well to be fair the pneumonia sorted of happend overnight I went from having a bad cold to going to bed to waking up in the er cause I was unconcious and had 105 fever. like I went to bed with a bad cough, woke up feverish and cold hardly able to breathe and being admitted to the hospital. like the needle incident was like day two in the hospital.
pneumonia normally starts as bronchitis then creeps into pneumonia slowly, so my parents thought I had just a cold until that morning,. they did do the right thing in at the end of the day by taking me to the hospital when I got worse.
No, but my father's ex-wife did. 3 times supposedly. Said there was nothing, at least that she could remember. I know she would have wanted there to be something too because she is Catholic and would want to reunite with her parents in heaven.
I was run over by a drunk driver about 6 years ago. Clinically dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.
I remember absolutely nothing beyond waiting at the crosswalk before being hit. I woke up in the hospital two days after and had to be filled in. Best approximation I can give is death is like heavy dreamless sleep. No bright white light, no fire and brimstone
It was a terrifying experience, my body slowly shutting down, my brain desperately trying to keep everything running until it too gave up and shut down, but all i saw between that and waking up was darkness...
When I was a kid I drowned and was recessitated. There was no flash of my life before my eyes. There was no vision. There was about a few minute emptyness that's hard to describe in words. Look up a random historical event on Wikipedia from before you were born and try and remember your memories from that day. Obviously there are none. Thats all there is.
So how the fuck can that be if the top three are polar opposites of the latter's experience? Well, in short: belief.
Have you ever stopped to really examine your own beliefs before? On life? Death? Purpose? You know, that heavy stuff almost no one seems to take seriously? And I don't mean some surface level superficial answer of what you'd like to think you believe, either. I mean deep down in that part of yourself you can't lie to or distort with platitudes. I guarantee that if all of you mentioned above (and anyone else who's experienced this phenomenon), you'll figure out why you had the experience you (or the person you know) "lived" in that moment. Just some quick examples:
If you believe there's nothing after death? Then you will experience oblivion..for a time*
If you believe there's Heaven? Then you will experience your idea of Heaven..for a time*
If you believe you're going to Hell? Then enjoy your pain and torment..for a time*
*Do note that "time" no longer exists after death, so this is a bit of a misnomer.
No matter what you believe, eventually people get approached by a guide and are led off to a "life review". They might look like (and can actually be) a dead relative, a long lost pet, some old teacher you had in life, etc. Whatever it takes to get you to snap out of your reverie, pain, or solitude. You then review the events of your life with the goal of moments you experienced learning great knowledge/inspiration, and moments you loved someone/something else as yourself. This includes moments where you failed these goals towards others, and you get to relive them as part of the review. In these moments, you gain full awareness of how you made the other party feel at the time, experiencing their feelings as though they were your own.
People also report feeling more like themselves than they were in life. Their senses are enhanced, they have no pain (that they aren't inflicting on themselves as per the Hell example), and their bodies are typically reflecting a period in their lives where they felt they were at their peak. Just to blow your mind a bit: this includes children who hadn't grown up yet showing off their adult bodies sometimes.
Do note there's a difference between experiencing nothingness and simply not remembering what happened, too. Not remembering an NDE doesn't mean you didn't have one, just that you're not currently conscious of what happened.
Off the top of my head, I can recommend a testimony on the matter as seen through the eyes of an atheist (prior to his experience, at least). There are many similar NDEs out there, but this fellow had the wherewithal to actually ask some deeper questions while he was "dead".
Additionally, if you ever have an hour to kill? Then I cannot recommend the following video enough:
This is a very well-researched breakdown of the topic. It's worth your time if the topic interests you.
Yes, we were in the woods and it was trippy, I saw a lot of shadows and figures beckoning me and it seemed almost like a strange journey. Granted I was pretty high at the time and couldn't walk by myself.
Well, I got beat up and stabbed in the ass, then I woke up in the younger body of one of my countrymen, who was studying for university finals in a far away country. You just take things day by day, you know.
Anyway, I was briefly around 8 years old unresponsive after a severe asthma attack that literally left me unable to get air period. The most I can remember was an overcast grassland with a gentle breeze and so much lighter, even to the point that if you caught the breeze right you could fly on it.
Was unknowingly bleeding internally and the hospital fucked up and gave me blood thinners thinking there was a clot.
Lots of cold sweating, disorientation, confusion with brief moments of clarity. Told my father I loved him and then the rest is like waking up from a blackout. Apparently my heart stopped. Woke up having zero idea where the hell I was, with a lot more tubes in me.
I remember bits and pieces of the whole thing. Some of it is pretty funny.
Don't powerlevel with your age, but if you're on the younger side? You might be catching a glimpse of a former life. Is it a very vivid memory, or feel like you're "really there"?
