Have you ever had an experience where you thought you were about to die?
601372
I had a tear between my stomach an esophagus, was throwing up blood, but I did not know it was blood because it was happening from 4:00am - 5:15 am, in October, in Iowa. I was taking a friend to the airport 80 miles away, and had to pull over 6 times and I kept dosing off. After I dropped him off I got a motel room and slept for a few hours, then went home. My son and a friend of ours was there so I talked with them for a while, and then went to bed around 2:00. I slept until my wife got home at 5:30 and she woke me up. I immediately got sick and it was blood. I tried to yell for my wife and threw up blood again and everything went white. They tell me my wife and daughter tried to get me up but they could not move me, then my son and our friend came home and was picking me up and I yelled at them to hurry. I do not remember any of that, the next thing I knew we were at the Hospital, my wife got me in a wheel chair. We went inside to emergency room and I was falling out of the wheel chair. They took me before everyone.\n After I had surgery to repair the tear, they gave me two units of whole blood in one hour, normally they will only do one unit in two hours. I was in the Hospital for a week, was self employed with no insurance.\n\nThe only thing that went though my mind is.\nthat's blood I better get------------
1067742
I have had it happen to me a couple of times.\n\nThe most memorable was when I was 17, staying home alone from work with a flu and really bad fever. I knew I was in trouble, and got up from the couch to go to the bathroom to get a wet washcloth to cool my forehead, and the Tylenol to take. Halfway there, I looked down, and thought, "well, I'm going to have trouble getting this stuff if I don't have real hands." I then realized I couldn't see my hands or feet, turned around, and still saw myself lying on the couch while I was standing in the middle of the living room. I knew at that point that I had a choice. I looked out the door, and back at my body. I thought about my situation, and enjoyed looking around, guiding my floating a bit through thought, and having rather deep thoughts about how fun death seemed. But then I thought "What about Mom? I can't do this to my family....and there's other stuff for me to do first." After a few seconds, I decided to go back, even though being out-of-body certainly seemed fun. I just wasn't ready not to be alive. As soon as I made the decision, I took a few steps toward my body, and then "snapped" back and was inside. I was not breathing and my heart wasn't beating, and it was the most awful feeling I've ever experienced. I sent a powerful thought to my heart "Beat, d--- you!!!" and after a couple more seconds it finally went "lub..... dub....lub..dub...lubdub...." The second most awful thing was that my chest wasn't reflexively breathing by then...I then had to force that first breath. Anoxia is agonizing. The muscles didn't want to move at first, and then finally they did, and the air seared my lungs. After thrashing around for a bit until the pain reduced, I got up WITH my body and got the Tylenol and the wet washcloth. I took my temperature.... 104! I took three Tylenol instead of two, and forced myself into a cool water bath..brrrrrr.\n\nI've had other OBE's, but that one is the easiest to describe, and the only one during serious illness (which is more easy for those who have not experienced one to relate to). I found that it generally takes serious stress to the body for it to happen for me (anaphylaxic allergic reactions to various medications or ant stings, long-term severe anxiety due to life crises, etc.), and I don't seek out the experience...it is too dangerous as I still want to live (I'm a mom, teacher, and just have too much going on to leave it now). \n\nOn the other hand, having this and the other OBE's has resulted in my NOT fearing death. I hate and am terrified of pain... but death? I don't WANT to die...but I also am not afraid of it. Just like I don't want to spend so much on gas...but I'm not afraid of the gas pump...lol!\n\nIt also has brought me into a deeper relationship with G-d. I have no question that G-d exists (things that happened in other OBE's that I can't describe here...too personal), and I feel nothing but love and awe for the Creator. I am Jewish, but I also am fully aware of all our different faiths as just different ways for us to "look" at the same thing given our physical and mental limitations. I enjoy the philosophy, particular view of G-d, and rituals of Judaism, not to mention that it is my family's heritage. However, the religion itself is not important except to building your spiritual comfort, sense of community in G-d, and a framework for personal reflection...the relationships between your heart and G-d, and your deeds and your fellow humans, are what are important when everything is said and done.
207363
I heard that to i was about to kill my self over hopeing it wasn't ture
1149678
Since I was a child I've had both good and scary experiences. The one that stands out is when I was around 13 I went to go to bed one night when I turned the light off I heard this strange breathing. Thinking it was my brother I quickly turned the light on and of course I was alone. I looked through my room, down the hall but still I was alone. I went back to my room turned the light off and got into bed. The breathing began but know it was right next to my ear. I felt the bed depress like someone sat down. I was petrified with fear. This went on want seemed like hours but it all happened within 5 minutes. Finally a large white orb appeared and out of that an angel appeared and when that happened whatever it was left. I jumped out of bed and went to my parents room and there I stayed for a week. The strange thing is my Mom had the same experience two weeks later.
1176648
No real experiences I can share....but I almost died twice: once when I was little and once while having surgery when my blood pressure and heart rate dropped to 0.
