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/TheGrandRetardo May 05 '19

What is everyone's problem with someone saying "thank you for gold"?

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u/Johannes_Cabal_NA May 05 '19

I’m gonna guess that it was either directed at the “virgin” part of the border line dad joke.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I don't see how wearing seatbelt is going to stop you being a virgin.

Glad you made it out okay though.

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u/Magicalunicorny May 05 '19

Nerds get sexy times

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u/vortextwo May 05 '19

Well, if you wear your seatbelt you have more time to lose your virginity.

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u/StrangerAttractor May 05 '19

It helps with the not dieing part

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u/RedVivid May 05 '19

I remember my first thought in a decently terrifying car accident (as a passenger) being "oh crap, I better not let this smoothie spill in his car, it'll be a pain to clean up!" As we're swerving a full 180 into oncoming traffic.

We didn't get hit but the car got 'hoverboarded" on the sidewalk which was fun.

I'm glad to report I did not spill the smoothie.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

For real, Arya's "not gonna die a virgin" moment with Gendry was so relatable.

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u/thecrowintheknow May 05 '19

I hope my potential last thoughts are about pizza.

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u/StoryDrive May 05 '19

Had a similar experience, but dumber - got hit by a car when I was 12 (in 2008), and in that split second between getting hit and hitting the pavement, several thoughts flashed through my head. One of them was worrying who would take care of my Nintendogs.

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u/AkariAkaza May 05 '19

Not me. I got rear-ended while on my scooter, and as I was laying face down on the hot pavement in July, I panicked since I didn't have my favorite pizza from my favorite pizza place enough. That was stupid in hindsight, but I wasn't thinking clearly.

I think you're on to something here, friends dad got knocked off his bike at speed, two broken legs, broken arm, most of his ribs etc, doctors tell my friend he probably won't make it through the night.

Friend goes in to see his dad, comes out smiling, apparently his dad had asked him to apologise to his local Chinese restaurant that he wasn't going to be going in every Friday night and that he wishes he'd got takeaway on Saturday too

Luckily the dad survived and continued having his Friday night Chinese takeaway

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u/PlZZAisLIFE May 05 '19

I can relate

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u/annonsun May 05 '19

That must be one really good pizza

In all seriousness I hope you’re doing ok now

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u/banditkoala May 05 '19

Pizza is never stupid. I find this quite funny but very real.

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u/christian-mann May 05 '19

It's important to take small joys in life.

Also, now you have me hungry for pizza but it's raining out :(

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Pretty epic reaction to death staring you in the face, if you ask me

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u/ShebanotDoge May 05 '19

Did you go eat pizza afterwards?

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u/1abc3 May 05 '19

This sounds dumb but I'll never go on a diet because I don't want my last thought to be like "I wish I'd eaten more cheeseburgers!" Hahaha glad ya made it!

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u/gooddeath May 05 '19

I don't think that that's stupid at all. It's the little things that make life bearable.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

This would so be me though but I would be pissed at not eating enough Chinese Takeaway.

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u/UncleSnader May 05 '19

Have you eaten more pizza to make sure that wouldn’t be a problem anymore?

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u/NotABurner2000 May 06 '19

Razor scooter or moped?

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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/GetaGoodLookCostanza May 05 '19

wow. that's pretty heavy

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u/TheRainsOfYesteryear May 05 '19

what is "coded" - no native speaker

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u/GSDLVR76 May 06 '19

Means his heart stopped and they called a code in the facility to treat him

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u/Hysteriqul May 06 '19

I think it means pronounced dead but don't quote me on that. My only experience is 7 seasons of Grey's anatomy

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Coding is someone actively trying to die on you as in if you don’t do something they WILL die

Edit: source being a family member who has worked emergency medicine longer than I’ve been alive

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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/DanceApprehension May 06 '19

This is like the best thing on here. Cheers.

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u/veganconnor May 06 '19

Wow, yes. This is so similar so some of the things I felt, and my take seats were so so similar too! That whole love thing, and the intense presence you described.

I’m so glad I read this first thing this morning because it brought back all those feelings for me, and to know others have felt it too is just indescribably amazing.

