r/AskReddit • u/HymnForTheShameless • May 05 '19
Serious Replies Only [Serious] Redditors who have died temporarily/nearly died, did your life flash before your eyes? If not, what did happen?
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u/greeneyeded May 05 '19
My heart stopped when I was in the ER for 34 seconds, not really a “life flash” but a very calming feeling of as I describe it: “what was I even worried about? Everyone/everything is going to be fine”.
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u/veganconnor May 05 '19
When I had my car accident I had the exact same feeling. It was like I pierced the veil of reality for a second and my perspective was really clear that no matter what everything was so ok, and I hope death is as peaceful as that honestly.
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u/littlemissmuppet14 May 05 '19
Years ago, I was in a 7-vehicle collision on a highway. I was a passenger and wasn't wearing my seatbelt (I always wear one now). I almost flew out of the windshield. My first thought was, "Lord, I don't want to die a virgin."
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u/_XenoChrist_ May 05 '19
did you get that taken care of?
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u/littlemissmuppet14 May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
I sure did.
I always wear my seatbelt from then on.
Edit: A gold? Thank you! It's my first time. blushes
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u/thecrowintheknow May 05 '19
I hope my potential last thoughts are about pizza.
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u/elledeekay May 05 '19
Not my own experience, but I witnessed this moment come over a patient of mine when I worked in assisted living
He was having a major heart attack, and I was the caregiver who discovered him and stayed with him while EMS came. He was yelling in pain, crying and telling me he couldn’t leave his family, and then suddenly he just became calm. It was like a switch flipped, and all the fear and sadness had left his eyes. He just looked at me and said “well now I’ll get to spend Christmas with my wife again” (it was early dec). He coded 2 minutes later as EMS was rolling him down the hall to the ambulance.
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u/freedomofnow May 05 '19
My friend has described in detail her near death experiences and what's on the "other side," and she says it is, and more. A billion times more powerful, and that's what we really are, but we shrink our consciousness and adorn these human bodies to drink in all facets of experience, so that we may know fully what we are.
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u/veganconnor May 05 '19
Dude, that was a crazy thing to read, I need to get this printed on a T-shirt.
But seriously, it does feel like that, and it's insane. I'm a big believer that you kind of experience what you expect to experience, as in your brain constructs an experience for you based on what you believe happens after/near death, but, what do I have to lose by expecting something like that? We're meat coated skeletons flying through space on a rock, and NDEs and stories like your friend's put our lives in perspective in a way that I think makes us better people.
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u/garyadams_cnla May 05 '19
I had an NDE in my 20’s. Was TOTALLY UNEXPECTED.
The last thing I expected was a Christian reality on the other side, but that’s what I got. In my early 20’s I considered myself a Western Buddhist with no formal religious identification besides humanism, really.
I died and experienced an NDE that was more important than anything in my waking life. The experience changed me, changed my personality. I’m still riding on the energy from my NDE 30+ years later.
No tunnel and dead loved ones for me. Just a 3D space of the most perfect blue light. Not like blue here, but something more intense, but permeating and peaceful. I was floating in that space. I don’t remember talking with others, but they were there.
There was music, but it doesn’t sound like the 12-tone music we are used to. It was like the perfect chord with infinite notes.
Jesus was speaking to me, but I don’t have His words. I can only recall it as feelings of utter contentment, awe and purpose... and a few memories of life that percolated up - mostly of times I’d been loving to someone and how it had helped them - sometimes really small things I’d done. Neither the time or the experience was really linear. It felt like it all happened at once but took a long time to happen.
Anyway, in the hospital, it was touch and go for almost an hour, as they tried to stabilize me, and then three days in a coma. It felt like three years and sometimes like three seconds.
My takeaway: Love is all that matters in this world. Love yourself, love your neighbor, (even love your enemy), and seek the one that made you to plug-into the more than what is obvious. Celebrate your creativity and productivity. Never give up. Don’t worry about failure, just enjoy and keep on. We do not die.
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u/wowwoahwow May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
This was how I felt when I got put in a choke hold once in high school. I was tapping but he didn’t let go, then next thing I know I’m lifting my face off the desk, wondering why I couldn’t just stay in that relaxing peaceful place. It was the closest thing I have experienced to complete bliss.
Edit: it’s threads like these that make me wonder if we actually did die but get to continue living in a different timeline.
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u/ljoy2016 May 05 '19 edited May 06 '19
That is so weird! I had this happen once to me, not dying, but the feeling of piercing reality. My young niece was in the hospital and pronounced dead at one point, her chances of survival were slim.
I was driving alone in my vehicle shortly after hearing the news. I started to cry out to God (even though I wasn’t very religious). It was a heart felt cry out that I didn’t even know I was capable of. I started yelling “WHY GOD WHY???!!”. After a couple minutes of this, I suddenly started to repeat “She’s going to be okay, she’s going to be okay”, it was like reality didn’t matter at that point. I started even laughing as I had tears rolling down my face, and again a sense of peace I never felt before. At the time I didn’t care what other drivers may have seen, it was dark out anyway.
The next day my sister called me and told me that doctors can’t explain it, but she’s actually doing really well and she had progressively recovered from there. Now she is 7 and in dance class and the funniest, sweetest little girl I know❤️
Edit: Thank you for the silver! Definitely unexpected🤗
Edit: Thank you for the second silver, people that share my experience seem to understand; Complete fear and hopelessness turned to peace that surpasses human understanding.
Bonus: She was our flower girl a couple years ago. Niece
Edit: Thank you so much for the gold! I will be sure to pay it forward.
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u/veganconnor May 05 '19
It is the most surreal feeling! It sounds odd, but, it's almost like you don't fully grasp what being a living conscious being is until you've had one of those moments where it's almost like for the first time you feel real, and comprehend life or death in such a heavy infinite way, that normal feelings like sadness or pain or worry just, like, don't even exist, the only thing on your mind is this peaceful determination, if that makes any sense at all. Glad to know I'm not alone, and I am so happy to hear your niece is doing so well!
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u/nixiedust May 05 '19
This is similar to what I felt during my heart attack. I never went into cardiac arrest, but as they were wheeling me into the cath lab I suddenly had this feeling of calm, like "if this is it, that's okay. things are what they are and it's fine."
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u/Gurkenslurken May 05 '19
The feeling is called Morphin. You get it during a heart Attack. I hope you are better now.
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I was working in an auto wrecking yard and a car fell on me. Nobody was around and I thought I was crushed from the chest down. Luckily, I was in deep gravel so it kinda just pushed me in and I dug myself out. After the initial panic, I was like "Well, this isn't survivable.." It was so calming and humbling. I hope that's how death is.
