Have you had a NDE?

[Debbie]

Some people talk about having had a Near Death Experience and seeing a bright light or figures in white or a bright light and feeling compelled to go towards the light.

("Don't Go Into the Light, Carol Anne" - Poltergeist)

So have you had one? Do you know someone who has? Do you think it is plausible or is a NDE more along the lines of our minds playing tricks on us? A sort of lucid dreaming or maybe our imaginations go wild and we imagine the whole thing.

 

[jezzilee]

Some people talk about having had a Near Death Experience and seeing a bright light or figures in white or a bright light and feeling compelled to go towards the light.

("Don't Go Into the Light, Carol Anne" - Poltergeist)

So have you had one? Do you know someone who has? Do you think it is plausible or is a NDE more along the lines of our minds playing tricks on us? A sort of lucid dreaming or maybe our imaginations go wild and we imagine the whole thing.

I have had 2. One more traumatic than the other but I never saw a light, my life didn't flash before my eyes, I wish I could say that there is definitively life after death but from my experience, there isn't. Maybe I was not far enough gone to see the light. Who really knows. How about you Debbie? ( interesting thread)

 

[Debbie]

I think I have but years later I wonder if it was just my brains way of dealing with the fact that I was terrified and drowning. Being a child at the time (12) it could well be something that I've thought about again and again and developed into something more fanciful rather than factual.


I do remember pretending to be be brave and following my cousins (who were so used to the water they were like otters with me flopping like a fish out of water lol) when we were told to be careful and not to go past the small bridge but I did and found myself no longer walking on the creek bed but treading water and panicking. Gulping water. Going under the water. Trying to kick my legs to get back to the surface and air. Felt like forever.

I didn't see a light. My life didn't flash before my eyes but more like snapshots. Peoples faces. Places. Stuff. I still think maybe your brain goes a bit haywire.

Luckily my cousins yelled to my uncle and his mate and they dived in and grabbed me. A lot of coughing, spluttering but a ok and being a kid I bounced back quite quickly. I'm still not a huge fan of the sea but I don't have aquaphobia.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Yes, in Vietnam. The injury was a fractured skull and several broken teeth. I was senseless but not unconscious. I couldn't see or hear but I could think. I knew I could live or die, and I wanted to live. After a while my senses returned.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I've been ND...





... but no E.

 

[Magnetron]

Yes, in Vietnam. The injury was a fractured skull and several broken teeth. I was senseless but not unconscious. I couldn't see or hear but I could think. I knew I could live or die, and I wanted to live. After a while my senses returned.

This explains so much.

 

[Magnetron]

I think I have but years later I wonder if it was just my brains way of dealing with the fact that I was terrified and drowning. Being a child at the time (12) it could well be something that I've thought about again and again and developed into something more fanciful rather than factual.


I do remember pretending to be be brave and following my cousins (who were so used to the water they were like otters with me flopping like a fish out of water lol) when we were told to be careful and not to go past the small bridge but I did and found myself no longer walking on the creek bed but treading water and panicking. Gulping water. Going under the water. Trying to kick my legs to get back to the surface and air. Felt like forever.

I didn't see a light. My life didn't flash before my eyes but more like snapshots. Peoples faces. Places. Stuff. I still think maybe your brain goes a bit haywire.

Luckily my cousins yelled to my uncle and his mate and they dived in and grabbed me. A lot of coughing, spluttering but a ok and being a kid I bounced back quite quickly. I'm still not a huge fan of the sea but I don't have aquaphobia.

Ditto. Same experience, but was quickly pulled out of the water before anything odd happened.

 

[wheres_the_beef]

Do you think it is plausible or is a NDE more along the lines of our minds playing tricks on us?

Fighter pilots training to deal with high g forces on centrifuges frequently report similar experiences when they blackout from a lack of blood/oxygen to the brain. They aren't actually near death. It just seems to be the way our brains deal with the same conditions that exist when people are close to death.

