Did you ever have a near death experience?

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What was it like?

DannyUk2017 · Accepted Answer

Yes... i was about to die... in my sleep... my heart stopped for about a full minute, and no one couldve wake me up, and when i woke up didn't know what happened... but then i connected the "dots"... in my dream i had fallen from a 60 storey building, and i "died" in my sleep when i had made impact with the ground... but another "thing" developed that night which i realised years later... having more and more... Dejavu's...

exitseven · Accepted Answer

I have had one. I was amazingly calm.

MelaninQueen21 · Answer

Since I really don't want to relive it, long story short... Although my conscious told me not to twice, I asked my sister to go across the waterfall with me. When we went, I stopped halfway because my mind was telling me to go back. When I said to my sister that it wasn't safe, on our way back across, instead of watching where my feet were going, since I was too concerned about my sisters safety, I slipped and fell. I grabbed onto a rock, which had moss on it. A second later, my hand lost its grip and I started down the fall. I was in shock for a few seconds, then I began to scream as I slid down the fall. The I felt a hand grab my wrist and pull me up. It was my sister! She reassured me that she got me. Once I grabbed hold onto a rock, I pulled myself up and told her to keep going, that I was ok. Once we made it off the fall, my heart was racing so fast, that I felt light headed and weak. All that pressure and anxiety from that was too much that my legs got weak and I pretty much collapse. I didn't really faint; my body and mind went through so much in so little time that I barely had time to process what happened. I thought I was going to die as I slid down the fall. I barely had enough time to react and think about what to do because it happened so fast. I was scared as I was descending the fall; friends had to help me down. I was afraid that I would slip again. The adrenaline was too much. Once we headed home, I felt fine, pretty good even! The adrenaline I had when I was headed home was more like a risky adventurous feel. But when I got home, it dawned on both my sister and I, that I almost could've died that day. I felt like I shouldn't have been alive for a while. We both cried as we hugged each other. What a life changing experience I had that day. Although I didn't sprain or broke anything, I have a few cuts and scrapes. I felt the pain in my foot the next day. I didn't go to work and I wore a cast for a day, although I would walk with a limp. Although it's been 3 years since and I've grown a little, although I would still take precautions and think more carefully next time, I still wanna take on adventures in the future, whether it's sky diving or rock climbing or just traveling! But even to this day, I still think about that event that took place when I was 18. Experiences like that makes you more knowledgeable, wiser and more mature.

Honesttguy · Answer

When i was kid i got poisoned with hemlock and as i was laying in bed spasming muscles uncontrollably on day 2 or 3 i could feel getting closer to dieing as i was starting to hear voices (in my mind, eyes closed) in distant at first but then as they got closer this good feeling filled up surroundings and i felt relaxed for moment and voices asked me basically if i wanted to continue with this life or do i leave and go somewhere else. I asked question what happens if i leave vs if i stay in my mind and they showed me mind images with understanding in few sec i understood and said that i have good family and stuff and would like to stay. Then they said gonna heal me, this light started coming from above (eyes still closed) and strong relaxin jacuzzi feeling followed with it for few moments then asked me to turn other side and i took my last bits of energy and did that and again same thing light + good gentle feeling soaked into my body and it eas done thank them and said goodbyes, next day i was feeling stronger apetite came back and yea felt good.

Inexpensivefurniture · Answer

When I was 16 I contracted parasites from contaminated well water. In the span of a two months I lost nearly 60 pounds, my skin went jaundice, the whites of my eyes went grey, I was losing my hair, and I was so weak and exhausted I needed someone to push me in a wheel chair if I had to be up for more than 30 seconds.

Doctors didn't know what was wrong but they said at the rate I was losing weight and my liver was failing they figured I had maybe 3 months left. They sent me home with medication for nausea and told me to come back when I could no longer manage at home and they would admit me and keep me comfortable until the end.

The day I decided I was ready to be admitted, my dad asked me to try seeing one more doctor. He'd called natropath one city over who was willing to see me that day. I didn't want to go but I did and that choice saved my life. Within 5 minutes of me describing what was going on, the doctor told me I had parasites. I was given something to get rid of them, along with about 7 different medications to help my liver, gallbladder, intestines, stomach, and kidneys heal from the damage done by the parasites.

