Have any of you ever had a near death experience?
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I was having congestion problems really bad, runny nose, weak, hard to breathe, and it was the week before Christmas.  I knew if I waited to see if I would get better I would be in trouble, because most of the family doctors would be on vacation.  Ha, they all were anyway.  And I ended up at an emergency clinic.\n\nI didn't know it, but I had pneumonia.  I'm asthmatic, anyway, and know how to breathe when my lungs tighten.  So I was reading, waiting for my turn, and suddenly I realized I couldn't breathe at all.  Not an asthmatic attack, just no air coming in.\n\nI walked up to the receptionist.  I told her I couldn't breathe, passed out, and on the way down I heard some jerk on the list before me with a twisted ankle belly aching, "What some people won't try to get ahead of someone else."\n\nThe receptionist just stood there, a nurse came out to see what caused the commotion, ran and came back with a doctor.  He straightened me on the floor and the nurse came back with an oxygen tube.  The receptionist was still standing there, holding her PEOPLE magazine, and the doctor screamed at her to call an ambulance, they didn't have the equipment to save me.  And she stood there.  He told her again to call an ambulance, and she walked away toward the phone, no urgency at all, and it was then, when I was angry with her, that I realized I was watching all this from outside my body.  I was standing at my own head watching the doctor trying to resuscitate me and the nurse was very urgent, and starting to cry.\n\nThen I was sucked into this blue light.  I couldn't see anything anymore, but I could hear voices.  Someone I understood to be my guardian said I was in holding, that I could either go with him, or go back.  I figured I was already dead, anyway, and thought I would just go, but he asked me what would happen to my dog if I went.\n\nI didn't live with my parents, I rented a house.  But even though Trinket was in my will and I had a guardian for her, my parents had told me if anything happened to me, she was going to the pound, that they wouldn't even take her to a humane society.  I had rescued Trinket from a shelter's death row, she was a senior canine, and the thought of her going in the animal control truck to be killed, and her knowing where she was going when she was within earshot of the pound was enough to bring me back into my body.\n\nI still couldn't breathe, but now I fought for the oxygen, and I finally managed a sip from the tube.  I was seeing the doctor from my own eyes again.\n\nHe later told me I was his Christmas miracle, that my skin had turned bluer than my eyes, that if my heart hadn't been strong, I would have died.
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I do... I'll tell you about two experiences. One happened to my sister and one to me.\n\nThe first was my sister... She was going through a difficult time in her marraige, and was spending quite a bit of time at a local bar. One night she was just sitting by herself, and a young couple came up and started talking to her. The woman didn't give her name, but the man's name was John. They were very nice and they talked with her for a long time. A couple months later, my sister went to my parents' house. My parents collect old pictures of relatives and display these in their home. They had just received a new picture of my great-grandfather when he was a young man. When my sister saw the picture she was shocked. It was the young man from the bar! She had never met our great-grandfather and the only pictures she ever saw were from when he was very old, so she could not possibly have made this up. She believes that he and the woman (who my sister thinks is our great-grandmother) were sent to help her.  And yes, his name is John. \n\nThe second story is mine. I was staying at my sister's new house, which I had never been to. We were up late at night and she asked me if I wanted to see the basement. I immediately said NO! She asked why and I responded, "There are dead people there." She finally encouraged me to go downstairs and show her where I thought the dead people were. I walked to a wall and pointed... Without thinking, I said, "They are in there." At the time, I thought I was wrong because this was a solid brick wall, and I didn't understand how anybody could be "in" it. But I kept getting the sense that there were people in there. My sister told me that that wall had been put up after the house was built, and it sealed a small room. She said that the legend says that there WERE people buried in there. I didn't know any of this before, and I had never been to the house. So, something led me to that secret room!\n\nThose are my stories. I'm interested to read the other ones you get.
