Yes. This is absolutely true.

Hello, I am your friendly, neighborhood (Quora) NDE researcher who has studied a ton of NDEs over the years and recently completed a book on this very subject. I have no desire to shake your religious beliefs, but let me share with you what the facts of research show.

We have compiled a data-base of very similar events that occurred during these experiences, and although these experiences can be a bit different and unique to the individual, depending on the religious beliefs and expectations of that individual, there are also many things that occur in common during an NDE.

This tunnel is one of them.

Most people enter a dark tunnel where they are at first confused. Most do not even know they are dead because they still have all their senses, how could they be dead while also being this conscious?

But shortly after they enter this dark tunnel they will begin to see a distant light. Usually this light is described as very bright, sometimes interspersed with golden sparkles. They feel compelled to go toward this light, or sometimes the light approaches them and suddenly they find themselves within it. They have a strong sense of love while they are in that light.

They also quickly discover that this light is a being (or beings), not just a beautiful glow in the darkness. Sometimes this being is one that they fully suspected it would be via their religious beliefs and expectations. It can be Christ (most common for a deity) or Buddha or Krishna, etc.

But even more common, this light consists of relatives they have known and loved on earth….grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, mom and or dad, a spouse who has passed over first, brothers and sisters, etc. Or sometimes that light is just good friends or even loving animals they have known on earth. They discover that all is well, and that these people are there to help them go further in those dimensions.

At that point, usually one of two things happen. They are welcomed to the other side, they are told that they are loved very much and that they can do nothing wrong in this new dimension but told that your death is not permanent….you still must finish your life and you must go back to your body.

In one famous NDE (Pam Reynolds) she was told that she must go back to her body, but she replied that she did not know how to do this. A loving Uncle said, come with me and I will show you, The Uncle led her back to the operating room from where she had come. There she saw her body which frightened the heck out of her as she could see that it was dead. But her Uncle forced her by saying, now….just like you are jumping into a swimming pool…..jump in. She did and woke up.

But this can depend on the longevity of your death. If you flat-line for just a couple minutes and are revived, you may only see the tunnel and a light. With others who are out longer, for example, they flat-line and then go into a coma, the beings in that light usually lead them to a dimension known by researchers as level three (there are 10 known levels of the other side).

Once there, they spend some time with their friends and/or loved ones, are given a tour of the beautiful buildings and countryside there, or some may just want to go exploring. Exploring is very popular. They will tend to stay here until it is time to go back to their body.

Note that I stated that the tunnel and light are very common. But that experience is certainly not exclusive. In some cases people may just suddenly appear in level three which looks very much like Planet Earth, although this is pretty rare. There seems to be some kind of greeting/orientation center in level three seen in common by many people and always described very similarly.

We suspect a direct trip to a new dimension like level three is the reason we see such bewilderment in some dying people when they see this, new, beautiful world as they pass away from earth. For example, it is not uncommon for a dying patient to suddenly sit up and exclaim, ‘OMG, look at this,’ in the very last stage of death.

NDE subject Arthur Yensen describes a direct cross-over for us: “I felt as if I were coming loose from my body! While I believed that my body was me, I knew instinctively that if I separated from it, I'd be dead! My soul and body started separating again and continued to separate until I felt a short, sharp pain in my heart, which felt as if something had been torn loose. Then slowly and softly I rose out through the top of my head.

Gradually the Earth scene faded away, and up through it loomed a bright, new, beautiful world - beautiful beyond imagination! For half a minute I could see both worlds at once. The Earth fading away, and the other world looming up brighter, and brighter, and still brighter! Finally when the Earth was all gone, I stood in a glory that could only be heaven.

In the background were two beautiful mountains similar to Fujiyama of Japan. The tops were snow-capped, and the slopes were adorned with foliage of indescribable beauty.”

Arthur Yensen's Near-Death Experience

Yes, they all report that level three is simply magnificently beautiful as compared to Planet Earth.

Note that you tend to create your own reality on the other side. Atheists may only see beautiful fields and flowers, but if you expect to meet Christ and an angel choir when you cross over, that is usually what will happen. My grandmother was a Pastor’s wife, and my mom was there when my grandmother died. She stated that her last words were, ‘I hear the most beautiful music, it sounds like angels singing.’

Steve Jobs of Apple was not a practicing believer to my knowledge. And although reports vary between people who are familiar with that scene, Steve’s death went something like this….He suddenly sat up in bed with a bewildered look on his face and said, ‘wow, Wow, WOW,’ or it was ‘OH…..Wow’ by some accounts.

Steve was seeing something….was it earth fading out and a new world fading in?

Yes, everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs cross over. And for you religionists (Church goers, Mosque, Buddhist temple and Synagogue attendees, etc), please note that one of the most common statements from those who have spent much time on the other side is this: how could my church have been so wrong? The universe does not care what you believe or don’t believe. It is what is is…..

But probably the second most common experience is a visit to another area of darkness we call the Void. This is exactly what it sounds like. It is a feeling that you are alone, out in the universe with no stars—simply nothingness and people seem to stay here much longer than in the tunnel. This is a place for you to contemplate and a chance to examine your earth life—a place of introspection.

But here is the deal. Eventually during that introspection, you will begin to think warm, loving thoughts about something or someone. When this happens to you, some people have reported that they began to see light emanating from themselves and it may dawn on you that this is the objective of it all—to turn the evil and darkness inside of you into the purity of golden, white light—to turn the negativity inside of you into positive, loving things. And at that moment you will begin to see other lights, distant and glimmering like stars in the sky at first, but when they get closer….what are they? That is right, deities or people again….. there to help you. And these entities will lead you to level three if you are to stay for awhile.

There, you will enter a long-term period of counseling to determine which community best suits you as a permanent resident. The diversity of the communities on the other side will simply astound you. There are many more in number than what you enjoyed on Planet Earth. They range from hellish communities to heavenly ones with all kinds of stages between those opposite poles, with many of them being very similar to ones on earth.

Most people describe the Void as quite peaceful, but it scares the poop out of others. Just always remember if you go there, as soon as you begin to think positive, loving thoughts, you are out of there—and that is the way to escape the Void. If you are an ax murderer, who literally is so evil that you cannot think of a single, positive, loving thought, your only way out of the void is to go back to your body if you are having an NDE, or to reincarnate into a new body and try this life all over again. Don’t screw it up again! Because the next time you may not go to the Void—You may just go to level three and get assigned a more hellish community.

When you hear a nonbeliever in the after-life describe their NDE in the terms of, ‘there is nothing over there—I saw nothing but blackness’—then they sure did. They went directly to the Void.

The Void and the Near-Death Experience

I had an NDE in 2018 . It happened quick your here and in a second your gone. It was wonderful. I remember the void i had no fear. This was all …. Uncharted territory.I was seeing where it was going. I see a pin hole of light it looked far away but i was in it in seconds. Time is really hard To gauge there.I don't think they have time. There were beautiful stars everywhere.Small ones medium ones just beautiful. Can I see the stars start to separate….. There you are,I said we don't talk.We think to each other. Alot happened. I heard people screaming low at first then Louder and louder. One person in particular, sounded like he was in serious trouble. He needed help. I didn't even get to say Goodbye. I turned and I ran towards the voice with everything I have. Woke up in the hospital.My eyes immediately trained on the man who called me back. It's something that made me see life and people different. Then ever before. It changed everything.