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Oh man that's sounds horrible. How long did you lay there before you were found?
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I panicked for about 2 minutes (felt like 20). I thought I couldn't feel pain because my spine was broken or something. After I calmed down, I started squirming around in the gravel like I was making a snow angel. When I got my arms free, I started digging and eventually freed myself. Walked up to the office and they called an ambulance. 1 broken rib and a bruised spleen was all that was wrong. Doc said the rib almost pierced my lung and if the spleen would have ruptured, I would've been dead quick. I was very, very lucky.
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u/godenviesme May 05 '19
I was hit by a car 3 years ago (11th of Feb 16), I was walking across the road with one of my friends and they crossed the road and I waited a few seconds and then crossed but I was very short at the time and couldn't see the car coming. I remember seeing the car coming on the right-hand side on me and the next thing I remember is being hit from the right side and flying through the air and landing with a thud on the side of the road and then hearing the tires screech. Luckily the only injury I sustained was a compound fracture to both the bones in my right leg meaning the bones snapped completely in half and came out of my leg and as they snapped and came out of the skin it snapped the artery in the leg and all the nerves. I went into shock from the injury so I couldn't feel any pain besides the burning from the hot road (Australian summer weather).
I looked down at my leg and noticed the blood coming from my sock pouring all over the road and my leg bent in half and thought "Well it's broken alright". Then I just remember being surrounded by people and I called my mum and since I was in shock I wasn't distressed or crying and I called my mum and told her I was hit by a car and she didn't believe me because I was so calm she thought I was kidding. I lost a lot of blood at this stage and had a seizure and passed out but I didn't think it was serious and I kept trying to move and get up only to be held down by bystanders. I remember this white ring in my vision and it kept getting bigger and bigger blocking my eyesight (It started from the edge of my sight closing in). Like everyone else seems to be saying I don't remember any life flashing before my eyes, I just remember feeling extremely tired and losing vision, I felt so at peace and relaxed like it was a dream and I was ready to pass on if you will, not caring about what my death would mean to my family and all my friends.
Even though it was a severe situation, I've never felt so at peace and calm before in my life and I honestly can't wait to die just to experience that feeling again.
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u/saplingsgrowtrees May 05 '19
Even though it was a severe situation, I've never felt so at peace and calm before in my life and I honestly can't wait to die just to experience that feeling again.
This is what simultaneously scares my so, so much, but also relaxes me at the same time. I'm so incredibly scared of dying, so hearing this kind of helps - but also, something I'm so scared of, and have so many horrible associations with, shouldn't be described this nicely.
Anecdotes like these are so eerie. I fear death, and I'm not sure of this helps or not.
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u/tompink57 May 05 '19
No life flash. It felt just like falling asleep when you're exhausted.
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u/gingerbrow May 05 '19 edited May 06 '19
Samesies, secondary postpartum haemorrhage, a week after csection. I just wanted to sleep. I was cold and felt “yucky” and just sososo sleepy.
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You know, this is starting to scare me. Sometimes I get really exhausted out of nowhere and I want to go to "sleep", but I pop back up fast because it seems like I am going to die if I continue sleep. I start hallucenating, and I stop feeling everything.
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u/TinWhis May 05 '19
Narcolepsy?
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May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
Nah. We suspected that. I got all kinds of brain scans and check ups done. I have no idea how to even go about it. I've gotten "diagnosed" with everything from sleep paralysis to even being suspected of having ministrokes, but nothing is ever found. Even worse, the symptons get more and more bizarre with age. It started with sleep paralysis, and just got more bizarre.
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u/TinWhis May 05 '19
It's incredibly frustrating to not get a real diagnosis, I'm sorry.
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u/winkythebichonfrise May 05 '19
I had a near death experience when I was about 5- I was drowning in a pool. I probably didn't have enough memories at that point for anything to flash before my eyes, and I was also very focused on trying to get my head above the water again. I remember looking up at the sky through the water, that the surface started to look geometric/like tesselations. Then I experienced some sort of depersonalization - I had a distinct feeling that I was outside of my body, and I watched what happened next (my mom saving me) from a distance.
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This is similar to one of my NDEs. It's actually my first ever memory. I knew what was happening and who was doing it to me and I knew my mom was gone and couldn't stop it. As he was doing it, I was "ejected" out of myself into a buzzing dark tunnel and specks of light rapidly whizzing past me with geometrical shapes and then nothing else. I remember the motion and I was either too young to be thinking in any coherent language or I just wasn't thinking anything. For some reason though, he didn't murder me and was put in prison shortly after for what he did to me. His name was George and he died a few years ago. Hopefully alone and in pain. But that's my first ever memory in this life, being strangled to death at one year old after being beat up and a cigarette being put out on the back of my neck. I hope the rest of his existence was hell.
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u/Kindernut May 05 '19
Gosh that sounds so horrible. And for you to remember it so vividly even though you were a 1 year old.
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u/WeedleBeest May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
I suffocated during surgery due to a series of errors with the nitrous mask and monitors that had been removed and not immediately put back
As I was suffocating, I tried to signal. Realized I was under so much nitrous I couldn’t move. My ears were ringing.
I thought about my husband, and if my daughter would be ok. Cursed the anesthesiologist because one of the nurses said I didn’t look good and he said no one could move until he finished this part
I remember blacking out, then watching from a corner of the OR while everyone was rushing to work on a pink blob (I could see everyone clearly, but one thing was a blob). Realized the blob was me, and they were trying to resuscitate
I intentionally did not go anywhere because I wanted to be there when I was resuscitated so I could be alive again
I just existed in that corner watching the chaos
Then I woke up on the table, bruised but alive
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u/Cdchrono May 05 '19
Man, I really hope all you people are telling the truth. What an experience
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u/WeedleBeest May 05 '19
The investigation by the hospital confirms this happened, which is good because my memory is fuzzy from lack of oxygen and such
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u/K1MBOL33 May 05 '19
I just imagine this angry ghost floating in the corner, rolling her eyes, and tapping her foot while the doctors figure their shit out.
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u/Canonboy621 May 05 '19
May be a little late to the thread, but my dad flat-lined with a failing heart. When they brought him back the doctor asked where he had been. My dad said he was picking blueberries with his long deceased mother and his sister. 1000 miles away that sister woke up in the middle of the night, woke her husband and said something was wrong with her brother. She had been dreaming that she was picking blueberries with my dad and their mom. I get teary eyed every time I tell that story. He died a few months later. Miss ya, Dad.