 

[Queertag45]

I've been ND...





... but no E.

Brain dead counts. You've suffered a long time with that.

 

[pointless]

i've almost drowned, but i was too busy panicking to bother seeing any lights.

 

[Liar]

I've had two near deaths, but I didn't experience either. The first I was knocked out and unconscious. The other I was sedated.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Some people talk about having had a Near Death Experience and seeing a bright light or figures in white or a bright light and feeling compelled to go towards the light.

("Don't Go Into the Light, Carol Anne" - Poltergeist)

So have you had one? Do you know someone who has? Do you think it is plausible or is a NDE more along the lines of our minds playing tricks on us? A sort of lucid dreaming or maybe our imaginations go wild and we imagine the whole thing.

A true NDE is when one has temporarily lost heart beat and/or respiration. Merely being unconscious doesn't count, no matter the trauma. Seeing bright lights and meeting former deceased friends or family members could well be explained by the same brain activity that results in normal dreams.

It is a whole different story, however, when NDE patients report seeing and hearing things in the same room or even far more distant locations while they were comatose and which turn out to be spot on accurate.

Those well-documented experiences make the extra-dimensional aspect of NDE far too significant to dismiss out of hand.

 

[BattlingSoul]

There is a VERY interesting show on NETFLIX right now called the OA that deals with NDE...

 

[Green_Knight]

Yes. I was once walking in wild country completely unprepared for the bad weather that came on. The result - not that I realised it at the time - was hypothermia. I tried to get my tent up but I couldn't even manage that. The last thing I can consciously remember was lying down in a ditch - I suppose it was more protected than just lying on the ground.

The next thing I was aware of was looking down on myself from a great height and seeing myself lying in the ditch. It was as if there was a voice telling me that I had to get out of there and get help. That message must have got through to me and I managed to get up and walked another mile or so until I came to a house. I knocked on the door and the people took one look at me and bundled me into bed with loads of bedclothes and a couple of hot water bottles. Fortunately by next morning I'd recovered.

No white lights, no figures, just the view down from on high and a voice insisting that I had to get up and move.

Make of it what you will.

 

[BattlingSoul]

When I spoke back to my father, that was an NDE...

 

[norwaygirl]

It's a interesting category, and I am sure we all have a spiritual body.

 

[thør]

i've almost drowned, but i was too busy panicking to bother seeing any lights.

I kept swimming toward the light.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I kept swimming toward the light.

I think that's just called "good policy."

 

[Greypowerful]

I had a rig accident about this time of year in 1980.

I STILL remember feeling... "FUCK! I'm gonna die, here, and some fucking Texan makes more money from my labour". Totally stupid thoughts... Then I realized that I was pretty banged up, but kinda conscious.

Luckily, the Site Engineer was a former Sergeant in the Canadian Parachute Brigade... they got me off the drilling floor and across to his trailer in good order.

Too much anecdotal evidence for me to be an absolute NON-Believer...

 

[pointless]

I kept swimming toward the light.

then you weren't drowning.

 

[thør]

I think that's just called "good policy."

It wasn't a classic near death experience. The other person in the ducky was never sucked under. But, a few years later, the same river tried to kill her and had her companions not all been a bunch of ER nurses and EMTs, I might have one less friend, today.

 

[thør]

then you weren't drowning.

I was just out of breath under a whole lot of fucking water.

 

[pointless]

cool. now put away the tape measure. i was a kid at the time.

 

[zipman]

Yes, in Vietnam. The injury was a fractured skull and several broken teeth. I was senseless but not unconscious. I couldn't see or hear but I could think. I knew I could live or die, and I wanted to live. After a while my senses returned.

Actually, they didn't.

 

[pink]

I have not, thankfully but does anyone ever have a feeling HOW they are going to die?

I cannot get out of my head that I am going to die in a car accident. It doesn't keep me from driving, I actually love to drive and i'm a pretty good driver.

I dont' know, maybe I'm just weird.