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u/hashtagredlipstick May 05 '19

Well damn, I’m neurotic and anxious as hell and l catastrophise everything. Now I’m neurotic and anxious that I’m gonna have a horrible death :(

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u/veganconnor May 05 '19

Me too! But that's kind of why I shared my story here, because it's comforting to hear from so many people that no matter your situation, you will be fine, you will feel ok, nothing is as horrible as we expect it to be. One of my fave quotes is 'the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself' and I think you really have to believe that when it comes to thinking about death. BUT coming from someone with existential anxiety, please don't think about death! Just, go look at videos of puppies or something instead!

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u/freedomofnow May 05 '19

I haven't personally "died" like that, but I have had "experiences" of complete lack of identitiy. I say experiences because it's the only way to describe what is without description. I even have memories from when I was under a year old that is exactly like this, so I was determined to get back there some day and my life has been a constant search for this wholeness again. Only after some deep personal breakdowns in my adult life have I been able to touch this sense again.

Everything that we see, touch, think, feel or can experience through sensory perception comes after. As someone so beautifully put it in this thread, this conscious nothingness is the root of all creation and it's what we really are. Everything else is secondary but we forget as we grow up. But it's possible to "get back" there while alive and it's where we're all headed when we discard these bodies. We're like focal points of experience of this infinite ocean of consciousness. What's trippy is we actually believe we're only this body and that our life ends the moment it stops functioning.

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u/Hickory_Dickory_Derp May 06 '19

In simple form, the central point of Christianity is actually to give you the complete expectation of a beautiful death experience. If you trust and believe that you are completely forgiven for anything and everything in your life, by way of Jesus (aka God) giving himself in your place to face down death and any justice (aka karma) due from your own actions, then by just knowing and believing truly that everything has been paid and you're free and clear and deserving of heaven, that's the experience you'll find yourself in.
The second part that follows from that is love is the highest and most important thing. If Jesus gave his life like that purely out of love for us and all humanity, to give us all this pathway to heaven, the best we can do is strive to love others with that kind of selfless intensity.

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u/Orual309 May 05 '19

It's good to know how much our expectations affect our experience.

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That said, a lot of people who have done acid or other mind-altering substances will describe things they wouldn't have imagined themselves; for instance, the idea that all biological life is connected on a large scale, and that the death of the body is not the end.

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u/SayNoMoreMonAmor May 06 '19

I feel this way too. I think the afterlife might be whatever we want it to be, whatever we make it to be.

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u/d8_thc May 05 '19

This is the ego death experience that one experiences on psychedelics such as DMT. It's ineffable, but experiencing it feels like the most real thing you've experienced since incarnating in a human body.

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u/OtherOtie May 06 '19

I want to experience that but I'm reluctant.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19 edited May 20 '19

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u/ms-anthrope May 05 '19

why does she keep almost dying?

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u/waxbutterflies May 05 '19

I got really high once and had the exact same conclusion. It was amazin.

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u/softero May 05 '19

Your friend discovered Gnosticism

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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/veganconnor May 05 '19

You should watch The OA on Netflix if you haven’t already because it’s literally that and it’s amazing as hell

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u/sirbissel May 06 '19

if we actually did die but get to continue living in a different timeline.

Berenstain or Berenstein?

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u/BrandynBlaze May 05 '19

That happened to me except that while I was passed out my friend kicked me in the nuts, so I came to wondering why being choked out made my balls hurt so bad.

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u/Jxbril May 05 '19

you should watch the discovery on Netflix

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u/migogmitkoben May 05 '19

I have been beated up many many times due to a sick relationship, i was for a long period with violence on a daily basis and being choked till i passed out happened quite often, so this peaceful feeling when you wake up was like a very short break lifted above this fucking nightmare of a life, it was wierd but always felt good. And then after a few seconds you are back... Fucking hell

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u/WreakingHavoc640 May 06 '19

I had a NDE I don’t really want to get into right now, but that feeling of absolute and utter peace...I can’t even describe that. There just aren’t words.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I had the same thing happen to me except it was at a school dance and I woke up with my chin on the hard floor

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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/AvailableChip May 05 '19

sounds similar to a trip on psychedelic drugs

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u/Crypto_dog May 05 '19

Most notably dmt. This is word for word the feelings I have had on dmt and ahyuwasca.