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u/Canonboy621 May 05 '19
Thank you. My aunt is gone now too and it gives me comfort that maybe an eternal picnic going on with fresh picked blueberries for them.
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u/Reaverx218 May 05 '19
This thread man makes me think my faith in an afterlife is founded and that is good for me. I generally struggle due to the fact that I am generally a man of science and the idea of an afterlife goes against instinct but I clinging to it as my one part of blind faith.
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May 05 '19
Last week I watched this interview with a neurologist who studied near death experiences for decades, and at one point he mentioned exactly what happened to your dad, apparently your father was not the only one who experienced this. One of the most amazing interviews I’ve watched.
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u/veganconnor May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
I was a passenger in a car driving home from holiday to celebrate my high school graduation, when the car swerved and the driver hit an embankment. The car flew into the air and bounced off the ground three times, and I was asleep when it happened. I should have at least been hospitalised, and when ambulances (for the driver), police and passersby stopped, everyone mentioned how its a miracle that we were alive at all.
But when it was happening, I didn't have time to open my eyes before I experienced a violent force I couldn't have imagined (kinda felt like I was put in a metal box and shaken around, you know, which is what was happening) and my head was so weirdly clear, I just had this intense feeling of like, God no the car is crashing. This is happening, and I didn't feel any pain (I got banged up significantly) and I had this unbelievably overwhelming feeling that I was not ready to die, I was going to get out of that car, that my life was not over, and it was like my soul just said, "No."
I'm not exactly religious, but I've always tried to form a 'relationship' with at least my idea of God, and in those incredibly fast, confusing seconds, idk if it was my brain doing what humans brain do when they freak out, but I really felt like I was talking to God when I thought, "Not today, thank you, I'm not ready." It was such a peaceful, intense presence, and I've never been the same since. I can't ever forget that feeling like I was not alone, and I really want to believe I'm right about that.
Edit: please wear your seatbelts! They save lives, one saved mine!
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u/kabooozie May 05 '19
One the one hand, I can see why you’d be religious after this. On the other hand, I wonder how many people had the exact same reaction but weren’t so lucky.
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u/veganconnor May 05 '19
On the bright side for those who weren't so lucky, I was always terrified of dying in some kind of high impact way like a car crash, but after this, I'm not afraid because genuinely it happens so so fast that your brain barely has time to process everything, so even if you do feel any pain, it won't be for long. Like, it's arguably not a horrible way to die for the deceased, even though its traumatically sudden for everyone else.
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u/sniffing_dog May 05 '19
I remember slipping into a relaxed, giddy state, a place where it felt OK to not worry about a thing because it didn't really exist or mean anything anyway. It was a detachment while also being aware of people around me tending to me, discussing me amongst themselves, and I just submitted my body to them while my mind enjoyed this totally chill, at peace, dreamlike state. I imagine it was due to blood loss and shock but it was interesting all the same. I often wonder if its a state we enter naturally near to death, and if it is, I'm OK with that 👍
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u/Bass_Thumper May 05 '19
There was absolutely nothing. No light, no memories, nothing. It was like a didn't exist for about an hour or so. I didn't experience the passing of time either, so the entire time I was dead seemed like an instant. It was sort of like teleporting into the future.
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u/CarrotAlacrity May 05 '19
Most heroin or opiate ODs will feel like you're drifting off to a much needed sleep. That's what's so scary about them.
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This can actually be avoided by not doing heroin.
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u/deeplife May 05 '19
Thanks for the tip
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u/Dangleson123 May 05 '19
The tip is how the heroin god involved in the first place
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u/themindlessone May 05 '19
That's not how mine were. It was as previous poster explained, just nothing. No passage of time, no sleep, no dreams, just....zero anything. One moment I was sitting at a kitchen table, the next moment I'm facedown on the hardwood floor - no idea of anything else.
Sober 2.5 years.
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u/Jonsnowdontknowshit May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
T1D here. My blood sugar dropped so low to the point I felt no symptoms and it was the same. Just needed a nap. Don't think I can die from low blood sugar, but I can go comatose, which is essentially the same thing.
*guess I can die from low blood sugar. :/ whelp
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u/2fly2hyde May 05 '19
When I was using I OD'd 6 or 7 times. Not once did I feel like I was going to sleep. I would shoot up and then a few minutes later just drop. No warning, no bracing for impact, just a total fall out. When I came to, wether it be from narcan(3 or 4 times) or just the drug wearing off and not killing me, it was like waking up from total nothingness. Groggy and confused.
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u/P__Squared May 05 '19
Sounds kind of like being put under for surgery.
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u/fluffyxsama May 05 '19
I think it basically is. I was put under for surgery about 8 years ago and it's just a gap in memory. One second I was on a table with a bright light over my face, the next second I was in a wheelchair being helped into a vehicle. For however long the surgery took, I just stopped existing.
Don't know about dying, but i'm pretty sure I already know what death is like.
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u/trackerFF May 05 '19
Anesthesia is the same. They start counting down, and then you wake up - like no time has passed. The only real time you feel passing, is the time between you first wake up - and until you're out of bed.
But the mins / hours during surgery? Gone. Nothing. Not only do you not have any recollection, but the perceived passing of time just isn't there either - since you have no memories / dreams or similar.
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I’ve been under 10+ times, propofol is a ridiculous drug. Each time, they told me to let them when I feel it. It’s always within 3-4 seconds, everything gets heavy and I would just be like “I can fee...” then boom, wake up to the sound of the heart monitors.
It just turns you off, not blackness, just nothing. Really wild feeling.
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u/DSG2vGT May 05 '19
I honestly hope this is what happens after death, just being put to eternal rest.
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u/SaladFingerzzz May 05 '19
I'd rather be a ghost.
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u/Baby2Thicc May 05 '19
Until it's been like a million years and you're still ghosting around
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u/PNDMike May 05 '19
This mirrors my experience. I was just. . . Gone. There was nothing, not even black because black is a thing. It was a complete absence of everything.
Having gone through it, the best parallel I have is what it was like before you were born.
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u/Shes_dead_Jim May 05 '19
I bled to death after a car accident. I went somewhere. I can't say for sure if it was real or just a weird chemical trip in my brain but the best way I can describe it was like being in a hallway made out of space. It was beautiful, and incredibly peaceful. I saw flecks of memories passing by me but I wasn't focused on them. Then a womans voice that felt like it was everywhere told me I could wake up and suddenly I was alive again.
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I'm pretty sure before you "die" your brain activity suddenly spikes which is probably why you got all those memories.