When I was a student I was involved in serious head on collision. Just before the other driver hit me I said out loud ‘I don’t want to die’ and took my glasses off. In those split seconds I knew he was going to hit me and I couldn’t stop it. Anyway for me it wasn’t a light, but a sort of wooosh, like you see in tv effects sometimes. I found myself standing on top of a mountain looking down. I was standing with a man who I didn’t really recognise and he said ‘It’s not time yet. One day all this will be yours’ . I looked down into the valley and could see a small town nestling there, a train running along and a river flowing through. I took a sharp breath and thought how beautiful. Next thing I knew someone was asking me if I was ok. Nooo I groaned!

Fast forward 20 years I find myself living in the place I saw in that moment. Behind us we have a very large hill and as I drive home I see the view of the village, the river and the train line all laid out below me. I’d never even been here before we came to live here. So is it real? Who knows?!

Yes. It's true. First hand, i can tell you that it's true.

Flatlined. So I guess that's a death experience. Not near-death experience.

Been there. Talked about it to my dad, and was thinking the whole time he'd think I was crazy. It was a weird conversation that I found myself in, but I wanted to tell him.

Then he told me about when he flatlined, about 10 years before I did. I didn't remember the details, only that he got very sick a while back, but 10 years prior he managed to get Legionnaires Disease. He croaked on the table, but then came back a little later, and regained his health almost immediately, as I did with my thing. He went on to describe his experience and it was identical to what I went through. (I did not give him any of my specific details before he started talking about his experience.) We both went from there comparing notes, basically. It was the most incredible thing that ever happened to both of us. We both came away with the same, and a completely different outlook of our lives and priorities, after experiencing it, on life here on earth. I kid you not. There were physical things and things I can't describe in dialogue here, and basically not describe to anyone who hasn't been there.

From that conversation on, we shared a connection nobody else could ever understand, and it wasn't worth even bringing up in conversation to anybody else. They'd never understand it.

It's beyond words. And that is why I'm a believer. I wasn't the most spiritual person beforehand, to say the least. Its come up in conversation, not by me, since then with my friends, and I don't care if they don't believe it. I tell them that. That's fine. They can believe what they want. I don't proselytize nor pretend I’m Mister Religious or anything.

The point is I know what I know now and I don't need to convince anyone. I don’t care. That's not important at all. The experience is part of who I am now versus who I was before. And my dad felt the same way. That was very cool.

Probably the whole thing about not caring or feeling a need to convince anyone, nor the need to advertise it and throw it in everyone’s face in the first place, was the most astonishing thing for me. Unless asked directly, I've kept it to myself. Only that matters.

If I was making it up, I'd be compelled to make all kinds of noise and grab the limelight for attention. I'd capitalize on it. But there is simply no need. Think what you may. Call it b.s. Consider it a possibility. I state it here to answer a question by someone truly curious and humbly provide my experience.

From my own experience, there are two types of near-death experiences: jumping out of the body and real after-death experiences.

What did happened and what was perceived?

1. Out-of-body experiences: for the first time it happened when my heart failed to pump blood out due to ventricular tachycardias probably combined with too deep blood pressure drops due to eating a soup with two or three cloves of garlic. Later OOBE repeated in the hospital.
2. After-death experiences: it is literally the most beautiful, brightest, loveliest, spectacular, safe, comforting, and desirable event experienced in this embodiment. This occurred at the final stages of my heart failure. It perfectly fits the text of the 'Tibetan book of dead’ up to many days after the real death of the physical body. The only problem is that I was still alive.

ADE is something that cannot be described by words. It looks like fractals, mandalas, resonance, light, sound mixed together. It is a self-organizing environment that produces emergent structures of incredible beauty.

There is so much light, it has different stages, different colors and sounds in each level. It is possible that there was white light at the beginning but I did miss it. There is so much more than this.

I do remember that I was telling myself: “You must remember the colors, shapes, sounds, and music. This beauty will interest all people!” Unluckily, there are no tools to describe this beauty here on the earth.

For me, it is the heavenly looking, natural home of our souls where we all return after we leave the earthly vessel called the body.

Look at the following picture, it is a very close depiction of one tiny part of what I did observe there.

The painting of Zdeněk Hajný named “Close encounters” (Blízká setkání, 1998, olej, 80 x 60).

If one means, that there is an actual neurophysiological experience involved in what has been referred to as the “tunnel of light” phenomenon, the answer is likely yes. If one is suggesting that this experience is evidence of an afterlife, the answer is decidely, no. To understand this, one must first become familiar with the various components involved in vision. In normal vision, photons of light enter the lens, which then focuses this light on the photoreceptors contained in the retina. The light is converted into neuronal signals, that are transported through the optic nerve, to the visual cortex of the brain, where visual information is processed.

It is also known that the visual cortex is stimuled during rem sleep, when an individual is dreaming. Individuals who were not born blind, continue to have a visual component, and there is evidence, that those born blind, experience stimulation, in the visual cortex, during dreaming. There are also studies of the so-called NDE phenomenon, that report, that blind individuals, also report “the tunnel of light” sensory experience

The important thing to note, is that normal vision, dreaming, and the visual component associated with the “tunnel of light” phenomenon, are actually neurophysiological experiences, associated with components of the brain. All sensory experience occurs in the brain, even so-called NDEs. We don’t actually experience the phenomena, that we observe, we experience sensory perception of those things.

Moreover, the visual and auditory components of these experiences, can be explained as normal activity associated with a dying brain. Even the so-called OBE (out of body experience) has been replicated in the labaratory, and is revealed to be a form of dissociative conciousness. It is also noteworthy that light is composed of photons, and photons are physical objects. From what I understand ‘heaven’ is not a physical place.

The photosensitive cells in your retina have an unusual property which most people are aware of. These cells produce the greatest output signal when they are in darkness, and the least output signal when in light. It’s the opposite of how you would expect them to operate, but our bodies have a lot of counter intuitive design features. It takes more energy for the cells in your retina to tell your brain that you are seeing darkness than light.

The effect of this is that when the level of oxygen and glucose in your blood starts to drop, the retinal cells start to get starved and can’t fire as often. The cells in the densely packed energy-hungry center of the retina start to fail and shut down first. The brain interprets this lack of signal as a glowing light that starts to spread from the center of your vision outwards.

Of course, if your medical condition doesn’t improve, your brain cells die soon afterwards and you don’t get to tell anybody about it. But thanks to modern medical science people can be brought back from the brink of death to describe the wonderful and amazing things they experiences as their sensory organs were shutting down.

It never was for me, and I've had quite a few.

The strangest one was when I was running a high fever from pneumonia and was convinced I was already dead. I didn't have any actual hallucinations, but I did have delusions. I believed that I had died, and that Death had given me an hour to write my goodbye letters. I wrote a long, rambling letter to my mom and my partner at the time (a single letter to both of them, which was a bit weird) that started off full of practicalities and descended into me telling them that I was an alien from another planet and that I was here doing work for a higher power. After writing my letter, I changed my clothes (figuring black lace wasn't quite the thing for passing into the afterlife) and sat down to wait for Death to appear, but when it didn't, I ate some cereal and a banana and went to bed, and when I woke up my fever had broken. It was disappointingly anticlimactic.

So delusions, yes. And I've certainly heard of people hallucinating. But I've never seen anything resembling the tunnel, or angels, or God(s).