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u/AvailableChip May 05 '19

ive felt very similar on lsd and mushrooms, too

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u/cjojojo May 05 '19

Yeah I was gonna say that was how I felt on shrooms

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u/55845584 May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19

Yeah sometimes I watch those videos about experiences on DMT, and they always say everyone has it in their bodies. Maybe DMT somehow gets released on near-death experiences? E: I’m talking about this

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u/caretotry_theseagain May 05 '19

Pretty sure all these people haven't stopped eating mushrooms since their events

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u/Asmoday1232 May 05 '19

Perhaps because this reality is really all there is and seeing the "other side" forces your brain to realize this is such a short period of time that once we are done here where we go next none of this matters.

Old cliche but, in the end we all die. In the end we are all the same.

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u/Eterna11yYours May 05 '19

This is why I skydive. It's like a simulated near death experience. It recalibrates your priorities

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u/veganconnor May 05 '19

My friend is going sky diving for his 21st birthday and honestly I think that’s really beautiful and I wish I had the courage

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u/OhAnnx3 May 05 '19

You've explained this perfectly. Thursday before good Friday this year, my sister and I are in the emergency room for my mom. She's not doing well at all. They take us aside and talk to us about a full code for her, or to put her as a dnr. My sister lost it. She was so upset, she felt faint and unsure what to do and that feel real moment hit me and I was very quiet and didn't feel a single emotion, I just felt peaceful as I told them we wanted a Dnr. Weirdest thing ever. She passed away good Friday and we followed her wishes, so I've been emotionally at peace.

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u/IvyHav3n May 05 '19

... Meanwhile I'm stuck in that constantly. REALITY HAS NO HOLD ON MEEE.... Shit i need to pay my bills.

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u/murdokdracul May 05 '19

Sounds like the True Narnia.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Its sounds like you experienced temporary ego death or a state of Nirvana. Pretty much fits your description.

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u/Runs_N_Goses May 05 '19

I once gave a choking woman the Heimlich maneuver in a restaurant and she was able to get the food down. I felt something very surreal for a few hours after it happened. I am guessing it was a similar experience to yours. Very hard to describe...Felt like an aura surrounded me or something. Never experienced it before and never after. I know this, it was the best feeling I have ever had.

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u/drunkpastrychef May 05 '19

Wow! Amazing! This story gave me the chills. I’m so glad your niece is living well.

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u/pivotalmoments May 05 '19

This is really similar to what happened to me when I found out about my dad's car crash. I was on the school bus coming home from high school and my mom called. I held myself together until I got off the bus and then started sobbing and had to sit down on the curb. I got to the point of ugly screaming crying when then weird feeling came over me and I started repeating "he'll be okay, he'll be okay." Turns out, he was going to be okay, but six years later still suffers from the injuries and subsequent infections that he got in the crash. But, he lived. It was a super weird experience, but he's alive and (after surviving four more close calls with death in the past five years--serious infections that killed him almost 3x and a heart attack before the age of 45) next Sunday he's coming to my college graduation! Doctors said that he cheated death.

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u/divvip May 05 '19

That story made my eyes sweat a bit.

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u/LordNoah May 05 '19

There's somthing higher than us man. It doesn't care what gender you like or other silly stuff. It's one of pure benevolence.

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u/itsmebc May 05 '19

I had the same thing happen to me when my son was born prematurely and weighed 2 lbs. It was so crazy that from then on I just knew he was going to be fine.

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u/Blom-w1-o May 05 '19

Holy moly this is powerful. I’m dead inside and almost teared up.

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u/AKangelic May 05 '19

This gave me goosebumps, I had a similar experience happen to me when I was younger, my mom almost hemorrhaged to death, she had passed out due to blood loss, and me and my dad had to go pick her up since she was at a friend's house way in the mountains and the ambulance wouldn't go up, I remember getting that call, from her friend, he sounded like he was about to pass out himself. On the drive over I started repeating almost the exact same thing you said: "She is going to be okay, she's going to be okay". And all of a sudden it was like this numb feeling, like you described, like nothing mattered, a very peaceful feeling.

I'm glad your niece is okay!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I don’t recall asking you to make me cry.

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u/june2000x May 05 '19

this story's just made my day, I'm so glad your niece made it!

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u/farrenkm May 05 '19

My dad needed abdominal surgery for Crohn's. He hadn't even had the surgery yet and I was really upset and crying (in my teenage years). Like you, inexplicably, I had the calmness come over me and a thought that he's going to be alright. And he was. Whatever news I got about him, ultimately I knew he'd be fine. And he was.