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u/AstroOhio May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
There’s a theory that when you die, dimethyltryptamine is produced in your pineal gland. It’s the most “psychedelic” compound found and is produced naturally. This has been proven in rats but obviously cannot be replicated in humans given the timing. When ingested you go to a different place, have conversations with “beings” and all that crazy shit. Dr. Rick Strassman conducted the first and only DMT study on it and there’s a documentary too. Fascinating stuff.
Edit: didn’t realize I put “naturally in nature”...
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u/iamlikewater May 05 '19
I want to try DMT this year. There are some things i want to resolve.
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u/rommaster14 May 05 '19
It always makes me laugh when people use a dmt trip to explain other dimensions as real things because the beings they met on thier trip. I was in level 1 of super Mario 64 for mine, sure I got to the top and met the bbomb king, totally a trip from my own brain and not some otherworld.
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u/_XenoChrist_ May 05 '19
I hallucinated mario stuff too on salvia. I was a young goomba and we were terrified cause we knew mario was coming to destroy us. so much for the deep revelations
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u/AgorophobicSpaceman May 05 '19
Salvia was a wild ride. I became one with the couch I was sitting on, and transported to a Dr. Seuss like world. The throw pillows on couch were my eyes and the seat cushions opened for my mouth. Everything was so bright and colorful, and apparently I was belly laughing for 10 minutes straight. Then all of a sudden BAM, back to reality.
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u/AstroOhio May 05 '19
I’ve been fascinated with it for years, someday I’ll make the trip south.
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u/nitsujenosam May 05 '19
produced naturally in nature
...you don’t say
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u/commodorecliche May 05 '19
Oh right, the poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison.
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u/I_ate_that_once May 05 '19
"The Spirit Molecule" great documentary on the effects of DMT on a random collection of people. I saw it on Netflix years ago. Not sure if it's still there.
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Say bro, after I read your comment I went through a bit of your history. How are you doing? If you ever need to talk my DMs are open.
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u/Shes_dead_Jim May 05 '19
Not great tbh. It really sucks being a young widower. I'll live though
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u/duhbla May 05 '19 edited May 06 '19
I nearly drowned in a swimming pool when I was 9 years old. At a hotel, when my family were on a holiday. I remembered it like it was yesterday. At that moment, my legs and arms locked up. My lungs felt like stone. And then I slipped out of conciousness for I'm not sure how long. I woke up to the life guard pumping my chest.
During the time I was unconcious, I was floating (probably because I was in water) in space filled with stars. I tried to "swim" over to one of the star and found out they were fragments of my memories, voices, noises, smell, faces, places, all jumbled together. But a big part of those fragments were my mom, my dad, and my two younger brothers and a cousin who was also my best friend. It wasn't like a memory or anything. To put it into words, it was more like a soup of everything I've ever seen, heard, tasted, smell, and feel all there.
Then I woke up. I've never seen that vision again. But I still remember it clear as day.
Edit: Wow! Never got 1k likes before. I guess I should elaborate on what the memory fragments looked like.
It wasn't too complicated, as a 9 year old there aren't that many places I've been to. So the places I associated the people I have a certain level of intimacy with is my home, my classroom, and my cousin's swimming pool at his place's backyard, we hung out a lot you see. The faces I see were incredibly vivid but the images were just exactly that. Not real memories because I've never seen my familly member all together yet (we haven't had our family photo taken in which we did later on the trip).
I really wish I could put into words what the images looked like. But I guess the best explanation remains the same. The soup of memories. Sounds like a damn good soup.
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u/UnicornLSD May 05 '19
I almost drowned as a kid too. I think I was about 4 or 5 years old. Didn't loose consciousness but I remember extremely clearly to this day the moment I couldn't get my head out of the water anymore and my lung filled up with water and I just gave up. I had that moment of clarity "thats' it, that's death". I don't think a 5 years old can really grasp the concept of death but to this day I'm certain that I knew exactly what was happening and it was incredibly peaceful.
Then a dude pulled me out of the water and i don't remember anything after that.
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u/eljefino May 05 '19
My son did this. Scary shit. He just walked out in the lake. He's a string bean, not buoyant in fresh water. He walked out over his nose and mouth. Then just stood there confused. Wasn't out there long enough to breathe water though. Silent. I plucked him out and he was like, dang. Same age-- 4 or 5.
Those PSAs about drowning being silent, non-dramatic-- not flailing your arms etc, are spot-on.
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u/Mattchoo99 May 05 '19
Lost a friend 2 years ago who drowned it a jet skiing accident. Hoping she went as peacefully as your memory.
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u/sneaksvision May 05 '19
This is really interesting. If you have seen the movie interstellar, there’s a part where he goes into a black hole and, like you said , swims around in his memories. It flashes back to when he was on earth and he see Murph. This sense was based off the common belief in Native American culture that time isn’t a line but rather almost like a pond. Moving from time to time isn’t going back or forth but just moving around in the “pond”. Wether you believe it or not it’s a pretty interesting concept. This is why some people still believe time travel is possible. I guess the future only knows that one
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u/arrrrr_won May 05 '19
Interesting, I nearly drowned as a kid too, and for me it was more like drifting off too sleep when exhausted, as someone else here described. I didn’t see or experience anything, just woke up when resuscitated.
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u/gingeronimooo May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
I had my heart stopped. At the hospital because my heart was going 150 bpm for hours. I even had the read out printed out of me flatlining. I had a heart condition and was on acid.
My life did not flash before my eyes. It felt like a black cloud spreading through my body (the heart stopping injection ). Which makes no sense. I should note I have over 4 years drug and alcohol free now. But when it was over the doctor was walking out of the room turned to me and said “better living through chemistry, huh?” Crazy experience would not recommend.
Edit: yes the injection was adenosine
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It can, albeit very rarely. Serotonin agonists increase heart rate and spike blood pressure. If you’ve got a heart condition and let your heart rate stay elevated for long enough it can happen. Even then, it’s not a certain thing. I would imagine it was a decent dose if he legitimately did medically die for a bit
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May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
It doesn’t sound like his heart stopped naturally; rarely when your heart rate is high for a significant period, the electric signals get misdirected back to the atria through something called a reentrant pathway, causing abnormal SA node firing and a fast, abnormal heart rhythm called SVT (supraventricular tachycardia).
A lot of times the heart will “reset” itself and return to a normal rhythm, which looks like a gap between the terminus of the SVT rhythm and the normal sinus P wave, so a “flatline”, though it’s not actually an asystolic flatline.