242309
well, i do not know if people in coma feel the same way, but i have experienced such a thing too. i was in this speedboat which went out of my control, and i couldnt do anything to stop it...i knew i was dreaming and tried wakin up..i did..when the boat crashed into a big rock. i woke up just before i could have felt the pain. it was a wierd sensation, like i was floating above my body on the bed, desperately trying to break free, but my body kept pulling me back.
861328
Yes I have. I didn't know it until many years later, but here's what happened. When I was 12, I broke my arm right in the elbow joint. I had to undergo surgery. I remember seeing myself laying on the table and the doctor standing over me, working on my arm. I remember trying to look over him to see what he was doing. When I saw my own blood, I got scared and went into the hallway! I saw my mom and dad sitting in the waiting room. Dad was reading the newspaper, and mom was doing a crossword puzzle! That's all I really remembered, but I never told anybody about this because I just thought it was a dream! Then, many years later, it just came up in conversation one day. When I described what I'd seen, my mom and dad just looked at each other in amazement! They couldn't believe I'd seen exactly what they were doing! So that's when we knew it was more than just a dream. I've heard this is not that unusual for people when going under aneshesia. But I've never met anyone else that had this happen to them.
493332
Yes, a few times.  Once I was in a car accident where my car was side swiped.  There were 3 passengers in my car, all of whom were injured and required hospitalization.  I refused transportation to the hospital by ambulance, believing I wasn't injured.  Then the paramedic, told me to look at the front of my shirt which was covered in blood.  At the same time, he reached down and picked something up off of the pavement.  It was my ear!  I immediately fainted and assumed I was loaded on the ambulance because when I woke up I was on a gurney in the hospital awaiting surgery!
450118
I watched a man die from a heart attack. He looked me in the eye and said "I'm going to die now, ain't I". I said something lame like "no you hang in there, help is on the way."  But I knew better as he was in so much pain and death seemed to hoover over him like an ominous cloud. Do you understand what I am saying, HE LOOKED ME IN THE EYES. I looked into the eyes of death. I tried to comfort him, and just as the paramedics arrived, he died holding my hand. I will never forget that night or that moment. I cried, and then I thanked God for life and vowed to get the most I could out of life before my time came. And I prayed that when my time did come that there would be someone to hold my hand.
1108258
You feel your own Mortality
102063
No, but I've had a few that thought they had died and gone to heaven.
1053256
Yes,  Once I fell off a cliff... well I sort of jumped but I had no choice.  I cracked my head pretty hard at the bottom.\n\nI think I died and went to hell... it was a boiling pit of blood, people were screaming in it all around me.  Any who tried to surface or reach out would get slashed by flying serpents that skimmed the surface.  This of course could have been a hallucination... I felt I deserved to be there for what I had done in my life, so I sunk to the bottom, resigned to my fate.  There I saw a baby that took my hand and said, "wake up, I still need you!"\n\nWhen I awoke, I was in that gulch with blood all over my face, matted in my hair and my head damaged.  I couldn't walk... I had to drag myself out, one foot at a time and the pain was terrible as my shock wore off. \n \nI prayed to God for the strength to make it out alive and swore to do all he asked of me if I survived... somehow I made it back up to the road and was delivered to the hospital by some motorists.\n\nI believe it was a miracle!
853623
I've "blacked out" as if I was going to faint...lasted for a few seconds, but then I would sit down and breathe slowly and it was ok.  That's only when I was like really dehydrated and had been forced to run miles or someting...
564099
No but I used to have anxiety attacks. I had no idea what the heck was going on til I was at work one day and a fellow nurse was observing me and she told me her observation. From then one when I had one I'd stop what I was doing closed my eyes and began to relax and breath in deep through my nose and slowing out my mouth til the attack stopped. I could feel it coming on I'd start getting dizzy, light headed, weak and start breathing hard fast, my pulse rate would elevate to about 120-130. I alway stopped what I was doing to do my calming session. They finally just came less and less and just stopped with in about 1 month or so after starting my breathing sessions.
404683
I am standing here terrified I can't move I can hardly breath, were on the highest ride in North America the SCREAM to death I'm going to fall of the ride oh my god HELP.......\nAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh were as fast as 3 racing cars together I feel like my face is going to fly of my body,I feel like I'm gonna turn into nothing. \nThen the ride stopped.
820730
Yes, I had an experience once when I was very depressed and at my lowest.  I was so low that I did not know what else to do, so in my desperation when there was nobody else to turn to, I tried to picture in my mind the face of Jesus.  (At the time I had still not made my mind up about religion.)  All of a sudden there was a surge of peace and tranquillity and a feeling of love that I had never ever experienced in my life.  It was as if I was in his loving arms and he was saying "it's going to be all-right if you just give this to me."  That is the best way that I can describe it because the strength of it was not of this earth.  It had to have been Jesus.  There is a Bible passage where Jesus says "If you search for me, you will find me."  It was then that I understood what that passage meant.
546399
i almost died when i was 11. i remember losing some of my senses i think...or i was so out of it i thought i did. i could hear my mom yelling at the nurses..so that's a near death experience. no lights or anything like that...but it was still near death.