I do see dead people from time to time, but I figure that's just the effect of too many M. Night Shyamalan movies as a teen.

your entire existence is a product of information management.

that information is streamed to you constantly, you are completely immersed within it.

when you die you disconnect from your personal streaming server.

your personal server is your very own private star in the heavens.

your ideal life exists only around that star.

your personal information stream connects you to your ideal life’s cognitive constructs to help you to build a better reality for yourself here on earth.

when you are thoroughly fed up with your life and hate it then you die.

when you die you find yourself in something resembling a void where you can deconstruct your character, repair it, and detoxify from all of the lies, deceits, illusions, and popular delusions that made your life so sick and miserable that you wanted to die.

remaining in the void is a bit scary.

you feel yourself breaking down and discarding bits and pieces of yourself that you used to cling to in life because you believed you needed them or because you very strongly identified with them even though they made you so sick that you wanted to die.

in the void, when your tolerance for the hard work of self examination and self repair is exhausted, you reach out for the nearest warmth and friendliness you can find to help support you.

you reach for the bright light that has always supported your existence in the past.

you enter that light.

the light reconnects you with all of the people and places you knew before you died and helps to restore you to your natural life among them.

the tunnel of light is your information stream that informs you how to manifest your personal life.

once you have entered the light you return to your natural life.

the tunnel of light is what your natural life looks like to you when you are not busy living inside of it.

the ‘tunnel of light’ is not a ticket to heaven, it is a ticket back to the only life that you can remember.

if you managed to make improvements to your character in the void before entering the light then some of those improvements will persist to make your newly resurrected life a little better than before.

if you clung to your toxicity and the broken elements of your character in the void instead of purging them then your new life will continue to grow worse.

we find it helps to spend a long time in the void, as long as possible, because that is where all the real work of improving your life gets done.

you can return to life at any time, but the faster you return to life the more toxic you will be when you get back.

the more toxic you are when you return to life the sooner you will die again from your toxicity.

your tunnel of light is the only reality you that know.

with a good character your tunnel of light may begin to resemble heaven, with a bad character your tunnel of light becomes a descent into hell.

c’est la vie!

-rho…

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people who've had near death experiences, is the tunnel of light real?

There are two ways to access reports of lights at the end of tunnels. One is through near death events (the most reliable source of information on NDEs has great reports), or there’s reports of people under deep hypnosis who recall the process of leaving an incarnation and “returning home.” These accounts are consistent in talking about the “light” at the end of the “tunnel” - as a kind of portal or doorway. If you’re walking around a basement and one door leads to the upstairs, generally you’ll see a “glow” coming from that exit (entrance.) It’s because the light on the other side of that doorway or portal is vibrating at a different frequency. It’s a bit like being in a submarine and getting to a place where you can look out of the submarine, and there is light that’s coming from “elsewhere” (above.) People often describe “going through this tunnel” or going through the portal as a feeling of euphoria, not always, but enough that I’ve heard many claim it’s a feeling of being closer to “unconditional love.”

Yes I have! I got pregnant at 14 and gave birth at 15. I bled to death right after delivery. My experience has some similarities to others near-death experiences but it was all so different. I left my body and was floating up by the ceiling at the top of the curtains watching everyone rushing around me trying to save me. I saw my mom fainting and screaming that I was dying. I was extremely confused and did not realize that I had left my body at all. I kept trying to talk and tell my mom that I was not dying but I was just really cold, but I realized that my lips were not moving as I was saying this. I did not see a tunnel or dead relatives or anything like that. But the room did get slightly brighter. I did not realize what had happened to me until I came back into my body, and when I recovered enough to speak I began telling my mother and the nurse what I had experienced and I was correct about everything that I claimed I saw. The weirdest part of the whole experience was that while I was out of my body nothing felt weird it felt totally normal but I was very very confused. I did realize that I was looking down at my own body but for some reason this seemed totally normal to me. I just could not understand why I could hear my own voice but my lips were not moving.

These people are usually on an operating table and obviously, they will have very strong lights pointing at them.

These surgical lights, or operating lights, are mainly used in hospital operating rooms and ambulatory surgery centres, but can also be used in various locations throughout the facility to provide high-quality lighting for procedures. And those are the lights they see. They are big. They are round and big. To a person who believes deities are real and a brain that is lacking blood flow they may be interpreted as “the light at the end of the tunnel” because the brain is malfunctioning not because there is actually a “light at the end of a tunnel”. It is just the brain freaking out.

When I was in my mid-thirties, I had stage 4 gastric cancer. We tried everything but it kept getting worse. I lost so much weight that I looked like I had already died. They just couldn’t control the pain, especially at night. That night I was so incredibly tired, cold and in pain I just wanted to go home. My nurse called my family to tell them to come quickly. Suddenly I was so incredibly warm and pain free and the lights were beautiful. I saw this wonderful person, though I couldn’t see his face. He talked to me through my mind. He told me that though I could go on to Heaven then I had not done what I was called for. All of a sudden I was back in my body and the pain was just horrible. I started getting better almost immediately. The Doctors considered me a miracle. After three weeks they let me go home with nursing care and PT. I told my nurse what I had seen. He agreed with me and became so excited. When I left the hospital I weighed between 90 and 95 pounds and not a hair on my body. I had to force myself to walk . We received a newspaper when I got home that told of testing for Nursing that day only. I snuck my car out because I just had to take that test. I didn’t know why because I had sold commercial real estate for 20 years . I was so weak I almost didn’t make it. I made extremely good on the test. The head nurse took me aside and told me that though I had aced the test there was a two year wait . She didn’t think I would last that long. I told her God had sent me and I wasn’t worried. During that summer I healed at an amazing rate. Two weeks before school was to start a girl that was in the program had a horrible wreak and couldn’t go to school. For some reason they called me. I was so weak I had to hire someone to carry my books and things for me. I was the oldest,sickest and had to look like a prisoner of war. I never studied so hard in my life. I was top of my class. At that time Hospice was a new field and I would have to go an extra year. I grabbed at it when I was offered. My husband thought I had gone crazy because he was always saying “You make more on one closing than you will in a whole year as a nurse”. When I went to do rounds for the first time It was like Jesus told me “This is what you were meant to do”. I worked as a Hospice Nurse for 20 years. It was like I had been a nurse for a thousand years. I just knew what to do because I had lived through it. I controlled their pain and fought with the doctors when they ignored my patient. I am now retired and do volunteer nursing here in the mountains where there are so many extremely poor patients. They hear about me by word of mouth. I consider it an honor that the families ask for me because they are very clannish here and they trust me. I am so grateful that God gave me the chance to do all this in His name.

I’ve read a few hundred NDEs and it’s usually a figure with a personality that greets them when they get there. If they don’t get that far (have to go back) then they don’t find out. I think it is either a personification of God or Jesus (I mean, they can’t be everywhere at once, so they personify themselves.)

Because they give out the strongest experience of love that the person has ever had. The Being of Light, (as many authors call it) has a conversation with the NDEr, but not with words from the mouth, but by telepathy. It is often the being of light that tells the NDEr that they have to go back, but sometimes it is an angel or a deceased relative that does that.

But the Being of Light is a pretty consistent feature of a “complete” NDE. In my understanding, there is no question of it being an hallucination or a dream or something bursting in the brain, like materialist-reductionists believe. All you have to do is read a whole bunch of NDEs and you will be sure to come across this feature many times. If you read enough (and stay away from materialists once you’ve made up your mind about them) you will be able to formulate your own opinions. Enjoy! It is wonderful reading!!

All I can say is that I believe mine was. It was much different than a dream, an idea or a vision type experience. It was real enough to me that it changed my life.

I also claimed to be an atheist at the time yet I woke up in the hospital feeling different about that. I woke up believing in a loving God. I believe he is much different than the one I was taught to be afraid of. That one, I was taught, would send me to hell to burn for eternity if I crossed the line on certain things.

What I encountered was not at all like what I was told it would be.

I set very high standards for myself and I don’t believe I would have if it weren’t for my NDE. I don’t judge and condemn others. Instead I do my best to love others, no matter how much they have hurt me. I forgive, no matter what.