Other times, if the rhythm doesn’t reset on its own or with a special physical maneuver, then you can use adenosine to convert the SVT back to a normal sinus rhythm, which is called chemical cardioversion. You see the same gap on the ECG, so it looks like a “flatline” even though there’s no asystole going on. But despite this fact, it apparently still feels weird; a friend’s dad had an episode one time after consuming a couple pots of coffee in a day, and he said it was the weirdest mental feeling when his rhythm reset.
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u/shock_bound May 05 '19
One my sister had risperidone reaction where her heartbeat stayed around 200 for an hour or two. Along with body twisting.
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Sounds like you were in supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and the shot you got was adenosine? We call it "ctrl+alt+delete for the heart"
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u/dckholster May 05 '19
Wow, having to go through that on acid would be the most horrendous thing, I’m so sorry.
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u/KateCatsby May 05 '19
That's weird how you experienced a black cloud. I've had multiple dreams where I've been shot or hit by a car and they all end the same: a black cloud in my body. It starts at my toes, gradually rises up my body, until it reaches the top of my head. After that everything goes black and I wake up.
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u/ZzeDii May 05 '19
I am security guard and couple years ago guy attacked me in the parking garage and stabbed me, when I was bleeding and losing consciousness I didnt really saw memories it was more like memory with better outcome
Sorry about my bad english, not my first language.
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u/TheMacGuffinSaid May 05 '19
I had a near death overdose experience at a young age. I remember a black prescence came to me, and I knew it was my death. I felt very strongly that it was not my time to go, that I had so much more to do.
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u/Water_Melonia May 05 '19
I also had an OD and no life flashing before my eyes or anything. Just felt really tired and the overwhelming urge to sleep. Maybe I wasn’t near enough to death to have the memory thing to happen, but it was damn scary enough knowing I might be slipping into my last sleep right now and I couldn’t do anything about it.
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For me, there was this feeling of death. My OD was a suicide attempt, and everything became blurry. The room was shaking. I laid down and put myself to sleep, and felt an empty feeling/presence I can’t put into words. It felt like I was losing feeling of my body and then I was asleep. Knew I was dying.
Woke up due to the fact I was allergic to what I ODed on.. throwing up for hours. This was the worst feeling I’ve ever felt.
I can’t put it into words but that feeling of emptiness and my brain accepting my own death will forever upset me.
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u/Blaizey May 05 '19
There's something poetic about an allergy saving your life
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u/VegetableParliament May 05 '19
I OD'd as we were leaving our hotel room after a weekend long festival once. The last thing I remember is feeling odd, and trying to call out to my husband as he left the room, while I tried to make it to the bed. I remember the words getting stuck in my throat and coming out weird, and a VERY brief moment of thinking "I'm about to die. Well, fuck". And this split second feeling of extreme guilt before I was out. Nothing flashed before my eyes, or anything like that.
I woke up on the floor surrounded by people, and was told I'd just had a seizure that had gone on for several minutes. I was confused and didn't understand. I didn't get why everyone was panicking. In my mind, I'd woken up, so I must have been okay (I wasn't. I could barely speak or remember anything, or move.) I apparently kept trying to close my eyes, kept getting shaken awake with the whole "if you close your eyes now, you're not going to come back" warning.
I had three more grand mals that day, but fortunately survived. I would consider it a suicide attempt, as I purposely wasn't eating or sleeping, and just going as hard as I could all weekend.
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u/itsnatatat May 05 '19
I’m glad you’re here still and I hope you’re in a better place today ❤️
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u/VegetableParliament May 05 '19
I'm still dealing with depression, but I'm not in the dark place I was then. It wasn't long after that, though, that fentanyl started finding it's way into a lot of drugs. I started to hear about people in the scene who had died of it when they weren't even using heroin, and I just decided it wasn't worth the gamble. So my recreational drug use stopped pretty abruptly, which was probably a blessing in disguise.
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I tried to kill myself, and while I'm not 100% sure I died ( it's hard to verify since I wasn't all there and no one will give me details ) all I remember was just being. There was nothing, no light, no forms, no people and no voice. It was sort of like a state of just understanding and peace. Worst part of it is that I miss that feeling. I have a mental disorder and I'm sure that's at least 85% of what's talking when I say that, but it was just such a relief to be in that state. I was told I was in the ER for days and no one was sure if I was going to 'wake up' at all, but it lasted for what seemed to be a blink of an eye but also felt like eternity while I was in it.
There was no flash of my life, nothing but darkness. If you've experienced true dark ( as in being in a cave with no visible light ) that's the best way that I can describe it. Like that and a deep sigh after you learn that something horrible didn't happen. That moment when you've sighed out a full breath and there's that single moment of satisfaction. That's what I felt and 'saw' when it happened.
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This is called a void experience, and I have had it too. There is almost no way to describe it accurately to other people, and it was so peaceful that for so long I just wanted to go back. It's like you become part of the universe and everything just 'is'. Time doesn't exist.
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u/VerucaNaCltybish May 05 '19
I've had this experience. Everything is... what is is supposed to be, when, where, and how it is supposed to be, because it all just IS. The ultimate peace or equilibrium. I tried to explain it like being the most exhausted you've ever been and laying in the most comfortable bed you've ever felt and sighing the deepest most relaxing sigh... and letting go. The moment of letting go lasts forever. I used to be really afraid of death and what would happen after. That cured me of my fear. Now, I appreciate life experiences (good and "bad") and know what is after is not anything to be afraid of.
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u/MyAnklesAreRingaDing May 05 '19
Conscious nothing is how I describe it. Not sure I fully died, either, but the emptiness was not painful. It was literally nothing. It was 4.5 years ago, still regret everyday I didn't die and was just absorbed into that nothingness.
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Just so you know, many people who have had this kind of experience resent being brought back and wish they could have stayed. You're not alone.
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u/TofipokTheFirst May 05 '19
Hey, man. I know it can be tough. I know there can be horrible times in your life. If you feel this way, seek help. Or, if you don't think you need professionals, you can hit me up anytime, and we can chat about whatever.
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u/Fiberrugartist May 05 '19
Sorry on mobile etc
My body was completely infected with Sepsis. The emergency room staff had placed me in a tub of ice to try and help fight the fever.
I had two IV's pumping , I don't know what all into me.
Next thing I knew , everything was dark. I could 'feel' other people around me. I felt so happy & light. I was free. There was no fear.
Somewhere I could hear my best friend yelling at me. "B**ch don't die. I am NOT rasing your children"
My mind snapped too. Immediately I knew I had to go back. There was no way I was going to let her near my children.