I'm 23 now. I know I would have been dead 7 years ago had it not been for that doctor

Jazquee · Answer

I almost died after the birth of my first child. It was a 48 hour labour. Unfortunately my pelvis wouldn't dialate past 4 cm. You need 10 to deliver. At hour 46the Drs realized that not only would I not "open" enough. But my poor baby was half way down and my utterus was contracting around her head. After hour 48 they cut her out. She came out looking like a cone head. Lol but was ok. That night I sat up to go to the bathroom all of a sudden. I felt like knives stabbing me in my lungs and back I couldn't breathe.. I collapsed on the ground and passed out just as the nurse came running in.
I woke up in ICU with a tube down my throat and all family around me red eyed and looking horrible.
After the nurse got tube out of my throat and eveyone calmed down that my eyes were open. I found out I had been in a coma for 2 weeks. The panicked emergency surgery had caused me to get multiple blood clots in my lungs causing me not to be able to breathe. I was clinically dead for 3 min. (Lack of oxygen) and a couple clots had worked way into brain. After a year of extreme relaxed life style and a shit ton of blood thinners I was back to good ole me. And I have an amazing guilt story. to hold over oldest head. Lol

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

Sure. I was stabbed in the head as a child (don't remember much, just blood and spinning). I also nearly drowned while rafting (didn't pass out I just was in the raft and then I was bouncing off the bottom of the river about eight feet down (thankfully, it would have been worse if it was rapids but we hit the one part where a small waterfall had cut a deeper patch in the river bottom)).

It wasn't anything to insane except it was very disorienting but the bubbles and the light showed me which way to go (it happened so fast it was like a sudden cut in a movie, I was in a boat and immediatley I was face down bouncing off the river bed nothing in between). I just kicked off the bottom and got back to the service and threw up the river water I swallowed and inhaled. No life flashing before my eyes or anything.

pjf1958 · Answer

I almost did a 'Bon Scott'. When I was 21 in 1979, I was in the Navy. For those of you who weren't alive yet, let me set the stage. "Gather 'round' youngin's"; in 1979 my rating, or job description was what was known as a radioman. I was stationed in Keflavik Iceland. Back then, the Cold War was alive and kicking. Iceland was perfectly situated in the North Atlantic to monitor Soviet air and Naval activity. The date was December 21st 1979. The
Winter solstice. We were having our own little version of world war three. However, instead of loving thermal nuclear weapons around, we were loving shots of tequila down our throats. Eventually I got in a fight with the with the tequila, and I lost. I was so wasted, I didn't even make it into bed I just kind of fell on the ground on my back and starting to vomit. Fortunately my roommate came in just at that time, roll me over. Saving my life.
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tupacs_only_wife · Answer

Yeah. Road accident. I was 16 at the time. Well the only thing i felt was a huge flash of light hitting me and the next thing i felt was the ground. My eyes were blurry and my nose was bleeding like crazy and my head felt like it was about to explode while i struggled to find my phone to call my mom cause i was just a walking distance away from the house and the most terrible feeling was people just staring at me because i don't like being seen in a vulnerable state some stranger asked me about my details and the last thing i saw was running to me.

TsundereMatrix · Answer

Yeah, kind of. I grew up on a grain farm. Part of the job is to make sure the fields are clear of rocks or else it will break the farm equipment. So one day I was out with my family picking out rocks from the field and putting them on our truck. When the truck got full we threw them into a ditch that was out of the way. I was on the back of the truck by the back window throwing rocks off. One of the rocks I threw broke in 2 pieces and one sharp piece ricochet off of a bigger rock and flung back at me, hitting and denting the side of the truck and just grazing my head. I felt the air on my skin as it flew by. If I were a few millimeters over it would have hit my temple and who knows what injuries I would've sustained.

Instead of throwing them we decided to roll them in the ditch instead. It sure gave my parents and myself a scare!

hannahjo022 · Answer

I had a seizure that lasted for 10 minutes. My mom called 911 and I woke up in the hospital. My mom told me I had a seizure, I would not stop having a seizure, my entire face turned blue, and I stop breathing with a very low heart rate. The doctor said I was very lucky and must had an angel looking over me because when someone has a seizure that last that long can die from it and have brain damage. I ended up sleeping for the entire week from recovery from that horrible seizure and I ended up getting a bad black eye when I went unconscious from slamming my face on a hardwood table.

ThePolishKnight37 · Answer

Yes I have. I had a heart attack and had ben through some procedures to stint my arteries, but the kept failing. they ended up putting in a pace maker. Well I was at the golf range with a friend and as we were walking into the clubhouse, I felt my pacemaker going off. I just said call 911 and collapsed. I guess my artery pinched itself off and stopped my heart. I was told by my doctor and friend that i would come back and go again. between what my friend told me and what the paramedic's told my doctor, I died and came back 13 times. i do not remember any of it. I remember collapsing and the next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital as they were taking me to my room. I threw up and passed out again. Then woke up a day later in my room. Saw no white light, never talked to God. My guess, it was not my time. Coming back 13 times probably because of the pace maker.

