa*🫣😖😬

[exitseven]

@islathewitch. Absolutely amazing.

[Surely]

No near death experiences. As in seeing the bright light. But a few almost could have been killed if things didn’t happen as they did. Since I lived on a farm and worked on heavy equipment all of my life? There is always something out there that could leave a mark!

[FunkyMonkee]

I almost drowned in the river when I was about 7 or 8 and had pneumonia 3 times.

[Danny_dan92]

Yeah, got in a pretty bad motorcycle accident and almost got ran over by the car behind me

[Andres77]

Sure. Every time a bullet zipped by my head in Afghanistan

[MemeSupreme]

yeah why you wanna know

[Phoenix98]

yes and also yes.

[Roudyrebel8]

Don't think so