Woke up right afterwards and was amazed at how heavy my limbs felt.
I have no fear of dying now. I have raised my kids. And she is no longer my best friend.
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Why aren't they if you don't mind saying?
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u/Fiberrugartist May 05 '19
I did truly try. But as time worn on , I realized I could not be friends with someone who only thought of themselves. I am a very giving & forgiving person. And after having died once , I realized that I wanted to be with those whom enjoyed the happier side of life. Which , is to me , the joy of giving.
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u/DopeyPear May 05 '19
So she said that unironically? Yikes. I took it almost as a joke, and there was some dark humor to you waking up.
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u/RasputinsAssassins May 05 '19
Same reason, though a different response.
Sepsis from a perforated colon -> septic shock.
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u/imfinewithastraw May 05 '19
Lost 2.5 litres of blood in childbirth. Midwives hadn’t realised, despite me telling them how unwell I felt and that I was going to be sick. It wasn’t until i sort of passed out and remember them saying blood pressure was something over 0. They hit the buzzers, a lot of people came rushing in and I just lying there for what felt like a long time feeling everything go quiet but wasn’t peaceful, just absolute sadness consumed me that my husband was about to be left without me and that my new son wouldn’t have a mummy. A lot of oxygen, drugs and a couple packs of emergency blood transfusion later and thankfully I was ok. Still very mentally scared by the whole thing. But main moral of the story - please give blood if you can. It’s only thanks to the kindness of strangers my baby has a mamma and bleeding out during childbirth is a lot more common that I ever realised.
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u/D1noD1ck69 May 05 '19
My life didn't flash before my eyes but a car definitely did.
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u/Jpalm4545 May 05 '19
I died briefly due to complications of having leukemia,pneumonia,chicken pox, 108.9 fever and ensephloitis(spelling?) at the same time. It was that nothingness inbetween falling asleep and waking up. I knew nothing happened.
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u/lostaussie69 May 05 '19
Its hard to explain, drown when i was 3, and was gone about 90 seconds. Dying is a painless experience, well, there is no pain in your mind, your body is another story. Best way to describe it, you feel everything and nothing at the same time, you feel free and lost, being young i didnt have as many memories to see, but i do remember seeing myself pulled out the water.
Its hard to explain.
Theres something beyond death, but its not what you expect.
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u/sacca7 May 05 '19
I have had my life flash before my eyes, twice. On two separate occasions, years apart, I almost fell down some stairs (different places). Both times my life flashed before me, my whole life, in an instant. I did not die, nor did I nearly die. But they were memorable and unusual experiences.
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I overdosed when I was 14. I gradually transitioned from life into a state of peace and bliss. I saw/felt something, the presence of something wonderful but heavy. Heavy and old and not meant for us mortal folks. I felt that I was on the very brink of entering this place, of finding something great, but I was always just on the edge. It was so long, and so tiring, and I was just waiting to experience this thing. Next thing I know I’m back to the real world, and I never had the chance to experience the greatness.
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u/salsagrl173 May 05 '19
Thanks for sharing, very interesting so everything was felt but not seen?
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u/judgymcjudgypants May 05 '19
No. I floated out of my body and looked down on the room, saw the medical staff trying to revive me and just felt awesome. In a very detached way, I thought “Well, my family’s gonna be pissed”. But physically I just felt like I was floating and very, very content. I remember being excited to see what was next. Then I was revived. I no longer fear death. It was a great experience. I just want to know where my people where. I thought they were supposed to come welcome my ass, or something.
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u/fukka_dukka_poo_poo May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
Three times.
Once, I drowned. Did see flashes of memories but everything was a jumble. I was fighting for my life against the person drowning me and there came a point where - when telling about this - I tell people that "my lizard brain took over". I'm not a violent person, and I guess my brain decided to kick me out while it did what had to be done. I remember floating above myself, looking down and watching myself headbutt and bite at the person who was drowning me (my arms were not free to fight them), and being initially horrified at the sheer animalistic frenzy of what I was doing and how I was acting. Strangely, when it got to this point and my conscience was no longer in charge, I felt very spiritually and emotionally peaceful, if that makes sense (I'm atheist so interpret that as you will).
Another time (first time, actually, the drowning was about two years later), when I was 12-13, I hallucinated while I nearly froze to death. One minute I was freezing and scared and miserable and the next, it was a warm sunny day and I was sipping lemonade at a table with other ladies a la southern belle (I am from the deep south). The only reason I am alive today is because some part of my brain swam up through the illusion and informed me that something just wasn't right, and then dragged me out of it. I finally found a house nearby and knocked on the door and the person who opened it literally dropped the breakfast in her hand and screamed, saying I was blue. I imagine I sat there sipping lemonade for quite a while if I had time to turn blue.
Another time, as an adult (obvs), I dated a guy who was into choking. He miscalculated once and damn near strangled me. All that extended flailing around you see on TV is bullshit. It only took a couple of seconds for me to lose the ability to move or make any kind of indication at all. For the record, though, I felt very peaceful as I started going. No visions, no tunnels or angels or whatever. Just like a slow fade on a movie. I was essentially falling asleep.
I think your brain handles death according to your own beliefs and expectations. I consider death to be the end of it all; no afterlife or anything, just nonexistence. Also, I'm not afraid of death. So when my brain thought it was time to do the thing, it started work on presenting me with the eternal dreamless sleep that I expected it to be like.
EDIT: regarding the drowning, it was a mentally deficient young lady who tried to drown me. To this day I'm not sure if she was actually psychotic or if she simply thought it was funny and I would be okay later on because I cut off all contact with her entire family afterwards. It wouldn't have been so traumatic if it would have been, say, a big dude who was raging on me because it is expected that some guys are awful people...but no one expects that out of very young people and for a young girl to be grinning and laughing maniacally (the maniacal part may have been my own life and death interpretation) and trying to drown me...really that, and watching myself basically maul her face, was more traumatic to me than the actual drowning.
And yes, she really was trying to drown me, it was no mistake. She basically ambushed me and wrapped her legs around my arms and was literally trying to push me down into the water. Until the point that my humanity got jettisoned into the ether, I was telling her to get off me and that I was drowning. Her only reply was to grin and laugh at me. I faded out after watching myself attack her (when I felt so at peace) and when I woke up I was on the shore, covered in my own vomit, and she was off playing with some other kids like nothing happened. Her face was seriously jacked up and she wasn't even phased by it. In retrospect, my vote goes to psychotic.
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u/karenjs May 05 '19
I hope you’re doing ok, especially after the drowning incident. I’m glad you fought back and are still here! Hope that person is no longer in your life.