K-I-S-S · Answer

Yeah, few times.

Almost bleeding out alone when i was 6 years old.

Got pretty close to drowning twice, lifeguard pulled me out after about 3 min underwater. Other later time my legs got stuck in the mud for around 6 min, under water, after a high jump in. It's good that had been going to a swimming school 4 times a week for 3 years at that point, so i just digged for a while, still got pretty close.

Almost fell from a medieval castle wall when free climbing it, all holds went, managed to grab lower ones mid fall.

Parachute had trouble opening, but opened late. And then partly because of it i had to crash land it into a dense forest.

And a really lovely girl broke my heart, not her fault.

Tons of other close calls and what not.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

A few, mainly on Ops but that’s just a daily thing and it happens or not.

Worst was ending up in hospital for 6 weeks on morphine, staples in my from sternum to groin lol and leg wound…was told later I had went in to organ shut down lol
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. a couple times had the odd accident with a blade and leaked A bit more than expected 😂😂

InferiorElegy · Answer

Yes. Multiple times most of which were suicide attempts others were just avoided accidents such as a guy at work pulling a skid out of the rack and all the pails on the skid falling off because he had the skid lifted too high and the top beam of the rack pulled on the pails. Another time I was at a traffic stop and went to walk across as it was a green light, as I got to the last lane before the curb a car in the last lane hit the brakes and the car behind hit her causing her car to come towards me but she switched behind me and the car that hit her went right in front of me.
I also almost got hit by a train. The first couple times did freak me out and put me in a state of shock but I think I became numb after my suicide attempts because I feel nothing anymore when I experience them, like when the 2 cars almost hit me while I walked across the street, I glanced at both drivers and continued to walk.

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

Kind of, sort of, somewhat. I was driving one of my coworkers home & to be honest I was flying. Long story short there was a curve ahead & something told me to slow down & I mean really slow down & so I did. Anyway some drink joker flys around the curve & all I see is headlights in my lane coming towards me. If I didn’t slow down when I had a feeling we both would of hit each other going around the curve.

ArztSchlachthof · Answer

Years ago, we were playing just outside the house. We made a couple of bows and arrows and tried to shoot ourselves, while the rule was to aim at the legs. Well, I crouched and tried to sneak onto my friend, which resulted in him hearing me and in spook shooting me right between the eyes.

Later, I realised how risky that was and how dumb we were. I am an amateur-ish archer now, though and I tend to not risk anywhere. A well-earned life lesson I'd say.

Puppystarfish23 · Answer

When I was born I was 2 weeks late everything seemed fine till the nurse took me away to be cleaned. As she was washing me she noticed I was struggling to breath and had gone purple. I was choking on my own fluids from the womb and had broken my collarbone as well as having a undiagnosed heart murmur all this caused my heart to stop and die. Luckily doctors managed to save me and I happened to be born In one of the best heart specialist hospitals in the UK so I was looked after greatly

WellDone · Answer

I had untreated gastroesofageal reflux, which caused me pneumonia and infection of lung tree. I couldnt speak, move, eat, drink, breath, sleep, had temperature 41°C and I passed out multiple times. I wouldn't call it near death experience, but I was getting ready to die (I thought I had covid, and I couldnt get tested) and it was near enough to give me a sense of clarity. Now I think less and do more.

Dazed0N0Confused · Answer

When i was like 6 i was kicked in the head by a horse, it knocked me clean out. The doctors told my family had the horse hit me just a centimeter to the right i would be dead. All i remember is blackness & when i came to i didn't feel anything wrong, i was just confused about why there was a strange lady over top of me & why my family was hysterical. I had to have a CAT Scan & other tests before i could leave the hospital.

cth96190 · Answer

I have had quite a few near-death experiences. When I saw this scene in the movie Heartbreak Ridge I knew what Clint Eastwood's character was talking about. - lol

Anonymous · Answer

My life wasn't going very well and I was seeing a psychiatrist who prescribed me meds. I didn't want to live anymore so I swallowed the bottle of pills with beer.
I was passed out lying on my bed.
I went outside of my body.
There was a door and on the other side was the brightest light I've ever seen. I had the chance to go through this doorway.
I got scared and went back into my body.
I think of this as a near-death experience.

kellytheman · Answer

I did when I was young. I was hanging with my cousin by the Mississippi River and I slipped on some rocks and started falling bsckwards toward the river with no railing with a 25 ft drop.. Luckily my cousin caught me and was strong enough that I didn't fall. You just had to be there.