That doesn’t mean I allow myself to be a doormat or that others aren’t accountable for what they do. It just means I don’t give away my power by getting sucked into negativity or trying to control things that aren’t within my control.

I control myself. I try to bring people up instead of beating them down. I don’t let negative feelings act as poison.

I act the way I do because every day, day after day, decade after decade, I think about that place, the Love, The Light, the life review.

Would I do those things if I didn’t believe my NDE was real, that it was all in my mind? I don’t think so. Something happened that caused that change.

Some people argue that NDEs aren’t real. If that is true, I wish they could explain to me why I feel so driven to be the best I can be, develop and use the gifts I know we all have as co-creators, and to be loving and forgiving.

Making those changes hasn’t been a lot of fun. Sometimes it is really hard and it takes discipline. But I do it because I remember what it felt like to re-live my life in my life review. I have never forgotten that. It is a driving force. I know I will experience that again. I am determined that the next one will be much better.

I do believe we are accountable and that we take part in creating the circumstances of our lives. I was shown that God isn’t a mean, disciplinarian God waiting to judge me. God is Love and that is all he is capable of. We are the ones who mess up our lives by not using the gifts we have to make life better.

We live in a time of incredible discoveries that show beyond a shadow of a doubt that our energy is powerful. Technology can measure changes that take place because of the emotions we feel and project to others. That is what I was shown. I don’t ever want to be responsible for creating negativity or to be the bad apple that spoils the bunch.

I didn’t like that feeling of being stuffed back in a body again. It felt very confining after being so free and tapped into an understanding I don’t have here. But I am glad I was given a chance to come back. I think it is very possible that we are here to learn how to love one another and maybe even that this is where “hell” is.

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of pure Love here, at least at this time in history. There is a lot of corruption and cruelty. But unlike what I used to believe, God isn’t the one creating it or the one that is going to wave it away. That is our job. It could happen if more people would just focus on being loving and kind to themselves and one another.

That is not what the pre-NDE Teri Rose would have ever said or thought. So I ask myself and you, what happened that made me wake up that way in the hospital after my car wreck?

About seven years ago I was a first-year law student with a love for fast cars. I was also very inquisitive and I enjoyed challenging my parents on almost everything they said. I never meant no disrespect I just always preferred my Why’s and How’s answered.

One night I went out with friends. I lied to my then boyfriend about it and I told him I’m home studying. My parents were unaware about the lie but they knew about my whereabouts. Before leaving the house my mother asked me to drop something at her friends house. Since I wasn’t driving my male friend agreed. After dropping the it I realised I actually wanted to go back home.

On the way home, (after my friends reluctantly decided to drop me) we had an accident. I was seated at the back and I shot through the windscreen. I landed on my head where blood was gushing from it. I had a concussion, crack in my skull and severe injury to the frontal lobe. The damage was so severe that the emergency staff on duty (as chance would have it, knew my father) phoned my parents to drive with to ICU. At the time I had a 10% chance of living.

I recall laying on my head. I didn’t feel any pain and I got up and I went to go sit next to my friend who looked so frightened but acted like I wasn’t there. When my parents got to the scene she started crying. The driver and other friend were both unconscious. Then I saw my father’s face and it was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Up until that day I’ve never seen him cry. He looked bleak, his eyes were red (like he was forcing the tears back) and he looked furious? I wanted to run to him but he was running in the opposite direction.

And then I noticed he was running to the lifeless me laying in the road. So I walked closer, watching him getting on his knees and cradling my body in his arms. The medics and my mother were frantically shouting at him to leave me since they weren’t sure of my bodily injuries at the time. He refused. I stood there and I heard him have a conversation with someone that I couldn’t see. It went like this;

Daddy: Why are you doing this?

Voice : This was the agreement.

Daddy: No, it wasn’t. The agreement was that I would watch them grow old but never live to experience this.

Voice: That’s selfish.

Daddy: No its not. We agreed I’ll come back when the time is right.

Voice: But you’re selfish. So she can have peace now and you when the time is right.

Daddy: Then just take me now , she has so much to live for still.

Voice: Selflessness. Agreed.

I remember trying to follow the voice. Trying to run after it to give me the peace I could feel in the voice. But I stumbled and I fell in a hole and when I woke up I was laying on a bed.I felt naked and some guy was staring at me. So I shouted as hard as I could; “Daddy, I’m naked and there’s a man here!!!” Both of my parents rushed in, my mother laughingly cried and my father looking like as stolid as always told me I’m in the hospital and I was in a car accident. He also told me that they hope my love for driving with boys in fast cars ended here. I so badly wanted to ask him about The Voice but they injected me with something and I slept till the next day.

The next day came, with the grace of God/The Voice? My father didn’t speak much but my mother told me the experience was very traumatic for him since he never cried in front of people, let alone strangers before. I protested that he didn’t cry and she told me how he sobbed for almost half an hour while the paramedics tried to take me from him to put me in the ambulance.

It seems like I was the only person who heard The Conversation. Every other conscious person at the scene only heard my fathers sobs. That same day the doctors also informed me and my parents that the damage to my brain are of such a nature that they would advise against me pursuing my studies. They told them to expect a change in my personality…basically they said I’ll be a little cookoo.

They also made me doubt the experience and I ended up delaying asking my father about it. But it changed me, I started doubting my father less. He told me if I wanted to pursue my studies I should ask for an appeal at the University. We appealed and I graduated with my BaLaw degree which took me six years even though it was a three year course.

Fast forward to my last year of studies, my mother phones me with the devasting news that my father (very healthy 50 year old) had a heart attack. She explained that she will pick me up after class to go see him. I go to the hospital on my own since visiting hours were still 4hours away and I felt an urhency to see him. I ask about his whereabouts and they show me where he is but inform me I can’t go in.

I push the doors open in anyway. His sleeping and the cardiac monitor has slight movements. It doesn’t look the way I want it to look. So I run in and the nurse comes running after me, shouting about how I will get both of us in trouble and how she told me to wait outside. I don’t hear her though because I’m searching for The Voice. I’m trying to tell him that he should’ve taken me. My mother and two younger sisters couldn’t bear to lose my father. He answers but I wasn’t sure whether it was an external voice or coming from inside of me but it said; “He taught you how to be selfless.” And it went quiet. The nurse’s voice suddenly became louder, shouting; “See what you did?” I looked at her pointing at the cardiac monitor, it had sudden frantic movements, which she assumed was from the commotion.

I smiled and I told her yes, I’ll be waiting in the waiting room he’ll be awake at visiting hours.

NDE’s are experiences like any other. You never know whether they are real or not. They do affect you. I’ve learned to live everyday as if its my last and treat every person as if I won’t see them again. I’m a hugger and an optimist and I draw a silver line for every cloud.

Yes, I still have both my parents. I’ve learned that even after they’re gone, I’ll still have them.

In the fall of 1993, I was 17 and I had been suffering from severe depression for some time. I had crying about everyday. I finished a course of Accutane pills which made my mood swings more erratic even though it cleared my skin. I decided to just end my life in this horrible reality by overdosing on sleeping pills sometime around 10:30 PM. Their was a Perseids meteor shower taking place during that time. I remembered a few pills were missing from the box but I took most of the them. As I ingested the pills, I wondered what would become of me? Will this be painful? I thought, "It doesn't matter".

I went to sleep then I remember experiencing the most frightening and enlightening experience I had ever been through-a distressing near death experience. It was unlike the first time I had an NDE as a child when I just blacked out due to a febrile seizure.

I remember feeling like my spirit was free and removed from my body. Not being in a body made me feel vulnerable and scared. It was so dark and I heard a whooshing sound. I didn't know where I was going. I was so afraid I would never see my family or this reality again.