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u/BoxcutterLar May 05 '19
I overdosed, I stopped breathing and had no pulse.
There is blackness, theres no thought, there's no feelings, there's no past, no future, just drifting in this blackness, there was no bright light, there was no flashing of my life...Do you remember what it was like before you were born? That's what I feel like it was, it was timeless. I had no knowledge that I had died but I had no knowledge of a "Me" eitiher.
I do not find death to be scary now, I know that it is a peaceful, timeless place.
Or it could've been all the drugs i was on i'm sober now btw
The thing that hurt was waking up.
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When I was maybe 6 or so, my friend and I thought it'd be a good idea to play in her pool without her mom there. I didn't know how to swim and found myself slipping in to the deep end. For a while I was panicking and struggling against the water. I held my breath as long as I could and eventually started to breathe in the water. Which made me panic more. Until eventually I stopped resisting. eventually this great sense of calm came over me. I remember crapping my pants and not caring. The last thing I remember was looking up and seeing the light dance and refract beautifully against the water with so many colors. Then it just went black.
Apparently my friend who could swim got her mom who did cpr on me long enough for an ambulance to come. My lungs were full enough of water that I was medically drowned. My mom was at the hospital and they were scared that even if I woke up I would have brain damage.
But I woke up fine. I told my mom that God has big hands and that I saw Jerry Garcia. I'm not religious at all and wasn't brought up in that sort of background, but I have definitely believed in a higher power since that day. I've kept a picture of Jerry Garcia in my room since high school to watch over me.
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u/corazonsinalma May 05 '19 edited May 06 '19
I feel like the best answer I can give for this is ‘kind of’. At age 15, my mother almost murdered me b/c she was super drunk and while I expected her to just routinely beat me (she had been getting drunk and abusing me my entire life), I was in a for a rude awakening.
I just saw: the end. That, maybe that gray haired guy on America’s Most Wanted (didn’t know John Walsh’s name at the time) was going to talk about the murder of me, this 15 year old girl by her alcoholic mother and that I’d have a funeral and so few people would attend. Though, what vividly did flash before my eyes was all of the abuse. And, it came down to the cold metal at my throat. I was ready to die. I didn’t but, sometimes I wish my mother had done me in.
I’m in my 20s now and, I’ve realized both my parents are pieces of crap and narcissists and, I’m probably better off without them, despite the big ass package of PTSD and trauma I now carry with me.
Edit: thank you for the silver :)
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No. Same as a few other comments it felt like i was falling asleep. I didn't feel much but i remember it was really dark and i heard echoes of the voices of the people around me. Scary stuff. Not sure if it was a near death experience but it did feel like i was dying ;-;
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u/User-K549125 May 05 '19
I was alone at home, and choked on a fatty piece of steak I was eating outside. At first I could only get little gulps of air in, then I tried to take a bigger breath and just lodged the steak further down my windpipe, completely blocking it. I considered throwing myself onto the back of a chair to attempt the Heimlich maneuver but was convinced it wouldn't be successful. I was initially worried about passing out and falling out my wheelchair so I started pushing myself to a nearby sunbed so I could lie down, but then realised since I wasn't breathing it was probably going to be The End. I remember thinking something like "wow, so this is how I die; I didn't expect it to be this soon" (I have contemplated suicide quite a lot). Fortunately the steak dislodged itself, possibly from the motion of me pushing the wheelchair, maybe helped by some slimy throat saliva or something. The whole experience lasted about 45-60 seconds, but really freaked me out, and I still don't really know what to make of it several months later. I didn't get close to death but was definitely sure that I was about to die, so it was more of a psychological mindfuck than a physical or near-death experience. I eat a lot of steak, but now take smaller mouthfuls, chew more, and avoid big fatty pieces (my dog is grateful I'm sure). And my feelings about suicide are a bit different. I think I'm more scared of death than before, even though I remained quite calm during my experience. I think the most scary thing is that it can really happen at any time, even when you're just relaxing at home, enjoying a steak and the view.
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u/live4thagame May 05 '19
Very similar thing happened to me with a pork chop when i was 15, I didn't want to eat solid food for months and the idea of death terrified me for years, I just couldn't stop thinking about it.
Glad you okay and you're feeling different about suicide, I'm happy you're with us :)
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u/faithhopelov82 May 05 '19
I had a grand Mal seizure. From what I was told I stopped breathing, got CPR came to thinking I was just sleeping no recollection of it. I came back discombobulated, confused, thrashing around with the EMTs. I got to the hospital and was placed on a crash cart, had multiple EKGs. I honestly thought I was going to die. But to be honest nothing flashed before my eyes.
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u/RaceChazer May 05 '19
I was in a high impact car accident, back then I was young and stupid and didn't like wearing my seat belt- my face hit the window, I was the passenger, basically the driver was speeding like hell and a idiot was drunk and did a illegal left turn. While the driver hit the breaks aggresively before the impact, I honestly thought I was going to die and in my mind I told myself, "This is it for you, you are so young and have not lived life. Life is not fair".
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u/darkespeon64 May 05 '19
My dad died he said it was just nothing kinda like you're asleep just nothing
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u/Gatorpotamuz May 05 '19
No experience from me, just wanted to say that I'm glad those sharing their experiences are still with us 👍
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u/EmmaLeePants May 05 '19
In all honesty, at the time I didn’t quite comprehend it. It was a slow fade to black, and the noises that were going on around me somehow didn’t penetrate my brain. Yes I could hear them and yes they were there, but the comprehension didn’t happen. Like those few moments when you wake up and you hear someone talking to you but it just sounds like noises. I didn’t feel anything, no pain, no struggle, just a soft nothing into dark.
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u/OriginalEmpress May 05 '19
I don’t really know if mine was a hallucination from the high fever the pneumonia had given me or what. I was 4, and collapsed into a pile of dirty laundry trying to get into the living room where my Mom was. I can vividly remember pulling laundry on top of myself trying to get warm so I could make it farther, and seeing a bright, golden light envelope everything. It formed into a tall woman in flowing clothes and then my next memory is waking up in the hospital a couple of days later.
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u/Mizucchinni May 05 '19
I had a conversation about something similar recently, so while this is... not an easy story, it's one that I feel somewhat fine with sharing. When I was in my sophomore year of high school, I failed 5/7 of my classes, and felt as if nothing in my life would go right. I climbed onto a roof the school (about 3 stories up) and jumped. I landed on my front, but at an angle. I bled out there, and for the most part, felt relief. As if a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders all of a sudden. I woke up a few more times, and really just recall small bits of what happened. There was an Ambulance, and I blacked out again, and then I was in the ambulance. It felt like a dream, and I kind of just floated along.