Anonymous · Answer

When i was 15 I ran away form home ended up in la. started to do sexual favors to a drug dealers for drugs / place to live.

One day we were having sex and he began to choke me I couldnt breat and began to lose feelings I woke up in a hospital bed I don't know how i got there.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

I fought two muggers in Oakland but got stabbed in my abdomen twice. I decked the big guy but the small guy ran away. I lost a lot of blood then lost consciousness in the ambulance. I was in a coma for a few days.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

I have ✨died✨ for like a min heart stopped, etc.  Just felt like waking up from a really bad dream.

MercesLucifer · Answer

Yes... when i was a kid me and my family were on a bus trip it was a midnight journey so we were in sleep. The bus driver was drunk and crashed onto a truck. Every one ln the bus were safe but the bus driver was dead and a guy who was sleeping next to him was also dead.

Starwitch23 · Answer

When I was 2 years old I fell from 2nd floor. I was in comma for 72 hours. The doctors said I could die, get mentally disabled or become blind. Fortunately, I am alive and I have none of those conditions.

Anonymous · Answer

I got stung by a yellow jacket. I couldn't breathe. In the ambulance, my whole life flashed before my eyes. Then there was nothing in my mind but primordial fear and total darkness. I cried out to God and in the distance, I saw this place of kindness and love. I started going there and then I woke up with an I. V. in my arm and this really compassionate nurse explaining what happened.

C3397 · Answer

I was dead when I born and bought back to life by a team at the hospital so sadly I can't remember lol

Alejandro3000 · Answer

Just forgot about it and moved on quickly, nearly got hit by a car when crossing the road. My friend stopped me moving forward.

FakeNIK · Answer

Twice actually once in bike second in car, For moment it felt like everything is going in slowmo fortunately reacted quickly & only got my leg fractured

FlowerSeeds · Answer

Si a bus almost hit me and I'm lucky I'm okay today ~

sensible27 · Answer

Yes, a few. Some water incidents, some hiking and maybe some car/vehicle ones too..

dreamstar72 · Answer

Yes and it lasted like forever (one and half months)

es20490446e · Answer

A car hit me while on a bike under the rain. It hurt. But after a couple of days the pain was gone, as I'm made of steel.

Ronald_25 · Answer

Yes, I nearly drowned in the sea off the coast of sunny beach, Bulgaria.

Supernormal · Answer

Nothing like it, you just know you're not supposed to be alive. Gratitude won't even be enough, only awe keeps you conscious

TurkishDİxon3419 · Answer

When I was little. I drank the bleach in a plastic bottle. And crossing the street, the bus is almost it was hitting me.

douride2 · Answer

Run down by a car. Close to a month in a coma. Years physio and still never fully recovered.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I’m not sure, but from what I was able to see around that wee tree, there was no ground. At least none close enough for me to not be squished.

Hadesheim · Answer

Yes, a bit scary to be honest but all in all I lost head and was all black for a while, was a car accident the driver felt asleep

Anonymous · Answer

I almost died from covid last February after my trip to Japan.

Dchrls78104 · Answer

One time I nearly had my own car roll over my head.

Typhon_ · Answer

Got strangled to death by my umbilical cord, Got run over by a motorcycle when I was 4

Shihab91 · Answer

i was 5 inches far from the car, i was 15 years old

Joshua0213 · Answer

Living with my drugged parents when I was younger was defintely that

dileep85 · Answer

I had one. It was bike accident. I was socked and it’s a near miss.

Anonymous · Answer

i died and was revived in surgery under anesthesia.

White_Boy_506 · Answer

I was just kinda casually like “oh. I could’ve nearly died there” *shrugs*

Anonymous · Answer

Yup I had someone drop a sandbag off a top floor unaware that people were underneath. I was bent over and it landed 12 inches away from the back of my head. If that hit me I would be dead.

jimmy2 · Answer

In this Pandemic i came to one last breathe too close for me

Agape93 · Answer

Yeap. Not fun and brief.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes I have, it was like falling asleep.

call_me_scar · Answer

Yeah its usually just me thinking oh shit

swettannie · Answer

what do you mean by that

bananastandbae · Answer

I was attacked by a shark.

grega239 · Answer

Several. Not a exiting as you'd think

shydude1991 · Answer

Being hit by a car hurts

michael1469 · Answer

Yes, i have been dieing from the day i was born...

SandandWaves · Answer

Yep, lotz of times

Slartybartfast · Answer

Sure, I'm divorced.

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