To be dreadfully honest, you don't know the meaning of scared until you end up in that void! I felt ripped from reality. I felt my soul wobbly floating in an empty dark space of blackness. I couldn't see anything. It looked like space without stars. Only my thoughts still existed. I do recall feeling cold but not the kind of cold you feel when you are alive. It was a soul cold. I wasn't sure why my spirit was chilly. Unless, it has something to do with not having a body in nothingness. It's not the type of chill you can warm up with a blanket.

Earth as I remembered it seemed like a matrix..just a dream I could never return to. I felt like I was awake for the first time. I wanted to be with my family. I felt like I would never find them again. I felt like I was lost in an empty deep space without stars forever. I couldn't believe how lost I was with no one to reach out too. I was terrified.

I kept thinking how ridiculous I was to fear the little stuff on Earth in comparison to being in a void. I felt lied to about my existence. I was angry at God for carelessly allowing me to be in a void. How could a loving God do this to me? Was this the ultimate reality? Floating in the void forever with just my thoughts? This event still bugs me to this day.

I screamed a silent scream because I didn't have a body to vocalize my thoughts. It was telepathic communication but it seemed like nothing was there to listen to me. All I could see was limitless darkness from every angle. Earth seemed so compartmentalized in comparison. I believe I escaped the void when I pleaded for God to bring me back to my family.

That's when I ended up in a large, dimly blue lit room with souls that appeared to be on the ground. I was floating above them before three large screens expanded and surrounded me. I had a life review. Time was different. The past, present and future seemed to be connected. I remember seeing my family. I was with them as a young child playing in front of the motel they once owned. We were next to a birch tree. I felt their love. It felt like I was living the scene all over again. I was in it but it was a review.

I began to sense something powerful. I knew it was a higher source meeting me after my life review. I was embarrassed and I felt very shameful and insignificant.

An invisible guide told me I had ten minutes to chose to go back or stay. The voice had a male sound but it was hard to determine. A lovingly, blissful light shone down on me from above. It surrounded my spirit and I finally felt peace. I felt at home, safe and unconditional love which I never felt before on Earth.

I asked the guide and God what was the purpose of life? I heard a pause and sort of a sound of someone sighing. It was as if this entity felt I should know the answer. It said, "The purpose of life is to love". I agreed and told them to send me back to my family.

I remember darkness unlike the inky black void I experienced earlier. It felt like I was going through a tunnel because I heard a whooshing sound. I then woke up in my room. My senses were heightened. A light mist surrounded everything. Then, I could hear my heart beat stop. I felt my mortality and I became very angry. I could feel my life slipping away. I fought for my life and asked God, “ How can you kill off my soul like it doesn't matter? I am real and I don't deserve this”.

When I look back at that moment I think I was feeling shock from being removed from God's presence. Feeling the decaying energy of this world can be a shock. I managed to get up. I got on my step machine for a minute hoping to get my heart beat going. I stopped after two steps. I stumbled to the end of the stairs on my parent's side of the house. I tried to wake them up with a silent scream. I didn't have enough energy to yell. So I tried to pound the stairs and yell.

Fortunately, my mom is a light sleeper. She woke up and called 911. The medics arrived and wanted to know how many pills I took exactly. I told them I didn't know. was most of the box because some pills were missing. I made it to the hospital and they injected me with medicine. The doctor said I should have been dead and I was lucky to be alive.

I have died for a minute.

I was in ICU surrounded by 3 doctors at the foot of my bed. As they were telling me I was ok to be admitted to a ward I felt a fever hit me and I tried to rip off my sheets and clothes and strip in front of them not caring, just trying to cool down. As they started to tell me my operations was a success I started to feel violently ill and threw my head to the side as I decided to throw up on the floor instead of my pillow.

Then there was black. No vision like my eyes stopped (no light no dark just blackness), no sound (at all nothing, not even silence, it was like my ears did not work), no smell, no touch (I could not feel the bed), no taste and NO THOUGHTS (it was like my brain was turned off) which it was brain dead.

When people talk about seeing lights and people I do not know how they could have, because when I was dead I could not think, let alone see the difference between light and dark, I was in another realm that was silent and empty.

All of a sudden, I could hear sounds, then feel the bed and sheets, then taste my mouth, and smell myself. My eyes could see light and I opened them to see 20 doctors and nurses and I thought “where did all these people come from and what happened?”.

The doctors told me I had been dead and the monitor was flatlining. A doctor was doing CPR on me, yet I had not felt anyone touch me, had no heard the beeps of the monitor, had no clue about 1 minute to the next other than the peaceful black of oblivion. Apparently the doctor broke my rib, but I had no idea that anyone had touched me.

The closest thing I can explain about death is that life is like a computer screen with all the windows open and running, sleep and unconsciousness is like having the screen saver on, you can still hear, and see light and dark, and sense things, but death is like the computer being switched off, all the senses and brain stop working,

My friend has been in a coma and told me she could still hear people, but it was like she was in a dream. When you sleep you can still hear loud noises (like alarms), and feel, because you move your pillows, sheets or blankets if they annoy you, and smell your neighbours cooking breakfast, and taste, for instance if you feel sick from food poisoning, and see the light (like daylight coming in the windows), you can still think because you will say to yourself I want to get up, or you will have dreams.

With death, you have none of that.

There is no light. There is no sound. There are no smells. There is no taste. There is nothing to feel. There is no pain, And there are no thoughts. Your senses do not work when you are dead.

This is such a huge question that I don’t think I can answer it completely. I have read a great deal about them, books, and online mainly. Here’s one website: www. NDERF. org. and another I A N D S dot org. I just love to read NDEs. NDERF has almost 4,000 of them from the last 15 years. In its “archives.”

The “NDE” refers to a particular kind of experience, not just any time someone is close to death. Do you want to read? You could start with Raymond Moody’s “Life After Life.” It is the book that brought NDEs to the attention of the world and coined that name “NDE.”

On the websites I mention above, you will find lists of books as well as tons of experiences. “ETERNEA. org” is another one I just discovered.

Okay, this is a brief description of what many people experience. Some will experience all, others, only some, of these features.

• A sense that you have died.

• A feeling of rising up out of your body — your spirit. Your spirit hangs out on the ceiling while you watch what ‘s going on below with your body.

• A tunnel may open up near you. Or maybe some other kind of change. You enter the tunnel or new environment and you start traveling. Sometimes at lightening speed. In the distance you see a tiny light. As you travel, it gets bigger.

• You may be joined on your journey by an angel or spirit, or you may see other spirits traveling. Or not.

• As you get close to the light, you begin to long to be next to it. You feel a sort of very strong love. If you get close enough to the light (at any one of these points, you may be pulled back to your body) - this light may enfold you in its essence and you feel a sense of being loved and acceptance like you have never felt before in your whole life. Like 1000 mothers and grandmothers loving you! This light may now tell you that you have to go back.

If you are not told now you have to go back, you may have other experiences. Deceased relatives may come to meet with you. You are amazed to see them! They look so fit and well! They give you lots of love, and one of them may be the one to tell you that you have to go back. No matter how you argue, they don’t change their minds.

Also, if you hang around, you may see some absolutely incredibly lovely earth-like scenes. Gorgeous meadows, or incredible mountains, pure, clear, rivers, Flowers of every description in colors you have never seen on earth. (that’s a pretty common thing people talk about —amazing colors.) Usually everything is bright with no sun. By the way, the light of the “Being of Light” is described as being brighter than the sun—but it doesn’t hurt your eyes. (that’s because you are not seeing with your physical eyes, which get damaged by too much light.) Vision is described as being 360º - you can see all around you without moving your head. If you want to “go over there” you can get there just by thinking that. Or you can walk. The longer you are dead on earth, the longer your NDE MIGHT be. Some people see deceased pets bounding towards them!