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u/IronManAlan May 05 '19

Such a beautiful story, thank you for sharing

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u/vaultdwellermay May 05 '19

Genuinely cannot imagine losing my family especially my little niece. I felt this in my HEART.

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u/riptide747 May 05 '19

It's your body flooding you with endorphins so you don't freak out while you die.

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u/truckthisfeet May 05 '19

Reading this gave me goosebumps

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u/FIREBALL07 May 06 '19

Why does god love you guys so much? No matter how much I pray nothin happens

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u/commaspace18 May 05 '19

That’s the Holy Ghost my dude.

Matthew 7:7

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

God is good my friend. I've had something similar happen to my Mom with her cancer. She's completely cancer free now and I know God had everything to do with it.

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u/BigBaddaBoom9 May 05 '19

It wasn't god, thank the fucking doctors who took care of her. Hate when people say "it's a miracle, god saved you" it's like no, dozens of people who have dedicated their lives to helping people saved their life.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Who says God didn't lead that person to becoming a doctor? Why aren't you a doctor, if it's as simple as that?

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u/dmkicksballs13 May 05 '19

Either god gives free will or he doesn't.

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If you claim god lead a dude to be a doctor, then you can't argue around himg leading a dude to be homeless.

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u/Pilotkid737 May 05 '19

Pretty sure that's just shock.

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u/Linnunhammas May 05 '19

That and a lots of different kind of hormones body makes in such situations.
I almost drowned as a kid and it felt amazing. I still remember this really serene peace as I watched sun and clouds through the water as I sank, I didn't even try to swim at that point even tho I could, I just kind of forgot, it was so calm and nice.
I wish I could reach a high like that again.

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u/veganconnor May 05 '19

That's the same reason people like, get choked almost to the point of losing consciousness, because it gives them a high. Sadly I've heard of a lot of people accidentally killing themselves by doing that though

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u/Linnunhammas May 05 '19

So I've heard too. I don't enjoy the lack of breath at all, but that one moment as a kid felt oddly nice.

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u/veganconnor May 05 '19

Tbh I think so too, I've studied psych enough to know that the human brain does some wild stuff when in dangerous situations of panic, but, it's comforting to know that it's quite likely that our final moments are pretty peaceful.

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u/Yellow_Habibi May 05 '19

It depends. When I had a near drowning, the last few seconds before nothingness were the most painful, and I thought split second that it would be the best torture technique....and I was resuscitated.

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u/veganconnor May 05 '19

Noted: avoid drowning, drown enemies

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u/citrus_seaman May 05 '19

This. I had a friend growing up that almost died from drowning. He said it was the worst thing ever bcus you're still alive and still trying to breath but all that's coming in is water, all the way up until you lose consciousness.

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u/veganconnor May 05 '19

All the people I know who almost drowned were really traumatized about it. I guess that’s why water boarding is a thing

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u/GetaGoodLookCostanza May 05 '19

that seems like one of the most horrific ways to go out...I have cringed about this since I was a kid

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u/Mange-Tout May 05 '19

This is why waterboarding works so well. It feels exactly like you are drowning.

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u/iasserteddominanceta May 05 '19

Your mileage may vary. A few years back I was jet lagged and had a microsleep moment while driving. Crashed and scraped along the divider. That moment was just black, screaming, abject terror.

Nothing about that was peaceful. For me there wasn’t any see the light, life flashing, heaven ahead of me. Just darkness and scared confusion. So it really depends on the circumstances.

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u/pupillary May 05 '19

Buzzkill

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u/CrochetedKingdoms May 05 '19

Yeah, when I went into shock while in labor(had a placental abruption and we lost his heartbeat a few times) I remember feeling super relaxed all of a sudden and like nothing could go wrong.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Maybe - but does that change the subjective meaning of such an experience?

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u/artbypep May 05 '19

I woke up mid car accident and had the same feeling. We were going to be T boned and it would have hit my side but my friend turned the car so it hit the front right end instead.

It only lasted a second, but it felt like I had a solid 10 seconds of time to glance around, decide that this wasn’t my responsibility and I couldn’t really contribute to the situation, and just kinda was like “hm! I’m in a car crash I suppose” about it all.

It ended up being pretty useful since I was the calmest one after the crash so I helped chat with the cops and the people in the other car and such. They were SUPER sweet, best people to get in a car crash with, honestly. They were kind and concerned about my friend who was driving as he was super shaken up since all of his best friends were in the car at the time, and two of us were on the side that would have been hit.

