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When I was a cardiac nurse on the cardiac unit, one of our patients died. We started the code and CPR, shocked him and were able to bring him back. After a moment, he opened his eyes and looked up at me and said, "I had the most amazing dream!" I never got to ask him what he "dreamt" because we had to work on him to keep him alive, but I never forgot the look on his face or what he said. |
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I have never experienced one personally but my oldest brother, Jimmy has. He's 26 now but when he was 17 he crashed into a tree while he was riding his ATV in the woods. Luckily, he was with friends and they were able to contact EMS right away to get him to the hospital. He had major head trauma and swelling of the brain because he was an idiot and didn't wear his helmet or any of his other gear. He stopped breathing twice and when they first got him to the ER he had gone into cardiac arrest for almost 4 minutes. Thankfully, they were able to get him back. he was unconscious for almost a week, like he was in a comma. When he woke up he said that he had seen Heaven and at first we thought he was joking because he can be a smartass like that lol but he was very serious about it. He managed to get out with both legs broken and a few fractures and the swelling in his head went down just fine. Until this day he remains very serious about what he saw and says he's not afraid about what happens to him because he claims that if something does, he will feel no pain and that he will be going to heaven. Now, we're a kind of a religious family but not we're not Jesus freaks. So, I know for him to believe that much that something happened to him, that it must be true. It kind of eases my fears about death a little. Just my little story. |
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Wow, that's a really cool story, Lyss.  |
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Yes I believe in them. I have been very near death twice as an adult and was in critical condition list for several weeks once as a child. I had an experience as an adult where I felt as if I was standing at the side of my hospital bed in ICU. I was actually looking at my name on the wall tag above the bed, and I recall thinking how am I looking at this? I might simply have dreamnt it in the state I was in, but I also knew things that where going on at that time, and I had been given only a half hour to live and my family had been told I wouldn't live through the night. I wonder about that now...if I was really there at the side of the bed in spirit. In any case I will say that every time I have been that ill; I was not afraid at all when it got to that point. |
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Thanks for sharing, Unhitched. I think it's a great thing to share with people who might be afraid. Working in hospice, I've witnessed many deaths and I've actually been comforted by what my patients have told me before they pass on. |
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I love reading these. Some people get a little freaked by them but I actually get a little comfort out of hearing near death experiences. The most terrifying thought for me is to think that after we go, that's it, nothing, it's over. Even if Heaven isn't real, even if there is just a certain amount of consciousness or spirit left after death, that is enough to ease my mind. I just want to believe there is something after this life. My biggest fear is life just ending and nothing else. |
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I'll never believe that there is nothing after death. In every single hospice death I've been present at, the patient has always seen someone they love that has passed on before them before they die. I have never not seen that happen. I'm not saying it never does, I'm just saying I've never seen it not happen. Am I making sense? It's late. lol |
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It makes sense lol That is pretty cool, LittleVoice and comforting to, that they can actually identify a specific loved one. Another thing that kind of backs this up is that in every single religion, except for athiests, believe in some form of afterlife or spirit after death. I think that is a little bit more than a coincidence, for me anyway. |
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| | | From: hjay | Sent: 9/17/2008 8:25 PM |
When I was about 5 or 6 years old I had a dream where I had an experience I can't explain to this day. It wasn't until I was much older that I started to think maybe it was a near death experience. I had been sick, but not sick enough to die, but I had a fever. It was the whole bright light and I clearly remember seeing my grandpa. I remember walking towards him and him saying I had to go...or that I could not stay or something...He lived in Ontario and passed very soon after that but I don't know the timeline... when I look back on it now I have no idea what it was...but I remember the peaceful feeling, the warmth..the comfort..like what you guys talk about here...weird. I have never talked about it before...so this is a first. |
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That is interesting, HJ. I believe it could have been a near death experience or a dream God put into your head to comfort you. I believe we are given those comfort dreams and experiences when we need them. It is hard to share things like that sometimes because people will act like you are strange.
I don't believe we simply end. Not at all. I will tell you again that I have been very miserable at times... in agony and suffering; then as that level of illness gets to a point where you are near death you do not feel the fear or panic in the same way at all. It leaves you. At least it did in my case. |
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