Some people see beautiful cities, and some see certain buildings that they know are libraries or schools—places of learning. Again, colors and light are unlike what we know on earth. (To me that is the most telling feature that the NDE is not an hallucination.) People are seen walking peacefully in groups, talking. Sometimes they have clothes like we are wearing now, and sometimes they wear robes and gowns.

So anyway, at some point you will be told you have to go back. If this doesn’t happen, then you will not return to your body and this will not be called a “Near Death Experience!!”

Some people experience a return through the tunnel they came in, and some people simply find themselves back in their body. Some people return to the ceiling and keep watching what’s going on with their body. If they are aware when the re-enter their body, its usually pretty unpleasant. The body feels awful after having been just in your spirit. And remember also that you almost died, so you are sick or injured.

After your NDE, most people report no one believing them when they try to tell them what happened. (This is changing nowadays.) The other thing about NDEs is they create a permanent change in the brain. Most people experience higher psychic activity. Knowing who is on the phone when it is ringing. Having a sense when someone is going to die. Knowing what someone is thinking about. This may increase over time, or not. Not everyone has these psychic abilities after NDEs. Thinking often changes to being able to understand the wholeness of a problem. Right brain activity increases. P. M.H. Atwater writes a lot about this. She has 3 NDEs years ago. She has studied the NDEs of children and how NDEs affect their later lives. Also Melvin Morse studied children’s NDEs. Many people who have had NDEs find that they are no longer interested in material goals. Many wind up in helping professions or jobs. Somehow the experience opens the heart to being able to love mankind. People say they are kinder. Divorce is very common after an NDE. After a few years, the partner says “You are not the person I married!” Even if the person is much nicer!!

I am proud of myself that I wrote this whole thing without referring to a book! My memory is not that great and I never try to learn things so I can explain them to other people like my friend Patti does. But I am glad I have enough interest in this to hang on to this understanding and share it with you! I may have left something important out, though. But I think I’ve given you enough of an idea to add to your understanding of what an NDE is like! (oh and by the way, some NDEs are unpleasant. That’s another story—why that happens, and what happens then. If they cry out for God, that is what changes everything and things get better.)

The one thing I dislike is when some people think maybe its not real to see the tunnel. They think your brain is low on oxygen and so. What you see isn't real. I can prove with what I saw and things that happened. I had NDE in 2008. We are now in 2019. I can still recall every detail and tell you what happened so can my family. And fyi I had to get brain surgery in 2012 and last year I even had a stroke but none of that has affected my memory of what happened from 2008. I almost died three times but I came back. And all of the visions and msgs I received came true. So don't always doubt someone for what they have experienced.

Do you know what a sensory deprivation tank is? In case not, it’s an enclosure that a person can enter and float on a volume of salt saturated water which is kept at body temperature so one feels almost nothing at all, no light, no sound can enter and one’s skin is not able to contact any hard surface. Deprived of the accustomed flow of sensory impressions, the brain will begin to produce them. One will hallucinate in a sensory deprivation tank.

Hypoxia can cause something similar. When the brain is starved of oxygen, it cannot process sensory impressions and for a brief period of time between the onset of hypoxia and brain death, the brain will fabricate sensory impressions such as visuals (seeing some light which isn’t there). Some people have suggested that hypoxia first affects the retina which will send signals to the visual cortex in absence of any actual stimulus.

Ok, so this is going to be a very long answer, as I died 4 times already and each one of them was very different.

The first time, I have no memory of it because I was 4 years old but I’ve been told about it by my mother who was there at the time. I was sick with fever and started hallucinating. Right before going limp in my mom’s arms, I told her that the man wanted to take me with him to the other side and that I didn’t want to go. I was heavily hallucinating because of the fever, so it’s probably a result of that.

Second time, lightning hit my metal balcony while I was standing on it. It basically just jump-started my heart. Everything happened very fast and I had a massive concussion, I don’t remember a lot from this day, only bits and fragments.

Third time, I was having heart surgery and had complications. I was awake through the whole procedure, though heavily drugged. I kept falling asleep and waking up, and suddenly I woke up shaking violently, with my teeth clattering and my whole body having spasms. They told me that they lost me, and that I was now on adrenaline. That’s all I remember.

The last time is the one I remember the most. I was clinically dead for a couple of minutes, a few years ago. Not a fun chapter of my life, it was a suicide attempt (I took pills, strong alcohol and sliced me forearm artery). It went very fast, I lost a lot of blood and the cocktail in my stomach was quite heavy. In the ambulance, I was screaming in pain, then suddenly I didn’t feel pain anymore. It was very peaceful, I felt like I was floating through clouds, because I couldn’t feel the gurney under me anymore. I heard the paramedics repeating “we’re losing her”, but it was like an echo, very far away. I was aware that they were moving around me and plugging me on oxygen, but it was like a dream, I couldn’t feel it. As the same time as my hearing went away, so did my vision. It started to become black around the edges, moving towards the center. It felt like I was falling asleep. My last conscious thought was “That’s what dying feels like? It’s interesting.” I didn’t have an out of body experience, not did I see a light. After everything went black, there was nothing. I woke up in intensive care later, where they told me that I had died in the ambulance.

Many near-death experiencers report seeing White Light “at the end of the tunnel.”

This is not the result of chemicals released from a dying brain.

Instead, this White Light consists of an unlimited source of transcendent energy as well as the non-living higher power, The Light of God or Infinite Light. We are judged by this Light regardless of belief system.

If we were cruel, we will experience the sorrow and pain of that cruelty.

If we were kind, we will experience the joy and pleasure of that kindness.

The Infinite Light and the Universal Law that governs it: ensures that no one ever truly gets away with anything!

I’ve always thought these near death experience reports were interesting. My experience was different.

During an angioplasty I had a full cardiac arrest about midway through the procedure. I recall my cardiologist saying something to me and the surgical team, then everything fading to black. No heavenly visions or lights at end of the tunnel. Fifty minutes of CPR followed, then an emergency five way bypass operation.

Three days later I was awakening after ventilation support was withdrawn. As I regained awareness, I listened to a discussion between a nurse, my wife, and a friend. They were talking about how to convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit from the readings on my monitors. None of them knew the conversion process. I thought about it for a minute, analyzed the difference in the scales based on freezing/boiling points. So my first spoken words were…”multiply by nine, divide by five, then add 32”. So that was my near death experience…lol.

A few days later my wife told me that my doctors had predicted a 50/50 chance of my surviving for three days, with a 90% chance of brain damage. When I’d done the temperature conversion everyone decided my brain was okay. That was 21 years ago and I’m still not sure about the brain damage aspect. ;-)

I was approximately 28 years of age when this happened to me. My experience was not a near death experience but it was an out of body experience. I was repeatedly, at different times in my life, asking God to save my soul. This day I was alone, and praying, asking God for salvation for the umpteenth time. I questioned God, “How do I know if I’ve been forgiven and that God has saved me from damnation?” Why don’t I feel saved? I didn’t think how foolish this was. I needed something to prove I was indeed saved. I didn’t realize my repeated pleas was me not trusting God to be true to His word. It was like I was calling God a liar. I think God decided there needed to be something more dramatic to put my soul at peace. I’m sitting in a chair, talking with God, my heart felt completely open. No other thought was in my mind. I realized I felt as though I had left my body and I was floating near the ceiling looking down at myself sitting in a chair and communicating with God. I had no thought about this experience. I just accepted it. It wasn’t fearful. It simply was. I felt sincere. I don’t remember feeling curious as what this was. I was at peace. The most serene I have ever been. First I was viewing from the ceiling and then I was back in my body. I was completely in the moment. I just was. Then I felt a warmth started at top of my head and moved throughout my body. Sort of encapsulated. I felt blessed by God. There was a calmness. I knew I was indeed saved by Christ. I never doubted my salvation after this experience. I just know that I am saved. I am a child of God. This isn’t an experience that every saved person experiences. I was saved the first time I asked Jesus Christ into my heart. My salvation was a reality at the first time. No fan fare, no bells, no whistles. It was real. I didn’t feel different. Nothing changed really that first time I asked God into my heart. It was a matter of me accepting my salvation is real. It was real because God says so. I simply needed to make the mind and heart be connected to God’s truth.