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I've never been close to death but one night I had a strange dream.  My dad is a police detective who works cold cases.  Now my dad is VERY good at his job but he often uses unorthodox methods.  Things he NEVER can share with his co workers because they might get him in serious trouble; such as consulting with his 13 yr old daughter (ME, daddy's little princess lol).\n\nAnyway one night daddy's princess was having a nightmare and she got up and went into her parents room for them to comfort her.  As I entered the room, my dad was putting on all his police stuff and getting ready to leave.  I asked him if he was called out but was very agitated and said he had to go.\n\nOk, we didnt see him for three days after that.  Of course he stayed in contact on his cell phone with my mom so she wouldnt worry about him.\n\nHe told me a few weeks later when I asked him about his dream that he dreamed a victim came to him in his sleep and told him things.  He said I was in the dream with her and that scared him a lot.  Anyway he solved that case in that three days he was gone and told me the things he learned in his dream led him to the bad guy.  \n\nHe wouldnt tell me any more cause it would be inappropriate and promise to never tell anyone.  My dad is considered very eccentric at work and only the women will agree to be his partner.  He didnt even tell his partner (a really nice woman, She comes over our house for dinner sometimes and she thinks my boyfriend Jamie is a super nice boy that's why I like her).
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You can't experience life after death and be able to talk about on Yahoo Answers, because you wouldn't be able to. However, people DO have near-death experiences (NDEs). The most famous ones were the ones that happened to a man named Dannion Brinkley. He's been interviewed on the late-night talk radio program "Coast to Coast AM" several times.
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On two separate occasions, my heart and breathing stopped and I was essentially dead until resuscitated with CPR.\n\nI did not see any afterlife.
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Surviving an experience that almost killed you.  You were "near death".
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Yes I have seen an Angel. It was a spiritual experience. I had passed three dead bodies on the road from three different highway accidents while driving on highway 186 out of Villa Hermosa, Mexico.  I was not the only one that saw the Angel. You can get a copy of my story on CD free of cost.   Just write and ask for it.
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A recent experience:  April 8, 2006, my nieces' birthday at a restaurant in New Jersey.  While eating a family dinner at the restaurant where my niece works, I felt a bump on my leg from under the table.  Thinking that it was one of her children, I asked him to stop.  I spoke loud enough for the whole table to hear and received many looks and retorts that he was sitting at the other end of the table.  I felt it again on my left leg and then on my right.  There was no one nor anything visible under the table, I asked my niece if the place was haunted, she said "Yes!"  I found out later that many people have had similar experiences.  I was thinking of asking "Ghost Hunters" to check it out, but I don't think the owner would go for it.\n\nIf you want to hear a lot more, and they are very weird, e-mail me.  I've been thru various and sundry spiritual quests.  They've taken me to the depths of "hell" and, gratefully, to a very deep and profond belief in God.
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I've had a near death experience at a young age or 2 yrs. Ever since I've seen my dead brother talking to me. When my mother died I saw her playing with my very quiet children. My son has ADHD so that was unnerving to me. When I called out my mothers name she turned faced me and smiled. I paniced and ran down stairs and tried to call home. No answer and I felt sick inside. A couple hours later my sister called and told me of my mothers passing. But, before she could tell me what was wrong I responded that mom's dead huh. It freaked her out and me too.\n   It's a cool and humbling experience at the same time.
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I had what today is termed a "Near-Death Experience" or N.D.E. in 1972 when I was 12 years old before any of today's popular books and videos on the subject had been produced.  What I experienced had absolutely nothing in common with what I had been taught about death via my parents or religious upbringing.  I am now 46 and have been studying the phenomenon ever since.  I have many books, videos, and CDs about N.D.E.s in my library, so I consider myself very knowledgeable about the subject.  In addition, I am a college honors graduate, member of Outstanding College Students of America, a former College Bowl All Star (like the TV show "Jeopardy" except for American college students), and worked for many years as a professional journalist.  I was a pre-med major when I first entered college and am fairly well versed in modern science.  Bottom line:  N.D.E.s have been reported since the beginning of time (see Heironymous Bosch's paiting "Ascent of the Blessed" - circa 1450-1500.) and have absolutely nothing to do with the physical body or physical brain which Is Not the Seat of Consciousness as some would have you believe.  Many people who have experienced N.D.E.s had absolutely no brain activity, their hearts had stopped, their breathing had stopped, their eyes were closed, they were lying on a hospital gurney, and some even had their body temperatures quickly brought below freezing and all of their blood removed from their entire bodies; but these people were miraculously able to describe not only what the doctors did while they were clinically dead from a vantage point above their bodies but also were able to accurately describe conversations and events that took place in other parts of the hospital or even other parts of the world while they were "dead."  Unless you are very foolish indeed, the evidence suggests that consciousness survives physical death and can exist apart from the physical body.  