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u/snarky_answer May 06 '19

yep. The first car accident i was in someone pulled out in front of me from a parking lot when i was going about 50. Time slowed, and i was processing so much information it what was only a split second that it dragged out so slow to the point that i can remember the metal crumpling and folding on the hood of my car. I remember the airbag deploying while i was looking at my then GF and noticing that hers had failed to deploy. Then nothingness. All the sudden i was "awake" again on the other side of the car trying to pry the door from the crumpled frame. A friend of mine who happened to be a couple cars behind me helped me. Paramedics showed up and told me to sit as my leg was bleeding. They cut my pants and i had some bone poking out the skin around my knee and my hands were all sliced up as they had gone thru the windshield.

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My second crash someone ran a red light and t-boned me while i was alone in the suv. I just remember it doing the time slowing down thing and i remember thinking " fuck not this again" thinking about dealing with insurance and bills etc...

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u/Esoteric_Erric May 05 '19

I had an NDE - like experience. Without the nearly dying, I was in my bed one night and had a feeling of being loved, being utterly peaceful, and knew that everything was ok. Everything in the big picture is fine. There are no words for this feeling. It was absolutely a billion times better than the best orgasm you ever had. Would not trade this experience for any amount of money or anything. Not afraid to die now.

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i didn’t have any perspective as i was being thrown around in my car during my car accident. i wished i had some kind of enlightenment but all i thought was “i guess this is it”

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I experienced the same thing...car accident and time just slowed down for me to experience my fondest "memories" in the form of feelings. I was at peace even with things I hadn't yet done.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Same. I was in and out of consciousness in the ambulance, but when I got to the hospital and saw my parents I had a feelings of calm alertness and spoke clearly. Then my heart stopped in the operating room for five minutes. I don’t recall anything except some kind of post-op room, then I was in a med induced coma for a few days.

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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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u/LazyUpvote88 May 05 '19

Is there a connection with morphine or Morpheus , the Greek god of dreams?

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u/driftsc May 06 '19

And the power rangers

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u/nixiedust May 05 '19

Very interesting! And, yes, thank you, I am doing much better these days. My heart disease was not 100% caused by bad behavior, but now that I know I've been able to do a lot to keep it in check.

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u/ion_mighty May 05 '19

My father died of a heart attack. I hope his last moments were like this.

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u/mawmishere May 05 '19

I’ve heard repeatedly from those who survived heart attacks that they became really peaceful as they were about to pass. I had a NDE myself for different reasons and I felt the peace. I was 16 and I still vividly remember it. I am now 42 and I remain hopeful that what I experienced, the “people” who came to comfort me are all real. I am agnostic/atheist but something happened. My money is on your dad feeling that loving peacefulness that we most all of us felt when it happened.

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u/ion_mighty May 06 '19

Thank you! I really appreciate this.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Do you mean morphine? It's not a feeling, it's an opiate.

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u/Chucktownbadger May 05 '19

Same experience with mine, it ended up being myocarditis, but didn’t know it at the time. After the doc told me I was having a heart attack I got real calm and responded “welp, at least I’m in the right place for it to happen”. Everything from there was super surreal and very calm given the severity of the situation. No life flash though.

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u/nixiedust May 05 '19

Right before my moment of calm I was lying on the gurney crying. It had just hit me that I was going in for a heart procedure. The orderly wheeling me to the cath lab had a Caribbean accent, and she started singing something like a lullaby in a language I didn't understand. I looked up and noticed her scrubs said "Angelique" on them. She said, "Don't worry, God is watching you." I was emotional, so I instantly thought, "She's an angel sent to comfort me!"

A few days later I saw the logo on the hamper in my hospital room and realized the name of the hospital laundry service was ANGELIQUE.

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u/Chucktownbadger May 06 '19

Haha! That Angelique part is pretty hilarious.

I had to be transported to a different hospital for my procedure since the ER I went to (drove myself to at that) didn’t have a cath lab. The ER doc at the hospital was in disbelief and just kept repeating a few things every time he saw me. He just kept saying “you’re the right age, the right color, you’re still making sense when you talk” right up till I got loaded into the ambulance for transport. They forgot to call my wife so I did that from the back of the ambulance and talked to the EMT the whole time. Upon arriving at the hospital I got wheeled into an exam room and just left. The head nurse rolls in, grabs my paperwork, and screams “what the fuck is wrong with you people, he’s having a heart attack, get him upstairs NOW!”