My Mom died in 2006. In 2008 I went to bed as usual & sometime during the night I found myself out of my body & floating in the air, up in a corner of a room. My head was almost hitting the ceiling, but not quite. The room had no furniture in it & my dead Mom was standing in the middle of the room looking at me. She was laughing silently & I received a message from her in my head, not verbally. She said, “you have 12, maybe 14 years left.” The vision, not dream ended. The next morning when I woke up I remember what she said & I took it to mean I had 12 years, maybe 14 years of life left. That would be the year 2020 or 2022. I have no idea why there are two dates. I thought nothing strange or unusual about this, I was calm & detached. Everything was very neutral. There was light, not dark, not bright. I felt good, not bad. The colors of the room were neutral. I am not Catholic but it seemed what Purgatory would be like. Very strange. No tunnel, no bright light. I guess I will soon find out it this is true!

In 2019 I suffered a massive heart attack. I remember looking at the time they began working on me in the ER, it was around 12am. While laying there I felt sleepy and thought I had drifted to sleep. I remember a black void, nothing else, just a calm black stillness. When I opened my eyes it was almost 3am. I looked around the room and one of the nurses noticed I was up. She replied “she's up doctor”. The doctor then came to my side and told me “ I'm glad you're back, if u would have waited any longer to come in we wouldn't have been able to bring you back.” I then replied “what do you mean bring me back?” He then replied “You coded and we had a difficult time bringing you back.” I replied nonchalantly “oh, ok” not fully taking it in. A few days later the realization hit me and I began to question whether or not was that what death meant. Is it just a black void that you reside in for eternity. Though it was peaceful I was disappointed that I didn't see any of my loved ones and it saddened me. When I was talking to my sister about it she said “sis you were reborn, and it just wasn't your time.” At that thought I realized that my time was far from over I had 2 teenage kids that would needed me and I didn't want to burden anyone with the task of raising them. Had I seen the light I don't doubt that I wouldn't have come back, and I would have missed out on all the amazing things that were to come. I do hope that when my true end comes that I am reunited with those that have gone before me, but in the meantime I will continue to take my handful of pills that keeps me animated and keeps me here to make more fantastic memories with my now 18 and 16 year old

The technician that I worked with was talking about army training !!

And what they did to them !

One thing was the choke hold , which the dummy then demonstrated on me !!

Which was a blessing in disguise , why, I will reveal later !!

When I took my last gulp of air ( kicking to stay alive ) & I slipped into a shallow sleep !

Immediately

I was moving at a very fast speed toward a very bright light ( Triangular shape , which did not hurt my eyes ) !

And when I looked down , I saw the Earth !!

The surrounding area was black , even thou the bright light was so intense !!

ALSO A COMPASSIONATE FEELING OF LOVE ( the way your mother holds u with a loving embrace ) a thousand times !!!

And I felt a comforting hand pulling me along ,i presume to be my Guardian Angel ( a glow around the person ) of which destingushed features could not be made out !!

There appeared to be people on both sides of me,as I rushed pass them - all of them were very happy to see me !!!

All Smiling , I did not recognise any of them !!! These were all dead people ( Angels ) , I gathered ( The reason ,i could not recognise any of them , was maybe they were all young faces or people I knew - family members or total strangers ( people who have reached Nirvana )

- No complexion, only a GLow )

The music was booming in a celebration melody ( the most beautiful sound effect, I have ever heard )

My life did not flash before my eyes , nor my deeds ,actions or my material things I owned ! I thought of certain friends and family .

Once I thought of my mother .

I instantly stopped ( leaving her behind , was to great a loss ), the hand left my grasp - an as I fell , quicker then I had climbed !!

I was revived by the technician, with a massive headache !

And I was told that I was , in a foetus position ( curled up ) , and I have a picture of this in my memory ( the out of body experience, so clear now !!!)

I must admit, I was annoyed that he woke me up !!

With a new appreciation for life !!

And no fear of death !!

The blessing , I spoke of early on - is that death does not scare me any more !!

Once the Soul leaves the body , we go to a

different realm ! The bright light !

Heaven

And as a Hindu , i believe in reincarnation .

So Possible if I , don't get it right in this life time - I will return with my soul - to do it all over again !!!

Hell is on Earth - Survival - A Test

Dog eat , dog world !! And some dogs are better , then some humans !! We have to walk the path of righteousness, I guess

Which is very difficult for us mere mortals

Death means Change - new beginnings ! !

A Third Dimension !!

Go towards the light !!!

Do not fear GOD' s Wrath !! God is here to guide you in the right direction

Do Good , be Good - let go of all the negativity ! !

God is Love !!! God is light - Pure Energy to sustain us !!!!

P.s Struggling a person is very dangerous, as the loss of oxygen to the brain for a few minutes can be deadly !!

Death is one thing we CAN wait for - it comes to us all , when it's our time !

Old age ( Grey and Wrinkles ) is a privilege , given to us by the grace of God !!!!

Until then we must find our purpose in life , which makes us happy !!

Happiness is helping others !!

We are all one !!! Same fears , hopes and desires !!!

I hope my experience , helps others who have the fear of death !!

Thanks for the A2A Sandeep Singh. I have never had a near death experience. So please bare that in mind.

If my intuition serves me right (and I know I've lost most people here!), the universe that we as a species find ourselves in is currently observed in the 3rd dimension, obviously. What was the first thing that occupied this 'area' of space before everything that we know existed?

Space (even though it may have be the size of an ant or atom), energy (consciousness/unlimited potential), and light (that which creates life as we know it). Although, there would have been no light in the beginning to see, but it was there.

This space, energy and light created our existence.

When we are leaving this existence, we travel to the origin of everything and nothing. Light signifies entering/travelling towards what existed before all of this. Light; makes all this possible. If you 'break through' the light at the end of the tunnel, you have returned from that which you came; the beginning.

What happens next? That's a question for another day.

I suffered from low blood pressure attacks as a teenager.

My first attack remains a very vivid memory.

First the lights from the high windows in my school got very very bright, the school voices sounded weird. As I staggered along the corridor to class, darkness began to seep into my peripheral vision so it became a “tunnel of light” gradually getting narrower and narrower. The voices began higher pitched and “sang” to me. I staggered into the classroom and collapsed into the nearest chair. The voices of my classmates echoed and what they are saying was nonsense. The blood returning to my brain whistled and gradually the darkness and bright light returned to normal.

it was NOT a Near Death Experience, just low blood pressure causing a lack of blood getting to my brain.

But I definitely experienced the “tunnel of light”.

So the “bright light at the end of the tunnel” is no more than the brain suffering from lack of oxygen due to the blood no longer reaching it effectively.

You do not need to “nearly die” to experience it.

Decades ago there was a documentary on near death experiences. A flight physician who monitored fighter pilots when they trained in a high-G centrifuge reported that those who blacked out reported many of the near death symptoms, such as hovering behind themselves as that other self walked down a corridor towards a light.