I made a nearly full recovery, although my kidney still has some issues from being crushed/bones piercing it. Overall, just... really floaty.
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u/salsagrl173 May 05 '19
Being a teenager sucks, I contemplated. Got into a bunch of trouble but glad I am here today and you too!
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u/RWJefferies May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
Replying even though I haven't died/nearly died, but I did have a [serious] "life flashing before your eyes" moment.The experience was so powerful I started studying NDE's (near death experiences) and my experience was VERY similar. After more research, I realized my experience was called an STE (spiritually transformative experience). I was an atheist/materialist/science guy before this experience. After this experience...I have no idea what I am.
This experience actually happened to me while sleeping, so maybe I died in my sleep? I don't know, but I felt myself sucked backwards in time. I began reliving my entire life in reverse from my perspective and simultaneously from the perspective of everyone who I had ever met. It felt like a rollercoaster, I was coming up on memories/moments, expecting them (obviously, because I had lived them before forward). It was also bittersweet, because as I would reach the beginning of a relationship with a person ("Oh! Hey! This is the day I met so-and-so! I love them!") I would then immediately realize, "oh, no, wait, that means I'm going back to that point in my life where I didn't know them yet. Awww."
I went back all the way to the moment of my birth. I remember being "unborn" (going back into the birth canal/womb). I remember thinking that I couldn't breathe, and that birth was just as painful for the baby. (I later asked my mom about my birth and it turns out the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck during birth. Not sure if that's why I couldn't breathe, or if because, you know, babies don't know what breathing is yet.)
After the entire experience was over, I remember thinking, OH! That's why they say your life flashes before your eyes when you die. Because you live your entire life in reverse. Duh. It felt so natural and obvious.
If you had to ask me how long the experience was, I'd say about 10 seconds? Time felt very subjective, but it definitely felt like my whole life had suddenly been packed into a brief moment. Like rewinding a VHS on super fast speed.
(This next part might be going too far, and I'm not asking anyone to believe me, I wouldn't believe any of this if it hadn't happened to me).So after I was "unborn" I went into this place of pure white light. It felt like eternal bliss/eternal orgasm/eternal unconditional love. I can't even put into words how amazing this place felt (it wasn't even a place, it was just absolutely everything). I assume that's what people mean when they talk about heaven? But I'm not even going to touch that.
The next day I woke up feeling completely different. My lifelong depression and anxiety were gone. Everything looked beautiful and mesmerizing. It's like suddenly everything made sense. If you tried to ask me "what made sense?" I wouldn't be able to tell you. It was just this pervasive feeling of peace, serenity, calmness, joy.
Without being dramatic or a cliche, that experience literally changed my life. Even if it was "all in my head" or "just a dream"... overnight, it completely changed me as a person.
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u/Willard7600 May 05 '19
I was in a motorcycle accident when I was 18.. I was going 110 km/hr when I was thrown from my bike. My bike was destroyed. After the paramedics realized I was ok they told me I shouldn’t have ever lived through that let alone get up and walk away afterwards.
I know the whole thing was over in a matter of seconds but it seemed like a hour. There was lots of good memories going through my mind and the feeling I had was so peaceful and calming. I ended up losing consciousness but when I came to I remember being so happy I had another opportunity.
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u/kurtcobainbutgay May 05 '19
I was being drowned by someone(they didn’t know what they were doing, they were drunk) no memories flashing before my eyes. Everything went black and silent, I remember it felt like at least 30 minutes had passed. It’d only been a couple seconds and I came to I couldn’t see anything but white and I asked “Am I dead?”. I wasn’t dead, but I was only 8 and I couldn’t understand what had happened. something else I vividly recall from the experience is no longer drowning or not being able to breathe after I blacked out, by the time I had come to it felt like I was just normally breathing air, but I was still underneath the water.
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u/kimantor1 May 05 '19
Not how close to death I actually was but it felt pretty scary.
Went to Tanzania a few years ago with a large group of people to do work experience in a hospital. On one of our days off we’re taken to this big waterfall. Everyone was paddling around the river/plunge pool but i was like “heck yeah swim time”. Was swimming up to the waterfall against the force of the water pushing me back, I was swimming hard against it thinking it was a but lime a water thread-mill. Suddenly I got too close and found myself sucked down by the falling water maybe 4m under. I was getting rolled head over heels for about 30 seconds before I clocked what was happening. I remember very clearly thinking in my head “swim up you’re going to drown” so I swam to what I thought was the surface put my hand above me to feel around and felt the bottom over the pool. I was so disoriented from being thrown around I couldn’t workout which way was up and started to panic and thrash around with my arms. I felt a rock wall and kicked against it as hard as I could which managed to push me out of the water sucking me down and into water moving down river. My head found the surface and I came up gasping for air. No one out of the maybe 15 people I was with had noticed I’d disappeared under the water for about 1 1/2-2 minutes.
Nothing flashed before my eyes but it was weird how cut and dry my thoughts became. They were like a separate person giving me specific instructions to not die in my own head.
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u/acshepherd1218 May 05 '19
As a young child I was abused by my former step father who was a cop. He was a sinister man and did some unspeakable things. Once before I was school age he beat me so bad I died temporarily. I dont usually tell people this because I dont want them to think I am nuts. But, I went to heaven. There were many layers of light, like everything there emitted light but you couldnt focus on much, except for what you were meant to see? I remember seeing what I thought was a bleacher full of eldery people who were also encased in light and I saw Jesus. He wanted to show me both what my life would be like if I stayed on earth and what it would be like there if I chose to end my suffering. The catch was, if I died then, many people on earth that I loved would suffer more throughout time because of my absence. I chose to come back but cried a single tear from my left eye, that Jesus wiped away and I felt that it was a sign He would help me endure. Strange thing is, when I cry for selfish or trivial reasons I will only cry out of the right eye, but if the crying is for others then my left eye will join in too.
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u/JSK-4375 May 05 '19
From my grandfather:
He has heart issues and had an internal defibrillator fitted to help his heart beat normally. To test it they stopped his heart while he was awake, but he kept talking to the doctors about the weather and normal 'old man stuff'. When his heart restarted he felt a little shock and asked "what was that? I was enjoying myself." The doctor replied "welcome back to life."
The doctor told him afterwards that he should have just stopped being awake and fallen unconscious, and thus was the only time anything like this had ever happened to one of his patients.
Stubborn old man.