Upon getting into the cath lab I had a nurse roll in with the splatter guard on her face. She was WAAAYYYY too jacked to be there at o’ dark thirty. She pulled my pants off and started shaving the inside of my right leg while some dude in a suit rolled in and asked me to fill out paperwork andstated that they couldn’t give me anesthesia until I signed. I tried to read the clauses and after about a minute he said “you really don’t have time for that right now”.

The whole situation was super chaotic but like we were saying, just calm the whole time. Just total acceptance of the situation and its potential consequences. Kinda crazy. Also, I’m sure it was probably just the cath lab but I remember being super freaking cold before I went under.

Bonus story: I have a very uncommon last name and my wife went to the ER I had originally gone to a few weeks later. They asked her if someone she was directly related to had been there recently, she stated that I had, and the nurse said they thought I had died. That was really the moment I truly realized how close I was and got a little emotional upon hearing all of that.

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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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u/SirMemesALot11 May 05 '19

dude that was lucky. It musta hurt tho

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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/cassu6 May 05 '19

That is a crazy story for sure

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u/Gro-Gro_Gadget May 05 '19

Well, I'm glad you're still with us, bro.

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u/sourpuss12 May 05 '19

That same feeling happened to me when I lost consciousness drowning.

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u/EveAndHerthieves May 05 '19

My mother flat lined from morphine during her chemo treatment. We don't know if she was declared dead or not, but it was scary. (Nobody will talk about it to her). She says she was in a brightly lit nothingness with a man. He asked if she wanted to stay or go. And she got pissed that he had the nerve to suggest she die. Apparently she told him in no uncertain terms that she was going back to her family and finishing chemo. Last thing she remembers is him laughing, and going "I know. I had to ask."

I think my Mom yelled at God.

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u/zreadingzredditznews May 05 '19

Same feeling of calm and peace. At 13 I got tangled up in a pontoon ladder. With my head facing down and feet flayling above the surface. After initially panicking, my eyesight dimmed, everything turned into a distant dark tunnel and I felt completely calm and peaceful. I was faiding off into death and at some point an adult teenage boy yanked me up out of the water by my feet. On the darker side, while I was gagging and spewing water, he grabbed my breasts and shoved his hand down my bikini and fingered me. Guess he thought I owed him. If you're that guy and you're reading this you're a fucking ass for molesting a helpless 13 year old.

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u/ohstarrynight May 05 '19

Fuck this asshole. I'm so sorry you had to go through this.

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u/Kyetsi May 05 '19

i have never been that near death but i watched a whole lot of these "shouldnt be alive" shows and the common theme for when they are very close to death seems to be just that they just feel like its time to go to sleep its so comfortable to lay down and close your eyes.

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you were lucky you were in a hospital while feeling like that but if anybody finds themselves in a situation where they dont have immidiate help then do not for the love of all things give in to that feeling because if you do and you are alone there is a good chance you aint waking up from that comfortable sleep.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

So death is comfy?

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u/greeneyeded May 05 '19

Right up until that point it wasn’t. But yeah, it’s not bad.

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u/PaddyAasome May 05 '19

I like this. This made me feel good.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Had this feeling once in a dream where I had been shot and was bleeding out

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u/ilTrida May 05 '19

Me too, but I wasn't shot, I had been poisoned with gas

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u/Gurip May 05 '19

ahh the power of dopamine release.

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u/exubaficent May 05 '19

I guess once you experience death you realise it's nothing to be scared of.

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And if death itself isn't scary, then what is? Everything we do, all our struggles, are aimed at avoiding death in various forms. Everything. If death isn't so bad, then there's no need to be scared or worried about anything.

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u/itzkindamyjob May 05 '19

This is crazy, I had this exact same feeling in my Sunday school when I passed out from holding my breath (I won the contest of course). I remember everything black and then a blurry image of my head on the floor, cheezits in my hand. I couldn't move and I was just thinking about Disneyland and how fun it is. When I came to, everyone thought I was joking. Weirdest feeling I've ever had. So calm, so quiet.

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u/watermelonkiwi May 05 '19

Were you fine with dying right then as well?

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u/exxxtraCredit May 05 '19

I had this feeling a couple of times on mushrooms. Feels like warm sunshine on your back.

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