Back when I was a boy, and TV sets used cathode ray tubes, turning off the set would cause a white spot to appear at the center of the screen. (The high voltage launching the electrons decayed more slowly than the circuit that moved the electron beam across the screen.) I had always thought that near death experiences were likely to be a meaningless symptom of a complex system being turned off.

I was 4 almost 5. I was in my bed sick. I had been very ill running fevers hitting 104. Mom says I hit 105 at some point. I remember being lowered into a cold tub of water, my mother frantically trying to bring the fever down. I would hallucinate the same thing when my fever got that high. The ceiling would start bouncing back and forth like a rubber band. It would begin lowering down on me. I would cry out thinking I was going to be crushed. In looking back now it was probably seizures.

I was also vomiting every hour or less. When my stomach had nothing left I was dry heaving yellow mucus.

Mom took me to the hospital seeing I was getting ready to die. I was little and my body had taken all it could. I was losing against whatever bug had hold of me.

I was immediately rushed back to the ER beds and the room became busy with medical staff rushing around. They were asking mom questions as she watched me looking worried and trying not to cry.

I felt so tired. I just wanted to sleep for a while. I remember telling everyone I was feeling much better. The sounds in the room started to get a hollow echo to them. I just wanted to close my eyes, so I did.

The voices in the room continued to echo. I suddenly noticed my toes were touching the foot of the bed. I thought,” wow! I am a big girl!” I felt so proud. I opened my eyes to look and when I did I was looking at myself. I was laying on a gurney. I was blue. My eyes were slats. There were people around me frantically working. Mom was crying as she looked on.

I wasn't upset or scared. A little confused. I knew I didn't have a body. I felt like I was part of everything and everyone. I moved upward and could see other rooms. I later detailed conversations that there is no way I could have known. I lifted out of the hospital and continued ascending. I began browsing thru time. I saw events in my short life. I later detailed things that occurred before I could even talk. Things I should not be able to remember but do and in great detail. Ascended more. I felt at peace. There were no questions or unknowns. There were no fears or worries. I began drifting towards a light. It was beautiful. I wanted to touch it.

Suddenly there was a pop. It felt like I was attached to a cord and someone grabbed it and jerked me down. I descended almost instantly.

After that it's hazy. I obviously got better and went home. The experience has shaped me in so many ways. I know there is a place we go when we die. Oddly I still fear death. I can't understand why.

So that's my near death experience. I hope it gives someone hope.

What was on the other side? It is a peace beyond our understanding and knowledge. One minute I was on earth and the next minute I was in heaven. I was one with the world. I felt fabulous and welcomed. It was a very comfortable time. I too wanted to stay but had to return. It is like having a heavy coat on, earth, and taking it off, heaven. I had nothing to bring but myself. The weight of the world was not shackled to me. I met people that I knew. I was shown the Angel’s living quarters. I stayed for tea. I talked telepathically to The Angel, a relative. I was sent back after I received a hug. The Light is brilliantly bright, calming and caring. I think of this one experience quite a bit. It keeps me focus.

I don't know if it was a NDE experience or an unnaturally deep, deep slumber… but whatever it was it was surreal .

My daughter was just a few months old at that time when one morning, probably, due to new mom fatigue, I suddenly felt extreme exhaustion envelope me & decided to take a power nap. So, I lie down next to my sleeping baby & remember checking the bedside clock…

The next thing I sense is me feeling weightless & floating away & away from my mortal body into a long dark tunnel with just a glimmer of light somewhere towards the end of the tunnel.

I am resisting ,this strange force which is pulling me away,with all my might .I am fighting to come back into the light, but this powerful force pushes me back into the darkness . I am getting breathless now, but continue to resist being pulled back into the dark tunnel…

It was somewhere during this tussel that I woke up abruptly with a jerk.I remember my head being filled with chaos & confusion. So, I rush to the wash basin to splash some water on my face & get a grip on things.

My mirror image reflected a puffed up face & swollen eyes, as if I had just woken up from a very long ,deep slumber. Deep it was but the ‘slumber’ lasted for only 3 minutes !

I had casually checked my clock before lying down, it was 9 am.I woke up at around 9.03′ish am…

It was somewhat of an unnerving experience for me, which has stayed with me since.

I relived it again today as i wrote this piece.

Yes, there are many. Here is an Extract from Chaitanya Charan’s upcoming book: “The Mystery of Reincarnation” which will help you to get the answer. (If you are finding the extract too long to read you can see the video by the author present at the bottom of the answer)

One of the most amazing cases of a NDE during documented unconsciousness is that of Pam Reynolds reported by Dr Michael Sabom in his book Light and Death

Pam Reynolds was diagnosed with a giant basilar artery aneurysm: a weakness in the wall of the large artery at the base of her brain had caused that artery to balloon. A fatal rupture could have come at any moment. Initially, doctors offered her no hope of survival. But eventually she came in touch with neurosurgeon Robert Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Spetzler was a specialist who was at that time pioneering a rare, dangerous, but sometimes necessary technique called hypothermic cardiac arrest, or “Operation Standstill.” This daring operation required that the patient’s body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and the blood drained from her head.

Dr. Spetzler explains, “If you would examine that patient from a clinical perspective during that hour, that patient by all definition would be dead. At this point there is no brain activity, no blood going through the brain. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”

During this period of clinical brain death, Pam had a vivid NDE in which she saw – with clarity and detail – her head, the cranial saw, the operating room, and the doctors and nurses there. She was surprised to see the peculiar way in which her hair had been shaved and was alarmed to see someone cutting her groin area during what was supposed to be brain surgery. From the area where her legs were, she also heard a female voice saying that the blood vessels were too small on the right side, and a male voice suggesting that they try the other side.

It’s incredible that, during this period of brain death, she had any perception at all. But it’s even more incredible that she could have heard the two voices. During the entire time not only was she under general anesthesia, but she also had special earpieces actually molded into her ears. Those tiny speakers were emitting 90 to 100 decibel clicks at a rate of 11 to 13 clicks per second. Sound at that volume is easily louder than a whistling teakettle and nearly as loud as a lawn mower or even a passing subway train. This sound was meant to monitor her most basic level of brain function and ensure that she was deeply and consistently anesthetized. Just imagine tiny speakers specially molded to completely fill the ear canal emitting clicks that loud and rapid. Then imagine the likelihood of accurately hearing a brief conversation that was taking place at the volume of normal conversation – about 60 decibel, substantially below the 90 to 100 decibel clicks. Even though the conversation was happening a few feet away, there’s little possibility it could have been overheard. Regardless, even if Reynolds had somehow been partially conscious and hearing things as she normally would, it’s strange that – as Dr Sabom confirms – she never mentioned hearing clicks, much less feeling distracted by them or struggling to hear through them.

Dr Spetzler summarizes the profound questions raised by Reynolds’ NDE:

“At that stage in the operation, nobody can observe, hear, in that state, And I find it inconceivable that your normal senses, such as hearing, let alone the fact that she had clicking modules in each ear, that there was any way to hear [what she heard] through normal auditory pathways. I don’t have an explanation for it. I don’t know how it’s possible for it to happen, considering the physiological state she was in. At the same time, I have seen so many things that I can’t explain, that 1 don’t want to be so arrogant as to be able to say that there’s no way it can happen.”

When Reynolds was asked how she was able to hear, she replied that it was through nonphysical processes.

Original Question: What are all the different styles of near death experiences people have reported? E.g., out of body, tunnel to light, etc.

Broadly, these fall into 4 major categories:

1. Feelings of detachment from the body and/or levitation
2. Feelings of serenity, security and warmth
3. The presence of a tunnel of light
4. Flashback of memories from the past