What we now call N.D.E.s are reported by humans all over the world and tend to feature special characteristics.  Those characteristic include:  Separation from the physical body.  Floating above the physical body.  The appearance of a large tunnel of light.  Being sucked or drawn through the tunnel at what seems to be an incredibly high speed.  A unique and beautiful light at the end of the tunnel.  A doorway or portal at the end of the tunnel.  The appearance of deceased relatives, friends, or a recognizable religious figure who communicates telepathically and often escorts an N.D.E. recipient through the tunnel.  Usually in teens and adults, a three-dimensional, holographic-style "life review" in which the N.D.E. recipient not only sees, hears, and feels everything they've ever thought and done while physically alive, but also experiences what others felt and experienced as a result of their actions or inactions.  The N.D.E. recipient usually judges him or herself, but those whose consciences are very limited may have another spiritual being interpret for them.   Some have described this as having thier "life flash in front of them."  A being of light connected to the tunnel who communicates telepathically and may appear at the end of the tunnel near the door or portal.  Feelings of complete peace with no suffering or pain normally associated with the physical body.  Heightened intellectual awareness and sensitivity.  Sudden awareness of events, wisdom, or knowledge far beyond the normal scope of the person experiencing the N.D.E.  The ability to see or hear things beyond the normal scope of the human body.  The ability to travel over great distances at perhaps great speeds without any apparent aid through the exercise of conscious thought.  Not all N.D.E. recipients will report all of these characteristics or experiences, but they will report some of them because these core experiences are common to N.D.E.s.  Cultural or religious upbringing sometimes can in
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This was close enough ton a miracle for me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nOne time on a camping trip, a witch and I created a psychic link which allowed us to keep tabs on each other without needing those family band radios.\n\nPersonally, I do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nmany people drain those around them of life force, but there are some who can do it purposefully. They have the ability to reach out and drain a person's energy. They say it's better than caffeine. \n\nI have a good friend who can do that. She's the only energy vampire I know who uses her power for good. She takes people's headaches. She also has an amazing ability to sense energies, making her one of the most powerful witches I know (I know a lot of witches who claim to be powerful, but very few who actually are). I have known her for many years and we are very close friends.\n\nOne time it was the dead of winter, she was sitting next to a window, and she felt someone looking at her. She looked and there was someone dressed in black with no color in their body sitting across the road, intently looking at her. She looked down for no more than five seconds, looked up again, and he was sitting on her side of the road, still intently looking at her. He was not dressed for the cold, but was not shivering at all. Just intense calm looking at her. She immediately closed the blinds realizing that she had just had an encounter with a real vampire. A real vampire and a kindred spirit. It probably wasn't a vampire like Dracula or what we see from Hollywood, but it was definitely something from outside of our mundane existence.\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate
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I talk to him in my mind. I tell him thank you for the life I have when things are hard and ask for guidance when I'm not sure of something. \nI feel I'm very smart because of this and I'm a very easy going person also, people that know me call me a Saint.\n\nThe near death experiences are fascinating, I've never experienced it myself though. \n\nAn aunt of mine was dying when I was young and for a few minutes before she died she was asking about the man dressed in white at the foot of her bed, no one else could see him. \n\nShe died in peace because of it.
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Yes.\n\nI was dead and I knew it.  I was very scared.  I was on a boat. Noone else was with me. \n\nA few things were explained to me...  I cant get into it because it would take too long.\n\nI'll just say that when I came too again.  I returned to my life with a very different view of  reality and what happens when we die.\n\nLife really is what we want it to be.
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Near-death experiences are persons and events of the past, or maybe future events yet to happen, which a person in a coma or near death experiences.. Many of these people who experience this phenomena says that they can feel themselves leaving their bodies. There are no scientific methods to prove or disprove their  stories. There seems to be a pattern of similarity in the stories of those who have experienced near-death experiences. I think that there might be something to this, and it is beyond our ability to comprehend at the present time. Maybe in the future, we'll know more about this. Only time will tell.
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Near Death Experience. Usually results in a change in behavior/beliefs.\n\nI've had one before, so, yes.
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Yes whilst awake and in my dreams too. They say that it in our dream state that family and friends come through to us with a message. Our brain will accept such an event rather than if we were to come face to face with a 'dead person'.\nMy grandmother comes through to me, she usually has two children with her - I do not know who they are. I have seen other members of my family as also friends who have passed.\nYes I have seen other people but do not know who they are.\nI also have seen orbs - spirit lights. They are breathtakingly beautiful. They leave behind a lovely and peaceful atmosphere.\nWhen I was young this frightened me. Now I am older I find it comforting.\nyia