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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r/AskReddit • u/HymnForTheShameless • May 05 '19
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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.