Describe a life-altering experience that you had. How was it life-altering?
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On the 17th of Feb I walked into a hospital and fell down with a heart attack, when I woke up I was stable in the emergency room, the doctor said he was going to run some test in the morning. The next morning I was feeling much better and they took me down and did a ultra sound on my heart and said it looked fine, then they took me over to do a stress test. I could not walk on the treadmill cause I just had back surgery about 4 week ago so they did the test chemicaly through my veins, it was to take about 4 min to do. About 3 1/2 min into the test I felt very weird on my left side and was then told I was having a full blown stroke. I was then rushed up to the ICU floor by the stroke team and I was not feeling so good, aparently I was in critical condition. Mind you a week before this I also found out I had a bleeding ulcer in my stomach. Anyway the doctors did some MRI's and CAT Scans on me and could not find where the blood clot was that was causing my stroke and they also could not get a hold of my wife. About an hour and a half went by and I was more coherant so the doctor told me that I might die if they could not get the blood flow back in to my brain, so then he told me their was a new drug called TPA that might find the clot and dissolve it but that I would only have a 2% chance of living through it because of my ulcer and bleeding in the brain, there was only a 3 hour window to be abel to use this medicine and 2 hrs have already passed. I decided a long time ago I was never going to be a burden to no one including my wife so I told the doctor to give me the TPA, and he did. I went into a coma for about 3 to 4 hrs but I did wake up and saw my lovely wife Lisa crying beside me, I told everything would be ok, she smiled a little. About six hours had passed with no improvement until I looked down at my left toes and saw they were moving, talk about the best feeling you ever had in your life...so an hour later I was moving my fingers then my arm then my leg and I stayed up for the next 24hrs just moving my left side. The doctors said my face lifted back into place, no more droop. By Sat the 20th I was on my was home still a little weak but with a clean bill of health. I am taking this week off and the doctors said I get to go back to work next Monday and I feel great. I have decided to take life by the horns and do everything I always wanted to, I just signed up for a Tai Kuan Do class.\n\nDon
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Yes, I have had two. In both cases I saw a warm, butterscotch yellow Light, It was incredibly loving and caring. I felt more loved than I have ever felt before or since. I did not want to leave. When I had to, the first time, I was assured that I could come back when I needed to. One more thing, when I looked down into myself, I saw part of that Light there, too.\n\nHope that helps.
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i had this experience a few years ago.i was lying in bed late at night listening to the rain,i had my window open and it was a really heavy downpour.it had been going on for some time and i was becoming transfixed by the sound.then i felt like i became one with the rain.or rather i was the rain and the rain was me.i don't know how long this lasted because i lost all feeling of time.i then said or thought of the word"stop" and i felt this kind of stillness as the rain stopped.could of lasted a second or more -hard to say.my mind kicked in after that with the thought of "hey i stopped it raining".then it started again.haven't been able to do it since,tried loads-too much ego i think.the most beautiful and peaceful experience i v'e ever had.and no i had n't been on drugs.
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I know many people would be delighted to answer your question, but we need you to be more specific. What is your personal experience with whatever is troubling you, and what exactly are you talking about?
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At one point in my life I was really depressed. i'm talking clinical depression here, the kind you get when the chemicals in your brain get mixed up. i was a Christian at this point, but had been drifting away from God.\nanyway, i was standing by my window one day. at this point i was closer to committing suicide then i had ever been, and was contemplating the action right then. as i stood there, i suddenly felt this overwhelming prescence.\ni can't really describe what happened next, (it's too personal) but God came to me. i spent some time in prayer, just pouring out my heart. when i left my room, i felt like a completely different person. everything literally looked brighter.\n5 years later, i'm still following the Lord and couldn't be happier. i really believe that God saved my life that day, both spiritually and physically.
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I had this experience. I was exorcised, no joke. But my faith in God never diminished after that.
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Personal experience or simple curiousity (the why, what if, how come way of thinking).
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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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Yes, several times.  Once in particular comes to mind vividly.  I was walking down the corridor in the hospital where I work & I saw this young woman sitting on the cold concrete floor & crying.  \n\nShe wasn't outside a patient room but an administrative office so I wasn't sure what to make of the situation.  In any case, I stopped what I was doing & knelt down next to her.  She flung herself into my arms and just cried harder & so I let her & tried to offer comfort.\n\nCome to find out that she'd just lost her mother upstairs & I've never been more glad, or grateful, to have halted myself and try to help.
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I was electrocuted at work a while back.  I was passed out when they pulled me down from the wires.  But I never lost my train of thought, I feel that I experienced the whole thing in real time.\n\nWhen the current grabbed me I felt the life quickly drain from my body, it occoured to me that this is how I am to die, and then I was moving at high speed down a river of florescent light, inside a canyon with tall dark walls.  My body kept feeling like when you go over the falls on a roller coaster.  After a time the walls of the canyons started to have faces, and the faces turned into my fellow workers staring down at me in horror, thinking I was dead.   But I was pretty much OK except for some deep burns.\n\nCould have been just the dieing process.  But I feel that it was my choice to live or die during that time.  \n\nI would say my time since then is pure bonus time.  But really our entire lives are bonus time.   I don't understand anything more about death, but I did learn to appreciate each moment of life, each life giving breath.
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I have had a near-death experience, and I gotta tell you, it ain't just over and out.  It is more than just biology.  I can believe in an immortal soul because of this experience, even though I couldn't describe it in the least.
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on the bus coming back home from 6-flags.  we kissed for an hour and 1/2.\nit was the best i've had and the ones on the bus with us respected us and didn't bother us.  unuseal respect from those early teens.\ni knew then, that my life was going to be different that the useual...   i cant even type right remembering it.
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If these experiences are true, praise God! \nIf they are not, pray to God.\n\nI try not to judge the religious experiences of other people. \n\nWith love in Christ.
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Actually, I had an experience that really defined for me the way God works in our lives.  I was at a crossroads in my life, having walked away from a job with no real place to go.  I found myself living with my parents again, and doing some very menial and mindless work.  The whole situation was as depressing as you can imagine.  In the midst of all of this, on a particularly difficult day, I was considering a move back to a city where I had once lived.  I heard a voice say to me, "Just go, and it will be all right."  It was as clear as anything I'd ever heard anyone say to me, but I know it came from inside me.  It seemed so certain, yet calm.  I decided to make the move, with little money, a few possessions and no expectation of anything, other than a place to live with a relative.  Within a couple of weeks, I had found work in my profession with someone who mentored and guided me to a higher level of performance, and the sustaining of my career for over twenty years.  Thanks to that opportunity, I also met the woman who would be the love of my life. That moment--and that voice--I feel defined the rest of my life for the better. I'm sure there are many "logical" explanations of how this might have occured.  In the end, it's about how it makes you feel.  There was nothing like that moment, and sadly, nothing remotely like it since.  I am utterly convinced it was God, pointing to an open door and saying, "Trust Me".  I'm utterly grateful I did.
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I was about 10 years old. and we all go swimming at the beach.  The beach was noisy; loud with color and swarming people.  Im deaf, but even I ehard the noise pervading the air. The low rumble of voices, the riot of color and teeming flesh...very aggravating.  \n\nThe sand was hot, but the waters of the Pacific were chill.  What a delightful feel!  I leapt into the waves and swam out.  Once beyond the breakers, I turned and rested my back upon the waters, floating arms spread out and eyes closed.  I breathed deeply, smelling the salt on the breeze.  I could feel the warm sun upon my skin and the cool waters on my back.  I was being rocked by the waves, a gentle bobbing, up and down, up and down....There was no noise, no riot of color, no chaos of teeming flesh invading my space.  just me, the sun, the wind, and the sea. \n\nI floated on those waters for a full 15 minutee, just enjoying the sensual experience of hot, cool, and wet. That was all i was concious of, what I was sensing.  I ahd no thoughts, no worries, not obligations.  I may have dozed off too, I cant remember...but eventually I swam back to shore feeling the most calm and refreshed I have ever felt in my life, before and since.\n\nI have never had a moment like that since, and I doubt I ever will again.  and thats okay.  The peace i gained that day is forever contained in that memory and will be with me so long as that memory lives still in my mind.  Even recalling it brings me back to that peaceful joy.
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Life experience...Priceless!
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Amazing testimony! There are so many good stories like this out there....and that is why it is important to share it. Amazing! I am so happy for you and pray that you further move n Gods favour.